Sasikumar Palani

Assistant Professor

Ph.D. (July 2003 – November 2008) Indian Institute of Technology - Kanpur, Kanpur, India.

M.Phil. (July 2001 – November 2002) Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India.

M.Sc. (July 1999 – April 2001) Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda College affiliated to University of Madras, Chennai, India.

B.Sc. (July 1996 – April 1999) Government Thirumagal Mills College affiliated to University of Madras, Gudiayattam, India.

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Phosphonate and Phosphate

In my doctoral research, I have involved in the synthetic development of new phosphonic acids and phosphate ligands and the interaction of these ligands with various main group-, transition metal ions and organotin precursors. The metal aggregates thus prepared were structurally and spectroscopically characterized. These aggregates were shown to be good single molecular precursors for material purpose. Ceriumphosphonate were utilized as catalyst for prepare pharmaceutically valuable functionalized dihydropyrimidines (three-component Biginelli reaction).  All the di-nuclear metal aggregates were found to be artificial nucleases.

Metal Thiolates

In my post-doctoral research at Alabama University, I have synthesized various thiol-based ligands and the interaction of these ligands with soft-metals like Lead, Cadmium and Zinc. Among them lead aggregate were found to be semiconductor.

Organoborane

In my current post-doctoral research I have prepared several Donor-Acceptors, Donor-Pi-Acceptors molecule by using diarylammine (Lewis base) as donor and diarylborane (Lewis acid) as acceptor. Thus prepared molecules were well characterized structurally and spetroscopically. All of them were shows interesting optoelectronic properties in both solution and solid state.

• Post Graduate: CHEM 0702: Chemistry of elements; special features
• Post Graduate: CHEM 0802: Organometallic Chemistry
• Under Graduate: CHEM 0602: Organometallic Chemistry
• Post Graduate: CHEM 11001B: Spectroscopy - Applications to Inorganic Systems
• Under Graduate: CHEM01C1: Periodicity of Elements
• Under Graduate: CHEM03C5: General Principles of Metallurgy, Acids and Bases
• Under Graduate: Course CHT-6: Chemistry of S- and P-block elements
• Under Graduate: Course CED-5: Comparative study of P-block elements
• Under Graduate: Course CED-2: Inorganic Practical – 1 Qualitative analysis
• Under Graduate: Course CED-5: Inorganic Practical – 2 Quantitative analysis

Ph.D. Scholars

Mrs. Kankan Mukhopadhyay, DST Woman Scientist

Mr. Sarat Kanrar, Junior Research Fellow (UGC)

Mr. Ayan Ghosh, Junior Research Fellow (UGC)

M.Sc., Students

Pratip Kumar Dutta         (2013)

Biswarup Paul                 (2014)

Anwesa Debnath             (2014)

Souvik Maity                   (2015)

Arpan Mondal                 (2015)

Soumyasree Datta           (2016)

Samrat Mukherjee           (2017)

Archita Das                     (2017)

Patibrata Bhattacharya    (2017)

Munmun Mondal            (2018)

Wasefa Begum                (2019)

Deblina Dhar                   (2019)

Sangita Shyamal             (2020)

Mahuya Adak                 (2020)

Srikanta Chowdhury      (2020)

Arkamita Das                 (2021)

Saheli Nasrin                  (2021)

Soumita Samajdar          (2021)

Kumaresh Dey                (2022)

Sayan Das                      (2022)

Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 2010, Germany

1.      K. Mukhopadhyay, A. Naskar, U.C. Ghosh, P. Sasikumar, One-pot synthesis of β-cyclodextrin amended mesoporous cerium(IV) incorporated ferric oxide surface towards the evaluation of fluoride removal efficiency from contaminated water for point of use, Journal of Hazardous Materials. 384 (2020) 121235. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121235

2.      A. Ghosh, H.S. Biswas, S. Debnath, P. Sasikumar, K. Biswas, U.C. Ghosh, Adsorption behaviour of bromophenol blue from the aqueous solution on Labeo bata fish scale, a bio-waste material, IJCT Vol.26(4) [July 2019]. (2019). http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/49690 (accessed August 19, 2019).

3.      K. Mukhopadhyay, U.C. Ghosh, P. Sasikumar, Enhanced capacity of fluoride scavenging from contaminated water by nano-architectural reorientation of cerium-incorporated hydrous iron oxide with graphene oxide, Environ Sci Pollut Res. 26 (2019) 26112–26133. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-019-05756-0.

4.      A. Ghosh, S. Paul, S. Bhattacharya, P. Sasikumar, K. Biswas, U.C. Ghosh, Calcium ion incorporated hydrous iron(III) oxide: synthesis, characterization, and property exploitation towards water remediation from arsenite and fluoride, Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 26 (2019) 4618–4632. doi:10.1007/s11356-018-3872-3.

5.      S. Maji, A. Ghosh, K. Gupta, A. Ghosh, U. Ghorai, A. Santra, P. Sasikumar, U.C. Ghosh, Efficiency evaluation of arsenic(III) adsorption of novel graphene oxide@iron-aluminium oxide composite for the contaminated water purification, Separation and Purification Technology. 197 (2018) 388–400. doi:10.1016/j.seppur.2018.01.021

6.      K. Mukhopadhyay, A. Ghosh, S.K. Das, B. Show, P. Sasikumar, U. Chand Ghosh, Synthesis and characterisation of cerium( iv )-incorporated hydrous iron( iii ) oxide as an adsorbent for fluoride removal from water, RSC Advances. 7 (2017) 26037–26051. doi:10.1039/C7RA00265C.

7.      S. Kanrar, S. Debnath, P. De, K. Parashar, K. Pillay, P. Sasikumar, U.C. Ghosh, Preparation, characterization and evaluation of fluoride adsorption efficiency from water of iron-aluminium oxide-graphene oxide composite material, Chemical Engineering Journal. 306 (2016) 269–279. doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.07.037.

8.      V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, T. Senapati, A. Dey, Dinuclear metal phosphonates and -phosphates, Inorganica Chimica Acta. 363 (2010) 2920–2928. doi:10.1016/j.ica.2010.03.038.

9.      V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, R. Boomishankar, Assembly of tetra, di and mononuclear molecular cadmium phosphonates using 2,4,6-triisopropylphenylphosponic acid and ancillary ligands, Dalton Trans. (2008) 5189. doi:10.1039/b803256d.

10.  V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, First example of a molecular Ce(iii) phosphonate: synthesis, structural characterization and catalytic activity of [Ce2{Ph3CPO2(OEt)}4(NO3)2(H2O)4], structural diversity of Ph3CPO3H2, Dalton Trans. (2008) 6475. doi:10.1039/b807801g.

11.  V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, P. Thilagar, Formation of a Double-Bicapped Hexatin Phosphate Cage by a De-arylation Reaction. Synthesis and Structure of [(PhSn)6(μ-OH)2(μ3-O)2(μ-OEt)4{(ArO)PO3}4] (Ar = 2,6-i-Pr2C6H3), Organometallics. 26 (2007) 4386–4388. doi:10.1021/om700421b.

12.  V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, R. Boomishankar, G. Anantharaman, Assembly of Lipophilic Tetranuclear (Cu4 and Zn4 ) Molecular Metallophosphonates from 2,4,6-Triisopropylphenylphosponic Acid and Pyrazole Ligands, Inorg. Chem. 45 (2006) 3344–3351. doi:10.1021/ic060003y.

13.  V. Chandrasekhar, P. Sasikumar, P. Singh, R. Thirumoorthi, T. Senapati, Multi-functional architectures supported on organostannoxane scaffolds, J Chem Sci. 120 (2008) 105–113. doi:10.1007/s12039-008-0013-4.

14.  V. Chandrasekhar, V. Krishnan, P. Sasikumar, V.S.R. Murthy, Chemically Cross-linked Polysilanes as Stable Polymer Precursors for Conversion to Silicon Carbide, J Inorg Organomet Polym. 17 (2007) 439–446. doi:10.1007/s10904-007-9131-6.

15.  V. Chandrasekhar, K. Gopal, L. Nagarajan, P. Sasikumar, P. Thilagar, Stannoxanes and phosphonates: New approaches in organometallic and transition metal assemblies, J Chem Sci. 118 (2006) 455–462. doi:10.1007/BF02703942.

16.  V. Chandrasekhar, R. Boomishankar, K. Gopal, P. Sasikumar, P. Singh, A. Steiner, S. Zacchini, Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Hydrated and Dehydrated Organotin Cations, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2006 (2006) 4129–4136. doi:10.1002/ejic.200600468.

17.  V. Chandrasekhar, P. Thilagar, P. Sasikumar, Multi-site coordination ligands assembled on organostannoxane supports, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 691 (2006) 1681–1692. doi:10.1016/j.jorganchem.2005.11.030.

18.  V. Chandrasekhar, R. Boomishankar, P. Sasikumar, L. Nagarajan, A.W. Cordes, Mononuclear Metal Phosphinates with Ancillary Pyrazole Ligands. Synthesis and X-ray Crystal Structures of [M(Ph2PO2)2(3,5-DMPZ)2] (M = Co, Zn), Z. anorg. allg. Chem. 631 (2005) 2727–2732. doi:10.1002/zaac.200500118.

19.  V. Chandrasekhar, K. Gopal, P. Sasikumar, R. Thirumoorthi, Organooxotin assemblies from SnC bond cleavage reactions, Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 249 (2005) 1745–1765. doi:10.1016/j.ccr.2005.03.028.