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Dr. Tarkeshwar Gupta
Publications
Postdoctoral work at Weizmann Institute of science, Rehovot, Israel:

1. Covalent assembled osmium chromophore based monolayers: Chemically induced modulation of optical properties in visible region, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Marc Altman, Atindra D. Shukla, Dalia Freeman, Gregory Leitus, Milko E. van der Boom, Chem. Mater., In Press (2006).

Postdoctoral work at Indian Institute of science, Bangalore, India:


2. Bis(dipyridophenazine)copper(II) complex as major groove directing synthetic hydrolase, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Shanta Dhar, Munirathinam Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty, Dalton Transaction, 12, 1896 (2004).

3. Effect of copper-sulfur bond on the DNA photocleavage activity of 2-(methylthio)ethylpyridine-2-carbaldimine copper(II) complexes, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Ashis K. Patra, Shanta Dhar, Munirathinam Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty, J. Chem. Sci. (invited), 117, 123 (2005).

4. Phosphodiester hydrolysis and DNA cleavage activity promoted by new dipeptide copper(II) complex, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Ashis K. Patra, M. Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty, Inorganic Chemistry, manuscript to be submitted (2005).

5. Photo-nuclease activity of copper(II) complexes containing reduced Schiff  base, 2-(methylthio)ethylsalicylaldamine and N-donor heterocyclic bases, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Shanta Dhar, Munirathinam Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., manuscript to be submitted (2005).

6. Synthesis, characterization and magnetic property of tetrakis[(1,10-phenanthroline)(m-hydroxo)copper(II)]perclorate:A tetranuclear cubane type Cluster, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Arindam Mukherjee, Munirathinam Nethaji and Akhil R. Chakravarty, Inorg. Chem. Commun., manuscript to be submitted (2005).

Ph.D. work at DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India:

7. Synthesis, characterization and phosphodiester bond cleavage studies of the dinuclear, thioacetato cobalt(II) of 3-methylsulfanyl propionic acid complex, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Rinkoo Devi and B. P. Baranwal, Transition Metal Chemistry, 31, 123 (2006).

8. Synthesis, spectral and kinetic studies of copper(II) thiocarboxylates as molecular precursor for metal sulfide, Tarkeshwar Gupta and B. P. Baranwal, Indian J. Chem. Soc. A, 44, 504 (2005).

9. Synthesis and physico-chemical studies on iron(II,III,III) and cobalt(II) thiocarboxylates, B.P. Baranwal and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Synth. React. Inorg. Met. �Org. Chem., 34(10), 1737 (2004).

10. Trinuclear, oxo � bridged, mixed � valence iron mercaptocarboxylates, Ashutosh K. Pandey, Tarkeshwar Gupta and B.P. Baranwal, Transition Metal Chemistry, 29(4), 370 (2004).

11. Synthesis and spectral characterization of some oxo � centered, trinuclear mixed � valence iron thiocarboxylates, B.P. Baranwal and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Spectrochimica Acta Part A, 59/4, 859 (2003).

12. Synthesis, spectral and magnetic studies of some polynuclear, mixed-ligand complexes of iron and cobalt with 3�mercaptopropionic acid, B.P. Baranwal, Tarkeshwar Gupta and Atresh K. Singh, Indian J. Chem. Sec. A., 42A, 1905 (2003).

13. Synthesis and characterization of some polynuclear mixed carboxylates of cobalt(II), B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Tarkeshwar Gupta and Atresh K. Singh, Rev. Roum. de Chimie, 48(1), 15 (2003).

14. Some novel trinuclear, oxo � bridged materials of mixed � valence iron with fatty acids,  B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Prog. Cryst. Growth Charact. Mater., 45, 147 (2002).

15. Synthesis and characterization of some trinuclear cobalt(II) thiocarboxylates, B.P. Baranwal and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Synth. React. Inorg. Met. �Org. Chem., 32(10), 1855 (2002).

16. Synthesis, characterization and antifungal activity of copper(II) complexes with cyclic phosphazenes, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Umme Farva and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Proceedings, International Conference on Metallo � Organic Chemistry, Jaipur, 395-402 (2002).

17. Synthesis and characterization of hydroxycarboxylato complexes of nickel(II), B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Poonam Singh and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Indian J. Chem., 40A, 320 (2001).

18. Synthesis and physico � chemical studies on some binuclear mixed carboxylates of copper(II), B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Res. J. Chem. Environ., 3(2), 43 (1999).

19. Synthesis and studies of some dinuclear, mixed-ligand cobalt(II) chelates of mercaptocarboxylic acids, Tarkeshwar Gupta and B.P. Baranwal, J. Coord. Chem., Submitted for publication (2005).

20. Substitutions of cobalt(II) carboxylates with Shiff bases, B.P. Baranwal, Atresh K. Singh and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Res. J. Chem. Environ., Submitted for publication (2004).

About me
Dr. Tarkeshwar Gupta
Prof. M. E. vander Boom's Laboratory
Department of Organic chemistry
Weizmann Institute of Science,
Rehovot - 76100, Israel
E-mail: [email protected]
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Tel. : +972-8-9344185 (Lab.)
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Academic Record
Postdoctoral Research: Thin Film Chemistry, �Designing of iron, ruthenium and osmium polypyridyl complexes for siloxane based monolayers as novel molecular - based photonic materials�. Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. February 2005 � continued.
Supervisor:
Prof. M. E. vander Boom
Postdoctoral Research: Bioinorganic Chemistry, �Designing of copper complexes with NSO donor ligands as artificial nucleases�.  Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. May 2003 � January 2005.
Supervisor:
Prof. A. R. Chakravarty
Ph.D.: Coordination Chemistry/Synthetic Inorganic Chemistry, Thesis entitled �Synthesis and Characterization of Thiocarboxylates of Iron(III) and Cobalt(II)�. DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India. January 2003.
Supervisor: Prof. B. P. Baranwal
M.Sc.: Chemistry (Inorganic chemistry), First Division (66.33%), CGPA, 5.3 out of 8, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India. April 1997.
B.Sc.: Chemistry, Zoology and Botany, First Division (71.22%), CGPA, 5.7 out of 8, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India. April 1994.
Intermediate: Science, First Division (62.8%), CGPA, 5.0 out of 8, U. P. Board, Allahabad, India. April 1991.

Research Interest
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Synthetic Inorganic/Organic Chemistry
Nanomaterial/Thin film Chemistry
Coordination Chemistry
Awards and Fellowship obtained
1. Gold medal in graduation for getting highest marks.
2. Best paper presentation award at CDRI Lucknow.
1. Research Associate, Feinberg Graduate School, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, from 01.02.2005 continued on a project entitled �Designing of iron, ruthenium and osmium polypyridyl complexes for siloxane based monolayers as novel molecular - based photonic materials�.
2. Research Associate, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi from 24.7.2003 to 28.01.05 on a project entitled �Designing of copper complexes with NSO donor ligands as artificial nucleases�. 
3. Research Associate, Department of Science and Technology (DST), New Delhi from 13.05.2003 to 23.7.2003 on a project entitled �Magneto � structural studies on copper(II) complexes of bioinorganic relevance�.
4. Senior Research Fellow, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi from 19.09.2002 to 12.05.2003 on a project entitled �Synthesis and characterization of transition metal complexes with sulfur and oxygen donor ligands�.
5. Project Fellow, University Grant Commission (UGC), New Delhi from 17.04.2001 to 18.09.2002 on a project entitled �Transition metal complexes involving sulfur containing ligands�.
6. State Government Research Fellow, State Government, Lucknow from 01.07.2000 to 16.04.2001 on a project entitled �Synthesis and characterization of thiocarboxylates of iron(III) and cobalt(II)�.
Papers presented/accepted in conferences/seminars/workshops
Research Experience
(1) Synthetic Experience:
Experienced in handling air and moisture sensitive reactions and products using Glove box and familiar with all chromatographic and crystallization techniques.

Synthesis of ternary copper(II) complexes using NSO donor dipeptides and NN donor heterocyclic bases.

Complexation studies of sulfur containing ligands with various transition metal ions.

Nuclease and kinetic studies using copper(II) complexes and model compounds.

Preparation of siloxane-based thin films and self assembled monolayers on substrates like glass, doped silicon, quartz and ITO/glass.

Synthesis of chromophores and metal complexes for the generation of new molecule-based photonic materials.

Synthesis of transition metal thiocarboxylates as single source precursor for metal sulfide material using thermoanalytical technique.

(2) Instrumental Experience:
Experience to handle and elucidate structure from CCD single crystal x-ray crystallographic.

Experience in handling IR, UV/Visible, NMR and Fluorescence Spectrophotometer.

Experience in doing gel electrophoresis experiments and DNA binding studies using fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy.

Experience in handling Cyclic Voltammeter instrument to measure redox properties.

Experience to fabricate and design electro spectrophotometer using UV/VIS and CV instruments.

Experience in handling Faraday�s instrument to measure magnetic susceptibility.

Experience to fabricate an indigenously designed TGA instrument.

Experience to record DTA on Universal Thermal Analysis Instruments, Mumbai.

Experience in analysis and interpretation of data from

Spectroscopic techniques such as IR, UV-Visible, NMR,  
Mossbauer, Mass, Fluorescence, etc. Chromatographic techniques such as Paper, TLC, Column, HPLC etc. Electrochemical techniques such as cyclic voltametric and molar conductivity. Various thermo-analytical techniques such as TG, DTA, DSC etc. Cryoscopic / Ebullioscopic molecular weight determinations. Surface characterization techniques like AFM, XPS, XRR, Elipsometry and contact angle measurements etc.

(3) Computer proficiency:
      Word, Excel, Power point, Origin, Front page, Page maker, Chemistry software programs and Internet applications etc.,
1. Hydroxycarboxylato Complexes of Nickel(II): Synthesis and Characterization B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Poonam Singh and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Paper presented and published in National Symposium and Conference on Solid State Chemistry and Allied Areas conducted by ISCAS 99 at Jammu University Jammu, 28-30 Oct. 1999.

2. Attended National Symposium and workshop in Proceeding of the Twelfth National Symposium on Thermal Analysis conducted by ITAS 2000 at D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 26-27 March 2000.

3. Heterocycles in Polynuclear Cobalt(II) Complexes with Thiocarboxylic Acids, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Paper presented and Published in National Seminar on Heterocyclic Chemistry: New Dimensions, conducted by Department of Chemistry, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 18-20 March 2001.

4. Mercapto Carboxylato Complexes of Cobalt(II): Synthesis and Characterization, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Tarkeshwar Gupta and Atresh K. Singh, Paper presented and published in National Symposium on Chemical Sciences: Advancing Frontiers, conducted by Department of Chemistry, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur at CDRI, Lucknow, 3-4 June 2001.

5. Synthesis, Characterization and Antifungal Activity of Copper(II) Complexes with Cyclic Phosphazenes, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Umme Farva and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Paper presented and published in Proceeding of International Symposium on Synthetic Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, conducted by Department of Chemistry, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, 10-13 Jan. 2002.

6. Structural Characterization of New Fungicidal Materials; Complexes of Copper(II) with Cyclic Phosphazenes, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Umme Farva and Tarkeshwar Gupta, Paper presented and published in National Seminar on Advanced Materials conducted by Department of Chemistry, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 22-24 March 2002.

7. Some Novel Trinuclear, Oxo-bridged Materials of Mixed-valence Iron with Fatty Acids, B.P. Baranwal, S.S. Das, Tarkeshwar Gupta and Atresh K. Singh, Paper presented and published in National Seminar on Advanced Materials, conducted by Department of Chemistry, D.D.U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 22-24 March 2002.

8. Attended 48th BRNS-IANCAS National Workshop on Radiochemistry and Applications of Radioisotopes, conducted by D. D. U. Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur and Indian Association of Nuclear Chemists and Allied Scientists, 19-28 October 2002.

9. Heterotrinuclear, Oxo-bridged Thiocarboxylates of Iron(III) with Divalent Metal Ions, B. P. Baranwal, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Talat Fatma and Ashutosh Pandey, Paper presented and published in International Conference on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry - X, conducted by Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Mumbai, 15 � 17 Dec. 2003.

10. Attended The 70th meeting of the Israel Chemical Society conducted by Bar-Ilan University, Tel-Aviv, 15-16 February, 2005.

11. Switching of Optical Properties of Metal Complex-Based Monolayers, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Mark Altman, Atindra Shukla, Dalia Freeman, and Milko E. van der Boom, Paper presented in International Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry, conducted by Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, 8-10 Dec. 2005.

12. New Osmium Complexes for Siloxane-Based Monolayers: Switching of Optical Properties in the Visible Region, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Mark Altman, Atindra Shukla, Dalia Freeman, and Milko E. van der Boom, Paper presented in National Symposium on Current Trends in Materials' Characterization, conducted by Advanced Center for Material Science, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, 5-7 Dec. 2005.

13. Formation of Osmium and Ruthenium Chromophore-Based Monolayers for Molecular Switch/Memory Elements, Tarkeshwar Gupta, Delivered a talk of 1 h in Department of Chemistry, DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, 26 Nov. 2005.

Teaching Experience:
One year experience to teach 12th standard theory and practical classes (General Chemistry) 12 hours / week, from 1997 to 1998.
Personal Details
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Date of Birth/Age : August 02, 1975/29+ years
Marital Status : Married (with Dr. Rinkoo Gupta)
Father�s Name : Ram Krishna Gupta
Nationality : Indian
Sex : Male
Languages Known : English & Hindi
Permanent Address : Village- Baraipar, Post- Bhatpar Rani, 
District- Deoria, Uttar Pradesh � 274702, INDIA
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