Welcome to Department of Chemistry
The department is actively engaged in cutting-edge research in emerging areas like Biomaterials, Biosensors, Catalysis, Drug Delivery, Materials, Organometallic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Supramolecular Syntheses, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, and Theoretical Chemistry. The research activities at the department are supported by large number of sponsored research projects and state-of-the-art research facilities that exist at the department and institute levels. The department is visited by a large number of experts and short-term students from India and abroad. Learn more about the research activities of the department by visiting links to Research and individual "Faculty" pages.
The department is presently offering M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees. M.Sc. can be upgraded to Ph.D. programme. Learn more about the academic programs of the department by visiting the link to "Programme" provided on the top.
Our Achievements
- Dr. Indranil Chaterjee have received the Thieme Chemistry Journal Award, 2022.
- Dr. Tharamani C.N. received the renewed research stay Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a research stay of two months as visiting faculty (June-July 2022) for a project entitled” Development of high capacity sodium-sulfur batteries in aqueous electrolytes “ and visited Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany,
- Dr. Tharamani C.N. has received the Bronze medal of the Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) for the year 2022.
- Dr. Tharamani C.N. has been admitted as a fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (London, UK) 2022.
- Dr. Debaprasad Mandal conferred with Bronze Medal of Chirantan Rasayan Sanstha (CRS) March 2022
- Akansha Chaturvedi, Divyani Gupta and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received first prize (cash prize of Rs. 1.25 lakhs) at the Energy Hackathon Contest organized by IIT Madras, Jan 2023
- Kalpana Garg, Mukesh Kumar and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received first prize (cash prize of Rs. 50,000) at the Energy Hackathon Contest organized by IIT Madras, Jan 2023
- Mukesh Kumar and Dr. Tharamani C.N. received a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh at the Tata Steel’s flagship open innovation event MaterialNEXT 3.0 organised by Tata Steel, June 2022
- Divyani Gupta received best oral presentation award at the ChemCatCon held at IIT Gandhinagar, 2022
- Vishal Kumar received best poster award at TCB (Theoretical Chemistry and Biology) Symposium organised by IISER Mohali, Oct 2022
- Gautam Kumar received best poster award at the The 29th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (NSC-29) organised by IISER Mohali, 2022
- Arnab Chowdhury received 3rd prize in poster presentation at Pharmacon 2022 held at NIPER, Mohali
- Saurav Chatterjee received best poster award at the CRIKC Symposium 2022 held at NIPER, Mohali
- Debarshi Saha received best poster award at the FICS-2022: International conference on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences held at IIT Guwahati
- Irshad Maajid Taily received best poster award at Chemical Science symposium 2022: Sustainable synthesis and catalysis
- Priyank Kumar Sharma received best poster award at CRIKC Symposium 2022 Recent advances in bioorgainc and medicinal chemistry (RABMC-2022) held at NIPER, Mohali
- Priyank Kumar Sharma received best poster award at 2nd National conference on Contemporary Facets in Organic Synthesis (CFOS-2022) held at IIT Roorkee
- Biprajit Paul received best poster award at CRIKC Symposium 2022 Recent advances in bioorgainc and medicinal chemistry (RABMC-2022) held at NIPER, Mohali
Courses Offered
See the breakdown of various courses offered respectively in below programmes
Research Highlights
Copper-Catalyzed Regioselective Remote C–H Bond Chalcogenation of Aromatic Amine Derivatives without Using Any Large Template, Biprajit Paul, Surajit Das, and Indranil Chatterjee*, Org. Lett., 2023, 25, 653-658.
Facile fabrication of NiFeB deposited flexible carbon cloth electrode towards overall water splitting in alkaline and saline solutions, Alankar Kafle, Divyani Gupta and Tharamani C. Nagaiah*, Electrochim. Acta, 2023, 441, 141779.
Merging Two Strained Carbocycles: Lewis Acid Catalyzed Remote Site-Selective Friedel–Crafts Alkylation of in Situ Generated β-Naphthol, Arijit Hazra, Tanmay Kanji, and Prabal Banerjee*, J. Org. Chem., 2023, 88, 2, 960-971.
Pendent Persubstituted Rotational Excitation of NCCN by p-H2(jc = 0) at Low Temperatures, Apoorv Kushwaha, Ritika, Pooja Chahal, and Thogluva Janardhanan Dhilip Kumar**, ACS Earth Space Chem., 2023, 7, 2, 515-522.
Selective Electrochemical Conversion of N2 to NH3 in Neutral Media Using B, N-Containing Carbon with a Nanotubular Morphology, Divyani Gupta, Alankar Kafle, Sukhjot Kaur, Tino S Thomas, Debaprasad Mandal, and Tharamani C. Nagaiah*, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 2023, 15, 3, 4033-4043.
Design of Bifunctional Unveiling and understanding the remarkable enhancement in the catalytic activity by the defect creation in UIO-66 during the catalytic transfer hydrodeoxygenation of vanillin with isopropanol, Ashish Kumar Kar, Ranjini Sarkar, Arjun K. Manal, Ravi Kumar, Sudip Chakraborty, Rajeev Ahuja and Rajendra Srivastava*, ACS Appl. Catal. B: Environ., 2023, 325, 122385.
Zr-KIT-6 catalyzed renewable synthesis of N-aryl pyrroles for producing bioactive synthetic compounds, Arjun K. Manal and Rajendra Srivastava*, ACS Appl. Catal. A:General, 2023, 650, 119018.
