Goverdhan Mehta
Professor, FRS 
University Distinguised Professor &
Dr. Kallam Anji Reddy Chair
Ph. D. Poona University, 1967
Postdoctoral Research The MSU and OSU, 1967 - 1969
Assistant Professor IIT, Kanpur, 1970 - 1976
Professor University of Hyderabad, 1977 – 1998 
Vice-Chancellor University of Hyderabad, 1994 - 1998
Director IISc, 1998 - 2005
CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow 2005 - 2010
National Research Professor 
 		2009 - 2014
Phone: +91-40-23134848, E-mail: gmsc@uohyd.erenet.in
Research Interests 
  • Chemical Sciences - Organic Chemistry (Synthesis).
  • Design and reactivity of novel molecular objects and entities, total synthesis of complex bioactive natural products.
  • Creation of NCE’s for drug discovery, origin and control of stereogenesis
  • Crystal engineering of conformationally locked polyols and photodynamic therapy of cancer. 
  • More recently involved in profiling and promoting chemical sciences as ‘ sustainability science’.
 
Selected Publications
  • A general approach to linearly fused triquinane natural products. Total synthesis of (±)-hirsutene, (±)-coriolin and (±)-capnellene, G. Mehta, A.N. Murthy, D.S.K. Reddy and A.V. Reddy, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1986, 108, 3443. 
  • D2h-Bishomohexaprismane ("Garudane"). Design of the face-to-face[2+2]-dimer of norborna¬diene, G. Mehta and S. Padma, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1987, 109, 7230.
  • Electronic control of -facial selectivities in nucleophilic additions to 7-norbornanones, G. Mehta and F.A. Khan, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1990, 112, 6140.
  • Golcondane: A novel, caged, nonacyclic C20H24-hydrocarbon of D2d-symmetry, G. Mehta and S.H.K. Reddy, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 1993, 32, 1160.
  • Total synthesis of (+)-Merrilactone, G. Mehta, R. S. Singh, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 2006, 45, 953.