Radhey S. Srivastava is the Boudreaux/BoR Distiguished Professor at the Department of Chemistry, University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was awarded outstanding Professor Award, Ray Authement College of Sciences 2013. He started his academic journey after graduating from India and Japan. Following several years as professor of inorganic chemistry in India and as a research associate in leading organometallic/ catalysis research groups in Japan, Canada, France and Italy he joined with Professor K.M. Nicholas in the Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma as a senior research scientist on homogeneous catalysis. He has enjoyed working with several distinguished scientists in the field around the globe. This interaction offered him an excellent opportunity to perform high quality research in inorganic and organometallic chemistry. My research involved the use of modern analytical methods to monitor chemical reactions. Our projects cover a wide range of subjects in the area of inorganic chemistry, biological chemistry, organometallic chemistry, homogeneous catalysis, and biomass energy. Included are studies to understand and improve ruthenium anticancer drugs, metal-catalyzed deoxydehydration of polyols and epoxides the synthesis of organometallic complexes, metal-catalyzed C-H nitrogenation of hydrocarbons. We widely use selective oxidations, reductions, stereoselective reactions, hydrocarbon activation and isomerization, enantioselective synthesis. Our group utilizes extensively all the modern spectroscopic and analytical tools in organic product identification, metal complexes and organic structure characterization as well as in mechanistic studies.