Bioactive Three-Membered Heterocycles: Natural Products, Green Synthesis and Bioactivity

Bubun Banerjee received his Ph.D. degree from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. He has nearly ten years of experience in the field of research related to green and sustainable developments. Presently he is working as an assistant professor of chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Akal University, Talwandi Sabo, Bathinda, Punjab, India. Dr. Banerjee published more than 110 research articles in the internationally renowned journals and authored twenty book chapters; he also co-edited twenty books and guest edited sixteen different special thematic issues of different journals.

Dilip K. Maiti was born September 09, 1970, in West Bengal, India. He received his B. Sc. in Chemistry in 1991 and M. Sc. (Organic Chemistry Major) in 1993, from Calcutta University, India. He achieved his Ph. D. on "Studies on Stereoselective Synthesis of Organic Compounds" from Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata in 1998. He pursued his postdoctoral research in the School of Medicine, Wayne State University, USA on "Development of Radiopharmaceuticals for Brain Imaging Utilizing Positron Emission Tomography". In 2005, he joined as a Reader faculty at the University of Calcutta and became full Professor in 2012. Currently he is the Vice-Chancellor of Biswa Bangla Biswabidyalay, Bolpur, India. His major research activity is focused on organic synthesis, fabrication of smart organic nanomaterials for designed smart sensors, fruit and vegetable protection, supercapacitors, organic electronic devices and many others.