Rate My Professor Md. Firoj Hossain

Dr. Md. Firoj Hossain is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of North Bengal, Raja Rammohunpur, Darjeeling, India. He holds additional administrative roles including additional charge of the Estate Office and Coordinator for Remedial Coaching for SCs/STs Community Students. He serves as a member of the Post Graduate Board of Studies in Chemistry and has organized the National Conference on Chemistry for Sustainability. His contributions extend to research program policy development committees at the university.

Dr. Hossain earned his BSc Honours degree in Chemistry from Krishnath College, Berhampore, under Kalyani University in 2004, followed by an MSc in Chemistry with a major in Organic Chemistry in 2006. He conducted research in the Department of Organic Chemistry at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Kolkata, and pursued advanced research at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, under Professor Charles B. de Koning. His research focuses on catalysis, organic synthesis, and supramolecular chemistry. Key publications include the development of electron donor-acceptor complex enabled photocascade difunctionalization of 2-allylanilines (Chemical Communications, 2024); synthesis of Cu(II) and Zn(II) complexes of a quinoline-based bis-Schiff base ligand with DNA binding studies (2024); organocatalysis for stereoselective synthesis of O-glycosides (Catalysis Reviews - Science and Engineering, 2022); and recognition of monocarboxylic acids by imidazole-based receptors (2020). With 31 publications and 190 citations, his work advances synthetic methodologies and coordination chemistry.