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Dr. Poornachandra S P

Dr. POORNACHANDRA S P

Assistant Professor

Email ID : sppoornachandra96@gmail.com

Vidwan ID : 725322

Google Scholar ID : https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yJ29zNAAAAAJ&hl

Scopus ID : 57818024900

Orcid ID : https://orcid.org/0009-0007-1794-4912

LinkedIn ID : 55480134a

Program:CHEMISTRY

Professional Experience: 1 Year

Teaching:1 Year

Research:5 years

 

ACADEMIC DETAILS

  • Ph.D. in Chemistry

  • M.Sc in General Chemistry

  • B.Sc in Chemistry, Botany and Zoology

 

AREAS OF INTEREST

Organic Synthesis

 

PUBLICATION DETAILS

 

International Journals:

  1. Anchan, H. N., Bhat, N. S., Vinod, N., Prabhakar, P. S., and Dutta, S. (2022). “Catalytic conversion of glucose and its biopolymers into renewable compounds by inducing C–C bond scission and formation.” Biomass Convers. Biorefin., 14(9), 9915–9948.

  2. Prabhakar, P. S., and Dutta, S. (2023). “Sustainable synthesis of novel 3-(2-furyl)acrylic acids and their derivatives from carbohydrate-derived furfurals by chemical catalysis.” Biomass Convers. Biorefin., 14(24), 31847–31857.

  3. Teli, Y. A., Reetu, R., Singh, P. G., Patel, M. J., Dash, S., Paine, S., Prabhakar, P. S., Singh, V., Keremane, K. S., Al‐Zaqri, N., Mukherjee, K., Dutta, S., and Malakar, C. C. (2023). “Synthesis and characterization of novel Pd@rGO−CuFe2O4 magnetic nanoparticles: a recyclable catalyst for C−C coupling reaction in biomass‐derived organic solvent.” Asian J. Org. Chem., 12(12), e202300481.

  4. Prabhakar, P. S., Seikh, A. H., Karim, M. R., and Dutta, S. (2024). “Extending the carbon chain length of carbohydrate-derived 5-substituted-2-furaldehydes by condensing with active methylene compounds under organocatalytic conditions.” ACS Omega, 9(37), 38648–38657.

  5. Prabhakar, P. S., Sahoo, J., Alnaser, I. A., Seikh, A. H., Karim, M. R., and Dutta, S. (2024). “Aqueous solution of biogenic carboxylic acids as sustainable catalysts and green reaction media for the high-yielding synthesis of Biginelli adducts, Hantzsch esters, and substituted pyridines.” RSC Adv., 14(52), 39050–39060.

  6. Prabhakar, P. S., and Dutta, S. (2025). “Ketalization of carbohydrate-derived levulinic esters using cellulose sulfuric acid as a heterogeneous catalyst: a closed-loop biorefinery approach.” RSC Adv., 15(15), 11301–11307.

 

HONOURS/AWARDS/ACHIEVEMENTS

  1. Qualified Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) and Lectureship (LS) in National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research - University Grants Commission (CSIR-UGC) in Chemical Science in 2020 June.

  2. Qualified Karnataka State Eligibility Test (K-SET) in 2020 September.

  3. Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE, 2020) in Chemistry (CY).

 

FDPS/CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/STTP/MOOC CERTIFICATION

  1. Presented poster in “International Conference on Frontier Areas of Science & Technology – 2024 (ICFAST 2024)”, jointly organized by Indian JSPS Alumni Association and Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India, during 6-7 September 2024.

  2. Presented poster in 5-day National Symposium on “Advances in Functional Materials for Energy and Catalytic Applications (AFMECA-2025)”, organized by the Department of Chemistry and Central Research Facility at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, during 7-11 May 2025.

 

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: DEPARTMENT LEVEL

  • Innovation and Design ThinkingLab Coordinator

  • Interdisciplinary Project Work Lab Coordinator

  • Language Lab Coordinator

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