The Department of Chemistry at IIT Tirupati stands out as a dynamic, highly regarded, and forward-thinking institution in the nation. Our present faculty members are deeply engaged in an extensive spectrum of modern and innovative research, encompassing broad areas are inorganic, organic, experimental, and theoretical physical chemistry.

Inorganic Chemistry: Focused research areas are Nanomaterials, Bioinorganic Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Medicinal Chemistry, Bioorganic Chemistry (Dr. Gouriprasanna Roy),  Interlocked molecules, Polyoxometalate, Energy storage, Oxygen atom transfer, and Proton-coupled electron transfer. The lab is focused on integrating Polyoxometalate and supramolecular chemistry together for a possible route to developing a more sustainable route to energy storage (Dr. Sourav Chakraborty), Development of bio-inspired synthetic models with first-row transition metals, and their reactivity studies using different experimental and theoretical tools. The team will also be involved in designing transition metal catalysts with redox-active ligands and studying the role of ligands in the reactions (Dr. Prasenjit Mondal).

Organic Chemistry: In the organic chemistry section, focused research areas include Transition Metal Catalysis for Sustainable Organic Synthesis, C‒X (X = C, H, N, O, S) Bond Activations, Metallaphotoredox Catalysis for Organic Synthesis, Metallaelectroorganic Synthesis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Green Chemistry for Organic Synthesis, Mechanistic investigations of Transition Metal-Catalyzed Transformations, Flow Chemistry, Synthesis and Applications of Organic Light-Emitting Materials, Synthesis and Activity Studies of Natural and Bioactive Compounds (Dr. P. Gandeepan), Total synthesis of bioactive natural products, Combined catalysis (transition metal/organocatalysis), Chemistry of allenamides and ynamides (Dr. Venkaiah Chintalapudi), Design of New Reagents and Catalysts for Radical Mediated Reactions, Asymmetric 3d-Transition Metal Catalysis, Photochemistry of Transition Metal Complexes, Molecular Editing, and Synthesis of Strained Molecules. (Dr. Srikrishna Bera), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Oligosaccharide synthesis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Glycoconjugate Vaccines, Synthesis of Vaccine Adjuvants, Conjugation methods, Regio and Stereoselective Construction of Glycans (Dr. Someswara Rao Sanapala).

Physical Chemistry: The physical chemistry section is comprised of both experimental, theory and computational research groups. Focused research areas are the development of computational models and methods for accurately describing the electronic structure and optical properties of functional molecules and extended materials, which rely on first-principles-based quantum simulations to achieve deeper insights on materials structure-property relationships in condensed phase and also to provide reliable predictions of systems for energy, environment and health care applications (Dr. Arun Manna), Spectroscopic modeling of aqueous systems, IR spectroscopy guided force-field development, Chemical dynamics in condensed phases, Properties of confined systems with theoretical and computational chemistry (Dr. Rajib Biswas), Theoretical Chemistry: Applications of stochastic processes, Physics of Polymers, Physical properties of active matter, Principles and applications of stochastic thermodynamics (Dr. Debasish Mondal), and Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Microscopy, Biophysical Chemistry, Chemical Biology, Mechanobiology, Supramolecular Chemistry. The lab uses chemistry and physics tools to study biological systems at the molecular level. The focus is on answering fundamental questions and developing new technologies that can be applied to various fields of research like organelle biophysics, cancer therapeutics, infectious disease, etc. (Dr. Kaushik Pal).