The chemists are a strange class of mortals impelled by an almost insane impulse to seek their pleasure among smoke and vapour, soot and flame, poisons and poverty; yet among all these evils I seem to live so sweetly that I may die if I would change places with the Persian King.

Johann Joachim Becher (1669)

Research Theme

• Synthetic organic chemistry: Sustainable development; Transition metal- and organo-catalysis; Synthesis of APIs/NCEs, key or advanced intermediates of a drug and starting materials; Asymmetric synthesis. 

• Medicinal chemistry program related to different clinical goals: Small molecule scaffolds as potential diabetic ulcergenic wound healing agents, anti-cancer agents and rare disease drug candidates (cystic fibrosys).

• Organic stimuli responsive materials: Synthesis of new organic functional materials which display changes in physical characteristics (e.g., different chromism response, shape, memory, self-folding pattern, etc.) under external stimuli, such as temperature, pressure, solvent, pH, mechanical force, electric/magnetic field, doping agents, etc.  

Recent Activity

• April 2024: Collaborative work on pH/temperature-dependent stimuli-responsive co-polymeric hydrogel material exhibiting biocompatibility for efficient drug delivery vehicle is just out in J. Mater. Chem. B; it is marked as HOT paper!!! check it out DOI: 10.1039/D4TB00168K  

• February 2024: Congratulations to Steeva, Mohit, Sheeba, Firoj, Gowri, Harika and Sainath for the acceptance of the article in Green Chem.; check it out DOI: 10.1039/D3GC05163C 

• January 2024: Katalysis group welcomes Dr. Saigal as Research Associate, who will be working on the synthesis of small molecule scaffolds for 'rare disease' !

• October 2023: Congratulations to Mohit, Steeva, Sheeba, and Firoj for the acceptance of their research article in Synthesis; check it out DOI: 10.1055/a-2193-4804

• September 2023: Congratulations to Steeva for the selection of her abstract for oral presentation in the upcoming conference 'NIPER Pharmacon 2023' from 14-16 September 2023 conducted by NIPER Hyderabad !!

• September 2023: Congratulations to Firoj for admission to PhD program at NIPER Mohali !! Katalysis group wishes him the very best !!

• July 2023: Katalysis group has received INR 50 lakhs research grant on 'rare disease' project proposal from DST, Govt. of India for 3 years. The grant is part of a multi-institutional project of INR 3.5 crore. Congratulations to all members of the group !! 

• March 2023: Congratulations to Steeva, Mohit, Sheeba, Firoj, Gowri, Harika and Sainath for the acceptance of the article in Synthesis; the article will be the part of special topic on “Synthetic Development of Key Intermediates and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)”; check it out DOI: 10.1055/a-2060-3488   

• March 2023: Congratulations to Mohit, Steeva, Ashru, Amrutha, Kanchan and Teja Sree for the acceptance of book chapter in Rare Earth Elements: Processing, Catalytic Applications and Environmental Impact, B. Basu and B. Banerjee (Eds.), Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin, Germany; DOI: 10.1515/9783110788082-002

• February 2023: Congratulations to Harika and Gowri for their placement in Sai Life Sciences Ltd. Hyderabad !!! Katalysis group wishes them the very best !!

• January 2023: Our collaborative work on temperature-dependent shape memory materials is just out in Chem. Pap.; check it out DOI: 10.1007/s11696-023-02693-8  

• August 2022: Congratulations to Steeva and Mohit for the acceptance of their article in Synlett.; the article will be part of special issue on "Chemical synthesis and catalysis in India"; check it out DOI: 10.1055/a-1921-0748

• April 2022: Our article is just accepted in Org. Chem. Front.; check it out DOI: 10.1039/D1QO01859K 

• March 2022: KS delivered an invited talk in the conference 'Chemical Research Society of India 28th National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI NSC-28)' held at IIT Guwahati from March 25-27, 2022.