Teaching Interest:

           Organic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry

Teaching Experience:

Research Interest:

Crystal Engineering, Supramolecular Chemistry, Nano- materials, supramolecular Gels, Pharmaceutical Cocrystal

• Designing salt based functional organic materials namely Low molecular Weight Gelators (LMWGs), Pharmaceutical Cocrystal and Supramolecular Capsule etc. by applying Crystal Engineering rationale are my present research activities at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Kolkata, India 
• I am also actively engaged in synthesizing materials derived from Inorganic building blocks such as fluorescent metal clusters (MCs) and metal nano-particles (MNPs) by using our suitably designed salt based supramolecular gels.
• Studies on structure-property correlations of new functional materials with structurally similar compounds using various techniques such as Single crystal X-ray crystallography, Powder X-ray diffractometer, FT-IR, NMR etc.

Publication:

1. Supramolecular Gels Derived from the Salts of Variously Substituted Phenylacetic Acid and Dicyclohexylamine: Design, Synthesis, Structures, and Dye Adsorption, R. Roy, T. K. Adalder and P. Dastidar, Chemistry-An Asian Journal, 2018, 13, 552-559 
2. High-Throughput Crystal Engineering Based Synthesis of Supramolecular Gels: Blue-Emitting Fluorescent Gold Clusters Synthesized and Stabilized on the Gel-bed, T. K. Adalder, D. P. Kumar and P. Dastidar, Cryst. Growth Des. 2014, 14, 11-14. (Communication, 2013 Impact Factor: 4.558)
3. Crystal Engineering Approach towards Selective Formation of an Asymmetric Supramolecular Synthon in Primary Ammonium Monocarboxylate (PAM) Salts and Their Gelation Studies, T. K. Adalder and P. Dastidar, Cryst. Growth Des, 2014, 14, 2254-2262. (Article, 2013 Impact Factor: 4.558)
4. The Role of Secondary Ammonium Cations in Controlling the Conformation of C3-symmetric Acid Moieties and its Implication toward the Design of Supramolecular Capsules, T. K. Adalder and P. DastidarCrystEngComm, 2014, 16, 4867-4876. (Invited Article, 2013 Impact Factor: 3.858)
5. Homo- or Heterosynthon? A Crystallographic Study on a Series of New Cocrystals Derived from Pyrazinecarboxamide and Various Carboxylic Acids Equipped with Additional Hydrogen Bonding Sites, T. K. Adalder, R. Sankolli and P. Dastidar, Cryst. Growth Des. 2012, 12, 2533-2542. (Article, 2013 Impact Factor: 4.558)
6. Chiral Gels Derived from Secondary Ammonium Salts of (1R,3S)-(+)-Camphoric Acid, T. K. Adalder, N. N. Adarsh, R. Sankolli and P. Dastidar, Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2010, 6, 848-858. (Invited Article, 2013 Impact Factor: 2.820)
7. Structures and Gelation Properties of a Series of Salts Derived from an Alicyclic Dicarboxylic Acid and n-Alkyl Primary Amines, A. Ballabh, T. K. Adalder and P. Dastidar, Cryst. Growth Des. 2008, 8, 4144-4149. (Article, 2013 Impact Factor: 4.558)
8. Molecular and Crystal Engineering Approaches towards the Design of Functional Supramolecular Gelators, T. K. Adalder, U. K. Das, J. Majumder, R. Roy and P. Dastidar, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2014, 94, 1, 9-24. (Invited Review Article, ISSN: 0970-4140)

Book Chapter

1. Designing Charge-assisted Hydrogen Bonded Supramolecular Gelators, ParthasarathiDastidar, U. K. Das, T. K. Adalder, J. Majumder and R. Roy, Lecture Notes in Chemistry, 2015, 88, 2015,101-131 (DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-45780-1_4); In  Hydrogen Bonded Supramolecular Structures and Materials, Zhan-Ting Li, Li-Zhu Wu, Eds.; Springer Berlin Heidelberg (ISBN 978-3-662-45779-5)

MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL BODIES& ORGANISATIONS

Awards:

• GATE-2006
•  Qualified for lectureship (L.S.); National Eligibility Test (NET) held on 24.12. 2007
• Qualified the joint CSIR-UGC Test for JRF and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET) held on 23.12.2007 under the CSIR fellowship Scheme in Chemical Sciences               
• Qualified the joint CSIR-UGC Test for JRF and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET) held on 22.06.2008 under theCSIR fellowship Scheme in Chemical Sciences

• National scholarship (at the end of class 8^th standard),1998 from directorate of School Education, Government ofWest Bengal
• National Scholarship under national scholarship scheme (2000-2002)
• Sterling Merit Scholarship from Presidency College, Kolkata (2004)
• Prestigious URC Post-Doctoral Fellowship in School of Chemistry, University Witwatersrand, South Africa (2014)
• IISER, Mohali Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Mohali, India (2014)

e-mail: tapasadalder@gmail.com; octka@iacs.res.in