Dr. Gutta is a patent agent in the firm's Biotechnology and Chemistry Practice Group. His background as a multidisciplinary chemist includes research expertise that focused on studying inorganic structures, surfaces, nanoparticles, organic molecules, reaction mechanisms, peptides and enzyme-ligand interactions.
Prior to joining Townsend, Dr. Gutta was a postdoctoral fellow in physical organic chemistry (Professor Dean J. Tantillo's group) at the University of California, Davis, Department of Chemistry. He received his Ph.D. under the direction of Professor Roald Hoffmann at Cornell University's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.
Speaking Engagements
Molecular Orbital Studies of Potential Latent Image Formation on Silver Bromide Surfaces. Poster presented at the International Congress of Imaging Science (ICIS’02), Tokyo, Japan. May 2002. Pradeep Gutta and Roald Hoffmann.
Theoretical Studies on Farnesyl cation Cyclization: Pathways to Pentalenene and Diversions to other Natural Products. Lecture presented at the 231st ACS National Meeting, Atlanta, GA. March 2006. Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.
Publications
Computational Studies on Biosynthetic Carbocation Rearrangements Leading to Sativene, Cyclosativene, α-Ylangene, and β-Ylangene. J. Org. Chem.; 2008, 73(17), 6570-6579. Michael W. Lodewyk, Pradeep Gutta, and Dean J. Tantillo.
A Promiscuous Proton in Taxadiene Biosynthesis? Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 1069-1071. Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.
Theoretical Studies on Farnesyl Cation Cyclization: Pathways to Pentalenene. J. Am.Chem. Soc. 2006,128, 6172-6179. Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.
Multicenter Bonding in Carbocations with Tetracoordinate Protons. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2006, 110, 3785-3789. Robert Ponec, Patrick Bultinck, Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.
Proton Sandwiches: Nonclassical Carbocations with 4-Coordinate Protons. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2005, 44, 2719-2723. Pradeep Gutta and Dean J. Tantillo.
Article was highlighted in the “Science Concentrates” section of the May 2, 2005 issue of Chemical and Engineering News, and again on August 13, 2007 as an element of the cover story.
The Propensity of Different AgBr Surfaces for Photo-Induced Ag Cluster Formation: A Molecular Orbital Analysis. J. Phys. Chem. A. 2003, 107, 8184-8190. Pradeep Gutta and Roald Hoffmann.
Unusual Geometries and Questions of Oxidation State in Potential Sn3+ Chemistry. Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 8160-8170. Pradeep Gutta and Roald Hoffmann.
Similarities and Differences between (C60)22- and (C59N)2 Conformers. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2001 , 123, 11085-11086. Kee H. Lee, Sung S. Park, Youngsun Suh, Tokio Yamabe, Eiji Osawa, Hans P. Lüthi, Pradeep Gutta and Changhoon Lee.