Dr Anand Narani

Research Interest

• Valorization of lignin to high value chemicals and fuels
• Catalytic conversion of C5 & C6 sugars to chemicals and fuels
• Value addition of lignin derived monomers to bioactive compounds
• Design of biomass/bio char derived carbon based catalysts for advanced chemical synthesis
• Heterogeneous catalysis
• Mesoporous Material synthesis and applications

Work Experience

Awards and Honours

• Member of Sub-Committee on Lignin Valorization, Working group on Bio-fuels, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
• Member of Winning Team for “Value-Creation” competetion conducted by Catch-Bio held at Utrecht, January 2016
• Senior Research Fellowship (SRF), 2010, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi, India
• Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), 2008-2010, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, India
• Qualified GATE exam in 2008 with 98.3% (Rank: 106) conducted by Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

Patents

• A method for the preparation of Alicyclic compounds using Pine needle char supported nanoscale catalyst. Kishore Natte, Adarsh Kumar, Anand Narani, Naina Sarki, Vishaka Goyal, Ankur Bordoloi, Thallada Bhaskar, Anjan Ray
  Patent filed in India (Patent application Number: 202011010504)

Selected Publications

• Molybdenum-catalyzed oxidative depolymerization of alkali lignin: Selective production of Vanillin
  S. Rawat, P. Gupta, B. Singh, T. Bhaskar, K. Natte, A. Narani, Applied Catalysis A: General, 2020, 598, 117567-117575
• Exploring the flexibility of cellulase cocktail obtained from mutant UV-8 of Talaromyces verruculosus IIPC 324 in depolymerising multiple agro-industrial lignocellulosic feedstocks
  L. Jain, A. K. Kurmi, A. Kumar, A. Narani, T. Bhaskar, D. Agrawal, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 2020, 154, 538-544
• Commercial Pd/C-Catalyzed N-Methylation of Nitroarenes and Amines Using Methanol as Both C1 and H2 Source
  V. Goyal, J. Gahtori, A. Narani, P. Gupta, A. Bordoloi, K. Natte, Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2019, 84, 15389-15398
• Nano CoO-Cu-MgO catalyst for vapor phase simultaneous synthesis of ortho-chloroaniline and γbutyrolactone from ortho-cholonitrobenzne and 1,4-butanediol
  H. P. R. Kannapu, Y-W. Suh, V. Vaddeboina, A. Narani, D. R. Burri, S. R. R. Kamaraju, Characterization and Application of Nanomaterials, 2020, 2 (3)
• Lignin Depolymerisation and Lignocellulose Fractionation by Solvated Electrons in Liquid Ammonia
  P. Prinsen, A. Narani, G. Rothenberg, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10 (5), 1022-1032
• Phenolic acetals from lignins of varying compositions via Iron (III) triflate catalysed depolymerisation
  P. J. Deuss, C. S. Lancefield, A. Narani, J. G. de Vries, N. J. Westwood, K. Barta, Green Chemistry, 2017, 19, 2774-2782
• Dissolving Lignin in Water through Enzymatic Sulfation
  P. Prinsen, A. Narani, A. F. Hartog, R. Wever, G. Rothenberg, ChemSusChem, 2017, 10 (10), 2267-2273
• One-pot synthesis of ethylbenzene/1-phenylethanol and γ-butyrolactone from simultaneous acetophenone hydrogenation and 1, 4-butanediol dehydrogenation over copper based catalysts: effects of the support
  H. P. R. Kannapu, Y. W. Suh, A. Narani, V. Vaddeboina, D. R. Burri, R. R. K Seetha, RSC Advances, 2017, 7 (56), 35346-35356
• Coupling of 1,4-Butanediol Dehydrogenation with Nitrobenzene Hydrogenation for Simultaneous synthesis of -butyrolactone and Aniline over promoted Cu-MgO catalyst: Effect of Promoters
  H. P. R. Kannapu, Y-W. Suh, A. Narani, D. R. Burri, R. R. Kamaraju Seetha, Catalysis Letters, 2017, 147, 90-101
• Coupling of O-Chloronitrobenzene hydrogenation with 1,4-butanediol dehydrogenation over Cu/MgO catalysts: A hydrogen free process
  H. P. R. Kannapu, Y-W. Suh, N. Anand, D. R. Burri, K. S. Rama Rao, Catalysis Communications, 2017, 95, 21-25