From the Desk of the Head

Dear learned visitor, Warm Greetings from the Department of chemistry, Saurashtra University Rajkot. Ours is one of the department established in 1979 on the main campus. It started as a single faculty department in the subject of chemistry to the students mainly coming from the rural background and impart necessary skills required for the grooming chemical industries in this western part of the country, for creating self-entrepreneurs and also churn out academicians and researchers who can take up jobs in educational institutes and research laboratories. With a small beginning, the path for progress and development was smooth and gradual. Today we are one of the top departments in the state of Gujarat. The department has excelled in teaching and research with a sanctioned strength of 11 faculty, more than six technical and lab staff, ably assisted by the administrative support staff. More than 3000 students were awarded M. Sc. degree in different branches of specialization namely organic, inorganic, physical, analytical, and PGDSAIT Chemistry. The growth of the department is synonymous with the setting up and evolution of giant drugs and Chemical industries in the surrounding environs. The recognition of the departmental research is quite evident as UGC has sanctioned three phases of SAP, first phase of DSA. Sanctioned two phases of DST-FIST Program. The feather in the glory cap of the department is UGC has sanctioned phase one of center of excellence to our university recognizing its research and academic contribution by denoting it as a nodal department. The department houses various sophisticated equipment such as 13C NMR, Tensile Testing Machine, TGA, DTA and DSC, High-Temperature GPC, Elemental Analyzer, Fluorescence Spectrophotometer, UPLC, FT-IR, UV-Vis, and Hot stage polarizing microscope, Microwave synthesizer and several types of equipment for characterization,  testing, and analysis. The department has organized a number of national and international conferences, seminars, and workshops. Many international and national Scientists, Academician and industrialists have visited this prestigious department. The department follows the UGC and state govt. norms in the admission process. We welcome the prospective students and researchers for a useful stint with us.

Prof. Dr. H. S. Joshi

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About the US 

Department of Chemistry

The Department of Chemistry was established in 1980. It offers four different specializations in chemistry with Organopharmaceutical Chemistry, Pharmaanalytical Chemistry, Physical and material science, and Inorganic Chemistry.

In addition to Master's degree, from 2013 onward, the department has also started one year Postgraduate diploma course in Sophisticated Analytical Instruments (PGDSAIT).

M.Sc course is of four semesters with an intake capacity of 100 including 50 self-financed seats.

Presently, 35 scholars are pursuing their doctoral work in the department and more than 450 students have been awarded their Ph.DS till date. At present, department has six regular, three contractual based and four self-financed faculties.

Department has successfully completed various research projects funded by various government agencies such as UGC, DST, CSIR, BARC, BRNS, GUJCOST etc. Further, some projects were also done with private industries like Du Pont, Agro Chemical (USA), Merck Inc., (USA), Spechem (Czech Republic), Spec Biospec (Netherland), R. J. W. Pharma (USA), Zydus, Cadilla Healthcare, Ranbaxy, Dabur Foundation, Nicholas-Piramal, Synergia Life Sciences, Sam Fine-o-chem, Shukla Ashar, Almelo, Astra Zeneca, Claries, Alembic Ltd., , Mackson Pharma etc. Further, there are collaborations with various national and foregin institutes, some of worth-mentioning being the New Jersey Medical School, Vienna Institue of Technology, Austria; Josai University, Japan; the Southern Research Institute, Alabama, USA; National Institute of Health, USA; National Cancer Institute, USA, Meiji Pharmaceutical University, Japan; DIPAS, New Delhi; Mysore University, Mysore; IIT, Chennai; CDRI, Lucknow  etc.

The Department of Chemistry has successfully completed DST-FIST program and UGC-DSA-SAP-1 programme is ongoing. The research thrust areas include Synthetic and Medicinal Chemistry, Pharma Analytical Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Physicochemical properties of solutions. Material Science, Physical Chemistry, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry, Nanoscience, etc.

Various eminent scientists, professors, industrialists, experts from different non-government organizations have visited the department for lectures and research advice.

The department has various instruments such as NMR-400MHz, Single crystal X-RAY spectrophotometer, GC-MS, HPLC, UPLC, HP-TLC, TGA_DSC-DTA, FTIR, HeadspaceGC, Polarimeter, Sound and densitometer, Refractometer, pH meter, hydrogenator, conductometer, UV-VIS spectrophotometer, Potentiometer, Microwave synthesizer, Parallel Synthesizer etc.  The department has been awarded by Centre of Excellence.   

Various industrial and institutional tours are also organized by the department to motivate the students. Students are also encouraged to do research by assigning them small projects for which they have to submit a dissertation.

Apart from academics, other curricular activities are also organized by the department to create social awareness among students. For this, a plastic-free campus program, blood donation camp, picnic to historical places, etc., are also organized.

 

Conferences/ Seminars/ Workshops/ Courses Organized

S. No.	Title	Year
1	Chemistry Refresher Course	1982
2	Usage of Analytical Equipments in Pharmaceutical Industries	1994
3	Chemistry Refresher Course	1994
4	Chemistry Refresher Course	1995
5	One day Workshop on New Drug Research	1996
6	National Symposium on University-Industry Interaction	1999
7	Patent Awareness Workshop	1999
8	One Day Seminar on medicinal Plants	2001
9	9th National Conference on Bioactive Heterocycles and Drug Discovery Paradigm including one day International symposium on Recent Trends in Drug Discovery	2005
10	One day Workshop on Nanotechnology	2006
11	Recent advances in Chemical Sciences and approach to Green Chemistry	10-12 Nov. 2006
12	Seminar on New Frontiers in Pharmaceutical Process Chemistry and related topices	5th March 2007
13	National Workshop on Patents and IPR updates	19-20 Sept. 2009
14	National Seminar on Emerging trends in Polymer Science and Technology (Poly-2009)	8-10 Oct. 2009
15	Workshop on LC-MS Basics Overview	8th Dec. 2009
16	Seminar on Green Chemistry: Challenges and Solutions	19th Dec. 2009
17	International Seminar on Recent Developments in structure and Ligand Based Drug Design	23rd Dec. 2009
18	ISCB-2011	4-7 Feb. 2011
19	Science Direct Data Workshop	25th Aug. 2011
20	Seminar on IPR	26 Feb. 2011
21	XXXI Annual Conference of Indian Council of Chemists	28-28th Dec. 2012
22	Workshop on X-ray diffraction theory	31-5-2013
23	Summer training on Instrumentation	7-9 June 2013
24	One day national workshop on R & D and it's impact in current context Rajkot	2013
25	National seminar on stereochemistry & spectroscopy	2014
26	One day workshop on Basics of gas chromatography & mass spectrometry	2015
27	One day workshop on "Advance morden chromatography & spectroscopy"	2015
28	Seminar on advancements in polymer science & technology APA-2015	2015
29	1 D and 2 D NMR Spectroscopy
30	High performance liquid chromatography
31	National workshop on "Frontiers on NMR Spectroscopy"	2016
32	Faculty development program "NMR spectroscopy- Nucleous to nucleotids"	2016
33	One day workshop on HPLC
34	One day workshop on Titration
35	two days workshop on HPLC & Trouble shoot	2016
36	One day workshop on Human rights	2017
37	National workshop on NMR	2017
38	NMR summer school	2018
39	26th National Magnetic Resonance Society Meeting & International Conference on NMR-from Molecules to Human Behaviour and Beyond, Saurashtra University, Gujarat, February 18-21, 2020	2020

 

 

Campus Interviews Organized:

1. Oxygen Health Care, Ahmedabad
2. Alembic , Vadodara
3. Zydus Cadila, Ahmedabad
4. ESSAR
5. Reliance
6. Gulbrandsen Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. Bharuch
7. Atul Ltd. Valsad
8. Survival India, Ankleshwer
9. INTAS, Ahmedabad
10. Navin-flourine, Surat

List of student pursued higher studies/ settled in Abroad:

 

S. No.	Name of Fellow	Name of Institute
	Swati Oza	Premier Oilfied Group, Houston, USA.
	Dr. Ragin Amrutiya,	Wacker/SILMIX-CA-Anaheim, California, USA.
	Dr. Dinesh Manvar	USA.
	Vaibhav Mehta	Oxford University, UK.
5.	Dr. PrafulChovatia,	Oxford University, UK.
6.	SachinModha	KatholiekeUniversiteit Leuven, Belgium
7.	Nigam Mishra	Do
8.	Deepak Vachani	Do
9.	JitendraBarival	Do
10.	JalpaTrivedi	Do
11.	Bharat Savaliya	Do
12.	RupeshKhunt	Do
13.	Pratik Ambasana	Do
14.	HimanshuButani	Do
15.	Priti Shah	Vienna University of Technology, Austria
16.	Vicky D. Jain	Academia Sinica,Taipei, Taiwan

 

Faculties visited abroad  as researchers / visiting Professor or for attending conferences/ seminars / workshops:

1. Prof. Shipra Baluja- Researcher in Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 1997 to Dec. 1997.

2. Prof. Shipra Baluja- Visiting Professor in Osaka University,  Osaka, Japan, Aug. 2000 to Mar. 2001.

3. Prof. Anamik Shah- To attend 6th International conference of Council of Chemist at Paris(Franse)-Brussels(Belgium)-June-2019.

4. Prof. Shipra Baluja- Visiting Professor in Osaka University,  Osaka, Japan, Jan. 2010 to Aug. 2010.

5. Prof. Shipra Baluja- attended 36^th Japanese Conference on Calorimetry and Thermal Analysis”. Kinki University, Higashi Osaka, Japan, Nov. 9-11, 2000. 

6. Prof. Shipra Baluja- attended “Suppressed Fluctuations in Perovskites, Relaxors, Liquids and Hydrogen Bonded Systems”. Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, Feb. 21-22, 2001.

7.Dr. Ranjan Khunt attended,"International Chemical Congress, 8-10 March, 2018, Sauraha,Chitwan, Nepal."

8.Dr. Ranjan Khunt attended," International Conference of Chemist, Bangkok (Thailand) 11-15th June2011."

9.Dr. Ranjan Khunt attended,"6th International conference of Council of Chemist at Paris(Franse)-Brussels(Belgium)-June-2019."

10. Dr. Ranjan Khunt visited,"Solent University,Leicester University, Waltham College-London," UK to attended  International Faculty Development Program.

 

Other curricular activities of the Department:

• Short and long Industrial visits within India
• Picnics
• NET, GATE, SLET and other competitive examinations
• e-workshops for scifinder & other web based resources
• Lecture series of eminent speakers on different topics
• Enterpreneurship awareness
• Social services awareness

• Blood Donation Camp.
• Thelesemina Camp.
• Cultural and Sports Programs.
• Yoga Shivir
• English classes.
• E-resource workshop.
• Workshop on Patent awareness.
• Workshop on IPR.
• Navratri Utsav
• Intra departmental Cricket series

Mission:

1. To train maximum manpower for research and industrial training.
2. To solve research problems of small as well as large scale industries.
3. To encourage students to widen their knowledge by interacting with national and international eminient scientists.

 

Vision:

1. To attract foreign students for higher education and research.
2. To strengthen International collaborations.
3. To strengthen Industry-academic interactions through collaborative work and quality education.
4. To increase English proficiency in students.

 

Future plans:

• Food testing/ laboratory. (to be approved by government)
• Drugs & Pharmaceutical analytical laboratory. (to be approved by government)
• Environment monitoring laboratory. (to be approved by government)
• Will train more than 500 Science Graduates under PG Diploma in Sophisticated Analytical Instruments. (Skill development for employability)
• Will assist in improving Process Chemistry to Small Pharma Industries for their competitiveness.
• Will develop human resource in IPR, Patents and Informatics.
• Will develop few new molecules for anticancer, anti-TB, anti-HIV, anti-malarial, etc. for preclinical trials. (With International Tie up/ MoU)
• Will also develop facilities for drug discovery software system and their experts.
• Will also create synthetic chemistry experts and researchers.
• Sophisticated Instruments are to be utilized fully for supporting industrial growth in Gujarat, to train Human resource and to carry out other extension activities to other institutes.
• Modification of Syllabus, curriculum and also dissertation work.
• Industrial training component to be added for selected students as a part of curriculum at the end of 3^rd or 4^thsemester.

Patents:  

1. Process for Preparation of Pharmaceutically Active N-phenyl (Anthranilic acid) by Ullmann Method." Narsinh Dodia and Anamik Shah. Filing No. & Date: 979/MUM/2000 (02-11-2000)

 

2. A Process for the Preparation of Methyl substituted dioxatetracyclo Heptadeca-2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 15-hexaene." Narsinh Dodia, Rajesh Raval, V. M. Thakor and Anamik Shah. Filing No. & Date: 305/MUM/2001 (30-03-2001)

 

3. Novel Compound namely methyl substituted Dioxa-tetracyclo Heptadeca-2, 4, 6, 11, 13, 15-hexaene." Narsinh Dodia and Anamik Shah.  Filing No. & Date: 306/MUM/2001 (30-03-2001) and granted on 30/11/2007

 

4. Novel Coumarin compounds as antiviral agents and process of preparations thereof." Dinesh Manvar, Jignesh Patel and Anamik Shah. Indian Provisional Patent Applications No. 584/MUM/2007

 

5. 6-Methyl-4-phenyl-5-(phenyl or cyclo alkyl) carbamoyl-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydro pyrimidin-2-one derivatives as Antitubercular Agents." Dhiman Sarkar, Sampa Sarkar, Rohit Joshi, Vijay Khedkar, Raghuvir Pissurlenkar, Evans Coutinho, Anamik Shah. Applications No.: PCT/IB2011/001184 (31.05.2011) / Publication no.: WO2011/151701 (08.12.2011)
6. "Rod like nano-sized azidopentaamminecobalt(III)complexes as textile dyeing agents"Ranjan Khunt, Jagriti Behal,Aopplication number:201821035858, Published on 27/3/2020.
7. "CHROMANE COMPOUNDS           AS       ANTI-CANCER AGENTS" Ranjan Khunt, Kaushik Lunagariya, Kaushik Pambhar, Application No:201821043831 filling date: 21-11-2018.

 

List the distinguished alumni of the Department:

1. Dr. Dharmesh B. Desai, Vice President, Solaris Chemtech Ind. Ltd, Baroda.
2. Dr. Dharmendra Thaker, Head, R & D, Solaris Chemtech Ind. Ltd, Baroda.
3. Dr. Jyoti Singh, Deputy General manager, Sci-Edge Information, Pune.
4. Dr. Priti Shah, Manager, QA, Torrent Pharmaceutical Ltd., Ghandinagar.
5. Dr. Virendra Kachhadia, Senior Manager, Orchid, Chennai.
6. Dr. M. R. Sanaria, Senior Manager, GullBensen, Baroda.
7. Dr. Niraj Shah, General manager, Macleods Pharma, Mumbai.
8. Dr. Nikhil Bhatt, General Manager, R & D, Lupin Ltd., Baroda.
9. Dr. Maitreya Joshi, Manager, Gujrat Insecticide Ltd., Ankleshwer.
10. Dr. Rajesh Loria, Manager, Lupin Ltd., Pune.
11. Dr. Nikunj Kacchadia, Manager, Dabar Research Centre, Sahibabad.
12. Dr. Mausami Chavada, Manager, Unichem Laboratories, Baroda.
13. Dr. J. K. Joshi, Manager, Atul, Valsad.
14. Dr. Dilip Vadalia, Asst. Manager, Atul, Valsad.
15. Dr. Anjana Shah, Assi., Manager, ADL, Unimerk, Ahmedabad.
16. Dr. Asif Solanki, Senior Scientist, Assi.,Manager, ADL, Unimerk, Ahmedabad.
17. Dr. Paresh Zalavadia, Senior Group Leader, Oxygen Health care, Ahmedabad.
18. Dr. Ashish Doshi,  USFDA Incharge, Lupin Ltd., Pune.
19. Dr. Hitarth Acharya, Group Leader-Organic Synthesis, Adventus Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Baroda.
20. Dr. S. B. Bhatt, M. D., Natural Solution Inc. & Natural API Solution, Baroda.
21. Dr. Ashish Trivedi, Scientist, Dishmann, Ahmedabad.
22. Dr. Niral Mehta, Research Scientist, R & D, Berryplastics Co., Baroda.
23. Dr. Arti Pandya, Senior Scientist,  IPA, Cadella, Ahmedabad.
24. Dr. Bhavin Shukla, ,Senior Scientist,  IPA, Cadella, Ahmedabad.
25. Dr. Bhagwati,  Research Scientist, Biotech Deptt., UK.
26. Dr. Dinesh Manvar, Research Associate, Rutgers biomedical and health Sciences, Newark (USA).
27. Dr. Vaibhav Mehta, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford University, UK.
28. Dr. Amit Trivedi, D. S. Kothari Post Doctoral Fellow, Bhavnagar university, Bhavnagar.

Entrepreneurs:

1. Dr. Vipin Patel, Endoc Pharma Ltd., Shapar-Veraval.

2. S. D. Sorathia, Endoc Pharma Ltd., Shaper-Veraval

3. Dr. S. H. Kavathia, Luptite Polyres. Ind., Rajkot.

4. Dr. B. G. Manvar, Entrepreneur, Luptite Polyres. Ind., Rajkot.

5. Dr. Vaibhav Ramani, Enron CRO, Shaper-Veraval

Instrumental Facilities provided to different Academic institutions:

1. Kamani Science College, Amreli.
2. Bhavnagar University, Bhavnagar.
3. R. D. Gardi Pharmacy College, Rajkot..
4. Bio‐Science Dept., Saurashtra University, Rajkot
5. Pharmacy Dept. , Saurashtra University, Rajkot
6. Physics Dept. , Saurashtra University, Rajkot
7. Virani scienceCollege, Rajkot.
8. S. P. University, Vallabh Vidhyanagar.
9. Maharaja Sayaji Rao University, Baroda.
10. Vikram University, Ujjain.
11. Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat.
12. Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University, Patan
13. Om Shanti Eng. College, Rajkot.
14. V. V. P Engineering College, Rajkot
15. Rajkot Municipal Corporation, Rajkot
16. Gujarat Technical University (GTU), Ahmedabad
17. Gujarat Ayurveda University, Jamnagar
18. Krantiguru Shyamji Krishna Verma University, Kachchh
19. Sir P. P. Institute of Science, Bhavnagar
20. Christ College, Rajkot
21. Matushri Virbaima Mahila College, Rajkot
22. University of Rajasthan, Jaipur
23. Mohanlal Sukhadia University, Udaipur
24. University of Delhi, New Delhi

 

Instrument facilities to pharmaceuticals & other industries

 

1. EPP Composites Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
2. Pharmachem Laboratories Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
3. Adani Food Products, Rajkot
4. Malwin Pharma Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
5. Samfine Chemicals Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
6. Biodeal Laboratories, Surendranagar
7. Royal Thermoset Pvt. Ltd., Rajkot
8. Parth laboratories Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
9. Atkotia Agrotech Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
10. Scientila Agrotech Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
11. Radhe energy Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
12. Maps laboratories Pvt Ltd., Morvi
13. Scent Pharma Pvt Ltd., Rajkot
14. Anlon CRO, Rajkot
15. Parth Food Products, Rajkot
16. Vedantika Herbals, Rajkot
17. Claris life scinces Ltd., Ahmedabad
18. Unimark Remedies Ltd., Ahmedabad
19. Zydus research center, Ahmedabad
20. Oxygen health care,Bavla, Ahmedabad

Name	Place	Date
Prof. David J. Triggle	USA	Feb. 2005
Prof. Domenico Spinelli	Italy
Prof. Victor Kartsev	Russia
Prof. Virendra Pandey	USA
Prof. Orazio A. Attanasi	Italy
Prof. David W. Knight	UK
Dr. Anil K. Saxena	India
Dr. Geronikaki Athina	Greece
Dr. Ashok. B. Vaidya	India
Dr. Viadmir Vuksan	Canada
Dr. B. K. Trivedi	USA
Dr. M. K. Gurjar	India
Prof. Kruth Howard	USA
Prof. Cemil Ogretir	Turkey
Dr. Wafaa M. Abdou	Egypt
Prof. George Varvounis	Greece
Prof. Tsann-Long-Su	Taiwan
Prof. Chung Man Chin	Brazil
Dr. Andrew Vinnik	Russia
Dr. M. Yilmaz	Turkey
Dr. Adhiph Majumdar	USA
Dr. Tiegenov R. T.	Uzbekistan
Prof. Paolo La Colla	Italy
Dr. Mukund J. Modalc	Rutger-New Jersey (USA)	19-12-2013
Dr. Chaitanya Shah (mechamco Director)	Mumbai	01-01-2014
Mr. Hemat Gurav	Ahem. Toshwin Ana. Ltd.	16-06-2014
Mr. Paresh Shah (Director)	Mumbai (Symphony-Discover & express the power within)	22-08-2014
Professor P. D. Gupta	Manipal University	23-09-2014
Rajnish Prakash, A. K. Vithal, Dr. T. Bandopadhyay	BARC-Mumbai	05-12-2014
Koyel Sen US Embasy Guidance for getting us visa for higher learning	Mumbai	10-12-2014
Professor R. P. Tripathi	CDRI-Lucknow	22-12-2014
Professor P. S. Kalsi	Ludhiyana	08 to 10-04-2014
Parag Khatri		11-01-2018
Professor P. T. Deofa	M. S. University-Baroda	09-09-2017
Dr. Kirit Rajkwla	Science College-Morbi	28 & 29-09-2017
Dr. J. J. Bhatt	Katchchha University	26-09-2017
Karshanbhai Patel & Dr. J. J. Akabari	SNJ Pharmaceuticals	26-09-2017
Professor N. Suryaprakash	IISC Banglor	11 to 13-07-2018
Professor K. V. Ramanathan	IISC Banglor	11 to 13-07-2018
Professor R. Hausor	IIT Bombay	11 to 13-07-2018
Professor Subhash Khushu	DRDO Delhi	11 to 13-07-2018

 

RANKERS OF CHEMISTRY DEPARTMENT

Sr. No	Name of the Students	Subject	Year	Percentage
1	Miss Khyati Parikh	Organic	1995	79.25
2	Mr. Digant Bhadja	Physical	1996	74.31
3	Mr. Jayesh Padliya	Organic	1997	68.94
4	Mr. Sudhir Nakum	Organic	1998	66.94
5	Miss Prakruti Pandya	Pharma	1998	69.50
6	Mr.Rajesh Loriya	Organic	1999	72.25
7	Miss Archna Pandya	Organo-Pharma	2000	72.25
8	Miss Priti Adlakha	Organo-Pharma	2001	70.63
9	Miss Risha Popat	Organo-Pharma	2002	74.31
10	Mr. V. K. Sankharva	Organo-Pharma	2003	70.00
11	Miss G.H. Talati	Organo-Pharma	2004	73.81
12	Mr. D. N. Joshipura	Organo-Pharma	2005	72.31
13	Mr. R. S. Chaniyara	Organo-Pharma	2006	74.44
14	Mr. B. L. Dodiya	Organo-Pharma	2007	73.19
15	Mr. P. M. Godhaviya	Organo-Pharma	2008	71.46
16	Mr. D. D. Vachhani	Organo-Pharma	2009	76.96
17	Mr. Dharmesh Vaghela	Physical	2010	77.00
18	Mr. N.M. Pachani	Organo-Pharma	2011	77.79
19	Ms. Bhavna Lavadiya	Organo-Pharma	2012	79.92
20	Mr. P. J. Chovatiya	Organo-Pharma	2013	76029
21	Mr. M. N. Kalavat	Organo-Pharma	2014	77.71
22	Baku Neha	Organo-Pharma	2016	73.58
23	Shah Ayushi	Organo-Pharma	2017	76.20
24	Dudkiya Chandni	Organo –Pharma	2018	79.83
25	Mori Meera	Organo-Pharma	2019	79.25

 

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