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Jogendra C Bardhan and Suresh C Sengupta are two very common names to the undergraduate students of chemistry due to the classical Bardhan-Sengupta synthesis of phenanthrenes which is incorporated in all standard textbooks of organic chemistry and is one of the most convenient of approaches for constructing this ring system till date. Bardhan was a brilliant teacher and an outstanding synthetic chemist who enjoyed the essence of organic chemistry. Bardhan and Sengupta published their pioneering work in 1932. Bardhan modified his work later, as required. As students of chemistry, his work and memory inspire us.
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Suchandra Chakraborty received her PhD from University of Calcutta in 2014 under the guidance of Chandan Saha. She works as CSIR Senior Research Fellow (Ext). Her research interest is in the area of synthetic organic chemistry.
Chandan Saha is Assistant Professor at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology, School of Tropical Medicine, Kolkata. He is engaged in teaching and research to develop methodologies and in the total synthesis of naturally occurring carbazole alkaloids.
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Chakraborty, S., Saha, C. A tribute to Bardhan and Sengupta. Reson 20, 628–642 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-015-0221-4
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