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Curriculum development workshop
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A curriculum development workshop was organised by the Department of Chemistry on 28-29 April 2019 for reviewing of complete PG syllabus. Distinguished guests for different institutions participated this workshop. For details the minutes are given.

Minutes for the curriculum development workshop in chemistry held on  28-29 April, 2018  at the ICG campus, Jaipur

 

The following members were present:

S. No.

Member

Designation
  1.  

Prof. Pradeep Bhatnagar

Dean, Faculty of Science

The IIS University, Jaipur

Chairperson

 
  1.  

Prof. J. M. Khurana

University of Delhi

North Campus, Mall Road,

Delhi-110007

Member
  1.  

Prof. Rajeev Gupta

Professor Department of Chemistry

University of Delhi

North Campus, Mall Road,

Delhi-110007

Member
  1.  

Prof. S. K. Dogra

Retd. Professor, Department of Chemistry

IIT, Kanpur

Member
  1.  

Prof. S. D. Samant

Dept. of Chemistry

ICT, Mumbai

Member
  1.  

Dr. Tanmoy Chakraborty

Dept. of Chemistry

Manipal University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Raghu Chitta

Dept. of Chemistry

Central University of Rajasthan, Kishangarh

Member
  1.  

Prof. R. K. Bansal

Emeritus Professor,Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Prof. Raakhi Gupta

Registrar

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Manisha Patni

Associate Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Pragya Sinha 

Associate  Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Deepak Singh Rajawat

 Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Pratibha Mittal

Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Ruchi Singh

Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

 Dr. Trapti Gupta

Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Lav Kumar Varma

Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Tanuja Kumari

Asstt. Professor Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Priyanka Jain

Assistant Professor

Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member
  1.  

Dr. Varsha Goyal

Associate Professor

Head, Dept. of Chemistry

The IIS University, Jaipur

Member Secretary

 

At the outset, the dean, Prof. Pradeep Bhatnagar welcomed all the members of the BOS.

Prof. R. K. Bansal chaired the session. The syllabus for the MSc  Chemistry is considered for discussion. Initially all the members discussed about the credit template, scheme of examinations, title of papers and practical papers. Suggestions made after the discussion are-

  1. Change in the Credit template was proposed. It was suggested to keep the credits of all the semester almost equal. Respective modifications were suggested. Major change in the credit of the dissertation of MSc Sem IV i.e. reduced from 20 to 10.

 

  1. A change in the scheme of the examination was proposed. It was suggested to merge Research methodology paper with Seminar CHY 227. Respective change in the scheme of examination of this paper was suggested.

 

  1. Dr Tanmoy Chakraborty suggested incorporating Course out come and programme outcome. He also suggested to use the references in two sections- Text books and suggested readings.

 

  1. In laboratory course, a new paper was proposed on laboratory safety for the 1st year students, to improve laboratory awareness. It was proposed to include it as compulsory paper. In laboratory course it was suggested to use micro kits. There are some suggestions for the shuffling of the content. Particularly for Seminar, it was suggested to use language laboratory for Seminar.

 

  1. Some other suggestions are as follows-
  • It was suggested to introduce some new papers.
  • Modifications in the title of some papers were suggested.
  • It was suggested to remove green chemistry content from Environmental and green chemistry paper and the title of the paper was changed to Environmental chemistry.

There after all the members were dispersed in three groups- Inorganic, Organic and physical according to their respective fields. The discussion continued in groups on the next day. After lunch all the groups assembled and discussed the suggestions. The meeting ended with a vote of thanks.

 

Workshop: Demonstration of “Drying of Solvents and Chromatographic Techniques”
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  Date: 16-18 August 2017

Venue: C-506

  Participants: M.Sc. Semester III students

  Number of students: 32

  Resource Person: Ms. Manjinder Kour, Research Scholar, IIS University, Jaipur

Drying of solvents is an important step in inorganic and organic synthesis with non-aqueous solvents. Chromatographic techniques also play an important role in Chemistry. With the aim to inculcate the students with these techniques this workshop was organized.

 

The workshop on “Drying of Solvent & Chromatographic Techniques” was organized by the Department of Chemistry for M.Sc. Semester III students under the supervision of Ms. Manjinder Kour on 16th and 18th Aug, 2017. She explained the importance of solvent drying and effect of impurities in a solvent including moisture. Describing the importance of solvent drying, it was explained that it is more economical to purify commercial grades than to purchase more expensive Analytical grades.

 

Next day lecture and demonstration on “Chromatography techniques: Column and Thin Layer Chromatography” was carried out. Column Chromatography is a method used to purify and separate individual compounds in a mixture.

 

Experimentally also, they performed Column Chromatography and prepared TLC plates. The workshop was summed up with the question answer session.

Next day another method for the drying of high boiling point solvents was demonstrated.

 

After the workshop the students were able to dry solvent with appropriate technique and use chromatographic techniques whenever required.

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Workshop: An Introduction to ChemDraw
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Date: August 12, 2017

Venue: AV Hall

No. of Participants:32

Demonstrator: Ms. Manjinder Kour, Research Scholar, The IIS University, Jaipur

 

ChemDraw is software used for the generation of chemical structure. The knowledge of ChemDraw is essential for the UG, PG and Research students so that they can present cleaner, authentic and high resolution structure in their work. With this aim we have planned to organize this workshop.

The workshop on “ChemDraw” was organized for all the M.Sc. Students on 12th August 2017 at the IIS University Jaipur. Ms. Manjinder Kour wonderfully simplified the use of ChemDraw program which helped the students to efficiently draw simple 2-D representations of organic molecules, chemical formulae and reaction schemes required for their seminar reports, publications and thesis.

The workshop began with the introduction of ChemDraw. Ms. Manjinder guided the students about the software, how to draw molecular structures and also the importance of that software. ChemDraw is a molecule editor application first developed in 1985 by David A Evans and Stewart Rubenstein. ChemOffice suite consists of three programs viz. ChemDraw, Chem3D and ChemFinder, and is available for MacOS and Microsoft Windows.

ChemDraw has many applications viz. drawing chemical structures, giving names to chemical structure, in the conversion of a chemical name to structure, in NMR spectrum simulation (1H and 13C), in mass spectrum simulation, and in structure cleanup. It has an extensive collection of templates, including style templates for most of the major chemical journals, exporting to SVG and PDF format.

Students learned to draw different structures on ChemDraw under the supervision of Ms. Manjinder Kour. The workshop was over with Q&A session at 10.30 a.m.

After the workshop students were able to draw the structures in ChemDraw and its use in the interpretation of IR, NMR and Mass spectrum.

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Guest lecture by Prof. P. S. Kalsi on advanced stereochemistry
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Speaker: Prof. P. S. Kalsi, Retd. Punjab Technical University, Ludhiana

Date: 19/03/2018 and 20/03/2018

Venue: A.V Hall

 

Prof. P. S. Kalsi delivered a lecture on “Advanced Stereochemistry”. The lecture was attended by PG Chemistry students and Research Scholars. He started his lecture with the basics of stereochemistry. Various important topic like chiral carbon, asymmetry, topocity, configurations and conformations were discussed beautifully. At the end, he discussed the applications of stereochemistry in pharmaceutical chemistry such as Adamantane in drug discovery.

The lecture was very informative and was of great benefit to the students and enriched them with the fundamentals and applications of Stereochemistry.

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Guest lecture by Dr. P. V. Bhartam on anticancer agents and drug design
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Date: 09/10/2017

Venue: A.V hall

Speaker: Dr. P.V. Bharatam, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, NIPER, S.A.S. Nagar (Mohali), Punjab

 

Prof. P.V. Bhartam delivered a lecture on anticancer agents and design. The lecture was attended by PG Chemistry students and Research Scholars. His lecture focused on Pharmacoinformatics studies on Human Topoisomerase- II, exploring the mechanism of enzyme inhibition. Pharmacoinformatics come from Greek word ‘pharmacon’ (Biologically active substances) and information technology. he said that this discipline evolved from communication between medicine/pharmacy and computer science. The study is concerned with modelling and simulation of drugs behaviour and the technique employed includes molecular docking, molecular dynamics, virtual screening etc. The students got acquainted with the catalytic cycle of   Topoisomerase- II, an enzyme which is abundantly present in cancerous cells. This enzyme modulates the topological state of DNA in the cell and regulates DNA over winding and under winding and remove knots.

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On the spot essay writing competition
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An on the spot essay writing competition was organized by Department of Chemistry to celebrate “Science Day” on 28/2/18. The theme of the essay writing competition was “Is studying science beneficial or not for your future”. Total 45 students were participated . Out of which best essay was selected by the panel of judges. The best essay writing award goes to –

Monika Jangir,  BSc (H), Semester VI

Activity coordinators:

    Dr. Deepak Singh  Rajawat  / Dr. Ruchi Singh  

 

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Guest Lecture: Interplay of kinetic and thermodynamic controls in organic reaction
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Date:   27/9/2017

Venue: A.V hall

Speaker: Prof. S. D. Samant, Department of Chemistry, ICT, Mumbai

 

A guest lecture was organized by the Department of Chemistry, The IIS University on 27 September, 2017 with Prof. S. D. Samantas the Guest Speaker. The topic of discussion was Interplay of kinetic and thermodynamic controls in organic reactions.

Various issues related to chemical reaction like material used, stoichiometry, unit process, waste generated, hazards and risks associated, energy requirements were discussed. The concept of Energy used and cost was highlighted. A guiding principle of organic synthesis was analyzed which stated “Higher yield, more selectivity and lesser time”.

Reaction can be controlled kinetically or thermodynamically by playing with temperature and time. Hammond postulate of transition state resembles that state closer to it in free energy was the basis of explanation. Various reactions like E2 Elimination, Diels-Alder Reaction, Enolate formation, Ylide reaction, Micheal addition were described. Also the stability of ortho, para, meta products was explained.

The lecture was very informative and had a great practical approach. The lecture was of great benefit to the students and enriched them with the fundamentals of Organic Chemistry.

On the spot essay writing competition
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An on the spot essay writing competition was organized by Department of Chemistry to celebrate “Science Day” on 28/2/18. The theme of the essay writing competition was “Is studying science beneficial or not for your future”. Total 45 students were participated . Out of which best essay was selected by the panel of judges. The best essay writing award goes to –

Monika Jangir,  BSc (H), Semester VI

 

Poster Competition
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Poster Competition

 

 

A Poster competition was organised by the Department of Chemistry on 23rd and 24th August 2017. The themes of poster presentations were Natural resources & Medicines and Recent Advancements in Chemistry on 23rd and 24th August respectively. Total 133 posters were displayed by the participants. Out of which best three posters from each category were selected by a panel of judges. The best poster awards are given to-

 

23rd August

(Natural resources and Medicines)

First

Karuna and Anju

Second

Sangeet Chaudhary

Third

Nandini Gupta and Aditi Jain,        Mranali Jain and Tanvi Agrawal

24th August         (Recent advancements in Chemistry)

First

Ridhi Garg and Mansi Singh Kalal

Second

Snehal Gupta and Nikita Sharma

Third

Ayushi Miglani and Kamaldeep Kaur
 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

                Activity Coordinators:  Dr. Deepak Singh Rajawat                           

                                                     Dr. Ruchi Singh                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Notice   

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Guest lecture on Fundamentals of Supramolecular Chemistry
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A guest lecture was organized by the Department of Chemistry, The IIS University on 14 March 2018 with Dr. Jaya Dwivedi, Head, Department of Chemistry, Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali as the Guest Speaker.The topic of discussion was Fundamentals of Supramolecular Chemistry.

Various important topics were discussed like advent of modern supramolecular chemistry, molecular recognition, pre-organisation, co-operativity, complementarity, nature of supramolecular interactions, cation binding hosts which included crown ethers, cryptands, siderophores and calixarenes. Anion binding hosts like hexacyclen, cyclophane, porphyrin guanidinium-based hosts, organometallic hosts were also described. Neutral hosts were also talked about. Anticrowns were also discussed by Dr. Dwivedi.

The lecture was very informative. The lecture was of great benefit to the students and enriched them with the fundamentals of Supramolecular Chemistry.

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