Pragati Biswal
Email: pragati.biswal@niser.ac.in
PB was born and raised in Sambalpur, Odisha. He completed his B.Sc. (Chemistry honours) in 2011 and M.Sc. in 2013 from Bhima Bhoi College, Rairakhol and Sambalpur University respectively. Then he joined as a guest lecturer at Bhima Bhoi College from August-2013 to August-2014. After that, he completed his M.Phil degree in December-2015 from Sambalpur University. He joined National Institute of Science Education and Research (NISER), Bhubaneswar as a junior research scholar under the supervision of Dr. Ponneri C. Ravikumar. In his lab, he worked on the Syntheses and Functionalization of N-heterocycles via transition metal-catalyzed C-H bond activation. Pragati is currently a guest faculty in one of the most renowned colleges of Odisha, BJB (Auto) college.
Awards:
Third prize in poster presentation at National Conference on Organic Synthesis (NCOS) 2020 held at Berhampur University.
Publications:
Pragati Biswal,# Tanmayee Nanda,# Shyam Kumar Banjare, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Ranjit Mishra, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar
N-allylbenzimidazole as a strategic surrogate in Rh-catalyzed stereoselective trans-propenylation of aryl C(sp2)-H bond
Chem. Commun. 2023, 59, 199-202. (# equal contribution)
(Invited Article as a part of "Pioneering Investigators Collection 2023" by the Royal Society of Chemistry)
Pragati Biswal, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Rajesh Chebolu, Asit Ghosh and P. C. Ravikumar.
Hydroxylamine‐O‐Sulfonic Acid (HOSA) as a Redox‐Neutral Directing Group: Rhodium-Catalyzed, Additive Free, One‐Pot Synthesis of Isoquinolines from Arylketones,
Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2020, 1006. (Selected as Very Important Paper)
Highlighted in Synfacts 2020; 16 (07): 0776
Pragati Biswal, Tanmayee Nanda, Namrata Prusty, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and P. C. Ravikumar
Rhodium-Catalyzed Synthesis of 2-Methylindoles via C–N Bond Cleavage of N-Allylbenzimidazole
J. Org. Chem., 2023, 88, 7988-7997.
(Selected as Editor's Choice Article, Most Downloaded/Most Read article)
Pragati Biswal, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, and P. C. Ravikumar
Rhodium-Catalyzed One-Pot Access to N-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons from Aryl Ketones through Triple C–H Bond Activations,
Pragati Biswal, Namrata Prusty, and Ponneri C. Ravikumar
Book Chapter: Synthesis of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) through Directed C-H Functionalization.
Handbook of CH Functionalizations (CHF), Wiley-VCH Publishers, 2022.
Shyam Kumar Banjare, Pragati Biswal and P. C. Ravikumar
Cobalt-Catalyzed One-Step Access to Pyroquilon and C-7 Alkenylation of Indoline with Activated Alkenes Using Weakly Coordinating Functional Group.
J. Org. Chem., 2020, 85, 5330.
Tanmayee Nanda, Pragati Biswal, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Shyam Kumar Banjare, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar
J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 2682.
Shyam Kumar Banjare, Tanmayee Nanda, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Pragati Biswal, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar
O-directed C–H functionalization via cobaltacycles: A sustainable approach for C–C and C–heteroatom bond formations
Chem Commun., 2021, 57, 3630 - 3647
Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Namrata Prusty, Lokesh Gupta, Pragati Biswal, and Ponneri Chandrababu Ravikumar
Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed C-6 Alkenylation of 2-Pyridones by Using Terminal Alkyne with High Regioselectivity
J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 9444.
Gopal Krusna Das Adhikari, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Tanmayee Nanda, Pragati Biswal, Shyam Kumar Banjare and Ponneri C. Ravikumar
Co(II)-Catalyzed C–H/N–H Annulation of Cyclic Alkenes with Indole-2-carboxamides at Room Temperature: One-Step Access to β-Carboline-1-one Derivatives
J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 4438
Tanmayee Nanda, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Wang-Yeuk Kong, Wentao Guo, Pragati Biswal, Lokesh Gupta, Astha Linda, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Smruti Ranjan Mohanty, Dean J. Tantillo and Ponneri C. Ravikumar
Breaking the Monotony: Cobalt and Maleimide as an Entrant to the Olefin-Mediated Ortho C–H Functionalization
Tanmayee Nanda,# Muhammed Fastheem,# Astha Linda, Bedadyuti Vedvyas Pati, Shyam Kumar Banjare, Pragati Biswal and Ponneri C. Ravikumar
Recent Advancement in Palladium-Catalyzed C–C Bond Activation of Strained Ring Systems: Three- and Four-Membered Carbocycles as Prominent C3/C4 Building Blocks
ACS Catal. 2022, 2, 13247-13281. (# equal contribution)
