About the Workshop

The School of Basic Sciences (Chemistry & Biosciences), IIT Bhubaneswar is pleased to organize a two day Workshop on Organo- & Electrocatalysis for Sustainable Synthesis (OECSS-2022) during Dec. 22nd-23rd, 2022. The Workshop aims to bring together leading researchers and academicians from across India working on the different forms of catalysis for organic synthesis to share the recent advances in the field and imbibe the attendees with their knowledge and experience. The lectures by eminent experts will provide the requisite insights into the aspect of achieving sustainability goals through chemical synthesis. The workshop provides a good opportunity for the research scholars, as well as young graduate and undergraduate students to get an exposure to cutting-edge research in synthetic organic chemistry and interact with the experts in the areas.

The School of Basic Sciences is one of the seven schools at IIT Bhubaneswar which emphasis on interdisciplinary research in areas of Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Biosciences.. The research in the Chemistry discipline spans over the areas of Physical, Organic, Inorganic and Green Chemistry which includes, novel catalytic/ non-catalytic synthetic methods development for heterocycles/carbocycles synthesis, dipolar cycloadditions strategy & C-H functionalization approach, pericyclic, metathesis reactions, non-precious transition metal-catalyzed reactions, bioactive natural products and unnatural products synthesis, asymmetric synthesis, carbohydrate chemistry, nano chemistry, metal based drug designing, organometallic chemistry, supramolecular chemistry, coordination chemistry, sensor development, development of contrast agent for MRI, development of theoretical and computational methods with application to electronic structure, electron-atom/ molecule, scattering processes and electronically ’nonadiabatic’ effects and dynamics. The research work in biosciences is focused on G-protein coupled receptor biology, peptide/protein design and engineering, molecular modelling, computational biology, the structurefunction studies of various proteins of eye lenses, leprosy, tuberculosis and mechanism and regulation of a class of enzyme ATPases involved in various biological pathways and human diseases. Also, the School have two Centres of Excellence, namely MHRD Centre of Excellence for Novel Energy Materials (CENEMA) and S. K. Dash Centre of Excellence of Bio-sciences and Engineering & Technology (SKBET). For more details click