Education

2004: B.Sc. from University of Calcutta (Barasat Government College)

2006: M.Sc. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

2011: Ph. D. from National Taiwan Normal University

Teaching Experience

Teaching chemistry is my profession as well as my passion. For about ten years, I have been doing that job just like a "KATU-KUTU BURO" (Reference: A famous poem of the great Bengali poet Sukumar Roy). 

Courses Taught/Teaching

M. Sc. courses:

1. CH 403: Advanced Organic Chemistry

2. CH 404: Spectroscopy

3. CH 406: Medicinal Chemistry - I

4. CH 505: Medicinal Chemistry II

5. CH 511: Organometallic Chemistry

6. CH 510: Pharmaceutical Chemistry

7. CH 516: Organic synthesis-II

8. CH 591: Medicinal Chemistry Lab - II

B. Sc. courses:

CH 202: General Chemistry - II

CH 292: Chemistry Lab - III

Research Area

Target oriented organic synthesis and methodology development: Development of new methodology for the synthesis of bioactive organic compounds, natural products and their analogues. The bioactivity of the compound is evaluated in our collaborative groups.  

Development of new organic ferroelectric materials: We are working on the development of new ferroelectric material in collaboration with the Department of Physics, Aliah University. 

If you are interested in our research and if you want to pursue your PhD in our group, email at raihan@aliah.ac.in with your updated resume.

Experience

2017- Present:  Assistant Professor, Aliah University 

2014 – 2017:  Young Scientist, Science and Education Research Board, Government of India (@ Aliah University). 

2012 – 2014: Dr. D. S. Kothari postdoctoral fellow, UGC, New Delhi (@ University of Hyderabad)

2012: Postdoctoral fellow (@ Nationat Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan).

2011 –2012: Postdoctoral fellow (@ National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan)

Conference Papers Published

Kabir E.; Khatun M.; Nasrin L.; Ghosh T.; Raihan M. J.; Rahman, M. Salts of diisopropylammonium – A non-toxic alternate to perovskite ferroelectrics. In AIP Conf. Proc.: DAE Solid State Physics Symposium 2017, Mumbai, India Dec 26-30, 2017; American Institute of Physics: USA, 2018, 1942, pp 040006-1-040006-4

Journal Papers Published

For full list of publications please visit:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dj_gBnEAAAAJ&hl=en

1. Kabir, E.; Khatun, M.; Nasrin, L.; Raihan, M. J.; Rahman, M. J. Phys D: Appl. Phys 2017, 50, 163002.

 2. Rajawinslin, R. R.; Raihan, M. J.; Janreddy, D.; Kavala, V.; Kuo, C.-W.; Kuo, T.-S.; Chen, M.-L.; He, C.-H.; Yao, C.-F. Tetrahedron 2014, 760, 7505.

 3. Raihan, M. J.; Rajawinslin, R. R.; Kavala, V.; Kuo, C.-W.; Kuo, T.-S.; He, C.-H.; Huang, H.-N.; Yao, C.-F. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 8872.

 4. Rajawinslin, R. R.; Raihan, M. J.; Janreddy, D.; Kavala, V.; Kuo, C.-W.; Kuo, T.-S.; Chen, M.-L.; He, C.-H.; Yao, C.-F. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 5743.

 5. Gawande, S. D.; Raihan, M. J.; Zanwar, M. R.; Kavala, V.; Janreddy, D.; Kuo, C.-W.; Chen, M.-L.; Kuo, T.-S.; Yao, C.-F. Tetrahedron, 2013, 69, 1841.

6. Raihan, M. J.; Kavala, V.; Guan, Q.-Z.; Kuo, C.-W.; Kataria, S; Shishodia, S.; Janreddy, D.; Habib, P. M.; Yao, C.-F. Adv. Synth. Cat. 2012, 354, 2251.

 7. Zanwar, M. R.; Raihan, M. J.; Gawande, S. D.; Kavala, V.; Janreddy, D.; Kuo, C.-W.; Ambre, R.; Yao, C.-F. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 6495.

 8. Kavala, V.; Janreddy, D.; Raihan, M. J.; Kuo, C.-W.; Ramesh, C.; Yao, C.-F. Adv. Synth. Cat. 2012, 354, 2229.

 9.  Raihan, M. J.; Kavala, V.; Habib, P. M.; Guan, Q.-Z.; Kuo, C.-W.; Yao, C.-F. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 424.

 10. Raihan, M. J.; Kavala, V.; Kuo, C.-W.; Raju, B. R.; Yao, C.-F. Green Chem. 2010, 12, 1090.

 11. Habib, P. M.; Kavala, V.; Kuo, C.-W.; Raihan, M. J.; Yao, C.-F. Tetrahedron 2010, 66, 7050.

 12. Ray, L.; Katiyar, V.; Barman, S.; Raihan, M. J.; Nanavati, H.; Shaikh, M. M.; Ghosh, P. J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 4259.

 13. Ray, L.; Katiyar, V.; Raihan, M.J.; Nanavati, H.; Shaikh, M. M.; Ghosh, P. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2006, 3724.

Awards

1. “Young Scientist Award from Science and Education Research Board (under Department of Science and Technology), Government of India” (2014).

 2. Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (2012) . 

3. Postdoctoral fellowship from Academia Sinica, Taiwan (2012 ).

4. Postdoctoral fellowship from National Science Council, Taiwan (2011).

5. Winner of “Excellent Research Paper Award of the Academic Year 2010” Awarded by National Taiwan Normal University.

6. Awarded “Taiwan Scholarship” by the Government of Republic of China (2007).

Ph.D. Thesis Guidance

1. Md. Rizwan Khan, SRF, INSPIRE FELLOW. Qualified in NET, GATE, and SET

Interested students may email their CVs to raihan@aliah.ac.in

Open position: Open project position. The students interested in pursuing PhD here will be preferred. Please click on the following links

https://aliah.ac.in/recruitment

https://www.anandabazar.com/education-career/aliah-university-will-recruit-for-the-post-of-project-fellow-in-a-research-project-dgtl/cid/1508887 

MASTER Thesis Guidance

Present Students:

Suhana Tabasum

Jeet Ghosh

Jasmina Taherin

Israt Parveen

Md Juwel Sk

KAMRUNNESA SIDDIQUI

Tarik Anwar

2023

SABIR SK

YOUSUF SK

Jisun Ali

ALANGIR SK

Mahasina Khatun

Sajid Nawaz

Earlier

Sarwar Sk 

Avinash Gogoi

Sk Abbasuddin

 Ashraful Islam

Israfil Seik

Sabir Hossain

Md. Nawraj

Ahmeda Farhin

Entajul Rahman (from R. M. V. C. C,  Rahara)

Project Works

1. Gold catalyzed C-H bond activation (Funding source: Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), New Delhi)

2. "Development of Novel Thiazole Derivatives as Potential Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agent" “UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research”-funded by R&D project [CRS/2022-23/02/823]  (Ongoing)

Collaborative Programs

"Development of Novel Thiazole Derivatives as Potential Anticancer and Antimicrobial Agent" “UGC-DAE Consortium for Scientific Research”-funded by R&D project [CRS/2022-23/02/823]  (Ongoing)