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Synthesis and Exploration Porphyrinoids
Why Porphyrins? Porphyrins are macrocyclic tetrapyrrole pigments that are ubiquitous in nature and in association with various metal ions are responsible for various biological functions such as photosynthesis, metabolism, O2-transport etc. In the last few decades, porphyrins and their synthetic analogues become focus of great interest to researchers from chemistry, physics, biology, medicine and engineering owing to their potential applications as therapeutics for photo-dynamic therapy (PDT) based treatment of cancer, molecular materials for opto-electronic applications, molecular recognition (anionic, cationic and neutral sensor), diagnostics, catalysis etc.
Key Research Objectives: Being a synthetic porphyrinoid research group, our major objectives involves both fundamental structure-property relation study of porphyrinoids (Isomeric, Contracted and Expanded Porphyrins) and also exploring their possible applications in contemporary areas:
Structure-Property Relation Unusual Coordination Chemistry New Porphyrin Isomers Large Expanded Porphyrinoids (Aromaticity and Host-Guest Chemistry) Development of Photostable Near-Infrared dyes (Fluorescence Imaging and Photo-Thermal Therapy) Near Infrared Photosensitizers (Treatment of Cancer via Photo Dynamic Therapy) Development of Panchromatic dyes (High Performance Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells) Opto-electronic Materials (including Nonlinear Optical Applications)
Another priority area of our research involves around the Synthesis of Energetic Materials |