Welcome to AT Research Group
Catalysis and Materials lab
Invited Talks
9. Invited talk at Central University of Manipur, on "Dithienylethene based photochromic organic materials:Application in security technology and controlled singlet oxygen generation" 21th March, 2024.
8. Invited talk at Presidency University, Kolkata on "Dithienylethene based photochromic organic materials:Application in security technology and controlled singlet oxygen generation" 20th March, 2024.
7. Invited talk at IC2, IACS on "From Earth-Abundant Transition Metal Catalysis to
Dithienylethene Based Photoswitchable Organocatalysis" 11th March to 13th March, 2024.
6. Invited flash talk at ETCS-2024, IIT-KGP on "Copper (II)/Cobalt (II) Catalyzed Synthesis of b-Disubstituted ketones and a,b-epoxyketones from Alkenes and their Synthetic Applications" 7th March to 9th March 2024.
5. Invited flash talk at ICOC-2023, Goa on Cu(II) promoted C(sp3)-H activation in unactivated cycloalkanes:Oxo-alkylation of styrenes to synthesize b-disubstituted ketones 30th Oct to 2nd NOV, 2023.
4. Invited talk at NIT SURATKAL on 17th Feb 2021, One day symposium on "in Advancement in the Molecular World: Materials and Catalysis".
3. Invited speaker at "One day Symposium on Chemical Science, Organized by CHEMICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI), Kolkata Chapter" on November 6,2020.
2. Invited talk at IISER-Kolkata on 2nd April, 2018 on "Ferrocenyl Electrochemical Chemosensors: Application in Molecular Logic".
1. Invited talk at NIT Sikkim, February 2015.
Conference/Seminars
17. Presented a poster in ICOC-2023.
Title: Cu(II) promoted C(SP3)-H activation in unactivated cycloalkanes: Oxo-alkylation of styrenes to synthesize β-disubstituted ketones.
16. Organized as a coordinator of a UGC sponsored Refresher course entitled " Chemical Sciences: from concepts to applications" held during 6th January to 20th January, 2021 at Jadavpur University.
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15. Presented a poster in "RECENT TRENDS in CATALYSIS RTC 2020", on February 26-29, 2020" at NIT-Calicut.
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Title: Microwave-Assisted Neat Synthesis of a Ferrocene Appended Phenolphthalein Diyne: A Designed Synthetic Scaffold for Hg2+ ion.
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14. Chairing a scientific session at " International Conference on Chemistry for Human Development (ICCHD-2020), held on Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata, dated on 9th -11th January 2020.
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13. National Seminar on "Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences", 7th January 2020, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.
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12. Attend and served as a judge for a poster session a BRICS Workshop-2020 entitled " Frontiers In Inorganic Chemistry: Catalytic and Biomedical Applications" held at IISER Kolkata on 3rd January 2020.
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11. National symposium on " Contemporary Trends and Future Prospects of Functional Materials (CTFM-2019) held on 29-30th November 2019, at Banaras Hindu University (BHU) India.
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10. National seminar on "Celebration of the international year of the periodic table (CIYPT- 2019), 13th and 14th August 2019 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata as a Co-Convener.
9. International Conference Entitled “Chemistry Meets Industry and Society – CIS19” at Salerno, Italy, 28-30th August 2019.
Title: Metal-Coordination Driven Intramolecular Twisting: A Turn-On Fluorescent-Redox Probe for Hg2+ Ion Sensing through the Interaction of Ferrocene Nonbonding Orbital and Dibenzylidenehydrazine, Arunabha Thakur.
8. National Seminar on Chemical Sciences: Today and Tomorrow (CSTT-2019), 14th March 2019, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Arunabha Thakur.
7. International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis 2018 (ICOC-I) at Goa during 13- 16th December 2018. ICT-Isomerization Induced Turn-On Fluorescence Probe with a Large Emission Shift for Mercury Ion: Application in Combinational Molecular Logic,Arunabha Thakur, Sushil Ranjan Bhatta.
6. National Seminar on Current Developments in Chemical Sciences (CSCS-2018), 7th March 2018, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India, Arunabha Thakur.
5. Metal Free Activation of Small Molecules: An Approach with Main Group Elements, Arunabha Thakur, Vijay Kumar Gonela, Swadhin K. Mandal, Chemistry in-House Symposium, Indian Institute of Science Education Research (IISER-Kolkata), December 2014
4. A Homometallic Tricapped Cubane Cluster: [(Cp*Mo)4B4H4(μ4-BH)3] (Cp* = η5-C5Me5) (Oral and Post) Arunabha Thakur and S. Ghosh, XIV IMEBORON, International Conference on Boron Chemistry, Niagara Falls, Canada, September, 2011.
3. A Highly Selective Redox, Chromogenic and Fluorescent Chemosensor for Hg2+ in Aqueous Solution Based on Ferrocene-Glycine Bioconjugates, Arunabha Thakur, D. Mandal, S. Sao and S. Ghosh,Chemistry in-House Symposium, IIT Madras, August, 2011. (Best poster award).
2. A New Synthetic Route To Lindqvist Type Clusters, [(n- Bu4N)x][M′M5O19] [When x = 2, M′= M = Mo or W; x = 3, M′= Mo, M = W] From Metal Carbonyl Precursors [(CO)5ML] [M = Mo, W; L= CO, C(OMe)(Me) Arunabha Thakur, A. Chakraborty and S. Ghosh, Internation symposium on Inorganic Ring Systems- 12, Goa, August, 2009.
1. Synthesis of Mono and Doubly Alkynyl Substituted Ferrocene and its Crystal Engineering Using – C–HO Supramolecular Synthon, Arunabha Thakur, Sundargopal Ghosh Modern Trend in inorganic Chemistry (MTIC), 2007, Organized by IIT Madras.