Faculties

• Dr. Dilip Kumar ChandaMr. Abhijit SahaMr. Bhupen TamangMr. Dipak KarmakarMs. Gargi BiswasMr. Hrjdoydip Ranjan DasguptaSri. Kanti PaulMs. Molidipa SarkarSri. Mithun DattaSri. Parimal Chandra Das Ms. Suparna SarkarMr. Pintu Prasad JaiswalDr. Ratri NandiSmt. Poonam SinghSri. Sushil Kumar MishraMs. Shashi SharmaSmt. Archita NayakSri. Subhasis MitraSri. Suman SikdarSri. Debashis ChakrabortyMs. Suvasree KaranjaiMs. Tania BiswasSri. Babu BanikSri. Binayak RoySri. Sarat Chandra RayDr. Srinanda DasguptaDr. Nayana BhattacharjyaMs. Himika MukhopadhyayMs. Ankita BanikMr. Mithun BhowmikSmt. Monalisha ChakrabortySmt. Suravi LahiriMs. Sangey Doma DukpaSri. Durga Prasad ShramaSri. Basudeo Thapanew facultyDr. Koyel BhattacharyyaDr. Abir Baran MajumderMs. Meeta BalaFacultiesDr. Molla Basir AhamedSuvendu RoyMr. Suvendu RoyMr. Vivekananda HoreDr. Shyam Charan BarmaSmt. Meeta Bala

 Dr. Abir Baran Majumder       (Ph. D.)                             

                                           e-mail: aabir.majumder@ gmail.com

 Academic profile:

 B. Sc with Chemistry (Hons.) from University of North Bengal.  Year: 1996-1999, Class: I, Rank 1

 M. Sc with Organic Chemistry specialization, University of North Bengal.  Year: 2000-2001, Class: I, Distinction

  Ph. D. Chemistry (2004-2010), IIT Delhi (CGPA, 9.5)

Work experience (chronologically back):

• Assistant Professor, Deptt. of Chemistry, Kalipada Ghosh Tarai Mahavidyalaya, NBU (since May 2015).
• Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge   Technologies (AP-IIIT, Basar campus), Andhra Pradesh (Telangana)-504107.
• Project Scientist, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, 2009-2010

Awards:

• University medal for ranking 1 in Bachelors Degree.
• CSIR-UGC NET (LS): 2001
• GATE 2004, 99.12 percentile, All India Rank 29
• CSIR Junior Research Fellowship: 2004 (ranked within top 20 % of the CSIR fellows in all over India)
• CSIR Senior Research Fellowship: 2006-2009
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Chemistry  from IIT Delhi, 2010

Ph. D. Thesis title: Improving catalytic performance of hydrolases in organic solvents: Applications in synthesis and kinetic resolution of organic compounds.

Thesis supervisor: Prof. Munishwar Nath Gupta, Deptt. of Chemistry, IIT Delhi.

Areas of research interest:

• Stereoselective biocatalysis
• Biocatalyst formulation design engineering
• Mechanistic study of promiscuous enzymatic reactions
• Green chemistry

Membership of scientific association: Life member of Indian Science Congress Association (Chemical Sciences) L28367

Publications  

Publications and Patent:  Total Citation number 161, Total Impact factor 25, h-Index 8, i-10 Index 7 (as per Google scholar)

1. Majumder, A. B.; Singh, B.; Dutta, D.; Sadhukhan, S.; Gupta M. N. (2006) Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 16, 4041-4044. ISSN: 0960-894X

2. Majumder, A. B., Shah S, Gupta M. N. (2007) Chemistry Central Journal., 1:10. ISSN: 1752-153X

3. Majumder, A. B.; Mondal, K.; Singh, T. P.; Gupta, M. N. (2008) Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 26, 235-242. ISSN: 1029-2446

4. Majumder, A. B.; Singh, B.; Gupta, M. N. (2008)  Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 18, 124–128. ISSN: 0960-894X

5. Majumder, A. B.; Ramesh, N. G.; Gupta, M. N. (2009) Tetrahedron Letters, 50, 5190-5193. ISSN: 0040-4039

6. Majumder, A. B.; Gupta, M. N. (2009) Enzymatic kinetic resolution of racmic pregabalin. (published as a part of the international patent : WO/2009/087650).

Patent details: (WO2009087650) A novel process for the synthesis of pregabalin  from substituted cyclopropane intermediate and a process for enzymatic resolution of racemic pregabalin. Inventors: (Chemical process) Chaudhari, K .; Yeole, M.; Batchu, C .; Ratnam, R .; Aurora, S. Inventors (Enzymatic process) Gupta, M. N.; Majumder, A.B.

7. Majumder, A. B.; Gupta, M. N. (2010) Bioresource Technology, 101, 2877-2879. ISSN: 0960-8524

8. Majumder, A.B.; Gupta, M.N. (2011) Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 29(6), 238-245. ISSN: 1029-2446

9. Gupta, M. N.; Kapoor, M.; Majumder, A. B.; Singh, V. (2011) Current Science, 100, 1152-1162. ISSN: 0011-3891

10. Kapoor, M.; Majumder, A. B.; Mukherjee, J.; Gupta, M. N. (2012) Biocatalysis and Biotransformation, 30(4), 399-408. ISSN: 1029-2446

11. Majumder, A. B.; Gupta, M. N. (2014) Synthetic Communications, 44, 818-826. ISSN: 0039-7911/ 1532-2432 (online)

12. Kapoor, M.; Majumder, A. B.; Gupta, M. N. (2014) Catalysis Letters, 144,   ISSN: 1011-372X (online)

As Corresponding author (Institute funded project, Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies, Basar campus):

13. Reddy, A.; Majumder A. B. * (2014) Use of a combined technology of Ultrasonication, Three Phase Partitioning and Aqueous Enzymatic Oil Extraction for the extraction of oil from Spirogyra sp., Journal of Engineering,  ISSN: 2314-4904 (Published online)

Abstracts published:

14. Majumder, A. B.; Singh, B; Dutta, D; Sadhukhan, S; Gupta, M. N. Chem Inform vol. 37 issue 46 November 14, 2006. DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.05.006. ISSN: 0939-2084.

15. Majumder, A. B.; Singh, Bhupender; Gupta, Munishwar N. Chem Inform vol. 39 issue 25 June 17, 2008. DOI: 10.1002/chin.200825180. ISSN 0939-2084.

Conferences (National)

16. Paper presented (lecture talk) in “Recent Development in Chemistry-2013”; abstract published in proceeding.

Venue: NIT Durgapur

Title: Use of Novozym 435 for an efficient aldol type condensation of

5-hydroxy-endo-tricyclo[5.2.1.02,6]deca-4,8-dien-3-one and propionaldehyde under anhydrous conditions: effect of the size of the acceptor on this promiscuous biocatalysis.

17. Patent filed (2015-16): PD016755IN-SC (13731/RQ-DEL/2015): Gupta, M. N.;  Majumder, A. B.; Mukherjee, J. Method of surface modification of enzyme co-aggregates, reagents, surface modified enzyme co-aggregates and uses thereof.