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Suheel Kumar Porwal

Dr. Suheel Kumar Porwal

Assistant Professor

  • Qualification

    M.Sc. CSJM University Kanpur; Ph.D. IIT Madras; Post Doctoral Fellow- Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

  • Specialisation

    Organic Chemistry

  • Research Interest

    Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Methodologies, Natural product synthesis, Bio-polymer Chemistry, Additives for Fuels and Lubricants etc.
Dr. Suheel Kumar Porwal

  • Brief Profile

    Dr. Porwal joined as an assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry, DIT University, Dehradun, in January 2015. After completed his doctorate in chemistry from IIT Madras in 2011, he has received a Postdoctoral Fellowship at CWRU Cleveland, Ohio, USA (2011–2014). He has also been honored with best thesis award in PhD Chemistry [Prof. C. N. Pillai Prize for Organic & Biochemistry] by IIT Madras in 2012. During his doctoral and postdoctoral study, he has published many research articles in peer-reviewed journals. His area of research interest includes green additives for fuels and lubricants, synthetic methodologies, and natural product chemistry.

    • Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Engineering Chemistry, Reaction Mechanism in Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Sterochemistry, Analytical Chemistry

    • IPR Details Inventor Status (Published/Granted)
      Non-edible/waste cooking oil–derived sustainable green multifunctional copolymeric additives for mineral base oil Suheel K. Porwal, Priyanka Agarwal Published
      Evaluation of renewable feedstock derived copolymers of stearyl methacrylate-co-triglyceride as multifunctional green additives in lubricant Suheel K. Porwal, Priyanka Agarwal, Sapna Chaudhary, J. Porwal, Raj K. Singh Published
      Synthetic Biofuels and Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Jyoti Porwal, Suheel K. Porwal, Raman Singh, Kuldeep Singh Published
      Cascade Radical Cyclization to Vinylogous Carbonates/Carbamates for the Synthesis of Oxa- and Aza-Angular Triquinanes: Diastereoselectivity Depends on the Ring Size of Radical Precursor Santosh J. Gharpure, P. Niranjana, Suheel K. Porwal Published
      Two Distinct Cyclodipeptide Synthases from a Marine Actinomycete Catalyze Biosynthesis of the Same Diketopiperazine Natural Product Elle James, Bryan Knuckley, Norah Alqahtani, Suheel K. Porwal, Jisun Ban, Jonathan Karty, Rajesh Viswanathan, Amy Lane Published
      Identification of Non-nucleoside Human Ribonucleotide Reductase Modulators Md. Faiz Ahmad, Sarah E Huff, John Pink, Intekhab Alam, Andrew Zhang, Kay Perry, Michael E. Harris, Tessianna Misko, Suheel K. Porwal, Nancy L. Oleinick, Masaru Miyagi, Rajesh Viswanathan, Published
      Synergism between genome sequencing, tandem mass spectrometry and bio-?inspired synthesis reveals insights into nocardioazine B biogenesis Norah Alqahtani*; Suheel K. Porwal*; Elle D. James; Dana M. Bis; Jonathan A. Karty; Amy L. Lane; Rajesh Viswanathan Published
      Synthetic, potentiometric and spectroscopic studies of chelation between Fe(III) and 2,5-DHBA supports salicylate-mode of siderophore binding interactions Suheel K. Porwal, Emilia Furia, Michael E. Harris, Rajesh Viswanathan, and L. Devireddy Published
      Regioselective Cope Rearrangement and Prenyltransfers on Indole Scaffold Mimicking Fungal and Bacterial Dimethyl Allyl Tryptophan Synthases Karthikeyan Thandavamurthy, Deepti Sharma, Suheel K. Porwal, Dale Ray and Rajesh Viswanathan Published
      Regulation of mammalian siderophore 2,5-DHBA in the innate immune response to infection Zhuoming Liu, Scott Reba, Wei-Dong Chen, Suheel Kumar Porwal, W. Henry Boom, Robert B. Petersen, Roxana Rojas, Rajesh Viswanathan, and L. Devireddy Published

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Courses Taught

Organic Chemistry, Synthetic Methodologies, Natural product synthesis, Bio-polymer Chemistry, Additives for Fuels and Lubricants etc.