Prabhakar Achanta Email & Phone Number

Pharmacist | Analytical Chemist | Medicinal & Natural Products Chemist | Phytochemist | Pharmaceutical Chemist_____________________________________________________________________________# A Pharmacy graduate enthusiastic of Drug Discovery and Development, including from Medicinal Plants (Natural Products).# More than 5 years of post-PhD experience in acquisition and interpretation of 1D and 2D NMR for structure elucidation of unknown small organic molecules. [Hands-on operation of: Bruker, Jeol and Varian (High-field) and Magritek (Benchtop) NMR spectrometers]# Interpretation of LC-MS/MS data for structure confirmation.# Also has expertise in small scale synthesis of small organic molecules, purification by (U)HPLC. # Well-versed in acquisition and interpretation of: UV, IR, and Fluorescence spectroscopies._________________________________________________________________________________Major research projects:1. Metabolomic study by TLC and UHPLC of two closely related plant species that are difficult to be differentiated by botanical morphological studies.2. Exhaustive study of secondary metabolome of the oleoresin of Ailanthus malabarica (tricyclic triterpenes), bark of Vitis labrusca (resveretrol oligomers); Structure elucidation by multi-dimensional NMR and MS analyses.3. Quantum Mechanics based understanding of quantitative and qualitative nature of NMR spectra of small organic molecules.4. Design and synthesis of natural product hybrids to enhance the pharmacological potency.5. Method development for separation of ADC mimic from antibody by countercurrent chromatography.