Faculty Profile

Dr S M Saiful Islam

Professor

Contact Information

  • Office Address: Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh
  • Phone: +8801972448030
  • Email: saiful-che@sust.edu

Biography

Director, SUST Research Centre, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), (Oct. 2019 to date)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet-3114, Bangladesh (Feb.2016 to date)
Pro-Vice Chancellor, Leading University, Sylhet -3114, Bangladesh (January 2014 to Feb.2016)
Head, Department of Chemistry, SUST (Nov. 2011 to Jan.2014)
Head (acting), Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, SUST (Aug. 2010 to Nov. 2013)
Proctor, SUST (March 2009 to Nov. 2011)
Head (acting), Department of Forestry and Environmental Science, SUST (Aug. 2008 to May 2009)
Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUST (Aug. 2008 to Jan.2014)
Associate Professor Department of Chemistry, SUST (March. 2008 to Aug. 2008)
Research Associate, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN (Jan.2008 - Feb. 2008 )
Assistant Professor, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN (Apr. 2006 - Dec. 2007)
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUST. (Jul. 2005 – Mar 2006)
Post Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai, JAPAN (Jun. 2003 to Jul. 2005)
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, SUST, Bangladesh (Apr. 1999 to Jun. 2003)
Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, SUST (Oct. 1992 to Jan. 1995)
Research Fellow, Bose Center for Higher Study, Dhaka University, Bangladesh (Jan. 1992 to Oct. 1992)

Education

  • D.Sc. in Chemistry, Tohoku University, Japan
  • M.Sc. in Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
  • B.Sc. Hons. in Chemistry, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Research Interests

  • Dynamics of Excited multiplet states
  • Time Resolved Electron spin resonence
  • Material chemistry
  • Photochemistry

Journal Publications

  • 1. Synthesis and Characterization of Palladium Acetylide Complexes with Heterocyclic N-Donor Ligands Ratan Kumar Paul, Md. Faruak Ahmad , Aktharujjaman Jewel, Md Shalehin Al Mehedi Hasan, Dali Rani Sarker, S. M. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Younus, SUST Journal of Science and Technology Vol. 31(1) (2021)
  • 2. Synthesis and Characterization of Methoxy-bridged Bis(silylene) tungsten Complexes R. Begum and Islam S. M. S. J. Sci. Res. 4 (1), 109-118 (2012)
  • 3. Electrocatalytic Oxidation of 4‐Aminophenol Molecules at an FeS2/Carbon Nanotube Immobilized Glassy Carbon Electrode Surface in an Aqueous Medium. Jahir Ahmed , Riad H. Rakib, Mohammed M. Rahman, Iqbal Ahmed Siddiquey, S.M. Saiful Islam, Abdullah M. Asiri, Mohammad A. Hasnat ; ChemPlusChem 84(2) (2019)
  • 4. A New Series of Conjugated Platinum-co-Poly(p-phenylenebutadiynylene)s Polymers: Syntheses and Photophysical Properties. Md Kausar Ahmed, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Masnun Naher, Shawon Shawrier Mehdi, Atiqur Rahman Khan, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman Khan, S.M. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Younus, Stefan Wedler, Sergey Bagnich, Anna‐Lena Hofmann, Alexander Rudnick, Anna Köhler; Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (2019)
  • 5. Synthesis, characterization and liquid crystalline properties of a series of hydroxybiphenyl benzoate and biphenyl bis(benzoate); Salhed Ahmed, Md. Mostafizur Rahman, Ashikur Rahman Rabbi, Md. Kausar Ahmed, S.M. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Younus, Bimal Bhusan Chakraborty, Sudip Choudhury, Shamim Ahmed, Nasim Sultana; Journal of Molecular Liquids 224 (2016) 265 –273.
  • 6. Synthesis, Structures and Properties of Novel Platinum(II) Acetylide Complexes and Polymers with Tri(tolyl)phosphine as the Auxiliary Ligand; Abu Ali Ibn Sina, S. M. Ibrahim Al-Rafia, Md. Faruak Ahmad , Ratan Kumar Paul, S.M. Saiful Islam, Muhammad Younu, Paul R Raithby, Cheuk-Lam Ho, Yih Hsing Lo, Li Liu, Hua Li, and Wai-Yeung Wong, Journal of Inorganic and Organometallic Polymers and Materials 25(3), (2014)
  • 7. Synthesis, Characterization and Electrochemical Studies of Ferrocenyl -2,4 dinitrophenyl hydrazone; Tahmina Sultana, Chowdhury A. Waheed, S. M. Saiful Islam, Abu Ali Ibn Sina, Muhammad Younus, Md. Abdul Jabbar and Md. Riad Hossain Sabuj, Journal of Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, Vol. 38, No. 2, 177-187,( 2014)
  • 8. Electrocatalytic formation of NO2- at a poly crystalline Ag surface in a neutral medium.; M. Saiful Alam, M.A. Hasnat, M.A. Rashed, Md. Rezwan Miah, Islam S.M. Saiful, Electrochemica Acta 76(2012) 102-105
  • 9. Synthesis and Characterization of a Thiocyanate bridged Dinuclear Cu(ii) Complex Containing Macrocyclic ligand derived from Pyridine-2, 6-dicarboxaldehyde and 1, 2-bis(2-aminoethoxy) ethane, Md. Mahbubul Alam, Faisal Ahmed, Rockshana Begum, S. M. Mizanur Rahman, Iqbal Ahmed Siddiquey, Mohammad Razaul Karim, and Islam S.M. Saiful, J. Ban. Aca. Sci., Vol. 36, 89-96, (2012)
  • 10. Synthesis and characterization of aggregated nano-cobalt particles by bottom up approach Mohammad Hussain1, Kazi Haque, Syed Alam, SM S. Islam, Chemistry and Materials Research Vol 2, No.7, 2012)
  • 11. Effect of Temperature on the Synthesis of Nano-Nickel Particles; Haque K M A, Hussain M S, Alam S. S, SM.S. Islam, Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2012, 2(4): 104-108.
  • 12. Synthesis, Spectroscopic and Electrochemical Studies of Mononuclear Fe(II) and Ni(II) Complexes Containing a Macrocyclic Ligand Derived from Pyridine-2,6-dicarboxaldehyde and 1,2-Bis(2-aminoethoxy) Ethane; M. M. Alam, R. Begum, S. M. M. Rahman, and I. S. M. Saiful. J. Sci. Res. 3 (3), 599-607 (2011)
  • 13. Adsorption and UV-Visible Light Induced Degradation of Methylene Blue over ZnO Nano-Particles; Muhammad Amirul Islam, Iqbal Ahmed Siddiquey, Md. Azizur Rahman Khan, Md. Mahbubul Alam, Saiful S.M. Islam, Mohammad A. Hasnat, Int. J. Chem. Reac. Eng. 9, S8 (2011).
  • 14. Multifrequency TREPR Investigation of Excited-State ZnTPP/Nitroxide Radical Complexes, V. F. Tarasov, Saiful S. M. Islam, Y. Ohba, M. D. E. Forbes, S.Yamauchi, Appl. Magn. Reson., 41, 175-193 (2011)
  • 15. Simultaneous Preparation of Facial and Meridional Isomer of Cobalt-Amino acid Complexes and their Characterization; M. M. Alam, S. M. M. Rahman, M. M. Rahman, and S. MS. Islam. J. Sci. Res. 2(1) 91-98 (2010)
  • 16. Synthesis of nano-nickel by a wet chemical reduction method in the presence of surfactant (SDS) and a polymer (PVP); K. M. A. Haque, M. S. Hussain, S. S. Alam and S. MS. Islam; African Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry, 4(5), 58-63, (2010)
  • 17. Shifts of g Values in the Excited Triplet States of Metal Complexes Studied by Time-Resolved W-band EPR, Seigo Yamauchi ; Mana Tanabe, Katsuaki Takahashi, Saiful Islam, Hideto Matsuoka Yasunori Ohba, Appl Magn Reson (2010) 37:317–323
  • 18. Time-Resolved High-Frequency EPR Studies on Magnesium and Zinc Tetraphenylporphines in Their Lowest Excited Triplet StatesSeigo Yamauchi, Katsuaki Takahashi, Saiful S M. Islam, Yasunori Ohba and Valery Tarasov, J. Phys. Chem. B, (2010), 114, 14559–14563
  • 19. Intermolecular Hydrogen Bonds between a Radical and a Diamagnetic Matrix: CW-ESR Investigations of 2,6-di-tert butyl-4-hydroxymethyl phenol; T. Yamaji, I. SM. Saiful, M. Baba, S. Yamauchi, J. Yamauchi, Bull. Chem. Soc. Jpn., 82, 58-64 (2009).
  • 20. Preparation Characterization, Molecular Models and Cyclic Voltammetric Study of Tren Complexes of Cu(II) and Zn(II) [Tren = tris(2-aminoethyl)amine, S. S. Shammi, A. A.Sheikh, SM Saiful Islam, M.Q. Ehsan, Malaysian Journal of Chemistry, 10(1), 009-014, (2008).
  • 21. Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of the Excited States of the Three-Spins-1/2 ZnTPP-3NOPy Complex, V. F. Tarasov, I. SM. Saiful, Y. Ohba, K. Takakhashi, and S. Yamauchi, Spectroscopica Chimica Acta Part A 69 1327-1330, (2008).
  • 22. Heme-Binbing Characteristic of the Isolated PAS-A Domain of Mouse Per2, a transcriptional Regulatory Factor Associated with Circadian Rhythms, K. Kitanishi, J. Igarashi, K. Hayasaka, N. Hikage, Islam. SM. Saiful, S. Yamauchi, T. Uchida, K. Ishimori, and T. Shimizu, Biochemistry, 47, 6157 (2008)
  • 23. Preparation Characterization and Molecular Models of the Complexes of Triethylenetetramine with Cr(III) and Fe(III), M.Q. Ehsan, M. Motaleb Hossain, SM Saiful Islam, Malaysian Journal of Chemistry, 9(1), 67-72, (2007)
  • 24. Spin Coupling in the Supramolecular Structure of a New Tetra(Quinoline-TEMPO) Yttrium(III) Complex, Luca Maretti, Marilena Ferbinteanu, Fanica Cimpoesu, Islam SM Saiful, Yasunori Ohba, Takashi Kajiwara Masahiro Yamashita and Seigo Yamauchi, Inorg Chem.46,660-669, (2007).
  • 25. Substituent Effect on g-Tensor: Multi-frequency ESR Study and DFT Calculation of Polycrystalline Phenoxyl radical derivatives in Diamagnetic crystals, Toshiki Yamaji, Islam SM Saiful, Masaaki Baba, Seigo Yamauchi, and Jun Yamauchi, J. Phys. Chem. A 111, 4612-4619, (2007).
  • 26. Identification of Cys385 in the isolated kinase insertion domain of heme-regulated eIF2a kinase (HRI) as the heme axial ligand by site-directed mutagenesis and spectral characterization, Kyoko Hirai, Marketa Martinkova, Jotaro Igarashi, Islam SM. Saiful, Seigo Yamauchi, Samir El-Mashtoly, Teizo Kitagawa, Toru Shimizu, J. Inorg. Biochem. 101, 1172-1179, (2007)
  • 27. Structure-function Relationships of the Thiol-coordinating Heme Proteins, HRI, Associated with Protein Synthesis, and NPAS2, a Regulator of Circadian Rhythms, T. Shimizu, N. Hikage, K. Kitanishi, M. Murase, A. Iizuka, S. Ishikawa, K. Ishitsuka, I. SM. Saiful, S. Yamauchi, A. Tanaka, M. Martinkova, J. Igarashi and I. Sagami Proc. Cytochromes P450 – Biochemistry, Biophysics and Functional Genomics, 31-38 (2007)
  • 28. Interplanar Interactions in the Excited Triplet States of Carbazole Dimers by means of Time-Resolved EPR spectroscopy, Islam. SM Saiful, Yasunori Ohba, Seigo Yamauchi, Masahide Yamamoto, Yasuo Tohda, Keita Tani, Mol. Phys. 104 (10-11) 1535-1542 (2006)
  • 29. A New Series of Triplet-Radical pair: Modulation of Radical-Triplet Interaction by a Counter Ion, Luca Maretti, Islam SM Saiful, Takashi Kajiwara, Ryo Miyamoto, Yasunori Ohba, and Seigo Yamauchi, Mol. Phys. 104(10-11) 1619-1626 (2006)
  • 30. Electron Spin Polarization in an Excited Triplet-Radical Pair System: Generation and Decay of the State, V. F. Tarasov, I. SM. Saiful, Y. Iwasaki, Y. Ohba, A. Savitsky, K. Moius, and S. Yamauchi, Appl. Magn. Reson, 30, 619-936, (2006)
  • 31. Preparation Characterization and Molecular Models of Some Transition Metal Complexes of Tren[Tren=tris(2- aminoethyl)amine], M.Q. Ehsan, S.S Shammi, A. A. Shaikh and SM Saiful Islam, Malaysian Journal of Chemistry, 7(1), 38-40, (2005)
  • 32. Novel Excited Quintet state in Porphyrin:Bis (quinoline-TEMPO)-yttrium- tetraphenyl porphyrine complex , Luca Maretti, Islam SM Saiful, Yasunori Ohba, Takashi Kajiwara and Seigo Yamauchi, Inorg. Chem. 44(25) 9125-9127 (2005)
  • 33. Minerazation of a water soluble organic polutent., M.A. Hasnat, A. J. F. Samed, Islam SM Saiful and S.S. Alam J. Ban. Chem. Soc. 17(1), 38-41, (2004)
  • 34. Preparation and Characterization of Pyridoxine Complexes of Fe(III), Mo(VI), Cd(II) and U(VI) M.Q. Ehsan, S. Morzina Begum and Islam SM Saiful, J. Saudi Chem Soc.8(2), 251-257, (2004).
  • 35. Photodegradation of Malachite Green in Aqueous Medium, M.A. Hasnat, I. A. Siddiquey and Islam SM Saiful, Ind .J. Chem. 42A 1865-1867 (2003)
  • 36. Preparation Characterization and Molecular models of the Complexes of Quadridentate Tripodal Ligand Tren [Tren = tris(2-aminoethyl)amine] with Ag(I), Cd(II), Hg(II), Zr(IV) and U(VI), M.Q. Ehsan, M.H. Rashid and Islam SM Saiful, Pak. J. Sci Ind. Res. 46(5), 317-322, (2003)
  • 37. Preparation, Characterization and Molecular Models of Mixed Ligand Complexes of Saccharine and 4,4-Bipyridyl with Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II), M. Q. Ehsan, Md Ahidul Islam, M.A. Quyser and Islam SM Saiful, Dhaka Univ. J. Sci., (50)2,151-157 (2002)
  • 38. Chemically Induced Dynamic Electron Polarization Studies on Photolysis of Hexaphenyl- disilane, digermane and distannane Compounds, Islam SM Saiful, Yasunori Ohba, Kunoi Mochida and Seigo Yamauchi; Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 3, 1011-1014 (2001)
  • 39. Time-resolved EPR and ODMR Studies on the Lowest Excited Triplet States of -Silyl and -Germyl Ketones, Islam SM Saiful, Minero Hanaya, Masamoto Iwaizumi, Masanobu Wakasa, Kunoi Mochida, Masahiro Mukai, Noboru Hirota, and Seigo Yamauchi; Mol. Phys. 99(14) 1183-1192 (2001)
  • 40. Preparation and characterization of Complexes of Quadridentate Tripodal Ligand Tren [Tren = tris (2-aminoethyl) amine] with trivalent Metal Ions Cr(III) and Fe(III), M. Q. Ehsan and Islam SM Saiful. Dhaka Univ. J. Sci., 48(2) 125-128 (2000)
  • 41. A Study of Electron Spin Polarization Transfer in a System of Photo-Excited Triplet Phthalocyanine and a Nitroxide Radical, Islam SM Saiful, Jun-ichi Fujisawa, Nagao Kobayashi, Yasunori Ohba, and Seigo Yamauchi, Bull Chem. Soc. Jpn. 72, 661- 667 (1999)

Teaching

  • General Physical Chemistry, Reaction Kinetics, Photochemistry, Coordination Chemistry, Solid State and crystallography.etc. at undergraduate and postgraduate levels
  • Designed and supervision of Physical and Inorganic Chemistry laboratory courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students