Faculty Profile

Dr Rockshana Begum

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801731246924
  • Email: rockshana-che@sust.edu

Education

  • PhD (Inorganic Chemistry), Tohoku University, Japan
  • MS (Inorganic Chemistry), Tohoku University, Japan
  • MSc (Chemistry), Dhaka University, Bangladesh
  • BSc (Hons Chemistry), Dhaka University, Bangladesh

Research Interests

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Organosilicon compounds

Active Research Project

  • 1. Research pertaining synthesis and characterization of organometallic complexes.

Previous Research Project

  • 1. Synthesis and reactivity of coordinatively unsaturated complexes of Group 6 metals, synthesis of macromolecules, molecules with unusual structures, carbene complexes etc.

Journal Publications

  • 1. Lulu Shi, Ahsan Habib, Lei Bi, Huanhuan Hong, Rockshana Begum & Luhong Wen (2022): Ambient Ionization Mass Spectrometry: Application and Prospective, Critical Reviews in Analytical Chemistry
  • 2. Synthesis and characterization of hydrido molybdenum and tungsten complexes having ahemilabile tridentate Si,Si,O-ligand: observation of stepwise hydrosilylation of a nitrile to form an N-silylimine on the metal centre, Takashi Komuro, Rockshana Begum, Rikima Ono, and Hiromi Tobita, Dalton Trans., 40, 2348 (2011).
  • 3. Group 6 metal complexes with a hemilabile tridentate xantsil ligand and facile insertion of tBuCN into a W-Si bond [xantsil = (9, 9-dimethylxanthene-4,5-diyl) bis(dimethylsilyl)], Rockshana Begum, Takashi Komuro and Hiromi Tobita, Chem. Comm., 432, 33 (2006). N into a W-Si bond [xantsil = (9, 9-dimethylxanthene-4,5-diyl) bis(dimethylsilyl)], Rockshana Begum, Takashi Komuro and Hiromi Tobita, Chem. Comm., 432, 33 (2006).

Teaching

  • Organometallic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Spectroscopic methods
  • Bioinorganic Chemistry

Awards & Recognition

  • Research grant from Bangladesh ministry of Science and technology for research in photo-degradation of dye molecules, (July 2000-June 2001) Japanese Govt. Scholarship (Monbusho Scholarship), Jan 19 Oct 1998 Awarded scholarships from higher through graduate studies in Bangladesh

Graduate Supervision

  • 1. MSC (12)