Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 10: A two- day international conference on “Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences”, began today at Government College for Women, Parade Ground, Jammu.
The conference is being organized by the Department of Chemistry, GCW Parade, in collaboration with Cape Comorin Trust, Tamil Nadu.
Dr Anju Chadha, Senior Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Jammu, was the chief guest and the keynote speaker in the inaugural function. She talked about biocatalysis and the use of enzymes to transform raw material into valuable and useful products. She also talked about the role of RTPCR for the identification of COVID virus.
Dr S P Sarswat, Principal of GCW Parade, in his inaugural address, stressed for inculcating scientific temperament among the students.
Dr Avinash Kumar Gupta, Head Department of Chemistry and Convener of the conference, presented a brief background for organizing the conference.
In today’s proceedings, there were two plenary lectures by noted academicians and researchers. In the first plenary lecture. Dr Nazar Hussain from the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Banaras Hindu University, talked about the C-H Bond activation in carbohydrates and its utility in total synthesis of many medicinally important natural products.
Dr Gurpreet Kour from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia explained electrolytic conversion of Nitrogen to ammonia using single atom alloy in the second plenary lecture.
Besides, there were two technical sessions which were chaired by Dr Aijaz Ahmad Dar from the Chemistry Department of University of Kashmir and Dr Princy Gupta from Central University of Jammu.
The proceedings of the conference were anchored by Dr Gurpreet Kour, Organizing Secretary of the conference and the concluding remarks were presented by Dr Puja Nanda while Dr Faheem Rasool presented the formal vote of thanks.
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