Vasundhara Singh
| Department | Chemistry |
| Designation | Professor |
| Qualification | PhD (Organic Chemistry, Panjab University), Postdoc (Stanford Research Institute, California), DAAD Fellow (University of Regensburg Germany) CNRS Visiting Scientist (University of Rennes, France) |
| Research Interests | Organic synthesis of antibacterials and anticancer new chemical entities, metal based heterogenous catalysis of fine chemicals and biomass conversion, Modified Titania, Zinc oxide and carbon based nanomaterials as photocatalysts for water treatment |
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vasundhara@pec.edu.in ( Official )
vasun7@yahoo.co.in ( Personal ) |
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| Phone Number |
0172-275-3263 ( Office )
0172-4648236 ( Resdence ) |
| Sr. No. | Title |
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| 1 | Navneet Kaur, Satwant Kaur Shahi, Vasundhara Singh. Synthesis, characterization and photocatalytic activity of magnetically separable γ-Fe₂O₃/N, Fe codoped TiO₂ heterojunction for degradation of Reactive Blue 4 dye. RSC Advances (2015), 5, 61623-61630. |
| 2 | Amanpreet Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Efficient Suzuki reaction catalyzed by recyclable clay carbapalladacycle nanocomposite in ionic liquid media. Tetrahedron Letters (2015), 56, 1128-1131. |
| 3 | Satwant Kaur Shahi, Navneet Kaur, Amanpreet Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Green synthesis of photoactive nanocrystalline anatase TiO2 in recyclable and recoverable acidic ionic liquid [Bmim] HSO4. Journal of Materials Science (2015), 50, 2443-2450. |
| 4 | Amanpreet Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Ionophilic Imidazolium-Tagged Cinchona Ligand on LDH-Immobilized Osmium: Recyclable and Recoverable Catalytic System for Asymmetric Dihydroxylation Reaction of Olefins. Synlett (2015), 1191-1194. |
| 5 | Gurpreet Kaur, Anitha Vadekeetil, Kusum Harjai, Vasundhara Singh. Synthesis of α-acylamino-amide-bis (indolyl) methane heterocycles by sequential one pot condensation-Ugi/Passerini reactions and their antimicrobial evaluation. Tetrahedron letters (2015), 56, 4445-4450. |
| Sr. No. | Title | Agency | Duration of Years |
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| 6 | Chiral ionic liquids as recyclable and recoverable catalysts | CSIR, New Delhi | 2009-2010 |
| 7 | Synthesis of Sphingolipids and their analogues | CSIR, New Delhi | 2006-2008 |
| 8 | Design of task specific ionic liquid-inorganic matrixes as Novel nanocomposites for catalysis and synthesis | CEFIPRA/IFCPAR, New Delhi ( Joint Indo French Project with University of Rennes, France | 2005-2009 |
| 9 | Green Chemistry and wastewater treatment (Research grant for Career Award for Young Teachers)(CAYT) | AICTE, New Delhi | 2003-2006 |
| 10 | Ultrasound Promoted reations using cation exchanged clays and supported reagents | DST SERC | 2001-2005 |
| Sr. No. | Society | Duration |
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| 1 | Catalysis Society of India,Chandigarh | Life Member |
| 2 | American Chemical Society, U.S.A | Member |
| 3 | Catalysis Society of India, IIT, Chennai | Life Member |
| 4 | Chemical Research Society of India, Bangalore | Life Member |
| Sr. No. | Recent Books |
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| 1 | Sofia Sandhu, Rehmat Brar, Siddhant Gulati, Vasundhara Singh, “Modified titania, A green material for wastewater remediation” Book Chapter in “Green Chemistry and Water Remediation: Research and Applications”, Advances in Green Chemistry, 2021, 317-331 |
| 2 | Vasundhara Singh, Anupam Khurana, Kanwalpreet Kaur and G L Kad, “Ultrasound: A Boon in the Synthesis of Organic Chemistry” Resonance, September 1998, 56-60. |
| 3 | Vasundhara Singh, Vishal Handa, “Clay nanocomposites”, Resonance, August, 2005. |
| 4 | Vasundhara Singh, “Clay Nano-composites as Environmental Friendly catalysts for green chemical Synthesis”, Editors:Alok Srivastava, Ipsita Roy, BIO-NANO-GEO SCIENCES, The future Challenge, 2008, 59-68, Publisher, Ane Books Pvt. Ltd, India. |
| 5 | Vasundhara Singh, M.Vaultier, A. Kirschning, “Task Specific Ionic Liquids (TSILs): A New Generation of Soluble Supports for Supported Organic Synthesis (SPOS)” Book Chapter in “Ionic liquids in Synthesis” 2nd edition by Peter Wasserscheid and Tom Welton Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, October, 2007 |