Department of Chemistry

Dr. Ankita Khanna:

Biochemical pathways involve a lot of parameters (substrate concentration, product concentration, flux concentration, enzyme concentration, enzyme kinetics etc). These pathways are known to be highly regulated due to interconnected pathways and feedback loops. Sometimes, we are not able to get regulatory data based on lab experiments due to non-feasibility of these reactions in vivo. That is where the mathematical modeling comes handy in studying the regulation of these pathways. I am using multiple mathematical modeling systems to optimize the concentration of parameters involved in these pathways. Through this study, we can predict when the living system will be stable and when it will enter chaos.

Dr. Manas Ranjan Dash

Research Scholar: Ms. Shipra Pandit

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere from various anthropogenic and biogenic sources (generally known as biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs)). In the Earth’s atmosphere, potential removal of VOCs from both anthropogenic and biogenic sources occur by a number of physical processes such as dry and wet deposition and chemical processes such as photolysis (at > 290 nm), reactions with tropospheric oxidizing agents such as OH/NO3/Cl/O3 which leads to the formation of a series of organic oxidation products. These products play an important role in the chemistry of the troposphere and known to contribute significantly to the formation of secondary organic aerosols (SOAs) and tropospheric ozone. Such organic aerosols are hazardous to health and may influence the cloud nucleation in the troposphere. The primary goal of our research is to measure the kinetic parameters of the reactions of these compounds with the oxidizing agents. To validate the experimentally measured data, computational calculations must be carry out using Density functional theory (DFT) and high level ab initio methods. We actively collaborate with various national and international renowned institutions/universities from India, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and Germany.

Dr. Jabrinder Singh

Research Scholar: Mr. Manish Pant

Dr. Jabrinder Singh’s areas of research interests are Sustainable Ecological Approaches in Resource Management & Environment Pollution Control. Biodiversity Conservation. Natural resource deterioration at peak and ambient air & water quality is hazardous. Anthropogenic disasters pose threat to social, economic & ecological habitats. SDG’s needs to be implemented at globally with grass root approach at regional level. Assessment of water resources through spatio-temporal monitoring and Evaluation of air quality. Develop sustainable methods for socio-ecological restoration. To increase the resilience of socio-ecological systems; we have to adopt sustainable technologies in natural resource conservation & pollution abatement. It becomes need of the hour to cope with disasters through ecosystem restoration reconciling harmonious relationship with nature.

Dr. Anita Bhatia

Dr. Anita Bhatia’s research continues to span the fields of organic, organometallic and coordination chemistry with a specific focus on Ru catalysed organic transformations in aqueous and biphasic medium. Green Chemistry provides a unique forum for the publication of innovative research on the development of alternative green and sustainable technologies. Our team is working every day to make progress towards new sustainable chemical technologies and a better understanding of green chemistry.