Research Projects

Among bio-hazardous materials, the effect of toxicity on living object of explosive pollutants (viz. RDX, TNT, DNT and other nitrobenzenes) is one of the hot topic due to its day to day rapid accumulation in environment (by war, terrorist attack, military wastage, etc.) as well as in human body. These carcinogenic materials may causes liver disease, anemia, skin problem and moreover cancer. On the other hand industrially evolved pollutants like COx, NOx, SO2, H2S, etc. causes severe respiratory problem, heart disease, skin cancer and furthermore most threatened ‘Global Warming'. Now a days, sensing and scavenging of these hazardous molecules by porous luminescent metal organic frame work (usually 3D coordination polymers) is one of the popular remedial strategies. But, most of the metal organic frame works (MOFs) have been prepared under drastic condition i.e., high temperature hydro-thermal reactions and by using expensive starting materials. Therefore, preparation of cost-effective coordination polymers under room temperature stirring condition is still challenging task. Here the main focus is to prepare the fluorescent 1D, 2D and 3D porous coordination polymers by using different metal ions, chelating units and pseudo-halides for the recognition of different bio-hazardous molecules (especially, explosive materials and toxic gas molecules). Henceforth, complexation and gas adsorption method will be employed for the detoxification of these pollutants. X-ray crystallography, ESI-Mass analysis, Chromatography, NMR and different spectroscopic techniques (viz. IR, UV-vis, Fluorescence spectrophotometer, etc.) will be used for the structure determination as well as molecular sensing experiments. Therefore, overall output of this project may break down the traditional route of detection and removal of pollutants and can be treated as ‘real life application' of the luminescent coordination polymers.

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