IICM 2017
Inter-IISER Chemistry Meet 2017
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
Inter-IISER Chemistry Meet 2017
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal
| January 20, 2017 (Friday) | |
| (9:00 AM – 9:05 AM) | Welcome by Dr. Prasanta Ghorai, Head, Department of Chemistry |
| (9:05 AM – 9:15 AM) | Introductory Remarks by Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Director, IISER Bhopal |
| SESSION 1 (9:20 AM–10:50 AM) Chairpersons: Prof. Manickam Jayakannan, IISER Pune (IL 1-3) & Dr. Rajesh K. Murarka, IISER Bhopal (ST 1-3) |
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| 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM | IL-01: Prof. K. George Thomas, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Title: ‘Excitonically and Plasmonically Powered Processes: From Design to Devices’ |
| 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM | IL-02: Dr. Jeyaraman Sankar, IISER Bhopal
Title: ‘Perylenebisimide-Porphyrin Dyads and Extended Assemblies’ |
| 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM | IL-03: Dr. Angshuman Nag, IISER Pune Title: ‘Defect Tolerant Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals’ |
| 10:20 AM –10:30 AM | ST-01: Mr. A. Venkata Nanda Kishor Babu, IISER Kolkata
Title: ‘Tuning the Energy Transfer Efficiency between Ce3+ and Ln3+ Ions by Controlling the Crystal Phase of Na YF4 Nanocrystals’ |
| 10:30 AM –10:40 AM | ST-02: Mr. Sandeep Kumar, IISER Mohali Title: ‘Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Structural Transformation in MOFs: Selective Sensing of Acetone and Triethylamine’ |
| 10:40 AM –10:50 AM | ST-03: Mr. Arindam Ghosh, NISER Bhubaneswar
Title: ‘Core Modified Octaphyrin with Dual Conformation’ |
| 10:50 AM - 11:20 AM | TEA/ COFFEE BREAK |
| SESSION 2 (11:20 AM–12:50 PM) Chairpersons: Prof. Sanjay Mandal, IISER Mohali (IL 4-6) & Dr. Ishu Saraogi, IISER Bhopal (ST 4-6) |
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| 11:20 AM–11:40 AM | IL-04: Prof. K. S. Vishwanathan, IISER Mohali
Title: ‘Why and How Do You Experimentally Locate Local Minima? Some Case Studies using Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy’ |
| 11:40 AM–12:00 PM | IL-05: Dr. Sayan Bhattacharyya, IISER Kolkata
Title: ‘Nanoheterostructures for Electrochemical Water Splitting’ |
| 12:00 PM–12:20 PM | IL-06: Dr. Chidambaram Gunanathan, NISER Bhubaneswar
Title: ‘Selective Catalytic Hydroelementation and Deuteration Reactions’ |
| 12:20 PM – 12:30 PM | ST-04: Mr. Rajkumar Koninti, IISER Pune Title: ‘Loading of an Anti-Cancer Drug into Mesoporous Silica Nano-Channel and Subsequent Release to DNA’ |
| 12:30 PM – 12:40 PM | ST-05: Mr. Kaushik Pal, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Determination of Mitochondrial Polarity via Design and Synthesis of Robust, Solvatochromic and Multifunctional Fluorescent Probe’ |
| 12:40 PM – 12:50 PM | ST-06: Mr. Hari Veera Prasad Thelu, IISER Thiruvananthapuram Title: ‘Removal of Organic Micro Pollutants Using DNA Based Nanogels’ |
| 1:00 PM - 03:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER SESSION |
| SESSION 3 (03:00 AM–06:30 PM)
Chairperson: Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Director, IISER Bhopal |
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| 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM | Interaction with SERB-PAC Members of Chemistry |
| 03:30 PM – 05:00 PM | Orientation by the SERB-PAC Members Title: How to Write a Good Research Proposal |
| 05:00 PM - 05:30 PM | TEA/ COFFEE BREAK @ Lecture Hall Complex |
| 05:30 PM – 06:30 PM | Special Lecture (L-5): Professor Goverdhan Mehta, Univ. of Hyderabad Title: ‘Dimensionality of Chemistry: A 21st Century Science for Global Sustainability’ |
| 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM | BANQUET DINNER (COMMUNITY CENTRE) |
| January 21, 2017 (Saturday) | |
| SESSION 4 (9:00 AM–10:30 AM) Chairpersons: Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya, Visiting Professor, IISER Bhopal (IL 7-9) & Dr. Pinaki Talukdar, IISER Pune (ST 7-9) |
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| 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | IL-07: Dr. Manmohan Kapur, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Innovative Pathways to Diverse Nitrogen Heterocycles via Transition-metal mediated C-H Functionalization’ |
| 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM | IL-08: Dr. Venkataramanarao G. Anand, IISER Pune Title: ‘Reversible Redox Reactions of Antiaromatic Expanded Isophlorins’ |
| 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM | IL-09: Dr. Ujjal Gautam, IISER Mohali Title: ‘Rare Pt-Nanostructures for Efficient Energy Harvesting’ |
| 10:00 AM –10:10 AM | ST-07: Mr. Owais C. H., IISER Thiruvananthapuram Title: ‘Energetics of Adsorption of Monocyclic Carbon Rings an Graphene: Distance and Orientation Dependence from Analytical Approaches’ |
| 10:10 AM –10:20 AM | ST-08: Mr. Somnath Koley, NISER Bhubaneswar Title: ‘Probing the PAMAM Dendrimer and its Soft Assemblies’ |
| 10:20 AM –10:30 AM | ST-09:
Mr. Paresh Chandra Rout, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Engineering Multiferrocity in Perovskite MOFs’ |
| 10:30 AM –11:00 AM | TEA/ COFFEE BREAK |
| SESSION 5 (11:00 AM–12:30 PM) Chairpersons: Prof. S. Chandrasekaran, J. C. Bose Chair Professor, IISER Bhopal (IL 10-12) & Dr. Angshuman Roy Choudhury, IISER Mohali (ST 10-12) |
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| 11:00 AM –11:20 AM | IL-10: Dr. Kana M. Sureshan, IISER Thiruvananthapuram Title: ‘Should We Ignore the Unexpected?’ |
| 11:20 AM –11:40 AM | IL-11: Dr. J. N. Behera, NISER Bhubaneswar Title: ‘High Energy Supercapacitors Based on Vanadium Chalcogenides RGO/CNTs Hybrids’ |
| 11:40 AM –12:00 PM | IL-12: Dr. Raja Shanmugam, IISER Kolkata Title: ‘Polynorbornene Derived Multi-Functional Nano-Vehicles for the Potential Application in Cancer Therapy’ |
| 12:00 PM – 12:10 PM | ST-10:
Mr. B. Gopalakrishnan, IISER Mohali Title: ‘Diastereoselective Pd(II)-Catalyzed sp3 C-H Arylation Followed by Ring-Opening of Cyclopropanecarboxamides: Construction of anti β-Acyloxy Carboxamide Derivatives’ |
| 12:10 PM – 12:20 PM | ST-11: Mr. Reman K. Singh, IISER Pune Title: ‘Mechanism of Unfolding of Human Prion Protein’ |
| 12:20 PM – 12:30 PM | ST-12: Mr. Gurupada Hazra, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Organocatalytic, Enantioselective Synthesis of Benzoxaboroles via Wittig / oxa-Michael Reaction Cascade of α-Formyl Boronic Acids’ |
| 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM | LUNCH BREAK & POSTER SESSION |
| SESSION 6 (3:00 PM–4:30 PM)
Chairpersons: Dr. Arnab Mukherjee, IISER Pune (IL 13-15) & Dr. Ratheesh K. Vijayaraghavan, IISER Kolkata (ST 13-15) |
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| 3:00 P M – 3:20 PM | IL-13: Dr. Hosahudya N. Gopi, IISER Pune Title: ‘Peptide Foldamers: From Medicinal Chemistry to Biomaterials’ |
| 3:20 PM – 3:40 PM | IL-14: Dr. Sharanappa Nembenna, NISER Bhubaneswar
Title: ‘Main Group Catalysis: Molecular Compounds for Organic Transformations’ |
| 3:40 PM – 4:00 PM | IL-15: Dr. Vinesh Vijayan, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Title: ‘Determining the Critical Molecular Interactions Responsible for tau-Fibril Formation’ |
| 4:00 PM – 4:10 PM | ST-13: Ms. Monika Gupta, IISER Mohali Title: ‘A New Strategy towards the Synthesis of Room-Temperature Discotic Nematic Liquid Crystals’ |
| 4:10 PM – 4:20 PM | ST-14: Mr. Bholanath Maity, IISER Kolkata Title: ‘Regio- and Stereoselectivity in Ru-catalyzed Hydroamidation and Hydrocarboxylation of Terminal Alkynes: A Computational Insight’ |
| 4:20 PM - 4:30 PM | ST-15: Ms. Sabnam Kar, IISER Thiruvananthapuram Title: ‘Chiroptical Properties of Helical Assemblies: A Generalized Molecular Approach Using Phenylene-ethynylenes’ |
| 4:30 PM - 4:50 PM | TEA/ COFFEE BREAK |
| SESSION 7 (4:50 PM–6:20 PM) Chairpersons: Prof. K. George Thomas, IISER Thiruvananthapuram (IL 16-18) & Dr. Supratim Banerjee, IISER Kolkata (ST 16-18) |
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| 4:50 P M – 5:10 PM | IL-16: Dr. Sanjay Singh, IISER Mohali Title: ‘Reactive yet ‘Bottle-able’ Hydrido Borenium Cations and Their Aluminum Congeners’ |
| 5:10 PM – 5:30 PM | IL-17: Dr. Abhijit Patra, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Multifunctional Porous Organic Polymers’ |
| 5:30 PM – 5:50 PM | IL-18: Dr. Dibyendu Das, IISER Tirupati Title: ‘Supramolecular Catalysts for Chemical Evoluation’ |
| 5:50 PM – 6:00 PM | ST-16: Mr. Annaram Thirupathi, NISER Bhubaneswar Title: ‘New Approach for the Synthesis of Indolo Fused Quinolines via C-H Amination’ |
| 6:00 PM – 6:10 PM | ST-17:
Mr. Anant K. Shivastava, IISER Pune Title: ‘Effect of Guest Cations on the Ferroelectric Polarization Attributes of Supramolecular Metal-Organic Cavitand’ |
| 6:10 PM – 6:20 PM | ST-18: Mr. Abbey M. Philip, IISER Thiruvananthapuram Title: ‘Prolonged Charge Separated States in Twisted Stacks of All-Carbon Donor and Acceptor Chromophores’ |
| 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM | DINNER (COMMUNITY CENTRE) |
| January 22, 2017 (Sunday) | |
| SESSION 8 (9:00 AM–10:30 AM) Chairpersons: Dr. Sujit Ghosh, IISER Pune (IL 19-21) & Dr. Debashis Adhikari, IISER Mohali (ST 19-21) |
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| 9:00 AM – 9:20 AM | IL-19: Dr. Moloy Sarkar, NISER Bhubaneswar
Title: ‘Understanding the Behavior of Dicationic Room Temperature Ionic Liquids Through Steady State, Time-Resolved Fluorescence and NMR Studies’ |
| 9:20 AM – 9:40 AM | IL-20: Dr. Reji Varghese, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Title: ‘DNA-Decorated Soft Nanostructures’ |
| 9:40 AM – 10:00 AM | IL-21: Dr. Srabanti Chaudhury, IISER Pune
Title: ‘Understanding Cooperativity and Dynamic Disorder in the Fluctuating Enzymes at the Single Molecular Level’ |
| 10:00 AM –10:10 AM | ST-19: Ms. Ginny Karir, IISER Mohali
Title: ‘Phenylacetylene-Formic Acid Complexes – A Rich Landscape of H-Bonded Heterodimers Studied Using Matrix Isolation Infrared Spectroscopy and Ab Initio Computations’ |
| 10:10 AM –10:20 AM | ST-20: Mr. Shrivats Semwal, IISER Bhopal
Title: ‘Turning a Molecular Coordination Switch into a Smart Catalyst Switch’ |
| 10:20 AM –10:30 AM | ST-21: Mr. Maidul Islam, IISER Pune
Title: ‘Expedient Synthesis of Henpentaconta-saccharide of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Cell Wall’ |
| 10:30 AM –11:00 AM | TEA/ COFFEE BREAK |
| SESSION 9 (11:00 AM–12:30 PM) Chairpersons: Prof. K. S. Vishwanathan, IISER Mohali (IL 22-24) & Dr. Malay K. Rana, IISER Berhampur (ST 22-24) |
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| 11:00 AM –11:20 AM | IL-22: Dr. Biplab Maji, IISER Kolkata Title: ‘Identification of Small Molecule Organocatalyst for Visible Light-Promoted Selective C-S Bond Formation |
| 11:20 AM –11:40 AM | IL-23: Dr. Amit Paul, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘Improving the Science of Energy Storage’ |
| 11:40 AM –12:00 PM | IL-24: Dr. Arijit K. De, IISER Mohali Title: ‘Probing Picosecond Solvation Dynamics Using Fluorescent Probes with Very Small Shift’ |
| 12:00 PM – 12:10 PM | ST-22: Mr. Tanmay Das, IISER Kolkata Title: ‘On-Line Ammonia Sensor by Fluorescent Zwitterionic Spirocyclic Meisenheimer Complex’ |
| 12:10 PM – 12:20 PM | ST-23: Mr. Amarnath Bollu, NISER Bhubaneswar Title: ‘Synthesis and Conformational Studies of Pyrazolone Derived Amino Acids’ |
| 12:20 PM – 12:30 PM | ST-24: Mr. Amit Kumar Mondal, IISER Bhopal Title: ‘A Convenient Approach for Switching the Single Ion Anisotropy in Trigonal Bipyramidal Co(II)-Complexes’ |
| 12:30 PM – 12:45 PM | PRIZE DISTRIBITUONS Chairperson, Poster Evaluation Committee |
| 12:45 PM – 01:00 PM | VOTE OF THANKS Dr. Alakesh Bisai, Convener, Inter-IISER Chemistry Meet 2017 |
| 01:00 PM – 01:15 PM | CONCLUDING REMARKS Prof. Vinod K. Singh, Director, IISER Bhopal |
| 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM | LUNCH (COMMUNITY CENTRE) |
| 02:30 PM – 06:00 PM | EXCURSION Archaeological Museum & The Great Stupa at Sanchi |
