Publications

Gargi Kundu,# Debjit Pramanik,# Soumya Ranjan Dash, Ravi Kumar, Srinu Tothadi, Aryya Ghosh,* Kumar Vanka,* and Sakya S. Sen*: A Kekulé Diradicaloid with a Naphthalene Spacer. Organometallics (acs.organomet.5c00508) (# Equal first author contribution)

Kritika Gour, Debjit Pramanik, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Dipak Dattatray Shinde, Geethu Venugopal, Kumar Vanka*, Arup K. Rath*, Sakya S. Sen*: Germylene Mediated Reductive C–C and C−N Coupling of an Isocyanide and its Device Application, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2025, 64, e202417052.

Biplab Mahata, V. Devaraj, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Magnesium-Catalyzed Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Amide Hydroboration, Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, 64, 13405-13414.

V. S. Ajithkumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, K. Vipin Raj, Geetika Singh, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Hypersilylsilylene-Supported Ni(0) Toluene and Ni(II) Complexes with Catalytic Application, Organometallics, 2025, 44, 2646-2653.

Kajal Balayan, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Synthesis of Diamido N-Heterocyclic Imines (DAC=NH) Via Staudinger or Reductive N–N Bond Cleavage Approach, Organometallics, 2025, 44, 1129−1133.

Vishal Sharma, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Magnesium-Ligand Cooperation in Breaking O-H and C-H Bond of Water and Diazoalkane, Organometallics, 2025, 44, 875−881.

Pratiksha B. Ghanwat,# Debashree Bora,# Rinu Pandya, Kumar Vanka*, Biswajit Saha*, Sakya S. Sen*: Manganese(I)-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Borylation of Terminal Alkynes, Dalton Transactions 2025, 54, 10426-10432. (# Equal first author contribution)

V. S. Ajithkumar,# Nripen Khilari,# Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*: C=C Insertion over N=C=O of Allyl Isocyanate into the Ge-Si Bond of a Germylene, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, 28, e202500305. (# Equal first author contribution)

V. S. Ajithkumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, K. Yuvaraj, Rajesh G. Gonnade*, Sakya S. Sen*: Sila[1]ferrocenophanes with Bulky Substituents, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2025, 28, e202500120. 

Gargi Kundu, Sakya S. Sen*: Development of six-membered saturated cyclic diaminocarbene in main-group chemistry, Dalton Transactions, 2025, 54, 9113−9124.

Kajal Balayan, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade*, Sakya S. Sen*: Uncovering diverse reactivity of NHCs with diazoalkane: C-H activation, C=C bond formation, and access to N-heterocyclic methylenehydrazine, Chemical Science 2024, 15, 18387−18394.

V. S. Ajithkumar, Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, Sougata Saha, Swapan K. Pati*, Sakya S. Sen*: Stereodivergent sila-germylenation vs. sila-stannylenation of an internal alkyne, Chemical Communications 2024, 60, 9837−9840. 

Sanjukta Pahar,# Vishal Sharma,# K. Vipin Raj, Mayur P. Sangole, Christy P. George, Kirandeep Singh, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Tridentate NacNac Tames T-Shaped Nickel(I) Radical, Chemistry European Journal 2024, 30, e202303957. (# Equal first author contribution)

Gargi Kundu, P. R. Amrutha, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Access to NHC-Boryl Mono- and Bis-Selenide and Utility as Mild Selenium Transfer Reagent including to the C-F Bond, Chemistry European Journal 2024, 30, e202302984.

Rohit Kumar, Biplab Mahata, S. Gayathridevi, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Lanthanide Mimicking by Magnesium for Oxazolidinone Synthesis, Chemistry European Journal 2024, 30, e202303478.

Gargi Kundu,# P R Amrutha,# Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Saturated NHC-Stabilized Borenium, Boronium, Hydride-Bridged Boron Cations, and a Bora-Acyl Chloride, Organometallics 2024, 43, 1355-1361. (# Equal first author contribution)

Gargi Kundu, Debjit Pramanik, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Ravi Kumar, Mayur Sangole, Srinu Tothadi, Aryya Ghosh,* Kumar Vanka,* Kirandeep Singh*, Sakya S. Sen*: Unprecedented C-F bond cleavage from perfluoronaphthalene during cobaltocene reduction, Dalton Transactions 2024, 53, 17789−17793.

V. S. Ajithkumar,# Nripen Khilari,# Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, Geethu Venugopal, Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*: Activation of carbon disulfide by a hypersilyl germylene, Dalton Transactions 2024, 53, 10814-10818 (Back Cover). (# Equal first author contribution)

Gargi Kundu, P. R. Amrutha, K. Vipin Raj, Srinu Tothadi, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Taming the Parent Oxoborane, Chemical Science 2023, 14, 5894‒5898.

Kajal Balayan, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka, Sapna Ravindranathan, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: On the competition between six-membered and five-membered NHC towards alane centered ring expansion, Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 8540‒8543.

Rohit Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Subhrashis Banerjee, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Controlled Reduction of Isocyanates to Formamides using Monomeric Magnesium, Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 2255‒2258.

Milan Kumar Bisai,# V. S. Ajithkumar,# K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka*, Rajesh G. Gonnade*, Sakya S. Sen*: A zwitterionic disilanylium from an unsymmetric disilene, Chemical Communications 2023, 59, 1669‒1672. (# Equal first author contribution)

V. S. Ajithkumar, Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Synthesis of Si(IV)- and Ge(II)-Substituted Amines, Hydrazone, and Hydrazine from Hypersilyl Germylene, Organometallics 2023, 42, 2983-2990.

Kritika Gour, Debjit Pramanik, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Srinu Tothadi, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Activation of Olefinic C-H Bond of NHC and NHO by Perimidine Based Silicon and Germanium Compounds, Organometallics 2023 42, 1909-1917.

Sanjukta Pahar, Gargi Kundu, Christy P. George, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Substitution at a Coordinatively Saturated Aluminum Center Stabilized by Imidazolidin-2-imine, Organometallics 2023, 42, 3, 276–282.

Gargi Kundu, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Ravi Kumar, Kumar Vanka, Aryya Ghosh, Sakya S. Sen*: Enhancing Diradical Character of Chichibabin's Hydrocarbon through Fluoride Substitution, ChemPlusChem 2023, 88, e202300273

Kritika Gour,# Gargi Kundu,# Soumya Ranjan Dash, Srinu Tothadi, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Six-Membered NHC Stabilized Monomeric Zinc Complexes, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2023, e202300167 (1-7). (# Equal first author contribution)

Rohit Kumar, Sanjukta Pahar, Joy Chatterjee, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Kumar Vanka Sakya S. Sen*: Luminescent magnesium complexes with intra- and inter-ligand charge transfer, Chemical Communications 2022, 58, 11843–11846.

Gargi Kundu, V. S. Ajithkumar, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Substitution at sp3 boron of a six-membered NHC·BH3: convenient access to a dihydroxyborenium cation, Chemical Communications 2022, 58, 3783-3786.

Rohit Kumar,# Sayan Dutta,# Vishal Sharma, Praval P. Singh, Rajesh G. Gonnade*, Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*: Monomeric Magnesium Catalyzed Alkene and Alkyne Hydroboration, Chemistry European Journal 2022, 28, e202201896 (1-8) (Cover Page).(# Equal first author contribution)

Sanjukta Pahar, Vishal Sharma, Biplab Mahato, Christy P. George, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Tridentate NacNac Stabilized Tin and Nickel Complexes: Access to a Monomeric Nickel Hydride and Its Catalytic Application, Inorganic Chemistry 2022, 61, 17370‒17377.

Gargi Kundu, Kajal Balayan, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Six-membered Saturated NHC Stabilized Borenium Cations: Isolation of a Cationic Analogue of Borinic Acid, Inorganic Chemistry 2022, 61, 12991–12997.

Gargi Kundu, Ruchi Dixit, Srinu Tothadi, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Versatile chemistry of six-membered NHC with boranes: bromination at sp3 borane, activation of B–H bond of HBpin, and ring expansion of NHC, Dalton Transactions 2022, 51, 14452–14457 (Cover Page).

Rohit Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Shailja Jain, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: A Well-Defined Calcium Compound Catalyzes Trimerization of Arylisocyanates into 1,3,5-Triarylisocyanurates, ChemCatChem 2022, 14, e202101788 (1-6).

Gargi Kundu, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Nucleophilic Substitution at a Coordinatively Saturated Five-Membered NHC-Haloborane Centre, Inorganics 2022, 10, 97 (1-13).

Kritika Gour, Milan Kumar Bisai, Sakya S. Sen*: Hypersilyl Substituent in Heavier Low-valent Group 14 Chemistry. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2022, e202200071, 1-14.

Kritika Gour, Sakya S. Sen: Applications of Germylenes in Catalysis. Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, 2022, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. DOI: 10.1002/9781119951438.eibc2832.

Milan Kumar Bisai, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Unsymmetrical sp2-sp3 Disilenes, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2021, 60, 20706-20710.

Rohit Kumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, Shailja Jain, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Deoxygenative hydroboration of primary and secondary amides: A catalyst- free and solvent-free approach, Chemical Communications 2021, 57, 10596-10599.

Gargi Kundu, V. S. Ajithkumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, Srinu Tothadi, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Diverse reactivity of carbenes and silylenes towards fluoropyridines, Chemical Communications 2021, 57, 4428-4431.

Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Hypersilylsilylene with Boranes and Three-Component Reactions with Aldehyde and HBpin, Inorganic Chemistry 2021, 60, 1654-1663.

Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. Ajithkumar, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Access to a Variety of Ge(II) and Sn(II) Compounds through Substitution of Hypersilyl Moiety, Organometallics 2021, 40, 2651-2657.

Milan Kumar Bisai, Vishal Sharma, Rajesh G. Gonnade,* Sakya S. Sen*: Reactivities of Silaimines with Boranes: From Cooperative B-H Bond Activation to Donor Stabilized Silyl Cation, Organometallics 2021, 40, 2133-2138.

Ruchi Dixit,# Milan Kumar Bisai,# Sandeep Yadav, Vinita Yadav, Sakya S. Sen*, Kumar Vanka*: Substrate, Catalyst, and Solvent: The Triune Nature of Multitasking Reagents in Hydroboration and Cyanosilylation, Organometallics 2021, 40, 1104-1112. (# Equal first author contribution)

Sanjukta Pahar, Vishal Sharma, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Pyridylpyrrolido ligand in Ge(II) and Sn(II) chemistry: Synthesis, reactivity and catalytic application, Dalton Transactions 2021, 50, 16678-16684.

Milan Kumar Bisai, Kritika Gour, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Lithium compound catalyzed deoxygenative hydroboration of primary, secondary and tertiary amides, Dalton Transactions 2021, 50, 2354-2358.

Milan Kumar Bisai, Kritika Gour, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka,* Sakya S. Sen*: Readily Available Lithium Compounds as Catalysts for the Hydroboration of Carbodiimides and Esters, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2021, 949, 121924 (1-6). 

Sanjukta Pahar, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Tamal Das, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Access to diverse germylenes and a six-membered dialane with a flexible β-diketiminate, Chemical Communications 2020, 56, 11871-11874.

Gargi Kundu, Sanjukta Pahar, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*: Stepwise Nucleophilic Substitution to Access Saturated N-heterocyclic Carbene Haloboranes with Boron-Methyl Bonds, Organometallics 2020, 39, 4696-4703.

Sandeep Yadav, Rohit Kumar, K. Vipin Raj, Prashant Yadav, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Amidinato Germylene-Zinc Complexes: Synthesis, Bonding, and Reactivity, Chemistry Asian Journal 2020, 15, 3116-3121.

Rohit Kumar, Sandeep Yadav, Kritika Gour, Ekta Sangtani, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Abhishekram Raja, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: A Tale of Biphenyl and Terphenyl Substituents for Structurally Diverse Ketiminato Magnesium, Calcium and Germanium Complexes, Chemistry Asian Journal 2020, 15, 820-827.

Beesam Raghavendra, K. Bakthavachalam, Tamal Das, Thierry Roisnel, Sakya S. Sen*, Kumar Vanka*, Sundargopal Ghosh*: Transmetallation vs adduct: Diverse reactivity of N, O-ketiminato germylene with [Cp*MCl2] 2 (M= Rh or Ir; Cp*= eta5-C5Me5) and MCl5 (M= Nb and Ta), Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2020, 911, 121142 (1-8).

Sanjukta Pahar, Gargi Kundu, Sakya S. Sen*: Cyanosilylation by Compounds with Main-Group Elements: An Odyssey, ACS Omega 2020, 5, 25477-25484.

Moumita Pait,# Gargi Kundu,# Srinu Tothadi, Suvendu Karak, Shailja Jain, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: C‐F Bond Activation by Saturated NHC: Mesoionic Compound Formation and Adduct Formation with B(C6F5)3. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2019, 58, 2804-2808. (# Equal first author contribution)

Gargi Kundu, Sriman De, Srinu Tothadi, Abhishek Das, Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*: Saturated N-Heterocyclic Carbene based Thiele's Hydrocarbon with a Tetrafluorophenylene Linker, Chemistry-A European Journal 2019, 25, 16533-16537 (HOT Paper)

Milan Kumar Bisai, Sandeep Yadav, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Lithium compounds as single site catalysts for hydroboration of alkenes and alkynes, Chemical Communications 2019, 55, 11711-11715.

V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen*, Herbert W Roesky*: Silylene induced cooperative B–H bond activation and unprecedented aldehyde C–H bond splitting with amidinate ring expansion, Chemical Communications 2019, 55, 3536-3539.

Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Synthesis and Reactivity of a Hypersilylsilylene, Inorganic Chemistry 2019, 58, 10536–10542.

Milan Kumar Bisai, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Easily accessible lithium compound catalyzed mild and facile hydroboration and cyanosilylation of aldehydes and ketones. Chemical Communications 2018, 54, 6843-6846.

Sandeep Yadav, Ruchi Dixit, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Beyond Hydrofunctionalization: A Well-Defined Calcium Compound Catalyzed Mild and Efficient Carbonyl Cyanosilylation. Chemistry-A European Journal 2018, 24, 1269-1273.

Sandeep Yadav,# Ruchi Dixit,# Milan Kumar Bisai, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen*: Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds of Methylpyridinato β-Diketiminate Ligands and Their Catalytic Application in Hydroboration of Aldehydes and Ketones. Organometallics 2018, 37, 4576-4584. (# Equal first author contribution)

Sanjukta Pahar, Suvendu Karak, Moumita Pait, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Sakya S. Sen*: Access to Silicon(II)– and Germanium(II)–Indium Compounds. Organometallics 2018, 37, 1206-1213.

Kirubakaran Bakthavachalam, Sayan Dutta, Arivazhagan C, Beesam Raghavendra, Anagha Haridas, Sakya S. Sen*, Debasis Koley*, Sundargopal Ghosh*: Cyclometallation of a germylene ligand by concerted metalation-deprotonation of a methyl group. Dalton Transactions 2018, 47, 15835-15844.

V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Gargi Kundu, and Sakya S. Sen*: Facile activation of Si-H bond by an electrophilic carbene. J. Indian. Chem. Soc. 2018, 95, 789-792. 

Sakya S. Sen*, Herbert W. Roesky*: Silicon-fluorine chemistry: From preparation of SiF2 to C-F bond activation by silylenes and its heavier congeners. Chemical Communications 2018, 54, 5046-5057.

V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Nasrina Parvin, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka* And Sakya S. Sen*, C(sp3)–F, C(sp2)–F and C(sp3)–H bond activation at silicon(II) center, Chem. Commun., 53, 9850 - 9853 (2017).

Sandeep Yadav, Ekta Sangtani, Diksha Dhawan, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Debashree Ghosh* And Sakya S. Sen*, Unprecedented solvent induced inter-conversion between monomeric and dimeric silylene-zinc iodide adducts, Dalton Transactions., 46, 11418 - 11424 (2017).

V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Milan Kumar Bisai, Tamal Das And Sakya S. Sen*, Metal free mild and selective aldehyde cyanosilylation by a neutral penta-coordinate silicon compound, Chem. Commun., 53, 6910 - 6913 (2017).

Sandeep Yadav, Sanjukta Pahar And Sakya S. Sen*, Benz-amidinato calcium iodide catalyzed aldehyde and ketone hydroboration with unprecedented functional group tolerance, Chem. Commun., 53, 4562 - 4564 (2017).

Milan Kumar Bisai, Sanjukta Pahar, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka* And Sakya S. Sen*, Transition metal free catalytic hydroboration of aldehydes and aldimines by amidinato silane, Dalton Trans., 46, 2420 - 2424 (2017).

Nasrina Parvin, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Shiv Pal, Sakya S. Sen* And Shabana Khan*, Strikingly diverse reactivity of structurally identical silylene and stannylene, Dalton Trans., 46, 6528 - 6532 (2017).

Andreas E Seitz, Maria Eckhardt, Sakya S. Sen, Andreas Erlebach, Eugenia V Peresypkina, Herbert W Roesky, Marek Sierka* And Manfred Scheer*, Different Reactivity of As4 towards Disilenes and Silylenes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 56, 6655 - 6659 (2017).

V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Sandeep Yadav, Shiv Pal, Tamal das, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen*: Facile Access to a Ge(II) Dication Stabilized by Isocyanides, Chemical Communication, 2016, 52, 7890 - 7892.

Sandeep Yadav, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Rajesh Gonnade, Sakya S. Sen*: Benz-amidinato Stabilized a Monomeric Calcium Iodide and a Lithium Calciate(II) Cluster featuring Group 1 and Group 2 Elements. Chemistry Select 2016, 1, 1066-1071.

Rüdiger Bertermann, Julian Böhnke, Holger Braunschweig, Rian D. Dewhurst, Thomas Kupfer, Jonas H. Muessig, Leanne Pentecost, Krzysztof Radacki, Sakya S. Sen, Alfredo Vargas: Dynamic, Reversible Oxidative Addition of Highly Polar Bonds to a Transition Metal, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 16140 - 16147.

Sakya S. Sen and Herbert W. Roesky, Efficient Methods for Preparing Silicon Compounds, Academic Press, Elsevier., Chapter 17 and 18, (2016).

V S V S N Swamy, Shiv Pal, Shabana Khan*, Sakya S. Sen*: Cations and dications of heavier group 14 elements in low oxidation state. Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 12903-12923.

Holger Braunschweig, Mehmet A. Celik, Rian D. Dewhurst, Magdalena Heid, Florian. Hupp, Sakya S. Sen, Stepwise isolation of low-valent, low-coordinate Sn and Pb mono- and dications in the coordination sphere of platinum, Chemical Science, 2015, 6, 425-435.

Sakya S. Sen*, A Stable Silanone with a Tri-coordinate Silicon Atom: Century's Wait is Over, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 8820 - 8822. 

Johannes Brand, Holger Braunschweig, Florian Hupp, Ashwini K. Phukan, Krzysztof Radacki And Sakya S. Sen: A B–C Double Bond Unit Coordinated to Platinum: An Alkylideneboryl Ligand that is Isoelectronic to Neutral Aminoborylene Ligands, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2014, 53, 2240 - 2244.

Johannes Brand, Holger Braunschweig, Sakya S. Sen, B=B and B=E (E=O and N) Multiple Bonds in the Coordination Sphere of Late Transition Metals, Accounts of Chemical Research 2014, 47, 180 - 191.

Thomas Arnold, Holger Braunschweig, J. Oscar, C. Jimenez-Halla, Kryzsztof Radacki And Sakya S. Sen, Simultaneous Fragmentation and Activation of White Phosphorus, Chem. Eur. J., 19, 9114 - 9117 (2013).

Thomas Arnold, Holger Braunschweig, Florian Hupp, Kryzsztof Radacki And Sakya S. Sen, Reactions of a [1],[1]Disilamolybdenocenophane towards Unsaturated Compounds, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., , 5027 - 5032 (2013).

Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Daniel Kratzert, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, A Remarkable End-on Activation of Diazoalkane and Cleavage of Both C-Cl bonds of Dichloromethane with a Silylene to a Single Product with Five-Coordinate Silicon Atoms, Organometallics., 31, 435 - 439 (2012).

Sakya S. Sen, Shabana Khan, Prinson P. Samuel And Herbert W. Roesky, Chemistry of functionalized silylenes, Chem. Sci., 2, 659 - 682 (2012).

Sakya S. Sen, Shabana Khan And Selvarajan Nagendran and Herbert W. Roesky , Inter-connected Bis-silylene: A New Dimension in Silicon Chemistry, Acc. Chem. Res., 45, 578 - 587 (2012).

Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen And Herbert W. Roesky, Activation of phosphorus by compounds with group 14 elements in low oxidation states, Chem. Commun., 48, 2169 - 2179 (2012).

Prinson P. Samuel, Ramachandran Azhakar, Rajendra S. Ghadwal, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Markus Granitzka, Julia Matussek, Regine Herbst-Irmer And Dietmar Stalke, Stable Silaimines with Three- and Four-Coordinate Silicon Atoms, Inorg. Chem., 51, 11049 - 11054 (2012).

Sakya S. Sen, Shabana Khan, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Kratzert, Kathrin Meindl, Julian Henn, Dietmar Stalke, Jean-Philippe Demers And Adam Lange, Zwitterionic Si-C-Si-P and Si-P-Si-P Four-membered Rings with Two Coordinate Phosphorus Atoms, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., , 2322 - 2325 (2011).

Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Striking Stability of a Substituted Silicon(II) Bis(trimethylsilyl)amide and the Facile Si-Me Bond Cleavage without a Transition Metal Catalyst, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 133, 12311 - 12316 (2011).

Sharanappa Nembenna, Sanjay Singh, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Holger Ott And Dietmar Stalke, ?-Diketiminate Stabilized Magnesium Hydroxide, Heterobimetallic, and Halide Complexes: Synthesis and X-ray Structural Studies, Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 637, 201 - 205 (2011).

Sakya S. Sen, Rajendra S. Ghadwal, Daniel Kratzert, Daniel Stern, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Synthesis, Characterization, and Structure of [{PhC(NtBu)2}2Ge2(?-S)2Cl2] and a Germanium Dithiocarboxylate Analogue, Organometallics., 30, 1030 - 1033 (2011).

Sakya S. Sen, Shabana Khan, Daniel Kratzert, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Reaction of a Base-Stabilized Bis(silylene) [PhC(NtBu)2Si]2 with Cyclooctatetraene without Cleavage of the Si–Si Bond”, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., , 1370 - 1373 (2011).

Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen, Daniel Kratzert, Gašper Tav?ar, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Synthesis and Characterization of Stable Silicon Heterocycles by Oxidative Addition of Organic Substrates with Chlorosilylene [PhC(NtBu)2SiCl], Chem. Eur. J., 17, 4283 - 4290 (2011).

Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen, Reent Michel, Daniel Kratzert, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Formation of a Unsymmetrical Ring System via C–H Bond Activation of Diazobenzene by Stable N-Heterocyclic Chlorosilylene (PhC(NtBu)2SiCl), Organometallics., 30, 2643 - 2645 (2011).

Sankaranarayana Pillai Sarish, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Ina Objartel And Dietmar Stalke, Elegant approach to spacer arranged silagermylene and bis(germylene) compounds, Chem. Commun., 47, 7206 - 7208 (2011).

Shabana Khan, Reent Michel, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, P4 Chain and Cage from Silylene Activated White Phosphorus, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 11786 - 11789 (2011).

Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Maria Eckhardt, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Eric Maedl, Ricardo A. Mata, Herbert W. Roesky, Manfred Scheer And Dietmar Stalke, A Stable Cation of a CSi3P Five-Membered Ring with a Weakly Coordinating Chloride Anion, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 50, 12510 - 12513 (2011).

Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Stern, Julian Henn And Dietmar Stalke, High Yield Access to Silylene RSiCl (R = PhC(NtBu)2) and its Reactivity toward Alkyne: Synthesis of Stable Disilacyclobutene, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 132, 1123 - 1126 (2010).

Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Kathrin Meindl, Daniel Stern, Julian Henn, A. Claudia Stueckl And Dietmar Stalke, Synthesis, structure, and theoretical investigation of amidinato supported 1,4-disilabenzene, Chem. Commun., 46, 5873 - 5875 (2010).

Rajendra S. Ghadwal, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Markus Granitzka, Daniel Kratzert, Sebastian Merkel And Dietmar Stalke, Convenient Access to Monosilicon Epoxides with Pentacoordinate silicon, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 49, 3952 - 3955 (2010).

Sakya S. Sen, Gašper Tav?ar, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Kratzert, Jakob Hey And Dietmar Stalke, Synthesis of a Stable Four-membered Si2O2 Ring and a Dimer with Two Four-membered Si2O2 Rings bridged by Two Oxygen Atoms, with Five-coordinate Silicon atoms in both the Ring Systems, Organometallics., 29, 2343 - 2347 (2010).

Sakya S. Sen, Daniel Kratzert, Daniel Stern, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, Reactivity Studies of a Ge(I)-Ge(I) Compound with and without cleavage of the Ge-Ge bond, Inorg. Chem., 49, 5786 - 5788 (2010).

Gašper Tav?ar, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Jakob Hey, Daniel Kratzert And Dietmar Stalke, Reaction of a Bis-silylene (LSi-SiL, L = PhC(NtBu)2) and a Heteroleptic Chloro Silylene (LSiCl) with Benzil: Formation of Bis(siladioxolene) and Monosiladioxolene Analogue with Five-Coordinate Silicon Atoms in Both Ring Systems, Organometallics., 29, 3930 - 3935 (2010).

Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen, Daniel Kratzert, Reent Michel, Herbert W. Roesky And Dietmar Stalke, One pot Synthesis of tricylodisilaheptene Analogue and Jutzi’s Disilene, Inorg. Chem., 49, 9689 - 9693 (2010).

Gašper Tav?ar, Sakya S. Sen, Ramachandran Azhakar, Andrea Thorn And Herbert W. Roesky, Facile Syntheses of Silylene Nickel Carbonyl Complexes from Lewis Base Stabilized Chlorosilylenes, Inorg. Chem., 49, 10199 - 10202 (2010).

Sakya S. Sen, Malte P. Kritzler-Kosch, Selvarajan Nagendran, Herbert W. Roesky, Tobias Beck, Aritra Pal And Regine Herbst-Irmer, Synthesis of Monomeric Divalent Tin(II) Compounds with Terminal Chloride, Amide, and Triflate Substituents, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 5304 - 5311 (2010).

1. 1. 1. Rajendra S. Ghadwal, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Gasper Tavcar, Sebastian Merkel And Dietmar Stalke, Neutral Penta- and Hexacoordinate N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes Derived from SiX4 (X= F, Br, Organometallics., 28, 6374 - 6377 (2009).

      2. Anukul Jana, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Carola Schulzke, Sudipta Dutta And Swapan K. Pati, End-On Nitrogen Insertion of a Diazo Compound into a Germanium(II) Hydrogen Bond and a Comparable Reaction with Diethyl Azodicarboxylate, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 4246 - 4248 (2009) 

      3. Sakya S. Sen, Anukul Jana, Herbert W. Roesky And Carola Schulzke, A Remarkable Base-Stabilized Bis(silylene) with a Silicon(I)-Silicon(I) Bond, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 48, 8536 - 8538 (2009).

Selvarajan Nagendran, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Debasis Koley, Helmut Grubmüller, Aritra Pal And Regine Herbst-Irmer, RGe(I)Ge(I)R Compound (R = PhC(NtBu)2) with a Ge-Ge Single Bond and a Comparison with the Gauche Conformation of Hydrazine, Organometallics., 27, 5459 - 5463 (2008).

Chhandasi Guharoy, Sakya Singha Sen, Swati Dutta, Golam Mostafa And Samaresh Bhattacharya, Synthesis, Structure and Electrochemical Properties of a family of Organoruthenium Complexes, Polyhedron., 26, 3876 - 3884 (2007).