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 Programme Schedule ****************************************************************************************** 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM Inaugural address by Prof. Santanu Bhattacharya, 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 Chemistry in Self-assembled Molecular Vessels Mukherjee, IISc Bangalore 10:25 AM -10:55 Dr. N. Sengupta, Modulating self-assembled amyloidogenic states via solvent AM IISER Kolkata and temperature: Insights from Computer Simulations 11:00 AM – 11:30 Prof. Nitin Patil, Accessing Fluorophores via Metal-Mediated AM 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 Prof. S. P. Rath, Probing Bis-FeIV MauG: Spin Coupling and Isolation PM IIT Kanpur of Highly Reactive Radical Intermediates 12:35 PM - 1:05 PM Dr. D. H. Dethe, Transition Metal Catalysed C-H Activation: IIT Kanpur Application in Total Synthesis of Natural Products 1:05 PM - 1:17 PM Mr. Soumya Mukherjee, IACS Nonadiabatic interactions in benzene cation: A five state beyond Born-Oppenheimer treatment (Supervisor: Prof. S. Adhikari) 1:17 PM – 1:30 PM Mr. Sayan Sarkar, IACS Selective Single Step Oxidation of Amine to Cross Azo Compounds with an Unhampered Primary (Supervisor: Prof. P. Ghosh) 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 Media: IIT Bombay 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 Samaresh Bhattacharya, Jadavpur University 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 Prof. Ankan Paul, IACS Comprehending the Quadruple Bonding Conundrum in C2 using insights derived from Excited State Potential Energy Surfaces: A Molecular Orbital perspective 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. spectrometry Chakraborty) 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, TBA IISER Kolkata 10:05 AM - 10:35 Dr. Sayan Bagchi, Deep eutectic solvents - transition from ionic AM NCL Pune mixture to aqueous solution: a 2DIR spectroscopic study 10:40 AM –10:52 Mr. Dhiman Saha, IACS Total Synthesis and Stereochemical Assignment of AM (Supervisor: Prof. R. K. Penicitide A Goswami) 10:52 AM – 11:05 Mr. Nilangshu Mandal, IACS Negative Hyperconjugation Assists very long C-C AM (Supervisor: Prof. A. Datta) Single Bonds and Planar Amines 11:05 AM -11:30 AM: Tea break Session 2 Chairperson: Professor Deb Shankar Ray, IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 11:30 AM -12:00 Dr. Sayam Sengupta, TBA Noon IISER Kolkata 12:05 PM -12:35 PM Prof. Alakesh Bisai, IISER Total Synthesis of Architecturally Complex 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 3 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 Dr. Joyram Guin, IACS Asymmetric Ion-Pairing Catalysis with N- Heterocyclic Carbene 4:35 PM – 4:50 PM: Tea break Session 4 Chairperson: Professor Tapas Chakraborty, IACS Time Speaker Title of the talk 4:50 PM – 5:02 PM Mr. Swapneswar Mandal, Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) IACS based coordination complexes for cell imaging and (Supervisor: Prof. P. drug delivery Dastidar) 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. Aishik Bhattacharya, Mechanism of SO2 reduction by iron prophyrins IACS (Supervisor: Prof. A. Dey) 5:45 PM-6:00 PM Mr. Arnab Kr Nath Reactive copper-oxygen intermediates of Cu-Aβ IACS complex relevant to Alzheimer’s Disease (Superviser: Prof. S Ghosh Dey) .