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  • Series of Lectures on "Principles of Green Chemistry" (Past)

    Speaker:  Prof. Ram S. Mohan
                    Fulbright Professor
                    Earl H. and Marian A. Beling Professor of Chemistry
                    Department of Chemistry
                   Illinois Wesleyan University
                   Bloomington, I'll, USA 
     
    Venue: Room # 3160 
     

    Date and Time

    Lecture Title

    12th February, 2013, 17:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Introduction,

    Waste

    13th February, 2013, 17:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Toxicity

    15th February, 2013, 17:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Catalysis

    16th February, 2013, 12:00 noon

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Solvents

    16th February, 2013, 16:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Renewable

    Resources

    18th February, 2013, 12:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Alternate

    Energy

    18th February, 2013, 17:00 hrs

    Principles of Green Chemistry: Case Studies

    19th February, 2013, 12:00 hrs

    Green Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Industry I

    19th February, 2013, 17:00 hrs

    Green Chemistry in Pharmaceutical Industry II

  • Seminar by Prof. Amitabh Jha (Past)

    Prof.Amitabh Jha is a George H Wallace Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, B4P 2R6, Canada. He will be visiting our department and delivering a talk as per schedule given below.

     

    Title of the talk: "Development of Selective Estrogen Receptor Modulator"

    Venue: Room No. 3214

    Time:   3.00 PM

    Date:   19th May 2012 (Saturday).

    Scientific community is invited to attend the talk.
     
    Prof. Amitabh Jha will also be available for interaction with Faculty Members at 12.30 in room number 3106.
     

  • Seminar by Prof. Chien-Hsiang Chang (Past)

    Prof. Chien-Hsiang Chang, from the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan visited the department and delivered a talk. Following are the details:

     

    Title of the talk:  Physical Stability and Charge Characteristic Control of Catanionic Vesicles with Double-Chained Cationic Surfactants and Cholesterol

     

    Venue:                Room No. 3215   

    Time:                  11.15 AM

    Date:                   8th May 2012 (Tuesday).

     

  • Presentation of Research proposals by Ph.D. students (Past)

    Presentation of research proposals of the Ph.D. students of the department has been arranged in Room # 3156 as per the following schedule.


    Sr. No.

    Name of the student

    Day and Date

    Time

    1.

    Archana Chowdhury

    Thursday, April 12, 2012

    5.10 to 5.25 P.M.

    2.

    Suman Kumari

    Thursday, April 12, 2012

    5.30 to 5.45 P.M.

    3.

    Kasi Pericherla

    Thursday, April 12, 2012

    5.50 to 6.05 P.M.

    4.

    Mukund Tantak

    Thursday, April 12, 2012

    6.10 to 6.25 P.M.

    5.
    Amrit Sharma
    Saturday, April 14, 2012
    4:00 to 4:15 p.m.
    6.
    Rituparna Bhattacharjee
    Saturday, April 14, 2012
    4:20 to 4:35 p.m.




  • Symposium on "Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences" (Past)

    Symposium on "Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences"

    Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani 333031, Rajasthan

    SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

    Sunday, March 25, 2012, Venue: Room No. 5103

    9:00 AM-9:30 AM

    Inauguration


    Session-I


    Chairperson: Prof. Subit Kumar Saha

    9:30 AM-10:00 AM

    Lecture-I

    Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Applications of Heterocyclic Chemistry to High Energy Robust binders for propellants

    10:00 AM-10:30 AM

    Lecture-II

    Dr. Debashree Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences

    Title: Chemistry in Biomolecular Structure and Function

    10:30 AM-11:00 AM

    Lecture-III

    Dr. V. Manjula Devi, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics

    Title: The role of molecular shape and structure in liquid crystals

    11:00 AM-11:30 AM

    High Tea




    Session-II


    Chairperson: Dr. Anil Kumar

    11:30 AM-12:00 PM

    Lecture-IV

    Dr. H. R. Jadhav, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy

    Title: Computational methods in medicinal chemistry

    12:00 PM-12:30 PM

    Lecture-V

    Dr. Surojit Pande, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Synthesis of Normal and Inverted Gold-Silver Core-Shell Architectures in β-Cyclodextrin and Their Applications in SERS

    12:30 PM- 1:45 PM

    Lunch




    Session-III


    Judges: Dr. Paritosh Shukla, Dr. Prashant Manohar, Dr. Ajay Sah

    1:45 PM-3:00 PM

    Poster Presentation (LTC corridor) (P1-P26)




    Session-IV


    Judges: Prof. S. C. Sivasubramanian, Prof. RamKinkar Roy, Dr. Indresh Kumar

    3:00 PM-3:10 PM

    OP-I

    Maruthi Kumar N., Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Synthesis of Indolyl-1,2,4-triazoles as Potent Antimitotic Agents

    3:10 PM-3:20 PM

    OP-II

    Kiran Soni, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Amino Acid Derived Glycoconjugates: A selective sensor for Cupric acetate

    3:20 PM-3:30 PM

    OP-III

    Kamesh Rao, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Synthesis of selected hereto cyclic compounds using metal triflates and ionic liquids

    3:30 PM-3:40 PM

    OP-IV

    Priya Sande, Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, BITS Pilani, Pilani

    Title: Simulation of Reactive and Inert Fluidized Bed using CFD Approach

    3:40 PM-3:50 PM

    OP-V

    K P Chandra Shekar, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Synthesis and DNA interaction studies of porphyrin appended thiazoles

    3:50 PM-4:10 PM

    High Tea

    4:10 PM-4:20 PM

    OP-VI

    Amit Tiwari, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Study on Binding Interactions of a Hemicyanine Dye with nanotubes of β-Cyclodextrin and effect of a Hofmeister series of Potassium Salts on it

    4:20 PM-4:30 PM

    OP-VII

    Manoj Kumar, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Ionic liquid supported synthesis of Aza- heterocycles

    4:30 PM-4:40 PM

    OP-VIII

    Bhupendra Mishra, Research Scholar, Department of Chemistry

    Title: Synthesis and photophysical studies of meso-functionalized porphyrins in presence of CT DNA

    4:40 PM

    Prize Distribution Function



Overview

Established in 1944, we are one of the oldest departments on the campus. The department has grown with strong research interests in the Physical Chemistry, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry, etc.

Equipped with a state of the art instrumentation facility and research laboratories, we are counted amongst the best departments for education in Chemistry across the country.

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Dr. Subit Kumar Saha
Head,
Department of Chemistry

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Pilani 333031, Rajasthan (India)

Phone: +91-1596-245073 Ext 279/276
Fax: +91-1596-244183
Email:  sksaha@pilani.bits-pilani.ac.in

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