DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY

CHEMICAL SOCIETY

The activities of the Chemical Society were inaugurated on 24^th August 2005 by Dr. G. Venkoba Rao, Consultant Ex GM (Technical) TNPL, T.N. with a lecture on ‘Dioxins’.

Dr. P. Raja Kumar, Professor, Department of Organic Chemistry, University of Madras, spoke on Supramolecular Chemistry – Far or Near on 14^th October 2005.

Dr. K.S. Nagaraja, Reader, Dept. of Chemistry, Loyola College, Madras, spoke on ‘ Materials of the Millenium’ on 26^th December 2005.

Dr. V. Thiagrajan Endowment – Intercollegiate Quiz –was conducted by O. R. Ragunath – III B.Sc. Chemistry student on.9^th January 2006.

K.S. Vasudevan, Senior Scientist, Mediclore Research Centre, spoke on “Monoclonal Antibodies and their Applications” on 7^th March 2006.

Dr. V. Thiagarajan Endowment lectures by Prof. A. K. Mishra, Dept. of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, on “Forescence Spectroscopy” and Dr. G.N. Krishnakumari, Dept. of Chemistry, Guru Nanak College, Chennai, who spoke on “2-D –NMR and their Applications” were held on 15^th March 2006..

Prof. S. T. Vijayaraghavan Endowment Quiz was conducted on 23^rd March 2006.

Student Achievemnets:

1. At SDNB Vaishnav College – Oct 2005

Quiz – I Prize – O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar

Chemtalk – I Prize – O. R. Raghunath & S. M. Chandrasekar

2. At Loyola College – Dec. 2005

Prof. K. K. Balasubramanian’s Intercollegiate Quiz (written)

III Prize – O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar.

Quiz (oral)

I Prize – Vysakh P. Prasad & D. Vijaya Rajan,II B.sc Chemistry.

II Prize - O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar, III B.sc Chemistry.

Debate

I Prize – Vysakh P. Prasad (II B.sc ) & O.R. Raghunath (III B.sc Chemistry)

JAM

I Prize – O.R. Raghunath – III B.sc Chemistry.

Creative writing

II Prize – Subhadip Roy – II B.Sc Chemistry.

Quiz (Oral) - (M.sc level)

III Prize – J. Karthikeyan & K. Santha Kumar – II M.sc Chemistry.

3. At Madras Christian College – Feb. 2006

Quiz

II Prize – D. Vijaya Rajan & Vysakh P. Prasad – II B.sc Chemistry

Debate

II Prize – P. Vishnu Prasad & R. Shyam

III Prize – Vysakh P. Prasad & A. Parameshwaran- II B.Sc Chemistry.

Creative Writing

Prize – A. Parameshwaran – II B.Sc Chemistry

Dumb Charades

II Prize – Subramani & Janardhanan – II B.sc Chemistry

4. At Guru Nanak College – Feb.2006

Quiz

I Prize – O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar – III B.sc Chemistry

II Prize – I.N. Chaitnya Kiran & V. Damodharan – III B.sc Chemistry

5. At Meenakshi College – Feb. 2006

Quiz

I Prize – O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar – III B.sc Chemistry

6. At Women’s Christian College – March 2006

Quiz

I Prize – O.R. Raghunath & S.M. Chandrasekar – III B.sc Chemistry

JAM

I Prize – O.R. Raghunath - III B.sc Chemistry

Collage

III Prize – D. Vijayarajan & Vysakh P. Prasad – II B.sc chemistry

Creative Writing

III Prize - Vysakh P. Prasad - II B.sc Chemistry.

CAREER PLACEMENT FOR CHEMISTRY STUDENTS

We wish to place on record that all the B.Sc. & M.Sc. graduates who graduated in the year 2005, have been employed in various firms.

In the current batch, B.Sc., 2006, 15 students were selected in firms like Cassel Labs Pvt. Ltd., Ajuba, Global Realty Outsourcing, Siemens, Cameo and 13 Students were finalized for the E- Serve. Sanmar Speciality Chemicals, Malladi Drugs and Pharmaceuticals, Shriram Fibres, Metrolm Ltd. are some of the firms that offered jobs in R & D for our M.Sc. students and four M.Sc. students will be joining these companies in June, 2006.

STAFF ACTIVITIES

Dr. V.S. Srinivasan, Head of the Department, gave a talk on “Synthesis and Applications of Cyclopropenes” at Vaishnav College for Women in September 2005.

Prof. M. Balaji presented two papers in an International Conference held at Meerut in Feb. 2006. (i) Semi-empirical Calculation of Derivatives of Hydrazine and their Nucleophilic Character, and (ii) Gas Phase Tautomeric Studies of Acetophenone – a Semi-empirical Method.