DOCTORAL THESES (chemistry): Recent submissions

  • DEVELOPMENT OF NEW LAYERED OXIDE AND OXYHALIDE TITANATES FOR SOLAR PHOTOCATALYSIS 
    Naresh, Gollapally (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-03)
    Release of organic pollutants by various industries is of serious concern due to their harmful environmental and health effects. Development of novel semiconductor photocatalysts for rapid degradation of these pollutants ...
  • SYNTHESIS OF METAL OXIDES NANOSTRUCTURES FOR THE REMOVAL OF TOXIC RESIDUES 
    Monu (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-04)
    From the last few decades, decontamination of chemical warfare agents (CWA) in the battlefield conditions and removal of heavy metal ions from the polluted water are the major challenges for the scientific community for ...
  • DETERMINATION, DEGRADATION AND REMOVAL OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS 
    Gupta, Himanshu (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-09)
    Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are among the few toxic materials present ubiquitously in the environment. Pollution is growing explosively as a result of rapid industrialization in the developed and developing ...
  • SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATIONS OF β- AND MESOSUBSTITUTED PORPHYRINS 
    Kumar, Ravi (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-06)
    Substituted porphyrins have unique electronic and optical properties that empower their use as model compounds of biological importance and potential material applications. The advantage of using porphyrin ligands is ...
  • DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ADSORBENTS FOR REMOVAL OF NOXIOUS IMPURITIES FROM WASTEWATER 
    Tyagi, Inderjeet (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-04)
    Over the past few years, the quality of water is of very important concern for living beings as well prevailing flora and fauna since it has direct connection with the human welfare and ecosystem. Numerous unwanted and ...
  • SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF METAL OXIDE/METAL SULFIDE NANOCOMPOSITES 
    Yadav, Sudheer Kumar (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-02)
    Nanoscale materials exhibit size dependent physicochemical properties such as optical, magnetic, catalytic, etc, which vary significantly from that of bulk materials. Nanocomposites are multi-phase materials in which at ...
  • STUDIES ON SOME CHEMICAL SENSORS FOR BIOMOLECULES AND TOXIC METALS 
    Shoora, Sudhir Kumar (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-12)
    Analytical chemistry has developed tools and methods for qualitative and quantitative analysis of species in a various variety of samples. In these days, growing industrialization has exerted substantial pressure on the ...
  • SYNTHESIS OF CHELATING IONOPHORES AND THEIR ELECTROANALYTICAL STUDIES AS CHEMICAL SENSORS 
    Sahani, Manoj Kumar (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-12)
    Environmental pollution is defined as the undesirable changes in physical, chemical and biological characteristics of ecosystem. It is therefore important to study the adulteration caused by pollution and its consequences ...
  • CHIRAL SEPARATION OF PHARMACEUTICAL COMPOUNDS USING LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY 
    Singh, Manisha (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-06)
    In chiral drugs, “often only one of the enantiomers is responsible for the desired physiological effects while the other enantiomer is less active, inactive, or sometimes even causing adverse effects. Drugs composed of ...
  • UNCONVENTIONAL PROTEIN TARGETS OF MULTI DRUG RESISTANT ACINETOBACTER 
    Tomar, Jyoti Singh (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-11)
    Bacteria can be grouped into two categories as beneficial and harmful. The bacteria which coexist with humans without causing any diseases are known as beneficial. Sometimes, these turn out to be dangerous when they ...
  • ASSESSMENT OF METAL SENSING ABILITIES OF SOME OPTICAL CHEMOSENSORS 
    Kumawat, Lokesh Kumar (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-11)
    Transition and post-transition metal ions such as Al3+, Hg2+, Cr3+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Pb2+, As3+ etc. are presented in many industrial effluents. Many of these metal ions have toxic pollutant nature and are responsible for ...
  • INTERACTION OF ORGANOTIN MOIETIES WITH DNA AND NUCLEIC ACID CONSTITUENTS 
    Kompelli, Nagamani (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-06)
    Due to tremendous contribution in agricultural, industrial, nanotechnology and pharmaceutical fields, the significance of organometallic compounds escalated rapidly in recent years. Organotin(IV) compounds have extensive ...
  • SYNTHESIS OF CORE-SHELL NANOPARTICLES AND STUDIES ON THEIR PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS 
    Kandula, Syam (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2016-04)
    Nanoparticles exhibit size and shape dependent optical, magnetic and other physicochemical properties, which are different from that of bulk materials. Among the nanoparticles, core-shell nanoparticles are receiving ...
  • SOME ASPECTS OF MANGANESE AND IRON CHEMISTRY WITH POLYDENTATE LIGANDS 
    Rathi, Sweety (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-12)
    Coordination chemistry is an important branch of chemistry which deals with study of compounds formed between metal ions and ligands (neutral or negatively charged). Inorganic chemistry has several branches and bioinorganic ...
  • DESIGN, SYNTHESIS AND ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BINDING STUDY OF FLAVONE AND INDANONE BASED LIGANDS 
    Pathe, Gulab Khushalrao (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-07)
    The thesis entitle “Design Synthesis and Estrogen Receptor Binding Study of Flavone and Indanone Based Ligands” is divided into five chapters. The present work is aimed to synthesize the novel flavone and indanone based ...
  • ENANTIOSEPARATION OF CERTAIN PHARMACEUTICALS BY LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY 
    Vinod (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-11)
    Enantiomers of a compound show difference in physiological and chemical activity in biological systems. In general, one enantiomer of most of the racemic drugs shows significantly higher pharmacological activity than the ...
  • BENZOTHIADIAZOLE DERIVATIVES FOR PHOTOVOLTAIC DEVICES 
    Bolisetty, M. N. K. Prasad (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-05)
    Organic materials containing low band-gap chromophores such as benzothiadiazole, benzotriazole, diketopyrrolopyrrole, isoindigo, quinoxaline, phthalimide, thiazolo[5,4-d]thiazole, and benzo[1,2-d:4,5-d′]bisthiazole.etc ...
  • VOLTAMMETRIC SENSORS FOR BIOMOLECULES AND DRUGS 
    Chasta, Himanshu (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-04)
    Last few years have seen a great proliferation of research interest by electrochemists at the interface of nanotechnology and electrochemistry. Advancements in electrochemistry make it possible to study and understand ...
  • COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES ON OLEFIN METATHESIS REACTIONS 
    Meena, Jay Singh (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2014-04)
    Olefin metathesis is a unique carbon skeleton redistribution in which unsaturated carbon-carbon bonds are rearranged in the presence of metal carbene complexes. With the advent of efficient catalysts, this reaction has ...
  • DESIGN & SYNTHESIS OF PROSPECTIVE ANTIMALARIALS BY [4+1] MULTICOMPONENT REACTION 
    Kumar, Manoj (Dept. of Chemistry Engineering iit Roorkee, 2015-06)
    From its discovery about two decades ago, multicomponent reactions based on [4+1] cycloaddition of in situ generated enone to isocyanides have remained a rich sources of structural diversity and have provided access to ...