Publications

1. Biplab Mahata,# Nripen Khilari,# Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*

Magnesium Catalyzed CO2 Reduction to Formic acid or Methanol: Solvent or no Solvent Settles the Selectivity 

Inorganic Chemistry (DOI: acs.inorgchem.6c01255) (# Equal first author contribution)

2. Gargi Kundu,# Debjit Pramanik,# Soumya Ranjan Dash, Ravi Kumar, Srinu Tothadi, Aryya Ghosh,* Kumar Vanka,* Sakya S. Sen*

A Kekulé Diradicaloid with a Naphthalene Spacer 

Organometallics 2026, 45, 624-627 (# Equal first author contribution).

3. Kajal Balayan, Arindam Biswas, Himanshu Sharma, Prabhakar Tiwari, Kumar Vanka,* Rajesh G. Gonnade,* Arup Kumar Rath,* Sakya S. Sen*

Unveiling the Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Methylene Hydrazines 

Dalton Transactions (Just Accepted)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. 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. 

9. Gargi Kundu, Sakya S. Sen*

Development of six-membered saturated cyclic diaminocarbene in main-group chemistry

Dalton Transactions, 2025, 54, 9113−9124 (Invited Review)

1. 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.

2. 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. 

3. 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)

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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)

7. 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.

8. V. S. Ajithkumar,# Nripen Khilari,# Pratiksha B. Ghanwat, Geethu Venugopal, Debasis Koley*, Sakya S. Sen*

Activation of Carbondisulfide by a Hypersilyl Germylene

Dalton Transactions 2024, 53, 10814-10818 (Back Cover). (# Equal first author contribution)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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

9. 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)

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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)

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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).

7. 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).

8. Gargi Kundu, Srinu Tothadi, Sakya S. Sen*

Nucleophilic Substitution at a Coordinatively Saturated Five-Membered NHC-Haloborane Centre

Inorganics 2022, 10, 97 (1-13).

9. 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 (Invited Review)

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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)

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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). 

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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).

6. Sanjukta Pahar, Gargi Kundu, Sakya S. Sen* 

Cyanosilylation by Compounds with Main-Group Elements: An Odyssey

ACS Omega 2020, 5, 25477-25484 (Invited Review).

1. 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)

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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)

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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. 

7. 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 (Invited Review).

1. V.S.V.S.N. Swamy, Nasrina Parvin, K Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen*

C(sp3)–F, C(sp2)–F and C(sp3)–H Bond Activation at Silicon(II) Center 

Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 9850-9853.

2. V.S.V.S.N. Swamy, Milan Kumar Bisai, Tamal Das, Sakya S. Sen*

Metal Free Mild and Selective Aldehyde Cyanosilylation by a Neutral Penta-coordinate Silicon Compound 

Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 6910-6913.

3. Sandeep Yadav, Sanjukta Pahar, Sakya S Sen* 

Benz-amidinato Calcium Iodide Catalyzed Aldehyde and Ketone Hydroboration with Unprecedented Functional Group Tolerance. 

Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 4562-4564.

4. Sandeep Yadav, Ekta Sangtani, Diksha Dhawan, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Debashree Ghosh*, Sakya S. Sen* 

Unprecedented Solvent Induced Inter-conversion Between Monomeric and Dimeric Silylene-Zinc Iodide Adducts

Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 11418-11424.

5. Milan Kumar Bisai, Sanjukta Pahar, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen* 

Transition Metal Free Catalytic Hydroboration of Aldehydes and Aldimines by Amidinato Silane

Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 2420-2424.

6. Nasrina Parvin, Rajarshi Dasgupta, Shiv Pal, Sakya S. Sen*, Shabana Khan* 

Strikingly Diverse Reactivity of Structurally Identical Silylene and Stannylene

Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 6528-6531.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Sakya S. Sen and Herbert W. Roesky 

Efficient Methods for Preparing Silicon Compounds 

Academic Press, Elsevier., Chapter 17 and 18, (2016).

1. 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 (Review).

2. 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.

1. 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. 

2. Johannes Brand, Holger Braunschweig, Florian Hupp, Ashwini K. Phukan, Krzysztof Radacki, 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.

3. 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.

1. Thomas Arnold, Holger Braunschweig, J. Oscar, C. Jimenez-Halla, Kryzsztof Radacki, Sakya S. Sen

Simultaneous Fragmentation and Activation of White Phosphorus

Chemistry European Journal 2013, 19, 9114 - 9117.

2. Thomas Arnold, Holger Braunschweig, Florian Hupp, Kryzsztof Radacki, Sakya S. Sen

Reactions of a [1],[1]Disilamolybdenocenophane towards Unsaturated Compounds

European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2013,  5027 - 5032.

1. Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Daniel Kratzert, Herbert W. Roesky, 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 2012, 31, 435 - 439.

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

3. 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).

4. 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).

5. 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).

1. Sakya S. Sen, Shabana Khan, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Kratzert, Kathrin Meindl, Julian Henn, Dietmar Stalke, Jean-Philippe Demers, Adam Lange: Zwitterionic Si-C-Si-P and Si-P-Si-P Four-membered Rings with Two Coordinate Phosphorus Atoms. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 2322 - 2325.

2. Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Maria Eckhardt, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Eric Maedl, Ricardo A. Mata, Herbert W. Roesky, Manfred Scheer, Dietmar Stalke: A Stable Cation of a CSi3P Five-Membered Ring with a Weakly Coordinating Chloride Anion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 12510 - 12513.

3. Sakya S. Sen, Jakob Hey, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Herbert W. Roesky, 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. 2011, 133, 12311-12316.

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

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

6. 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).

7. Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen, Daniel Kratzert, Gašper Tavcar, Herbert W. Roesky, Dietmar Stalke: Synthesis and Characterization of Stable Silicon Heterocycles by Oxidative Addition of Organic Substrates with Chlorosilylene [PhC(NtBu)2SiCl]. Chemistry European Journal 2011, 17, 4283 - 4290.

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

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

10. Shabana Khan, Reent Michel, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Dietmar Stalke: P4 Chain and Cage from Silylene Activated White Phosphorus, Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2011, 50, 11786 - 11789.

1. Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Stern, Julian Henn, 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. 2010, 132, 1123 - 1126.

2. Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Kathrin Meindl, Daniel Stern, Julian Henn, A. Claudia Stueckl, Dietmar Stalke: Synthesis, structure, and theoretical investigation of amidinato supported 1,4-disilabenzene. Chemical Communication 2010, 46, 5873 - 5875.

3. Rajendra S. Ghadwal, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Markus Granitzka, Daniel Kratzert, Sebastian Merkel, Dietmar Stalke: Convenient Access to Monosilicon Epoxides with Pentacoordinate silicon. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2010, 49, 3952 - 3955.

4. Sakya S. Sen, Gašper Tavcar, Herbert W. Roesky, Daniel Kratzert, Jakob Hey, 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 2010, 29, 2343 - 2347.

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

6. Gašper Tavcar, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Jakob Hey, Daniel Kratzert, 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 2010, 29, 3930 - 3935.

7. Shabana Khan, Sakya S. Sen, Daniel Kratzert, Reent Michel, Herbert W. Roesky, Dietmar Stalke: One pot Synthesis of tricylodisilaheptene Analogue and Jutzi’s Disilene. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, 9689 - 9693.

8. Gašper Tavcar, Sakya S. Sen, Ramachandran Azhakar, Andrea Thorn, Herbert W. Roesky: Facile Syntheses of Silylene Nickel Carbonyl Complexes from Lewis Base Stabilized Chlorosilylenes. Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 49, 10199 - 10202.

9. Sakya S. Sen, Malte P. Kritzler-Kosch, Selvarajan Nagendran, Herbert W. Roesky, Tobias Beck, Aritra Pal, Regine Herbst-Irmer: Synthesis of Monomeric Divalent Tin(II) Compounds with Terminal Chloride, Amide, and Triflate Substituents. European Journal Inorganic Chemistry 2010, 5304-5311.

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

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

         3. Sakya S. Sen, Anukul Jana, Herbert W. Roesky, Carola Schulzke: A Remarkable Base-Stabilized Bis(silylene) with a Silicon(I)-Silicon(I) Bond. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2009, 48, 8536-8538.

1. Selvarajan Nagendran, Sakya S. Sen, Herbert W. Roesky, Debasis Koley, Helmut Grubmüller, Aritra Pal, 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 2008, 27, 5459-5463.

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