Graduate Students :
Dr. Bidyut Kumar Santra
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Ruthenium, Osmium and Cobalt Ion-Mediated Selective Aromatic Thiolation Reactions of the Coordinated
Arylazopyridine Ligand via the C-H and C-Cl Bond Activation Processes (1998)
Present position: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Raiganj University College, Uttar Dinajpur, West Bengal
E- mail: bsantra@yahoo.com
Dr. Pradip Munshi
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Polymer Supported Carbonyl Complexes as Heterogeneous Asymmetric Hydrogenation Catalysts (2000)
Present position: Chief Technology Officer, Talva Chintan Pharma Chem. Limited, Vadodara
E- mail: pradip.munshi@gmail.com
Dr. Ramapati Samanta
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Synthesis and Spectroelectrochemical Properties of Ruthenium and Rhenium Complexes Incorporating
Azo-Imine Based Functionalities (2001)
Present position: Technical Officer, Department of Biotechnology, IIT Kharagpur
E- mail: rsmanta@yahoo.com
Dr. Soma Chakraborty
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Synthesis and Mixed-Valence Aspects of Diruthenium Complexes Incorporating Neutral and Anionic
Bridging Functionalities (2002)
Present position: Technical Program Leader, Global Chemicals, Baker Hughes, a GE company, USA
E- mail: sadhu.tutai@gmail.com
Dr. Biplab Mondal
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Synthesis, Structure and Spectroelectrochemical Aspects of Ruthenium Terpyridine Complexes
Incorporating Azo-Imine Based Ancillary Functionalities (2002)
Present position: Professor, IIT Guwahati
E- mail: bmandal@iitg.ernet.in
Dr. Nripen Chanda
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Mixed-Valence Aspects of Diruthenium Bis-Terpyridine and the Electrophilic Nitrosyls of Ruthenium
Mono-Terpyridine Based Systems (2004)
Present position: Principal scientist, Micro System Technology, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur, West Bengal
E- mail: nripen74@gmail.com
Dr. Srikanta Patra
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Mixed Valency in Polyruthenium Systems (2005)
Present position: Associate Professor,IIT Bhubaneswar
E- mail: patra17@gmail.com
Dr. Sanjib Kar
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Intermetallic Coupling and Metal Ligand Valence State Distribution in Polyruthenium Systems(2005)
Present position: Associate Professor, School of Chemistry, NISER Bhubaneswar
E-mail:sanjib@niser.ac.in
Dr. Himadri Paul
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Supported Chini Clusters as Hydrogenation Catalysts (2006)
Present position: High School Teacher, West Bengal
E- mail: hpaul@chem.iitb.ac.in
Dr. Sandeep Ghumaan
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Mixed Valency and Valence State Distributions in Polynuclear Ruthenium Frameworks (2007)
Present position: Professor, Department of Chemistry, Delhi University.
E- mail: sandeepghumaan@yahoo.com
Dr. Susmit Basu
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): MCM-41 and Silica Supported Asymmetric /Non-asymmetric Heterogeneous Hydrogenation Catalysis (2007)
Present position: Senior scientist, Research Chemist, GnoSys Global Limited, Guildford, United Kingdom
E- mail: s.basu@gnosysgroup.com
Link: Basu profile
Dr. Prasenjit Maity
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Cluster Derived Ionic Polymer Supported Nanocatalysts for Hydrogenation and Oxidation Processes in Aqueous-Biphasic Medium (2008)
Present position:Professor and Dean, School of Engineering and Technology , National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar
E- mail: prasenjit.maity@nfsu.ac.in
Dr. Somnath Maji
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Valence State Distribution and Mixed Valency in Ruthenium Complexes with Redox Sensitive Ligands (2009)
Present position: Associate Professor, IIT Hyderabad
E- mail: smaji@iith.ac.in
Dr. Prinaka De
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Ruthenium Nitrosyls in {Ru(NO)}6 and {Ru(NO)}7 Configurations. Synthesis, Electronic Structure and Reactivity Aspects (2011)
Present position: Senior scientist, Behr Process Corporation, Pune
E- mail: prinaka2007@gmail.com
Dr. Dipanwita Das
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structural Aspects of Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes with Non-Innocent Quinonoid Ligands (2011)
Present position: Assistant Professor, ICT Mumbai
E- mail: dr.das@ictmumbai.edu.in
Dr. Mohd Tauqeer
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Metal Carbonyl-Mediated Transformations and Formation of New Metal Complex Systems (2015)
Present position: Assistant Professor, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh
Co-Supervisor : Prof. P. Mathur
E- mail: mohd.tauqeer1@gmail.com
Dr. Niladri Maity
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Organometallic Complex Derived Silica Supported Nanocatalysts for Heterogeneous Hydrogenation Processes (2008)
Present position: : Research Scientist, Center for Refining and Advance Chemicals, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
E- mail: niladri.maity@kfupm.edu.sa
Dr. Arindam Indra
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Development of Supported Catalysis for Selective Hydrogenation, Reduction and Coupling Processes (2011)
Present position: Assistant Professor, IIT BHU
E- mail: aindra.iitk@gmail.com
Dr. Tanaya Kundu
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Mixed Valence Aspects and Anion Recognition Features of Ruthenium Complexes (2012)
Present position: Assistant Professor, Jain University, Bangalore, India
E- mail: tanaya.kundu@gmail.com
Dr. Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Transition Metal Derived Catalysts for Selective Oxidation and Hydrogenation Processes (2012)
Present position: Assistant Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, Wuhan University, China
E- mail: abhishekdc1@gmail.com
Dr. Amit Das
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Mixed Valency and Electronic Structures of Ruthenium complexes of Redox Non-Innocent Ligands. (2012)
Present position: R&D Chemist at Hach, Colorado
E- mail: amitdas.t@gmail.com
Dr. Hemlata Agarwala
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Valence and Spin Situations in Ruthenium Complexes of Selective Redox Non-innocent Ligands (2013)
Present position: Group Leader, Technical University of Munich
E- mail: hemlata.agarwala@tum.de
Dr. Ankita Das
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structural Aspects and Anion Binding Features of Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes (2016)
Present position: Regulatory Affairs Specialist at Gans-Eichler Chemieberatung GmbH, Münster
E- mail: das.ankita5@gmail.com
Dr. Prasenjit Mondal
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structural Aspects of Ruthenium Complexes Incorporating Redox Non-innocent Ligands (2016)
Present position:Assistant Professor, Jadavpur University
E- mail: prasen.rans@gmail.com
Dr. Abhishek Mondal
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structures of Symmetric and Unsymmetric Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes of Non-innocent Ligands Along the Redox Chain (2016)
Present position: Chemist III, Applied Materials, Mumbai
E- mail: abhishek24mandal@gmail.com
Dr. Ritwika Ray
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Metal Catalyzed Synthetic Protocols for Selective Organic Transformations (2017)
Present position: Senior Scientist at Merck Sharp and Dohme, USA (New Jersey)
E- mail:rayritwika@gmail.com
Dr. Prabir Ghosh
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structures of Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes of Selective Redox-Active Ligands
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, IIT Kharagpur
E- mail:prabir.chem@gmail.com
Dr. Arijit Singha Hazari
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year):Electronic Structural Aspects of Ruthenium and Osmium Complexes of
Selective Noninnocent Ligands and their Potential Applications in Homogeneous Catalysis (2019)
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of British Columbia, Canada
E- mail:arijit.singhahazari@gmail.com
Dr. Mohd. Asif Ansari
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structural Aspects of Ruthenium Complexes of Redox Non-innocent Ligands (2020)
Present position:Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, Uppsala University
E- mail:asif14ansari@gmail.com
Dr. Madhumita Chatterjee
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Valence Distribution Aspects of Ruthenium Complexes Incorporating Redox Non-Innocent Ligands (2020)
Present position:
E- mail:madhu.chatt123@gmail.com
Dr. Farheen Fatima Khan
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Varying Electronic Aspects And Impacts In Redox Active Diruthenium Molecular Frameworks(2020)
Present position: Chemical Scientist, Imperial College London, England, United Kingdom
E- mail: creative.fifi@gmail.com
Dr. Sanjib Panda
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): On the Non-Innocence of Coordinated Ligands: Reactivity and Electronic Structure Evaluation (2020)
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University, USA
E- mail:sanjbpanda101@gmail.com
Dr. Sheuli Sasmal
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Development of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Methods for Regioselective Functinalization and Defunctinalization (2021)
Present position: Research Investigator, Syngene International Limited, Bangalore
E- mail:s4sheuli.chemistry@gmail.com
Dr. Sudip Kumar Bera
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structure and Reactivity Aspects of Ruthenium Complexes Involving Redox Active Ligand Scaffold (2022)
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bonn
E- mail:sb36@iitb.ac.in
Dr. Sanchaita Dey
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic Structure and Redox Induced Reactivity of Ruthenium Complexes of Non-innocent Ligands (2022)
Present position: Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Stuttgart
E- mail:sanchaitadey93@gmail.com
Dr. Sudip Maiti
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Development of Strategies for Forging C(sp2)-C(sp2) Bonds via Transition Metal Catalyzed C-H Bond Activation and Cross-Electrophile Coupling (2023)
Present position:
E- mail:maitisudip028@gmail.com
Dr. Suman Dhara
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Electronic, Structural and Reactivity Aspects of Ruthenium and Osmium Derived Systems (2023)
Present position:
E- mail:dhara.suman216@gmail.com
Dr. Aditi Singh
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Structural, Electronic and Reactivity Aspects of Ruthenium Derivative of Redox Active Ligands (2023)
Present position:
E- mail:singhaditi203@gmail.com
Dr. Maya
Ph.D. Thesis Title (year): Structure, Electronic and Sensing Events of Metal Complexes Involving Redox-Active Ligands (2023)
Present position:
E- mail:mayakumari10121995@gmail.com