Organic Synthesis & Molecular Engineering Group

SELECTED Accomplishments:

" Implementing Organic Synthesis for Designing The Future"

LATEST OPENINGS : GROUP LOOKING FOR 1 nos. NEW JRF, Details Below:

  1. Name of the Temporary Post : Junior Research Fellow - 01

  2. Name of the Research Project - Chemical Innovations For Sustainable Future

  3. Name of the Sponsoring Agency : UGC-DAAD under INDO-GERMAN PARTNERSHIPS

  4. Tenure of the Project :3 years

  5. Tenure of the Assignment : 2021-2024

  6. Job Description : Research on Organic Synthesis and Visible Light Catalysis employing Dearomatisation Reactions

  7. Consolidated monthly compensation / Fellowship : INR 30,000

  8. Deadline - 20th Oct 2021 to apply




CONGRATULATIONS TO Dr. DEBAYAN SARKAR for the Prestigious SERB TETRA AWARD 2021



Visible Light Catalysed Selenylative Intramolecular Dearomative Carbo-spirocyclisation (IDCS) of Homologated-ynones. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo and Debayan Sarkar* European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2020, 7, 891-896


Stereoselective synthesis of para-quinone monoketals through tri-bromide (TBr) mediated oxidative dearomatization of phenols. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo and Debayan Sarkar* Tetrahedron Letters ,2020 (cover page Article), 61, 151646


“A Year Away to 100th Year of Vitamin E Synthesis”- Subhradip Kundu, Debayan Sarkar* Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry 2021 ( Accepted Article)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jhet.4309


Ruthenium (VIII) Catalysed Dearomative Pyridyl C-X activation- Direct Synthesis of N- Alkyl-2-pyridones – Biswajit Das, Nilendri Rout, Debayan Sarkar* ( Accepted Article – Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry) 2021

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajoc.202100258


Copper(I) Catalyzed Synthesis of Selanyl methylene 4-chromanol and aurone Derivatives

Sushree Ranjan Sahoo and Debayan Sarkar* Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2020, 18, 4619-4627


Ruthenium (VIII) Catalysedipso-Dearomative Spiro-etherification and Spiro-amidation of Phenols Organic Letters 2019 D.Sarkar, N.Rout

2019 21, 11, 4132-4136

Patent Filed: Development of Efficient Tribromides as Versatile Fine Oxidative Dearomatisation Regaents - 2019 ( 201931024717)

N.Rout; B.Roy; P.Kuila; S. Sahoo; S. Behera; D.Sarkar

Group Members:

Dr. Debayan Sarkar, Associate Professor ( Group Leader)

Get My CV : https://www.nitrkl.ac.in/FProfile.aspx?sarkard

Ph.D Students:

1. Mr. Nabakumar Bera, SRF ( North Orissa University)

Project: Dual Selenium and Silver catalysis

2. Mr. Puspendu Kuila, JRF ( NarendraPur Ramkrishna Mission, Calcutta University)

Project : Asymmetric Oxidative Dearomatisation Reactions.

3 Miss. Barnali Roy ( Schotish Church College)

Project: Catalytic Asymmetric Dearomatisation Recations (CAODRs)

4. Mr. Shantanu Samanta, CSIR-JRF( Jhargram Raj College)

Project: Ruthenium Catalysed Atom economic transformations

5. Mr. Biswajit Das, JRF ( Behrampur University)

Project: Developing Oxidative Dearomatisation with organo catalysis

6. Ms. Sangita Bishi, CSIR-JRF,Ravenshaw University

Dearomatisations with Nano-Tribromides


7. Bhabani Shankar Lenka, CSIR-JRF, Harisingh Gour University, Sagar

Project : Visible Light Enantioselective Dearomatisations

8. Niladri Sekhar Roy, NIPER Mohali

Project: Asymmetric Dearomatisation Reactions

9. Sudhir Muduli, Central University of Rajasthan

Project : Visible Light Dearomatisations

10. Garimella Jawaharlal Nehru, Offenburg University, Germany

Project : Intervension of Organic Synthesis into Organic farming



11. Saumyaranjan Panda, North Orissa University

Project : Visible Light Asymmetric Dearomatisations

12. Susanta Kumar Sahoo, Ravenshaw University

Project Title: Enantioselective Dearomatisations

Mr. Devasish Sood, M.Sc Project

M.sc Thesis & Project Interns:

26. Ankush Kumar ( 2020-21)

25. Moni Singh ( 2018-19)

24. Devasish Sood ( 2018-19)

Present Status - Ph. D student in Georgia Tech, USA

23. Prithwa Das ( 2018-19)

Present Das - Ph.D student in Universtat Regensburg, USA

22. Abhishek Bissoyi

Present Status: BS-MS, IISER Behrampur

21. Swetarani Patel

Present Status: M.Sc - SG Womens College, Rourkela

20. Sandhya Rani Padhy (2019)

Present Status: M.Sc - SG Womens College, Rourkela

21. Soham Ghosh (2019)

Present Status: M.Sc - BHU

20. Puja Kumari (2019)

Present Status: M.Sc - BIT Mesra

19. Anindita Mukherjee (2019)

Present Status: M.Sc - BIT Mesra

18. Sudeep Sarkar ( 2016-18)

Present Status: Ph.D at University of Warsaw, Poland 2018

17. Subhradip Kundu ( 2016-18)

Present Status: Ph.D at University of Geneva

16. B. Sharmistha (2018)

Present Status: M.Sc at IISER Kolkata

15. Ananya Mishra (2018)

Present Status: Centurion University of Technology and Management, Bhubhaneswar

14. Rajat Kumar Singh (2017)

Present Status: IISER Trivandrum

13. Suchit Gupta ( 2016-17)

Present Status: Assistant Professor, FIIT JEE

12. Chandak Adhikari ( 2015-17)

Present Status:----

11. Shubhajit Basak ( May- July 2017)

Present Status: M.Sc Student at NBU

10. Diptangshu Hardikar ( May-June 2017)

Present Status: M.Sc Student at Central University, Bilaspur

9. V.Chandurani (2015-16)

Present Status:---

8. Samapika Mishra (2015-16)

Present Status:

7. Punarbasu Bhattacharya - (2014-15)

Present Status: Scientific Officer @ Power Grid Corporation

6. Rahul Kumar- (2013-15)

Present Status: Faculty @ Akash Institute, Delhi

5. Sarasija Das - (2014)

Present Status: Ph.D student @ IISER, Kolkata

4. Devjanee Bardhan - (2014)

Present Status: Ph.D student @IIT, Madras

3. Sarbeswar Sethi - (2014-15)

Present Status: ---

2. Sujata Mahapatra- (2013-14)

Present Status: Ph.D student@ Novozymes, Denmark

1. Prajna Moharana- (2013-14)

Present Status: ----


  • MOLECULAR ENGINEERING and Molecular Solar Storage Systems (MOST)

  • Function oriented synthesis and application to medicine and biology

TRIBROMIDES IN DEAROMATISATION REACTIONS

RECENT Group NEWS:

DS holds additional charge as Head- FTBI NIT RKL

( https://www.ftbi-nitrkl.org/)


Congrats to SAGARIKA for joining TCS Life sciences, Kolkata as Research Scientist

Congrats to Sushree for NPDF Fellowship 2020

......BEST Wishes for Future.........


The Group is looking for dedicated researchers who want to find pleasure in between chemistry and Biology...............Just mail me with your CV.


Our Lab at NIT-Rourkela ( BM-BT Building, 3rd Floor- Lab No.405)

  • MOLECULAR ENGINEERING and Molecular Solar Storage Systems (MOST)

  • Function oriented synthesis and application to medicine and biology

TRIBROMIDES IN DEAROMATISATION REACTIONS

RECENT Group NEWS:

DS presently at at University of regensburg, Germany as icmr international fellow

Congrats to Nilendri for joining TCS Life sciences, Kolkata as Research Scientist

......BEST Wishes for Future.........

VIFA International Young Scientist Award 2017

DS Nominated as a CORE Member of Royal Society of Chemistry, Eastern India - 2015 to 2019

The Group is looking for dedicated researchers who want to find pleasure in between chemistry and Biology...............Just mail me with your CV.


Our Lab at NIT-Rourkela ( BM-BT Building, 3rd Floor- Lab No.405)

CELEBRATION TIMES:

Group Alumni:

Ph.D Graduates:

1. Dr. Manoj K Ghosh ( 2013-2017)

Present Position: National Post-doctoral Fellow (NPDF)

Prof. Ganesh Pandey Group

BHU, India

2. Dr. Nilendri Rout ( 2014-2019)

Present Position:

Senior Research Scientist

GVK BIO Sciences, Bangalore

3. Dr. Sagarika Behera ( 2014-2020)

Present Position:

Senior Research Scientist

TCG Life Sciences, Chembiotek, Kolkata

4. Dr. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo, ( 2014-2020)

Present Position: National Post-doctoral Fellow (NPDF)

Prof. Vinod K Singh Group

IIT- Kanpur, India