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From the Desk of the Vice Chancellor

Greetings!

As the Vice Chancellor of this premier university, I am extremely pleased to share this space to converse with all of you. The University of Madras is a post- sesquicentennial institution which has forged a glorious path for itself and has been the site for significant scientific discoveries as well as the beacon for national and regional societal transformation. It has successfully managed to hold aloft its tradition even while keeping up with the emerging trends. One reason for this is the way in which the university has kept alive its interactions with all the stakeholders.

The COVID 19 pandemic has introduced a ‘new normal’ and its impact is felt in the workings of the university as well. The students have been attending the lectures online. While online learning has the advantage of being anytime and anywhere, it has taken away the peer group interaction and peer learning which are integral aspects of the university experience. We look forward to welcoming you to the campus very soon. Meanwhile, our faculty and administration will continue to bring the best to the virtual classrooms. As students, you need to view the restrictions posed by the pandemic as a temporary deterrent. Your focus should be to gain the competencies to conduct application oriented research in order to evolve as useful citizens of our society.

Our university boasts of faculty with a high degree of knowledge and commitment to offer the best in teaching and research. Given the context of the pandemic, we need to redefine our teaching-learning processes to offer the best pedagogic experience to our students. Similarly, the post-pandemic era demands that we hone the employment potential and entrepreneurial capacity of our learners. This necessitates that we focus on sponsored research in cutting edge areas.

Our administrative staff have been the backbone of the university. While we move towards a transparent and complete e-governance model, we need more support from you. When the teaching-learning process at our university – from admission to certification -- is moving into the digital era, your skills and competencies need to keep pace.

At our university, we are gearing up for the final round of NAAC re-accreditation. This has offered us an opportunity to assess our Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Challenges. Further, it has made us more determined to reiterate our quality benchmarks in teaching, research and extension activities. We are aware of this responsibility and fully prepared for it because, our university has always encouraged individual thinking within the established frameworks. This is echoed in the words of Tim Burners Lee, who initiated the World Wide Web: “We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually.” Let us unite to make the educational experience at the University of Madras a synergy of the best minds and best thoughts.

Prof.Dr.S.Gowri

Vice-Chancellor
University of Madras

Department of Inorganic Chemistry

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About the Department

The History The Department of Inorganic Chemistry was established in the year 1976 under the Headship of Professor V.V.Ramanujam and succeeded by Professor P. Natarajan and Professor V. Durai. Now the Department is being headed by Professor M. Kandaswamy. Master of Science Programme was introduced in the year 1976. Besides the Department also offers M.Phil. and Research Programmes. In the Master of Science Programme the first year students have to undergo a common Chemistry programme and they have to specialize in Inorganic Chemistry in the second year. The Department of Inorganic Chemistry offers Choice Based Credit System for M.Sc. and M.Phil. Programmes in the School of Chemical Sciences. The students are admitted to the M.Sc. and M.Phil. programmes based on the performance in the qualifying examination as well as in the entrance examination they appear. Since the inception of the Department, 51 Research Scholars were awarded Ph.D. Degree and 20 scholars are currently undergoing research for their Ph.D. Degree and about 75 students were awarded M.Phil. Degree and 4 candidates are enrolled for M.Phil.for the academic year 2005-06. The faculty strength of the Department is seven and now it has five (Viz. Professors-2, Lecturers-3) and all of them are qualified with Ph.D. Degree and are recognized to guide students leading to Ph.D programme. The faculty members of the Department have published as many as 250 papers in reputed National and International journals with good impact factors. Professor P. Natarajan former Head of the Department has been awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in Chemical Sciences in 1984 for his outstanding contribution in the field of Chemical Sciences. He has won yet another award from Tamilnadu Government for the Best Teacher in the same year. His resourcefulness and versatile performance were duly recognized and he was elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences, Tamilnadu Academy of Sciences, Society of Biosciences and Gujarat Academy of Sciences. He was a member of Sigma-psi Scientific Research Society, American Chemical Society and New York Academy of Sciences. Professor Natarajan was also nominated to the Syndicate of the University of Madras. Professor V. Durai, former Head of the Department was elected to the Syndicate of the University of Madras for consecutive two terms. He had served in many committees at various Universities in Southern States in India. He also served as Chairman for Board of Studies in Chemistry and Honorary Director for COSIP-ULP programme. Professor M. Kandaswamy visited Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, under INSA ? JSPS Exchange Programme in the year 1999 and he was awarded JSPS -Fellowship to visit Japan and to do research in the same department in the year 2001. Professor P.Ramamurthy of this Department has been awarded UGC-Career Award in 1993 and a project was sanctioned to him under Career Award Scheme.. The Awardee had visited Laboratorie de Photocheimie Generale, Mulhouse, France for two times. The Departmental Library has a good collection of books and about 600 books consisting of large number of text books which are useful for M.Sc. and M.Phil. teaching programme besides a good number of books for research purpose. The Department of Inorganic Chemistry has been selected for assistance under UGC-COSIST Programme for Research in the area of Inorganic Chemistry and to improve the PG Education to the tune of Rs.1.00 Crore in two Phases during 1985-1996. Currently, the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India has recognized the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras for financial assistance under DST-FIST Programme and sanctioned a sum of Rs.22.00 lakhs for research and teaching for the five years (2002-2007). The Department of Inorganic Chemistry has so far completed more than 30 individual research projects sanctioned to the faculty members and about 10 such research projects are in operational, funded by the various funding agencies Viz DST, ISRO, UGC, CSIR, DAE, DRDO, etc., Under Sir C.V.Raman Visiting Professorship, Professor R.H. Schuler Radiation Laboratory, University of Notre Dame, USA. had visited the Department in the year 1984 and Professor D.J.S.Birch, University of Starthclyde, Scotland had visited the Department in the year 1999 and delivered several useful lectures for the benefit of students and teaching fraternity of the Department. Professor H.Okawa, Department of Chemistry, Kyushu University, Japan visited the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Madras and delivered lectures. The Department had organized several National and International Workshops, Seminars and Symposia. Also the department has conducted several UGC sponsored Refresher Courses for the benefit of University and affiliated College teachers through Academic Staff College of the University of Madras. The Department has also conducted several workshops for the College teachers for updating their knowledge for the curriculum improvement under COSIP-ULP Programme. Infrastructure LAB:

The Department of Inorganic Chemistry has fully air-conditioned instrumentation rooms. There are three research laboratories with hi-tech facilities apart from the laboratory for the P.G. students. The Department also has air-conditioned library with internet facility. The lecture halls in the Department are equipped with audio-visual facilities. The total area of the Department is 15,000 Sq. Ft. EQUIPMENT:

The following sophisticated equipments are available for the usage of research scholars and PG students of the Department and also for the usage of students from sister departments and other institutions. 1. Perkin Elmer FTIR Spectrophotometer 2. Perkin Elmer Lamda UV-Visible Spectrophotometer 3. Hitachi 320 UV-Visible Spectrophotometer 4. Varian 3700 Gas Chromatograph 5. CHN Electrochemical Analyser 6. Laser Flash Photolysis spectrometer 7. Excimer Laser, Dye Laser, Nd-YAG Laser 8. Conventional Flash Photolysis Spectrometer 9. Stopped Flow Kinetic Spectrometer 10. Perkin-Elmer Flourimeters Endowments a) Professor V.V.Ramanujam b) Professor P.Natarajan Endowment Library A collection of more than 600 books available in the Departmental Library on various topics.

Our Faculties

Professor and Head

Dr. K.Pandian

Ph.D

  jeevapandian@unom.ac.in    22202795

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Assistant Professor

Dr.A.Murugadoss

M. Sc. Ph.D. (Chemistry, IIT Guwahati)

  ammuruga@gmail.com    +9144-22202796

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Course Offered

Post Graduate

M.Sc Inorganic Chemistry

Eligibility

B.Sc. Chemistry with Mathematics or Physics as one of the allied subject

Fee Structure

Master of Philosophy(M.Phil)

Inorganic Chemistry

Eligibility

B.Sc. Chemistry with Mathematics or Physics as one of the allied subject

Fee Structure

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D)

Ph.D. Programmes

Eligibility

B.Sc. Chemistry with Mathematics or Physics as one of the allied subject

Fee Structure

Syllabus

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Fees Structure

Fee Structure will be available soon

Timetable

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M.Phil Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
No M.Phil Scholars

Ph.D Scholars

Name Guide Topic Year Joined Year Completed Email Id
B. Ranjani prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of nanoparticles and their application 2017 ranjinibalasubramanian2593@gmail.com
A.C. Abirami prof. K. Pandian Biopolymer based drug delivery system 2016 acabirami@yahoo.co.in
J. Kalaiyarasi prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of metal complexes and biological application 2016 kalaiprakesh@yahoo.com
D. Muralidhran prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of biaryl compounds using palladium based nanoparticles 2015 muralichem06@yahoo.co.in
R.Ramya prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of metal nanoparticles and study their application 2015 ramyamsc85@gmail.com
A.jaculine raiza prof. K. Pandian Green synthesis of metal nanoparticles and study of their application in organic reaction and catalysis 2014 jackchem96@gmail.com
D. Mohana Soundari prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of various biopolymers decorated polyaniline nanocopmosite for the removal of toxic metal pollutants Cr (VI) and Hg (II) from waste water and lake water sources. 2014 dmohana7@gmail.com
A. Nirmala Grace prof. K. Pandian Synthesis and characterization of Metal nanoparticles and their applications in Drug analysis and electrocatalysis 2002 2006
S. Jancy Sophia prof. K. Pandian Synthesis and characterization of polymer protected nanocrystalline metal hexacyanoferrates and a study on their electrocatalytic activity 2008 2012
E. Prabakaran prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of Carbon Materials and Silica Microspheres Supported Silver Nanoparticles and its Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitro Substituted and Azo Functionalized Aromatic Pollutants. 2009 2013
E. Prabakaran prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of Carbon Materials and Silica Microspheres Supported Silver Nanoparticles and its Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for Electrocatalytic Reduction of Nitro Substituted and Azo Functionalized Aromatic Pollutants. 2009 2013
M. Alexander prof. K. Pandian Preparation and Characterization of Metal Oxide Nanostructure Materials and Their Modified Glassy Carbon Electrode for Electrochemical Applications 2008 2013
K. Logaranjan prof. K. Pandian Green synthesis of silver and gold nanoparticles using medicinal plant extract as reducing agent and study their anticancer and antibacterial activity 2008 2013
P. Paulraj prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of polyaniline and its derivatives protected gold and silver nanoparticles: Applications towards electrocatalytic oxidation of biologically important molecules 2008 2013
K.N. porchelvi prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of some of the tetrasulfonated metal phthalocy-anine doped polyaniline protected silver chloride nanoparticles by interfacial polymerization method and study their application on electrochemical detection of hydrazine, nitrite and hydrogen peroxide 2009 2014
S. Parani prof. K. Pandian Synthesis of thiols and biopolymers stabilized semiconductor quantum dots for biological and analytical applications 2008 2014
s. Devi prof. K. Pandian Amprometric Detection of Biologically Important molecules using metal hexacyanoferrate Decorated Titanium Oxide Nanotube modified electrode 2012 2015
S.Meenakshi prof. K. Pandian Graphene nanoflakes and nanoclay based electrochemical sensors for the dection of biologically important molecules and drugs 2013 2016 meenakshivanitha@gmail.com

Awarded Scholars

Ph.D 11
M.Phil Nil

Present Scholars

Ph.D 7
M.Phil Nil
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