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International Conference on “Recent Developments in Chemical Research 2019”
Conference report
The two day International conference on “Recent Developments in Chemical Research” was held at IIIM campus of IIS University on 1 and 2 February 2019.
The conference was inaugurated by an invocation to Lordess Saraswati succeeded by lamp lightning by our distinguished guests. Dr. Ashok Gupta, VC, IIS University extended the warm welcome to all the resource persons and particpants.
Prof. Bansal introduced the participants about the aims and objectives of the conference followed by the encouraging words and support from Prof. Goverdhan Mehta. The warmth shown by Prof. Mehta reinforced the enthusiasm and spirit of the entire audience present.
Before the advent of the conference, the science magazine, Science Spectrum and the abstract booklet of the conference were released after which Prof. Raakhi Gupta offered a vote of thanks.
First Plenary lecture was chaired by Prof. Dietrich Gudat. The speaker for the session was Prof. Derek P. Gates. His lecture focused on development of polymerization chemistry for phosphaalkenes and the application of the phosphorus containing polymers for fluorescent sensors.
Technical session I was chaired by Prof. Gerhard Haegele. The speakers for the session were Prof. K. C. Kumaraswamy, Prof. Dietrich Gudat, and Prof. R.K. Bansal. Prof. K. C. Kumaraswamy talked about a variety of catalytic and non-catalytic transformations and mechanisms explored by him and his co-workers. Prof. Dietrich Gudat highlighted the various aspects of reactivity of N-heterocyclic phosphine and their hydrides whereas Prof. R.K. Bansal discussed reactivity of 2-phosphaindolizines and their derivatives towards Diels-Alder and electrophilic substitution reactions.
Technical session II was chaired by Prof. Derek P. Gates. The speakers for the session were Prof. Gerhard Haegele and Prof. R. Murugavel. Prof. Gerhard Haegele discussed the synthesis of phosphinic acid esters by Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction and analysis of their stereoisomers by high resolution NMR spectral analysis, XRD and molecular modelling. Prof. R. Murugavel discussed the synthetic strategies for ceramic phosphates, tetranuclear zinc phosphates and their 1,2 and 3-Dimensional clusters.
Prof. Dalip Kumar chaired the technical session III where the speaker Dr. Neelima Gupta discussed about the synthesis of 2-phosphaindolizines and their possible cycloaddition reaction with electron rich and deficient dienes.
Technical session IV was chaired by Prof. K.C. Kumaraswamy and the speakers were Dr. Easwar Srinivasan and Prof. Anil Kumar.
Dr. Srinivasan talked about the modular design of urea and ion tagged proline based organocatalysts for asymmetric aldol reaction. Prof. Anil Kumar discussed transition metal free strategies for the synthesis and functionalization of Imidazo-heterocycles.
Later, Prof. Goverdhan Mehta delivered a “Popular Lecture”. He started with evolution of chemistry – how it has changed from “utility science” to “sustainable science”. He particularly focused on importance of role of chemistry in “circular economy”. He highlighted the term “circular chemistry” and emphasized that there should be the end of (make, use, dispose) era and onset of reuse, refurbish, re- and upcycle era. He also emphasized that inculcating ethics and cultural competency is important during learning process.
The first day ended with cultural performance given by IIS University students.
Second day of the conference commenced with second Plenarylecture, whichwas chaired by Prof. Bharatam and the speaker was Prof. Robert Berger. He explained how simple polyhalomethanes can play crucial role as sensitive probes for fundamental interactions.
Technical session V was chaired by Prof. R. Murugavel where speakers were Prof. Ralf Tonner and Prof. Ganesh Pandey. Prof. Ralf Tonner discussed about adsorption dynamics, surface bonding, and surface reactivity of cyclooctyne and tetrahydrofuran on silicon surface based on electronic structure method.
Prof. Ganesh Pandey talked about the importance of natural product synthesis and discussed the total synthesis of some natural molecules (Gracilamine, Crinine, Amabiline, Mesembrrine, stanine, and Gephyrotoxin (to name a few).
Technical session VI was chaired by Prof. Robert Berger and speakers were Prof. Sandeep Verma and Prof. Bharatam. Prof. Sandeep Verma discussed about a thiol catalyzed neuronal nitric oxide releasing scaffold and further used morphometric analysis to determine the neurite outgrowth.Prof. Bharatam discussed the electronic structure, synthesis, phase transfer catalysis and medicinal properties of CN coordination compounds.
Technical session VII was chaired by Prof. R. K. Bansal and speaker was Prof. Dalip Kumar. He discussed about the preparation of bio-active heterocycles using diaryliodonium salts.
In this conference, 35 faculties, 34 research scholars, 35 undergraduate and postgraduate students presented posters and three oral presentations were given. A formal vote of thanks was given by Dr Pragya Sinha.