Day I
Friday, 13 January 2023
Inaugural Remarks
3.30 – 3.45 pm
Prof. J. N. Moorthy
Director, IISER Thiruvananthapuram
Session I
Chair: Prof. Suresh Das
Lecture 1
3.45 – 4.15 pm
Prof. Marcella Bonchio
Molecular Photosynthesis: Such Stuff as Dreams are Made on
Lecture 2
4.15 – 4.45 pm
Prof. Frank Wuerthner
Supramolecular Ruthenium Catalysts with High Water Oxidation Activity
Lecture 3
4.45 – 5.15 pm
Prof. Kanishka Biswas
The Panoscopic Approach towards Ultra-high Performance Thermoelectrics
TEA BREAK 5.15 – 5.30 PM
Lecture 4
5.30 -6.00 pm
Prof. Prasanta Ghorai
Bifunctional Organocatalytic Michael Additions as the Key Strategy: Enantioselective Synthesis of Fused and Spirocyclic Organic Molecules
Lecture 5
6.00 – 6.30 pm
PROF. STEPHANE QUIDEAU
From Fundamental Bispericyclism to Practical Synthesis of the Bisditerpenoid (+)-Maytenone
Day 2
Saturday, 14 January 2023
Session II
Chair: Prof. Yashwant D Vankar
Lecture 6
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Prof. Amalendu Chandra
Nonlinear vibrational spectroscopy of aqueous surfaces from a combination of classical and quantum methods
Lecture 7
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Prof. Werner Nau
The Chaotropic Effect as an Assembly Motif in Supramolecular Chemistry
Lecture 8
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Prof. R. Murugavel
Elevating Single-Ion Magnetism: Role of Crystal Field Symmetry and Axiality
Tea Break & Poster SESSION 10:30 – 11:00 AM
Session III
Chair: Prof. J. N. Moorthy
Lecture 9
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Prof. Thomas Nugent
Efficient Total Synthesis Driven by Enantioselective Functional Group Tolerant Catalysis
Lecture 10
11:30 – 12:00 Noon
Prof. M. Ravikanth
Modified Polyaromatic Heterocycles/Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Embedded Porphyrinoids
Lecture 11
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Prof. Samar Kumar Das
Host-Guest Composite Materials for Sustainable Energy
LECTURE 12
12:30 – 1:00 PM
Prof. C. Retna Raj
Surface-Engineered Bifunctional Electrocatalysts for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
Lunch Break & Poster Session
1:00 – 3:00 PM
Tea Break & Poster Session
3:00 3:30 PM
Session IV
Chair: Prof. A. Ajayaghosh
Lecture 13
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Prof. Anna Painelli
From molecules to materials: electrostatic intermolecular interactions and beyond
Lecture 14
4:00 – 4:30 PM
Prof. Sebastian Peter
Carbon and Water Recycling for Sustainable Energy: From Fundamental Chemistry to Green Technologies
Lecture 15
4:30 – 5:00 PM
Prof. Maurizio Prato
Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Functionalized Carbon Nanodots
Tea Break & Poster Session 5:00 – 5:30 PM
Session V (Slam)
Chair: Dr. Vinesh Vijayan
5:30 – 7:00 PM
Talk 1 – ALISHA RANI TRIPATHY
Talk 2 – AMIT PAL
Talk 3 – ANISH KUMAR DAS
Talk 4 – ANJANA J
Talk 5 – ANJANA P. NAMBIAR
Talk 6 – BINCY C
Talk 7 – CHRIS JOHN
Talk 8 – GAYATHRI K
Talk 9 – HARIKRISHNAN
Talk 10 – JOEL G REJI
Talk 11 – KHAZEBER RAVICHANDRAN
Talk 12 – MUHAMMED SHAFEEK O. H
Talk 13 – PREETIKA VERMA
Talk 14 – PROBAL NAG
Talk 15 – REYNO R. S.
Talk 16 – RINI PRAKASH
Talk 17 – SWETHA K
Talk 18 – DIPTIPRAVA SAHOO
Talk 19 – M. P. LIJINA
Day 3
Sunday, 15 January 2023
SessionVI
Chair: Prof. K. George Thomas
Lecture 1 6
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Prof. Jonathan De Roo
Zirconium and hafnium oxide nanocrystals and oxo clusters
Lecture 17
9:30 10:00 AM
Prof. Dario Bassani
Probing and powering molecular electronics using light
Lecture 18
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Prof. Matthias Lehmann
Shape-Persistent Mesogens and Intrinsic Void – A New Design Tool for Complex Functional Liquid Crystal Materials
Tea Break 10:30 – 11:00 AM
Session VII
Chair: Prof. Sukhendu Mandal
Lecture 1 9
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Dr. Ajay Venugopal
Trans-Effects in Sb and Bi Lewis Acids: Implications in Catalysis
Lecture 20
11:30 – 12:00 PM
Dr. Veera Reddy Yatham
Unactivated Alkyl halides in C–C Bond Formation Reactions Driven by Visible-Light
Lecture 21
12:00 – 12:30 PM
Dr. Subrata Kundu
Modelling of Multifaceted Reactivity of Nitrite as a Bioregulator in NO Signalling Processes
Concluding Remarks – Dr. Ajay Venugopal
