Chemistry

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2026

Open Seminar on 06th May 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Vijay Bahadur Yadav

Thesis Title: Modulation of Electronic Properties of 2D- Covalent Organic Framework by Nitrogen Doping

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: May 05, 2026 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 06th May 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Subhankar Pradhan

Thesis Title: Dual Cobalt/Photoredox Catalysis: A Gateway to Co(I) Reactivity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: May 05, 2026 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05th May 2026, Tuesday

Speaker: Mr. Abir Das

Thesis Title: Building Complexity with Cobalt: Ligand-Guided Divergent-Strategies in Asymmetric C-H Functionalizations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: May 05, 2026 (Tuesday), 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29th April 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Soumen Paira

Thesis Title: Divergent [Mn]- and [Ir]-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Carbonyl Derivatives

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: April 29, 2026 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 08th April 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Bhupendra Singh

Thesis Title: Role of associated water in stabilizing human γ-D crystallin under crowded eye lens conditions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: April 08, 2026 (Wednesday, 3:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30th March 2026, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Nidhi Rawat

Thesis Title: Tuning the on-surface switching of azobenzene derivatives through intermolecular coupling

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: March 30, 2026 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 04th February 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Poulami Mandal

Thesis Title: Stereoselective Synthesis of Hexahydroimidazoquinolines, Hexahydrodiazocinoindole, Imidazolidinoindoles, (3,4-diphenyl-1-tosyl-imidazolidin-2-yl)(phenyl)Methanone via ROC of Activated Aziridine

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: February 04, 2026 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28 January, 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Sayari Dewan

Thesis Title: 1,10-Phenanthroline-Based NHC Ligands and Metal Complexes: Therapeutic Potential Towards Non-Apoptotic Cancer Cell Death and Bacterial Infections

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ritika Gautam Singh

Time: January 28, 2026 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 January, 2026, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Shruti Tripathi

Thesis Title: Design and Development of an Advanced Biomaterial System for Cranial Reconstruction and Alveolar Ridge Augmentation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ashok Kumar (BSBE)

Thesis Co-Supervisor: Prof. Ramesh Ramapanicker (Chemistry)

Time: January 19, 2026 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16 January, 2026, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Yadav

Thesis Title: Elucidating molecular interactions and dynamics in complex biological systems by two-dimensional fluorescence lifetime correlation spectroscopy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. Sen

Time: January 16, 2026 (Friday), 3:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14 January, 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Sakshi Juyal

Thesis Title: Approaches Toward the Enantioselective Synthesis of Verrubenzospirolactone and Limonin

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: January 14, 2026 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14 January, 2026, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sanjay Chaudhary

Thesis Title: Designing Base Metal Catalysts for (de)hydrogenation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: January 14, 2026 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2025

Open Seminar on 29 December, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Manajit Mandal

Thesis Title: Chiral Engineering of Inorganic Nanomaterials for Tunable Electrical and Magnetic Properties

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Prakash Chandra Mondal

Time: December 29, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17 December, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Debarghya Sarkar

Thesis Title: Heterocyclic Helicenes and Helicenoids: Excited State Properties, Chiroptical Sensing and Circularly Polarized Luminescence.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy/ Co- Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: December 17, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15 December, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sameer Saurav

Thesis Title: Development and Applications of Sliced Sampling Approaches

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: December 15, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15 December, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Khushboo

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Michael Addition-Cyclization Reactions: Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Pyrans and Cyclopropanes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: December 15, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10 December, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sujan Singha

Thesis Title: Mechanistic Insights into the Fragmentation Dynamics of Molecular Clusters formed at 0.4K.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Devendra Mani

Time: December 10, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 08 December, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Anjali Negi

Thesis Title: Computational Studies of the Structure, Dynamics and Higher Order Vibrational Spectroscopy of Liquid-Vapor Interfaces of Aqueous Solutions of Acetic Acid and Selected Osmolytes.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra/ Prof. N.N. Nair

Time: December 08, 2025 (Monday), 3:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 03 December, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Riya Gupta

Thesis Title: Studies on small to medium-sized molecular clusters in superfluid helium nanodroplets

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Devendra Mani

Time: December 03, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 01 December, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Suman Bhowmik

Thesis Title: Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Organic Chromophores: Mechanistic Insights and Influencing factors

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: December 01, 2025 (Monday), 3:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12 November, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Bholanath Garai

Thesis Title: [Co]-Catalyzed Innovative Strategies for C-H Bond Functionalization

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: November 12, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10 November, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Archana Yadav

Thesis Title: Hemiparetic Koneramines and their Metal Complexes Against Environmentally Detrimental Molecules

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Raja Angamuthu

Time: November 10, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 07 November, 2025, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Nidhi Saini

Thesis Title: Enantioselective C-C Bond Formation Reactions using Fluorinated Synthons via Mannich Addition, Michael-acyl Transfer and Annulation Strategy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: November 07, 2025 (Friday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 03 November, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sandip Paul

Thesis Title: Femtosecond Laser-Induced Thermal Effects: From Ultrasensitive Photothermal Sensing to Precision-Micromachining.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: November 03, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29 October, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Priya

Thesis Title: A novel Green's function formalism for kinetic energy density in orbital-free density functional theory for atoms and molecules.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Mainak Sadhukhan

Time: October 29, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29 October, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Suchita Paul

Thesis Title: Targeted Peptide Therapeutics and ROS-mediated Antibacterial Strategies Against Gram-Positive Pathogens.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma (IIT Kanpur) and Prof. Yu-Chie Chen (NYCU, Taiwan)

Time: October 29, 2025 (Wednesday), 11:00 AM.

Venue: Chemistry Common Room (CL-206F)

Open Seminar on 15 October, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Ayushi Chaudhary
Thesis Title: Translating Metallodrugs from Molecular Complexes to Nanoparticles for Cancer Immunotherapy
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ritika Gautam Singh
Time: October 15, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.
Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13 October, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Parasar Kumar

Thesis Title: Design and Development of Nitrogen-Rich Energetic Materials Incorporating Sulfur and Fluorine for Civilian and Defence Applications.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Srinivas Dharavath

Time: October 13, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27 August, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Adarsha Mandal

Thesis Title: Pincer-(NHC) Mn(I) and Heterogeneous Cobalt Catalysts for Transfer Hydrogenation, C–C/C–N Bond Formation, and Hydrogenation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: August 27, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13 August, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sadhan Dey

Thesis Title: Heterogeneous Cobalt Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation, Reductive Amination and Cyclopropanation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: August 13, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 11 August, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Rohit Kumar Maurya

Thesis Title: Femtosecond Thermal Lens Spectroscopy for Unraveling Molecular Interactions and Transport in Complex Fluids

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: August 11, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 06 August, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Chhavi Khajuria

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Addition to Alkynyl Ketimines: Synthesis of Chiral N,S-ketals, Tetrasubstituted Allenes, and Oxacycles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: August 06, 2025 (Wednesday), 10:45 AM.

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 04 August, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Deepti Singh

Thesis Title: Genomic and Functional Characterization of Catechol 2,3-Dioxygenase Isozymes from Diaphorobacter sp. strain DS2

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan

Time: August 04, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30 July, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Saloni Kumari

Thesis Title: Photoinduced Synthesis of Functionalized N-Heterocycles and Mn(I) Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation using Ammonia Borane

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: July 30, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28 July, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Gulshan Anjum

Thesis Title: Rational Design and Synthesis of Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) for Sensing of Hazardous Chemicals, Recovery of Precious Metals, and Heterogeneous Catalysis.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy / Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: July 28, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28 July, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Kajal Chaudhary

Thesis Title: Transition Metal Complexes Mediated Mechanistic Platform for Targeted Antibacterial and Anticancer Intervention

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ritika Gautam Singh

Time: July 28, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 09 July, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Rhitwika Chowdhury

Thesis Title: Robust Late Transition Metal-Imidazol-2-ylidene(NHC)/Imidazolium Catalysts for CO2 Valorization: Preparation of Cyclic Organic Carbonate, N-formylated, and N-alkylated Organic Compounds

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. G. Anantharaman

Time: July 09, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 02 July, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Nitin Sharma

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Structurally Diverse _ent_-Atisane and _ent_-Trachylobane Diterpenoids

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: July 02, 2025 (Wednesday), 11:00 AM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30 June, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Parkhi Sharma

Thesis Title: Deciphering ligand and solvent effects on the reactivity of high-valent Mn, Fe, and Co–oxygen intermediates

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: June 30, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30 June, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Parbat Subba Limboo

Thesis Title: Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Enantioselective Dearomatization and Friedel-Crafts Reactions of Electron-Rich Aromatic Heterocycles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: June 30, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25 June, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Prabhakar Singh

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Azadiradione and Reductive Functionalization of Quinolinium and Napthyridinium Salts via Ruthenium

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: June 25, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25 June, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Devki Nandan

Thesis Title: Peptide Stapling: Developing Strategies and Analyzing the Effects

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: June 25, 2025 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24 June, 2025, Tuesday

Speaker: Ms. Pritha Chatterjee

Thesis Title: Probing the Photochemistry of Visible-Light Responsive Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes Engineered via Tunable Ligand Architectures for Anticancer Efficacy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ashis K. Patra

Time: June 24, 2025 (Tuesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 11 June, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Gautam Sunny Mahesh Prasad

Thesis Title: Electronic Modulation and Charge Transport in Surface-Confined Molecular and Metal-Organic Thin films

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: June 11, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 02 June, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Shubham Singh

Thesis Title: Regio- and Diastereoselective Synthesis of Linear Dienes, 1,4-Dihydronaphalene and Propolisbenzofuran

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Parthasarathi Subramanian

Time: June 02, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 02 June, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Athira P

Thesis Title: Concise Routes to the Core Scaffolds of Bioactive Natural Products: Nagilactone, Fluvastatin And Aspidofractinine

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Parthasarathi Subramanian

Time: June 02, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28 May, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Amit Kumar Sharma

Thesis Title: Asymmetric Synthesis of Benzodiazepines, 4,5-Dihydropyrroles, Tetrahydropyrroloquinolines via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of Aziridines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nagma Parveen

Time: May 28, 2025 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 May, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Garvita Dhanawat

Thesis Title: Membrane Heterogeneity and Virus Binding : Insights from Giant Vesicle Model System.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nagma Parveen

Time: May 19, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 May, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Himanshu Sonker

Thesis Title: Targeting Staphylococcus aureus with Metal-Driven Therapeutics: From Asymmetric Covalent Molecule to Photodynamic Iridium Complexes.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ritika Gautam Singh

Time: May 19, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 May, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Sathyapriya Senthil

Thesis Title: Lactam-based heterocyclic small molecules to target lipid metabolism in cancer cells.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Time: May 19, 2025 (Monday), 11:00 AM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16 May, 2025, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Chhavi Khajuria

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Addition and Annulation Reactions of Alkynyl Ketimines: Synthesis of Chiral N,S-Ketals, Tetrasubstituted Allenes, and Oxacycles.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: May 16, 2025 (Friday), 4:30 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15 May, 2025, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Pragya

Thesis Title: A Bioinspired Quest for High-Valent Manganese and Cobalt Intermediates

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: May 15, 2025 (Thursday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14 May, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Anurag Sharma

Thesis Title: Supported Lipid Bilayer (SLB) as Biomimetic platform for Biophysical evaluation of Drug Delivery Carrier and Virus binding studies.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nagma Parveen

Time: May 14, 2025 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 23 April, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Manorama Dey

Thesis Title: Plasma Membrane Mimics to Study Early Replication Steps of Respiratory Viruses

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nagma Parveen

Time: April 23, 2025 (Wednesday), 4:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 23 April, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Ajay Kumar Sahoo

Thesis Title: Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) Based on Thiazolo-Thiazole Building Block: Application for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy / Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: April 23, 2025 (Wednesday), 3:00 pm.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21 April, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Surya Kant

Thesis Title: Use of Nonlinear Optical and Photothermal Spectroscopy Approaches for Unravelling Synergism in Binary Liquids

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D Goswami

Time: April 21, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21 April, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sk Abdus Samim

Thesis Title: Utilization of Ruthenium and Cobalt-Based Catalytic System for the Formation of C-C and C-N Bonds using Methanol.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: April 21, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 07 April, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Alka Karn

Thesis Title: Bottom-up Synthesis of Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) and Their Application as Heterogeneous Catalysts for Expedient Organic Transformations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy / Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: April 07, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 02 April, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Kuldeep Singh Negi

Thesis Title: Osmolyte induced protein thermal stabilization: Associated water Stabilization Mechanism (AWSM) might unravel the mystery

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: April 02, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 26 March, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Subhadip Mondal

Thesis Title: Chemistry with Quantum Light: Achieving the "Holy Grail" of Mode-Specific Chemistry?

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy

Time: March 26, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24 March, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Abhijit Saha

Thesis Title: Unraveling the Coordination Chemistry of Ruthenium Complexes: Impact of Nitrogen and Phosphorous Donor Ligands on Redox Activity, Photochemistry and Cytotoxicity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ashis K. Patra

Time: March 24, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 March, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Pooja Aggarwal

Thesis Title: Optimizing Perovskite Stability and Light-harvesting through Ligand Engineering

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vishal Govind Rao

Time: March 19, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17 March, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Anju Mishra

Thesis Title: Ru/Co-Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Formation Reactions by Utilizing Alcohols as an Alkylating Agent

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: March 17, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12 March, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Subhadip Pramanik

Thesis Title: Modulation of Electronic Structure in Iron(III) Porphyrins: Implications for the Hemoproteins

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: March 12, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05 March, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Anubhav Nath

Thesis Title: Tailored Imidazol-2-ylidene & Thiazol-2-ylidene Ligands for 3d Metal Complexes: Syntheses and Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: March 05, 2025 (Wednesday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05 March, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Deepak Kumar

Thesis Title: Precise Manipulation through Nonlinear Optical Effects in Femtosecond Optical Trapping

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: March 05, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 03 March, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Paulami Chakraborty

Thesis Title: Spin Fluctuations in Dihemes: Structure-Function Correlation and Effect of Heme-Heme Interaction

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: March 03, 2025 (Monday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 03 March, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Viral Rawat

Thesis Title: Covalent small molecule probes as protein modifiers and antimicrobial agents

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Time: March 03, 2025 (Monday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20 February, 2025, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Shweta

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Propargylic Bis-Electrophiles with C,O-Bis-Nucleophiles: Efficient Synthesis of Chiral Heterocyclic Frameworks

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: February 20, 2025 (Thursday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19 February, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Siddharth Singh

Thesis Title: Exciton Dissociation, Halide Vacancies, and Molecular Interfacing: Strategies for Efficient Perovskite Photocatalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vishal Govind Rao

Time: February 19, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13 February, 2025, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Zahid Ahmad

Thesis Title: Asymmetric Synthesis of Spirocyclic and Sulfur-Bridged Heterocyclic Frameworks

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: February 13, 2025 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13 February, 2025, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Diksha Srivastava

Thesis Title: Tuning the Microscopic and Electronic Properties of 2D Imine Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs) at Interfaces

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T.G. Gopakumar

Time: February 13, 2025 (Thursday), 3:00 PM.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12 February, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Miss Juhi Sayala

Thesis Title: Multifunctional Ruthenium Complexes: From Metallodrugs to Optical Sensing Probe

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ashis K. Patra

Time: February 12, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05th February, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Himanshu Kumar Vishwakarma

Thesis Title: Structure and Dynamics of Aqueous Solutions of Ions and Molecular Solutes using Polarizable Models: Insights from Calculations of Terahertz and Dielectric Spectra, and Hydrogen Bond Dynamics

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: February 05, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29th January, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sumit Kumar Gupta

Thesis Title: Unveiling Intermolecular Dynamics and Solvent Interaction through Thermal Lens Spectroscopy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. Goswami

Time: January 29, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15th January, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Nasireddy Seshadri Reddy

Thesis Title: Photochemically Driven Addition of Haloalkyl, (Amino)alkyl and Phosphonyl Radicals to C=C and C=N Bonds

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Anand Singh

Time: January 15, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13th January, 2025, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Ranjeev Kumar Parashar

Thesis Title: Redox-active viologen derivatives for photochromic and electrochromic devices

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Prakash Chandra Mondal

Time: January 13, 2025 (Monday)

Open Seminar on 8th January, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Suraj Kashyap

Thesis Title: Ring-Opening Transformation of Activated Aziridines: Synthetic Route to Amino Ethers, 2,2-Diarylethylamines, and Benzimidazole-Fused 1,4-Benzodiazepine

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: January 08, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1st January, 2025, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Amarish Kumar

Thesis Title: Synthesis and Characterization of Unsymmetrical Para- Substituted Pyridinophanes and Their Metal Complexes

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: January 01, 2025 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2024

Open Seminar on 24th December, 2024, Tuesday

Speaker: Mr. Abhijit Dutta

Thesis Title: Ultrafast Intersystem Crossing in Heavy-Atom-Free Molecules: Effect of Polarity, Viscosity, Hydrogen bonding and Confinement

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: December 24, 2024 (Tuesday), 11:00 a.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 23rd December, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Shishir Singh

Thesis Title: Synthetic perspectives of the ring opening transformations of azetidines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: December 23, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Amar Diliprao Uike

Thesis Title: Ruthenium Catalyzed C-H Activation/Annulation to 2H-Pyran, Pyranone, norbornene, and benzene derivatives

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: December 19, 2024 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Arsheed Ahmad Bhat

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Adociasulfate-1, Merosterolic acid A and Gedunin

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: December 19, 2024 (Thursday), 3:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 18th December, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Nitin Shukla

Thesis Title: Multifunctional Luminescent Lanthanide-based Systems for Optical Sensing and Functional Materials Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ashis K. Patra

Time: December 18, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17th December, 2024, Tuesday

Speaker: Mr. Tanmoy Khan

Thesis Title: Why protein remains stable and active in deep eutectic solvent and other media: The critical role of water

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: December 17, 2024 (Tuesday), 11:00 a.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th December, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Satysen Yadav

Thesis Title: Synthetic Transformations of donor-acceptor Cyclopropanes and donor cyclopropane via domino-ring opening Cyclization (DROC)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: December 16, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Moumita Patra

Thesis Title: Metal-Ligand Cooperative 3d Metal-NHC Catalysts for Small Molecule Activation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: December 12, 2024 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 11th December, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Ritama Kar

Thesis Title: Speeding-up Hybrid Density Functional based _Ab Initio_ Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: December 11, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th December, 2024, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Farha Naaz

Thesis Title: Data-mining and high-throughput approaches to predict novel perovskite materials

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. L. V. K. Prasad

Time: December 6, 2024 (Friday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th December, 2024, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Anirban Sau

Thesis Title: Modulating Product Selectivity in Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenations Involving Methanol and Methyl Formate Through Fine-Tuning of Reaction Conditions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: December 6, 2024 (Friday), 11:45 a.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 5th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Shivangi Gupta

Thesis Title: Utilization of CuO Nanoparticles and Mn Complexes towards Alcohol Functionalization: Developing Efficient and Sustainable Protocols

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: December 5, 2024 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 5th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Kedar Yadav

Thesis Title: Novel Modifications of Diamond, Sodalite, and K4 Carbon Nets

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. L. V. K. Prasad

Time: December 5, 2024 (Thursday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th December, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Ashok Kumar

Thesis Title: First Principles Studies of An Ensuing Lazarevicite, Hydrated Palladate, and Calcium Hydroxide

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. L. V. K. Prasad

Time: December 4, 2024 (Wednesday), 2:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28th November, 2024, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Prabhakar Kumar Pandey

Thesis Title: N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Supported 3d Metal Pincer Complexes for C-X (X = B, C, O) Bond Formation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: November 28, 2024 (Thursday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th November, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Hariom Birla

Thesis Title: Electron/Hole-, Photo- and Thermal-Induced Switching of Azobenzene Derivatives on Graphite Surface

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T.G. Gopakumar

Time: November 27, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13th November, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Salman Ahmad Siddiqui

Thesis Title: Biomimetic Synthesis of Kadcoccitane H & Kadcotrione C and Asymmetric Ru/Cinchonine Dual Catalysis for Synthesis of Optically Active Phthalides

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dattatraya Dethe

Time: November 13, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13th November, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mrs. Sai Kumari Vechalapu

Thesis Title: Investigating cancer cell death pathways triggered by heterocyclic molecules and their metal complexes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Time: November 13, 2024 (Wednesday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th November, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Ashwini Kumar

Thesis Title: Therapeutic, Mechanistic, and Diagnostic Insights into Histone Deacetylase Inhibitors and Transition Metal Complexes: A Case Study

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ritika Gautam Singh

Time: November 6, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th November, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Neha Singh

Thesis Title: Inorganic-Organic Heterostructure Devices for Enhanced Electrical Conductivity and Magnetism

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Prakash Chandra Mondal

Time: November 4, 2024 (Monday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30th October, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Deepannita Samanta

Thesis Title: Probing _bis_-Fe(IV) _MauG_: From Electronic Structure to Reactivity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: October 30, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28th October, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Geetanjali Negi

Thesis Title: Biophysical Perspective of Virus Attachment and Inhibition

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nagma Parveen

Time: October 28, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th October, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Pradeep Sachan

Thesis Title: Redox-active Molecular Junctions for Non-volatile Memory and Energy Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Prakash Chandra Mondal

Time: October 16, 2024 (Wednesday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 7th August, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Eerlapally Raju

Thesis Title: Spectroscopic insights into pseudo peptide ligated copper intermediates

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: August 7, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 5th August, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Vimlesh Kumar

Thesis Title: Development of Novel C-C Bond Formation Reactions for the Syntheses of Bioactive Natural Products FR252921, Diplofuranone A and Pharmaceutically Privileged Scaffolds

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: August 5, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd July, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Ankita Jaiswal

Thesis Title: Studies on Metabolite Aggregation and Microfluidic Device Prototype for Aβ1-42 Detection

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: July 22, 2024 (Monday), 3:30 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 8th July, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Rakhi Bormon

Thesis Title: Rational Design, Synthesis and Targeted Biological Activities of New Purine Derivatives

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: July 8, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 26th June, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Kavita Choudhary

Thesis Title: Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-C Bond Formation Reactions via Kinetic Resolution, Double Desymmetrization, and [2 + 4] Annulation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K Singh

Time: June 26, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24th June, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Dolly Chandel

Thesis Title: Induction of Chirality in 'Nano-Size' Zn(II)Porphyrin Dimers/Trimers

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: June 24, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 5th June, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Shantanu Sen

Thesis Title: Chemically Modified Human Insulin: Synthetic Approaches and Therapeutic Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: June 5, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th May, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Ramsha Javed

Thesis Title: Efficient Sliced Sampling Techniques for Computing High Dimensional Free Energy Surfaces

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: May 27, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd May, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Prashant K. Pandey

Thesis Title: Molecular Dynamics Studies of the Mechanism and Kinetics of Evaporation of Water and Alcohols from Surfaces of Aqueous Solutions and Thin Water Layers on Graphene and Graphene Oxide

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: May 22, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15th May, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Abhishek Kumar Yadav

Thesis Title: Design and synthesis of tuned futuristic nitrogen-rich energetic materials for civilian, defence, and space endeavors

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Srinivas Dharavath

Time: May 15, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th May, 2024, Tuesday

Speaker: Ms. Shivani Verma

Thesis Title: Free Energy Calculations using Enhanced Sampling Techniques and Alchemical Methods

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: May 14, 2024 (Tuesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 06th May, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Vaishali Thakkur

Thesis Title: Hybrid Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics Molecular Dynamics: Method Developments and Applications to Drug-Design

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: May 06, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 3rd May, 2024, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Ishani Borthakur

Thesis Title: Reductive Functionalization of C-N and C-O Bonds via Ir(III)-Complex Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of Methanol

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: May 03, 2024 (Friday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 01st May, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Arghya Sen

Thesis Title: Mechanistic Investigation on the Photostability of Colloidal 2D Perovskite Nanoplate against UV Irradiation and its Potential Remedies

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: May 01, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29th April, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Parag Tamuly

Thesis Title: De Novo Design and Synthesis of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), Metal-Organic Nanosheets (MONs) and Porous Organic Polymers (POPs): Application for Iodine Capture and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J N Moorthy / Prof. R Gurunath (Co-PI)

Time: April 29, 2024 (Monday), 4:00 p.m.

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 17th April, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Nikhil Gupt

Thesis Title: Quantum thermodynamic theory of energy conversion and heat control devices

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Arnab Ghosh

Time: April 17, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15th April, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mrs. Sona Tiwari

Thesis Title: Covalent modifiers of cysteine and lysine as therapeutics and probes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Time: April 15, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10th April, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Jyotirban Dey

Thesis Title: Exploring the Factors Governing Nanoscale Plasmon-Exciton Coupling and the Applications of Strongly Coupled Plexciton Hybrids

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manabendra Chandra

Time: April 10, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 3rd April, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Shreya Rastogi

Thesis Title: Computational Studies of Catalytic Aspects of Ornithine Decarboxylase Enzymes in Aqueous Medium

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: April 03, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1st April, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Abhilash Chandra

Thesis Title: Structure, Dynamics and Vibrational Sum Frequency Generation Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions at Interfaces with Air, Alcohols and Lipids

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: April 01, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20th March, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Monika Ahlawat

Thesis Title: Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Ligand Engineering Towards Stability and Photocatalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vishal Govind Rao

Time: March 20, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 18th March, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Manish Kumar

Thesis Title: Organic Polymer-based Photo/Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution and C-H activation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: March 18, 2024 (Monday), 3:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13th March, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Nidhi Garg

Thesis Title: [Ir]- and [Co]-catalyzed (de)hydrogenation and transfer hydrogenation reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: March 13, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th March, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Bharat Singh

Thesis Title: Ring-Opening Cyclization (ROC) of Activated Aziridines and spiro-Epoxy Oxindoles: Synthesis of 1,4-Oxazines, Azepino[4,5-b]indoles, and Polyheterocyclic spiro-Oxindoles.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: March 06, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1st March, 2024, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Ritu Gupta

Thesis Title: Electrochemically Grafted Nanoscale Molecular Layers Towards Electronics and Spintronics Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Prakash Chandra Mondal

Time: March 01, 2024 (Friday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th February, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Vishal Chourasia

Thesis Title: Naphthyridine-Pyrazole Functionalized Protic Metal Complexes for (De)hydrogenation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: February 14, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12th February, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Sikha Gupta

Thesis Title: Synthesis and characterization of High valent Mn species: Journey towards the structural mimic of Photosystem II

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: February 12, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 31st January, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Ayushi Awasthi

Thesis Title: Beyond the Oxidation State Ceiling: High-valent Ni species with Redox active ligands

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: 31st January, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29th January, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sourav Pal

Thesis Title: Development of Non-heme Iron Complexes Toward Dioxygen Activation and Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 29th January, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24th January, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Saikat Pal

Thesis Title: Proton Responsive 3d Metal Complexes for Catalytic (De)hydrogenation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 24th January, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17th January, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Rakesh Kumar

Thesis Title: Spectroscopic trapping and reactivity of structural and functional mimics of metalloenzymes

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Apparao Draksharapu

Time: 17th January, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15th January, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Deepak Kumar

Thesis Title: Probing the Cell Envelope Permeability and Drug Transport across Gram-negative Bacteria Escherichia coli under Stressful Conditions using Second Harmonic Generation Spectroscopy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manabendra Chandra

Time: 15th January, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10th January, 2024, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Anju Mishra

Thesis Title: Ru/Co-Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Formation Reactions by Utilizing Alcohols as an Alkylating Agent

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: 10th January, 2024 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 8th January, 2024, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Manmohan

Thesis Title: Total Synthesis of Xiamycin D, E, _17-epi_ Austalide S, and Mallotojaponin C

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: 8th January, 2024 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2023

Open Seminar on 27th December 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Abhijit Manna

Thesis Title: Organocatalytic Asymmetric Direct Vinylogous Michael Addition-Cyclization Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: 27th December, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th December 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Shiwangi Maurya

Thesis Title: Trimethylamine biodegradation by Paracoccus sp. strain DMF

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: 6th December, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th December 2023, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Nidhi Gupta

Thesis Title: Kinetic Monte Carlo Simulations of 2D Growth of Silicene and Intermixing in Ge/Si(001) Heteroepitaxy

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan and Dr. Arnab Ghosh

Time: 4th December, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 15th November 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Richa Arjariya

Thesis Title: Kinetic versus thermodynamic polymorph of carboxylic acid derivatives at the solid–liquid and solid–air interface

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: 15th November, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30th October 2023, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Priyanka Chakraborty

Thesis Title: Half-Sandwich Cobalt(III) & Iron(0) Complexes in (De)hydrogenative Functionalization: Catalytic Evaluation and Mechanistic Aspects

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: 30th October, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 18th October 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Ganesh Chandra Upreti

Thesis Title: Photochemical Annulations Triggered by Acrylamide Functionalization

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Anand Singh

Time: 18th October, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th October 2023, Monday

Speaker: Dharmendra K. Yadav

Thesis Title: Aminobenzophenone-derived electrophilic molecules as selective inducers of cancer cell ferroptosis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dharmaraja Allimuthu

Time: 16th October, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th October 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Krishna Kant Singh

Thesis Title: Exploring femtosecond pump microscopy strategies and stable trapping under optically confined environments

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 4th October, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29th September 2023, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Mamta

Thesis Title: Asymmetric Conjugate Addition and Cycloaddition Reactions of α,β-Unsaturated 2-Acyl-Imidazole

Thesis Supervisor: Vinod Kumar Singh

Time: 29th September, 2023 (Friday), 5:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25th September 2023, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Shivani Arora

Thesis Title: Development of New Annulation and Functionalization Strategies Towards Chromanes, Coumarins, Indenes, Lactams and Indoles

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 25th September, 2023 (Monday), 3:00 p.m.

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28th August 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Abhinav Gupta

Thesis Title: Improving the Exploration of High Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes in Sliced Sampling Approaches

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 28 August, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21st August 2023, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Sayantani Banerjee

Thesis Title: Spin Coupling in Homo and Hetero-bimetallic Porphyrin Dimers upon Step-wise Oxidation: A Spectroscopic and Theoretical Investigation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S.P. Rath

Time: 21 August, 2023 (Monday), 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 2nd August 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Navin Yadav

Thesis Title: Organic Transformations through Oxidations Mediated by Oxone and Photoredox Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J N Moorthy / Prof. R Gurunath

Time: 02 August, 2023 (Wednesday), 5:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 12th July 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Vinithra G

Thesis Title: Ferrocene Containing Amphiphilic Peptides: Design, Synthesis, Properties and its Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 12 July, 2023 (Wednesday), 3:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19th June 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Shashi Kant

Thesis Title: Discrete Coordination Clusters using Carboxylate-Appended (2-pyridyl) alkylamine Ligands: Synthesis, Structure, and Magnetism.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R.N. Mukherjee/ Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 19 June, 2023 (Monday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th June 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Syed Jehanger Shah

Thesis Title: Dipyrrole Bridged Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Structure, Reactivity and Electronic Communication.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 14 June, 2023 (Wednesday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 07th June 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sayeed Ahmed

Thesis Title: Cyano-bridged metal complexes based on tricyanometelate building block (Tp-): Synthesis, Structure and Magnetism

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R.N.Mukherjee/ Prof. M.K.Ghorai

Time: 07 June, 2023 (Wednesday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05th June 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Indresh Verma

Thesis Title: Coordination metal complexes with amide-based ligands: Synthesis, structure, magnetism and reactivity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R.N.Mukherjee/ Prof M.K.Ghorai

Time: 05 June, 2023 (Monday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24th May 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Ravi Malik

Thesis Title: Theoretical studies of two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy of bulk and interfacial aqueous solutions and it's connections to the underlying structure and dynamics.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 24 May, 2023 (Wednesday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd May 2023, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Deepika

Thesis Title: Calculations of Terahertz Spectra of Aqueous Solutions of Alkali Halides, Guanidinium Chloride and Tetramethyl Ammonium Chloride from Molecular Dynamics Simulations using Polarizable Models.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 22 May, 2023 (Monday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17th April 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Ankit Yadav

Thesis Title: Central-to-axial Chirality: Asymmetric Synthesis of Exocyclic Dihydronaphthalene and Axially Chiral Chalcone

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V. K. Singh

Time: 17 April, 2023 (Monday), 03:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10th April 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Rajib Mandal

Thesis Title: Sustainable Strategies in Cobalt-Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalizations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Basker Sundararaju

Time: April 10, 2023 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 05 April 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Ramranjan Mishra

Thesis Title: Exploring the Electronic Effects on Photochemistry of Ru(II) Polypyridyl Complexes for Photo-activated Chemotherapeutic Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 05 April, 2023 (Wednesday), 03:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th March 2023, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Habib ali

Thesis Title: Unravelling molecular structure and interactions through Femtosecond Laser induced Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: March 27, 2023 (Monday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1st March 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Rahul Verma

Thesis Title: Modelling of Catalytic Reactions over Zeolite

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. N. N. Nair

Time: March 01, 2023 (Wednesday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1st March 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Arindom Bhattacherya

Thesis Title: Exploring Metal-NHC compounds for CO2 Utilization and Antimicrobial Activity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: March 01, 2023 (Wednesday), 03:30 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th February 2023, Monday

Speaker: Razia

Thesis Title: Quantum Mechanical and kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to probe the morphology of polar and non polar Gallium Nitride surfaces

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan/ Dr. Arnab Ghosh

Time: February 27, 2023 (Monday), 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25th January 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Dibyajyoti Panja

Thesis Title: "Utilization of Cobalt-based Heterogeneous Catalysts in (De)hydrogenation : A Way Forward towards Sustainable Catalysis"

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sabuj Kundu

Time: January 25, 2023 (Wednesday) Time: 05:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th January 2023, Monday

Speaker: Suchismita Ghosh

Thesis Title: Photophysical and Redox Analysis of Koneramines for Potential Bio-imaging and Therapeutic Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th January 2023, Wednesday

Speaker: Pardeep

Thesis Title: De Novo Cp*Co(III)-Complexes & their Applications in Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Basker Sundararaju

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2022

Open Seminar on 21st December 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Kanyashree Jana

Thesis Title: Photophysical Properties of Helical Coumarins and Photochromism of Triptycene-Based 2,2-Diphenylpyrans.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J N Moorthy / Prof. R Gurunath

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 29th November 2022, Tuesday

Speaker: Anju Mishra

Thesis Title: Ru/Co-Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Formation Reactions by Utilizing Alcohols as Alkylating Agent

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. S.K. Kundu

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th November 2022, Monday

Speaker: Kasturi Ganguli

Thesis Title: Cyclometalated Ru(II) and bidentate Mn(I) complexes towards transfer hydrogenation, hydrosilylation and C-methylation reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. S.K. Kundu

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19th October 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Swati Gupta

Thesis Title: 2,4,6-Trinitrotoluene: Biotransformation, the inhibition effect on Hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine biodegradation and assessing biotransformation pathways using Compound Specific Isotope Analysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R Gurunath

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17th October 2022, Monday

Speaker: Maheswar Reddy G

Thesis Title: Synthesis, Crystallization, Spectroscopic Properties of Imidazolin-5-one Analogs

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R Gurunath

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 26th September 2022, Monday

Speaker: Ajitesh Singh

Thesis Title: Femtosecond Optical Tweezers: Molecular Interactions and Nonlinearities

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. Goswami

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th September 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Nilay Kumar Pal

Thesis Title: Functionalization of X-H (X = C, N, O) by Earth-Abundant 3d Metals on Pyridyl and Morpholine-Based N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligand Construct

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th September 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Sandhya Singh

Thesis Title: Sequestration and Activation of Sulfur Dioxide Utilizing Benzylideneamino anilines and Metal Complexes of Benzothiazolines

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd August 2022, Monday

Speaker: Sabyasachi Sarkar

Thesis Title: Diiron(III) Porphyrin Dimer as Model of Diheme Enzyme MauG: From Electronic Communication to Reactivity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 17th August 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Neelakshi

Thesis Title: Design, Synthesis and Aggregation Properties of L-Lysine and L-Glutamic Acid Based Amphicharged Surfactants (Pepfactants)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 3:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10th August 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Sadhana Singh

Thesis Title: Formamidine/Triazapentadiene-Based Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Catalytic Activity

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Anantharaman

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25th July 2022, Monday

Speaker: Anji Babu Kapakayala

Thesis Title: Boosting the Conformational Sampling of Biomolecular Systems: Novel Hybrid Local and Global Enhanced Sampling Approaches

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 18th July 2022, Monday

Speaker: Tavinder Singh

Thesis Title: Visible light mediated Carbon-Carbon bond formation

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 6th July 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Sharad Kumar Sachan

Thesis Title: De Nova Synthesis of Multifunctional Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs): Gas Adsorption, Catalysis, Sensing of Water, and Nitroaromatics, Water Harvesting and Encapsulation of Organometallic Complexes

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Anantharaman

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th July 2022, Monday

Speaker: Shovon Chatterjee

Thesis Title: Towards Sustainable Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Doping and Solvent Engineering

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th June 2022, Monday

Speaker: Siladitya Laha

Thesis Title: Naphthyridine Based Bimetallic and Annulated N-Heterocyclic Carbenes(NHC) in Organometallic Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd June 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Swathi Swaminathan

Thesis Title: Harvesting Hot-holes through Visible Light Excitation of Plasmonic Nanoparticles for Photocatalytic Organic Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra and Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20th June 2022, Monday

Speaker: Sabeeha Parveen

Thesis Title: Boron Functionalized Imidazoles: Synthesis, Photophysical Properties , Metalation and their Application in Anion Sensing

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Anantharaman

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 23rd May 2022, Monday

Speaker: Chetna Yadav

Thesis Title: De Novo Bottom-Up Development of Porous Organic Polymers (POPs) and Their Applications for Heterogeneous Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy

Co-Supervisor: Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: 3:00 PM

Mode: Online

Open Seminar on 18th May 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Sudhir Yadav

Thesis Title: Metal-Ligand Cooperation in Organometallic Catalysis: Design and Synthesis of Metal Complexes for C-C and C-N Coupling Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27th April 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Sarnali Sanfui

Thesis Title: Molecular and Electronic Structure of Cobalt-porphyrin Dimers: Effect of Axial Ligation, Chemical-Electrochemical Oxidation and Theoretical Investigation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25th April 2022, Monday

Speaker: Khyati Shukla

Thesis Title: Catalytic Stereoselective One-pot Syntheses of N, O-Spiro-Heterocycles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20th April 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Usha Yadav

Thesis Title: Engineering Luminescent Eu(III) and Tb(III) Complexes for Sensing Bio-Chemical Threat Agents and Cellular Imaging Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th March 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Subhabrata De

Thesis Title: Metal-Metal and Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in Organometallic Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 14th March 2022, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Priyanka Pandey

Thesis Title: Dynamical effects on reaction mechanisms

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Srihari Keshavamurthy

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 7th March 2022, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Kamaless Patra

Thesis Title: Proton Responsive 3d Metal Catalysts in Metal-Ligand Cooperative Catalysis: Design Strategy, Catalytic Applications and Mechanistic Insights

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 2nd February 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Nagabhushana C B

Thesis Title: Development of Ruthenium Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and their Application to Total Syntheses of Hydroxy β-Sanshool, ZP-Amide I, Chondrillin, Norpyrenophorin, Vitamin A and Diapolic acid

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: 11:00 AM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 31st January 2022, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Sadhna Shah

Thesis Title: Chiral Cu-pyridine based ligand complex catalysed asymmetric alkynylation and propargylation reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V.K. Singh

Time: 12:00 noon

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 19th January 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Appasaheb Nirpal

Thesis Title: Total syntheses of (-)-Japonicol C, (-)-Viminalins, (±)- Isolaurepan and Ostopanic acid

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: 11:00 AM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 17th January 2022, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Aparna Srivastava

Thesis Title: Enantioselective synthetic approaches towards Chlorabietols, (+) Aspicillin and unsymmetrical disulfide synthesis through photoredox catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. H. Dethe

Time: 11:00 AM

Venue: Online

Open Seminar on 12th January, 2022, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Ranjana Joshi

Thesis Title: Synthesis and Physicochemical Studies of Proline Derived Surfactants and Synthesis of Backbone Modified Trans-cyclopropane Amino Acids

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2021

Open Seminar on 22nd December, 2021, Wedneday

Speaker: Ms. Nidhi Sorout

Thesis Title: Computational Study of the Secondary Structure of Amyloid-β Peptide in Aqueous Medium: An effort towards inhibition of Amyloid formation using Boron Nitride Nanoparticles and other Selected Solutes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 10th December 2021, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Nilimesh Das

Thesis Title: Mechanistic Insights of Protein Behaviour in Crowded Milieu, Spatial/Dynamic Heterogeneity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: 3:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 9th December 2021, Thursday

Speaker: Mr. Aritra Das

Thesis Title: Modulation of Excited State Processes in Octa Acid Cavity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: 3:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 1st December 2021, Wedneday

Speaker: Mr. Kalaikodikumaran Mani

Thesis Title: A Quest Towards Homochiral Koneramine Complexes

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 24th November 2021, Wedneday

Speaker: Mr. Mrigank Singh Verma

Thesis Title: Second harmonic light scattering properties of gold nanorods and their application in sensing

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 22nd November 2021, Monday

Speaker: Manish Kumar

Thesis Title: Probing plasmon-exciton interaction at the nanoscale

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 10th November 2021, Wednesday

Speaker: Himani Malik

Thesis Title: Understanding Microscopic and Electronic Structures of Functional Molecules on Surface

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. T.G. Gopakumar

Time: 4:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 20th October 2021, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sk Shamim Islam

Thesis Title: Novel Methods Using gem-Dibromoalkenes: Synthesis of Ynamines, 1-(2-Benzofuryl)-N-heteroarenes, Spiroketals, Pyrones, Orthoesters and Xanthones

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. MLN Rao

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 18th October 2021, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sachchida Nand

Thesis Title: Metal-catalyzed Synthesis of 3,4-Difunctionalized Coumarins, Pyrrolocoumarins and Furocoumarins

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. MLN Rao

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 1st October 2021, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Arko Das

Thesis Title: Catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition reactions of α,β-unsaturated 2-acyl-imidazole

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Singh

Time: 10:00 am

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 29th September, 2021 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Monika

Thesis Title: Theoretical Modeling of Si-Ge Heteroepitaxy: From Quantum Dots to Quantum Dot Molecules

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan, Co-supervisor: Dr. Arnab Ghosh

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 1st September 2021, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Milan Maji

Thesis Title: Cooperative Ru/Ir-Catalyzed Sustainable Alkylation Reactions and Synthesis of N-Heterocycles Utilizing Alcohols

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. S.K. Kundu

Time: 03:30 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 30th July, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Swati Jindal

Thesis Title: DE NOVO DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF LUMINESCENT METAL-ORGANICFRAMEWORKS (LMOFS) AND METAL-ORGANIC NANOSHEETS (LMONS)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J.N. Moorthy, Prof. R. Gurunath (Co-supervisor)

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 18th June, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Ashwini Kumar Rawat

Thesis Title: Application of high-repetition-rate femtosecond-laser-induced photo-thermal spectroscopy for probing molecular properties and interactions.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 12:00 noon

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 22nd February 2021, Monday>

Speaker: Mr. Sahid Sk

Thesis Title: Stereoselective synthesis of Imidazolidines, Oxazolidines, 1,2,4-oxadiazinanes, Tetrahydroazepinoindoles, Hexahydropyrroloindoles and Tetrahydropyroloiquinolines via DROC and ROC of activated aziridines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 27th January 2021, (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Narendra Singh

Thesis Title: Hydrogen Sulfide Responsive Peptide Constructs for Biological Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma; Co-supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: 4:15 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 27th January 2021, (Wednesday)

Speaker: Ms. Swati Sharma

Thesis Title: Ultrashort peptides as biochemical mediators

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma; Co-supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: 3:30 PM

Venue: Online

Open seminar on 25th January 2021, (Monday)

Speaker: Ms. Pratibha Mahto

Thesis Title: Asymmetric Organocatalytic Synthesis of γ-Butyrolactones and Pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinolines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2020

Open seminar on 28th December 2020, (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Manendra Singh Chuahan

Thesis Title: Computational discovery of novel perovskite materials for photocatalytic and photovoltaic applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. DLVK Prasad

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 11th November 2020, (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Pawan Kumar

Thesis Title: Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes: Synthesis, Structure and Magnetism Studies

Thesis Supervisor: Profs. V. Chandrasekhar/J. K. Bera/Sandeep Verma

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 9th November 2020, (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Navin Subba

Thesis Title: Spectroscopic Investigation of Spatio-temporal Heterogeneity in Deep Eutectic Solvents

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 26th October 2020, (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Mohammad Zafar Abbas

Thesis Title: Luminescent Eu(III) and Tb(III) Complexes: Photophysical Studies, Sensing and Cellular Imaging Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 8th October 2020, (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Sandeep Manna

Thesis Title: Solvent effect on two-photon absorption and fluorescence of Rhodamine dyes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 7th October 2020, (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Priyaranjan Kumar

Thesis Title: Multi-targeted Cytotoxic Ruthenium(II) Complexes: Structures, Biological Interactions and Anticancer Activity

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, ZOOM

Open seminar on 24th June 2020 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Ms. Kritika Gupta

Thesis Title: Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes for Sensing and Cellular Imaging Studies

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis Patra

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: Online, over ZOOM

Open seminar on 5th March 2020 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Maka Vijay Kumar

Thesis Title: Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Metal-Organic Framework Nanosheets (MONs) by Bottom-Up Design of Organic Building Blocks

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy / Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 12th February 2020, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Navya Chauhan

Thesis Title: Ring-Opening Transformations of Activated Aziridines: Synthetic routes towards 1,3-oxazolidines, substituted piperazines, and tetrahydro--carbolines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas. K. Ghorai

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 5th February 2020, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Gaurav Goswami

Thesis Title: Ring-Opening Transformations of Activated Azetidines to 3,3-Diaryl/Heteroarylpropylamines, 1,2,4-Oxadiazepanes & Tetrahydroazepino[4,3,2-cd]indoles

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 3rd February 2020, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Irshad Ahmad Bhat

Thesis Title: Late 3d Transition Metal-complexes Featuring a Multi-Functional Heterobidentate NHC Ligand: Synthesis, Structure and Catalytic Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Anantharaman

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 3rd February 2020, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Malay Sen

Thesis Title: High-Valent Cobalt-Catalyzed C-H Bond Functionalizations

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Basker Sundararaju

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 29th January 2020, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Vibha Tiwari

Thesis Title: Allene Functionalization Approaches Towards Halo-olefins, Pyrroles, and Pyridines

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 27th January 2020, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Payal Srivastava

Thesis Title: Designing Bioactive Ruthenium(II) and Platinum(II) Complexes For Therapeutic Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 20th January 2020, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sourav Karmakar

Thesis Title: Nonstatistical Dynamics: webs, traps and tunneling

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 15th January 2020, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Sagarmoy Mandal

Thesis Title: Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics with Hybrid Density Functionals: Implementation and Application

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 8th January 2020, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Subhamoy Char

Thesis Title: Phase Segregation in Fe-Al Binary Alloys

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. D. L. V. K. Prasad

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2019

Open seminar on 4th December 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Vipin Kumar Jain

Thesis Title: Colorimetric and Fluorescent Chemosesors for Selective Detection of Biologically and Environmentally Important Metal Ions at PPM Level

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Pratik Sen

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 28th November 2019, Thursday

Speaker: Ms. Poonam Chauhan

Thesis Title: Design and synthesis of amphipathic molecules and their applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 27th November 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Amol Gorde

Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Peptide Based Organocatalysts for Asymmetric Michael Addition Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 20th November 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Rupesh Kumar Jha

Thesis Title: Asymmetric Organocatalytic Reactions Catalyzed by a Cinchonidine Derived Squaramide Catalyst

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh/Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 18th November 2019, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Vipin Mishra

Thesis Title: Electronic Properties of 2D Molecular Materials on Graphite surface.

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: 17:00 hrs

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 8th November 2019, Friday

Speaker: Vierandra Kumar

Thesis Title: Sterically Hindered Phosphates and Phosphonates: Synthesis and Metalation Studies.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V. Chandrasekhar/Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open seminar on 8th November 2019, Friday

Speaker: Joydev Acharya

Thesis Title: Lanthanide and transition metal complexes as single-molecule and single-ion magnets

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V. Chandrasekhar/Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 4th November 2019, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Balakumar E

Thesis Title: Iron and Cobalt-catalyzed (De)Hydrogenative Functionalizations

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Basker Sundararaju

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 1 st November 2019, Friday

Speaker: Mr. Suresh Meka

Thesis Title: De novo Cross-coupling Reactivity Studies using Triarylbismuth Reagents

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. L. N. Rao

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30th October 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Prabhakar Panday

Thesis Title: Fluorofunctionalization of Olefins

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 23rd October 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. B. S. Ramakrishna

Thesis Title: Rhodium-catalyzed De novo Reactivity Studies in Organic Synthesis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. MLN Rao

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22nd October 2019, Tuesday

Speaker: Mr. Ishani Borthakur

Thesis Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed Alcohol Dehydrogenation Related Organic Transformations in Water

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21st October 2019, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Sujan Shee

Thesis Title: Alcohols as Versatile Synthones in Various Organic Transformations

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 16th October 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Harshit Joshi

Thesis Title: Organocatalytic Asymmetric Michael-Aldol and Direct Vinylogous Addition Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Vinod K. Singh/Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 14th October 2019, Monday

Speaker: Ms. Suman Yadav

Thesis Title: Catalytic Evolution of Ru-Complexes Containing Naphthyrido Annulated Mesoionic Carbene Ligand: Semihydrogenation of Alkynes and Amine Oxidation to Nitriles, Imines and Amides

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 5:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20th September 2019, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Ilesha Avasthi

Thesis Title: Exploring material aspects of tunable purine-based coordination frameworks

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. Verma/Co-supervisor: Prof. V. K. Singh

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20th September 2019, Friday

Speaker: Mr. R. Kamal Saravanan

Thesis Title: Metal-purine frameworks: structures, surfaces and sensing

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. Verma/Co-supervisor: Prof. V. K. Singh

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21st August 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Ms. Akshi Tyagi

Thesis Title: Metal Complexes Containing Naphthyrido Annulated Carbene Ligands:Catalytic Evaluation Towards the Hydrosilylation, Hydroboration and Annulation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19th August 2019, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Anas Ansari

Thesis Title: Stereoselective applications of proline catalyzed alpha-amination of aldehydes

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 5th August 2019, Monday

Speaker: Mr. Anjani Kumar Pandey

Thesis Title: Metalloporphyrin Dimers as Model for Diheme Proteins: Effects of Noncovalent Interaction and Electronic Communication

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 9th August 2019, Friday

Speaker: Ms. Amrita Saha

Thesis Title: Synthetic Routes to Nonracemic Enaminonitriles, Enaminoesters,2-(2,2-Diarylethyl)malonates and Tetrahydrocarbazoles via Ring Opening Transformations of Nonracemic Donor-Acceptor Cyclopropanes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 31st July 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Akhil Kumar Singh

Thesis Title: TOxidation Triggers Intermacrocyclic Interactions in Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Metal vs. Ring Oxidation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 18th July 2019, Thursday

Speaker: Soumendra Nath Bandyopadhyay

Thesis Title: Application of Femtosecond Optical Tweezers towards nderstanding of Complex Systems

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: FB421

Open Seminar on 23rd July 2019, Tuesday

Speaker: Mr. Banshi Das

Thesis Title: Theoretical Studies of Vibrational Sum-Frequency Generation and Two-Dimensional Infrared Spectroscopy of Interfacial and Bulk Aqueous Solutions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 5:00 pm

Venue: L-11

Open Seminar on 29th May 2019, Wednesday

Speaker: Mr. Mrinal Kalita

Thesis Title: Structural Analysis of Helical Peptides containing Side-Chain Modified Amino Acid Residues

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: L4

Open Seminar on 20-05-2019 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Mandeep Kaur

Thesis Title: Functionalized Normal and Mesoionic N─Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Metal Complexes: Directed Synthesis, Catalytic Evaluation, Mechanistic Insights and Antibacterial Activity

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: CESE-117

Open Seminar on 08-05-2019 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Bivas Chandra Roy

Thesis Title: Functionalized Bipyridine Based Ruthenium Complex Catalyzed Formation of C-C and C-N Bonds using Alcohol

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 01-05-2019 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Manoj Chahal

Thesis Title: Koneramines as Useful Versatile Tridentate Ligands

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 26-04-2019 (Friday)

Speaker: Ajeet Chandra

Thesis Title: Oxidative Transformations using Hypervalent Iodine Reagent (IBX and DMP)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 25-04-2019 (Thursday)

Speaker: Sakthi Raje

Thesis Title: Small Molecular Systems Chemistry towards Koneramine Complexes as Emergents in the Quest for New Metal Hydrides

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 04-04-2019 (Thursday)

Speaker: Mr. Hilal Ahmad Pal

Thesis Title: Peptide Constructs as Sacrificial Platforms for Intracellular Gasotransmitter Delivery

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 28-02-2019 (February)

Speaker: Khushboo Yadav

Thesis Title: Tuning the Switching of Azobenzene Derivatives on Graphite Surface

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 26-02-2019 (Tuesday)

Speaker: Kaushik Chakrabarti

Thesis Title: Transition Metal Catalyzed C-C and C-N Bond Forming Reactions by Utilizing Alcohol as Alkylation Agent

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sabuj K. Kundu

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 20-02-2019 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Akhilesh Kumar

Thesis Title: "Bio-inspired Coordination Chemistry of Mononuclear and Dinuclear Manganese, Iron, and Copper Complexes"

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R. N. Mukherjee

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 15-02-2019 (Friday)

Speaker: Mr. Younis Ahmad Pandit

Thesis Title: "Pyrrole/Dipyrrole Bridged Metalloporphyrin Dimers: Structure-Reactivity Correlation and Long Range Electronic Communication"

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 04-02-2019 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Chandan Kumar Das

Thesis Title: Elucidating Catalytic Mechanism of ß-Lactamase and Telomerase: A QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Study

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. N. N. Nair

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 01-02-2019 (Friday)

Speaker: Ms. Pragati Pandey

Thesis Title: Proton Responsive Unit in Bifunctional Catalysis: Synthetic Strategy, Catalytic Evaluation and Mechanistic Insights

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 30-01-2019 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Kuldeep Singh

Thesis Title: Pyridyl-Functionalized N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Complexes: Water Activation Strategies Toward Hydration, Hydrogenation and Oxidation Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 02:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 21-01-2019 (Monday)

Speaker: Soumyadeb Dey

Thesis Title: Application of Interaction Coordinates in Quantification of Aromaticity and Substituent Effects in Benzene

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. Manogaran

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2018

Open Seminar on 21-12-2018 (Friday)

Speaker: Amit Kumar

Thesis Title: Homo and Heterometallic Porphyrin Dimers: Effect of Chemical Oxidation over Intermacrocylic Interaction and Electronic Communication

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19-11-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Vivekanand Sharma

Thesis Title: Functional Metal-Organic Frameworks for Gas Adsorption, Catalysis and Molecular Cages for Sensing & Fabrication of Nanoparticles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 12-11-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Ms. Deepti Kalsi

Thesis Title: Sustainable sp2 C-H Bond Functionalizations Under Cobalt Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Basker Sundararaju

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 29-10-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Santosh Jadhav

Thesis Title: Activation of Small Organic Molecule Synthons for C-C and C-N Bond Formations

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 24-10-2018 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Ms. Kumari Soniya

Thesis Title: Computational Studies of the Catalytic Aspects of Fold Type I Pyridoxal 5’-Phosphate Dependent Enzymes in Aqueous Medium

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 22-10-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Ashish Kumar Verma

Thesis Title: Synthesis of 1,2-Annulated Sugars, Sugar Fused 2,3-Dihydroindoles, Substituted Pyrrolidines and Pyrrolizidines from Glycals

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Y. D. Vankar/Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 10-10-2018 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Sateesh Dubbu

Thesis Title: Stereoselective Synthesis of C-Aryl Glycosides from Carbohydrate Synthons Using the Prins Reaction and Chemistry of Arynes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Y. D. Vankar/Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 08-10-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Ande Chennaiah

Thesis Title: Synthesis of Azido Sugars and Sugar Derived Enones Using Hypervalent Iodine Reagents & Stereoselective Synthesis of Iminoglycal and 1,2-Annulated Sugars

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Y. D. Vankar/Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 19-09-2018 (Wednesday)

Speaker: Mr. Srikanth Dasari

Thesis Title: Luminescent Lanthanide Bioprobes: Biological Interactions and Theranostics Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ashis K. Patra

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 27-08-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Prithwidip Saha

Thesis Title: Tuning the Molecular Assembly in Ultra-Thin Films of Ferrocene Derivatives on Surface

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. T. G. Gopakumar

Time: 05:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on 13-08-2018 (Monday)

Speaker: Mr. Gurmeet Singh

Thesis Title: Ab Initio Investigations on Structures and Energetics of Large Molecular Clusters: Exploratory Studies on (CS2)n, (OCS)n, NH4+(H2O)n, Phenol(Acetylene)n, and (H2O)n

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. N. N. Nair, Prof. S. R. Gadre

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 31, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Bidhan Hazra

Thesis Title: Understanding Structure-Property Relationships for Gold Nanoprism Optical Transducers

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Manabendra Chandra

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 30, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Vaisakh Mohan K

Thesis Title: Picosecond hydration dynamics at the protein core and the effect of perturbed microenvironment

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 27, 2018

Speaker: Ms. Keerti Mishra

Thesis Title: Draft genome sequencing and structure of catechol 2,3-dioxygenase from 3-Nitrotoluene degrading Diaphorobacter sp DS2

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 16, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Vipin Kumar Jain

Thesis Title: Colorimetric and Turn-on Fluroscent Chemosensors for Selective Detection of Biologically and Environmentally Important Metal Ions at PPM Level.

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 06, 2018

Speaker: Ms. Ankita Singh

Thesis Title: Pyridine Oxime Functionalized Pseudopeptides, Surfactant like Peptides and Amino Acid derived Surfactants

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on July 03, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Susanta Kumar Sau

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Terpenyl Indoles: (-)-Mycoleptodiscin A, (-)- Petromindole and Meroterpenoids: Strongylophorine 2 & 9

Thesis Supervisor: Dr.D.H.Dethe

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on June 12, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Sajan Pradhan

Thesis Title: Ring-opening transformations of activated aziridines to complex azaheterocycles: Syntheses of piperazines, azepinoindoles, spiropiperidino indolenines,and hexahydroimidazoquinolines.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on May 24, 2018 (Today)

Speaker: Mr. Vipin Kumar Jain

Thesis Title: Diastereoselective Synthesis of Sphingolipids, Bulgicines, Various 2-Arylpolyhydroxy Imnocyclitols, Bestatin, Epibestatin and Phebestin using Proline-Catalyzed Asymmetrci alpha-Hydroxylation of Aldehydes Derived from Amino Acids

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. R. Ramapanicker

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB-426

Open Seminar on May 31, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Debarati Bharadwaj

Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Macrobicyclic Cryptands for Metal ion induced Fluorescence Enhancement and Optical Nonlinearity

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angumuthu

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 14, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Firoz Shah Tuglak Khan

Thesis Title: Diiron Porphyrin Dimers as Model for Diheme Cytochromes c: Structure Function Correlation

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 11, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Bhaskar Paul

Thesis Title: Sustainable Synthesis of N-Methylated Amines and Amides using Methanol as a C1 Source

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Sabuj K Kundu

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 10, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Ashish Verma

Thesis Title: Pyrazole Based Cryptands: Synthesis, Encapsulation of Halocarbons, Metal Complexes, Nanoparticle Synthesis, Photoluminescent Properties and Gas Adsorption/ Heterogeneous Catalysis of Coordination Polymers

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 08, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Mayank Gupta

Thesis Title: oordination Polymers: Gas Sorption, Catalysis, Nitroaromatics Sensing, Optical Nonlinearity Studies and Cryptands for Metal Sensing & Water Desalination

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 04, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Debanjan Bakshi

Thesis Title: Allenoate Functionalization: Heteroatom Incorporation and Syntheses of Multisubstituted Heterocycles

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Anand Singh

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 04, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Nagaraju BARSU

Thesis Title: Nickel and Cobalt-catalyzed C-H bond Functionalizations

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Basker SUNDARARAJU

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 04, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Chandan Kumar Das

Thesis Title: Elucidating Catalytic Mechanism of Beta-Lactamase and Telomerase: A QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Study

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 28, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Avinash Dhamija

Thesis Title: Supramolecular chirogenesis in Host-guest Systems containing Metalloporphyrin Dimers/Trimers

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 20, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Vijay Kumar B

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Syntheses of Guapsidial A, Guadials B & C, Phomoarcherin C, Bruceollines J, D & E, and Bi(OTf)3 Catalyzed One-pot Synthesis of Tetrahydro-thiopyrano-indoles

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. D. H. Dethe

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 16, 2018

Speaker: Mr. V. Naresh Murty

Thesis Title: Application of triarylbismuth reagents under palladium catalysis:synthesis of benzofuran natural products and functionalized tetrasubstitued alkenes.

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. L. N. Rao

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 7, 2018

Speaker: Ms. Kalpana Tomar

Thesis Title: Synthesis, Conformational Studies and Possible Applications of Dehydrophenylalanine(ΔZPhe) containing Peptides

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R. Gurunath

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on February 21, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Saikat Das

Thesis Title: Highly regio- and diastereoselective Lewis acid catalyzed Friedel-Crafts reaction of chiral allylic alcohols with electron rich arenes/indole: Application to total syntheses of (±),(+) and (-)-callistrilones,(+)-hapalindole H and(-)-12-epi-hapalindole U

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. D. H. Dethe

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on February 07, 2018

Speaker: Mr. Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani

Thesis Title: Stereoselective Synthetic Routes to Structurally Diverse and biologically Significant Aza/Oxa-Heterocycles via Ring-Opening Transformations of Activated Aziridines and Epoxides

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on February 06, 2018

Speaker: Ms. Samarpita Mahapatra

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Tetrahydrocannabinols-delta8, delta9, Conicol and Meroterpenoid Taondiol

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. D. H. Dethe

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2017

Open Seminar on December 22, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Jalindar Bhausaheb Talode

Thesis Title: Cross-coupling studies of bromobenzofurans, tri-iodocycloveratrylenes and gem-dibromoalkenes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. MLN Rao

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 16, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Pankaj Kumar Yadav

Thesis Title: Origin of statisticality in unimolecular dissociation reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 06, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Arunava Sengupta

Thesis Title: Coordination chemistry of transition metal complexes of tri-, tetra- and penta-dentate pyridine/pyrazine amide ligands

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. R. N. Mukherjee

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 28, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Sumit Singhal

Thesis Title: Femtosecond Laser Pulse Train Induced Photothermal Lensing in Nonlinear Optical Medium

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 21, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Pratibha

Thesis Title: Biological and material aspects of metal-purine complexes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 13, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Gopal Krishna Dixit

Thesis Title: Continuum Modeling of Quantum Dot Formation in SiGe Heteroepitaxy

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 30, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Sarvesh K. Pandey

Thesis Title: Quantification of Aromaticity and Hydrogen Bond Strength Based on Interaction Coordinates: A New Approach

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. Manogaran

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 09, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Abhijit Mal

Thesis Title: Ring-Opening Transformations of Activated Aziridines to Pyrroloindoles, Indolines & Benzoxazines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 05:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 20, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Vadlamuri Veeraswamy

Thesis Title: Memory of Chirality in Intermolecular Imino-Aldol and Michael Reactions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 13, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Puspal Mukherjee

Thesis Title: Elucidation of Ultrafast Excited State Processes in Condensed Phase and SDS Micelle

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 04, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Sarbani Patra

Thesis Title: The dynamics of conformational reactions: Reactive islands, rare events, and quantum manifestations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on July 27, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Anoop Kumar Gupta

Thesis Title: Coordination polymers containing functionalized pores: Ferroelectric/Dielectric studies, Heterogeneous catalysis and Fluorescence sensing of nitro-aromatics

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 14, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Indranil Dutta

Thesis Title: Title of the Seminar: Dehydrogenation and Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions: Metal···Metal and Metal···Ligand Cooperation Strategies

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K Bera

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 12, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Gurmeet Singh

Thesis Title: Title of the Seminar: Ab Initio Investigations on Structures and Energetics of Large Molecular Clusters: An Exploratory Study on (OCS)n, (CS2)n, NH4+(H2O)n, Phenol(Ac)n, and (H2O)n

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. R. Gadre/ Dr. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 08, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Shalini Awasthi

Thesis Title: Efficient Exploration of High Dimensional Free Energy Landscapes: Novel Methods and Applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 28, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Archana Shukla

Thesis Title: Classical-Quantum correspondence in laser-induced symmetry breaking approach to coherent control

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. K. Srihari

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 26, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Anisha Thomas

Thesis Title: Glycopeptides as building blocks for enzyme tunable soft structures

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 19, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Bhaswati Sengupta

Thesis Title: Single Molecular Level Study of Proteins: Insights from Conformational Fluctuation Dynamics and Structural Parameters

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Pratik Sen

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 05, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Pritam Mondal

Thesis Title: Flexible Cyclic Bisporphyrins: Versatile Molecular Containers for Recognition, Switching and Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 29, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Arindam Mukhopadhyay

Thesis Title: Stimuli-Responsive Materials Based on Photochromic Diarylpyrans and Excited-State Properties of Precursor Coumarins

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on February 20, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Paramita Ghosh

Thesis Title: Epitaxial growth of Si,Ge on Si(001) 2x1 reconstructed surface: A kinetic Monte Carlo study

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan

Time: 04:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on January 17, 2017

Speaker: Mr. Dinesh De

Thesis Title: Synthesis of Functional Porous MOFs: Building Block Replacement, Gas Adsorption and Heterogeneous Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on January 09, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Sunanda Sahana

Thesis Title: Design Strategy of Fluorescent Chemosensors and Chemodosimeter on Benzthiazole & Xanthene Platforms : Photophysical studies & Live Cell Imaging

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on January 04, 2017

Speaker: Ms. Sonam Mehrotra

Thesis Title: Sequestration and Activation of Environmentally Detrimental Molecules Using Bioinspired Weak Interactions

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Raja Angamuthu

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2016

Open Seminar on December 29, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Parasuraman R

Thesis Title: Synthetic Studies towards Bicyclic Azasugars through Overman Rearrangement, and Annulated Sugars using halocyclisations and Prins reaction on Carbohydrate Substrates

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Y. D. Vankar

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 28, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Khushbu Singh

Thesis Title: Luminescent Ln(III) Complexes of Diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid (DTPA): Design Strategy, Biological Interactions and Cellular Imaging

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. A. K. Patra

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 01, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Priyabrata Dasgupta

Thesis Title: Novel Pd-catalyzed Synthetic Methods Using gem-Dibromoalkenes

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. L. N. Rao

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 30, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Manjusha

Thesis Title: Adsorbate Interactions on GaN(0001) Surface and Their Effects on Growing Surface Morphologies: A DFT and kMC Based Study Date

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Madhav Ranganathan

Time: 11:00 am

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 09, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Sushma Yadav

Thesis Title: Anisotropic solvation structure and dynamics of oxyanions in aqueous solutions: Effects of counterions and concentration

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 28, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Gagandeep Kaur

Thesis Title: Ordered Peptide-based Assemblies as Functional Materials

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 28, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Bikramjit Sharma

Thesis Title:  Ab-initio molecular dynamics investigation of polyoxyanions and a gamma-amino acid in water

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 20, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Ashok Kumar P.

Thesis Title:  Synthesis of Bicyclic Azasugars as Glycosidase Inhibitors and Gold Catalysed O-Glycosylations of Anomeric Acetates and Sulfoxides as Glycosyl Donors

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Y. D. Vankar

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 17, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Masthanvali Sayyad

Thesis Title:  New synthetic routes to 2-alkylindoles, dihydrobenzothiazines, tetrahydropyroloindoles, tetrahydro-beta-carbolines and imidazoindoles via ring-opening cylization of activated aziridines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 14, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Chandan Kumar Shahi

Thesis Title:  New synthetic protocols to tetrahydrobenzoxazepines/diazepines via ring opening/metal-assisted C-N cyclization of activated aziridines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on October 03, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Krishnandu Makhal

Thesis Title:  Third Order Optical Nonlinearities and Ultrafast Dynamics at Visible and Near-IR Wavelengths

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 14, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Sirshendu Dinda

Thesis Title:  Engineering Optical Spatio-temporal Properties to Impact Femto-second Nonlinearities: Case Studies and Implementations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Goswami

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on August 31, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Sooraj K.

Thesis Title:  Density Functional Theory and Microkinetic Modelling of Organic Reactions with Applications to Aerospace Industry, Biofuel Production and Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on August 24, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Abir Sarbajna

Thesis Title:  Bifunctional Catalysts for Small Molecule Activation: Synthetic Strategy, Catalytic Evaluation and Mechanistic Aspects

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Jitendra K. Bera

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on August 03, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Chetan Kumar Arya

Thesis Title:  Whole genome sequencing of Paracoccus sp. DMF strain and purification, kinetic and structural characterization of N,N-dimethylformamidase

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on August 02, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Abhaya K. Mishra

Thesis Title:  IBX-Initiated Cascade Reactions and Mechanochemical Catalysis, Halogenations and One-Pot Synthesis of Heterocycles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy

Time: 03:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on July 21, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Sanchari Pal

Thesis Title:  Coordination Polymers: Non-covalent Interactions, Structural Chemistry, Photophysical Properties and Synthesis of Macrobicyclic Cryptands

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on July 19, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Akram Ali

Thesis Title: Transition Metal Complexes of Aminophenol-Based Redox-Active Ligands. Molecular and Electronic Structures and Reactivity

Thesis Supervisor: > Prof. R. N. Mukherjee/Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 04:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on July 19, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Partha Pratim Das

Thesis Title: Transition Metal Complexes of Pyridine/Pyrazine Amide Acyclic and Cyclic Ligands. Structures and Redox Activity

Thesis Supervisor: > Prof. R. N. Mukherjee/Prof. M. K. Ghorai

Time: 09:30 am

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 21, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Nabanita Chatterjee

Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Fluorescent Chemosensors and Coordination Polymers of Transition/Lanthanide metal ions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 09, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Dherange Balu Dadabhau

Thesis Title: Catalytic enantiospecific Friedel-Crafts alkylations- Aplication to the Total syntheses of Adunctins, (-)-Linderol A, Murrayamines and meroterpenoid natural products

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. D. H. Dethe

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 01, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Aditya Bhattacharyya

Thesis Title: Ring-opening Transformations of Activated Aziridines to Iminothiazolidines, Tetrahydropyrimidines, Oxime Amino Ethers, and Morpholines

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 10:15 am

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 01, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Subhomoy Das

Thesis Title: Domino Imino-Aldol-Aza-Michael/Michael-Michael Reactions: Stereoselective Synthesis of Aza-Heterocycles and Carbacycles

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Manas K. Ghorai

Time: 9:00 am

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on June 01, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Dhiman Das

Thesis Title: Spatio-temporal Approaches Towards Enhancing the Efficiency of Laser-Scanning Fluorescence Microscopy in Condensed Phase

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. Goswami

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 24, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Dipankar Mondal

Thesis Title: Application of Contactless Micromanipulation using One and Two Color Femtosecond Optical Tweezers

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. D. Goswami

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 11, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Anmol Kumar

Thesis Title: Molecular Electrostatic Potential Topography for Exploring > Lone-pairs, Lone pair-π Interactions and Atoms in Molecules

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Shridhar R. Gadre

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on May 05, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Abhijit Kayal

Thesis Title: Effects of hydrophobic confinement and surfaces on structure, dynamics and spectral properties of water through classical and ab initio simulations

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Amalendu Chandra

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 06, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Sudhir Kumar Sahoo

Thesis Title: Development of CPMD/GULP QM/MM Interface for Modelling Solids

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Nisanth N. Nair

Time: 3:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on April 07, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Sourav Biswas

Thesis Title: Multimetallic Assemblies Containing 3d/4f and 4f Metal ions: New Families of Single Molecule Magnets

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. V. Chandrasekhar/Prof. S. Verma Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 15, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Akhilesh Shende

Thesis Title: Biophysical and Bioinformatics studies- (a) Calcium dynamics in neocortical pyramidal cells, (b) Cluster analysis of genomic data

Thesis Supervisor:Dr. Madhav Ranganathan

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 09, 2016

Speaker: Ms. Nazia Siddiqui

Thesis Title: Quantum chemical conformational analysis of biomolecules

Thesis Supervisor: Professor Gurunath Ramanathan

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on March 02, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Ashish Singh

Thesis Title: Synthesis, Crystallographic studies and possible applications of imidazolin-5-one containing compounds

Thesis Supervisor:Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan

Time: 4:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on February 03, 2016

Speaker: Anijamol T Philip

Thesis Title: Asymmetric synthesis of non-canonical amino acids and their applications

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on January 20, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Balaram Mohapatra

Thesis Title: Structural frameworks and applications of unnatural fluorescent nucleobase

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on January 21, 2016

Speaker: Mr. Narendra Kumar Mishra

Thesis Title: Peptide constructs in material synthesis and insulin amyloidosis inhibition

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Sandeep Verma

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Ph.D. Open Seminar 2015

Open Seminar on December 31, 2015

Speaker: Mr. Tapan Pal

Thesis Title: Coordination Polymers of Metal Ions with Pyridine and Carboxylate Based Organic Linkers

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. P. K. Bharadwaj

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 30, 2015

Speaker: Mr. Vivek Gupta

Thesis Title: Formamidine as Precursors for Metal–Formamidinate/Triazapentadiene Complexes and Backbone Functionalized Imidazolidine/Imidazolinium Salts: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Catalytic Activity

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. G. Anantharaman

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 29, 2015

Speaker: Mr. Ramu Petakamsetty

Thesis Title: Applications of Organocatalytic Asymmetric Alpha-Amination of Aldehydes in organic synthesis

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Ramesh Ramapanicker

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 28, 2015

Speaker: Ms. Sayantani Saha

Thesis Title: Syntheses, Structures and Catalytic Evaluation of Metal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes and Study of ‘On Water’ Effect in Organometallic Catalysis

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. K. Bera

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on December 23, 2015

Speaker: Mr. Samik Jhulki

Thesis Title: Design and Synthesis of Novel Organic Materials for Diverse Applications in Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs)

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. J. N. Moorthy

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on November 30, 2015

Speaker: Mr. Deepak Ojha

Thesis Title: Theoretical Studies of Vibrational Echo Spectroscopy of Aqueous Solutions

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. A. Chandra

Time: 3:00 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 9, 2015

Speaker: Dipankar Sahoo

Thesis Title: "Electronic Structure and Modulation of Iron Spin in Nonplanar Hemes:Implication for the Hemoproteins"

Thesis Supervisor:Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 7, 2015

Speaker: Debangsu Sil

Thesis Title: "Fe(III)/Mn(III) Porphyrin Dimers as Model for Diheme Protein Effects of Inter-macrocyclic Interaction and Electronic Communication"

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. P. Rath

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open Seminar on September 4, 2015

Speaker: Nityananda Sahu

Thesis Title: "Development of Algorithms for Accurate Energies and Spectra of Molecular Aggregates within Fragmentation Approach"

Thesis Supervisor: Prof. S. R. Gadre

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

Open seminar by Raghavender Boda

Title: "Syntheses of Pyrroloindoles, Pyrroloquinolines and Total syntheses of (±)Mutisianthol and Dimethyltripartin"

Roll No: 11207066

Thesis Supervisor: Dr. Dattatraya H. Dethe

Date: Aug 19th 2015

Time: 4:30 pm

Venue: FB 426

 

Message From Head

The Department of Chemistry at IIT Kanpur reiterates its commitment to excellence in contemporary research and teaching. Some courses initiated by my former and present colleagues in this department have become beacons for chemical education in India. We also have one of the strongest Industry-Academia connections. As its newly appointed head, I invite you to explore our department and witness the impactful research and educational initiatives Read More..

- Prof. Gurunath Ramanathan
Head, Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur- 208016