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T. R. Govindachari

October 27, 2023

Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari FNA, FASc (1915–2001), popularly known as TRG, was an Indian natural product chemist, academic, institution builder and the principal of Presidency College, Chennai.[1] He was known for his studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and his contributions in elucidating the structure of several plant constituents.[2] He was an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences[3] and the Indian National Science Academy[4] and was the nominator of Robert Burns Woodward who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[5] The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research, awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1960, for his contributions to chemical sciences, making him the first recipient of the award in the chemical sciences category.[6]

T. R. Govindachari
Born(1915-07-30)30 July 1915
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Died28 December 2001(2001-12-28) (aged 86)
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
NationalityIndian
Alma mater
Known forStudies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral advisor
Doctoral studentsKuppuswamy Nagarajan

Biography edit

Govindachari was born on 30 July 1915 to Tuticorin Raghavachari and his wife Rajalakshmi in Chennai (then known as Madras) in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu.[7] Graduating from Presidency College, Chennai in chemistry, he continued at the institution for his master's degree for which he studied under B. B. Dey, his topic of research being isoquinolines.[8] After completing his master's degree, he enrolled for PhD, again under D. D. Dey at the same institution, and secured the degree from Madras University while working as an assistant to his guide on a CSIR-funded project for the production of dye and drug intermediates by electrolytic processes. Obtaining a scholarship from the Government of Madras, he went to the US in 1946 and did his post-doctoral studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana under the guidance of Roger Adams, best known for lending his name to Adams's catalyst which was prepared for the first time by him in association with V. Voorhees.[9] Govindachari's stay with Adams lasted three years during which time he assisted the US scientist in column chromatography, collection of fractions and their examination for the latter's investigation of the structures of alkaloids found in the various species of Senecioneae.

In 1949, Govindachari returned to India and in January the next year, he joined Presidency College as an additional professor at the department of chemistry.[7] He served the institution for the next thirteen years during which period, he became a professor in 1952 and the principal of the college in 1961. He superannuated from service in 1962, and after a year, he joined the Research Center of Ciba-Geigy in Mumbai in 1963 as its director. His association with the center continued till 1975 when he returned to Chennai to serve as a consultant to Central Leather Research Institute and after two years, Amrutanjan, a pharmaceutical company, assigned him the responsibility of setting up an R&D facility for them in Chennai. He headed the facility since its inception in 1977 till 1986 when the Science Foundation of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation entrusted him the responsibility of establishing a research centre for them. He set up the Centre for Agrochemical Research in 1987 and held its directorship till his last.[8]

Govindachari was married to Rajamani and the couple had three children, T. G. Rajagopalan, T. G. Sundararajan and Anuradha Jagannathan.[7] He died on 28 December 2001, aged 86, at his home town of Chennai, survived by his children; his wife had predeceased him.[10]

Legacy edit

 
Neem (Azadirachta indica)

It is reported that his involvement with the structural elucidation of alkaloids at Roger Adams' laboratory strengthened Govindachari's conviction to continue his researches along the same lines.[7] Back in India, he continued working on alkaloids, terpenoids and oxygen heterocycles and worked on isoquinolines, phenathridines, benzophenanthridines, pyridophenanthridines, dibenzoquinolizines, terpenes, flavones, and furocoumarins.[4] Tylophorine from Tylophora (now included in Vincetoxicum), tiliacorine from Tiliacora, echitamine from Alstonia, ropsine from Kopsia, gentianine from Gentiana, karpaine from Carica, and ancistroclaline from Ancistrocladus are some of the compounds structurally elucidated by him.[11] He also worked on Azadirachta indica for isolating its constituents.[7]

At Presidency College, he mentored a number of research scholars which included Kuppuswamy Nagarajan, N. S. Narasimhan, N. Arumugam, B. S. Thyagarajan, M. V. Lakshmikantham, K. W. Gopinath, S. Rajappa, N. Viswanathan and P. C. Parthasarathy who all went on to become notable chemists.[7] During his tenure at Ciba-Geigy Research Center, the institution was reported to have examined over 10,000 plant extracts and compounds which resulted in the development of 5 drugs, including Sintamil and Satranidazole, both already released into Indian market.[8] His investigations on Wedelia calendulacea returned the isolation of wedelolactone having a novel furocoumarin structure with a pterocarpan template, which, though declared inactive during the initial tests at Abbott Laboratories, later found out to have antihepatitic properties. This was subsequently confirmed by H. Wagner, a German phytochemist.[8] He established two research centres, the R&D facility for Amrutanjan Healthcare and Centre for Agrochemical Research for SPIC Science Foundation and at the former, he contributed to the development of an extraction and purification process for Vinca alkaloids.[12]

Govindachari has published his research findings in a book, Chemistry of Natural Products: V. 8,[13] and over 340 articles.[4][note 1] His work has also been quoted in several text books, treatises and other works.[note 2] He was associated with science journals viz. Indian Journal of Chemistry, Medicinal and Aromatic plants Abstracts and The Wealth of India as a member of their editorial board.[4] He sat in the council of the Indian National Science Academy from 1966 to 1968 and in the bureau of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) from 1963 to 1970 and served as the founder trustee of the National Organic Symposium Trust, a science forum promoting organic chemistry in India, from 1983 to 1986.[14] He was a member of the Pharmaceuticals and Drugs Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the research councils of National Chemical Laboratory and Central Drug Research Institute. He presided the Indian Chemical Society during 1971–72 and was a member of Royal Society of Chemistry, the American Chemical Society and Swiss Chemical Society.[8] He was the nominator for Robert Burns Woodward who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1965.[5]

Awards and honors edit

The Indian Academy of Sciences elected Govindachari as its fellow in 1951[3] and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit in 1959.[4] When the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1960, he became the first recipient of the award in the chemical sciences category.[6] The Indian National Science Academy awarded him the Meghanad Saha Medal;[15] the Academy would honor him again in 1986 with the Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal.[16] He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2000.[17]

Govindachari delivered several award orations and the list includes Professor K. Venkataraman Endowment Lectureship of Bombay University (1965 and 1996), Dr. Mahendra Lal Sircar Memorial Lectureship of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (1970), Sir S. Subramania Iyer Lectureship of Madras University (1970), H. K. Sen Memorial Lectureship (1970) and the plenary lecture in the inaugural meeting of the Natural Products Section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.[1][4] Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives journal dedicated the volume 15 of their 2001 edition to Govindachari[18] and ARKIVOC issued a Festschrift on him through their volume VIII in 2001.[19]

Selected bibliography edit

Books edit

  • T. R. Govindachari, ed. (January 1973). Chemistry of Natural Products: v. 8. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 184. ISBN 978-0408704373.

Articles edit

  • TR Govindachari; K Nagarajan; S Rajappa (1957). "526. Synthesis of gentianine". Journal of the Chemical Society: 2725–26. doi:10.1039/JR9570002725.
  • TR Govindachari; K Nagarajan; S Rajappa (1962). "Structure of CALYCANTHIDINE". Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research. 21 (9): 455.
  • Ramamurthy Charubala; Bantwal Ramachandra Pai; Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari; Narayana Viswanathan (1968). "Synthese von (±)-Predicentrin". Chem. Ber. 101 (8): 2665–68. doi:10.1002/cber.19681010808. PMID 5683925.
  • Govindachari, T. R.; Malathi, R.; Gopalakrishnan, Geetha; Suresh, G.; Rajan, S. S. (1999). "Isolation of a new tetranortriterpenoid from the uncrushed green leaves of Azadirachta indica". Phytochemistry. 52 (6): 1117–19. doi:10.1016/S0031-9422(99)00367-2.
  • Govindachari, T. R.; Suresh, G.; Gopalakrishnan, Geetha; Masilamani, S.; Banumathi, B. (2000). "Antifungal activity of some tetranortriterpenoids". Fitoterapia. 71 (3): 317–320. doi:10.1016/S0367-326X(99)00155-0. PMID 10844171.
  • Govindachari, T. R.; Krishna Kumari, G. N.; Gopalakrishnan, G.; Suresh, G.; Wesley, S. D.; Sreelatha, T. (2001). "Insect antifeedant and growth regulating activities of quassinoids from Samadera indica". Fitoterapia. 72 (5): 568–571. doi:10.1016/S0367-326X(00)00342-7. PMID 11429258.
  • Malathi, R.; Kabaleeswaran, V.; Rajan, S. S.; Gopalakrishnan, Geetha; Govindachari, T. R. (2003). "Structure of azadirachtin-I, 11 β-H epimer". Journal of Chemical Crystallography. 33 (4): 229–232. doi:10.1023/A:1023816807690. S2CID 91770797.

Citations edit

  • K. H. Overton (January 1971). Terpenoids and Steroids. Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 105–. ISBN 978-0-85186-256-9.
  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Physiology. Academic Press. 18 March 1982. pp. 219–. ISBN 978-0-08-086543-0.
  • The Alkaloids: Chemistry and Pharmacology. Academic Press. 20 November 1986. pp. 182–. ISBN 978-0-08-086553-9.
  • Chemistry and Pharmacology. Academic Press. 31 August 1995. pp. 269–. ISBN 978-0-08-086570-6.
  • F. G. Kathawala; Gary M. Coppola; Herbert F. Schuster (15 September 2009). The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, Isoquinolines. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 216–. ISBN 978-0-470-18865-1.
  • Balawant Shankar Joshi (23 April 2015). A LIFE TO REMEMBER: An Autobiography. Xlibris Corporation. pp. 247–. ISBN 978-1-5035-4928-9.

See also edit

Notes edit

  1. ^ Please see Selected bibliography section
  2. ^ Please see Citations section

References edit

  1. ^ a b Nagarajan, K. (2005). "A Tribute to Prof. T. Govindachari". Arkivoc. Archive for Organic Chemistry. 2001 (8): 1–8. doi:10.3998/ark.5550190.0002.801. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  2. ^ "Brief Profile of the Awardee". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  3. ^ a b "Fellow profile". Indian Academy of Sciences. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f "Deceased fellow". Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. ^ a b "Nomination Database". Nobel Media AB. 2014. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  6. ^ a b "View Bhatnagar Awardees". Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize. 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  7. ^ a b c d e f K. Nagarajan (January 2002). "In memoriam – T. R. Govindachari (1915–2001)" (PDF). Current Science. 82 (2).
  8. ^ a b c d e Nagarajan (2001). "Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari - A Tribute". Arkivoc. VIII: 1–8. ISSN 1424-6376.
  9. ^ Voorhees, V.; Adams, R. (1922). "The Use of the Oxides of Platinum for the Catalytic Reduction of Organic Compounds". J. Am. Chem. Soc. 44 (6): 1397. doi:10.1021/ja01427a021.
  10. ^ "T.R. Govindachari passes away". The Hindu. 31 December 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2016.[dead link]
  11. ^ "Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners" (PDF). Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. 1999. p. 34. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  12. ^ "He unveiled the mysteries of Neem". Vol XX No. 12. Madras Musings. October 2010. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  13. ^ T. R. Govindachari, ed. (January 1973). Chemistry of Natural Products: v. 8. Butterworth-Heinemann. p. 184. ISBN 978-0408704373.
  14. ^ "Trustees". National Organic Symposium Trust. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  15. ^ "Meghnad Saha Medal". List of recipients. Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  16. ^ "Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal". List of recipients. Indian National Science Academy. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  17. ^ "Lifetime Achievement Award". Chemical Research Society of India. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  18. ^ "Dedicated to Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari (1915-)". Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives. 15: v. 2001. doi:10.1016/S0735-8210(01)80011-X. ISBN 9780080440255.
  19. ^ "ARKIVOC Volume 2001". Festschrift. ARKAT USA. 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2016.

External links edit

  • "Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari". Scientist profile. The Indian Scientists. 2016. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  • K. Nagarajan (June 2008). "TR Govindachari's Natural Products Chemistry". Resonance. 13 (6): 519–540. doi:10.1007/s12045-008-0059-0. S2CID 122568710.

Further reading edit

  • "Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari" (PDF). Dedication. Alkaloids: Chemical and Biological Perspectives. 2001. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  • K. Nagarajan (2014). "History of Natural Products Chemistry in India" (PDF). Indian Journal of History of Science. 49 (4): 377–398.

October 27, 2023
govindachari, tuticorin, raghavachari, govindachari, fasc, 1915, 2001, popularly, known, indian, natural, product, chemist, academic, institution, builder, principal, presidency, college, chennai, known, studies, synthesis, isoquinolines, phenanthridines, cont. Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari FNA FASc 1915 2001 popularly known as TRG was an Indian natural product chemist academic institution builder and the principal of Presidency College Chennai 1 He was known for his studies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridines and his contributions in elucidating the structure of several plant constituents 2 He was an elected fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences 3 and the Indian National Science Academy 4 and was the nominator of Robert Burns Woodward who won the 1965 Nobel Prize in Chemistry 5 The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research the apex agency of the Government of India for scientific research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology one of the highest Indian science awards in 1960 for his contributions to chemical sciences making him the first recipient of the award in the chemical sciences category 6 T R GovindachariBorn 1915 07 30 30 July 1915Chennai Tamil Nadu IndiaDied28 December 2001 2001 12 28 aged 86 Chennai Tamil Nadu IndiaNationalityIndianAlma materPresidency College ChennaiUniversity of IllinoisKnown forStudies on the synthesis of isoquinolines and phenanthridinesAwards1960 Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize1975 INSA Meghanad Saha Medal1986 INSA Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal2000 CRSI Lifetime Achievement AwardScientific careerFieldsNatural product chemistryInstitutionsPresidency College ChennaiCiba Geigy Research CenterCentral Leather Research InstituteAmrutanjan HealthcareSPIC Science FoundationDoctoral advisorB B DeyRoger AdamsDoctoral studentsKuppuswamy Nagarajan Contents 1 Biography 2 Legacy 3 Awards and honors 4 Selected bibliography 4 1 Books 4 2 Articles 4 3 Citations 5 See also 6 Notes 7 References 8 External links 9 Further readingBiography editGovindachari was born on 30 July 1915 to Tuticorin Raghavachari and his wife Rajalakshmi in Chennai then known as Madras in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu 7 Graduating from Presidency College Chennai in chemistry he continued at the institution for his master s degree for which he studied under B B Dey his topic of research being isoquinolines 8 After completing his master s degree he enrolled for PhD again under D D Dey at the same institution and secured the degree from Madras University while working as an assistant to his guide on a CSIR funded project for the production of dye and drug intermediates by electrolytic processes Obtaining a scholarship from the Government of Madras he went to the US in 1946 and did his post doctoral studies at the University of Illinois Urbana under the guidance of Roger Adams best known for lending his name to Adams s catalyst which was prepared for the first time by him in association with V Voorhees 9 Govindachari s stay with Adams lasted three years during which time he assisted the US scientist in column chromatography collection of fractions and their examination for the latter s investigation of the structures of alkaloids found in the various species of Senecioneae In 1949 Govindachari returned to India and in January the next year he joined Presidency College as an additional professor at the department of chemistry 7 He served the institution for the next thirteen years during which period he became a professor in 1952 and the principal of the college in 1961 He superannuated from service in 1962 and after a year he joined the Research Center of Ciba Geigy in Mumbai in 1963 as its director His association with the center continued till 1975 when he returned to Chennai to serve as a consultant to Central Leather Research Institute and after two years Amrutanjan a pharmaceutical company assigned him the responsibility of setting up an R amp D facility for them in Chennai He headed the facility since its inception in 1977 till 1986 when the Science Foundation of Southern Petrochemical Industries Corporation entrusted him the responsibility of establishing a research centre for them He set up the Centre for Agrochemical Research in 1987 and held its directorship till his last 8 Govindachari was married to Rajamani and the couple had three children T G Rajagopalan T G Sundararajan and Anuradha Jagannathan 7 He died on 28 December 2001 aged 86 at his home town of Chennai survived by his children his wife had predeceased him 10 Legacy edit nbsp Neem Azadirachta indica It is reported that his involvement with the structural elucidation of alkaloids at Roger Adams laboratory strengthened Govindachari s conviction to continue his researches along the same lines 7 Back in India he continued working on alkaloids terpenoids and oxygen heterocycles and worked on isoquinolines phenathridines benzophenanthridines pyridophenanthridines dibenzoquinolizines terpenes flavones and furocoumarins 4 Tylophorine from Tylophora now included in Vincetoxicum tiliacorine from Tiliacora echitamine from Alstonia ropsine from Kopsia gentianine from Gentiana karpaine from Carica and ancistroclaline from Ancistrocladus are some of the compounds structurally elucidated by him 11 He also worked on Azadirachta indica for isolating its constituents 7 At Presidency College he mentored a number of research scholars which included Kuppuswamy Nagarajan N S Narasimhan N Arumugam B S Thyagarajan M V Lakshmikantham K W Gopinath S Rajappa N Viswanathan and P C Parthasarathy who all went on to become notable chemists 7 During his tenure at Ciba Geigy Research Center the institution was reported to have examined over 10 000 plant extracts and compounds which resulted in the development of 5 drugs including Sintamil and Satranidazole both already released into Indian market 8 His investigations on Wedelia calendulacea returned the isolation of wedelolactone having a novel furocoumarin structure with a pterocarpan template which though declared inactive during the initial tests at Abbott Laboratories later found out to have antihepatitic properties This was subsequently confirmed by H Wagner a German phytochemist 8 He established two research centres the R amp D facility for Amrutanjan Healthcare and Centre for Agrochemical Research for SPIC Science Foundation and at the former he contributed to the development of an extraction and purification process for Vinca alkaloids 12 Govindachari has published his research findings in a book Chemistry of Natural Products V 8 13 and over 340 articles 4 note 1 His work has also been quoted in several text books treatises and other works note 2 He was associated with science journals viz Indian Journal of Chemistry Medicinal and Aromatic plants Abstracts and The Wealth of India as a member of their editorial board 4 He sat in the council of the Indian National Science Academy from 1966 to 1968 and in the bureau of International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry IUPAC from 1963 to 1970 and served as the founder trustee of the National Organic Symposium Trust a science forum promoting organic chemistry in India from 1983 to 1986 14 He was a member of the Pharmaceuticals and Drugs Committee of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research and the research councils of National Chemical Laboratory and Central Drug Research Institute He presided the Indian Chemical Society during 1971 72 and was a member of Royal Society of Chemistry the American Chemical Society and Swiss Chemical Society 8 He was the nominator for Robert Burns Woodward who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1965 5 Awards and honors editThe Indian Academy of Sciences elected Govindachari as its fellow in 1951 3 and the Indian National Science Academy followed suit in 1959 4 When the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 1960 he became the first recipient of the award in the chemical sciences category 6 The Indian National Science Academy awarded him the Meghanad Saha Medal 15 the Academy would honor him again in 1986 with the Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal 16 He received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Chemical Research Society of India in 2000 17 Govindachari delivered several award orations and the list includes Professor K Venkataraman Endowment Lectureship of Bombay University 1965 and 1996 Dr Mahendra Lal Sircar Memorial Lectureship of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science 1970 Sir S Subramania Iyer Lectureship of Madras University 1970 H K Sen Memorial Lectureship 1970 and the plenary lecture in the inaugural meeting of the Natural Products Section of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry 1 4 Alkaloids Chemical and Biological Perspectives journal dedicated the volume 15 of their 2001 edition to Govindachari 18 and ARKIVOC issued a Festschrift on him through their volume VIII in 2001 19 Selected bibliography editBooks edit T R Govindachari ed January 1973 Chemistry of Natural Products v 8 Butterworth Heinemann p 184 ISBN 978 0408704373 Articles edit TR Govindachari K Nagarajan S Rajappa 1957 526 Synthesis of gentianine Journal of the Chemical Society 2725 26 doi 10 1039 JR9570002725 TR Govindachari K Nagarajan S Rajappa 1962 Structure of CALYCANTHIDINE Journal of Scientific and Industrial Research 21 9 455 Ramamurthy Charubala Bantwal Ramachandra Pai Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari Narayana Viswanathan 1968 Synthese von Predicentrin Chem Ber 101 8 2665 68 doi 10 1002 cber 19681010808 PMID 5683925 Govindachari T R Malathi R Gopalakrishnan Geetha Suresh G Rajan S S 1999 Isolation of a new tetranortriterpenoid from the uncrushed green leaves of Azadirachta indica Phytochemistry 52 6 1117 19 doi 10 1016 S0031 9422 99 00367 2 Govindachari T R Suresh G Gopalakrishnan Geetha Masilamani S Banumathi B 2000 Antifungal activity of some tetranortriterpenoids Fitoterapia 71 3 317 320 doi 10 1016 S0367 326X 99 00155 0 PMID 10844171 Govindachari T R Krishna Kumari G N Gopalakrishnan G Suresh G Wesley S D Sreelatha T 2001 Insect antifeedant and growth regulating activities of quassinoids from Samadera indica Fitoterapia 72 5 568 571 doi 10 1016 S0367 326X 00 00342 7 PMID 11429258 Malathi R Kabaleeswaran V Rajan S S Gopalakrishnan Geetha Govindachari T R 2003 Structure of azadirachtin I 11 b H epimer Journal of Chemical Crystallography 33 4 229 232 doi 10 1023 A 1023816807690 S2CID 91770797 Citations edit K H Overton January 1971 Terpenoids and Steroids Royal Society of Chemistry pp 105 ISBN 978 0 85186 256 9 The Alkaloids Chemistry and Physiology Academic Press 18 March 1982 pp 219 ISBN 978 0 08 086543 0 The Alkaloids Chemistry and Pharmacology Academic Press 20 November 1986 pp 182 ISBN 978 0 08 086553 9 Chemistry and Pharmacology Academic Press 31 August 1995 pp 269 ISBN 978 0 08 086570 6 F G Kathawala Gary M Coppola Herbert F Schuster 15 September 2009 The Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds Isoquinolines John Wiley amp Sons pp 216 ISBN 978 0 470 18865 1 Balawant Shankar Joshi 23 April 2015 A LIFE TO REMEMBER An Autobiography Xlibris Corporation pp 247 ISBN 978 1 5035 4928 9 See also editRoger Adams Robert Burns Woodward Kuppuswamy Nagarajan Isoquinolines Phenanthridines nbsp India portal nbsp Chemistry portalNotes edit Please see Selected bibliography section Please see Citations sectionReferences edit a b Nagarajan K 2005 A Tribute to Prof T Govindachari Arkivoc Archive for Organic Chemistry 2001 8 1 8 doi 10 3998 ark 5550190 0002 801 Retrieved 5 November 2016 Brief Profile of the Awardee Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2016 Retrieved 5 October 2016 a b Fellow profile Indian Academy of Sciences 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 a b c d e f Deceased fellow Indian National Science Academy 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 a b Nomination Database Nobel Media AB 2014 Retrieved 5 November 2016 a b View Bhatnagar Awardees Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize 2016 Retrieved 5 October 2016 a b c d e f K Nagarajan January 2002 In memoriam T R Govindachari 1915 2001 PDF Current Science 82 2 a b c d e Nagarajan 2001 Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari A Tribute Arkivoc VIII 1 8 ISSN 1424 6376 Voorhees V Adams R 1922 The Use of the Oxides of Platinum for the Catalytic Reduction of Organic Compounds J Am Chem Soc 44 6 1397 doi 10 1021 ja01427a021 T R Govindachari passes away The Hindu 31 December 2001 Retrieved 5 November 2016 dead link Handbook of Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize Winners PDF Council of Scientific and Industrial Research 1999 p 34 Retrieved 5 October 2016 He unveiled the mysteries of Neem Vol XX No 12 Madras Musings October 2010 Retrieved 5 November 2016 T R Govindachari ed January 1973 Chemistry of Natural Products v 8 Butterworth Heinemann p 184 ISBN 978 0408704373 Trustees National Organic Symposium Trust 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 Meghnad Saha Medal List of recipients Indian National Science Academy 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 Golden Jubilee Commemoration Medal List of recipients Indian National Science Academy 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Chemical Research Society of India 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 Dedicated to Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari 1915 Alkaloids Chemical and Biological Perspectives 15 v 2001 doi 10 1016 S0735 8210 01 80011 X ISBN 9780080440255 ARKIVOC Volume 2001 Festschrift ARKAT USA 2001 Retrieved 5 November 2016 External links edit Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari Scientist profile The Indian Scientists 2016 Retrieved 5 November 2016 K Nagarajan June 2008 TR Govindachari s Natural Products Chemistry Resonance 13 6 519 540 doi 10 1007 s12045 008 0059 0 S2CID 122568710 Further reading edit Tuticorin Raghavachari Govindachari PDF Dedication Alkaloids Chemical and Biological Perspectives 2001 Retrieved 5 November 2016 K Nagarajan 2014 History of Natural Products Chemistry in India PDF Indian Journal of History of Science 49 4 377 398 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title T R Govindachari amp oldid 1139682793, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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