• Gender: Male
• Age: 45
• Designation: Executive
• Highest Education Level: Doctrate
• Notice Period: 30  Days
• Work Experience: 15.3 Year(s)

Education

P.hD From Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 2011

CSIR-NET From CSIR, New Delhi in 2004

M.Sc (Organic Chemistry) From Karnatak University, Dharwad in 2002

B.Sc From RLS Institute, Belgaum in 2000  

Skill Sets

Handling of air sensitive catalytic reactions using Schlenk techniques
Handling of various air-sensitive reagents such as Pd catalysts, BuLi, Raney-Nickel, LAH etc.
Milligram to multi-gram process development of organic intermediates and purification by column
chromatography
Hands-on experience on GC (Perking Elmer) and HPLC (Waters) instruments
Handling of Portable Electric Desalter (PED), Hot Liquid Process Simulator (HLPS), NACE corrosion
equipment, Fouling Pontential Analyzer (FPA), HTHP Autoclave for corrosion & coking simulation and
Oxidation bombs for oxidative polymerization studies
Well versed with laboratory safety protocol and risk assessment

Work Experience

Principal Chemist, Energy Services Downstream,
Since Jul 2014
Post-Doctoral Researcher - Water Process Services
March 2013 to June 2014
Company Profile: Leading water treatment and process improvement company.
Job Profile:
Synthesis of small molecules and polymers for applications in desalting, fouling and corrosion
related problems of refinery process equipments
Developed phosphorous and non-phosphorous based corrosion inhibitors for high temperature
crude unit applications
Provided subject matter expertise to Ecolab refinery customers in refinery and fuel management
Hands-on experience on autoclave for high temperature corrosion studies
Preheat exchanger fouling simulation studies on Alcor’s HLPS-400
Oxidation bomb studies for HTHP polymerization simulation of fouling in hydrotreater unit
PED analysis of raw crudes for emulsion breaker performance study
Filed one patent on newly developed heterocycles for silver corrosion application for finished
fuels in Jan 2016

Post-Doctoral Researcher - Water Process Services
March 2013 to June 2014
Job Profile : 
Extensive study on Polymer Technology Development for Industrial Waste Water Applications
Successfully synthesized water soluble fluorescent monomers and tagged polymers of varied
molecular weights for waste water applications [Filed patent in India in 2015; PT10448IN01
-Fluorescent Polymers for Waste Water Treatment- Tarun Bera, Kiran Phatangare, Trishul Artham, Wesley Whipple, Winston Su, Paul Zinn]

Senior Research Associate
Feb to Nov 2012
Company Profile : Providing Pharmaceutical Research Services. 
Job Profile : 
Performed multi-step synthesis of biologically active intermediates consisting eighteen steps
Executed time bound synthesis of library of heterocyclic compounds

Trainee-Chemist
July 2002 to Mar 2003
Company Name : Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd. 
Job Profile : 
Synthesis & process development of heterocyclic compounds for pharmaceutical applications
Custom chemical synthesis of organic intermediates

Publications
Pd-Catalyzed tandem chemo-selective synthesis of 2-arylbenzofurans using three fold arylating
triarylbismuth reagents. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N.; Dasgupta, P. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 781-788.

Pd-catalyzed domino synthesis of internal alkynes using triarylbismuths as multi-coupling organometallic nucleophiles. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N.; Dasgupta, P. Org. Lett. 2010, 12, 2048-2051.

Pd-catalyzed synthesis of 4-arylcoumarins using triarylbismuth compounds as atom-efficient multicoupling organometallic nucleophiles. Rao, M. L. N.; Venkatesh, V.; Jadhav, Deepak N. Eur. Org. Lett. 2010, 3945-3955.

Atom-efficient vinylic arylations with triarylbismuths as sub-stoichiometric multi-coupling reagents under palladium catalysis. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N.; Venkatesh, V. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2009, 4300-4306.

Pd-catalyzed synthesis of a-aryl ketones through couplings of a-arylacetyl chlorides with triarylbismuths as multi-coupling nucleophiles. Rao, M. L. N.; Giri, Somnath; Jadhav, Deepak N. Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 6133-6138.

Pd-catalyzed efficient cross-couplings of 3-iodochromones with triarylbismuths as sub-stoichiometric multi-coupling organometallic nucleophiles. Rao, M. L. N.; Venkatesh, V.; Jadhav, Deepak N. Synlett 2009, 16, 2597-2600.

Pd(0)/C-catalyzed cross-couplings of acyl chlorides with triarylbismuths as atom-efficient substoichiometric multi-coupling reagents. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N.; Venkatesh, V. Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 4268-4271.

A new palladium catalyzed protocol for atom-efficient cross-coupling reactions of triarylbismuths with aryl halides and triflates. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N.; Banerjee, D. Tetrahedron 2008, 64, 5762-5772.

A palladium catalyzed atom-efficient cross-coupling reactivity of triarylbismuths with a,ß-unsaturated acyl chlorides. Rao, M. L. N.; Venkatesh, V.; Jadhav, Deepak N. J. Organometal. Chem. 2008, 693, 2494-2498.

Pd-catalyzed efficient cross-coupling reactions of triarylbismuths with aryl iodides and aryl triflates. Rao, M. L. N.; Banerjee, Deepak N. Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 6644-6647.

Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of triarylbismuths with aryl bromides. Rao, M. L. N.; Banerjee, Deepak N. Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 2707-2711.

An atom-efficient Pd-catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of triarylbismuths with acid chlorides: synthesis of diaryl and aryl alkyl ketones. Rao, M. L. N.; Venkatesh, V.; Jadhav, Deepak N. Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6975-6978.

Metal catalyst-free direct a-iodination of ketones with molecular iodine. Rao, M. L. N.; Jadhav, Deepak N. Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 6883-688

Future Goals

To pursue a career that enhances my professional skills, offers future growth and learning opportunities