Special Seminar on 11th December 2023
Speaker: Prof. Sabyasachi Sarkar
Affiliation: Honorary Distinguished Professor, Nanoscience and Synthetic Leaf Cell, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Howrah
Title: Chemical Darwinism
Date and Time: 11th December 2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 14th November 2023
Speaker: Arnab Rit
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras
Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Supported Metal Complexes: Structural Diversity and Understanding of the Structure-Activity Correlation
Date and Time: 14th November 2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Abstract: PDF
Special Seminar on 3rd November 2023
Speaker: Prof. Suhrit Ghosh
Affiliation: Senior Professor, School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata
Title: Hierarchical Assembly of Foldable Polymers and Functional Materials
Date and Time: November 3, 2023 (Friday), 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 9th October 2023
Speaker: Dr. Sohini Bhattacharyya
Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Nanoengineering, Rice University, Texas, USA
Title: Development of Materials & Sustainable Processes for Circularity of Critical Resources
Date and Time: October 9, 2023 (Monday), 6:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 5th October 2023
Speaker: Dr. Sunita Dey
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry at University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Title: Materials Alchemy: Unlocking Energy Storage Potentials through Structural Understanding
Date and Time: October 5, 2023 (Thursday), 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Abstract: PDF
Special Seminar on 27th September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Papri Chakraborty
Affiliation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Title: The emerging interface of mass spectrometry with molecular and supramolecular materials
Date and Time: September 27, 2023 (wednesday), 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 25th September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Debasmita Ghosh
Affiliation: Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Title: Exploring biomolecular complexes through the lens of native mass spectrometry
Date and Time: September 25, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 22nd September 2023
Speaker: Sudeshna Manna
Affiliation: Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research, Wurzburg, Germany
Title: Nucleic acids-based toolbox for investigating DNA and RNA Structures and Molecular Sensing
Date and Time: September 22, 2023 (Friday), 4:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 21st September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Namrata Singh
Affiliation: Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Title: Developing Multifunctional Nanomaterials for Biomedical Applications
Date and Time: September 21, 2023 (Thursday), 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 20th September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Ranjana Bisht
Affiliation: Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Manchester
Title: Transition metal catalysis to metal-free C-H functionalization
Date and Time: September 20, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 8th September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Debdatta Ratna
Affiliation: Scientist G & Head, Polymer Science and Technology Directorate, Naval Materials Research Laboratory, DRDO
Title: Polymer Nanocomposites and Interpenetrating Polymer Networks (IPNs) for multifunctional applications
Date and Time: September 8, 2023 (Friday), 5:00 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 6th September 2023
Speaker: Dr. Ananya Baksi
Affiliation: Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University
Title: Unravelling Molecular Materials using Mass Spectrometry
Date and Time: September 6, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 2nd September 2023
Speaker: Raja Angamuthu
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Employing Bio-inspired Weak Interactions and Hydrides in Sequestration and Activation of Detrimental Molecules
Date and Time: September 2, 2023 (Saturday), 9:30 AM
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 2nd September 2023
Speaker: Manabendra Chandra
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Light-Matter Interaction at the Nanoscale
Date and Time: September 2, 2023 (Saturday), 11:00 AM
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 2nd September 2023
Speaker: TG Gopakumar
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Molecular Functional Materials for Electronic Applications
Date and Time: September 2, 2023 (Saturday), 12:00 Noon
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 2nd September 2023
Speaker: Ashis K Patra
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Designing Luminescent Lanthanide Probes and Ruthenium-based Chemotherapeutic Agents
Date and Time: September 2, 2023 (Saturday), 3:30 PM
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 2nd September 2023
Speaker: Anand Singh
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Photochemical Functionalization of pi-Systems: New Synthetic Strategies
Date and Time: September 2, 2023 (Saturday), 5:00 PM
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 30th August 2023
Speaker: Dr. Amrita Das
Affiliation: Techniche Universitat Chemnitz, Germany
Title: Functionalization of Biologically Interesting Compounds and Its Application in Flow
Date and Time: August 30, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 3rd August 2023
Speaker: Prof. Adam Mechler
Affiliation: La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
Title: From Membrane Disrupting Peptides to Metallosupramolecular Frameworks: the Importance of Intermolecular Interactions in Nanoscale Processes
Date and Time: August 03, 2023 (Thursday), 4:30 PM
Venue: L14
Special Seminar on 18th July 2023
Speaker: Prof. Maheswaran Shanmugam
Affiliation: Department of chemistry, Indian Institute Technology Bombay, Mumbai
Title: Application of transition metal complexes for sustainable energy-harvesting and fuels
Date and Time: July 18, 2023 (Tuesday), 11:30 IST
Venue: FB 426
Special Seminar on 30th June 2023
Speaker: Prof. D. D. Sarma
Affiliation: Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science Bengaluru
Title: 2D or not 2D (Some considerations of 2- and 3-dimensional Hybrid Halide Materials)
Date and Time: June 30, 2023 (Friday), 4:30 PM IST
Venue: L17
Special Seminar on 30th May 2023
Speaker: Prof. Thilagar P
Affiliation: Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science
Title: Extending BN/C=C Isosterism for Developing Novel Functional Materials
Date and Time: May 30, 2023 (Tuesday), 3:30 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 26th May 2023
Speaker: Prof. Ravi P. Singh
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
Title: Asymmetric Desymmetrization via Vinylogous Michael/Domino Annulation Reaction
Date and Time: May 26, 2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: L9
Special Seminar on 26th May 2023
Speaker: Prof. Umesh V. Waghmare
Affiliation: Theoretical Sciences Unit, JNCASR, Bengaluru
Title: Instabilities of Crystals and their Functional Behaviour
Date and Time: May 26, 2023, 4:30 PM
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 16 May 2023
Speaker: Prof. Balaji Jagirdar
Affiliation: Dept of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, IISC
Title: Binding and activation of molecular hydrogen on a metal center, hydrogenation catalysis and energy storage – our pursuit
Date and Time: May 16, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 12 May 2023
Speaker: Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Title: Late Transition Metal N-heterocyclic Carbene Complexes in Single to Multi-Cycle Catalyses
Date and Time: May 12, 2023, 4:00 PM IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 19 April 2023
Speaker: Dr. Priyabrata Ghana
Affiliation: California Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Making and Breaking of Main Group Element Multiple Bonds around Transition Metals
Date and Time: April 19, 2023, 5:00 pm IST
Special Seminar on 17 April 2023
Speaker: Dr. Debabrata Dhara
Affiliation: Institute for Sustainable Chemistry & Catalysis with Boron Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Germany
Title: Syntheses of ‘P’ and ‘Al’ Based Homoatomic Double Bonded Compounds for Small Molecules Activations
Date and Time: April 17, 2023, 5:00 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 05 April 2023
Speaker: Dr. Vignesh Palani
Affiliation: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Title: Total synthesis of complex molecules and development of molecular editing tools
Date and Time: April 05, 2023, 5:00 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 03 April 2023
Speaker: Dr. Anantharaj Sengeni
Affiliation: Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Title: A Decade of Chasing Better Efficiency in Catalytic Water Electrolysis for H2 Production
Date and Time: April 03, 2023, 5:00 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 22 March 2023
Speaker: Dr. Supriya Rej
Affiliation: Institut für Chemie, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany
Title: Approach Towards Green and Sustainable Organic Synthesis: From Metal Catalysis to Non-Metal Protocol Development
Date and Time: March 22, 2023, 5:00 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 14 March 2023
Speaker: Prof. Keisuke Tominaga
Affiliation: Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe, Japan
Title: THz Molecular Science in Condensed Phases
Date and Time: March 14, 2023, 3:30 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Biological Sciences and Biological Engineering (BSBE), Mehta Family Center for Engineering in Medicine and Department of Chemistry Joint Colloquium
Speaker-1: Dr. Jeremy N. Burrows
Affiliation: Medicines for Malaria Venture, Geneva, Switzerland
Title: Antimalarial Drug Discovery: Challenges and Progress.
Speaker-2: Prof. Saman Habib
Affiliation: CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow
Title: A unique evolutionary event and targets for intervention against malaria.
Date and Time: March 13, 2023, 3:00 to 4:50 PM
Venue: L17
Special Seminar on 13 March 2023
Speaker: Prof. Keisuke Tominaga
Affiliation: Molecular Photoscience Research Center, Kobe University, Nada, Kobe, Japan
Title: THz Molecular Science in Condensed Phases
Date and Time: March 13, 2023, 3:30 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 10 March 2023
Speaker: Prof. Shinji Saito
Affiliation: Institute for Molecular Science and The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Okazaki, Japan
Title: Conformational dynamics of proteins and liquids
Date and Time: March 10, 2023, 3:30 pm IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 24 February 2023
Speaker: Prof. Michael Schmittel
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biology, University of Siegen, Adolf-Reichwein Str. 2, D-57068 Siegen, Germany
Title: Multiple Self-sorting - A Key for Information Science and for Switchable Catalysis
Date and Time: February 24, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L16
Special Seminar on 13 January 2023
Speaker: Prof. Venkata Krishnan
Affiliation: School of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
Title: Green Chemistry and Catalysis to Achieve Sustainable Development Goals
Date and Time: February 13, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Verma
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2022
Date and Time: February 3, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L17
Special Seminar on 24 January 2023
Speaker: Prof. Zeev Gross
Affiliation: Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Israel
Title: Milestones and Most Recent Advances in Corrole’s Science and Technology
Date and Time: 24 January 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 13 January 2023
Speaker: Biplab Joarder
Affiliation: Postdoctoral fellow at KAUST, Saudi Arabia (with Prof. Mohamed Eddaoudi)
Title: Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) for Energy and Environmental Applications
Date and Time: 13 January 2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 11 January 2023
Speaker: Sourav Bag
Affiliation: Manager, New Energy Initiative, Reliance Industries Limited Reliance Corporate Park, Navi Mumbai, India
Title: On the Electrochemical Performances and Interfaces of Hybrid Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
Date and Time: 11 January 2023, 5:00 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 9th January 2023
Speaker: Dr. Satya Narayan Guin
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad
Title: Topological Materials and Metal Chalcogenides for Thermoelectric Energy Conversion
Date and Time: January 9, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: online
Special Seminar on 6th January 2023
Speaker: Dr. Arat P. Kalra
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry at Princeton University
Title: All Wired Up: Revealing the Photophysical and Electrostatic Properties of Microtubules
Date and Time: January 6, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L16
Special Seminar on 3rd January 2023
Speaker: Dr. Sauvik Samanta
Affiliation: UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN (UCT), H3D
Title: Overview of Drug Discovery
Date and Time: January 3, 2023, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L16
Special Seminar on 13th December 2022
Speaker: Prof. Mark Gandelman
Affiliation: Schulich Faculty of Chemistry, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Israel
Title: New Bonding and Reactivity: Chemistry of N-Cations and N-Radicals
Date and Time: December 13, 2022, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L9
Special Seminar on 14th October 2022
Speaker: Prof. Peter Comba
Affiliation: Heidelberg University, Anorganisch-Chemisches Institut, Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Computing and Max Planck School Matter to Life, Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Intermediate-spin iron(IV)-oxido species with record reactivity
Date and Time: October 14, 2022, 5:00 PM IST
Venue: L16
Special Seminar on 21 September 2022
Speaker: Anand Singh
Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Visible Light Mediated Functionalization of π-Systems
Date and Time: Wednesday, 21st September 2022, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 20 September 2022
Speaker: Raja Angamuthu
Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Employing Bio-inspired Weak Interactions and Hydrides in Sequestration and Activation of Detrimental Molecules
Date and Time: Tuesday, 20th September 2022, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 19 September 2022
Speaker: Basker Sundararaju
Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Say No to an Answer: Our Adventures with 3d-metal Catalysis
Date and Time: Monday, 19th September 2022, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 17 September 2022
Speaker: Prof. Ashis K. Patra
Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Designing Responsive Luminescent Lanthanide Probes and Ruthenium-based Chemotherapeutic Agents
Date and Time: Saturday, 17th September 2022, 5:00 p.m.
Mode: Online through Zoom, Meeting ID - 993 8139 0061; Passcode - 983724
Special Seminar on 16 September 2022
Speaker: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu
Affiliation:Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Methanol as a Sustainable Reagent: Our Journey
Date and Time: Friday, 16th September 2022, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: FB426
Special Seminar on 23rd June 2022
Speaker: Prof. Timothy Noël
Affiliation: DVan’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS), University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands
Title: Flow Chemistry
Date and Time: June 23, 2022 (Thursday) at 05:30 pm
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 1st June 2022
Speaker: Prof. Michael Gozin
Affiliation: School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University
Title: Design of Bridged Thermostable Energetic Materials and Explosives Containing Sulfur
Date and Time: June 01, 2022 (Wednesday) at 4:00 pm
Venue: FB 426
Special Seminar on 26th May 2022
Speaker: Prof. Kenichiro Itami
Affiliation: Institute of Transformative Bio-Molecules (WPI-ITbM), Nagoya University, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8602, Japan
Title: Molecular nanocarbons: From precise synthesis to nanocarbon biology
Date and Time: May 26, 2022 (Thursday) at 3:30 PM
Venue: Online
Special seminar on 20th May 2022
Speaker: Prof. Lawrence Que, Jr.
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Center for Metals in Biocatalysis, University of Minnesota, USA
Title: Twists and Turns in Exploring the High-Valent Nonheme Iron-Oxo Landscape
Date and Time: May 12, 2022 (Thursday) at 5:30 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 28th April 2022
Speaker: Prof. Timothy Donohoe
Affiliation: Chemistry Research Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK
Title: To leave and then return? Hydrogen borrowing catalysis and organic synthesis
Date and Time: April 28, 2022 (Thursday) at 3:30 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 7th April 2022
Speaker: Prof. Michael Zharnikov
Affiliation: Applied Physical Chemistry, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Title: Functional monomolecular films on solid supports
Date and Time: April 07, 2022 (Thursday) at 5:30 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 17th February 2022
Speaker: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Designed Peptides for Structural and Functional Applications
Date and Time: February 17, 2022, 5 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 16th February 2022
Speaker: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Modeling Semiconductor Nanostructure Self-Assembly
Date and Time: February 16, 2022, 5 PM
Venue: Online
Special Seminar on 15th February 2022
Speaker: Dr. G. Anantharaman
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Imidazole Based Multifunctional MOFs Docking/Sensing and Catalysis
Date and Time: February 15, 2022, 5 PM
Venue: Online
Chemical Society Special seminar on 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Date: Friday, 29 October 2021 at 5:00 PM (IST), online
Speaker: Professor Vinod K. Singh, Department of Chemistry, IIT Kanpur
Title: Asymmetric Organocatalysis
For more details, please refer to the link below:
https://bit.ly/3paCiV5
The Department of Chemistry is organizing a few special lectures by faculty for students on the following dates.
October 23, 2021 11:00 am Safety Guidelines for Chemistry Laboratory
Speakers: Dr. Nagma Parveen and Dr. Srinivas Dharavath
October 30, 2021 11:00 am Ethics in Scientific research
Speaker: Dr. Gurunath Ramanathan
November 6, 2021 11:00 am Plagiarism: Definition, Detection and Prevention
Speaker: Dr. Jitendra Bera
Mode of all seminars is online.
Global Initiative on Academic Networks (GIAN) course by Prof. Eric J. Schelter, Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania (USA).
Title: Modern Chemistry and Reactivity of the f-Block Elements
Date: November 08-17, 2018 @ IIT Kanpur
This course will cover the modern fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry and reactivity of f-block elements, including the lanthanides (Ln) and actinides. Overview about the course and the details are included in the following link. Details of the visiting faculty can be obtained from his homepage. To get more information please contact Dr. Ashis K. Patra ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
Global Initiative on Academic Networks (GIAN) course by Prof. Marilyn M. Olmstead from the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Davis (USA).
Title: Crystal Structure Determination: Principles and Applications
Date: November 29 to December 9, 2017
Overview about the course and the details are included in the following link. Details of the visiting faculty can be obtained from her homepage. To get more information please contact Professor S. Rath ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
Global Initiative on Academic Networks (GIAN) course by Dr Alberto Bianco, IBMC, CNRS, Strasbourg.
Title: Introduction to Bionanotechnology
Date: May 4-8, 2017
To attend GIAN lectures one need to register in the GIAN portal. You are encouraged to register for this course and become informed about the latest developments in this area. Details of the visiting faculty can be obtained from his homepage. To get more information please contact Professor S. Verma ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).
GIAN course by Prof. Martin Albrecht from University of Bern, Switzerland
Title: Sustainable Chemistry through Catalysis
Date: 21-24 March, 2017
Overview:To meet improved living standards of earth’s growing population, a constant supply of chemical products must be maintained. These chemicals need to be accessed in a simple and energy-efficient manner utilizing cheap and abundant natural sources with minimal chemical waste. Catalysis is the key technology to convert challenging substrates to useful chemicals. This course covers the fundamental and applied aspects of homogeneous catalysis. A specific focus will be directed on catalysis for oxidative transformations, and the ensuing aspects related to ligand design. Underlying design principles for ligands to operate under specific conditions will be discussed as well applications and perspectives, for example towards artifiicial photosynthesis and water splitting.
Further details about registration: see the link
For Course registration: Contact Dr. Sabuj Kundu and Jitendra Bera, Phone: 0512-2597336, E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Lecture series by Prof. Dr. Michael Schmittel from Siegen University, Germany
Lecture 1
Title: From Multi-Component Self-Assembly to Supramolecular Machinery
Date and Venue: Feb 26 (Friday) at 4:30 pm, FB-426
Lecture 2
Title: New Insights in Physical Organic Chemistry: Non-Statistical Dynamics and Analysis of Nonstationary Points in Enyne-(Hetero)Allene Cyclizations
Date and Venue: Feb 29 (Monday) at 4:30 pm, FB-426
Lecture 3
Title: Coordination Chemistry Makes it Possible: Nanoswitches for Catalysis and Communication
Date and Venue: March 04 (Friday) at 4:30 pm, FB-426
Global Initiative on Academic Networks (GIAN) course by Professor Xile Hu from EPFL, Switzerland
Title: Catalysis for Energy Source
Date: March 21-24, 2017
To attend GIAN lectures one need to register in the GIAN portal. Once you are enrolled in the portal, you need to apply for the aforementioned course. You will be notified through an e-mail if you are shortlisted to attend. The number of students in a course is limited to make it as interactive as possible. Details of the visiting faculty can be obtained from his homepage: http://lsci.epfl.ch/hu. We have planned to admit one PhD student from each group who can be nominated by the faculty member (may be through a mail). Also 10 students from MSc, MS, BS will also be admitted apart from the students from other institutes. All the lectures will be recorded for future use according to the norms of GIAN. Apart from the GIAN lectures, interactions with students, faculty members and a department seminar are also planned. More details will announced at later stage. To get more information please contact Professor J. Bera ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Dr. R. Angamuthu ( This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ). Further details are in this link.