Schools and Departments
4.3 School of Chemistry
National/international awards won by students
• Rasmita Sahoo (Research student of Surajith Dhara) got best poster award by Indian Liquid Crystal Society in the National conference on liquid crystal, Mangalore-2013, December 16-18, 2013.
• Pavan Venu Prakash Madduri (Research Student of S. N. Kaul) won the best paper in International Conference on Magnetic Materials and Applications (MagMa-2013) at IIT Guwahati 05 - 07 December 2013 and also the accompanying cash award of Rs. 3000/-, sponsored by Oxford Instruments, UK.
• Suresh Pittala (Research Student of S. Srinath) has been awarded Dr. K.V. Rao research award for the year 2013- 2014 in Physics.
Patents applied/granted with details for the year: 3 Nos.
1. K. C. James Raju, Anil Tumuluri, Swaroop Raju, V Seshu Bai, T Rajasekharan) “A Method for preparing dielectric Resonators of arbitrary shapes” Filed for Indian Patent.
2. M. Ghanashyam Krishna, K A Padmanabhan, M S R N Kiran. “Non-stoichiometric Titanium Nitride thin films“, European Patent No. 2222887 , 2013
3. Nirmal K. Viswanathan - US Patent 8437588 “System and method for generating an optical vector vortex beam having two lobes,” (2013)
Outreach activities organized
• A. P. Science Congress – School of Physics was in charge of the Maths & Physics Sessions. 14-
• “Refresher course in Experimental Physics” for college and University teachers by School of Physics and Academic Staff College, University of Hyderabad, 6- 26 November, 2013. Coordinated by Prof Rajender Singh
List of Distinguished Scholars who have delivered lectures Sl. No. Name of the Speaker title 1. Prof. G. K. Lahiri
Department of Chemistry
IIT Bombay, Mumbai-400076
Electronic Structure of Intricate Redox Non- innocent Assemblies
03.04.2013
2. Prof. Ashok Kumar Mishra, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, Chennai-600036
Analytical Fluorimetry of Multifluorophoric Systems: Some New Approaches
09.04.2013
3. Dr. S.V. Rama Sastry Sripada Department of Chemical Sciences IISER Mohali
An Encounter with Furfuryl Cations 22.04.2013
4. Prof. M. Lashminarayana Rao, Department of Chemistry IIT-Kanpur
New Generation Cross-coupling Reactions 26.04.2013
5. Professor M. Ravikanth Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai-400076
Boron-dipyrromethene based fluorescent systems
06.05.2013
6. Prof. Murugappan Muthukumar, University of Massachusetts, USA
How DNA worms through protein channels and nanopores
21.05.2013 7. Dr. D. Srinivasa Reddy
Senior Scientist, NCL, Pune
Recent Achievements in Total Synthesis of Natural Products from our Group
24.06.2013 8. Prof. R. Ramraj,
Department of Physical Chemistry MK University, Madurai
Nanostructured Materials Modified Electrodes for Catalysis and Sensor
25.06.2013
9. Professor Prasad V. Bharatam, Department of Medicinal Chemistry NIPER, Chandigarh
Divalent C(O) and N(I) compoundsL Describing novel chemical bonding
05.07.2013
10. Dr. M. Jayakannan, Department of Chemistry, IISER, Pune
Polymers Based on Amino acids: Development of New High Temperature Condensation Chemistry
24.07.2013
11. Prof. Kanakan Bhattacharyya, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata
Heroes of Indian Science 26.07.2013
12. Prof. Dr. Jürg Hulliger Department of Chemistry &
Biochemistry University of Berne Freiestrasse 3, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland
Symmetry breaking in complex molecular assemblies
01.08.2013
13. Prof. Suresh Bhargava
Advanced Materials & Industrial Chemistry Group, School of Applied Chemistry, University, Australia
Nano Innovation: From Mind to Market Place:
Creating Nano Engineered Surfaces for Mercury Sensing and other application
01.08.2013
14. Dr. Kali Kishore Reddy Tetala
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Ligand immobilized stationary phase materials for separation of biomolecules
02.08.2013 15. Prof. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay
Centre for Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Nehru University New Delhi
Towards simulating a full bacterial cell:
Technique, application and challenges
19.08.2013
16. Prof. M. Nagarajan, Retired Professor School of Chemistry HCU
What is Research?-A Perspective”. This lecture is part of refresher course for Academic Staff College.
11.09.2013
17. Prof. S. Ramakrishnan, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Ordering of Polymers – From the molecular to the macroscopic scale
25.09.2013
18. Professor Tomas Torres
Department Of Organic Chemistry Universidad Autonoma de Madrid 28049-Madrid. Spain
Subphthalocyanines: Singular aromatic non- planar molecules
10.10.2013
19. Dr. Swagat K. Mohapatra Assistant Professor (Chemistry) KIIT University Bhubaneswar Campus # 16, Patia, Bhubaneswar Orissa, India – 751024
N-Doping of Organic Electronic Materials Using Air-Stable Organometallics
22.10.2013
20. Prof. Akio Kamimura
Department of Applied Molecular Bioscience, Graduate School of Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Japan
Asymmetric Aza-Morita-Baylis-Hillman reaction: A useful strategy for the preparation of heterocyclic compounds
28.10.2013
21. Ripudaman Malhotra Associate Director,
Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International., USA
Progress in Coal Liquefaction 04.11.2013
22. Prof.B. Jayaram
Department of Chemistry & Kusuma School of Biological Sciences
& Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
Genomes to Hit Molecules In Silico: A country path today, a highway tomorrow
06.11.2013
23. Prof. Michael Baer
The fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,Jerusalem Israel
Born-Oppenheimer Approach: Leading Theory for Molecular Systems
08.11.2013
24. Dr. Maheswaran Shanmugam, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay
Enhancing Essential Parameters of Molecular- Nano-Magnets (Mnms) and its applications
08.11.2013
25. Prof. Lallan Mishra, Department of Chemistry, Banara Hindu University,Varanasi
Exploring cytotoxic metal complexes through their DNA cleavage and cell imaging properties
18.11.2013
26. Prof. A. Ramanan, Department of Chemistry, IIT Delhi
Solid State Chemistry of Mlybdates: Structures and Functions
28.11.2013
27. Dr. Marc Fourmigue,
Institute des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes, France
Dithiolene pi-radicals in crystals and soft matter 29.11.2013
28. Professor Béatrice Honvault
Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB, UMR 6303 CNRS/
Université de Bourgogne) 9 av Alain Savary, BP 47870, 21078 DIJON cedex, France
Part I: Potential Energy Surfaces and long-range interactions between two radicals
Part II: A brief Introduction to the nitrogen chemistry on Titan
03.12.2013
29. Prof. Pascal HONVAULT Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB, UMR 6303 CNRS/université deBourgogne) 9 av. Alain Savary,
BP 47870, 21078 DIJON cedex, France, Tél: 33 (0) 3 80 39 59 60- UFR Sciences et Techniques, Université de Franche-Comté Besançon, Tél: 33 (0) 3 81 66 64 84
Time-independent quantum-mechanical method for the study of atom-diatom reactions
04.12.2013
30. Prof. Robert A. Robinson Head of the Bragg Institute, B87 Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation Locked Bag 2001, Kirrawee DC NSW 2232, Australia
Opportunities for Research using the Australian Synchrotron and the OPAL Research Reactor – possibilities for collaboration in Materials Science, Physics, Chemistry and Structural Biology between India and Australia
16.12.2013
31. Dr Aniruddha Paul, Department of Chemistry, Rice University, TX 77005, USA
Probing surface Plasmon propagation and loss compensation in one-dimensional metal nanostructures
24.12.2013
32. Prof. J. Narasimha Moorthy, FASc.
Lalit M Kapoor Chair Professor Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016 INDIA
Our exploits with ‘Sterics’: Control of organic Reactivity and Development of Organic Materials
02.01.2014
33. Dr. Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu Department of Chemical Sciences Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai 400005
Single-molecule studies on forced-unfolding of proteins and protein elasticity
03.01.2014
34. Prof. Anant Paradkar
Director, Centre for Pharmaceutical Engineering
Science University of Bradfort, U.K
Processing technologies for crystal engineering 07.01.2014
35. Prof. Raj Suryanaraynan
Professor and William and Mildred Peter Endowed Chair College of Pharmacy, University of Minnesota, USA
Application of X-ray diffractometry in preformulation and formulation studies
07.01.2014
36. Dr. Eswararao Doni Prof. John A. Murphy group
Dept. of Pure and Applied Chemistry, University of Strathclyde
Glasgow, UK.
Evolution of neutral organic super-electron- doors and their reactivity towards C-O and C-C bond cleavages
09.01.2014
37. Prof.Subash Jonnalagadda Dept. of Chemistry and Bio- Chemistry, Rowan University Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA
Development of novel small molecules as potential anticancer agents
10.01.2014
38. Dr. Muthaiah Manoharan
Senior Vice President, Drug discovery, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
RNA interference (RNAi) based Therapeutics:
Role of Chemistry and Opportunities for Chemists
17.01.2014
39. Prof. Martin Broring
Institut Fiir Anorganische und Analytische Chemie TU
Braunschweig, Hagenring 30, 38106, Braunschweig
DYEmers Functional oligomeric BODIPY dyes 20.01.2014
40. Dr. Oliver Burt
Business Development Manager Chemical Materials Waters Corporations United Kingdom
Polymer Analysis 22.01.2014
41. Dr. Kalapala Venkateswara Rao Department of Chemistry Purdue University West Lafayette, IN, USA
Design, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Aspartic Protease inhibitors for the Treatment of HIV/AIDS and Alzheimer’s Disease
30.01.2014
42. Dr. Kana M.Sureshan School of Chemistry IISER, Thiruvananthapuram Kerala, India
Topochemical reactions for glycopolymer synthesis
29.01.2014
43. Prof. Hiro-o Hamaguchi
Department of Applied Chemistry and Institute of Molecular Science National Chiao Tung University Taiwan (Formerly at: Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
Raman Spectroscopy: Past and Future 07.02.2014
44. Prof. E. Peter Kundig Dept. of Organic Chemistry University of Geneva, Switzerland
New Chiral NHC Ligands for the Catalytic Asymmetric Arylation of Amides and the Enantioselective C(sp3)-H Activation to give substituted indulines
17.02.2014
45. Dr. Nasir Baig
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Sulfamidates as an efficient and subtle alternative in organic synthesis
03.03.2014
46. Prof. S.P. Rath Dept. of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
Unfolding Mystery of Multi-Heme Cytochromes:
Effect of Inter-Macrocycleic Interactions
07.03.2014
47. Prof. S.Chandrasekaran Dept. of Organic Chemistry IISC, Bangalore
Vinylcyclopropanes as key intermediates in organic synthesis
18.03.2014
48. Prof. K.R. Prabhu
Dept. of Organic Chemistry IISC, Bangalore
Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling (CDC) and Related Reactions: Beyond Functional Group Transformations
19.03.2014
49. Dr. Arijit Kumar De
Physical Bioscience Division, Lawrence Berkely National Lab. and Dept. of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Probing ultrafast coherent dynamics by incoherent fluorescence detection: Towards a spatiotemporal approach
21.03.2014
Outreach activities organized
The Networking Resource Centre established in the School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad with a grant from the UGC, aims to network with other institutions, especially undergraduate and postgraduate colleges and universities in the region, and thereby contribute to the progress in chemical education and research. The major activities of the Centre during the period April 2013 – March 2014 were the following.
1. Short term research projects were carried out by 31 M.Sc. students from various colleges and universities in the country, in different research groups in the School during the period, primarily during the summer vacation of 2013. The projects were typically for a period of 2 months.
2. 26 Ph.D. students/post-doctoral researchers and 3 teachers from various Universities and colleges carried out training Visits in the different research groups in the School, working primarily in the area of their own research. Period of the visits ranged from 1 – 6 months. A database of all those who completed the Training
4. A Winter School on “Computational Chemistry” was conducted during December 2 – 14, 2013. 15 Ph.D.
students and 4 faculty members from 18 colleges/universities in the country participated. The School consisted of an intensive lecture schedule combined with extensive hands-on computational exercises, covering the basics of quantum chemistry, structure and bonding, and specialized applications of ab initio computations.
5. A custom-made software (Project Management System) that enables efficient management of the accounting of the project funds as well as maintenance of the student/visitor register has been implemented.
Details of Seminars / Conferences / Workshops organized categorized as National / International
1. The School organized a National Symposium on “Frontiers in Organic Chemistry” on the Occasion of Prof. M.
Periasamy’s 60th Birthday Celebrations, during October 11–12, 2013.
National / International awards won by the faculty with details R. Chandrasekar:
1. YIM Boston Young Scientist Award for contribution to Materials Science received at MIT, Boston, USA September 2013.
National awards won by students with details (Awards of group members of Prof. K. Muralidharan)
1. Mr. Dharavath Srinivas was adjudged as “first Runner up” of the Dr. K. V Rao Annual Research Award for Chemistry for the year 2013-2014
(Awards of group members of Prof. R. Chandrasekar)
1. Dr. Supratim Basak won the Dr. K.V. Rao Society Young Scientist Runner up Award in Chemistry and Allied Sciences - July 2013.
2. Naisa Chandrasekhar attended Nobel Laureate Meeting - Lindau 2013, Germany- July 2013.
3. Pramiti Hui received 1st Prize Award for Oral Presentation in Winter School-2013 on Frontiers in Materials Science Organized by JNCASR-Cambridge-SSL, Dec 2013.
title of Project Project Coordinator Funding Agency Period Budget (in Rs.) Molecular
Materials and Nanocomposites
Prof. T.P. Radhakrishnan J.C.Bose Fellowship 01.03.2011 to 28.02.2016
68,00,000/-
- - Anunay Samanta DST, J.C. Bose
Fellowship
07/2010 to 07/2015
68,00,000/-
- - R. Chandrasekar Max Plank Partner
Group (MPG) Gernmany
- - 100,000.00 Euros