Prof. Vidya Desai

Professor

Email:

Official: vidya@dmscollege.ac.in

Personal: desai_vidya@ymail.com

Academic Qualification:

M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry); (SET); Ph.D., Post-doc (Germany)

Employment Experience:

25 years

Area of Specialization:

Synthesis of Heterocycles, Synthetic Methods Organometallic Catalysis & Asymmetric Synthesis

Recent Publications:

1. Sulaksha R. Desai, Vidya G. Desai and Sunil G. Shingade,” In-vitro Anti-cancer Assay and Apoptotic Cell Pathway of
Newly Synthesized Benzoxazole-N-Heterocyclic Hybrids as Potent Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors”, Bioorganic Chemistry
Published online on 21st October 2019. 94 (2020) 103382
2. Sinthiya J Gawandi, Vidya G. Desai and Sunil G.Shingade, ” Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of
1,3,5-trisubstituted pyrazoles as protein tyrosine kinase inhibitors” , Medicinal Chemistry Research, Published online
on 10th January 2019. March 2019, Volume 28, Issue 3, pp 267–278.
3. Vidya G. Desai*, Sulaksha R. Desai.”IBX-Mediated, Efficient, Metal-Free Approach Towards Synthesis of Flavones”,
Current Organic Synthesis,, Vol. 14, Issue 8, 2017 , Pages: 1180 – 1184.
4. Vidya G. Desai, Sulaksha Desai, Sonia Naik Gaonkar, Uddesh Palyekar, Shrinivas D Joshi, Sheshagiri K Dixit,
“Designing of Novel Quinoxalinyl Chalcone Hybrid Scaffolds as Enoyl-ACP-Reductase Inhibitors:
Synthesis, Molecular Docking and Biological Evaluation”, Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol.27, 2017,
2174-2180.
5. Matthias Brendel, Rene Engelke, Vidya G. Desai, Frank Rominger and Peter Hofmann,,“Synthesis and
Reactivity of Platinum (II) cis-Dialkyl, cis-alkylchloro and cis-alkyl hydrido Bis N-heterocyclic carbene chelate
complexes,” Organometallics, 2015, 34(12), 2870-2878,

Research Area (Vidya)