G.G.D.C. Manbazar | Faculty Details

I have joined Government General Degree College at Manbazar-II, Purulia as Assistant Professor in the West Bengal Education Service (WBES) on 25th May 2015 at. In-fact I am the founder of the Department of Chemistry of this college. Some of the relevant information regarding my professional and research experience are highlighted below:

Specialisation: Inorganic Chemistry

Professional Experience:

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Government General Degree College, Manbazar-II, Purulia (May 2015 to Present)

Area of Research Interest:

▣ Inorganic Chemistry, Self-assembly

▣ Synthetic Coordination Chemistry and Molecular Magnetism

Research Experience:

▣ January 2010 to January 2015 (Five Years): As CSIR-JRF (01/01/2010 to 31/12/2011) and CSIR-SRF (01/01/2012 to 31/12/2014) at Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan, Burdwan-713104, West Bengal, India

▣ May 2015 to Present (Approximately Seven Years): Continuing Independent research work on Synthetic Coordination Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, Government General Degree College, Manbazar-II, Susunia, PO-Kumari, District-Purulia, Pin-723126, West Bengal, India

Total Number of Publications: 22 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=J47BMZYAAAAJ)

Semester wise list of topics taught tabulated below:
Semester	Course Code	Course Title	Topics Taught
I & III	BCEMGEHC7	Atomic Structure, Chemical Periodicity, Acids And Bases, Redox Reactions, General Organic Chemistry & Aliphatic Hydrocarbons	Atomic Structure, Chemical Periodicity, Acids And Bases, Redox Reactions, Alkane, Alkene and Alkynes
I	BCEMCCRC101	Organic Chemistry-I	Bonding and Physical Properties and General Treatment of Reaction Mechanism I
II & IV	BCEMGEHC7A	States of Matter & Chemical Kinetics, Chemical Bonding & Molecular Structure, P- Block Elements	Chemical Bonding and Molecular Structure, Comparative study of p-block elements and Chemical Kinetics
II	BCEMCCRC201	Inorganic Chemistry-I	Extra nuclear Structure of atom, Chemical periodicity, Acid-Base reactions, Redox Reactions and Precipitation reactions
III	BCEMCCRC301	Physical Chemistry-I	Chemical Thermodynamics and Chemical kinetics
III	BCEMSERT304	Basic Analytical Chemistry	Analysis of Soil, Water, Food products and Cosmetics, Chromatography, Ion-exchange
IV	BCEMCCRC401	Inorganic Chemistry-II	Chemistry of s and p Block Elements, Noble Gases and Coordination Chemistry-I
IV	BCEMSERT404	Analytical Clinical Biochemistry	Review of Concepts from Core Course
V	BCEMDSRC1	Inorganic Materials of Industrial Importance	Silicate Industries, Fertilizers, Batteries, Alloys and Catalysis
V	BCEMDSRC2	Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis	Introduction to spectroscopic methods of analysis, Molecular spectroscopy, NMR spectroscopy and X-ray analysis and electron spectroscopy
VI	BCEMDSRC3	Green Chemistry	Introduction and principles of Green Chemistry and Designing a Chemical synthesis
VI	BCEMDSRC4	Polymer Chemistry	Introduction and history of polymeric materials, Functionality and its importance, Kinetics of Polymerization, Polymer Solution and Properties of Polymer

Ph.D. (Chemistry), The University of Burdwan, January 2015
M.Sc. (Chemistry), The University of Burdwan, Session 2007-2009
B.Sc. (Chemistry Hons), Raghunathpur College, The University of Burdwan, Session 2004-2007

Assistant Professor of Chemistry in W.B.E.S

Qualified all India level Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE 2009), Conducted by Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) with 99.41 percentile and all India rank of 39
Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi in 2010
Awarded Senior Research Fellowship (SRF) by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India, New Delhi in 2012

Served as Secretary of Teachers' Council, Government General Degree College at Manbazar-II for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 academic sessions along with other sub-committees.

Member of IQAC

The laboratory of Department of Chemistry, Government General Degree Collge, Manbazar-II is well equipped with required furniture, glassware, chemicals, and instruments along with water and LPG connection.

The following instruments are available for routine laboratory experiments:

· High precision digital analytical balance

·         Digital Water Bath
·         High Vacuum Pump
·         Water Distillation Set-up
·         Magnetic Stirrer
·         Hot Plate
·         Hot Air Oven
·         Refrigerator
·         UV Cabinet
·         Digital PH Meter
·         Conductivity Meter
·         Digital Potentiometer
·         Digital Photoelectric Colorimeter
·         Desiccators
·         Melting Point Apparatus etc. and many more

10/04/2022

Dr. Somnath Choubey have published twenty-two research papers till date. All the publications are in peer reviewed international journals. Please visit the following link of google scholar for details of all the publications. https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=J47BMZYAAAAJ

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