Dr. B. K. Das

Professor

Professional Experience

• 2007; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, INSA Visiting Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. J.K. Dattagupta
• 2001, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, Academic Affiliate at the Center for Fundamental Material Research .
• 1999, University of York, UK , Commonwealth Visiting Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. J.H. Clark .
• 1993-1995, Michigan State University, USA, Postdoctoral Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. M.G. Kanatzidis.
• 1992, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, Visiting Fellow in the laboratory of Prof. C.N.R. Rao.
• 1986-1991, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Ph.D. in Chemistry. Research Supervisor: Prof. A.R. Chakravarty.
• 1986, Gauhati University, M.Sc. in Chemistry. Specialization: Inorganic Chemistry.
• 1983, Cotton College, Guwahati, B.Sc. (with Honours in Chemistry).

Awards

• 2001; Academic Affiliate Award (Michigan State University).
• 1999; Commonwealth Postdoctoral Fellowship (Commonwealth Fellowship and Scholarship Commission, UK).
• 1993; Postdoctoral Fellowship (Michigan State University, USA).
• 1992; Dr. J.C. Ghosh Gold Medal (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, best thesis award).

Associations

• Member of Indian Crystallographic Association (Bangalore).
• Member of Chemical Research Society of India.
• Member of Catalysis Society of India, Assam Science Society.
• Member of Green Chemistry Network Centre.

Research Areas

• Inorganic Synthesis
• Catalysis
• Green Chemistry and Supramolecular Chemistry

Group

• Mr. Sanchay Jyoti Bora (sanchay.bora@gmail.com)
• Mr. Manjit Kumar Bhattacharyya (manjitbhattacharyya@yahoo.com)
• Ms. Purabi Sarmah (purabi_chem@yahoo.co.in)
• Ms. Stutee Chakravorty (stuti_gu@yahoo.co.in)

Publications

• R. Chakrabarty, S.J. Bora, B.K. Das ‘Synthesis, Structure, Spectral and Electrochemical Properties, and Catalytic Use of Cobalt(III)-Oxo Cubane Clusters’, Inorg. Chem. 2007, 46, 9450-9462.
• R. Chakrabarty, D. Kalita, B.K. Das ‘Catalytic Oxidation of p-Xylene in Water by Cobalt(III) Cubane Cluster’, Polyhedron 2007, 26, 1239-1244.
• P. Sarmah, R. Chakrabarty, P. Phukan and B.K Das ‘Selective oxidation of alcohols catalysed by a cubane-like Co(III) oxo cluster immobilised on hexagonal mesoporous silica’, J. Mol. Catal., A: Chemical 2007,268, 36-44.
• R. Chakrabarty, B.K. Das, J.H. Clark ‘Epoxidation of α-pinene catalysed by Co(III) complex immobilised on chemically modified silica’, Green Chem. 2007, 9, 845-848.
• S.J. Bora, P. Sarmah, P. Phukan, B.K. Das, ‘Tetrakis(-benzoato-2O:O)bis{[4-(dimethylamino)pyridine- N1]copper(II)}’, Acta Crystallogr. C, 2007C63, m392-m394.
• B.K. Das, S.J. Bora, P. Sarmah ‘Tetrakis(-benzoato)bis(4-ethylpyridine)dicopper(II)’, Acta Crystallogr. E, 2006, 63, m251-m252.
• B.K. Das, S.J. Bora, M. Chakrabortty, L. Kalita, R. Chakrabarty, R.K. Barman ‘Structural, thermal and spectroscopic properties of supramolecular coordination solids’, J. Chem. Sci., 2006, 118, 487-494.
• P. Sarmah, S. Singha, R. Chakrabarty, S.J. Bora, B.K. Das ‘Physicochemical behaviour of copper(II) complexes of chelated diamine ligands: Catalytic role of diaquabis(ethylene-diamine)copper(II) perchlorate in acylal formation’, Ind. J. Chem. A, 2007, 46, 1929-1937.

Ongoing Projects

Title: ‘Development of green protocol for cobalt catalyzed oxidation of organic substrates’
Sponsoring Authority: Department of Science and Technology (DST), Govt. of India, 2008-2011