Dr Praveen Singh Gehlot

Research Interests

• Preparation of functional nanostructures using different self assemblies from various new surface active ionic liquids.
• Synthesis of new task specific Ionic Liquids.
• Preparation of Luminated Iono Gels for electrochemical applications.
• Surface Activity of Metal containing long chain ionic liquids and their versatile application.

The title of Ph. D. Thesis: “ Studies on self-assemblies of New Surface Active Ionic Liquids and Their Applications.”

Ph. D. Supervisor: Dr. Arvind Kumar, Principal Scientist & HOD SMC, CSIR-CSMCRI

Fellowship awarded:

• UGC JRF (2013-2015)
• UGC SRF (2015-2018)

Membership :

1. Regular Member of American Chemical Society (ACS) (30725265)
2. Life Member of Indian Science Congress Association (ISCA) (L32097)
3. Life Member of Association Chemistry Teachers (ACT) (1998)
4. Life member of Indian Chemical Society (ICS) (F8138)
5. Regular Member of Gujarat Science Congress Association (GSCA)

Teaching Interest

1. Stereochemistry
2. Spectroscopy
3. Symmetry , Group Theory and Applications
4. Organic Mechanism & Photochemistry.

Total Teaching Experience:

1.9 Years in UG and 1 Years in PG during government service

Invited lectures Delivered:

Delivered invited lectures (11-10-2018 to 15-10-2018 and 1-11-2019-5-11-2019) at Govt. PG College Sirohi, Rajasthan on topic “Symmetry, Group Theory & Its Applications”.

Co-curricular Activity:

• Placement officer
• Coordinator of Carrier Council Cell
• Examination Controller at college level (University and College Internal exam)
• Exam paper setter (UG)
• Examiner for Practical University Exam
• Member of local college committee

Collaboration:

(1) Dr. Markus Drechsler, Laboratory for Soft Matter Electron Microscopy Bavarian Polymer Institute (BPI) - KeyLab "Electron and Optical Microscopy" Universität Bayreuth, Germany.

(2) Dr. Hariom Gupta, Analytical Chemistry Division, CSIR-CIMAP, Lucknow, India.

(3) Dr. Diganta Sarma, Department of Chemistry, Dibrugarh University, Dibrugarh-786004, Assam, India.

(4) Prof. (Dr.) Pratap Bahdur, Emeritus Scientist, Department of Chemistry, VNSGU, Surat, Gujarat.

(5) Dr Gaytri Prasad, Department of Chemistry, Government P G College, Sirohi, Rajasthan.

Conferences and Symposia

1. Oral presentation on topic of “Surface Active Ionic Liquid For Enzyme Activity Enhancement” in the National Conference on Advances in Modern Science 2020 organized by Department of Chemistry and Forensic Science, Bhakta Kavi Narshin Mehta University & OM Education Campus, Junagadh, Gujarat on 18^th January, 2020.
2. Oral presentation on topic of “Ionic Liquids: A Neoteric Solvent” in the National Conference on Current Trends and Advances in Chemical Science 2020 organized by Department of Chemistry, BKM Science College, Valsad, Gujarat on 12^th January, 2020.
3. Oral presentation on topic of “Surface active ionic liquids and their applications” in the Gujarat Science Congress academy 2019 organized by Department of Physics, Gujarat University, Ahmadabad on 21^st January, 2019.
4. Oral presentation on topic of “Cholinium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate: A Non-toxic Surface Active Ionic Liquid for Enzyme Activity Enhancement” in the National Conference on Sustainable Chemistry:Frontier& Challenges (NCSCFC-2019) organized by Department of Chemistry, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat on 12^th March, 2019.
5. Oral presentation on topic of “Surface Active Ionic Liquids and Applications” in the National Seminar on Recent Trends and Advances in Material and Physical Science 2018 held at Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology(Autonomous), Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, duringFebruary 23-24^th, 2018.
6. Presented poster in XXXII GUJARAT SCIENCE CONGRESS – 2018, jointly organized by CSIR-CSMCRI, MK Bhavnagar University and Gujarat Science Academy, on topic of “Self-assembly of Non-toxic Surface Active Ionic Liquid Cholinium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate for Enzyme Activity Enhancement” held at Bhavnagar, Gujarat, during February 4-5, 2018.
7. Oral Presentation in 54^th Annual Convention of Chemist organized by Indian Chemical Society on topic of “Self-Assemblies from Surface Active Ionic Liquids and Their Unique Role” at Uka Tarsadia University, Bardoli, Surat, presented on December 23 to 25, 2017.
8. Participation in technical seminar on “Comprehensive Formulation and Characterization” for Rheology and Particle Size Analyser conducted by Anton Paar at Ahmedabad, Gujarat, April 20, 2017.
9. Oral Presentation in National Symposium on Electrochemistry, Energy and Environment at Department of Chemistry Jai Narain Vyas University Jodhpur December 16 to 18, 2016.
10. Participation in a workshop conducted by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) at CSIR-CSMCI, Bhavnagar, Gujrat during September19, 2016.
11. Presented poster in 17^th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, held at CSIR-NCL Pune, Maharashtra, India, during February 6-8, 2015.
12. Presented poster in National Science Day 2014 organized by Department of Science and Technology (DST) Rajasthan held at Regional Science Centre Jaipur, Rajasthan India during February 26-28,2014.
13. Participation in 5^th Asian Conference on colloid and interface science held at North Bengal University, Darjeeling, India, during November 20-23, 2013.
14. Participation in National Conference on Material Science and Technology held at Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, during February 6-7, 2012.
15. Oral presentation in International Year of Chemistry-2011 celebrated by Department of Chemistry, Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, during November 8-9, 2011.
16. Participation in National Conference on Functional Materials held at Lachoo Memorial College of Science and Technology, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India, during February 11-12, 2011.

Publication

1. K. Srinivasa Rao , Praveen Singh Gehlot , Tushar J. Trivedi , Arvind Kumar* Self-assembly of new surface active ionic liquids based on Aerosol-OT in aqueous media Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2014, 428, 267–275. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2014.04.062. (IF 3.782)
2. Pankaj Bharmoria, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Hariom Gupta, and Arvind Kumar* Temperature Dependent Solubility Transition of Na₂SO₄ in Water and Effect of NaCl Therein: Solutions Structures and Saltwater Dynamics, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014,118, 12734-12742. DOI: 10.1021/jp507949h. (IF 3.187)
3. K. Srinivasa Rao, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Hariom Gupta, Markus Drechsler , Arvind Kumar* NaBr induced micelle to vesicle transition in newly synthesized dodecyl benzenesulfonate based Anionic surface active ionic liquid. Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015, 119, 4263−4274. DOI: 10.1021/jp512805e. (IF 3.187)
4. Praveen Singh Gehlot, K. Srinivasa Rao, Pankaj Bharmoria, Krishnaiah Damarla, Hariom Gupta, Markus Drechsler, and Arvind Kumar*, Spontaneous Formation of Multi-Architecture Vesicles of [C₈mim]Br + [Na]DBS in Aqueous Medium: Synergic Interplay of Electrostatic, Hydrophobic and pi-pi Stacking Interactions, Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2015, 119 (49), 15300–15309. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09850. (IF 3.187)
5. Krishnaiah Damarla, Pankaj Bharmoria, K. Srinivasa Rao, Praveen Singh Gehlot and Arvind Kumar*, Illuminating microemulsions: ionic liquid–CdS quantum dots hybrid materials as potential white light harvesting systems, Chemical Communications, 2016, 52, 6320-6323. DOI: 10.1039/C6CC02133F. (IF 6.567)
6. Abdul A Ali, Dhrubajyoti Gogoi, Amrita K Chaliha, Alak K Buragohain, Priyanka Trivedi, Prakash J Saikia, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar, Vinita Chaturvedi, Diganta Sarma*, Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Novel 1,2,3-Triazole derivatives as Anti-Tubercular Agents, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 2017, 27,3698–3703, DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.07.008. (IF 2.42)
7. Parmita Phukan, Preeti Boruah, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar, Diganta Sarma*, A Simple, Quick and Novel Protocol for Synthesis of Palladium Nano Particles: Application in Suzuki-Miyaura Reaction, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2017, e4009, DOI: 10.1002/aoc.4009. (IF 2.248)
8. Sourish Bhattacharya, Sumit Kumar Pramanik, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Himanshu Patel, Tejal Gajariad, , Arvind Kumar, Sandhya Mishra,* Green process for preparing cost effective value added products from microalgae using textile effluent through biorefinery approach, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 5 (11), 10019–10028, DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng. (IF 5.951)
9. Praveen Singh Gehlot, Akshay Kulshrestha, Pankaj Bharmoria, Krishnaiah Damarla, Kaumeel Choksi and Arvind Kumar,* Surface Active Ionic Liquid Cholinium Dodecylbenzenesulfonate: Self-Assembling Behaviour and Interaction with Cellulase, ACS Omega, 2017, 2(10), 7451–7460, DOI:10.1021/acsomega.7b01291.
10. Arvind Kumar*, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Krishnaiah Damarla, Mohit J. Mehta and Akshay Kulshrestha, Metal-based ionic liquids : Their properties, applications and future prospects, Invited review, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society, Vol. 94, December 2017, 1-20.
11. Sonam Dubey, Pankaj Bharmoria, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Vinod Agrawal, Arvind Kumar, Sandhya Mishra*, 1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium diethylphosphate based extraction of Bioplastic “Polyhydroxyalkanoates” from bacteria: Green and Sustainable Approach, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2018 6 (1), 766-773 DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03096. (IF 5.951)
12. Parmita Phukan, Preeti Rekha Boruah, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar and Digant Sarma,*A Quick, Efficient and Novel Protocol for Synthesis of Bimetallic Nickel-Palladium Nanoparticles: Effective Catalyst for Biaryl Synthesis, ChemistrySelect 2017, 2, 11795-11800, DIO: 10.1002/slct.201702347.
13. Mitali Chetia, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar, and Diganta Sarma,* A recyclable/reusable hydrotalcite supported copper nano catalyst for 1,4-disubstituted-1,2,3-triazole synthesis via click chemistry approach, Tetrahedron Letters, 2017 DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.12.051 . (IF 2.193)
14. Preeti R Boruah, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar, Diganta Sarma*, Palladium immobilized on the surface of MMT K 10 with the aid of [BMIM][BF₄]: An efficient catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling reaction, Molecular Catalysis, 2018, 461, 54-59. DOI: doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2018.10.004.(IF 2.799),(UGC Journal Number: 62669, ISSN: 24688231).
15. Praveen Singh Gehlot,Hariom Gupta and Arvind Kumar* Paramagnetic Surface Active Ionic Liquids: Interaction with DNA and MRI Application,Colloid and Interface Science Communications, 2018,26, 14-23. doi.org/10.1016/j.colcom.2018.07.004. (IF 1.87) (UGC Journal Number: 16147, E-ISSN: 22150382).
16. Apurba Dutta, Mitali Chetia, Abdul A. Ali, Ankur Bordoloi, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Arvind Kumar and Diganta Sarma* Copper nanoparticles immobilized on nanocellulose: a novel and efficient heterogeneous catalyst for controlled and selective oxidation of sulfides and alcohols ,Catalysis Letter, 2018, 149, 141–150 (IF 2.911), https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-018-2615-x, (UGC Journal Number: 5169, ISSN:1011372X).
17. Manashjyoti Konwar, Hanan M. F. Elnagdy, Praveen Singh Gehlot, Nageshwar D. Khupse, Arvind Kumar, and Diganta Sarma*Transition Metal-Based Ionic Liquids as Dynamically Pronounced Catalyst/Catalytic Media for Greener and Expeditious Synthesis of Pyrazoles at Room Temperature, J Chem Sci 131, 80 (2019) doi:10.1007/s12039-019-1659-9. (IF 1.496) (ISSN: 0973-7103 (Online)).
18. Akshay Kulshrestha, Praveen Singh Gehlot and Arvind Kumar*, Magnetic proline-based ionic liquid surfactant as a nano-carrier for hydrophobic drug delivery, Journal of Materials Chemistry B, 2020, 8, 3050. DOI: 10.1039/d0tb00176g (IF 5.047) (ISSN: 2050-7518).

Patent:

Indian patent has been displayed on CSIR Technology portal.

Praveen Singh Gehlot, Hariom Gupta, Mangal S. Rathore and Arvind Kumar (Principal Inventor), Novel amino acid based compounds useful as paramagnetic ionic liquids for T1 and T2 dual mode MRI contrast, Patent Application No.201711043528 A, Date of filing of Application :05/12/2017, Publication Date : 05/07/2019, Indian Patent No. IN201711043528, The Patent Office Journal No. 27/2019, page-28026.

Contact-Office

Dr Praveen Singh Gehlot, Assistant Professor,

Department of Chemistry, Government Science College Pardi,

Old Mamalatdar Office, Dmanaizampa Road, N.H.-8, Kill-Pardi

Valsad-396125, Gujarat, India

Email: dr.praveensinghgehlot@gmail.com ; gscparadi@gmail.com

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