Ongoing Projects

• Synthesis, characterization, reactivity and catalytic aspects of vanadium complexes
• Dearomatization of Phenols into Benzoquinone Derivatives: Rapid Access to Bicyclo[2.2.2]octenones, Phenoxazines and other Heterocyclic Systems
• Organic materials containing heterocyclic building blocks
• Rationale guided Design and preparation of novel anti-Tuberculosis chemotherapeutic agents through contemporary Synthetic interventions
• Copper catalyzed Novel bond forming strategies for potent Therapeutic Heterocyclic scaffolds
• Development of fluorescence based selective chemical sensor for Magnesium ion under physiological condition
• Novel molecular design for Dye Sensitized solar cell
• Small Molecules for Solution Processed Organic Solar Cell
• Domino Reactions and Asymmetric Synthesis
• Bioaccessibility of heavy metals
• Synthesis and characterization of optically interesting nanocomposites
• Synthesis of Biotemplated Colloidal Nanostructures of Iron Oxide(s) - Analysis of Correlation between their Morphologies and Properties.
• Chemistry of non-innocent ligands: Synthesis of phenoxyl radical and related complexes and their applications
• Synthesis and characterization of novel ruthenium nitrosyl complexes and their biological activity studies
• New Materials and Methods for Efficient Organic Photovoltaic Devices (Phase II)
• Catalytic oxidation of nitrogeneous aromatic compounds containing wastewater
• Theory and mechanism of polymer melt dynamics
• Porphyrin-based Novel Donor-π-Linker-Acceptor Systems for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) Applications
• Metal ion assisted artificial base pairing: an alternative approach for the nucleic acid templated chemistry
• Polymerization of Biomolecules on Metal Oxide Surfaces: Implication in Origin of Life
• In vitro gastrointestinal based bioaccessibility of heavy metals in plant based food materials grown in active mining region
• Design, Synthesis and their Estrogen Receptors Binding Study of Some Novel Flavone, Flavone-Estradiol Adduct and Indanone Based Ligands Against Breast Cancer Cell Lines
• Domino Reactions and Asymmetric Organocatalytic Reactions of Benzoquinone Derivatives
• Design and synthesis of novel layered oxides and oxyhalides: Potential visible-light photocatalysts for hydrogen production
• Glyoxalic acid as an effective formaldehyde equivalent in imine-mediated isocyanide based multicomponent reaction cascades
• Design and synthesis of novel small molecules as a putative Pf-DHFR antagonist in malarial Chemotherapy
• Synthesis of Zn(II) complexes of Carboxylic acid Substituted Porphyrins for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSSC) Applications
• Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of Novel Porphyrin-Fullerenes Host-Guest Assemblies
• Periodic Mesoporous Organosillcas (PMOs) Supported Group 2 Metal Catalysts for Hydroamination
• Molecular Design for Novel Sensitizers for Dye Sensitized Solar Cell
• Low energy ion beam induced defect engineering in inorganic nanomaterials and their applications
• Synthesis of Electron Donors (D) appended Carboxyphenyl Substituted Porphyrin Zn(II) complexes (D-π-A) for DSSC Applications
• Photophysical and Photovoltaic Properties of Novel Porphyrin-Fullerenes Host-Guest Assemblies
• Discovery of new half-metal ferromagnetic compounds for applications in spin-based technology
• Formation, Structure, Stability and Thermodynamic properties of Mixed Gas hydrates
• Effect of cage substitution and endohedral doping on the alignment and the properties of fullerenes and carbon nanotubes​

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• Binuclear manganese complexes as model for Mn containing ribonucleotide reductase enzyme.
• Coupled semiconduictor catalysts for initiating photochemical reactions-mechanistics investigation of their photochemical and photophysical behaviour.
• Development of chemical sensors for determination of some toxic metals
• Detoxification of electroplating industry waste
• Electroanalytical studies on some ionic sensors based on solid and liquid ion exchange membranes.
• Ligand controlled synthesis of tungsten complexes, their reactivity and catalytic properties.
• Liquid chromatographic resolution of enantiomers of biologically important compounds.
• Miceller catalysed aromatic nucleophilic substitution reaction in inorganic solvents.
• New organotin (IV) derivatives of amino acids and oligopeptides : synthesis, characterisation, X-ray structural analysis and in vitro anti-tumor activity.
• Oxidation chemistry of indoles and related compounds.
• Oxidation chemistry of purines and their N-oxide.
• Oxo-peroxo complexes of vanadium, their reactivity and catalytic activity.
• Preparation of silver (III) species and its stable complexes - A kinetic investigation of their redox and photoredox reactivity.
• Solvent extraction behavior of lanthanides and other associated elements with respect to their separation and recovery from raw and waste material.
• Stereoselective epoxidation of unsaturated carbonyls using novel catalytic systems.
• Structural studies on peanut proteins.
• Synthesis of optically active polypyrazolylborate ligands for enantioselective cyclopropanation reaction.
• Synthesis of model compounds for zinc containing enzymes.
• Synthesis of heterocyclic compounds and their evaluation for anti inflammatory,antiamebic and anthelmintic activities.
• Asymmetric organocatalysis with L- proline and its derivatives.
• New carbazole derivatives for electro-optics.
• Voltammetric determination of some biologically important purines and their derivatives at fullerenes C60/C70 modified electrodes.
• Size and shape effects on the optical properties of nanocrystalline metal oxides.
• Voltammetric determination of some anabolic steroids, used for doping by athletes, in human blood and urine.