Unsaturated Sugars Syntheses and Applications. A Special Issue in Honour of Professor Kalpattu Kuppuswamy Balsubramanian 英文参考文献.docVIP

Molecules 2005, 10, 833-836 molecules ISSN 1420-3049 Guest Editorial Unsaturated Sugars: Syntheses and Applications. A Special Issue in Honour of Professor Kalpattu Kuppuswamy Balsubramanian. G. Sundararajan 1,* and N. G. Ramesh 2 1 Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras - 600 036, India; Email: gsundar@iitm.ac.in 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi - 110 016, India; Email: ramesh@chemistry.iitd.ac.in Received: 3 April 2005 / Published:31 August 2005 A Tribute to Prof. K.K. Balsubramanian Kalpattu Kuppuswamy Balsubramanian (popularly and affectionately addressed as KKB) was born on September 5th 1939, at Mylapore, Madras (now Chennai), Tamil Nadu, India, in a family gifted with tradition in the noble profession of teaching. His father was a teacher and principal of a reputed school at Chennai. His elder brother, Dr. K. Nagarajan, and younger brother, Dr. K. Vijayakumaran, are both noted organic chemists in India. Perhaps it is also a delightful coincidence that he was to become a teacher in the future, as September 5 th is now celebrated in India as Teachers Day every year. In 1960 he received his B.Sc. (Honours) from Loyola College, Chennai, and his M.Sc. degree from the University of Madras, Chennai, a year later. Immediately thereafter, he joined the group of Prof. B. S. Thyagarajan at the University of Madras for his Ph.D. program and he subsequently obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1965. During his Ph.D. he worked in the area of molecular rearrangements, mainly on the Claisen rearrangement of 1,4-diyl-but-2-yne aryl ethers. He then joined the group of Prof. C. L. Stevens at Wayne State University, Detroit (Michigan, U.S.A.) for his postdoctoral research, where he gained experience in working with carbohydrates. After spending a couple of years at Prof. Stevens gr