Lab members

Group Leader

As a physical inorganic chemist, primary motivations of my research group is to develop new heterogeneous and homogeneous catalyst for C-H and O-H activation using first row transition metals, and hence minimizing the use of rare metals as catalysts in synthetic chemistry. Moreover, we are working on phosphorus, sulphur and selenium doped graphitic material as a new generation carbocatalyst and photoredox catalyzed organic transformation.

Present Members

Ms. Bhawana Nagar (Ph.D scholar; Joining: August, 2018; Working on Photo-redox Catalysis)

Ms. Monika Loohach (Ph.D scholar; Joining: August, 2020; Working on enantioselective C-H activation using transition metal catalyst)

Ms. Jaipriya Khatri (Ph.D scholar; Joining: August, 2021; Working on Electrochemical C-H activation)

Mr. Abhinav Joshi (Final year UG (Chem) student; Working on C-H activation)

Past Members

Dr. Sayantan Maity (Ph.D awarded 2021; PDF in Center for Materials for Electronics Technology (C-MET), Pune, India)

Dr. Sanjay Adhikari (Former PDF, CSIR-RA@2019-2022); Assistant Professor, Madhav University, Rajasthan, India)

Dr. Ashish Kumar Dhara (Former PDF)

Dr. Pratp Kumar Dutta (Ph.D awarded 2019@Co-supervisor; PDF in University of Minnesota, USA)

UG Students

  • Ms. Reha Chugh (Graduated 2019)

  • Mr. Siddhant Bajpai (Graduated 2020)

  • Ms. Bhavya Joshi (Graduated 2020)

  • Mr. Dhananjay S. Raja (Graduated 2021)

  • Mr. Ankit Tomar (Graduated 2022)