Dr. Ramananda Maity
Dr. Ramananda Maity
Assistant Professor
Inorganic Chemistry Section
Department of Chemistry
University of Calcutta
92 APC Road, Kolkata 700009
Email: rmchem@caluniv.ac.in
Academic Background
PhD (2009-2013; University of Münster, Germany): Under the guidance of Prof. F. Ekkehardt Hahn. The doctoral thesis work was based on orthometalated heterobimetallic complexes.
MSc (2007-2009; IIT Madras, India): Project supervisor: Prof. Dillip Kumar Chand; The M.Sc. project work was based on the synthesis of PdII complexes.
BSc (2004-2007): St. Paul’s C. M. College (University of Calcutta).
Professional Experiences
April 2016 to present: Assistant Professor in Chemistry at University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.
October 2015 to April 2016: Assistant Professor in Chemistry at Dibrugarh University, Assam, India.
September 2015 to October 2015: Post-doctoral Fellow under Prof. Shigeyoshi Inoue at Technische Universitatät Berlin, Germany.
June 2013 to August 2015: Post-doctoral fellow under Prof. Biprajit Sarkar at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany.
Awards & Achievements
Early Career Research (ECR) grant from DST-SERB (2019).
Start-Up grant from UGC, India (2017).
Ph.D Scholarship from International NRW Graduate School of Chemistry, Münster, Germany (2009).
IITM Merit cum Means scholarship during M.Sc. at IIT Madras.
Ranked 35 (99.49 percentile) in GATE held on 8th Feb, 2009.
CSIR-NET qualified held on 21st December 2008.
Invited Lectures
"PdII Complexes with Mixed NHC/Phosphine Ligands: Catalytic Benefits" FARC 2024, IIT Mandi.
"Dinuclear Complexes Bearing NHC Donor Ligands: Structural Aspects and Catalytic Applications" NMMCSN-2021, Organized by Indira Gandhi Institute of Technology, Orissa, India.
“Homo- and Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Employed in Catalysis” Young Scientists Conclave 2021 Organized by Indian Chemical Society (YSC-2021), India.
“Diverse Applications of Carbene Intermediates” 2020, Invertis University, India.
“Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Structure and Cooperative Tandem Catalysis“; IC-ETCS 2020, IIT Kharagpur, India.
“Polynuclear NHC complexes: application in cooperative catalysis” Challenges in Synthetic Chemistry and its industrial applications, 2016, NIT Rourkela, India.
Project Funding
Project Title: "Highly Efficient Heterobimetallic Palladium(II)/Copper(I) Carbene Complexes Applied in Tandem Catalysis" Funder: DSTBT; Sanctioned Amount: 385000.00; Year: 2024-contd.
Project Title: “Highly Conjugated Supramolecular Organometallic Architectures Bearing Polycarbene Ligands: Redox-Activity, Cooperativity, Molecular Hosts and Selective Organic Transformations ” Funder: DST-SERB; Sanctioned Amount: 3722000.00; Year: 2019-2022.
Project Title: "Heterobimetallic N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes for Tandem Catalysis " Funder: UGC; Sanctioned Amount: 1000000.00; Year: 2017-2019.