NAGPUR UNIVERSITY :- Chemistry

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

RASHTRASANT TUKADOJI MAHARAJ NAGPUR UNIVERSITY

NAGPUR

About us

General Information-

The Department of Chemistry was established in the year 1963. The department offers two years M. Sc.

course with four specializations at the M. Sc. Part-II level. Recently, one year M. Phil. Course has been restarted by the department. The post-graduate students in Chemistry are encouraged to carry out research work leading to the award of Ph. D. of Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University.

The department has presently 13 sanctioned teaching staff comprising of three Professors, five Readers and five Lecturers. However, due to the superannuation of some faculty members, the present strength is reduced to five (two Readers and three Lecturers). Several research projects have been awarded to the faculty members by various agencies for carrying out research work in various fields in Chemistry. Under these schemes, various instruments have been received by the department for the benefit of teachers and students. Recently, an amount of Rupees Twenty four lakhs has been received by the department under FIST programme of DST. An equal amount has also been received from UGC under Xth five year plan.

The department is housed in an area of about 27000 sq. ft. including laboratory area of about 15650 sq. ft. The departmental library has been well maintained and there are about 1972 books in the library.

Faculty

Academic vitae of Faculty members of the

Department of Chemistry

S. N.	Name of faculty member, Date of joining & Present Designation, Specialization, Teaching experience	Area of Research	No. of Ph. D. awarded	No. of Ph.D. students working	Total No. of Paper published
1.	Dr. H. D. Juneja (1983) Reader & Head Inorganic Chemistry PG-23 yrs	Coordination Polymers, Environmental Analysis, Metallic Gel	08	08	72
2.	Dr.(Mrs.) J. S. Meshram (2000) Reader Organic Chemistry UG- 07 yrs PG- 07 yrs	Heterocyclic Chemistry, Green Chemical path ways for organic synthesis, Chiral Compunds	--	08	16
3.	Dr. D. V. Parwate (2000) Reader Nuclear Chemistry UG- 15 yrs PG- 09 yrs	Gamma radiolysis of inorganic and organic compounds, Neutron Activation Analysis	--	07	17
4.	Mr. R. S. Dongre (2003) Lecturer Organic Chemistry PG-04 yrs	Organic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry,	--	--	02
5.	Mr. D. T. Masram (2004) Lecturer Inorganic Chemistry PG-02 yrs	Coordination Chemistry	--	--	01

TEACHING FACULTY OF DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

RASHTRASANT TUKADOJI MAHARAJ

NAGPUR UNIVERSITY

NAGPUR

FACULTY

Dr. H.D. JUNEJA

Dr. Juneja is working as Reader in Inorganic Chemistry and has 23 years of experience in teaching and

research in chemistry. Since, March 2007, Dr. Juneja is working as Head of the Department of Chemistry. Dr. Juneja has published 72 research papers and guided eight students for their Ph.D. work. At present eight students are carrying out research under his guidance. One student has also completed M.Phil. Dissertation under his supervision. He is investigating new manufacturing processes for some metallic gel with high thermal stability and may be used as surface coating materials. Under interdisciplinary schemes, he is working on study of possible biodegradable substitute for plastic carry bags. Dr. Juneja has successfully completed two Minor Research projects and one Interdisciplinary project in association with the Physics Department, Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur.

Contact Number- 9371565344

RESEARCH GROUP OF DR. H.D. JUNEJA

S.No.	Name of Student	Title of Research Work	Year of Award
1.	Ms. S.M. Ray	Synthesis of Some Novel Coordination polymers of some Transition Metals and Their Structural Studies.	1999
2.	Shri W.B. Gurnule	Synthetic and Structural Studies of Some New Tercopolymer Resin.	2000
3.	Smt. S.A. Shrivastava	Synthesis of Some Novel Coordination Polymers of Some Transition Metals and Their Structural Studies.	2001
4.	Shri D.M. Vairagde	Physico Chemical Studies of Ash-Bund Effluent of Thermal PowerStation.	2002
5.	Shri Peter S. Lingala	Synthesis and Physico Chemical Studies of some New Tercopolymers.	2004
6.	Shri S.D. Borkar	Structural and Thermal Studies of Some Coordination Polymers	2004
7.	Shri Y.V. Lanje	Synthesis and Characterization of some Coordination Polymers of Mn(II), Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), and Zn(II),	2004.
8.	Ku. Vaishali V. Ukey	Synthesis and Characterization of Some Chelate Polymers.	2005
9.	Shri A.D. Bonde	Synthesis, Spectral Magnetic and Thermal Studies of Some Chelate Polymers of Some First Transition Series Metal Ions.	2006
10.	Shri A. V. Wankhede	Synthesis and Characterization of Some 1,2,4 Dithiazoidines, 1,2,4- Thiadiazolidines, 1,4,2-Dithiazolidines and Their Metal Complexes.
11.	Ms. Shabi Naz	Synthesis and Characterization of Coordination Polymers of Some Bis-ligands.
12.	Shri.R.S.Gubde	Synthesis and Structural features of some first row transition series metal polymeric chelates.	Submitted
13	Mrs. Mrinal Katkar	Synthesis, Characterization and catalytic applications of oxo-molybdenum schiff base complexes having NOO donor atoms
14.	Shri. Pratik E.Michael	Physico-chemical studies of some new terpolymers and their coordination polymers
15.	Ms. Ruhee Husain	Synthesis, characterization and kinetic studies of some chelate polymers of divalent metal ions.
16.	Mrs. Manisha P. Joshi	Synthesis spectral magnetic and thermal studies of some inorganic polymers.
17.	Ms. Meetu Chandra Kumar Gopalani	Studies on trace organics in environmental samples using different analytical techniques

Dr. (Mrs.) J.S. MESHRAM

Dr.(Mrs) Meshram joined the Department of Chemistry in February 2000 as Reader in Organic Chemistry.

Her field of research studies is heterocyclic chemistry , biaryl synthesis using green chemistry methodologies. She has more than 17 years of teaching and research experience in Organic Chemistry and published 16 research papers. At present 8 students are carrying out research work for Ph. D. One student has completed M. Phil. dissertation work and 2 students are doing M. Phil under her supervision. She has presented one paper in UNESCO/IUPAC Conference at Stellenbosch, South Africa (20-23 Nov. 2006) and 2 papers will be presented at ICMAT Conference, Singapore(1-6 July 2007). Dr Meshram has successfully completed 2 research projects, one research project under unassigned grant (2001-2003) and the other R& D Major project funded by UGC, New Delhi under X^th plan(2004-2007).Studies are also being carried out in collaboration with Microbiology Department and Biotechnology Department, RTM, Nagpur University, Nagpur to enhance the effectiveness of the synthesized compounds against the microbial flora that can be extensively applied for medical purposes.

Contact Number- 9822937078

E-mail- drjsmeshram@rediffmail.com

RESEARCH GROUP OF DR. (Mrs.) J. S. MESHRAM

S. No.	Name of Researcher	Topic of Research
1.	Mr. Meghasham Narule	Synthesis of New Pyrroles
2.	Mr. Sanjeev Kumar Singh	Studies on Heavy Metal Uptake rate by selected plant species to develop a model system for metal contaminated site
3.	Mrs Megha Kulkarni	Biotechnological applications of Heterocyclic compounds
4.	Miss Archita Kathale	Synthesis of 3-(alkyl/aryl)-5-furyl-isoxazolines, 1-phenyl-2,3-dimethyl-4-(2-alkyl/aryl-4-thiazolidino0-pyrazol-5-ones, 2-furyl-3-aryl-4-thiazolidinones and related compounds
5.	Mr. R.S. Dongre	Development of Ecofriendly Defluoridation technique for drinking water
6.	Miss Wasudha Thakre	Synthesis of Novel Azo Schiff bases, diazo dyes and diazopyrazolone dyes of 4 amino benzene containing azo moiety
7.	Miss Preeti	An environmentally friendly route for the detection and photocatalytic destruction of phenolics by functionalized materials
8.	Mrs. Shubhangi Kamdi	Novel synthesis of substituted pyrroles and related compounds

Dr. D.V. PARWATE

Dr. Parwate has joined the Department of Chemistry in March 2000 as Reader in Nuclear Chemistry. He

has more than 20 years of experience in teaching and research in Chemistry. A Minor Research Project has been successfully completed by him. His field of research includes Gamma Radiolysis of Inorganic and Organic Systems and Neutron Activation Analysis. One of his students has submitted thesis for Ph. D. award. Seven students are working under his supervision for Ph.D. Dr. Parwate was awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship by Science and Technology Agency, Japan to work at NIMS (previously NRIM), Tsukuba, Japan in March 1999. He has published 17 research papers.

Dr. Parwate is the local coordinator of the National Workshop on Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes, to be held in the department during July 2-10, 2007.

Contact Number- 9822738642

E-mail- dilipparwate@rediffmail.com

RESEARCH GROUP OF DR. D. V. PARWATE

S. No.	Name of Researcher	Topic of Research	Year of award
1.	Miss Indrani Birendra Das Sarma	Gamma radiolytic decomposition studies of some organic and inorganic compounds	Submitted -2006
2.	Ku. Ujwala S. Sawarkar	Studies on properties of some lubricating oil samples after gamma irradiation.
3.	Mr. S. V. Madhamshettiwar	Decolouration of waste water of various industries using gamma irradiation.
4.	Mr. G. H. Maskale	Characterization of mining overburden and industrial waste and its application for land use by blending.
5.	Ku. Babita Singh	Developing methods for screening of antibiotics and establishing suitability of gamma sterilization technique for antibiotics.
6.	Mr. S. M. Kale	Gamma radiolytic transformations of some inorganic ions in aqueous solutions.
7.	Mr. C. P. Pandhurnekar,	Thermodynamic and optical properties of some non-electrolytes in aqueous solutions at different temperatures.

Mr. R.S. DONGRE

Mr. Dongre joined the Department of Chemistry as Lecturer in

Organic Chemistry in August 2003. He has successfully cleared

GATE-1996 and NET (CSIR-UGC) 1996 examinations. He has served as JRF and SRF in I.I.P. Dehradun and worked as Scientist-B in Waste Water Technology Division, NEERI, Nagpur, for three years, before joining the Department of Chemistry. He has published two research papers.

Contact Number- 9822706355

E-mail- rsdongre@hotmail.com

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Mr. D.T. MASRAM

Mr. D.T. Masram joined the Department of Chemistry as Lecturer in Inorganic Chemistry in December

2004. He is doing research work under the guidance of Dr. N.S. Bhave, Retired Professor & Head Department of Chemistry, RTM Nagpur University Nagpur and has published one research paper.

Contact Number- 9422152278

E-mail- dhanraj_masram27@rediffmail.com

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CURRENT EVENTS

CURRENT EVENTS

1. NATIONAL WORKSHOP ON RADIOCHEMISTRY AND APPLICATION OF RADIOISOTOPES (SPONSORED BY BRNS & IANCAS) - JULY 2 – 10, 2007

2. 5^th National Symposium & Conference on Solid State

Chemistry & Allied Areas-

NOVEMBER 28-30, 2007

Collaborations with other Institutions

Collaborative work with NEERI, NAGPUR

RESEARCH PROJECTS AWARDED BY DST / UGC /

CSIR / BRNS / DAE AND OTHERS UPTO JUNE 2006

S. N.	Name of the faculty member	No. of projects
1.	Prof. G. Bagavant	05
2.	Prof. K. N. Munshi	05 + 01*
3.	Prof. R. H. Sahasrabudhey	06
4.	Prof. M. V. Kaulgud	04
5.	Prof. M. N. Ray	05
6.	Prof. M. G. Paranjpe	03
7.	Prof. A. P. Joshi	06
8.	Prof. A. N. Garg	10 + 01*
9.	Prof. M. C. Gupta	01
10.	Prof. N. S. Bhave	02
11.	Prof. A. A. Bhalekar	04
12.	Dr. H. D. Juneja	04
13.	Dr. Mrs. J. S. Meshram	02
14.	Dr. D. V. Parwate	0

Facilities

DEPARTMENTAL LIBRARY AT A GLANCE

S. N.	Name of the section	No. of books
1.	Analytical Chemistry	258
2.	Chemical Formulary	22
3.	Chromatography	24
4.	Environmental Chemistry	252
5.	General Chemistry	288
6.	Inorganic Chemistry	303
7.	Nuclear Chemistry	72
8.	Organic Chemistry	291
9.	Photochemistry	14
10.	Physical Chemistry	295
11.	Polymer Chemistry	48
12.	Spectroscopy	105
	Total number of books	1972

Instruments/Equipments available in the department

1. Shimadzu Spectrophotometer(UV 240)

2. Gas Chromatograph (Agilent Technologies)

3. HPLC (Shimadzu-HPLC-LC-20AT)

4. GBC Model Cintra UV-Visible Spectrophotometer

5. Gamma Ray Spectrometer

6. GM counting systems

7. Am-Be Neutron source

8. Cobalt-60 Gamma Chamber

9. Metrohm Polarecord

Courses offered by the Department- M. Sc.

No. of students admitted in each session – 45; Duration- Two years

Eligibility- B. Sc. with Chemistry as Major subject, on the basis of merit and rules of the University

M. Sc. Part-I

Theory Papers	Marks	Practical	Marks
Inorganic Chemistry	75	Inorganic Chemistry	50
Organic Chemistry	75	Organic Chemistry	50
Analytical Chemistry	75	Analytical Chemistry	50
Physical Chemistry	75	Physical Chemistry	50
Total marks	300		200

M. Sc. Part-II

	Theory	Marks	Practical	Marks
(Common Paper)	Spectroscopy	75	--	--
One of the following specializations-
Inorganic Chemistry (Special)	Paper-I Paper-II	75 75	Practical-I Practical-II	50 100
Organic Chemistry (Special)	Paper-I Paper-II	75 75	Practical-I Practical-II	50 100
Analytical Chemistry (Special)	Paper-I Paper-II	75 75	Practical-I Practical-II	50 100
Physical Chemistry(Special)	Paper-I Paper-II	75 75	Practical-I Practical-II	50 100
One of the following elective papers- 1. Applied Analytical Chemistry 2. Environmental Chemistry 3. Medicinal Chemistry		75		50
Total marks		300		200

Courses offered by the Department- M. Phil.

No. of students admitted in each session - 10

Duration- One year

No. of theory papers - Two (80 marks each)

Seminars - (Two seminars of 20 marks each)

Dissertation work by the student to be submitted for the degree.

Research

Research Contribution

1. Number of students who have been awarded Ph. D. since inception of the Department of Chemistry- 170

2. Total number of research papers published by the faculty members of the department - ~1300

3. Number of research students working presently-31

Research areas-

Coordination Chemistry, Photo Chemistry, Macrocyclic Compounds,

Coordination Polymers, Environmental Analysis, Metallic Gel,

Heterocyclic Chemistry, Green Chemical path ways for Organic Synthesis, Chiral Compounds, Gamma Radiolysis of Inorganic and Organic Systems, Neutron Activation Analysis, Environmental Chemistry etc.

Research grant received under

FIST programme (2005-09) of DST

1. For purchasing HPLC : Rs.10 lakh

2. For setting up of computer : Rs. 5 lakh

networking lab.

3. For renovation of Analytical : Rs. 2 lakh

And Physical Chemistry

Laboratory.

4. For renovation of Organic : Rs. 2.5 lakh

and Inorganic Chemistry

Laboratory.

5. For computer networking room : Rs. 2.5 lakh

6. For maintenance of laboratories :` Rs. 2 lakh

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Total amount- - - - - - - - Rs. 24 lakhs.

financial assistance received from

(UGC) NEW DELHI

UNDER X-PLAN (2002-07)

v Instrumentation facility for : rs. 18 lakhs

M. Sc. Part-I & II Laboratories

v Renovation of M. Sc. Part-I : Rs. 5 lakhs

Laboratory & Instrumentation

Laboratory

v Enrichment of Library : Rs. 1 Lakh

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Total amount- - - - - - - - Rs. 24 lakhs.