Organic Synthesis & Nano Chemistry Laboratory
25. Reusable Pd-catalyst for oxidative C-N bond forming reactions, Dibya Das, and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Manuscript under preparation
24. High quantum yield carbon dots having anti-bacterial properties for detection of anti-cancer drugs, Sanhita Swain, and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Analytical Methods, 2025 under review
23. Red Emitting Carbon Dots for Industrial Applications, Tanmayee Mohanta and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Manuscript under preparation
22. Smartphone assisted Multimode Detection of anticancer drug, Biswajit Mohapatra, Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Ashis Kumar Jena, and Swagatika Sahu*, ACS Applied Engineering Materials, 2025, under review
21. Energy efficient synthesis of CDs for detection of Pd(II), Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Milan Kumar Dey, and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Optical Materials, 2025, under review
Impact Factor= 2.9
20. High Yielding Green Emissive CDs as Band Shifted Fluorescence Enhancing Sensor for Cd(II), Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Milan Kumar Dey, and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Analysis and Sensing, 2025, Published (DOI: 10.1002/anse.202500105)
Impact Factor= 2.0
19. Nitrogen Doped Carbon Dots for Ratiometric Fluorescence/Colorimetry/Smartphone based Detection of Daunorubicin, Sanhita Swain, Ashis Kumar Jena,* Arakshita Majhi, Swagatika Sahu* ChemistrySelect, 2025, 10, e02033
Impact Factor= 3.8
18. Gymnema saponin-induced lipid flip-flop identifies rigid membrane phenotype of methicillin resistant S. aureus and enhances it’s antibiotic susceptibility, Gayatree Panda, Swagatika Dehury, Himadri Gourav Behuria, Bijesh Kumar Biswal, Ashis Kumar Jena, Indrani Mohanty, Sasmita Hotta, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Santosh Kumar Sahu,* Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2025, 765, 110303 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abb.2025.110303)
Impact Factor= 4.1
17. Green Synthesis of N,S-doped carbon dots from Giloy stem for fluorimetry detection of 4-nitrophenol, triple mode detection of congo red and anti-oxidant applications, Sanhita Swain, and Ashis Kumar Jena*, ACS Omega, 2025, DOI 10.1021/acsomega.4c09748 (Accepted)
Impact Factor= 2.8
Citations: 01
16. Magnetically Reusable Fe3O4-CuO Nanoparticles as Catalysts for the Synthesis of Aryl-Substituted Fluorescent Pyrazines for Fe Sening and Ink Applications, Dibya Das, Tanmayee Mohanta, and Ashis Kumar Jena* Euro. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 27, e202400259 (https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202400259)
Highlighted in Synfact, 2025, 21, 174
Impact Factor= 4.2
Citations: 08
15. Green Synthesis of N,S-Doped Carbon Dots for Tartrazine Detection and Antibacterial Activity, Tanmayee Mohanta, Himadri Gaurav Behuria, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Ashis Kumar Jena* and Swagatika Sahu*, Analyst 2023, 148, 5597-5604 (doi.org/10.1039/D3AN01609A)
Featured as cover page
Impact Factor=
Citations: 08
14. Ratiometric Fluorescence/Colorimetry/Smartphone Triple-Mode Real Time Detection of Doxorubicin by Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots, Sanhita Swain, Ashis Kumar Jena*, and Tanmayee Mohanta, ACS Appl. Opt. Mater., 2023, 1, 1236-1244. (https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaom.3c00127)
Impact Factor= 3.890
Citations: 11
13. Ce-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of pyrazole from 1,2-diols via Tandem Oxidation and C-C/C-N Bond Formation, Chandan Kumar Pal and Ashis Kumar Jena*, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2023, 23, 59-64.(DOI: 10.1039/D2OB01996E)
Impact Factor= 3.319
Citations: 11
12. CuI Nanoparticles Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of 3-Nitro-2-arylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridines using Oxygen as Oxidant
Dibya Das, Ashis Kumar Jena,* Chandan Kumar Pal, Laurens Bourda, Kristof Van Hecke, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e2021007- e2021011. (DOI: 10.1002/ajoc.202100776 )
Impact Factor= 4.1
Citations: 10
11. Lipid flip-flop inducing Anti-microbial Phytochemicals from Gymnema sylvestre are Bacterial Membrane Permeability Enhancers.
Himadri Gourav Behuria, Arumugam G. Senthilkumar, Chandan Kumar Pal, Ashis Kumar Jena, Santosh Kumar Sahu*, ACS Omega, 2021, 6, 35667-35678.
Impact Factor= 2.109
Citations: 09
10. Magnetically Separable Fe3O4-Pd Nanoparticles Catalyzed Heck
Reaction under Ligand-Free Conditions.
Chandan Kumar Pal, Ashis Kumar Jena,* Dibya Das, Swagatika Sahu,** Rajesh
Kumar Singh, Chemistry Select, 2021, 6, 7944-7949.
Impact Factor= 4.105
Citations: 07
9. Magnetically Recyclable Palladium Nanoparticles (Fe3O4-Pd) for
Oxidative Coupling between Amides with Olefins at Room Temperature.
Chandan Kumar Pal, Swagatika Sahu, Ranjan Kumar Sahu, Rajesh Kumar Singh,
Ashis Kumar Jena*, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 2019, 33, e4985-4993.
8. Review on Fe-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom oxidative coupling reactions: En route to heterocycles.
Ashis Kumar Jena* and Swagatika Sahu, J. Chem. Pharm. Res., 2017, 9(10), 315-341.
Citations: 22
7. Cu/Fe-catalyed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom cross-coupling reactions
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena, Organic Chemistry: Current Research, 2015,
4, 10000130
Impact Factor= 4.354
Citations: 67
6. Fe-Catalyzed one-pot synthesis of 1,3- and 1,3,5- substituted pyrazoles from
hydrazones and vicinal diols.
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena, J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9401-9406.
Highlighted in SYNFACT, 2013, 9, 28,
Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal, 2013
Impact Factor= 12.35
Citations: 33
5. Stereoselective Synthesis of Enamides by Palladium Catalzyed Coupling of
Amides with Electron Deficient Olefins.
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena and M. Raghavender, ACS Catal., 2012, 2,
539-543
Impact Factor= 5.006
Citations: 38
4. Heterogeneous Magnetic Catalyst for S-arylation Reactions.
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra, Appl. Catal. A: Gen,
2012, 433-434, 258- 264
Impact Factor= 2.415
Citations: 130
3. Copper ferrite Nanoparticle-Mediated N-arylation of Heterocycles: A Ligand-
free Reactions.
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra and Smruti Ranjan
Rout, Tetrahedron Lett., 2011, 52, 924-1927.
Highlighted in SYNFACT, 2011, 686
Impact Factor=1.550
Citations: 08
2. Ligand-free Fe-Cu cocatalyzed Cross-Coupling of Terminal Alkynes with Aryl
Halides.
Niranjan Panda,* Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra, Chem. Lett., 2011,
40, 956-958
Paper in celebration for the 2010 Novel Prize in Chemistry,
Highlighted in Chem. Abstr. 148, 144205, 2008
Impact Factor=1.277
Citations: 24
1. Synthesis and Antibacterial activity of some novel pyrazolopyridine derivatives.
Niranjan Panda,* Soumi Karmakar and Ashis Kumar Jena, Chem. Heterocyclic
Comp., 2011, 46, 1500-1508
Highlighted in ChemInfom Abstract, 2011, 42, 39
Organic Name Reaction and Rearrangement
Ashis Kumar Jena, Narosa Publication, 2017,
ISBN: 9788184875867
Chemistry behind Cholesterol, Ashis Kumar Jena, Science Horizon, 2020
Scope and Opportunities in Chemical Sciences, Ashis Kumar Jena, Science Horizon, 2022,
Noble Prize Quiz, Ashis Kumar Jena, Science Horizon, 2024
Deuterated Drugs in Health care: Present Status and Future Prospective, Science Horizon, 2025