Vasundhara Singh

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
Email vasundhara@pec.edu.in ( Official )
vasun7@yahoo.co.in ( Personal )
Phone Number 0172-275-3263 ( Office )
0172-4648236 ( Resdence )

Sr. No. Title
6 Navneet Kaur, Satwant Kaur Shahi, Vasundhara Singh. Anomalous behavior of visible light active TiO2 for the photocatalytic degradation of different Reactive dyes. Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences (2015), 14, 2024-2034.
7 Navneet Kaur, Satwant Kaur Shahi, Vasundhara Singh. Choline Chloride Assisted Synthesis of N and Metal Codoped TiO2 and their Photocatalytic Activity under Visible Light. Photochemistry and Photobiology (2016), 92, 69-75.
8 Satwant Kaur Shahi, Navneet Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Fabrication of phase and morphology controlled pure rutile and rutile/anatase TiO2 nanostructures in functional ionic liquid/water. Applied Surface Science (2016), 360, 953-960.
9 Amanpreet Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Fe3O4@SiO2@Carbapalladacycle: A Highly Efficient and Magnetically Separable Catalyst for C–C Coupling Reactions in Ionic Liquid Media. Chemistry Letters (2016), 45, 83-85.
10 Navneet Kaur, Satwant Kaur, Vasundhara Singh. Preparation, characterization and photocatalytic degradation kinetics of Reactive Red dye 198 using N, Fe codoped TiO2 nanoparticles under visible light. Desalination and Water Treatment (2016), 57, 9237-9246.
Sr. No. Title Agency Duration of Years
1 Iron transport mediated delivery of Pyochelin Gingerone conjugate- A trojan horse strategy against Pseudomonas Aeruginosa DST-SERB 2018-2021
2 Study or Energetic Ionic liquids as new expolosive materials DRDO-TBRL 2018-2021
3 Magnetically separable nano-catalysts PEC, In-house 2012-2015
4 New approaches towards synthesis of Enigmol sphingolipids as their anti- cancer agents DST, SERB, New Delhi 2017- 2020
5 Ionic liquid mediated synthesis of metal and metal oxide based nanomaterials for Environmental Catalysis PEC, In-House 2012-2015
Sr. No. Society Duration
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
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