The Department of Chemistry, established in September, 1963, is one of the twenty seven Departments/Centers/Schools of IIT Delhi. The department has twenty four distinguished faculties trained at renowned Institutes in India and abroad. In addition, the department is supported by a dedicated team of staff members. One of our key objectives is to create good quality human resource. The Department offers core courses in chemistry for undergraduate B.Tech. students of Engineering in the Institute. In addition, it offers a two years M.Sc. programme, a two years M.Tech. programme and a Ph.D programme. Doctoral and post-doctoral research are carried out in all major areas of chemistry and allied sciences: analytical chemistry, biochemistry, bioinformatics, polymers, organometallics, solid state chemistry, materials chemistry, crystal engineering, nanomaterials, organic synthesis, carbohydrate chemistry, structural biology, molecular recognition, NMR methodology, theoretical chemistry, computer simulations and others. The department is adequately equipped with state-of-art analytical facilities to carry out modern day chemistry.

Prof. RAVI SHANKAR,HEAD OF DEPARTMENT

• Polarimeter (Rudolph, Autopal III & V). • Vapour Pressure Osmometer (Knauer). • Ion Chromatograph (792 Basic IC, Metrohm). • Circular Dichroism. • Dynamic Light Scattering (Malvern) • Fermentor (Applicon) • Deep Freezer • Scanning Electron Microscope (Phillips) • Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. • Glass Blowing. • High Resolution Transmission Electron Microscope (FEI) • Atomic Force Microscope/STM • ESI LC MS-MS (Applied Biosystems, USA). • BET • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

• Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer (Bruker)

• Powder X-ray Diffractometer (Bruker).

• DPX-300 NMR Spectrometer (Bruker).

• Mass Spectrometer (Bruker)

• FTIR Spectrometer (Nicolet, Protege 460).

• UV-Visible Spectrophotometer (Lambda Bio 20, Perkin Elmer / Model 330, Hitachi, Beckman).

• Thermal gravimetric analyzer (Perkin Elmer).

• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (Perkin Elmer).

• C,H,N Analyzer (Perkin Elmer 2400).

• Fluorescence Spectrometer.

• Fast protein Liquid Chromatography.

• Gas Chromatograph (Dionex).

• Gel Permeation Chromatography.

• High Pressure Liquid Chromato-graph (Waters

1525) GPC. The Department is also in the process of acquiring aConfocal Raman Microscope.

• Quantum Chemistry

• Group Theory & Spectroscopy

• Pericyclic Reactions and Photochemistry

• Supramolecular Chemistry

• Computational Methods and Analysis

• Molecular Thermodynamics

• Organic Synthesis

• Solid State Chemistry

• Basic Organometallic Chemistry

• Statistical Mechanics & Molecular Simulation Methods

• Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds

• Instrumental Methods of Analysis• Transition and Inner-transition Metal

Chemistry• Polymer Chemistry• Chemistry of High Temperature Materials• Chemical Dynamics and Surface Chemistry• Main Group Chemistry and Inorganic Solids• Chemistry of Macromolecules• Electroanalytical Chemistry• Cheminformatics and Molecular Modeling• X-ray and Electron Microscopic Methods• Chemistry of Industrial Catalysts • Chemistry of Nanostructured Materials • On-line Methods of Chemical Analysis

• Metalloporphyrin catalyzed oxidation reactions of organic and organometalliccompounds

• fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) to monitor protein dynamics

• cyclic phosphorus nitrogen compounds and organometallic sandwich compounds especially ferrocene and the cobalt sandwich compound CpCoC4Ph4

• Microemulsions, nanomaterials, superconductors, metal oxides and intermetallics

• Protein engineering , Supramolecular Chemistry , Organic Synthesis and Protein/Peptide mimicry

• physico-chemical perspective , tertiary structure prediction of proteins (Bhageerath and Bhageerath-H) and protein/DNA targeted lead molecule design (Sanjeevini)

• Heteronuclear decoupling in solids and long-lived states and coherences in NMR

• Optical spectroscopy, advanced fluorescence techniques, chemosensors, photophysical processes.

• synthesis and applications of nanocrystals: in semiconductor nanocrystals or quantum dots .

RESEARCHES @ CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT