Seminars and Talks

National

• July 13, 2022

  • Ethics and Academic Integrity in Research

  • Dr. Uday Maitra, Department of Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    Dr. Uday Maitra, in his lecture, highlighted the importance and the need to strictly follow ethical practices and maintain academic integrity in research, at all levels. He explained this with a few problem cases and also discussed some issues related to conducting research. Dr. Maitra stressed on why ethics and academic integrity has become increasingly significant and relevant, in the last two decades, owing to the easy access to information through the internet. He lamented that, it is not unusual, these days, to hear about plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification of data in research publications/research proposals in many fields.
• July 01, 2022

  • RSC CRSI Focused Meeting on Gender Diversity

  • The Royal Society of Chemistry India, with support from CSRI undertook a gender diversity study for women scientist working on chemical science research to discuss and debate on the need for gender equity and why it is crucial to honour and retain good talent irrespective of gender or any other similar factor. In this regard a focused meeting was conducted by an external consultant, Dr. Sweta Raghavan with women scientists and women scholars of the School of Chemistry, IISER TVM. A report on Gender Diversity was prepared as an outcome of this meeting.
• May 11-12, 2022

  • RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar with Dalton Transactions

  • The RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar Series was jointly organised by Dalton Transactions and IISER Thiruvananthapuram. The twenty-first century has witnessed a renaissance in the chemistry of s- and p-block elements. Significant advancement has taken place in isolating main group compounds in unusual oxidation states and low coordination numbers. The remarkable implications of this research have provided a new dimension to the area of homogeneous catalysis, traditionally dominated by d-metal compounds. This symposium brought together 12 leading main group chemists from India and the UK to showcase their recent findings in main group chemistry.

  Speakers

  1. Simon Aldridge, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
  2. Mark R Crimmin, Imperial College London, United Kingdom
  3. Rebecca Melen, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
  4. Sakya Sen, NCL Pune, India
  5. Sundargopal Ghosh, IIT Madras, India
  6. Moumita Majumdar, IISER Pune, India
  7. V Chandrasekhar, TIFR Hyderabad, AE Dalton Transactions, India
  8. Michael Hill, University of Bath, United Kingdom
  9. Robert E Mulvey, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
  10. Gillian Reid, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
  11. Eluvathingal D Jemmis, IISc Bangalore, India
  12. Sharanappa Nembenna, NISER Bhubaneswar, India
• May 4-5,2021

  • RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar with PCCP

  • This virtual event was the first of the RSC-IISER Desktop Seminar series and was organised jointly by PCCP and IISER TVM. This event brought together eminent scholars in the field of Physical Chemistry to discuss, share, collaborate and present their latest research questions and findings. In addition to the presentations by eminent scientists from IITs, IISc, IISERs, JNCASR, IACS and University of Hyderabad, the Chair and Deputy Chair, PCCP made presentations during this online event and actively interacted with the participants.

  Participants

  1. Prof. David Rueda, Chair, PCCP, Imperial College London; Topic: From Single Molecules to Single Cells: Watching the Dynamics of Protein-Nucleic acid Complexes
  2. Prof. Anouk Rijs, Deputy Chair, PCCP, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Topic: IR photon as structural probe in mass spectrometry: Watching peptide aggregates grow
  3. Prof. Kanishka Biswas, JNCASR Bangalore; Topic: Enhanced Atomic Ordering Leads to Ultra-High Thermoelectric Performance
  4. Prof. Muhammed Musthafa, IISER Pune; Topic: Electrochemical Neutralization Energy: Concepts to Devices
  5. Prof. K. George Thomas, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Topic:How trap-states modulate the photophysics in semiconductor quantum dots
  6. Prof. Debashree Ghosh, IACS Kolkata; Topic: Mechanism of photoprotection in eumelanin - role of heterogeneity
  7. Prof. Anunay Samanta, , University of Hyderabad; Topic: Charge Carrier Dynamics in Perovskite Nanocrystals
  8. Prof. Pratim Chattaraj, IIT Kharagpur; Topic: All-metal aromaticity and Hydrogen Storage
  9. Prof. Naresh Patwari, IIT Bombay
  10. Dr. Aparna Ganguly, Royal Society of Chemistry
  11. Prof. E. D. Jemmis, IISc Bangalore
  12. Prof. Prabal K Maiti, IISc Bangalore
  13. Prof. Sourav Pal, IISER Kolkata
• January 07, 2021

  • A Chemist’s Approach towards Solving Industrial Problems

  • Dr. Padma S Vankar, Ex-Principal Research Scientist, Facility for Ecological and Analytical Testing, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
    This talk focussed on the chemist’s approach to problem solving. Dr. Padma Vankar stressed on the need for collaborations between premier research institutes in the country and the R&D sections of industry, to promote sustainability and ensure technological upgradation, especially in sectors such as textiles, agriculture, food processing, environmental management. Dr. Padma pointed out the several instances where such collaboration between research institutes and industry had led to development of industrially viable strategies,workable technologiesand eco-friendly alternatives for use by society.
• December 02, 2020

  • “PhD Students’ Chemical Science Slam -2020"

  • Opening Remarks: Dr. Sukhendu Mandal Head, School of Chemistry
    Introduction to the Inaugural Speaker: Prof. J. N. Moorthy ,Director, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
    Inaugural Talk: Dr. A Ajayaghosh Director, CSIR-NIIST Thiruvananthapuram
    RSC - Special Address: Mr. Ajit K. Sharma General Manager - India, RSC
    RSC - Supporting Chemical Sciences In India: Mr. Ershad Abubacker Assistant Editorial Development Manager - India, RSC

  Student Talks

  1. Ms. Deepti Sharma, Topic: "Switching Lewis Acidity Gears Between Antimony and Bismuth"
  2. Ms. Amritha R., Topic: "1,6-Conjugate Addition of Alkylazaarenes to para-Quinone Methides"
  3. Ms. Swathi K, Topic: "Supramolecular Chirality: A Caveat in Assigning the Handedness of Chiral Aggregates"
  4. Mr. Sulfikarali Thondikkal, Topic: "Design, Synthesis and Properties of m-Phenylene Embedded Porphyrinoids"
  5. Mr. Cijil Raju, Topic: "Topochemistry: An Attractive Method for Polymer Synthesis"
  6. Ms. Lijina M. P, Topic: "Exciton Isolation in Cross-Pentacene Architecture"
  7. Ms. Arya Gopal,Topic: "Kinetic Insights into the Mechanism of Oxygen Reduction Reaction on Fe O /C Composites"
  8. Ms. Meera Johny, Topic: "Tethered oxocarbenium ion initiated oxirane opening reaction - conversion of 2,3-epoxy alcohols to fully protected triols"
  9. Ms. Feba Thomas, Topic: "Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Alkyl Carboxylic Acid Derivatives with Pyridinium salts via C-N Bond Cleavage"
  10. Mr. D. Perumal, Topic: "Disassembly Driven Approach for the Specific Detection of Thrombin Using F NMR in "OFF/ON" Response"
  11. Ms. Shourya Gupta, Topic: "Mechanistic Insights into the Signalling Routes of NO and H S"
  12. Ms. Sayani Mukherjee,Topic: "Defect Engineering on Ceria using [Au (PPh ) I ] for Mimicking Single-Atom Catalysis"
  13. Ms. Chris John,Topic: "Swarm Intelligence Steers Global Minima Search of Clusters Bound on Carbon Nanostructures"
  14. Ms. Shamna M, Topic: "Preparation of HKUST-1@Nanocellulose Composite Membranes for Applications in Gas Separation"
  15. Mr. Sai Vamsi Krishna Isukapalli, Topic: "Journey Through the Realm of Ultrafast Dynamics: Unravelling the Early Events upon Photoexcitation"
  16. Ms. Dhanya S. R, Topic: "Structural Basis for the Long-Term Memory in Mammals"
• November 11, 2020

  • Microstructural Control in Supramolecular Polymers

  • Prof. Subi Jacob George, JNCASR Bangalore, INDIA)
    This lecture described the preliminary efforts of Prof. Subi Jacob George’s research group in constructing, axial organic heterostructures (multi-component supramolecular block co-polymers) via kinetically and thermodynamically controlled Supramolecular Polymerization. Having understood that a synergy between structural and temporal control is important for the advent of supramolecular polymers to be employed as functional adaptive materials, the team acquired spatio-temporal control over the supramolecular polymerization.The talk also focussed on the current work of Prof. George’s research group,that of addressing the next level of complexity with sequence controlled, multi-component supramolecular polymerization. According to Prof. George, the unique multi-component, nanostructures made from semi-conducting monomers are organic analogues of well-studied inorganic heterostructures, and have the potential of being used in light harvesting, active wave-guiding and as nanoscale linear p-n junctions.
• February 03, 2020

  • BioGen Nanomaterials: A journey into the nanoworld of protein-based nanomaterials

  • Prof. Challa Vijaya Kumar, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    Prof. Challa Vijaya Kumar’s research group has been experimenting with biological molecules to build edible nanomaterials and then construct nano devices from these materials. The overarching goal of Prof. Vijaya Kumar’s research team is to replace synthetic polymers with biological materials as sustainable, green and edible nanomaterials.This lecture took the audience through the three distinct focii that have emerged over a decade. One of them being the art of making precisely defined single-protein nanoparticles using models that explain star/planetary formation, and one other centered on the exfoliation of layered materials, such as graphene, as metal-free electrical conductors. In his talk Prof. Challa Vijaya kumar mentioned that edible protein hydrogels, on the nanoscale, were emerging as a general platform for sensors, frequency upconversion, and disposable display materials.
• December 13, 2019

  • One and Two Photon Responsive Photoremovable Protecting Groups and their Biological Applications

  • Prof. N. D. Pradeep Singh,Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
    Prof. N.D. Pradeep Singh in this lecture explained why PhotoRemovable Protecting Groups (PRPGs) have attracted much attention especially in fields like biology, biochemistry and physiology. He pointed out how PRPGs release step is driven by light unlike the conventional protecting groups, where deprotection requires harsh chemical reagents and conditions. He further went on to explain how the temporal and spatial resolution afforded by light along with wavelength control over deprotection gives PRPGs a distinct advantage over conventional protecting groups particularly in the fields like biology, biochemistry and physiology. Prof. Pradeep went into the details of the work his research team has been engaged in, and the exciting results of their work on excited-state intramolecular proton transfer (ESIPT). The lecture also focussed on their most recent work where they have developed wavelength-orthogonal photocleavable monochromophore based on 3-acetyl-9-ethyl-6-methylcarbazole moiety (AEMC), for the sequential release of different carboxylic acids.
• November 29, 2019

  • Design of Organic Scaffolds for Biomedical Applications

  • Dr. K. M. Muraleedharan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
    This talk focussed on Dr. Muraleedharan’s research group’s work on electronic control of redox stability in dihydroquinolines to identify new anti-mycobacterial and anticancer leads, multi-targeting of cancer cells by small molecules, folding preferences and controlled conformational transitions in synthetic peptides, and modular design of drug delivery systems. They have worked on different types of compounds, which include both rigid three-dimensional frameworks as well as relatively flexible ones. This talk highlighted the current work of his research team.
• October25, 2019

  • Probing Mood (Structure) Swings of Non-Canonical Nucleic Acid Motifs

  • Dr. Seergazhi G. Srivatsan, IISER Pune
    Dr. Seergazhi G. Srivatsan, in his talk, explained the limitations of the traditional approach of “one label one technique” in the study of nucleic acids. To get a better understanding of how the structure of nucleic acid complements its function, particularly in cellular environment,he explained how his research team adopted an innovative approach of using conformation-sensitive multifunctional nucleoside analog probes. Dr. Srivatsan went on to explain how they have developed nucleoside analogs equipped with two or more labels (eg., fluorophore, NMR isotope label and X-ray crystallography phasing atom), which serve as common probes for analyzing nucleic acid motifs simultaneously by using a combination of fluorescence, NMR and X-ray crystallography techniques. This talk focussed on the design and synthesis of multifunctional nucleoside probes, and their utility in investigating the structure and ligand binding properties of a non-canonical nucleic acid motif, G-quadruplex, in real time, in 3-dimension and in native cellular environment.
• August 21, 2019

  • Customized Functional Organic Nanomaterials for Catalysis, Drug Delivery and Optoelectronic Applications"

  • Dr. Jayamurugan Govindasamy, IISER Mohali
    Dr. Jayamurugan Govindasamy’s lab continues to study the specific problems faced in the area of catalysis, drug delivery and optoelectronic applications. They have used synthetic chemistry as a tool to develop rationally designed systems for these specific problems using a combination of nanotechnology and synthetic modification. Dr. Jayamurugan divided his talk into 3 parts, in the first part he dealt with the long-standing problem faced in cancer therapy - selective killing of cancer cells, and biocompatibility of the drug and nanocarrier. They have developed a nanocarrier with a functional tri-layer polymeric system that has high biocompatibility and is capable of selective killing of colorectal cancer cells via synthetic lethality approach. In the second part, he presented the catalysis work of his lab and ended the talk with their recent work in the development of novel class of optoelectronic materials.
• July 12, 2019

  • Tertiary Phosphines and Bisphosphines Appended on N-Heterocyclic Moieties: Transition Metal Chemistry and Catalytic Studies

  • Prof. M. S. Balakrishna, IIT Bombay
    Prof. Balakrishna explained why there is continuing interest in designing new types of phosphorus-based ligands and how these ligands show better catalytic activity in homogeneous catalysis. His team had recently reported several pyrazole, imidazole and triazole based mono- and bisphosphines, and studied their coordination chemistry and catalytic applications, which was discussed during this presentation.
• June 05, 2019

  • Computational Methods for Exploring Prebiotic Chemistry, Molecular Aggregation, and Nanocluster Formation

  • Dr. Anoop Ayyappan, IIT Kharagpur
    Dr. Anoop Ayyappan and his team of researchers have developed an automated method for exploring the possible reaction pathways, and also for predicting the geometries of molecular aggregates and atomic clusters. In this presentation, he explained how this method has been extended for the study of emergent complexity in chemical evolution, by studying a critical stepin prebiotic chemistry, the oligomerisation of HCN and HNC to form complex organic molecules. Dr. Ayyappan showed how application of the same automated workflow to build-up homometallic nanoclusters and nanoalloys turned out to be a simple method for modelling nanoclusters and obtaining their global minimum structures.
• May 28, 2019

  • Cavity Catalysis: Controlling Chemical Reactions by Coupling to Vacuum Field

  • Dr. Jino George, IISER Mohali
    Dr. Jino George is working on a new frontier in chemistry – Cavity Catalysis – this is an unconventional way of controlling chemical reactions. In this presentation he describes his team’s first observation of cavity catalysis of a simple ester hydrolysis process by collective vibrational strong coupling (VSC) of selective vibrational bands that are involved in the bond making/breaking process. Dr. George explained why such catalysis is highly sensitive to cavity tuning and exponentially varies with collective coupling strength.
• May06, 2019

  • Can we have a code for single-stranded nucleic acid recognition?

  • Dr.Neel Sarovar Bhavesh, Transcription Regulation group, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB), New Delhi, India
    Regulation of gene expression in eukaryotes is largely through post-transcriptional modifications of RNA. These modifications include splicing, mRNA polyadenylation, 5’ capping and RNA editing.During his talk, Dr. Neel Sarovar Bhavesh explained how RBPs bind RNA through specific RNA binding domains (RBDs) or modules, and that the binding affinities and specificities vary throughout this family of proteins. In nature, the most widely distributed RBD is the RNA recognition motif (RRM), these RRMs possess a remarkably diverse RNA recognition capability. In this talk Dr. Bhavesh also shared his research team’s recent structural studies on RNA recognition by RRMs. Their studies reveal how a single fold is able to recognize different cognate RNAs by virtue of minor but crucial alterations to its binding surface. In addition, delineation of RNA binding specificities of RRMs has provided molecular clues to the progression of debilitating diseases such asmyotonic dystrophy, FALS and malaria.
• April 05, 2019

  • Innovation for a Sustainable World

  • Dr. Samiran Mahapatra, (Director, Unilever R&D Bangalore)
    Dr. Samiran Manapatra talked about the need for more inclusive interactions between scientists and industry to provide sustainable solutions to the problems of the developing world. Dr. Samiran elaborated on the innovative work done at Unilever to provide safe drinking water to millions of Indian households. Unilever, he said, has three very ambitious goals – (i) Help more than a billion people take action to improve their health and well being, (ii) Halve the environmental footprint of Unilever products, and (iii) Enhance the livelihoods of millions of people in their supply chain. Unilever hopes to and is striving to be part of the solution to the environmental, social and economic challenges that people of our country endure.
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• March 18, 2019

  • Series of Talks organised by School of Chemistry

  • Faculty from IISER Bhopal and IIT Gandhinagar participated in this event and presented their current research work to the faculty and students of IISER TVM.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. Alakesh Bisai, IISER Bhopal; Topic: Total Synthesis of Architecturally Intriguing Alkaloids of Biological Relevance
  2. Prof. Sriram Kanvah, IIT Gandhinagar; Topic:D-pi-A Molecular Scaffold: Materials for Organic Electronics and Biological Applications
  3. Mr. Raja Mohan Rao; Topic: Novel strategies for the synthesis of biomolecules and their mimics
  4. Mr. Murali Golla; Topic: Design, synthesis and self-assembly of a few DNA amphiphiles and their applications in cancer therapy and nanotechnology
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International

• July 13, 2022

  • Managing Molecular Excitons in Crystalline Metal-Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Photocatalysis

  • Dr. Pravas Deria, Associate Professor, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Science, CALPS, Southern Illinois University
    Dr. Deria explained how crystalline metal−organic frameworks (MOFs) can be great candidate materials for photocatalytic developments. Much like the membrane-bound (protein-encased) biological photosynthetic ensembles, framework-assembled chromophoric linkers can function as synthetic light-harvesting complexes (LHCs). For efficient photocatalysts, however, absorbed light energy (in the form of molecular exciton) must be delivered to the catalytic sites or the substrate without displacing any molecule. Note that homogeneous photocatalysis is driven by the diffusion of the excited photosensitizer transporting the energy. Therefore, in these modular solid materials, we need to understand and sort out tools to manage the exciton transport (aka energy transfer), and their splitting process. A picosecond scale exciton hopping, and sub-nanosecond scale charge transfer can provide a basic platform to build out porous heterogeneous photocatalysts that can function in ambient conditions without worrying about triplet-mediated reactive oxygens and other relevant challenges. Both of these features can be improved in systems with spatially dispersed excitons. By manipulating interchromophoric interaction and installing complementary species with the appropriate ground and excited-state potentials, Dr. Deria showed that such key photophysical processes can be managed.
• December 12, 2019

  • Ion-Pairing Assemblies and Materials of Charged Pi-Electronic Systems

  • Prof. Hiromitsu Maeda, Ritsumeikan University, JAPAN
    In this lecture Prof. Hiromitsu Maeda focussed on electrostatic and other non-covalent interactions and also explained the advantages of using electrostatic interactions. Prof. Maeda demonstrated how an ordered arrangement of p-electronic species is crucial for the fabrication of functional organic materials such as organic electronic devices including field-effect transistors, light-emitting diodes, and photovoltaic cells. Prof. Maeda further explained how synergetic uses of electrostatic interactions and other non-covalent interactions, including p–p stacking, is very important for the alignment of p-electronic charged species (cations and anions) and the formation of dimension-controlled assemblies including fiber and sheet solid materials, supramolecular gels, and liquid crystals.
• October 28, 2019

  • Carbon Nanomaterials in Light Energy Harvesting

  • Prof. Francis D'Souza, University of North Texas
    This lecture by Prof. Francis D’Souza, featured their latest research studies on low-cost innovative nanotechnologies for energy harvesting and storage. It covered 3 topics - (i) design concepts and syntheses of multi-modular donor-acceptor conjugates, (ii) broad-band light capture, and charge stabilization producing high-energy charge separated states in engineered donor-acceptor systems, and (iii) light-to-electricity using the concept of photoelectrochemistry, and light-to-fuel, especially liquid fuel, producing schemes and examples using functional photosensitizer-nanocarbon materials.
• September 09, 2019

  • Lighting up sugars and other adventures with boron pyrrole

  • Prof. Penny Brothers, Research School of Chemistry, Australian National University, ACT 2601, Australia
    Prof. Penny Brothers has been studying the coordination of boron with a range of ligands from the tetrapyrrole family and has observed unusual chemistry for both boron and the ligand. In this lecture he explained how the research group has used their experience in manipulating the chemistry of boron in pyrrole ligands to investigate new applications of the highly fluorescent BODIPY. Prof. Penny also explained how they have explored the direct connection of O-BODIPY to carbohydrates through B-O-C links, and have produced examples of BODIPY saccharide complexes, and also how they have incorporated BODIPY into a cobalt complex capable photocatalytic hydrogen production.ligands
• July 30, 2019

  • Tunable Luminescence from Liquid-crystalline Au(I) Complexes

  • Prof. Osamu Tsutsumi, (Department of Applied Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University
    This talk on luminescent materials and their application in light emitting devices by Prof. Osamu Tsutsumi focussed on a phenomenon called aggregation-induced emission (AIE). It has been observed that organic molecules generally have a much-reduced photoluminescence intensity in concentrated solutions or in condensed state due to concentration quenching or aggregation-caused quenching. Some organic molecules, owing to their molecular structure and the structure of their molecular aggregates tend to show high photoluminescence in condensed phase as a result of AIE. Prof. Tsutsumi’s lab has developed liquid-crystalline (LC) luminophores with the AIE property (AIEgen). This lecture reported the luminescent behaviour of LC AIEgen in both solid and LC phases.
• July 30, 2019

  • Liquid Crystals with Helically Twisted Molecular Orientation and their Potential Photonic Applications.

  • Dr. Kyohei Hisano, Department of Applied Chemistry, Ritsumeikan University
    Dr. Kyohei Hisano’s research team studies Liquid crystals (LCs)and circularly polarized luminescence (CPL). In this presentation he talks about the remarkable photonic property (luminescence, absorption, reflection, diffraction, transmission) of materials with periodically distributed refractive index variation. Dr. Hisano further explained how these state-of-the-art photonic applications play a crucial role in next-generation devices, eg. 3D imaging, organic light emitting display, super-resolution microscopy, optical sensing, polarization detecting. His research team has fabricated LC elastomers by introducing a polymer network into the LC. LC elastomers have both the orientational order of liquid crystals and the elastic properties of polymer networks, opening up ways for designing optical sensing systems.
• July 26, 2019

  • Molecules, Materials, and Machine Learning for Catalysis and Energy Storage

  • Dr. Rajeev Surendran Assary, Argonne National Laboratory
    Dr. Rajeev Surendran Assary ‘s research has shown that Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods have a huge role to play in the development of new materials and molecules that have the potential to be used in drugs, battery, catalysis, thin films, value-added chemicals and so on. In this talk, Dr. Assary explained their recent ML initiatives and efforts at addressing future development of molecules and materials for redox flow battery concepts and biomass conversion catalysis. He also discussed automated generation of thousands of scientific data points of molecules and materials for ML, and popular toolkits used for ML and AI by material scientists. Dr. Assary also made a mention of his team’s short-term plan of including Reinforcement Learning (RL) for accelerated and automated materials discovery efforts.
• July 24, 2019

  • The Secret of Health is in Gene Expression: Strategies to Regulate Gene Expression to induce Tissue Repair and to Treat Cancer

  • Dr.Oommen P. Varghese, Associate Professor, Translational Chemical Biology Group, Department of Chemistry, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden
    Genes regulate all cellular processes, therefore, novel strategies that regulate gene expression will allow us to understand and modulate cellular processes. In this meeting, Dr. Oommen Varghese explained how delivering therapeutic proteins such as recombinant human bone morphogenetic protein-2 (rhBMP-2)1-2 could promote stem cell differentiation towards bone, or gene silencing molecules such as short interfering RNA (siRNA) 3 and microRNA (miRNA) could target cancer cells and inhibit their proliferation. To deliver these molecules they exploited hyaluronic acid (HA), a natural polymer present in the space between cells known as the ‘Extracellular Matrix’ that gets chemically modified and forms hydrogels or self-assembled nanocarriers. These HA-based nanocarriers, Dr. Oommen explained, present the first non-cationic delivery system that is stabilized by Van der Waals interactions between the biologics and HA. Since HA is known to target the cellsurface CD44 receptors, expressed in cancer stem cells and adult stem cells, it represents a novel drug delivery strategy for translational medicine.
• July 24, 2019

  • Glycosaminoglycans: A formidable biomaterial for nanomedicine, tissue engineering and modulating the immune response

  • Dr.Oommen P. Oommen, Assistant Professor, Bioengineering and Nanomedicine Lab, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Finland
    Cells communicate, transport biologics and regulate cellular processes through the Extracellular Matrix or ECM polymers present at the interphase between the cells. One such group of ECM polymers are glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) (e.g. hyaluronic acid, chondroitin sulfate, heparin, dermatan sulfate, etc). They are the hydrating molecules that keep the cells intact in tissues and regulate cellular processes.Dr. Oommen’s lab has exploited the intrinsic biological properties of these polymers for engineering immunomodulatory nano materials and bulk hydrogels following a supramolecular synthetic strategy. The nano materials engineered using these ECM polymers mitigate the toxic side effect of chemotherapy. Recently, Dr. Oommen’s research group discovered that nano particles designed using specific ECM polymers were capable of penetrating the impermeable blood-brain barrier and could effectively deliver cytotoxic drugs and biologics to the intact brain, opening a plethora of opportunity for treating diseases of the central nervous system. During this meeting Dr.Oommen presented the latest discoveries from his lab, that of discovering the unique property of hyaluronic acid, (the only non-sulfated glycosaminoglycan present in ECM), to deliver siRNA across cellular barrier resulting in the development of the first anionic transfection method for cancer cells and stem cells that express the HA-receptor CD44. His team has successfully engineered ECM mimetic 3D scaffolds and demonstrated its utility in the regeneration of bone and cardiac tissue.
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• March 13, 2019

  • Materials of Low Valent Aluminium and Silicon

  • Prof. H.W. Roesky, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Tammannnstr, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
    Prof. Roesky research interests include Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Catalysis and MOCVD. This talk featured materials of low valent Aluminium and its potential applications in aluminium-based material chemistry.
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• December 10, 2018

  • Catalytic Cross-Couplings from C-H Bonds to Modifications of P & N Ligands

  • Prof. Pierre H. Dixneuf, (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes Organométalliques, Matériaux et Catalyse; Centre for Catalysis and Green Chemistry, UMR 6226 CNRS-UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES, Campus de Beaulieu – Batiment, France
    This lecture by Prof. Pierre Dixneuf featured new persceptives of C-H bond functionalisation. He presented the following in his talk
    1. Catalytic sp 2 C-H bond activation in water solvent
    2. Catalytic annulation of heterocycles with alkynes in water
    3. Ruthenium-catalyzed C-H bond alkylations of arylphosphine oxides with alkenes
    4. C(sp 3)-H bond amination of cycloalkanes
    5. C(sp 3)-H bond functionalization of alkyl groups linked to heterocycles

Training Programs

• 15-17 July 2022

  • Three-Day Teachers' Training Program at IISER Thiruvananthapuram

  • IISER Thiruvananthapuram jointly with the Collegiate Education Department, Government of Kerala is organized a three-day Teachers Training Program at IISER campus during 15-17 July 2022. About 250 teachers across Kerala from the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics participate in the training workshop. This program covers diverse topics in all the science subjects and eminent speakers across the country will be handling different sessions. This program aims to promote the skills required by the teachers in the classroom to deliver the most effective and highest standard of teaching possible to their students.
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• July 15-17, 2022

  • Teachers' Training Program

  • IISER TVM as part of it academic outreach activities conducted a Teachers’ Training Program for school and college teachers jointly with the Collegiate Education Department, Government of Kerala. Faculty from the School of Chemistry actively participated in the Training program and introduced teachers to new resources, tools and methods of teaching chemistry.

Symposium

National

• April 08-10, 2022

  • Second Frontier Symposium in Chemistry FS-CHM

  • The second edition of the FS-CHM was held at IISER TVM campus from April 08, 2022 to April 11, 2022. The three-day symposium highlighted recent developments in Chemistry and featured several invited talks by subject matter specialists from various national institutes. Prof. J. N. Moorthy, Director IISER TVM, in his inaugural address welcomed the speakers and said he looked forward to an intellectually stimulating weekend. The FS-CHM comprised of twenty-five lecture and 3 poster sessions.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. G.U. Kulkarni – Topic: Au Non-cubic phases
  2. Prof. G.K. Lahiri – Topic: Electronic structure and reactivity of non-innocently behaving ligand derived systems
  3. Prof.Kavirayani Prasad – Topic: An unexpected entry into the realm of alkaloids: Efforts towards the total synthesis of Strychnine
  4. Prof.AnkonaDatta – Topic: Chemical tools for tracking autophagy
  5. Prof.BalajiJagirdar – Topic: Selective hydrogenation of terminal alkynes and approaches towards reversible hydrogen state
  6. Prof.Santanu Bhattacharya – Topic: Covalent organic square lattice building blocks towards the energy storage applications
  7. Prof.NarahariSastry – On the manifestations of supramolecular aggregation and intermolecular interactions
  8. Prof.Subi George – Topic: Molecular programming at the higher hierarchical levels of supramolecular polymerization
  9. Prof. T. Pradeep – Topic: Atom dynamics in nanoparticles
  10. Prof.PinakiTalukdar – Topic: Development of biomimetic channels for transmembrane ion and water transport
  11. Prof.Arindam Chowdhury – Topic: Spatiotemporally correlated optical instabilities in perovskite micro-crystals
  12. Prof. Santosh Gharpure – Topic: Functional group-based approach to the synthesis of Oxa and Aza- cycles.
  13. Prof. K. C. Kumara Swamy – Topic: Some new reactions of allenes and ynamides.
  14. Prof.Pradyut Ghosh – Topic: Functional interlocked molecules.
  15. Prof.Akhila Kumar Sahoo – Topic: Multiple C-H annulations of arenes.
  16. Prof.ParthasarathiDastidar – Topic: A (bumpy) ride through soft-worls: From serendipitous entry to developing (bio) materials
  17. Prof. B. L. V. Prasad – Topic: The role of ligand characteristics in modulating the size, size distribution, and alloy formation in metal nanoparticle systems via digestive ripening process.
  18. Prof. C. Subramaniam – Topic: ‘Green-heat” generation using porous nanostructured hard carbons: From science to applications.
  19. Prof.VivekPolshettiwar – Topic: Forced plasmon mediated CO2 hydrogenation and organic transformation using solar energy.
  20. Prof. S. G. Srinivatsan – Topic: Chemo-enzymatic technology to visualize RNA and displaying functional small molecules on gene targets.
  21. Prof.AlakeshBisai – Topic: Total synthesis of architecturally intriguing natural products via inspired oxidative strategies.
  22. Dr. R. S. swathi – Topic: A journey toward the heaven of chemical fidelity of intermolecular force fields.
  23. Dr.Sukhendumandal – Topic: Atom-precise metal nanocluster: Ligand-induced structural transformation and single atom catalysis.
  24. Dr. Ramesh Rasappan – Topic: Nickel mediated cross-coupling reactions: Construction of C-C and C-Si bonds.
  25. Prof. Mahesh Hariharan – Topic: Greek Cross (+) aggregate.
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• January 17-18, 2020

  • The 1st Frontier Symposium in Chemistry

  • The Frontier Symposium included a series of stimulating talks by speakers from across the globe, covering a number of topics from a wide array of specialized fields.

  International Speakers

  1. Dr. Jonathan Burton, University of Oxford, UK; Topic: Oxonium Ions, Rearrangements and Natural Products
  2. Prof. Bernd Engels, Universität Würzburg, Germany; Topic: Simulation of Photo-Induced Processes at Organic-Organic Interfaces
  3. Prof. Peter Comba, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Topic: New Reaction Channels with Non-heme Iron Oxidation Catalysts
  4. Prof. Hiroshi Kitagawa, Kyoto University, Japan; Topic: Density-of-States Engineering for New Nano-Materials
  5. Prof. Jacques Desbrierés, University of Pau and Pays de l’Adour, France; Topic: Chemical Modification of Polysaccharides: Influence of Process and Reaction Conditions on Structure and Properties
  6. Prof. Edwin Yeow, NTU Singapore; Topic: Hard Truths about Soft Matter

  National Speakers

  1. Prof. Amitava Patra, IACS Kolkata; Topic: Relaxation Dynamics of Nanomaterials for Efficient Light Harvesting Systems
  2. Prof. T. Govindaraju, JNCASR Bengaluru; Topic: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Strategies for Multifactorial Alzheimer’s Disease
  3. Prof. K. V. Radhakrishnan, NIIST Trivandrum; Topic: Hymn of Herbs: Searching for Panaceas from Western Ghats
  4. Prof. Irishi N. N. Namboothiri, IIT Bombay; Topic: Synthesis of Heterocycles and Carbocycles via Hauser-Kraus Annulation of Phthalides with Nitroalkenes and Other Electron Deficient Alkenes
  5. Dr. C H Suresh, NIIST Trivandrum; Topic: Molecular Electrostatic Potential Analysis of Noncovalent Interactions
  6. Prof. Anindya Datta, IIT Bombay; Topic: From Fluorogens to Fluorophores by Suppression of Non-radiative Deactivation Pathways Through Aggregation, Complexation and Crystallization
  7. Prof. Rajeev Gupta, University of Delhi; Topic: Molecular Assemblies and Coordination Polymers Offering Hydrogen Bonding Cavities: Applications in Sensing and Catalysis
  8. Prof. H. Ila, JNCASR Bengaluru; Topic: New Strategies for Heterocycle Synthesis
  9. Prof. K. R. Prabhu, IISc Bengaluru; Topic: Directed C-H bond functionalization and its Applications in Organic Synthesis
  10. Prof. D. D. Sarma , IISc Bengaluru; Topic: Organic-inorganic Hybrid Perovskites: A Wonder Material
  11. Prof. Swagata Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur; Topic: The Role of Antioxidants on the Oxidative Damage of Proteins
  12. Prof. Tapas Kumar Maji, JNCASR Bengaluru; Topic: Oligo-(p-phenyleneethynylenes) (OPEs): Transition from Molecules to Self-Assembled Organic and Metal-Organic Hybrid Materials
  13. Dr. Nitin .T. Patil, IISER Bhopal; Topic: Accessing Fluorophores via Metal-Mediated Intramolecular Amino- Functionalization of Alkynes
  14. Dr. Kalyanasis Sahu, IIT Guwahati; Topic: Confusing Photophysics of H-bonded Donor-Acceptor: Charge Transfer vs Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
  15. Dr. Sabuj Kundu, IIT Kanpur; Topic: Utilization of Methanol as a C1 Building Block
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• November 09, 2019

  • Half-day Symposium

  • Scientists from IIT Kanpur, IISER Tirupati, IISc Bangalore and the CSIR -National Chemical Laboratory, Pune participated in this symposium.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. Kavirayani R. Prasad, IISc Bengaluru; Topic: Creation of complexity from Chiral Pool: Targeted and diverted total synthesis of natural products
  2. Dr. Nisanth N. Nair, IIT Kanpur; Topic: Probing the Mechanisms of Antibiotic Resistance through Computer Simulations
  3. Prof. Vijayamohanan K Pillai, IISER Tirupati; Topic: Usefulness of Periodic Table for the Design of Advanced Materials
  4. Dr. Sakya S. Sen, CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory, Pune; Topic: Carbene and Silylene in Small Molecule Activation
  5. Dr. D. H. Dethe, IIT Kanpur; Topic: Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Callistrilones and Strongylophorines
  6. Dr. Pradyut Ghosh (IACS, Kolkata), Topic:Bis-Heteroleptic Ruthenium (II) Complexes as Probes for Phosphates
• September 21, 2019

  • Half-day Symposium – Chemistry Seminar Series

  • Scientists from IISER Mohali, University of Hyderabad, IIT Madras, IIT Bombay, TIFR and JNCASR Bangalore attended the seminar and delivered lectures in their respective fields of expertise.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. B. D. Ramachary, School of Chemistry, University of Hyderabad; Topic: Lawsone: A Versatile Synthon in Organocatalytic Asymmetric Reaction
  2. Dr. S. S. V. Ramasastry, Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Mohali; Topic: Metal-Free Approaches for the Construction of Privileged Scaffolds
  3. Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh, Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras; Topic: Recent advances in metal diborane chemistry: Isolation of classical [B2H5]
  4. Prof. Ruchi Anand, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay; Topic: Strategies to Combat Drug Resistance
  5. Dr. Anukul Jana, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Hyderabad; Topic: Convenient Access to Pyrrolinium Cations: A Synthon for Carbon Based Radicals
  6. Prof. Swapan K. Pati, Theoretical Sciences Unit, School of Advanced Materials, JNCASR Bangalore; Topic: Computational Modelling of Thermoelectricity and Carrier Mobility in a few Semiconductors.
• April 12, 2019

  • One-day National Symposium

  • Strategies towards Bio-Inspired Materials
    Scientists from premier research institutes in the country – IISER Kolkata, IACS Kolkata, University of Hyderabad, NISER Bhubaneshwar and IISER Bhopal presented their research findings in this one-day national symposium

  Speakers

  1. Prof. Sayam Sen Gupta, IISER Kolkata; Topic: Developing Fe-complexes as catalysts for Biomimetic Oxidation of Unactivated Alkyl C-H bonds
  2. Prof. Tapan K Paine, IACS Kolkata; Topic: Biomimetic Approaches to Selective Catalytic Oxidations by Nonheme Iron Complexes
  3. Prof. Pradeepta K. Panda, University of Hyderabad; Topic: Porphycene – An 18 TT Isomeric Porphyrin Dye and its Expanded Analogues
  4. Prof. A Srinivasan, NISER Bhubaneshwar; Topic: Porphyrinoids with Polycyclic Aromatic Units
  5. Prof. Jeyaraman Sankar, IISER Bhopal; Topic: Functionalization and Innocence of Corroles
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• March 22, 2019(Departmental day)

  • Departmental day organised by the School of Chemistry, IISER TVM

  • The following faculty from the School of Chemistry presented their work at this symposium.

  Speakers

  1. Dr. Gokulnath Sabapathi,Topic: Synthesis, optical and redox properties of Carbazole-based Macrocyclic systems
  2. Dr. Muthu Krishnan, Topic: Electrocatalysis for O2-reduction - A method for mechanistic analysis on non-precious metal catalysts
  3. Dr. Rajender Goretti, Topic: Towards the total synthesis of polyketide macrocycles
  4. Dr. Ramesh Rasappan,Topic: Iron and Nickel-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions
  5. Dr. Sivaranjana Reddy,Topic: New insights into molecular photophysical processes
  6. Dr. Subrata Kundu,Topic: Insights into the Reactivity of Nitrite Anion at Transition Metal sites
  7. Dr. Alagiri Kaliyamoorthy,Topic: N-Heterocyclic Carbene as Bronsted Base Catalyst for the Amination and Alcoholysis Reactions & Synthesis of various Acylating Agents directly from Carboxylic Acids

International

• July 28, 2022

  • One-day International Symposium on Functional Nanoscale Materials

  • This one-day seminar organized by the School of Chemistry IISER TVM received support from the Royal Society of Chemistry and Anarghya InnoTech. The symposium began with introductory remarks from Prof. J. N. Moorthy, Director IISER TVM and a welcome address by Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, Head of the Department, School of Chemistry, IISER TVM. The one-day symposium consisted of 3 sessions with 9 lectures from experts spread across India, Austria, Germany, Spain, USA and the Managing Editor, Nanoscale, RSC. The symposium ended with a vote of thanks by Dr. Reji Varghese, Associate Professor, IISER TVM.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. J. N. Moorthy, IISER TVM
  2. Prof. David Bonifazi, University of Vienna, Austria
  3. Prof. S. Thayumanavan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  4. Prof. Luis Sanchez, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
  5. Prof. Suhrit Ghosh, IACS, India
  6. Dr. Heather Montgomery, Managing Editor, Nanoscale, RSC
  7. Prof. Gustavo Fernandez, University of Munster, Germany
  8. Prof. Dibyendu Das, IISER Kolkata, India
  9. Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, IISER TVM
• March 06, 2019

  • One-Day Symposium on Functional Supramolecular Chemistry

  • The participants at this one-day symposium included faculty from renowned research institutes from India, Spain, The Netherlands, and Germany and an official from the Royal Society of Chemistry. The symposium focused on recent developments in the area of functional supramolecular chemistry and provided a forum for discussion and exchange of ideas as well as promoted inter-discipline collaborations. This event was part funded by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. Sánchez,Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain; Topic: Thermodynamics, kinetics and pathway complexity in supramolecular polymers
  2. Prof. S. Ramakrishnan, Indian Institute of Science; Topic: India Immiscibility-driven Folding of Synthetic Polymers – Accessing sub10 nm scale microphase separation
  3. Prof. Kieltyka, Leiden University, The Netherlands; Topic: Squaramide-based supramolecular materials: From self-assembly to biological application
  4. Prof. Fernández, University of Munster, Germany; Topic: Supramolecular Polymerization of hydrogen-bonded and metalcontaining pi-conjugated systems
  5. Prof. K. George Thomas, IISER Thiruvananthapuram; Topic: Emergence of Chiroptical Properties in Molecular Assemblies Mr. Ershad Abubacker, Royal Society of Chemistry; Topic: Publishing and Outreach: Activities of Royal Society of Chemistry in India
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• December 17, 2018

  • International Symposium on Supramolecular Functional Nanomaterials

  • The International Symposium included a series of five stimulating talks by speakers from China, USA, Germany and India.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. Myongsoo Lee, Jilin University, CHINA; Topic: Supramolecular Machines for Life-inspired Systems
  2. Prof. S. Thayumanavan, University of Massachusetts, USA; Topic: Responsive Supramolecular Assemblies
  3. Prof. Bart Jan Ravoo, University of Münster, GERMANY; Topic: Responsive soft materials made by self-assembly of cyclodextrins
  4. Prof. Gustavo Fernandez, University of Münster, GERMANY; Topic: Self-Assembled Structures of BODIPY Dyes: Potential Biomedical Applications
  5. Speaker: Prof. A. Ajayaghosh, NIIST, INDIA; Topic: TBD

Colloquium

National

• March 25, 2019 (Department Colloquium)

  • What Controls Asymmetric Catalysis - Steric Repulsion or Weak Noncovalent Interactions?

  • Prof. Raghavan B. Sunoj, IIT Bombay
    The key objective of Prof. Raghavan Sunoj’s research group is to gain molecular insights on the factors responsible for stereo selectivity and to exploit such insights towards ‘in silico’ design of novel asymmetric catalysts. Prof Sunoj’s lab employs ab initio as well as DFT methods to gain insights into carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom bond-forming reactions of immediate practical significance. This lecture by Prof. Sunoj was designed to cater to a broad and diverse group of audience and therefore focussed on chemical insights rather than technical details. The presentation dealt with a few contemporary themes in the domain of asymmetric multi-catalytic reactions and interesting interpretations/rationalizations of experimental observations.The talk also provided meaningful guidelines for rational improvements in the design of asymmetric catalysts.
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• March 15, 2019

  • Organocatalysis Using N-Heterocyclic Carbenes (NHCs)

  • Dr. A T Biju (Organic Chemistry Division, CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum, Kerala)
    Dr. Biju’s lab is involved in the study of various catalytic methods. This presentation focussed on NHC catalysis where they have demonstrated for the first time, the NHC-catalyzed umpolung of imines for the synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted indoles, functionalized quinolines and dihydroquinoxalines. Further, Dr. Biju went on to explain the enantioselective NHC-catalyzed annulation reactions for the synthesis of dihydropyranones, dihydropyridinones, cyclopentenes, pyrazoles, spirocyclohexadienones, tricyclic lactones, tetracyclic indoles etc., where NHC-bound α,β-unsaturated acylazoliums are the key intermediates.
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• January 29, 2019

  • A decade plus of metal phosphate chemistry: What have we learnt?

  • Dr. Ramaswamy Murugavel, IIT Bombay
    Dr. Ramaswamy Murugavel’s research group has been employing an organic-soluble organophosphate as the building block to assemble polyhedral molecules that resemble many of the secondary building units (SBUs) of zeolite materials. This presentation explained in detail how reaction of this phosphate with a divalent metal such as Zn 2+ in a donor solvent (L) leads to the isolation of tetranuclear metal phosphates [(ArO)PO 3 Zn(L)] whose inorganic core resembles the zeolitic D4R SBU. Dr. Murugavel, in this lecture, disclosed how his lab has also unravelled that it is possible to isolate even larger SBUs through small variations in the reaction conditions. Thus, previously unknown discrete clusters with D6R and D8R SBU like cores (Zn 6 O 18 P 6 and Zn 8 O 24 P 8 cores, respectively) have been isolated by switching the solvent from methanol to acetonitrile and the co-ligand from DMSO to either 4-formylpyridine or 4-cyanopyridine. These compounds find application as molecular magnets, and in phosphorous based perovskites.
• January 21, 2019

  • Singlet Exciton Fission in Conjugated Organic Molecules

  • Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta, TIFR, Department of Chemical Sciences, School of Natural Sciences
    There has been considerable change in photovoltaics in the last decade or so, with organic photovoltaics becoming the preferred choice especially due to their lower processing costs and the large choice of available photoactive material, as opposed to silicon-based solar cells. Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta, in this presentation, described their research interest in understanding the exciton dynamics in variety of conjugated polymers that form the material basis for organic solar cells. He went on to explain Singlet Fission and the experiments conducted in his lab that have helped identify mechanisms of singlet fission in three classes of chromophores: carotenoids, diketopyrrolopyrroles and pentancenes.
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• November 09, 2018

  • Electron Transfer at the Interface of Aromatic and Antiaromatic Macrocycles

  • Prof. V. G. Anand, Department of Chemistry, IISER Pune
    This lecture by Prof. Anand focussed on how antiaromatic systems differ significantly in their reactivity and electronic properties compared to aromatic molecules and how π-extended antiaromatic macrocycles after undergoing reversible redox reactions switch between two different states of conjugation. In between these two states of conjugated macrocycles, there also exists the possibility of (4n+1)π and (4n+3)π states, which would ideally belong to the neutral radical species. Such species were not known until the synthesis of a 25π pentathiophene macrocycle. In this talk, Prof. Anand discussed the synthesis, and the reversible redox properties of few antiaromatic macrocycle, to highlight the electron transfer assisted structural transformations in an antiaromatic macrocycle.

International

• March 11, 2019 ( Department Colloquium)

  • Sensors that Sense in Sensible Ways

  • Prof. Edwin Yeow
    Prof. Edwin Yeow and his research team combine single molecule detection and microscopy techniques to understand fundamental and important processes that occur in materials science and biological chemistry and use this knowledge to create real-world applications.
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• February 15, 2019

  • Harnessing molecular recognition for specific RNA modification and capture

  • Dr. Jennifer M. Heemstra (Emory University)
    In this presentation Dr. Heemstra reported that in her lab nucleic acids – DNA and RNA are used for applications in biosensing and biomolecular imaging. She talked about how in one project, they had developed RNA sequences that were capable of recognizing specific small molecule fluorophores, and promoting covalent self-labelling with these fluorophores. These self-labelling ribosomes could be used for imaging of RNA in living cells. They had also demonstrated selective enrichment of inosine-containing RNAs using EndoV for non-covalent capture, which they anticipate will enable the identification of new sites of A-to-I editing in cells.
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• December 12, 2018

  • Investigation of Excimer Formation of Phosphorescent Cyclometalated Platinum (II) Complexes

  • Prof. Yagi Shigeyuki, Osaka Prefecture University, JAPAN
    This symposium was conducted as part of the Decennial celebration of IISER TVM

Camps and Workshops

• Sep 27- Oct 01, 2021

  • Karyashala Online Workshop in Structural Methods

  • The School of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram, under the accelerated Vigyan scheme from SERB conducted Karyashala, an intense, high-end workshop training for scientific instruments such as Electron microscopes, NMR spectrometers, X-ray diffractometers and different mass instruments (https://workshop.iisertvm.ac.in/karyashala/). Post-graduate students of Chemistry found the workshop very valuable as it gave them an opportunity to gain a firm theoretical basis, and obtain practical experience in the aforementioned high-end techniques, data processing, spectral analysis and interpretation. This year the Karyashala was conducted in online mode due to the prevailing pandemic situation.
    
    Prof. J. N. Moorthy inaugurated the Karyashala on September 27, 2021. This was followed by Lecture and video sessions every day, for entire duration of the Karyashala. Experienced faculty members from the Chemistry department of IISER TVM carried through the program to its completion. The Karyashala was officially closed on October 01, 2021, with the closing remarks offered by Prof. Mahesh Hariharan, HoD, School of Chemistry, IISER TVM.

  Monday, September 27, 2021 - NMR - Day 1

  Lecture : Fundamentals of NMR, Signal generation, Description of pulse and Fourier transform NMR

  
  

  Tuesday, September 28, 2021 - NMR - Day 2

  Lecture : NMR spectral analysis of 1D and 2D NMR.

  Lecture : Principle & applications of essential techniques in Chemistry laboratory (TGA, DSC, FT-IR, CD, CV etc.)

  
  

  Wednesday, September 29, 2021 - Electron Microscopes (TEM and SEM)

  Lecture : Fundamentals of TEM.

  Lecture : Fundamentals of SEM.

  
  

  Thursday, September 30, 2021 - X-Ray Diffraction

  Lecture : Crystallographic symmetry and crystal systems, fundamentals of X-Ray diffraction.

  Lecture : Modelling of crystal structure (without disorder) and CIF file preparation

  
  

  Friday, October 01, 2021 - Mass Spectrometry (HRMS-ESI, MALDI, LRMS, GC-MS)

  Lecture : Principle and Type of Mass Spectrometry

  Lecture : Fragmentation and Spectral Analysis including EI and CI ionization.

  Lecture : Principle of ESI and MALDI including APCI and APPI
• Sep 03, 2021

  • Inauguration: 500mhz Solid-State NMR

  • The 500MHz Bruker solid-state NMR, funded by DST-FIST was installed in the CIF and inaugurated by Prof. J. N. Moorthy, Director, IISER TVM. The 500 MHz has the latest console with three RF channels, capable of double and triple resonance solid-state NMR experiments. The probes can be tuned to multiple heteronuclei, including 13C,15N,31P, 29Si, 51V etc.
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• October 16, 2020

  • Wiley Author Workshop

  • This Author Workshop was conducted by Dr. Partha Pal and Dr. Khusbu Khushwaha (Associate editors – Chemistry). Participants at this workshop interacted with Wiley editors and learnt more about publication ethics, manuscript writing and the role of an editor in academic publishing.
• January 10-12, 2020

  • Salters’ Camp

  • The Salters’ Institute is an educational charity that engages with children and young adults to inspire them to pursue a career in chemistry and related sciences. Dr. Usha Titus IAS, Principal Secretary, Higher Education Department, Govt. of Kerala, and Ms. Divya Mysore, Program Executive, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) were present at the inaugural event of the camp.
    The 3-day residential camp was jointly organized by IISER TVM, Royal Society of Chemistry, India, and the Salters’ Institute UK, for about 70 school students. This camp provided class IX students from schools in Thiruvananthapuram, Kollam and Pathanamthita, an opportunity to explore practical chemistry. By the end of three days, it was evident that the camp had succeeded in igniting an interest in chemistry in some of the students, allowing them to consider chemistry as a preferred branch of study for higher education and specialization.
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• May 16-19, 2019

  • CRYSTAL (Crafting young Scientists of Tomorrow) Science orientation camp

  • The School of Chemistry organised a four-day residential Science Orientation Camp (CRYSTAL) for school children as part of the decennial celebrations of IISER TVM. There were talks by IISER Faculty and scientists from KSCSTE, the lab sessions were hosted by IISER students and Ph.D. scholars. Children enthusiastically participated in all the events, lecture and practical sessions that were hosted as part of the camp and were excited about the scope and array of choices in science education and research.
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• December 07, 2018

  • Innovations in Frontier Areas of Chemistry

  • A One-day workshop was organised at IISER TVM on recent innovations in frontier areas of Chemistry and included presentations by IISER TVM faculty.

  Speakers

  1. Prof. K. George Thomas
  2. Prof. K. M. Sureshan
  3. Dr. V. Sivaranjana Reddy
  4. Dr. Ajay Venugopal
• November 08, 2018

  • One-day Workshop

  • This One-day workshop was organised at IISER TVM as part of the Decennial celebrations of the Institute. The Speakers at this event included faculty from the School of Chemistry

  Speakers

  1. Dr. Rajendar Goreti
  2. Dr. R S Swathi
  3. Dr. Subrata Kundu

Conferences

International

• 28 July 2022

  • One-Day International Conference on Functional Nanoscale Materials

  • School of Chemistry, IISER Thiruvananthapuram organized a One-Day International Conference on Functional Nanoscale Materials on 28th July 2022 at IISER campus.
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