XXVI ANNUAL REPORT GOA UNIVERSITY

Department of Chemistry
Faculty
J. B. Fernandes, Ph. D., Professor -- Electrochemistry and Catalysis
S. P. Kamat, Ph. D., Professor -- Synthesis of Natural Products
A. V. Salker, Ph. D., Professor and Head -- Solid State Chemistry and Catalysis
V. P. Kamat, Ph. D., Professor -- Organic Synthesis and Medicinal Chemistry
S. G. Tilve, Ph. D., Professor -- Synthetic Organic Chemistry
B. R. Srinivasan, Ph. D., Professor -- Inorganic Chemistry
R. N. Shirsat, Ph. D., Associate Professor -- Computational Chemistry
V. S. Nadkarni, Ph. D., Associate Professor – Synthetic, Organic and Polymer Chemistry
V. M. S. Verenkar, Ph. D., B.Ed., Associate Professor -- Solid State Chemistry
S. N. Dhuri, Ph. D., Assistant Professor -- Coordination Chemistry and Catalysis
S. V. Girkar, M. Sc., Assistant Professor -- Synthetic Chemistry
Major Thrust Areas of Research and Achievements
The major thrust areas of research include newer methods of Chemical Synthesis of
Inorganic and Organic materials; Solid State chemistry; Heterogenous Catalysis;
Electrochemistry and its applications; Synthesis of natural products and polymers; Green
chemical processes; Synthesis and applications of Nanomaterials; Metal Carboxylate
chemistry, and Coordination Compounds.
The faculty members published their research work in several peer-viewed national and
international journals (please see attached list under H).
Faculty members are involved in the following research activities:
a. Investigations on metal ion absorption on hydrous manganese oxides.
b. Preparation of nano material based active catalysts for carbon dioxide and
propylene oxidation reactions, also metal organic type semiconductors for photo
degradation of azo dyes.
c. Synthesis and characterisation of coordination polymers of alkaline earth /alkali
metals and metal sulfido compounds.
d. Development of an efficient two step general procedure for the synthesis of
avenanthramides
e. Preparation of mixed metal transition oxides which shows high sensitivity and
selectivity for ppb level gases such as H2S, NH3 etc. at room temperature.
f. Development of a convenient method for organic synthesis through Domino
Witting Diels-Alder reaction.
g. Synthesis of new monomers and poly (sulfite-co-carbonate) polymers and
successful testing as solid state nuclear track detectors.
h. Design of improved synthetic strategies to obtain nano size Titania.
i. Synthesis and characterisation of newer coordination compounds and their
applications in catalysis.
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