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
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
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