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Experts dwell upon transition metals in organic synthesis

CHANDIGARH:The second phase of the MHRD Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) programme began here today.

Experts dwell upon transition metals in organic synthesis

(From left) Prof SK Mehta, GIAN coordinator; Arun Grover, Vice-Chancellor, Panjab University; Prof Raghuram Rao, Director, NIPER, Mohali; and Prof Roderick Bates from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore, during a workshop at Panjab University in Chandigarh on Monday. tribune Photo: Pradeep Tewari



Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 26

The second phase of the MHRD Global Initiative of Academic Networks (GIAN) programme began here today. 

It commenced with one-week international workshop on ‘Transition metals in organic synthesis’ by Professor Roderick Bates from Nanyang Technical University, Singapore.

SK Mehta, local GIAN coordinator, welcomed the guests and elaborated the objectives of the GIAN programme. Six GIAN programmes by faculty from the USA, Germany, the UK and Canada were organised during first phase in 2016. Prof Raghuram Rao, Director, NIPER, Mohali, was the chief guest. He deliberated on the enormous headway of metals in the organic synthesis, emphasising upon the role of organometallics as an emerging field.

Complementing the organisers for their meticulous and superlative efforts, Panjab University Vice-Chancellor Arun K Grover, in his presidential remarks, delivered a note on the genesis of the GIAN programme and motivated the participants to follow in the footsteps of the legends and to aim for higher echelons in their research objectives for inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research activities at national and international level.

Deepak Salunke, course coordinator, highlighted the contents of the course.   

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