Dr. Ratnnadeep C. Sawant




Name: Dr. Ratnnadeep C. Sawant
Qualification: MSc, PhD, Postdoc
Designation : Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
institute name : Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur
College address : Department of Chemistry
Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur -440010
Award for : Research Excellence Award
Publication title: Journal
Paper Title : Synthesis of Hydroxylated Analogues of αâ€Galactosyl Ceramide (KRN7000) with Varying Stereochemistry
Journal Name : European Journal of Organic Chemistry
Volume : 2013
Issue No. : 33
Month of publication :
Year : 2013
Page no. : 611-7623
ISSN : 1099-0690

About Dr. Ratnnadeep C. Sawant

Dr. Ratnnadeep C. Sawant [M.Sc., Ph.D. (NCHU, Taiwan), Postdoctoral Fellow

(NTHU, Hsinchu and Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan)] is presently working as Assistant

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur. He

studied M.Sc. Chemistry at Yashwant Mahavidyalaya, Nanded affiliated to Swami Ramanand

Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded, Maharashtra from 2008 to 2010. During his M.Sc., he

was selected as IAS-INSA-NASI Summer Research Fellow by Indian Academy of Science,

Bangalore and worked at National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology,

Trivandrum, Kerala under the guidance of Prof. K. V. Radhakrishnan on palladium chemistry in

  1. His Ph.D. studies were carried out at the Department of Chemistry, National Chung Hsing

University, Taichung, Taiwan under the guidance of Prof. Shun-Yuan Luo and obtained his PhD

in 2015. His PhD thesis title is Part 1: Formal Synthesis of a Disaccharide Repeating Unit (IdoA-

GlcN) of Heparin and Heparan Sulfate, Part 2: Concise Synthesis of -Galactosyl Ceramide

(KRN7000) and Natural Cerebroside with their Analogues. His postdoctoral appointment was at

National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan under the guidance of Prof. Chun-Cheng Lin

from August 2015 to July 2016.

In August 2016, Dr. Sawant joined Dr. Ambedkar College, Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur as

Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry. During his Assistant Professorship, he

visited Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan as Postdoctoral fellow from June 2018 to January 2019.

He is also invited to Join Bentham Publisher, Singapore, U.A.E. as “Bentham Science

Embassador” from India in the academic year 2019-2020 and is working for the same. He also

served as Co-ordinator of Phytochemistry Certificate Course at Dr. Ambedkar College,

Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur. He has 10 scientific research publications in national and international

peer reviewed journals. He has three and half years of teaching experience in UG and PG level.

He has approximately eight and half years of research experience. Dr. Sawant has guided thirty

four students for the P.G. dissertation work. During master degree, he worked on palladium

chemistry. Later his Ph.D. and postdoctoral research were focused on development of synthetic

strategies on -Galactosyl Ceramide (KRN7000), L-form sugars, lactosphingosine, and

iminosugar C-glycoside analogues.

Dr. Sawant’s research expertise is in the field of synthetic organic chemistry,

development of metal free reactions, synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients, synthesis of

small drug like molecules, carbohydrate synthesis, natural product synthesis and development of

room temperature glycosylation methods. Currently, he is working on development of metal,

metal free and microwave assisted amination of aromatic, alipatic halides and alcohols.