Debashis Chakraborty joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT – Madras in 2005 after the rigourous post – doctoral and industrial experience. He is an organometallic chemist and his research focusses upon catalyst development for polymer synthesis and homogeneous catalysis, activation of water and CO2

Guidance

1. Ph. D. Level

2010
Ravikumar R. Gowda

Cyclic ester and lactide polymerization by activated monomer mechanism: progress, challenges and opportunities

2012
Payal Malik

Synthesis, structural characterization of phosphoramidates, thiophosphoramidates, arylhydrogenphosphates and their role as catalyst towards the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters

2012
Tanmoy Kumar Saha

Imino phenoxide complexes of group 4 metals: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies

2015
Swarup Ghosh

Main group complexes containing imino(phenoxide) scaffold: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies

2016
Bijja Rajashekhar

Homoleptic complexes of group 4 metals: synthesis, structural characterization and studies on the ring opening polymerization of cyclic esters

2016
Sagnik K. Roymuhury

Ring opening polymerization of lactide using group 4 metals containing bi-, tri- and tetradentate scaffolds

2016
Mrinmay Mandal

Group 4 complexes bearing half-salen, salen, salan and salphen ligands: synthesis, characterization and polymerization studies

2016
Dipa Mandal

Group 4 complexes of [NNO], [OO] and [NO]-type donor ligands: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies

2017
Sreenath Pappuru

Ring-opening homo and copolymerization studies of monomers using group 4 metal complexes containing benzotriazole and benzoxazole ligands

2020
Kriti Aakansha

Process development for decolorization and degradation of azo dyes by microorganisms

2020
Anjaneyulu Kummari

Lewis pair catalysts in polymer synthesis: new routes towards the synthesis of fully alternating polyesters and hyperbranched polyglycerols

2. M. Sc. Level

2006
Dhruba Sarkar
Schiff base complexes of Fe(III): synthesis, characterization and polymerization studies
2006
M. Kumaravel
Synthesis and characterization of Schiff base complexes of molybdenum
2007
Sandip Mukherjee
Alkoxides and aryloxides of Ti(IV): synthesis, characterization and polymerization studies
2008
B. Rajashekhar
Formation of phosphonic acid anion through metal assisted hydrolysis of the P-N bond
2009
P. Sudarsanam
Cationic ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone using phosphonic acid initiators
2011
Vinod Kumar Goda
Fe(III) catalyzed oxidation of sulfides
2012
Sashidhar Reddy
Lactide polymerization using a chiral iminophenolate of Zr
2012
Ajay Kumar Jana
Iminophenolate compound of Ga: synthesis, characterization and studies on bulk polymerization of lactides
2013
Abhijit Mondal
Zr(IV) complexes containing salan type ligand: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies
2017
Apurba Taye
Ring-opening co-polymerization studies using binuclear Co, Ni, Cu and Zn complexes containing bis-benzoxazole phenoxide ligands
2017
Suman Das
Ring-opening co-polymerization studies using bimetallic Ni and Zn complexes containing benzoxazole phenoxide ligands
2019
Lunthinglien Chiru
Metal free catalysts for the copolymerization of epoxides with anhydrides
2022
Koushik Roy
Synthesis of PLA using Zn(II) catalysts containing unsymmetrical phenoxy-imine ligands with thiophen-2-ylmethanimine side arms
2022
Ajay Mishra
Ring-opening polymerization catalysts of Ti(IV) derived from phenoxy imine ligands containing a furan-2-ylmethanimine side arm