Dr. Avtar Singh

Basic Details

Name

Dr. Avtar Singh
Designation

Assistant Professor (Guest Faculty)
Department

Chemistry

Contact

Phone (O)

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Phone(R)

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Mobile

8146888990
e-mail

avtarchem@sliet.ac.in

Educational Details

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. (Chemistry): August 2013 – January 2019; Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India (Deemed to be University)
M.Sc. (Chemistry): July 2011 – August 2013; Sant Longowal Institute of Engineering and Technology, Longowal, Punjab, India (Deemed to be University)
B.Sc. (Non Med.): May 2008 – May 2011; Punjabi University, Patiala

Experience

Experience

Post-Doctoral Research Experience: 1 Year & 4 Month

Teaching Experience: 2 Year & 3 Month (PG Level)

Book Authored

Book authored

Book Chapters:
1. Fundamental Perspectives of Greener Synthesis in ‘Handbook of Greener Synthesis of Nanomaterials and Compounds’ 2021, pp. 3-36, Elsevier.
Singh, A.; Kaur, N.; Parmar, A. and Chopra, H. K.
2. Structure and Properties of Ionic Liquids: Green Aspects in ‘Ionic Liquids in Analytical Chemistry: New Insights and Recent Developments’ 2022, pp. 1-32, Elsevier.
Singh, A.; Kaur, N.; Parmar, A. and Chopra, H. K.
3. Ionic Liquids in Chiral Separations in ‘Ionic Liquids in Analytical Chemistry: New Insights and Recent Developments’ 2022, pp. 275-296, Elsevier.
Kaur, N.; Singh, A.; Kaur, P. and Chopra, H. K.
4. Water-mediated Heterogeneous Catalysis for Organic Functional Group Transformations and Synthesis in ‘Aqueous Mediated Heterogeneous Catalysis’ 2022, De Gruyter.
Malik, P.; Singh, A.; Parmar, A.
5.    Tree Bark and Their Role in Nanomaterial Synthesis and Applications in ‘Secondary Metabolites Based Green Synthesis of Smart Nanomaterials and Applications’ 2022, Springer Nature.
Singh, A.; Malik, P.; Parmar A.; Rohini and Chopra, H. K.
6. Chiral ionic liquid mediated asymmetric organic synthesis: Recent advancements in ‘Non-Conventional Solvents’ 2022, De Gruyter.
Singh, A.; Rohini, Parmar, A. and Chopra, H. K.

Award

Award

1.    Awarded ‘Gold Medal’ and ‘Merit Certificate’ in M.Sc. (Organic Chemistry) as stand first in order of merit (2013).
2.   Awarded ‘INSPIRE Fellowship’ by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), MHRD, India (2014).
3.   Awarded ‘Best Poster Award’ at National Conference (02) and SLIET Quality Publication Award.

Publications

Publications

  1.     New benzimidazolium-based chiral ionic liquids: Synthesis and applications in sodium borohydride reductions in water. (Abstracted in Cheminform; Among the most downloaded articles from the journal website)
Singh, A. and Chopra, H.K. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2016, 27, 448-453. (IF=2.15)
2.     Chiral ionic liquids: Design, synthesis and applications in asymmetric organocatalysis. (Among the most accessed articles from the journal website)
Singh, A. and Chopra, H.K. Curr. Org. Synth. 2017, 14, 488-510. (IF=1.97)
3.     S-Substituted-2-mercaptobenzthiazolium-based chiral ionic liquids: efficient organocatalysts for enantioselective sodium borohydride reductions of prochiral ketones.
Singh, A. and Chopra, H.K. Tetrahedron: Asymmetry 2017, 28(3), 414-418. (IF=2.15)
4.     Exploring low cost natural precursors as chiral building blocks in synthesis: Chiral carbohydrate ionic liquids
Kaur, N.; Singh, A. and Chopra, H. K. Mini Rev. Org. Chem.  2018, 15(3), 208-219. (IF=2.49)
5.     Synthesis, characterization and applications of some novel DMAP-based chiral ionic liquids.
Singh, A. and Chopra, H.K. J. Mol. Liq. 2018, 266, 106-111. (IF=6.16)
6.     Enantioselective reduction reactions using chiral ionic liquids: An overview
Singh, A.; Kaur, N. and Chopra, H. K. Curr. Org. Synth. 2018,15(5), 578-586. (IF=1.97)
7.     Chiral recognition methods in analytical chemistry: Role of the chiral ionic liquids.
Singh, A.; Kaur, N. and Chopra, H. K. Crit. Rev. Anal.Chem. 2019, 49(6), 553-569. (IF=6.53).
8.     Proline-histidine dipeptide: A suitable template for the generation of ion-tagged organocatalysts for the asymmetric aldol reaction.
Inani, H,; Singh, A.; Bhati, M.; Kumari, K.; Kucherenko, S.A.; Zlotin, S.; Srinivasan, E. Synthesis 2021, 53, 2702-2712. (IF=3.15).
9.     Merrifield resin supported ionic liquids: catalytic applications in organic synthesis.
Ayushi; Singh, A. and Chopra, H. K. (Accepted for publication in the journal Curr. Org.        Chem. IF= 2.22)

website

Website

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=H3v8yMkAAAAJ&hl=en

Research/Projects

Research

Areas of Specialization:
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Asymmetric Synthesis, Organocatalysis and Spectroscopy.