New Horizons in Chemistry
3rd - 4th October 2011 Venue - Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay
3rd - 4th October 2011 Venue - Victor Menezes Convention Centre, IIT Bombay
Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
| 8:30-8:45 | Registration |
| 8:45-9:00 | Inauguration |
| Welcome Address | Prof. Nand Kishore (Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay) |
| Inaugural Address | Prof. R. K. Malik (Deputy Director, IIT Bombay) |
| Session 1 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Pradeep Mathur (IIT Bombay) |
| 9:00- 9:45 | Prof. S. Chandrasekaran (IISc Bangalore) Transition Metal Oxide Impregnated MCM Catalysts: Regioselective Tail -to- Tail Dimerization of Vinylarenes. |
| 9:45- 10:15 | Prof. S. N. Datta (IIT Bombay) Derivation of Relativistic Molecular Hamiltonian for Quantum Chemistry |
| 10:15-10:45 | Tea and Group Photo |
| Session 2 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. S. Durani (IIT Bombay) |
| 10:45-11:30 | Prof. Sourav Pal (NCL Pune) Theoretical study of binding and desorption of hydrogen on doped Magnesium hydride and light metal decorated metal-organic framework 5 |
| 11:30-12:00 | Prof. M. Ravikanth (IIT Bombay) Design and Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Porphyrin and Expanded Porphyrin Based Assemblies |
| 12:00-12:45 | Prof. R. N. Mukherjee (IIT Kanpur) Metal-versus Ligand-Centered Redox. Metal-Coordinated Radicals and 2-Phenyl-benzotriazole Ring Formation via N-N Coupling Reaction |
| 12:45-02:30 | Lunch and Poster Session-1 |
| Session 3 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Goutam K. Lahiri (IIT Bombay) |
| 02:30-03:15 | Prof. Kankan Bhattacharyya (IACS Kolkatta) FCS Study of Molecular Diffusion in Ionic liquids, Vesicles and Proteins |
| 03:15- 03:45 | Prof. S. Kotha (IIT Bombay) Development of New Methodologies Related to Unusual Amino Acid Derivatives |
| 03:45-04:15 | Prof. Anindya Datta (IIT Bombay) Ultrafast Dynamics of Epicocconone, a Second Generation Fluorescent Protein Stain |
| 05-04:45 | Tea |
| Session 4 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. B. L. Tembe (IIT Bombay) |
| 04:45-05:30 | Prof. A. R. Chakravarty (IISc Bangalore) Photoactive Ferrocene-Conjugates in PDT |
| 05:30-06:00 | Prof. Prasenjit Ghosh (IIT Bombay) Emerging Horizons of Functionalized N-heterocyclic Carbenes: Catalysis and Beyond |
October 4, 2011, Tuesday | |
| Session 5 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. Vishwakarma Singh (IIT Bombay) |
| 09:00-09:45 | Prof. T. K. Chandrashekar (NISER, Bhubaneswar) Structural Diversity in Expanded Porphyrins: Normal, Inverted, Fused and Bridged Systems |
| 09:45-10:15 | Prof. Naresh Patwari (IIT Bombay) Molecular Clusters: Toy Models in Molecular Biophysics |
| 10:15-10:45 | Tea |
| Session 6 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. H. B. Singh (IIT Bombay) |
| 10:45-11:30 | Prof. K. N. Ganesh (IISER Pune) Cationic peptides and peptide nucleic acids: Probing their entry into cells |
| 11:30-12:00 | Prof. R. B. Sunoj (IIT Bombay) Painting Mechanistic Landscapes with Pigments of Creativity on a Heuristic Canvas |
| 12:00- 12:30 | Prof. Rodney Fernandes (IIT Bombay) Newer Synthetic Strategies to Highly Substituted γ–Lactones and Beyond |
| 12:30-02:30 | Lunch and Poster Session-2 |
| Session 7 | |
| Chairman: | Prof. C. P. Rao (IIT Bombay) |
| 02:30- 03:15 | Prof. R. V. Hosur (TIFR Mumbai) Moving Frontiers of Protein NMR |
| 03:15-03:45 | Prof. G. Rajaraman (IIT Bombay) Computational Approach to New Generation Molecular Magnetic Materials |
| 03:45-04:00 | Vote of Thanks and Concluding Remarks |
| 04:00 | Tea |
| 07:30-09.30 | Dinner at Gulmohar Banquet Hall |
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