Bio-Sketch
Faculty in the Department of Chemistry in November 2022. He joined Zakir Husain Delhi College in 1980 after earning his PhD in 1979 from Delhi University, and he retired as principal in 2018.He had experience instructing college-level B.Sc. (H) and M.Pharma courses. Under his supervision, more than 50 students received PhD degrees, and 10 candidates received M.Phil degrees. The area of research was “Nanoparticles, Biosensors, Bio-Inorganic and Coordination Chemistry etc.”.He has more than 400 research papers published in reputable national and international journals and has also authored 1 book for seniors in high school and 8 books for B.Sc. students. He is a fellow or member of more than a dozen scientific societies, including the Indian Science Congress, Indian Chemical Society, National Academy of Science, Allahabad, and others and serves on editorial boards and reviews for over a dozen periodicals.More than 80 international and national conferences have seen him present papers, attend, and chair sessions. He has given numerous lectures for the FDP course at the college and school levels.He is connected to organisations like BOSS, NCERT, IGNOU, and NIOS.
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1. S Chandra et. al., Synthesis, Characterization, DFT of novel, symmetrical, N/O- donor tetradentate Schiff’s base, its Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II), Zn(II) complexes and their in-vitro human pathogenic antibacterial activity, Egyptian J. Chem., 62 (2019) 73–105.
2. S Chandra et. al. Structural designing, spectral and computational studies of bioactive Schiff's base ligand and its transition metal complexes, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 32, (2017).
3. S Chandra et. al., Synthesis, spectroscopic evaluation, molecular modelling, thermal study and biological evaluation of manganese(II) complexes derived from bidentate N,O and N,S donor Schiff base ligands, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 32 (2017).
4. S. Chandra et. al., Synthesis, spectral and antibacterial activity of Co(II), Ni(II) and Zn(II) complexes with 2‐hydroxy‐benzoic acid(3,4‐dihydro‐2H‐naphthalen‐1‐ylidene)‐hydrazide, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 31, (2017).
5. S. Chandra et. al., Synthesis, characterization of 1,2,4-triazole Schiff base derived 3d-metal complexes: Induces cytotoxicity in HepG2, MCF-7 cell line, BSA binding fluorescence and DFT study, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 171 (2017) 246–257.
6. S. Chandra et. al. Synthesis and characterization of bisnitrato{4- hydroxyacetophenonesemicarbazone]nickel(II) complex as ionophore for thiocyanate selective electrode. Material Science and Engineering C, 62 (2016) 18-27.
7. Monika Tyagi, Sulekh Chandra, Prateek Tyagi. et. al. Synthesis, characterization and antifungal evaluation of Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes with a derivative of 4- aminoantipyrine, J. Taibah Univ. Sci. 2016 (accepted).
8. Upendra Dhusiya, Seema Gautam, Sulekh Chandra and Swati Agrawal. "Unsymmetrical Mixed Ligand (With 2, 3- Dihydroxypyridine and Some Amino Acids) on Compelxation with Metal Ions Hg(II) and UO2(II): Synthesis, Spectral Characterization and Antifungal Activity", J. Pharmaceutical chemical and biological sciences, 4 (2016) 1- 12.
9. Upendra Dhusiya, Seema Gautam, Sulekh Chandra and Swati Aggarwal. "Synthesis, characterization and biological activity of mixed ligand based metal complexes of 3D series with 2,3-dihydroxypyridine(DHP) and amino acids glycine(GLY), alanine(ALA), valine(VAL) and leucine(LEU)", World journal of pharmaceutical research", 5 (2016) 1078-1090.
10. Prateek Tyagi, Sulekh Chandra, B. S. Saraswat and Deepak Yadav. "Design, spectral characterization, thermal, DFT studies and anticancer cell line activities of Co(II), Ni(II) and Cu(II) complexes of Schiff bases derived from 4-amino-5- (pyridin-4-yl)-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thiol" Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy 145 (2015) 155-164.