Innovations and Advances in Chemical Sciences, (InAdvanCS-2020) School of Chemical Sciences Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Date: March 16-17, 2020 Venue: C.V. Raman Hall, 2nd Floor, IACS Main Building

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9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Inaugural address by Prof. , Director, IACS

Day-1 (16th March 2020)

Session 1

Chairperson: Professor Sankar Prasad Bhattacharyya, IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 9:50 AM -10:20 AM Prof. Parthasarathi Mukherjee, Chemistry in Self-assembled Molecular Vessels IISc Bangalore 10:25 AM -10:55 AM Dr. N. Sengupta, Modulating self-assembled amyloidogenic states via IISER Kolkata solvent and temperature: Insights from Computer Simulations 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Prof. Nitin Patil, Accessing Fluorophores via Metal-Mediated IISER Bhopal Intramolecular Amino-Functionalization of Alkynes 11:30 AM - 12:00 AM Noon: Tea break

Session 2

Chairperson: Professor Sanjib Ghosh, Adamas University Time Speaker Title of the talk 12:00 Noon -12:30 PM Prof. S. P. Rath, Probing Bis-FeIV MauG: Spin Coupling and IIT Kanpur Isolation of Highly Reactive Radical Intermediates 12:35 PM - 1:05 PM Dr. Sayan Bagchi, Deep eutectic solvents - transition from ionic NCL Pune mixture to aqueous solution: a 2DIR spectroscopic study 1:05 PM - 1:17 PM Mr. Soumya Mukherjee, IACS Nonadiabatic interactions in benzene cation: A five (Supervisor: Prof. S. Adhikari) state beyond Born-Oppenheimer treatment 1:17 PM – 1:30 PM Mr. Sayan Sarkar, IACS Selective Single Step Oxidation of Amine to Cross (Supervisor: Prof. P. Ghosh) Azo Compounds with an Unhampered Primary Benzyl Alcohol Functionality 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch break

Session 3:

Chairperson: Professor Brindaban Chandra Ranu, IACS Time Speaker Title of talk 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM Dr. Arindam Chawdhury, Single-Molecule Transport in Heterogeneous IIT Bombay Media: Stop, hop and jump? 3:05 PM - 3:35 PM Dr. Amit Majumdar, IACS Comparative Reactivity of Thiolates and Hydrosulfides with Nitric Oxide 3:40 PM - 3:52 PM Ms. Puja Saha, IACS DNA i-motifs synthesize their own binders (Supervisor: Prof. J. Dash) 3:55 PM - 4:10 PM: Tea break

Session 4

Chairperson: Professor , Time Speaker Title of the talk 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM Prof. Samik Nanda, Synthetic Studies towards Naturally Occurring IIT Kharagpur Resorcylic Acid Lactones Paecilomycin C, LL- Z1640-2, L-783,277 and L-783,290 4:50 PM - 5:20 PM Dr. Joyram Guin, IACS Asymmetric Ion-Pairing Catalysis with N- Heterocyclic Carbene 5:25 PM – 5:37 PM Mr. Rahul Dev Jana, IACS Aliphatic C-H Bond Oxygenation with H2O2 by (Supervisor: Prof. T. K. Paine) High-Spin Nonheme Iron Complexes: Role of Lewis Acid and Multimetal Centers on Catalytic Activity and Selectivity 5:37 PM – 5:50 PM Ms. Piyali Chatterjee, IACS Conformational analysis by ion mobility (Supervisor: Prof. T. Chakraborty) spectrometry

Day-2 (17th March 2020)

Session 5

Chairperson: Professor Subrata Ghosh, IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 9:30 AM -10:00 AM Prof. Swadhin Mandal, Metallomimetic Catalysis by Carbon Based IISER Kolkata Radicals 10:05 AM - 10:35 AM Dr. Nanda D. Paul, Exploring Homogeneous Catalysis Using IIEST Shibpur Transition Metal Complexes of Redox Noninnocent Ligands - A Bio-inspired Metal- Ligand Cooperative Approach 10:40 AM –10:52 AM Mr. Dhiman Saha, IACS Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignment (Supervisor: Prof. R. K. Goswami) of Penicitide A 10:52 AM – 11:05 AM Mr. Nilangshu Mandal, IACS Negative Hyperconjugation Assists very long C-C (Supervisor: Prof. A. Datta) Single Bonds and Planar Amines 11:05 AM -11:30 AM: Tea break Session 6

Chairperson: Professor , IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 11:30 AM -12:00 Dr. Sayam Sengupta, Electrochemical Oxidation of O-H and C-H bonds Noon IISER Kolkata 12:05 PM -12:35 PM Prof. Alakesh Bisai, Total Synthesis of Architecturally Complex IISER Kolkata Alkaloids 12:40 PM – 1:10 PM Dr. Avisek Das, IACS Understanding Peptide Self-assembly in Atomistic Details

1:10 PM - 3:30 pm: Lunch break + Poster session

Session 7

Chairperson: Professor Ashutosh Ghosh, Calcutta University Time Speaker Title of the talk 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Prof. Manik Pradhan, Probing Isotope-specific and Spin-selective Water SNBNCBS Molecules by Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy 4:05 PM - 4:35 PM Prof. Ankan Paul, IACS Comprehending the Quadruple Bonding Conundrum in C2 using insights derived from Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces: A Molecular Orbital perspective 4:35 PM – 4:50 PM: Tea break

Session 8

Chairperson: Professor Tapas Chakraborty, IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 4:50 PM – 5:02 PM Mr. Swapneswar Mandal, IACS Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory drugs (Supervisor: Prof. P. Dastidar) (NSAIDs) based coordination complexes for cell imaging and drug delivery 5:05 PM – 5:17 PM Mr. Sumit Sahoo, IACS Retaining Aromaticity in Vinylogous Carba (Supervisor: Dr. H. Rath) Sapphyrin 5:20 PM – 5:32 PM Ms. Mandira Dutta, IACS Motor Proteins: Functions and Mechanisms (Supervisor: Dr. B. Jana) 5:32 PM-5:45 PM Mr. Arnab Ghatak, IACS Role of Guanidine Pendant in heterolysis of O-O (Supervisor: Prof. A. Dey) bond in heme ferric peroxides 5:45 PM-6:00 PM Mr. Arnab Kr Nath, IACS Reactive copper-oxygen intermediates of Cu-Aβ (Superviser: Prof. S Ghosh Dey) complex relevant to Alzheimer’s Disease

6:00 PM: HIGH TEA

List of Poster on 17.03.2020 [Time: 1:10PM to 3:30PM, Venue: Centenary Building]

S.No. Nominations for Poster Title 1 Aishik Bhattacharya Porphyrin based fixation of SO2 2 Arnab Mondal The Tuning Of The Mechanism Of Oxygen Reduction [Superviser: Prof. A Dey] Reaction by Fe-Porphyrins by Changing The Distal Substituents On the porphyrin Macrocycle 3 Ayan Das Synthesis of Transition Metal Hydrosulfides and Thiolate [Superviser: Dr. A Majumdar] Complexes 4 Sucharita Mandal Hierarchical Non-covalent Interactions between Molecules [Superviser: Prof. A Datta] Stabilize Multicomponent Co-crystals 5 Moumita Mukherjee Cobalt Phthalocyanine monolayer: A computational study [Superviser: Prof. A Datta] on oxygen reduction reaction 6 Sumitava Kundu Melting of Entropic Crystals [Superviser: Dr. A Das] 7 Catherine Ghosh Backtracking Mediated Inter-Subunit Assistance in the [Superviser: Dr. B Jana] Folding of Dimeric Catabolite Activator Protein 8 Prasun Pal Synergistic effects of IBS and non-IBS planes dictate [Superviser: Dr. B Jana] antifreeze activity for antifreeze proteins 9 Paulami Ghosh Deactivation pathways of eumelanin monomer: planar or not [Superviser: Dr. D Ghosh] to be planar 10 Madhumita Rano Singlet-Triplet gap in Polyaromatic hydrocarbons [Superviser: Dr. D Ghosh] 11 Buddhadeb Chakraborty Metallocene incorporated N-confused Calixphyrins[1.1.1.1.] [Superviser: Dr. H Rath] 12 Manik Jana Anion binding studies of partially conjugated N-confused N- [Superviser: Dr. H Rath] Methyl pyrrole Oligomers: Synthesis and Characterisation 13 Tridev Ghosh KOtBu-Promoted Transition-Metal-Free Transamidation of [Superviser: Prof. J Dash] Primary and Tertiary Amides with Amines 14 Semantee Bhattacharya Cytidine Derived Hydrogels with Promising Antimicrobial [Superviser: Prof. J Dash] Activities 15 Bhaskar Deb Mondal Kinetic Resolution of Acyclic 1,3-Amidoalcohols via [Superviser: Dr. J Guin] Oxidative N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis 16 Ujjwal Maji Highly Enantioselective α-Amination of Acyclic 1,3- [Superviser: Dr. J Guin] Dicarbonyl via Non-covalent N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis 17 Protap Biswas Deigning Metallogels derived from Zn(II)-Coordination [Superviser: Prof. P Dastidar] polymer anchored with NSAIDs for Anti-inflammatory activity 18 Tanima Nandy Solvent organization around the noncanonical part of [Superviser: Dr. P C Singh] tyrosine modulates its fluorescence properties 19 Abhinanda Chowdhury Multimodal Interactions of Dopamine Hydrochloride with [Superviser: Dr. P C Singh] the Groove Region of DNA: A Key factor in enhanced Stability of DNA 20 Somnath Bej Cu(II) templated [n]pseudorotaxanes (n=2, 3, 4) and [Superviser: Prof. P Ghosh] OFF/ON fluorescence switching via axle substitution 21 Sahidul Mondal Supramolecular Self-Assembly Driven Selective Sensing of [Superviser: Prof. P Ghosh] Phosphate via Halogen Bonding Interaction by Pyrene Pendent Bis-Heteroleptic Ru(II) Complex 22 Joyanta Mondal Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignment of [Superviser: Prof. R K Goswami] Sunshinamide and its Anti-Cancer Activity 23 Sanu Saha Total Synthesis and structural revision of Alveolaride-C [Superviser: Prof. R K Goswami] 24 Madhuparna Roy Heme-Cu-Aβ complexes in Alzheimer's Disease [Superviser: Prof. S Ghosh Dey] 25 Ishita Pal Heme-Aβ complexes in Alzheimer's Disease. [Superviser: Prof. S Ghosh Dey] 26 Ivy Ghosh Highly Selective and Catalytic Oxygenations of C-H and [Superviser: Prof. T K Paine] C=C Bonds by a mononuclear Nonheme High Spin Iron(III)-Alkylperoxo Species 27 Sandip Munshi Reactivity of a Structurally Characterized Fe(IV)-Oxo [Superviser: Prof. T K Paine] Complex on Quinoline Substituted N4Py Scaffold 28 Priyanka Dinda Amino acid based Stimuli Responsive Acrylic and Ring [Superviser: Prof. T K Mandal] Opening Polymers 29 Palash Banerjee Aqueous Photopolymerization of Vinyl Monomer Using [Superviser: Prof. T K Mandal] Unxconventional Ionic Liquid Based Initiators : Introduction of Aromatic Moiety into Polymer Chain Ends 30 Subir Panja Catalyzed Ligand Free Decarboxylative Coupling [Superviser: Prof. B C Ranu] of α-Oxocarboxylic Acid with Aryl Diazonium Tetrafluoroborate: An Access to Unsymmetrical Diaryl Ketones