Research

SKILL                

• Synthetic methods

Synthesized air/ moisture/ light-sensitive metal (Mn, Ru, Re, Ni, Co and Fe) complexes under Schlenk line/ glove box techniques as well as one-pot synthesis (Bioinspired metal complexes)

Expertise in the synthesis of organic ligands (DuBois type ligands & N-functioned diphosphine, Pincer and chelating ligands).

Synthesis of Nanoparticles under hydrothermal/ Schlenk line and Electrodeposition methods (Fe, Cu, Ni, Mo, Yttrium, and Cobalt)

• Analytical spectroscopic methods

1H, 13C, 31P NMR, FTIR, SEM, TEM, Stop-Flow Infrared Technique, UV-vis, ES-MSI, Single-Crystal/ Powder XRD, and Elemental analysis. (All metal complexes and organic ligands were purified by extraction, column Chromatography, TLC and recrystallization).

Standard Characterization techniques: FESEM, TEM, HRTEM, XRD, Raman, UV, PL, TCSPC, FTIR, XPS, UPS and TGA (For material characterizations)

• Chemistry software

Chemoffice, ISIS Draw 2.3, WinGX, Mercury 3.0, ORTEP 3.0, MESTRENOVA, OLEX 2.2, OrginPro 8.5 and JEOL 5

 CrystalExplore, Gaussian09W and Gaussview5.0

Expertise:

• Synthesis of chemically stable two- and three-dimensional COFs for various applications.

• Photocatalysis: Water splitting, photocatalytic CO2 reduction and photo-oxidation of carbon monoxide (CO).

• Synthesis of metal nanoparticle-COF hybrids for heterogeneous catalysis.

• Preparation of porous carbon from MOFs, COFs and porous polymers for their electrochemical applications.

• Synthesis of MOFs and COFs through solvothermal and hydrothermal conditions.

• Targeted functionalization and interpenetration in metal-organic frameworks for gas adsorption.

• Expertise in handling sensitive chemicals through glove-box and Schlenk line.

• Characterization of organic linkers through spectroscopic analyses such as NMR, FT-IR, UV-Vis, Elemental analyses, etc.

• Detailed characterization of supramolecular species and linkers through single crystal X-ray diffraction.

• Refinement of crystal data, structure solution, disorder modeling, void calculation and presentation of data for publication.

• Handling and operation of instruments like Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer (Agilent Supernova), Powder X-ray Diffractometer (Rigaku and Panalytical), High and low pressure gas adsorption instrument (Quantachrome Autosorb, Quadrasorb, iSorb-HP), GC-MS instrument (Agilent).

• Electrochemical analyses: Cyclic Voltammetry (CV)