Sarita Ghosh, Ph.D.

Senior Principal Scientist & Head, Publication & Information Division
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Research Interest

  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry 
  • Chemical Kinetics

Credentials

  • Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata (February 2023 – present) 
  • Principal Scientist, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata (January 2022 – February 2023) 
  • Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur (February 2021 – January 2022)
  • Principal Scientist, CSIR Headquarter, New Delhi (June 2020 – February 2021)
  • Principal Scientist, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur (February 2018 – May 2020)  
  • Senior Scientist, CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur (February 2012 – February 2018)
  • Scientist (Fellow), CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur (February 2010 – February 2012)
  • Scientist (Ad-hoc), CSIR-Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute, Durgapur (July 2009 – January 2010)
  • Senior Lecturer, Lady Brabourne College, Kolkata (April 2007 – February 2009)
  • Lecturer & Senior Lecturer, Jhargram Raj College, Jhargram (July 2002 – April 2007)

 

Honours & Awards

  • Qualified NET, ‘National Eligibility Test’ (Joint CSIR-UGC December 1998) for Research Fellowship and eligibility for Lecturership under CSIR Fellowship Scheme.
  • Qualified a National Level Examination ‘Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering’ (GATE), 1999. All India rank 10th.
  • Satish Chandra Sinha Memorial studentship for 1997 from Calcutta University.

 

Patents & Publications

  • Redox Reactions of a [RuIII(hedtra)(pz)] Complex with Biochemically Important Reductants,Kinetic, Mechanistic and Antimicrobial Studies, Debabrata Chatterjee, Sarita Ghosh, Ujjwal Pal and Sudit Mukhopadhyay, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2012, 678-683.
  • Effect of sacrificial electron donors on hydrogen generation over visible-irradiated non-metal doped TiO2 photocatalysts, Ujjwal Pal, Sarita Ghosh and Debabrata Chatterjee, Transition Met. Chem., 2012, 37, 93-96.
  • Kinetics and mechanism of the [RuIII(edta)(H2O)]--mediated oxidation of cysteine by H2O2, Debabrata Chatterjee, Erika Ember, Ujjwal Pal, Sarita Ghosh and Rudi van Eldik*, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 10997-11004.
  • Remarkably high catalytic activity of the RuIII(edta)/ H2O2 system towards degradation of theazo-dye Orange II, Debabrata Chatterjee, Erika Ember, Ujjwal Pal, Sarita Ghosh and Rudi van Eldik, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 10473-10480.
  • Redox reactions of a RuIII-edta complex with thioamino acids. Kinetic and mechanistic studies, Debabrata Chatterjee*, Ujjwal Pal, Sarita Ghosh and Rudi van Eldik*, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40,1302-1306.
  • Kinetics and mechanism of NO production in the RuIII-(edta) mediated oxidation of L-arginine with H2O2, Debabrata Chatterjee*, Sarita Ghosh and Ujjwal Pal, Dalton Trans., 2011, 40, 683-685.
  • Factors influencing ring closure through olefin metathesis – A perspective, Subrata Ghosh*, Sarita Ghosh and Niladri Sarkar, J. Chem. Sci., 2006, 118, 223-235.
  • Convenient Route to Both Enantiomers of a Highly Functionalized Trans-Disubstituted Cyclopentene. Synthesis of the Carbocyclic Core of the Nucleoside BCA, Shyamapada Banerjee, Sarita Ghosh, Saikat Sinha and Subrata Ghosh*, J. Org. Chem., 2005, 70, 4199-4202.
  • A new stereoselective route to carbocyclic nucleoside cyclobut-A, Jagannath Panda, Sarita Ghosh and Subrata Ghosh*, J. Chem. Soc. Perkin Trans I, 2001, 22, 3013-3016.
  • Synthesis of cyclobutane fused γ-Butyro Lactone through Intramolecular [2+2] Photocycloaddition. Application in a Formal Synthesis of Grandisol, Jagannath Panda, Sarita Ghosh and Subrata Ghosh*, ARKIVOC, 2001 (viii), 146-153

 

Copyright

  • S Ghosh, I Sarkar, P Das, S Samanta and H Hirani, Semi-automatic production of liquid soap using palm fatty acid as raw material, Registration No. L-97240/2020, dt. 08.12.2020