Chemistry Department

CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

DEPARTMENT PROFILE
Name of the Department: Chemistry

1. FACULTY MEMBERS
2. Dr. Nirmala, M.Sc Chemistry, PHD
3. >Dr. Swati, M.Sc Chemistry,  PHD
4. Ms. RAKHI, M.Sc CHEMISTRY, CSIR NET

1. PROGRAMS OFFERED
2. B. Sc. (Honours) Chemistry
3. B. Sc. Pass course
4. M. Sc. Chemistry

 

1. CORE PAPERS/CORE SUBJECTS (UNDERGRADUATE)
2. Inorganic Chemistry I- Atomic Structure & Chemical Bonding
3. Physical Chemistry I- States of Matter & Ionic Equilibrium
4. Organic Chemistry I- Basics and Hydrocarbons
5. Inorganic Chemistry II- s- and p-Block Elements
6. Physical Chemistry II- Chemical Thermodynamics and its Applications
7. Organic Chemistry II- Oxygen Containing Functional Groups
8. Inorganic Chemistry III- Coordination Chemistry
9. Physical Chemistry III- Phase Equilibria and Electrochemical Cells
10. Organic Chemistry III- Heterocyclic Chemistry
11. Inorganic Chemistry IV- Organometallic Chemistry
12. Physical Chemistry IV- Conductance & Chemical Kinetics
13. Organic Chemistry IV- Biomolecules
14. Inorganic chemistry V (I)- Electronic transition & metal ligand bonding
15. Inorganic chemistry V (II)- Organometallic chemistry
16. Physical Chemistry V (I)- Quantum Chemistry & Spectroscopy
17. Physical Chemistry V (II)- Statistical thermodynamic
18. Organic Chemistry V(I)-  General spectroscopy
19. Organic chemistry V (II)- Organo-phosphours & natural products
20. Inorganic chemistry VI(I)- Pollution & Nuclear chemistry
21. Inorganic chemistry VI(II)- Analytical chemistry & hromatography
22. Physical chemistry VI(I)-  Vibration & Raman spectroscopy
23. Physical chemistry VI(II)- Molecular orbital theory
24. Organic chemistry VI(I)- Drugs & detergents
25. Organic chemistry VI(II)- Pesticides & hormones

 

1. CORE PAPERS/CORE SUBJECTS (POST-GRADUATE)

1. Inorganic chemistry I - Group theory & crystal structure
2. Physical Chemistry I- Chemical kinetics & electrochemistry
3. Organic Chemistry I- Carbene
4. Mathematics for chemist
5. Chemistry of life science
6.  Inorganic Chemistry II- Coordination chemistry & metal carbonyl
7. Physical chemistry II- Quantum mechanics
8.  Organic chemistry II- Electrophilic & nucleophilic substitution
9.  Environmental & analytical chemistry
10. Medicinal aspect of inorganic chemistry
11. Electro analytical chemistry
12. Organotransition metal chemistry

 

V. RESEARCH PAPERS  
1. Mahima & Nirmla Devi, “Effect of nanoclay(s) on physicochemical properties of chitosan/pectin nanocomposite films for wound dressing applications (To be communicated).
* Mahima (M.sc chemistry IV sem student)
2. Nirmla Devi “Development and in vitro characterization of chitosan/starch/halloysite nanotubes ternary nanocomposite films” International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, 127, 222231 (2019).
3. Nirmla Devi,  Chitosan derivative and halloysite nanotubes bionanocomposite Films for Biomedical applications, Applied Innovative Research (Under review).
4. Madhuri Kandalkar, One pot synthesis of bicycle heterocycles Green synthesis International conference on recent trends in chemical science, In 57 Annual Convention of Chemists, 2020.

 

VI. FACILITIES OFFERED
1. Chemistry laboratory is well equipped with advanced instruments and supplies.
2. Standard Operating procedures (SOP) , lab manuals, as well as safety manuals are maintained and are available to the teaching staff, lab attendant, and students.
3. The chemistry lab is fully equipped with safety parameters like first aid, fire buckets, and extinguishers.

VII. AWARDS/RECOGNITION
1. Tamanna et al., (Undergraduate students), 2nd position in  National Science Quiz organised by Govt Girls college sec-14 Gurgram, in October 2018.
2.  Ajay et al., (Undergraduate students), 4th  position in  National Science Quiz organised by Govt Girls college sec-14 Gurgram, in December 2019.
3.Tamanna and Ayushi (Undergraduate students), 2nd and 8th position in District level essay writing competition organised by Govt Girls college sec-14 Gurgram, 2018.
4. Dr. Nirmla Devi, Research Excellence Award for Poster Presentation in “International Seminar on Recent Advances in Chemistry & Materials Sciences 2020 Organized by Indian Chemical Society during the month long program on August, 2020.

 

VIII. CONFERENCES/SEMINARS ATTENDED / CONDUCTED
1. Mahima and Nirmla Devi, Synthesis and optimisation of chitosan-pectin-nanoclay(s) nanocomposite fims, International Virtual conference  on Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (IVCFCS-2021), (Submitted on 8June 2021). (Poster presentation)
2. Madhuri Kandalkar, Energy conservation and solar energy, ISECSE-2020 organised by G.D. Goenka University, Haryana.
3. Nirmla Devi “Carboxymethyl chitosan /Halloysite Nanotubes Bionanocomposite Films for Wound Dressing International Seminar on Recent Advances in Chemistry & Materials Sciences 2020, Organized by Indian Chemical Society to commemorate the 159th Birth Anniversary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray during the month long program on August, 2020 (Poster Presentation).
4. Participated in online Webinar Chemistry of Molecules in Solid-State: Mechanical Effects” Department of Chemistry, Organized by SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamil Nadu, India, on 21 July 2020.
5. Attended a webinar on How to Benefit from Combining TG and FTIR-Part 1: Material Composition Organized by Netzsch-Geratebau, on 6 August 2020
6. Participated in international conference Emerging smart Materials in Applied Chemistry (ESMAC-2020) Organized by Department of Chemistry, School of Applied Science, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar-751024, Odisha, India, on 10-12 August 2020.
7. Nirmla Devi “To study the effect of sepiolite on chitosan/pectin/sepiolite nanocomposite films” National Conference on Relationship between Chemical Science and Society, Organized by Shivaji College University of Delhi, Delhi, 16-17 January, 2020. (Poster Presentation)