BIODATA

Prof. K. VEERA REDDY

Vice-Chancellor Satavahana University

Jyothi Nagar, Karimnagar 505 001

0878-2255911; 9392447007 (Mobile) Email: vrkadaru@gmail.com

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ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS (Obtained from Osmania University, Hyderabad, INDIA) B. Sc. (1972)

First Class; Chemistry, Physics & Mathematics Arts & Science College, Jagtial, Karimnagar (Dist); Secured College First

M. Sc. (1974) First Class with Distinction and Class First in Physical-Inorganic Chemistry Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007

Ph. D. (1980) 'Phosphine and Arsine Complexes of Ruthenium and Activation of Molecular Oxygen' Osmania University, Hyderabad 500 007

ACADEMIC AWARDS Junior Research Fellow (JRF; 1975-1977)

Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi awarded the fellowship based on the Merit and Distinction secured at the University examination at M. Sc. Level and all India merit amongst the applicants for the fellowship

Senior Research Fellow (SRF; 1977-1979) Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi awarded the fellowship based on the performance and progress of the research for two-years after the JRF award

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 31 years (Both Post-graduate and Undergraduate Classes)

• May 1979 - August 1980: Lecturer, Kakatiya University, Warangal • August 1980 - September 1984: Assistant Professor (Lecturer), Osmania

University, Hyderabad • September 1984 - December 1992: Associate Professor (Reader),

Osmania University, Hyderabad • September 1992 - To date: Professor, Osmania University, Hyderabad

BEST TEACHER AWARD

AP State Best Teacher Award-2007, presented by the Govt. of A P on International Teachers Day (October 5, 2007) at Ravindra Bharathi, Hyderabad

RESEARCH AREAS & EXPERIENCE

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30 years Working in the following thrust areas:

• Design, Synthesis and Characterization of Polyfunctional Ligands of Biological Interest and their Metal Complexes

• Model Studies on Redox and Hydrolytic Enzymes – The enzymes under modeling are Carboxypeptidase A (CPA) and Peptidyl α-amidating monooxygenase (PAM, an enzyme of current research interest)

• Platinum Metal Complexes as anti-cancer Drugs CONDUCT OF INDEPENDENT RESEARCH

Ph. D. Degrees awarded .. 6 Papers published .. 21 Submitted .. 2 Books Published .. 6 Under Preparation .. 3

FOREIGN VISITS

1. Visited U. S. A. (February 1988 – July 1990) as a Research Associate for 3 yrs and worked at the ‘Department of Chemistry, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OHIO 44106 (USA)’

2. Visited Canada (Personal) REVIEWER OF RESEARCH ARTICLES On the panel of Referees for the review of research articles to be published in

1. Inorganica Chimica Acta, Elsevier Publications (International Journal) 2. Indian Journal of Chemistry, New Delhi 3. Journal of Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata

COURSE COORDINATOR

Course Coordinator for ‘12th Refresher Course in Chemistry’ (August 6-29, 2001) at Academic Staff College, O.U.

MAJOR & MINOR RESEARCH PROJECTS

Completed (1995-1999) a major research project (Rs 8.5 lakh) on ‘Metal Ion Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Peptide-Derived Ligands’ , Sponsored by Department of Science and Technology (D.S.T), New Delhi.

• Completed many minor research projects WORK SHOPS & SEMINARS ATTENDED

1. "Chemical Applications of Spectroscopy", held in April 1976 at I. I. T., CHENNAI

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2. "A Short Term Course on Raman Spectroscopy and its Applications", held in May 1993, at I. I. T., CHENNAI

3. First "Low Cost Equipment Work Shop on Chemical Instrumentation", jointly conducted by Osmania University and University of Hyderabad, HYDERABAD, in 1980

4. "International Workshop on Organometallics", held in November 1993 at I. I. T., NEW DELHI

5. 2nd Round Table Conference on ‘Internationalization of Indian Higher Education’, held at University of Mysore (March 2001)

SYMPOSIA ATTENDED National

Annual Conventions of Chemists, Indian Council of Chemists and Science Congress, Symposia & Workshops

International

American Chemical Society Symposia held at i) Dallas, Texas (USA), 1989 (presented a paper) ii) Boston, Massachusetts (USA), 1990 (presented a poster)

VISITING PROFESSOR: 2004; Dr. BAM University, AURANGABAD POPULAR, INVITED & EXPERT LECTURES DELIVERED Resource Person at the following colleges, centers or universities:

i) All Post-Graduate & Undergraduate Colleges OU at Hyderabad ii) Kakatiya University, Warangal, and its affiliated Colleges iii) Several Degree and PG Colleges at Districts head quarters of A.P. iv) Work Shops, Refresher and Orientation Courses conducted for Degree

College Teachers by Academic Staff Colleges of O.U., S.K.U., S.V.U., Andhra University, REC and University of Pune

CREATIVE IDEAS IN Making Models and Materials for class room teaching

i) Fabrication of zero or low-cost models of molecules for symmetry - Wheat flour models, wooden models, laminated sheet models & straw models

ii) Preparing user-friendly teaching material & Popularizing chemistry through cartoons, articles, transparencies, slides, etc.

ADMINISTRATIVE/CORPORATE EXPERIENCE

Head (2008 – 2010), Department of Chemistry, Osmania University Conferences & Workshops conducted (as Head)

1. “Workshop for PG Teachers” conducted during November 10-13, 2008, at the Department of Chemistry, OU

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2. National Conference on “Recent Advances in Chemical Research”, February 6-7, 2009 at the Department of Chemistry, OU

Principal (2005 – 2008) , University College of Science, Osmania University

• The office of the Principal is responsible for a) Providing academic and administrative leadership to 14 major science

departments and four self-finance courses b) Facilitating learning facilities and academic ambience for over 1700

postgraduate, 100 M. Phil. and 500 Ph. D. students. Many new schemes were launched to keep afloat academic culture

c) Providing working ambience to 165 faculty members and 200 supporting staff

d) Management of three hostels with mess facility for over 500 boarders in each Hostel

Dean (In-charge), Faculty of Science

Held the Office of Dean, Faculty of Science, OU as In-charge Dean as and when the Dean availed leave or on duty leave

Director (1999 – 2004)

University Foreign Relations Office, (First and Founder Director) Osmania University, Hyderabad • Landmarks as Director a) Established a single window facility by streamlining the application

procedures, and admission guidelines for the benefit of foreign students b) Networked with the Embassies/High Commissions of India abroad and the

foreign Embassies/Consulates in India, and efforts have resulted in improving the admissions of foreign students to over 500 from about 50 countries

c) Facilitated suitable accommodation for foreign students d) Participated in the 2nd Round Table Conference on ‘Internationalization of

Indian Higher Education’, held at University of Mysore (March 2001) and published an article on ‘Internationalization of Indian Higher Education - Osmania Contribution’ as a Chapter in a Book, ‘Internationalization of Indian Higher Education’, Edited by K. B. Powar, AIU Publishing House New Delhi (2001)

President

• 1998-2002: Osmania University Gazetted Officers’ Cooperative Credit Society & Feb 2006: Inter College Tournament (Men), OU

Chairman

• Dec 2006: Grievances Committee for the Non-Teaching Employees of Osmania University

• June 2006: Committee for Purchase of Furniture to New Women’s Hostel (CHW-III),OU Campus

• Oct 2006: Souvenir Committee of the South Zone Vice-Chancellors’ Conference held from 16-18 October, 2006

• Sept 2006: Committee on staggering the P.G. Almanac & April 2007: Academic Sub-Committee, Nalgonda University

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Member • Academic Senate , Osmania University (nominated by Govt. of A. P., Feb

2006) • Standing Committee of Academic Senate, Osmania University

(Nominated by the Academic Senate, April 2006 ) • Board of Studies in Chemistry, OU (July 2005, 2yrs), Forensic Science,

OU (July 2006, 2yrs) & Chemistry, Kakatiya University (July 2006, 2yrs) • Departmental Committee , Department of Chemistry, OU (1998-2000 &

2007-2009)) • Committee for framing of Ph.D. and M. Phil. Rules (July 2006) • Expert Committee on the ICSSR (SRC), OU of social scientists in

Research Methodology (March 2007) • Selection Committee Expert & Governing Bodies for several Colleges

in City and Districts • Academic Council, St. Francis College for Women (1994-1997) &

University College of Engineering, OU (May 2005 onwards) • Management Committee for Hostels and Messes, OU (July 2005) • Advisory Committee, UFRO, OU (Oct 2007) & NSS, OU (Sept 2005) • Committee to examine issues connected to Students’ Insurance (Sept

2005), CAS awardees and other service anomalies (Aug 2006) , promotion to EMMRC staff under CAS UGC-1996 guidelines and in terms of promotion policy of UGC (Oct 2006) & functioning of Model High School, OU (April 2007)

• House Allotment Committee (Non-Gazetted, Feb 2006 1 yr) • Board of Control , Inter-University Tournaments (Feb 2006, 2 yrs) • Returning Officer for OUTA-2007 election (June 21, 2007) • Task Force Committee for establishing e-Classroom at CDE, OU (Sept

2007) Vice-Chancellor’s Nominee

• Purchase Committee of Da’iratu’l Ma’arif-il-Osmania, OU (Jan 2007) • Purchase Committee, PG College of Science, Saifabad (2008-to date)

PUBLICATIONS I. BOOKS Published (6)

1. ‘Copper-Mediated Nitrogen Ligand Oxidation and O xygenation’

L. M. Sayre, W. Tang, K. Veera Reddy and D. Nadkarni, Chapter 19 in ‘Bioinorganic Chemistry’ , Edited by Kenneth D. Karlin and Zoltan Tyeklar, Chapman & Hall, New York, pp 236-250 (1993)

2. 'Symmetry and Spectroscopy of Molecules '

K. Veera Reddy New Age International Publications (Pvt) Ltd - formerly Wiley Eastern, New Delhi (1998); Reprinted in 1999, 2002, 2003 & 2007; Revised & 2 nd Edition brought out in 2008; International Edition in 2010

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3. ‘Internationalization of Indian Higher Education – Osmania Contribution’ K. Veera Reddy A Chapter in a Book, ‘Internationalization of Indian Higher Education’, Edited by K. B. Powar, AIU Publishing House, New Delhi (2001)

4. ‘Metal Ions in Reaction Mechanisms’

K. Veera Reddy Galgotia Publications Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi (2004)

5. ‘Inorganic Chemistry’ for M. Sc. I Year

K. Veera Reddy and S. SriHari Edited by K. Veera Reddy , Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Open University, Hyderabad (2007)

6. ‘Structure, Symmetry and Orbitals of Molecules’

K. Veera Reddy New Age International Publications (Pvt) Ltd - formerly Wiley Eastern

(2010) New Delhi, 2007 (in press) II. BOOKS Under Preparation (3)

1. ‘Symmetry Syndrome’ K. Veera Reddy (Under preparation) 2. ‘Rambling in Resonance’ K. Veera Reddy (Under preparation) 3. ‘Chemistry through Cartoons’ K. Veera Reddy and Cartoonist (?) (Under preparation)

III. RESEARCH PAPERS/ARTICLES 21 Published

1. A Binuclear Ruthenium(III)-Dioxygen Complex J. Coord. Chem., 11, 199(1981) M. M. Taqui Khan and K. Veera Reddy

2. Some complexes of Ruthenium(II) and (III) with Monotertiary Phosphines and Arsines J. Coord. Chem., 12, 71-80(1982) M. M. Taqui Khan and K. Veera Reddy

3. Trichlorobis(tri-p-tolylarsine)(methanol)ruthenium(III) and some of its Reactions with Nitrogen

Donor Ligands Inorg. Chim. Acta, 73, 269-273(1983)

M. M. Taqui Khan and K. Veera Reddy

4. Studies on Ruthenium(II) Complexes with Ligands containing the Amide Group Inorg. Chim. Acta, 87, 37-40(1983)

V. Ravindar, P. Lingaiah and K. Veera Reddy

5. Cationic Complexes of Ruthenium(II) and (III) with Uni- and Polydentate Ligands J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2603-2607(1985) M. M. Taqui Khan, H. C. Bajaj, R. H. Siddiqui, B. T. Khan and K. Veera Reddy

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6. A High Spin Iodo-Arsine Ruthenium(III) Complex Proc. Indian Acad. Sci (Chem. Sci), 94, 501-502 (1985) M. M. Taqui Khan and K. Veera Reddy

7. Ruthenium (II) Complexes with 2-Methyl-3-substituted(3H)-quinazolin-4-ones Polyhedron, 5, 1519-1523(1986) K. Laxma Reddy, P. Lingaiah and K. Veera Reddy

8. A Ruthenium(II)Complexes of Bis(1-pyrazoly)borate Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.), 97, 9-11(1986) M. M. Taqui Khan, K. Veera Reddy , R. C. Bharadwaj and H. C. Bajaj 9. Some Benzimidazole Amide Complexes of Ruthenium(II) Proc. Indian Acad. Sci. (Chem. Sci.), 99, 237-242(1987) T. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy

10. Formation of Ternary Complexes of some Divalent Metal Ions Indian J. Chem., 28A, 337-339(1989) Gopal Reddy, S. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 11. Stability constants of Complexes of Divalent Metal Ions with Mixed Mono and Dibasic Acids in Aqueous Media Proc. Natl. Acad. Sciences, India, LXA, 247-250(1990) Gopal Reddy, S. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 12. Ternary Complexes of Copper (II),Nickle(II),Cobalt(II)and Zinc(II) with Thiodiacetic Acid and Various Secondary Ligands Indian J. Chem., 29A, 500-503(1990) Gopal Reddy, S. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 13. Copper-Mediated Oxidative C-Terminal N-Dealkylation of Peptide-Derived Ligands. A

Possible Model for Enzymatic Generation of Desglycine Peptide Amides J. Am. Chem. Soc, 112, 2332-2340(1990) K. Veera Reddy , S-J. Jin, P. K. Arora, D. S. Sfeir, S. C. F. Maloney, F. L. Urbach and L. M.

Sayre 14. Divalent Metal Ion Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Picolinanilides Inorg. Chem., 30, 3520-3525(1991) K. Veera Reddy , A. R. Jacobson, J. I. Kung and L. M. Sayre

15. Metal Ion Catalysis of Amide Hydrolysis. Very Large Rate Enhancements by Copper(II) in the Hydrolysis of Simple Ligand-Functionalized Tertiary Amides Inorg. Chem. 31, 935-937(1992) L. M. Sayre, K. Veera Reddy , A. R. Jacobson and W. Tang 16. Copper-Mediated Nitrogen Ligand Oxidation and Oxygenation J. Inorg. Biochem, 47, L27(1992) L. M. Sayre, W. Tang, K. Veera Reddy , D. Nadkarni 17. Copper-Mediated Nitrogen Ligand Oxidation and Oxygenation Bioinorg. Chem, 236-248(1993) L. M.Sayre, W. Tang and K. Veera Reddy 18. Platinum Group Metal Functionalized Phosphine Complexes, Part 1: Phosphinoamide Ruthenium(II) Complexes Transition Metal Chemistry, 19, 283-289(1994) T. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 19. Platinum Group Metal Functionalized Phosphine Complexes, Part 2: Phosphinoamide Rhodium(I), Iridium(I), Palladium(II) and Platinum (II) Complexes

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Transition Metal Chemistry, 19, 373-378(1994) T. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 20. Platinum Metal Complexes with some New Bifunctional Ligands – 1. Pyrazole Amide Complexes with Pd(II) and Pt(II) Polyhedron, 15, 1009-1022(1996) B. Govind, T. Satyanarayana and K. Veera Reddy 21. Oxidation of Glyoxylic Acid by a Mononuclear Manganese(IV) Complex of 1,8-bis(2-

hydroxybenzamido)-3,6-diazaoctane. A Kinetic and Mechanistic Study. Polyhedron, in press (2011)

Suprava Nayak, Gouri S. Brahma, K. Venugopal Reddy, K. Veera Reddy and Anadi C. Dash

Submitted for Publication 22. Alkaline Hydrolysis of some Peptide-derived Ligands Indian J. Chem., submitted for publication (2011) K. Veera Reddy , K. Jawahar and Preet Kaur 23. Cu(II) catalyzed Hydrolysis of some Peptide-Derived Substrates: A Model Study of

Carboxypeptidase A. J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 2, submitted for publication (2011) K. Veera Reddy , K. Jawahar and Preet Kaur