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Grant-In-Aid Projects:
Title: Heterocyclic Compounds through Borrowing Hydrogen Catalysis
Role: PI; Duration: June 2019 - June 2022; Agency: SERB (Rated as EXCELLENT)
Title: Fe-based cooperative pincer complexes: An “Ultimate Green” paradigm to sustainable catalysis
Role: PI; Duration: Aug 2014 - Aug 2017; Agency: DST-SERB (Rated as EXCELLENT)
Title: A New, Effective Catalytic System for Selective Hydrogenation of Carboxylic Acid Derivatives: An Environmentally Benign Approach
Role: PI; Duration: Feb 2016 - Feb 2019; Agency: SERB (Rated as EXCELLENT)
Industry-Sponsored Projects:
Title: Computational and synthetic studies on new internal and external donors in Ziegler-Natta heterogeneous catalysts
Role: Co-PI; Duration: Oct 2015 - Apr 2017; Agency: Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai.
Title: Exploratory research on the development of homogeneous catalysts for copolymerization of CO2 with propylene oxide
Role: PI; Duration: Feb 2016 - Aug 2017; Agency: Expanded Polymer Pvt Ltd, Mumbai.
Title: Development of catalyst and process for direct synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from CO2 and methanol
Role: Co-member; Duration: Apr 2015 - May 2017; Agency: Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai.
Title: Improved and cost-effective synthesis of a donor molecule and its derivative in Ziegler-Natta olefin polymerization catalysis
Role: PI; Duration: Jun 2017 – Jun 2018; Agency: Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai.
Title: Synthetic investigations and computational studies into new Donors in Ziegler-Natta Olefin polymerization catalysis
Role: PI; Duration: Jan 2018 – Jan 2019; Agency: Reliance Industries Ltd, Mumbai.
Industrial Process & Commercialization:
Our research, in collaboration with the R&D team of Reliance Industries Limited, has primarily focused on the design and development of electron donors in Ziegler-Natta (Z-N) polymerization catalysis, leading to the development of process and product. We developed a novel, green, and innovative process by which the electron-donor molecule can be synthesized on a bulk scale in India. These unprecedented donor molecules showed an extraordinary self-limiting property and excellent hydrogen response property when employed in Z-N catalysis. Our contribution to chemical product development is of high impact, leading to developed molecules, with 'Safety' as an outlook. Four provisional patent applications have been filled as a co-lead inventor together with the Reliance Industries Limited team.
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