iitkiitkBioinorganic Laboratory
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Projects

Funding from External Agencies:
List of R&D projects as PI ONLY:

Serial no.

Period

Sponsoring Organization

Title of Project

20 2025-2031 J C Bose Grand Diheme Enzymes: Understanding Natures’ Design for Cooperative Catalysis and Sustainable Development
19 2025-2026 ANRF, DST
(Under VAJRA Faculty Scheme)
Transition Metal-based Molecular Spintronics
18 2022-2025 SERB Probing Bis-Fe(IV) MauG: Reactivity, Spin Coupling and Isolation of Highly Reactive Intermediates
17 2021-2024 CSIR Induction, Control, and Rationalization of Supramolecular Chirogenesis in Metalloporphyrin Trimer using Exciton Coupled Circular Dichroism
16 2020-2023

Indian-Israeli Joint

Research Cooperation, DST

Mono- and Bimetallic Complexes for Energy-Relevant Photocatalysis
15 2020-2023 SERB-STAR Understanding Nature’s Design towards Developing Novel Therapeutic Metallodrug for Sulfite Oxidase Deficiency
14

2018-2021

SERB, DST

Modeling Diheme Enzyme MauG: Understanding Nature’s Design, Structure-Function Correlation and Application

13

2017-2020

CSIR

Probing Molecular Chirality by dimeric metalloporphyrin hosts: Transfer, Control and Rationalization using Exciton Coupled Circular Dichroism

12 2017-2019 MHRD Crystal Structure Determination: Principle and Application
11 2017-2019 SERB Probing Bis-Fe (IV) MauG Analog: Structure - Function Correlation and Catalytic Application
10 2017-2019 SERB Functional Model of the Cytochrome-c-oxidase Active Sites: Effects of Metal Ions, Ligand Environment and Mechanistic Investigation
09

2014-2017

SERB, DST

Porphyrin Dimers as Model of Di-heme Proteins: Inorganic and Bioinorganic Perspectives and Consequences of Heme-Heme Interactions

08

2013-2016

CSIR

Supramolecular Chirogenesis in the Bisporphyrin-Based systems upon Interactions with Bidentate Ligands: Origin, Control, and Application

07

2009-12

DST

Models for the Photosynthetic Reaction Center: Synthesis, Structure, Reactivity and Photophysical Properties of Porphyrin Dimers and Rationalization of Supramolecular Chirality

06

2009-13

CSIR

Nonplanar Metallo-porphyrins and Implications for the Hemoproteins

05 2009-11 CARE Establishment of a CD-Spectrometer Facility
04

2008-11

REACH, IITK

Fabrication of solar cells with biomimetic design of chlorophyll pairs present in green leaves

03

2006-09

DST

Synthesis, Solid and Solution Phase Structure and Reactivity of New Model Intermediates in the Process Catalyzed by Heme-Oxygenase

02 2006-09

CSIR

Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of Vanadium-Oxophlorins and Related Species: Implications for Heme Protein Intermediates

01

2006-08

IIT Kanpur

Biomimetic Study on the Heme Degradation Process Catalyzed by Heme-oxygenase Enzyme


 

2023