Prashant Chandra Singh
Assistant Professor
Spectroscopy
Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
India
Biography
Assistant Professor June 2013-Till Now, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata FPR Post Doctorate Fellow May 2010- May2013 FPR Fellow, RIKEN, Japan Post Doctorate Fellow May 2008- April 2010 Wayne State University, USA Ph.D. 2008 Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India
Research Interest
1. Understanding of the effect of fluorous interaction on the photophysical as well as solvation behaviour of the biologically important molecules 2. Hydrogen bond network of the biologically important Fluorinated alcohol and its aqueous mixture 3. Exploring the behaviour of membrane water using the state of art sum frequency generation technique 4. Surface water near to the neat air/water interface 5. Role of unique interactions in the protein folding induced by the chemical denaturant 6. The understanding about the role of the anion (Hofmeister series) in the protein folding. 7. Role of inert atom in the enhancement of the strength of hydrogen bond 8. Microhydration induced stability of atmospherically important molecules 9. Designing as well as photophysical study of the non-canonical amino acids to understand the solvation as well folding mechanism of proteins 10. DNA compaction and the role of solvents present in the groves and stacked regions
Publications
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Effect of hydration on the organo-noble gas molecule HKrCCH: role of krypton in the stabilization of hydrated HKrCCH complexes B. Biswas, P. C. Singh* PCCP 2015, 17,30632-30641
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Solvent organization around the perfluoro group of coumarin 153 governs its photophysical properties: An experimental and simulation study of coumarin dyes in ethanol as well as fluorinated ethanol solvents S. Mondal, R. Haldar, B. Biswas, B. Jana, P. C. Singh* J. Chem. Phys. 2016, 144, 184504
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Combined molecular dynamics, atoms in molecules, and IR studies of the bulk monofluoroethanol and bulk ethanol to understand the role of organic fluorine in the hydrogen bond network. B. Biswas, S. Mondal, P. C. Singh* J. Phys. Chem. A, 2017, 121,1250-1260
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A combined molecular dynamics simulation, atoms in molecule analysis and IR study on the biologically important bulk fluorinated ethanols to understand the role of weak interactions in their structural microheterogeneity and hydrogen Bond Network. S. Mondal, B. Biswas, S. Sarkar, P. C. Singh* J. Mol. Liq., 2017, 240, 708-716
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Role of Dispersive Fluorous Interaction in the Solvation Dynamics of the Perfluoro Group Containing Molecules S. Mondal, S. Chaterjee, R. Halder, B. Jana, B. Biswas, P. C. Singh* J. Phys. Chem. B, 2017, 121, 7681–7688
