TEACHING INTERESTS:Organic Chemistry

RESEARCH INTERESTS:Design and Synthesis of specific molecular probes for colorimetric and fluorescent recognition of biologically and environmentally relevant analytes

EDUCATION

2022                            Jadavpur University, PhD,

Under the supervision of Prof. Partha Roy.

Title of Thesis: “New Schiff Base Compounds as Fluorescence Sensors”

2016                            IIT Kharagpur, M.Sc. In Chemistry

2014                            University of Kalyani, B.Sc

POSTDOCTORAL EXPERIENCE

2023                            Research Associate at IIT Gandhinagar,

Worked under the supervision of Prof. Sudhanshu Sharma in the captivating field of heterogeneous catalysis for quinoline derivative synthesis.

ACHIEVEMENTS AND AWARDS

• GATE,2016, Qualified
• State Eligibility Test (SET) in Chemical Sciences 2015, Qualified
• JOINT CSIR UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET) in Chemical Sciences, June, 2015, Qualified with All India Rank UGC-JRF 112
• JOINT CSIR-UGC Test for Junior Research Fellowship and Eligibility for Lectureship (NET) in Chemical Sciences, December, 2015, Qualified with All India Rank CSIR-JRF 80
• Joint Admission Testf or M.Sc. (JAM) in Chemical Sciences, 2014, Qualified
• Merit Cum Means (MCM) scholarship at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
• I have been awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for perusing Ph.D.
• I have been awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) for perusing Ph.D.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• I have done a one-year project for the completion of M.Sc. on ‘Synthesis of Regioselective Mannich bases of pyrrole-2-carbaldehyde’ under the guidance of Professor Ganesan Mani at IIT-Kharagpur.
• I have pursued Ph.D. at Jadavpur University (Final Viva on June 15, 2022) under the supervision of Prof. Partha Roy. The title of my thesis is ‘New Schiff base compounds as fluorescence chemosensor’.
• I am dexterously skilled to design and synthesis small to medium organic molecules.
• I am the co-author of 11 research articles in several reputed journals that amassed an impressive 294 citations till date.
• These contributions bestowing upon me an admirable h-index of 9 and i-10 index of 9.
• I have hands-on experience in column chromatography, TLC.
• I have synthesized many dye molecules using Vilsmeier-Haack formylation, Duff formylation, Mannich reaction, Condensation reaction, Doebner-Miller reaction for quinoline synthesis, etc.
• I have the ability to design and synthesize new organic molecules as fluorescent chemosensor that are pertinent to several environmental and biological applications.
• I am also adroit at UV-Vis and Fluorescence spectral analysis.
• I am proficient in characterizing novel organic molecules and metal complexes utilizing various relevant spectroscopic techniques like, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, NMR, Mass, IR spec

CONFERENCES AND POSTER PRESENTATION

• Participated in National seminar on ‘Emerging Trends in Chemistry’, held in 2017 at Jadavpur University.
• Participated and presented a poster in National seminar on ‘Chemical Sciences: Today and Tomorrow’ held in 2019 at Jadavpur University.
• Participated and presented poster in National seminar on ‘‘Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences’ held in 2020 at Jadavpur University

LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

1. Ananta Hazra, Mukesh Kumar, Falguni Shukla, Mohini Ghorpade, Sriram Kanvah, Sudhanshu Sharma, Palladium-Ion-Exchanged Geopolymer Catalyst Derived from Natural Kaolin: An Ecofriendly and Sustainable Catalyst for Solventless Synthesis of Quinoline, ACS Sustainable Resource Management, 2025, Article ASAP, (DOI: 10.1021/acssusresmgt.4c00429)
2. Sneha Ghosh, Ananta Hazra, Sibshankar Bari, Tiasha Dutta, Sushil Kumar Mandal, Pritam Ghosh and Partha Roy, Detection of the +3 Oxidation State of Metal Ions with the Aid of a Rhodamine-Based Dye and Applicationsin Construction of Complex Logic Circuits and Living Cell Imaging, ChemistrySelect, 2024, 9(2), e202303245.(https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202303245)
3. Devika Krishna Iyer, Aishwarya Shaji, Shourya Pratap Singh, Ananya Tripathi, Ananta Hazra, Shaswati Mandal and Pritam Ghosh, A review on rhodamine probes for metal ion recognition with a future on artificial intelligence and machine learning, CoordinationChemistry Reviews, 2023, 495, 215371.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2023.215371)
4. Ananta Hazra,Pritam Ghosh and Partha Roy, A rhodamine based dual chemosensor for Al³⁺and Hg²⁺: Application in the construction of advanced logic gates, SpectrochimicaActa PartA:MolecularandBiomolecularSpectroscopy,2022,271,120905.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2022.120905)
5. Ananta Hazra and Partha Roy,A rhodamine based dye for sensing of Group 13 metal ions, Analytica Chimica Acta, 2022, 1193, 339378.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aca.2021.339378)
6. Ananta Hazra and Partha Roy, A 4-methyl-2,6-diformylphenol based fluorescent chemosensor for Al³⁺, Inorganic Chemistry Communications, 2021, 130, 108694.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.inoche.2021.108694)
7. Tanumoy Dhawa, Ananta Hazra, Arpita Barma, Kunal Pal, Parimal Karmakar and Partha Roy, 4-Methyl-2,6-diformylphenol based biocompatible chemosensors for pH: discrimination between normal cells and cancer cells RSC Advances, 2020, 10, 15501-15513.(DOI:10.1039/D0RA00754D)
8. Ananta Hazra, Ankita Roy,Aradhita Bhattacharjee, Arpita Barma and ParthaRoy,  Quinoline based chromogenic and fluorescence chemosens or for pH: Effect of isomer, Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020, 1201, 127173.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2019.127173)
9. Shibashis Halder, Pritam Ghosh, Ananta Hazra, Priyabrata Banerjee and Partha Roy, A quinoline-based compound for explosive 2,4,6-trinitrophenol sensing: experimental and DFT-D3studies, New Journal of Chemistry, 2018, 42(11), 8408-8414.(https://doi.org/10.1039/C8NJ00817E)
10. Ananta Hazra, Ankita Roy, Abhishek Mukherjee, Guru Prasad Maiti and Partha Roy, Remarkable difference in Al³⁺ and Zn²⁺ sensing properties of quinoline based isomers, Dalton Transactions, 2018, 47, 13072-13988.(https://doi.org/10.1039/C8DT02856G)
11. Shibashis Halder, Ananta Hazra and Partha Roy, Colorimetric and fluorescence sensing of pH with a Schiff-base molecule, Journal of Luminescence, 2018, 195, 326-333.(https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jlumin.2017.11.055)
12. Coming soon..