Professor, Department of Chemistry
Chemical Eng. Building Inorganic Chemistry Section Department of Chemistry Jadavpur University Kolkata 700 032
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2005 Jadavpur University (IACS) M.Sc 2000 Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan B.Sc 1998 University of Burdwan

Inorganic Chemistry

Various topics of inorganic chemistry, both in undergraduate (Periodic properties, Chemistry of Group 13 and Group 17 elements)as well as postgraduate level (Thermal methods of analysis Basic and advance level course of supramolecular chemistry).

Non-covalent interactions Functional supramolecular architecture Crystal engineering Molecular materials

Pre-doctoral Research Experience: From August 2001 to April 2005 – Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. Field of work: Synthesis and properties of extended architecture of transition metal and role of weak interactions on their crystal packing Postdoctoral Experience: From April 2005 to December 2005 – Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science. Field of work: Theoretical understanding towards the stabilization of higher dimensional supramolecular architectures From March 2007 to February 2008 – Institut für Anorganische Chemie, Universität Göttingen, Germany Field of work: The stabilization of lower oxidation state of main group element in organometallic compound, with special reference to the reactivity of low valent Ge(II) complexes.

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Cryst. Growth Des. American Chemical Society 2015 Corresponding-author 15-4427 CrystEngComm Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Corresponding-author DOI-10.1039/C5CE01952D- CrystEngComm Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Corresponding-author 17-3478 Dalton Trans. Royal Society of Chemistry 2015 Corresponding-author DOI-10.1039/C5DT03738G- Polyhedron Elsevier 2015 Corresponding-author DOI-10.1016/j.poly.2015.10.052- More

Awarded By Award Name Year Alexander von Humboldt society, Bonn, Germany Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 2006 Indian Council of Chemists Young Scientist 2003

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Arijit Halder ******* NA Ongoing 2014 Dilip Kumar Maity ********* Ongoing 2012 Biswajit Bhattacharya SYNTHESES AND CHARACTERIZATIONS OF SOME MIXED LIGAND BASED METAL ORGANIC FRAMEWORKS Nil Complete 2010 Rajdip Dey DESIGNED SYNTHESIS AND EXPLORATION OF MOLECULAR PROPERTIES OF SOME METAL ORGANIC HYBRIDS Nil Complete 2009

Project Title Worked As Funding Agency Amount Duration Period Status ********************************************************* Principal Investigator DRDO 1 3 Years 2014 to 2017 Ongoing Designed synthesis of metal-organic frameworks with unsaturated building blocks: Effect of photo-induced in situ cyclo-addition on their structure and properties Principal Investigator CSIR 1 3 Years 2013 to 2016 Ongoing Designed syntheses of multifunctional metal organic hybrids and effect of weak interactions in controlling their structure as well as properties Principal Investigator UGC 1 3 Years 2010 to 2013 Complete Development of new coordination polymer based flexible porous material exploiting the non-covalent interactions Principal Investigator DST 1 3 Years 2009 to 2012 Complete

Program Name Name Of The Collaborator Year Visiting Fellowship program 2008-2009 of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advance Scientific Research, Bangalore. Dr. Tapas Kumar Maji 2009

Title Life member of Chemical Research Society of India

Trasurer & Executive Committee Member of Humboldt Club, Calcutta