Scientist's Profile

Research Interest

Development of analytical methods for the characterization of glass and ceramic materials in the field of Atomic Emission and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopic technique. Inorganic materials synthesis, characterization and structure determination is another field of research interest.

Landmark Research Contribution

Developed analytical methods for the determination of minor and trace elements on ICP-OES. Established the methodology for the determination of arsenic in water using GH-AAS. Development of solid phase extraction technique for preconcentration and determination of arsenic in water by UV Visible spectrophotometric method.

Selected Publications

1. P.K.Sinha, J. Chakravarty and S. Bhattacharya “Ruthenium phenolate: Synthesis, characterization and reactivities of a group of salicylaldiminato and 2-(arylazo) phenolato complexes of ruthenium” Polyhedron, 15, 2931-2938, 1996.
2. P. K. Sinha, and S. Bhattacharya “Synthesis, Characterization, Redox properties and Structure of some ruthenium phenolato complexes” Polyhedron., 19, pp. 1673, 2000.
3. P. K. Sinha, M. Bolboaca, S. Schl�cker, J. Popp and W. Kiefer “Vibrational spectroscopic investigations and density functional theory calculationsof trans-diaqua-bis (picolinato) zinc(II) dihydrate complex” Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 34, (4), pp. 276-281, 2003.
4. P. K. Sinha, Lorry R. Falvello and S. Bhattacharya “Chemistry of ruthenium with some O-N-O- donor ligands: Synthesis, Redox properties and Structure” Indian journal of Chemistry, 43A, pp. 1846- 1852, 2004.
5. S. K. Srivastava, Animesh K. Ojha, P. K. Sinha, B. P. Asthana, Ranjan K. Singh “Probing self-associated structures of the solute molecule, acrylonitrile, the solvent molecule 2Cl-phenol and their binary complexes via concentration-dependent Raman study and DFT calculation” Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 37, (1-3), pp. 75-78, 2006.

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