The Department of Chemistry started its promising journey in the academic session 2016-2017 intending to provide quality education in Chemical Science. This Department is very well-known for its excellent standard of teaching by highly efficient faculty members. The department is situated on the 2ndfloor of this college with one laboratory, one store room, one faculty room and three classrooms with state-of-the-art facilities. The laboratory possesses furniture, glass wares, chemicals, reagents and instruments for performing experiments in Organic, Physical and Inorganic Chemistry. During the last few years, the Department has procured sophisticated instruments like Rotary Evaporator, High Vacuum Pump with Motor and Pressure Gauge, Hot Air Oven (Digital), High Precision Electronic Digital Balance, Magnetic Stirrer with Hot Plate (Digital), UV Chamber with long wave & Shortwave, Microwave Oven, Grinding Machine, Digital Water Bath, Compact Laboratory Centrifuge, Heating Mantle etc.

At the department, chemistry is been taught as a Generic Elective course to the students enrolled in B. Sc. Zoology Honours Programme regulated by The University of Burdwan. The department promotes intensive faculty-student engagement. The overall result of our students in Chemistry in the university examination is excellent.

The department has three full-time faculty members. In addition to teaching, the faculty members are actively engaged in high quality research, and publish papers and book chapters regularly in international and national journals of repute. Research scholars are doing their research under their supervision. Two faculty members of the department, Dr. Pradipta Kumar Basu and Dr. Debasish Kundu are independent registered research supervisors under the University of Burdwan. Dr. Debasish Kundu is the Principal Investigator of a project [Project G.O. No. 43(Sanc.)/ST/P/S&T/15G-21/2018, Date: 30/01/2019] (Gobesonai Bangla, WBDSTBT).

Research Themes: 

• Transition metal catalysis
• Synthesis of Organochalcogenides and natural products such as Bioflavonoids
• Cross-coupling
• Green Chemistry
• Ligand Designing
• Fluorescence Sensing

Projects Undergoing:                                                                                                 

1) Project Name: “Dual Transition Metal Catalyzed C-C and C-heteroatom Cross-Coupling: Sustainable Approach towards the Synthesis of Bioactive Molecules”,  Principal Investigator: Dr. Debasish Kundu, Assistant Professor in Chemistry,  Funding Authority: Department of Science &Technology and Biotechnology, Govt. of West Bengal (WBDST)

Ph. D. Supervision: 

Name of the Student: Mr. Anup Roy  (M.Sc., The University of Burdwan), Assistant Teacher, Majigram Bisweswari High School, Purba Bardhaman.

Ph. D. Supervisor: Dr. Debasish Kundu (Under The University of Burdwan)

Research Collaborations:

Dr. Pradipta Kumar Basu:

1. Professor Concepcion Lopez, Department of Chemistry, University of Barcelona.

Dr. Debasish Kundu:

1. Dr. Dilip Gorai ( Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Bolpur College)
2. Dr. Atanu Mahata and Mr. Totan Roy (Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Government General Degree College at Ranibandh)
3. Dr. Rathin Jana (Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Shahid Matangini Hazra Govt. General Degree College for Women)
4. Dr. Lakshmikanta Adak ( Assistant Professor, Dept of  chemistry, IIEST Shibpur)
5. Dr. Shyamal K. Jash (Assistant Professor in Chemistry, Hetampur Krishna Chandra College)
6. Dr. Subir Panja (Department of Organic Chemistry, Cornell University, USA).

Dr. Dinesh Maity:

1. Prof. Partha Roy, Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University

Recent Important Publications:

1. PK Basu et al Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 2017
2. PK Basu et al European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2016
3. PK Basu et al American Journal of Experimental Biology 2016
4. P. K. Basu and D. Kundu et al, Current Organic Chemistry , 2024
5. D. Kundu et al. Current Microwave Chemistry, 2020
6. D. Kundu et al. Current Green Chemistry, 2021
7. D. Kundu et al. Current Organic Synthesis, 2022
8. D. Kundu, RSC Advances, 2021
9. D. Kundu et al, Current Organic Chemistry, 2022
10. D. Kundu et al. Current Organic Chemistry, 2022
11. D. Kundu et al, Book Chapter on Biflavonoids in Frontiers in Natural Product Chemistry, 2022
12. D. Kundu et al Everyman’s Science, 2022
13. D. Kundu et al. Current Organic Synthesis, 2023
14. D.Kundu et al, Current Organic Synthesis 2024
15. D. Kundu and A. Mondal et al, Current Green Chemistry 2024
16. D Maity et al Inorganic Chemistry Communications 2022
17. D Maity et al Inorg Chem Act 2021