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Lecture Title | "Explosives Sensing by Nanoscopic Architectures and Chemical Reactions in Confined Nanospace" |
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Date | Tuesday 11 November 2014 16:00 to 17:30 |
Lecturer | Associate Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (Department of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India) |
Place | Yamate, Building 3, 2nd floor seminar room |
Summary |
Engineering discrete molecular architectures of defined shapes and sizes using metal-ligand coordination as driving force is an active field of current research. [1] The architectural advantage of the rigid square-planar coordination environment of Pd(II) and Pt(II) has long been utilized for this purpose. My lecture will focus on the design principle including several examples of electron rich molecular nano-cages that are potential in sensing electron deficient explosives like TNT, DNT etc. [2,3] My lecture will also focus on the self-assembly of water soluble Pd(II) molecular cages and use of their confined nanospace as molecular vessels to perform several organic transformations in environmental friendly aqueous medium in catalytic manner. Self-sorting in organic cage formation and cage to cage transformations will also be highlighted.
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Contact | Donglin JIANG |