B. M. Choudary, born on 10 August 1946 in the south Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, graduated in chemistry from Andhra University and completed his master's degree at Vikram University.^[3] His career started as a junior lecturer in chemistry at Kakatiya Medical College in 1970 and after three years, he joined Indian Institute of Chemical Technology (IICT) as a junior research fellow where he spent the rest of his academic career to retire as a senior scientist. In between, he secured a PhD from Gujarat University in 1980 for his thesis on Catalysis in Organic Chemistry.^[3] After retirement, he founded Ogene Systems in 2005 where he serves as the managing director.^[6]

Choudary's researches on anchored intercalated catalysts returned high selectivity and activity and his work on homogeneous catalysis using transition metal complexes widened the knowledge on the subject.^[7] He established a laboratory for researches on catalysis and surface science at Indian Institute of Chemical Technology and hosted a number of researchers there. He published his research findings by way of several peer-reviewed articles^{[8][note 1]} and Google Scholar, an online repository of scientific particles, has listed 258 of them.^[9] He has mentored 50 doctoral scholars in their studies and holds over several US and Indian patents.^[10]

In 2005, Choudary founded Ogene Systems, a firm handling research and manufacturing contracts where he guides several teams engaged in research in nanotechnology, nanomedicine, process development and manufacturing.^[6] He is a former member of the editorial board of the Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical and serves as a guest editor for Topics in Catalysis journal.^[3] He has also participated in international meetings on catalysis.^[11]

The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research awarded him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize, one of the highest Indian science awards, in 1990.^[12] The Indian Academy of Sciences elected him as their fellow in 1992^[4] and he became an elected fellow of the Indian National Science Academy in 2004. The same year, the Government of Andhra Pradesh awarded him the Andhra Pradesh Scientist Award.^[10] He is also an elected fellow of the Andhra Pradesh Academy of Sciences.^[3]

• B. Viswanathan; C. N. Pillai (1992). Recent Developments in Catalysis: Theory and Practice. Editions TECHNIP. pp. 687–. ISBN 978-2-7108-0626-4.
• R A Sheldon; R A van Santen (30 October 1995). Catalytic Oxidation: Principles and Applications: A Course of the Netherlands Institute for Catalysis Research (NIOK). World Scientific. pp. 201–. ISBN 978-981-4579-71-1.
• Katsuhiko Ariga; Harry Kroto (2012). Manipulation of Nanoscale Materials: An Introduction to Nanoarchitectonics. Royal Society of Chemistry. pp. 159–. ISBN 978-1-84973-415-8.
• Yoshio Ono; Hideshi Hattori (31 August 2012). Solid Base Catalysis. Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 169–. ISBN 978-3-642-18339-3.
• Albert Matlack (5 April 2010). Introduction to Green Chemistry, Second Edition. CRC Press. pp. 177–. ISBN 978-1-4398-8211-5.

• Lakshmi Kantam, M.; Chakrapani, L.; Choudary, B. M. (2008). "Baylis-Hillman reaction of cyclic enones with arenecarbaldehydes and N-arylidene-4-methylbenzenesulfonamides by Using NAP-MgO". Synlett. 2008 (13): 1946–1948. doi:10.1055/s-2008-1077959.
• Kantam, M. L.; Ramani, T.; Chakrapani, L.; Choudary, B. M. (2007). "Oxidative kinetic resolution of racemic secondary alcohols catalyzed by resin supported sulfonato-Mn (salen) complex in water". Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical. 274 (1–2): 11–15. doi:10.1016/j.molcata.2007.04.020.
• Kantam, M. L.; Rao, B.; Choudary, B. M.; Sreedhar, B. (2006). "Selective transfer hydrogenation ofcarbonyl compounds by ruthenium nanoclusters supported on alkali-exchanged zeolite beta". Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 348 (14): 1970–1976. doi:10.1002/adsc.200505497.
• Lakshmi Kantam, M.; Roy, Sarabindu; Roy, Moumita; Sreedhar, B.; Choudary, B. M. (2005). "Nanocrystalline magnesium oxide-stabilized palladium(0): an efficient and reusable catalyst for suzuki and stille cross-coupling of Aryl Halides". Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 347 (15): 2002–2008. doi:10.1002/adsc.200505198.
• Choudary, Boyapati M.; Jyothi, Karangula; Madhi, Sateesh; Kantam, Mannepalli L. (2004). "Allylation of aldehydes, aldimines and ring opening of terminal aromatic epoxides by scandium triflate using polyethylene glycol (PEG) as an efficient recyclable medium". Synlett. 2 (2): 0231–0234. doi:10.1055/s-2003-44977.

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