Department of Chemistry

Dr. Kunal Roy Designation Assistant Professor (H.O.D) Qualification M Sc, Ph. D. Contact E-mail id ickunal@gmail.com kunal@seramporecollege.ac.in

Area of Specialisation :

Inorganic Chemistry

Research Interest :

1. Design and synthesis of organic ligands containing nitrogen donors with multiple denticity
2. Synthesis and characterization of di- and poly-metallic systems
3. Photophysical (fluorescence, phosphorescence, ICT, TICT etc.) and low temperature magnetic studies of coordination compounds

Selected Publications :

1. Sudipta Chatterjee, Kunal Kanti Kamar, Michael B. Hursthouse, Mark E. Light and Sreebrata Goswami; “Hetero-nuclear ruthenium-nickel complexes Containing 2,2′-Biimidazolate Dianion. ESI-MS and X-ray Structures Characterization J. Chem., Sec. A, 2006, 45A, 845-852.
2. Kunal Kanti Kamar, Larry R. Falvello, Philip E. Fanwick, Jinkwon Kim and Sreebrata Goswami; “Designed synthesis of A Multidentate System Having Ru4Cu2 core using Trimetallic Coordination of 2,2′-Biimidazolate Ion” J. Chem. Soc., Dalton Trans., 2004.
3. Kunal Kanti Kamar, Srijit Das, Chen -Hsiung Hung, Alfonso Castiñeiras, Michael D. Kuzmin, Conrado Rillo, Juan Bartolomé and Sreebrata Goswami;”Design and Synthesis of a New Binucleating Ligand via Cobalt Promoted C-N Bond Fusion Reaction. Ligand Isolation and its Coordination to Nickel, Palladium and Platinum” Inorg. Chem., 2003, 42, 5367-5375.
4. Kunal Kanti Kamar, Amrita Saha, Chen -Hsiung Hung, Alfonso Castiñeiras and Sreebrata Goswami; “Chromium Complexes of An Isomeric N-donor Ligand, 2-[(N-Arylamino)phenylazo]pyridine: Amination Reactions, X-ray Structure and Redox Properties” Inorg. Chem., 2002, 41, 4531-4538.
5. Partha Majumdar, Kunal Kanti Kamar, Alfonso Castiñeiras and Sreebrata Goswami; “Unusual Binding Mode of the Biimidazolate Bridging Ligand in Two Novel Hetero-polynuclear Complexes with an M2Ag2 [M = Ru(II) or Os(II)] Core”. Chem. Commun., 2001, 1292-1293.