The Department of Chemistry is committed to research and teaching since its inception in 2010. It is located in Academic Block-4A4 since May 23, 2015. Department has Research Lab (08), Computer Lab (01), Instrumentation Halls (02), PG Practical Lab (02), Teaching Classrooms (02), Girls Common Room (01), Eighty-seater Seminar Hall (01) and Conference Hall (01). The department started master’s in science (Chemistry) 2-year programme in 2010 and immersed with full time Ph. D. programme in 2012, Integrated M. Sc. (Chemistry) 5-year programme in 2013 and Integrated M. Sc. B. Ed. (Chemistry as Major) 3-year programme in 2015. Each programme follows choice-based credit system (CBCS) along with core courses and student evaluation composed of continuous assessment through semester examination. The Ph.D. programme in Chemistry aim to train the students with basic and cutting-edge research protocols. We have crossed traditional vertical boundaries of scientific disciplines in past 8-years of journey and emerged with drug designing, organometallic chemistry, bioorganic & bio-inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, theoretical chemistry in line with gaining more strength towards asymmetric synthesis, heterocyclic/macrocyclic chemistry and organic spectroscopy. Presently, our research programme focuses on:

  • Organic and Heterocyclic Synthesis
  • Drug Design and synthesis of biologically active molecules
  • Synthetic Methodologies, Asymmetric Synthesis and Natural Product Synthesis
  • Organometallic Chemistry and Homogeneous Catalysis
  • Coordination & Bio-Inorganic Chemistry and Imaging Agent in Biology
  • Solar Energy Harvesting and Water Oxidation
  • Functional molecular materials: fabrication, properties, and applications
  • Nanowires, Superhydophobic Surfaces and optoelectronic
  • Nano-Materials, Thin films, Fibers and Catalysis
  • Theoretical Chemistry: Molecular spectroscopy, Singlet fission, Quantum nonadiabatic dynamics

The department is funded by DST-FIST and faculty received research grants from various funding agencies such as CSIR, DST, UGC, etc.

Integrated M. Sc. Chemistry (5-Year)

A.

Objectives of the Program:

 

  • To create chemists with sound knowledge of all branches of Chemistry.

 

  • To impart basic concepts of other branches of science and also training in language skills.

B.

Program Outcomes:

 

  • Students graduating from Integrated M.Sc. Chemistry programme would be equipped with training on both academia as well as industrial jobs.

 

  • Students graduating from Integrated M.Sc. Chemistry programme would be expected to have an advanced level understanding of the following areas of Chemistry - Inorganic, Organic, Physical and Analytical Chemistry.

 

  • Students would be expected to compete for various National and International level exams such as NET-JRF, GATE, GRE, etc. 

 

  • Expected to possess a graduate-level understanding of the literature review methods applicable to all areas of research.

 

  • Students shall be able to communicate scientific results in writing and oral presentation.

 

  • Students would acquire the basic tools needed to carry out independent chemical research.
 
  • Students would be proficient in their specialized area of chemistry after completing an advanced research project.

C.

Intake and eligibility:  Intake - 30

 

Eligibility:

10 + 2 in Science Stream or equivalent of any recognized board in India with Chemistry as one of the optional subjects having minimum of 50% marks in aggregate for general category and 45% for SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates.

Integrated M. Sc. B. Ed. Chemistry as Major (3-year)

A.

Objectives of the Program:

 

  • To impart knowledge of Chemistry and Education in a seamless and integrated manner.
  • To deliver fundamental concepts of Chemistry and train the students in basic laboratory techniques and good laboratory practices.
  • To provide them with a sound foundation of effective approaches and strategies to the teaching-learning process
  • To impart exemplary teaching practices that inculcates social responsibility and ecological awareness in and across contexts.
  • To equip students with effective scientific communication skills essential for enhanced knowledge transmission.
  • To develop well-qualified professionals and future leaders in teaching, training, policy making and research.

B.

Program Outcomes:

 

  • Students graduating from Int. M.Sc. B.Ed. programme would be well qualified for teaching, research, and industrial jobs.
  • Those who become teachers would be able to deepen the teaching of content areas in specialized topics to understand and meet learners’ needs.
  • They would be able to communicate scientific concepts effectively and impressively for learners.
  • They would emerge into reflective practitioners, capable of translating theoretical perspectives into pedagogical practices.
  • They would be equipped with the knowledge and skills to establish advanced chemistry practical laboratories in schools and colleges.

C.

Intake and eligibility:  Intake - 30

 

Eligibility:

B.Sc. Degree or its equivalent from a recognized University with minimum of 50% marks or equivalent grade in aggregate for general category and 45% marks or equivalent grade for SC / ST / OBC / PWD candidates with Chemistry as one of the main subjects.

M. Sc. Chemistry (2-Year)

A.

Objectives of the Program:

 

  • To deliver advanced concepts in Chemistry covering topics in Analytical, Inorganic, Organic and Physical Chemistry, while also reinforcing the fundamental concepts.
  • To make students proficient in advanced laboratory techniques, enabling them to independently plan and conduct experiments at a higher level as well as to work as a team.
  • To expose the students to a range of analytical methods using modern instrumentation, enabling them to analyse results at a higher level.
  • To enable students develop the skills required to succeed in graduate school, chemical industry or any government organization.
  • To develop critical thinking and skills like effective scientific communication, time management, and multi-tasking aptitude.

B.

Program Outcomes:

 

  • The graduating students would have an in-depth knowledge of the molecular principles of Chemistry that empower them to understand and solve complex problems and effectively
    articulate their ideas in the scientific community.
  • They would progress and mature to become increasingly independent learners, moving beyond textbooks and courses and into learning directly from the primary literature,
    especially within the context of independent research.
  • They would have a deeper understanding about inter-disciplinary topics, encouraging them to take up research in inter-disciplinary and frontier research domains.
  • They develop an adaptability skill to work in teams as well as independently to deliver the outcomes effectively.
  • Interested students would be well-equipped to join the chemical industry in either Research & Development units or the process & manufacturing streams.
  • Students would be expected to compete for various National and International level exam such as NET-JRF, GATE, GRE, etc.
  • They would also be able to communicate scientific results, both written and oral, for specialized and non-specialized audiences.

C.

Intake and eligibility:  Intake - 25

 

Eligibility:

B.Sc. degree or its equivalent from a recognized University with minimum of 50% of marks or equivalent grade in aggregate for general category and 45% or equivalent grade for SC/ ST/ OBC/ PWD candidates with Chemistry as one of the main subjects.

Doctor of Pholosopy

A.

Objectives of the Program:

 

  • To acquire advanced skills and knowledge in modern research methods and techniques. 

 

  • To enable the students to acquire specific skills and gain expertise in a frontier research field.

 

  • To create highly skilled professionals that will add value to the country.

 

  • To provide hands-on training and generate expertise in modern instrumentation techniques.

 

  • To generate independent researchers that will be suitable for both industry and academia.

 

  • To inculcate the ability to become successful entrepreneurs.

B.

Program Outcomes:

 

  • Scholars graduating from this programme will have solid basic knowledge in modernized and specialized fields of Chemistry.

 

  • Scholars graduating from this programme would be expected to have most advanced knowledge of their perspective specialities.

 

  • Scholars would be able to perform scientific innovations and transforms the findings for the benefit of the society.

 

  • Scholars would be enabled to start an independent research career.

 

  • Scholars would also have the potential to create start-up organizations and become successful entrepreneurs.

C.

Intake and eligibility:  Intake - as per available seats

 

Eligibility:

A consistently good academic record possessing a master’s degree in the subject concerned or in a cognate / allied subject with minimum of 55% marks or equivalent grade from a recognized University at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels; 5% relaxation in minimum requirement of marks is granted to SC/ST/OBC/PWD candidates.

Regular

Dr. Bhupendra Goswami

Assistant Professor

PhD: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; Postdoc: University of Saarland, Germany

bhupendra.goswami@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Anuj K. Sharma

Associate Professor

M. Sc. (IIT Roorkee); Ph. D. (IIT Kanpur); Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)

anuj.sharma@curaj.ac.in

9929987969

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Dr. Chandrakanta Dash

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India (2010); Post-doctoral Research: The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA (2010-2013);Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore (2013-2014).

ckdash@curaj.ac.in

8118874842

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Dr. Easwar S.

Associate Professor, Dean and Head

Ph. D. - National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) Pune, Post-doctoral Research Associate - University of Bologna, Italy

easwar.srinivasan@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Hemant Joshi

Assistant Professor

PhD - Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Post-doctoral Research - Texas A&M University, College Station, Tx, USA

hemant.joshi@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. M. Bhanuchandra

Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad. Postdoc: Kyoto University, Japan.

mallibhanuchandra@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Partha Roy

Assistant Professor

Ph. D. (Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata); Post-doc. (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) ; (University of Alberta, Canada)

partharoy@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Rajagopala Reddy Seelam

Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: University of Hyderabad; Post-doc: Freidrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany & University of Namur, Belgium & Albert Ludwig Universität Freiburg, Germany; Employment: Central University of Punjab (Assistant professor, Adhoc).

rajagopala.seelam@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Ritesh Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow), Post-doc (University of Rochester, NY, USA); (UNIST, KOREA); (Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, JAPAN)

ritesh.singh@curaj.ac.in

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Dr. Thirumoorthi R.

Assistant Professor

Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur; Post-Ph.D.: University of Calgary Canada, University of Massachusetts Amherst USA

thirumoorthi@curaj.ac.in

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Other

Dr. Pankaj Gupta

Assistant Professor (DST Inspire)

Ph. D. – Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee; Post-doc. – (University of Cincinnati, USA); (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

pankaj.gupta@curaj.ac.in

9460370698

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  1. NMR 500 MHz (Bruker)
  1. Atomic Absorption Spect. (PerkinElmer)
  1. Gas Chromatography (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
  1. Element Analyser (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
  1. GC-MS (Thermo Fisher Scientific)
  1. Fluorescence Spectrophotometer
  1. HPLC (Shimatzu)
  1. Electrochemical Workstation (Metrohm)
  1. UV-VIS (Agilent- Cary 100)
  1. Glove Box (Labconco Corporation)
  1. FTIR spectrometer (PerkinElmer)
  1. Polarimeter
  1. Ocean optics UV-VIS Spectrophotometer
  1. Computer Lab
  • The Department of Chemistry has seven (07) world class Research Labs furnished with all essential chemistry wet lab infrastructure such as fume hood, table tops & chemical storage units and following global safety measures/standards.
  • Separate NMR instrumentation infrastructure available with solid-state NMR facility.
  • Instrumentation halls (02) for the other sophisticated research instruments.  
  • Computer Lab established under DST-FIST Grant which is equipped with 15 Computers having quad-core processor, power-backup, networking and one HP Z840 workstation.

 

Sr. No.

Name of Faculty

Project Title

Funding Agency

Duration

Project Grant (In Lakhs)

1

FIST GRANT

DST-FIST (Level 1 category)

DST

2016- 2021

70.5

2

Prof. R. T. Pardasani

A divergent synthesis of benzazoles via direct C-H activation and their cytotoxic activity: A way to cancer research

SERB

2017-2020

25.6

3

Dr. Easwar Srinivasan

Synthesis and studies on catalytic performance of novel ion-tagged recyclable chiral organocatalysts generated from suitable dipeptides

DST

2014-2017

25.2

Studies towards the synthesis of protoberberine based natural products

UGC

2015-2017

6.00

Design of Novel Bifunctional Amine-Urea/Thiourea Catalysts for Asymmetric C-C Bond Forming Applications

CSIR

2017-2020

25.1

Studies on the organocatalytic enantioselective construction of tetrahydroxanthenones

SERB

2018-2021

43.3

Investigation of Diverse Reactivity Patterns in Morita-Baylis-Hillman Ketones to access Biologically Significant Heterocyclic Scaffolds

SERB

2022-2023

33.4

4

Dr. Chandrakanta Dash

Designing novel late transition metal catalysts for atom/group transfer reactions

SERB

2015-2018

25.0

Activation of Small molecules by transition metal ions

UGC

2016-2018

6.0

5

Dr. M. Bhanuchandra

Development of sustainable reactions and methods using dibenzothiophene 5,5-dioxide: synthesis of pi-conjugated systems

SERB

2017-2020

38.7

Development of Novel Strategies for the Construction of Benzothiophene Dioxide

UGC

2017-2019

10.0

Transition Metal-Catalyzed C-H Nitrogenation and Oxygenation of Arenes using Sulfoxides as Functionalizable Directing Groups

SERB

2018-2021

36.3

Regiocontrolled Direct C-HSelenation, Arylation, and Homoallylation of (Hetero)arenes: Synthesis of Medicinally Important Molecules

SERB

2023-26

33.06

6

Dr. Anuj Sharma

Smart metal chelators for MRI contrast Agents

DST

2014-2019

35.0

Multifunctional Small Molecules based on Azo-Stilbene Molecular Framework as Amyloid Imaging Agents and Metal Chelators for Controlling Metal Induced-Neurodegenrative Diseases

SERB

2016-2019

54.2

Design and Synthesis of Selected Transition Metal (Fe, Ru, Rh, Ir) complexes/Arene Complexes and Investigating their Anticancer Potential

UGC

2018-2020

10.0

Crystal Engineering and Molecular Magnetism in some 3d bivalent metal organic framework (*Mentor of Dr. Kishalay Bhar, NPDF)

SERB-NPDF

2017-2019

19.2

Thermal and Photo Induced Iron (II) Spin Crossover Materials Using Smartly Designed bi-, tri- and tetradentate N-donor Legands

CSIR

2021-2024

19.78

Conjugated approach for more effective Cu and Ru Metal Based Molecular Agents with Enhanced Anti-Cancer Potential and Reduced Side-Effects

SERB

2022-2025

25.4

7.

Dr. Thirumoorthi R.

Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Properties of Polymetallic Cages

UGC

2018-2020

10.0

Synthesis, Structure and Optical Study of Phosphane and/or Chalcogen Stabilized Gold Complex

SERB

2015-2018

23.0

Half-Sandwich Organo Tellurium Oxides/Hydroxides: An Alternative Reagent in Organic Synthesis

CSIR

2019-2022

9

8.

Dr. Partha Roy

Development of the Various One-dimentional TiO2 nanostructures

UGC

2018-2020

10.0

Probing the Charge Transfer Mechanism in Exciplex System using lifetime Measurement

SERB

2019-2022

19.08

Engineering of Resilient Super hydrophobic Coating using Ti02 Nanostructured in combination with Ultra thin Conformal Layer of Organic Molecules

SERB

2019-2022

 

9.

Dr. Anurag Prakash Sunda

Ab initio Molecular Dynamics simulation of Ionic Liquid doped Polymer Electrolyte Membranes and Platinum Electrode Interface

DST

2015-2020

35.0

10.

Dr. Ch Gupta Chandaluri

Block Copolymer–DNA based Template for Conductivity Tunable Polyaniline Electronic Devices

DST

2017-2022

35.0

11

Dr. Jony Saha

Development of Mn, Fe, Co and Ni based ordered mesoporous metal phosphate materials and their application as catalysts in electrochemical water oxidation

DST

2017-2022

 

35.0

12

Hemant Joshi

DST Inspire faculty fellow

DST

2018-2023

83

Intramolecular Secondary Interactions Controlled Molecular Rotors as Catalyst for Site Selective Annulation Reactions to Synthesize Energetically less Favored Isomers

SERB

2021/23

33

13

Ritesh Singh

DST Inspire faculty fellow

DST

2015-2020

83

Synthetic Exploration of Aza-oxyallyl Cation for Rapid Access to Bio-relevant Florinated Scaffolds and their Biological Evaluation

SERB

2020-2023

54.7

Bio-catalytic Hetero(aromatic) C-H amination

(Mentor to N-PDF, Dr Asish Gupta)

SERB

2021-23

19.20

14

S. Rajagopala Reddy

Theoretical Study of Intramolecular Singlet Fission

UGC

2021-23

10

Quantum Nonadiabatic Dynamics of Large Amplitude Motions

SERB

2021-23

33

Total

1022.1

 

Achievement Title Attached File
  • Department of Science and Technology, Government of India sanctioned Rs. 70.5 lakhs under DST-FIST (Level 1 category) program for a period of five years (2016- 2021).
  • Department has various ongoing extramural funded projects of Rs. 5.07 Crores from different agencies of Government of India such as DST, CSIR, UGC etc.
  • An Indo-Korean Academic Meet and Instructional Seminar was held at CURaj on 8th January 2011 by the department of chemistry in which top ranking chemists from the University of Hanyang participated.
  • Organized Science Academies Refresher Course in January 12-25, 2015.
  • Organized GIAN Course in December 5-9, 2016.
  • Hosted DST-INSPIRE Camp in December 14-18, 2016.
  • Students trained by the department have shown their excellence by
    • qualifying national level exams and national/international research fellowships.
    • qualifying for higher degree or PhD positions in research institutes such as JNCASR/IISERs/IITs etc.
    • getting selected for industrial/teaching/research scientist positions

Department of Chemistry

CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF RAJASTHAN
NH-8, Bandar Sindri,
Dist-Ajmer-305817, Rajasthan [INDIA]

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