Radhey Srivastava
Professor
The University of Louisiana Lafayette
USA
Biography
Dr. Radhey Srivastava is distinguished Professor at the department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana Lafayette, LA, USA. He started his academic journey after graduating from India and Japan. Following several years as professor of inorganic chemistry in India and as a research associate in leading organometallic/ catalysis research groups in Japan, Canada, France and Italy he joined with Professor K.M. Nicholas in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma as a senior research scientist on homogeneous catalysis. He has enjoyed working with several distinguished scientists in the field around the globe. This interaction offered him an excellent opportunity to perform high quality research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. My research involved the use of modern analytical methods to monitor chemical reactions. Our projects cover a wide range of subjects in the areas of inorganic chemistry, medicinal inorganic chemistry, organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and biomass energy conversion. Included are studies to understand and improve ruthenium anticancer drugs, metal-catalyzed deoxydehydration of polyols and epoxides, the synthesis of organometallic complexes, and metal-catalyzed C-H nitrogenation of hydrocarbons. We widely use selective oxidations, reductions, stereoselective reactions, hydrocarbon activation and isomerization, and enantioselective synthesis. Our group utilizes extensively all the modern spectroscopic and analytical tools in organic product identification, metal complexes, and organic structure characterization as well as in mechanistic studies.
Research Interest
Inorganic Chemistry, Organometallic, Catalysis