before joining Princeton University in 1973 for his Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Paul von Rague ´Schleyer. During his years at Princeton, Jemmis spent a semester at the University of Munich (fall 1974) and two years at the University of Erlangen-Nurnberg (1976−77). After a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Cornell with Prof. Roald Hoffmann, Jemmis returned to India in 1980 as a lecturer at the