November 2023

Congratulations to  Arya, Raja, Supreeta and Samrat for publishing their paper on Annulative π-Extension by Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed Ketone-Directed peri-Annulation: An Approach to Access Fused Arenes in Organic Letters !!!

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November 2023

Congratulations to  Haripriyo, Subimal, Shuvendu, Tarak and Uddalak for publishing their paper on Late-Stage Halogenation of Peptides, Drugs and (Hetero)aromatics with a Nucleophilic Hydrazide Catalyst in Angewandt Chemie !!!

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October 2023

Many congratulations to Dr. Haripriyo Mondal for successfully defending his thesis. Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.

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July 2023

Congratulations to MSM for winning the  CRSI Bronze Medal for the year 2024. Cheers !!! 

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May 2023

Congratulations to  Raja, Arya, Shuvendu and Arpita for publishing their paper on Annulative π-Extension by Rh(III)-Catalyzed Ketone-Directed C–H Activation: Rapid Access to Pyrenes and Related PAHs in Angewandt Chemie !!!

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May 2023

Congratulations to  Susanta and Ganesh for publishing their collaborative review with Manasa P. and Prof. Biswajit Paul on Exploring Chemical Modifications of Aromatic Amino Acid Residues in Peptides in Synthesis !!!

 

March 2023

We welcome our guest visitor Prof. Rene Michael Königs in Department of Chemistry, IIT Khragpur !!!

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March 2023

Group welcomes our new Post Doc Dr. Hasina !!!

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January 2023

Heartiest congratulations to MSM for being received the prestigious INSA Young Scientist Award 2022. We are all proud and delighted...Cheers !!! 

 

December 2022

Congratulations to  Samrat Kundu for publishing his paper on Development of carbazole-cored organo-photocatalyst for visible light-driven reductive Pinacol/imino-Pinacol couplinges in Organic Letters !!!

 

November 2022

Many congratulations to Dr. Shuvendu Saha for successfully defending his thesis. Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.

 

November 2022

Many congratulations to Dr. Md. Raja Sk. for successfully defending his thesis. Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.

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October 2022

Congratulations to Subimal for being awarded the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF). Wish you many more success in future.

 

August 2022

Congratulations to  Shuvendu for publishing his paper on Cp*Co(III)-catalyzed thiocarbamate directed C−H aminocarbonylation, amination, and cascade annulation of pyrroles in Chemical Communications !!!

 

July 2022

Group welcomes our new Ph.D students Subimal & Sharmila !!!!

 

May 2022

Congratulations to MSM for being received AVRA Young Scientist Award 2021. Cheers !!! 

 

April 2022

Congratulations to Ganesh and Samrat Sahu for publishing their paper on synthesis of indolyl-1,3-dienes from β-sulphonyl aldehydes through one-pot sequential Brønsted acid/base catalysis in European Journal of Organic Chemistry!!!

 

March 2022

Congratulations to Ganesh for securing Best Poster Award in CRSI-NSC & CRSI-RSC joint symposium held in IIT Guwahati. Cheers !!!

 

March 2022

Congratulations to  Samrat Sahu, Ankush, Samrat Kundu and Arya for publishing their review article on Synthesis of Functionalized Indoles Via Cascade Benzannulation Strategies in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry!!!

 

February 2022

Congratulations to  Ankush and Shuvendu for publishing their paper on Cascade benzannulation by regioselective dehydration: A stepping stone to the total syntheses of Lipocarbazoles, Carbazomycins and related alkaloids in Journal of Organic Chemistry!!!

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January 2022

Congratulations to  Samrat Sahu, and Ganesh for publishing their paper on An Expeditious Route to Sterically Encumbered Nonproteinogenic α-Amino Acid Precursors Enables Rapid Peptide Diversification in Chemical Science!!!

 

January 2022

Many congratulations to our another Ph.D Ankush Banerjee! Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.

 

January 2022

Many congratulations to our newest Ph.D Samrat Sahu! Wish you all the best for your future endeavors.

 

December 2021

Congratulations to Ganesh for being  the winner of RSC-Chem. Sci. Journal Award in RTCS-OBC 2021 symposium of the ICS. Cheers !!!

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December 2021

Another recognition in this year. Heartfelt congratulations to MSM for being received the prestigious Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2022 !!! Congratulations and cheers...

 

November 2021

Congratulations to MSM for being received the esteemed Merck Young Scientist Award 2021 !!! Cheers again to every group members for making this success through passion, efforts and expertise.

 

November 2021

Congratulations to MSM for being received the prestigious Swarnajayanti Fellowship 2020-2021 !!! Thanks to all of you for great efforts and passion for chemistry.

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October 2021

Congratulations to  Raja and Shuvendu for publishing the book chapter on Cobalt Catalyzed C–H Amination and Amidation in Handbook of C-H Functionalization !!!

 

September 2021

Congratulations to  Abhisek and Arpita for publishing the book chapter on Rhodium-Catalyzed External Oxidant Free C–H Amination and Amidation in Handbook of C-H Functionalization !!!

 

August 2021

Congratulations to  Suchand, Samrat Sahu, and Shuvendu for publishing their paper on Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed Dehydrative C2-Prenylation of Pyrrole and Indole with Allyl Alcohols in Advance Synthesis and Catalysis!!!

 

May 2021

Congratulations to  Anup, Samrat Kundu, Dhananjoy and Amit for publishing the review on Organocatalyzed Oxa-Diels-Alder Reactions: Recent Progresses in Synthesis !!!

 

May 2021

Congratulations to  Samrat Kundu, Ankush, Shyam and Meghna for publishing their paper on Cascade annulative-π-extension for the rapid construction of carbazole based polyaromatic hydrocarbons in Chemical Communications !!!

 

April 2021

Congratulations to  Ganesh and Samrat Sahu for publishing their paper on One-Pot “Back-to-Front” Approach for the Synthesis of Benzene Ring Substituted Indoles Using Allylboronic Acids in Chemical Communications !!! 

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March 2021

Congratulations to  Ankush, Samrat Kundu, Arya and Samrat Sahu for publishing the review on Benzannulation strategies to synthesize carbazoles, indolocarbazoles, benzocarbazoles, and carbolines
in Organic Chemistry Frontiers !!!

 

October 2020

Many congratulations to our newest Ph.D Sourav Sekhar Bera! Wish you all the best wishes for your next stay at RWTH Aachen, Germany.

 

September 2020

Group welcomes our new Ph.D students Abhisek, Arpita & Susanta !!!!

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August 2020

Congratulations to  Hari and Raja for publishing their paper on Catalyst Cooperativity for Bromocyclization, and Bromination of (Hetero)aromatics in Chemical Communications !!! 

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August 2020

MSM Lab is on Twitter and the account is handled by our students. Check out our latest tweets & follow us from @msm_lab.

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August 2020

Congratulations to MSM for being received the Faculty Excellence Award 2020 !!! Thanks to all of you for great efforts and passion for chemistry.

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August 2020

Congratulations to  Raja, Sourav, Suchand and Abhisek for publishing the review on Recent Progress in the C–N Bond Formation via High-Valent Group 9 metal-Catalyzed C–H Activation in Asian journal of organic chemistry !!!

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August 2020

Congratulations to  Hari for publishing the review on Synthesis of Heterocycles by Isothiourea Organocatalysis in Journal of Hetrocyclic Chemistry !!!

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July 2020

We welcome our new Masters Students Dhananjoy & Amit.

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March 2020

Congratulations to  Sourav for publishing his work on Co(III)-catalyzed C–H Amidation and Alkylation in Organic letters !!!

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March 2020

MSM delivered a lecture at International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC 2020) held at Goa, India

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February 2020

Congratulations to Shuvendu  for publishing his work on synthesis of tetrahydro benzo[c]carbazoles in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

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November 2019

Congratulations to Samrat and Ankush for publishing their work on Brønsted acid-catalyzed α-(3-Indolyl) ketone synthesis in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

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November 2019

Congratulations to Md Raja for publishing his Cobalt(III)-catalyzed ketone-directed C-H vinylation work in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.

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September 2019

Our recent work on Functionalization of Indoles via Brønsted Acid Catalysis is highlighted in Synfacts 2019, 15, 1114

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August 2019

MSM delivered a lecture on "Invention of New Reactions for the Synthesis of Indole and Carbazole Based Alkaloids" at Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha

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August 2019

Congratulations MSM for being promoted to Associate Professor. Thanks all for your valuable contributions and commitments to chemistry.

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August 2019

Congratulations to Samrat, Avijit, Mahadeb, and Sudip for publishing their work on Pyrrole-alkenylation in the European Journal of Organic Chemistry!

 

July 2019

Congratulations to Ankush for publishing his work on the functionalization of indoles via Brønsted Acid catalysis in Chemistry-A European Journal. "Invited for cover picture & Selected as hot paper"

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May 2019

MSM delivered a lecture on "Sequential Brønsted Acid/Base Catalyzed Domino C3-Alkenylation of Indoles and Pyrrole: A One-Pot Access to Carbazoles and Carbazole Alkaloids" at Department of Chemistry, Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

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April 2019

Congratulations to Suvankar, Md Raja and Biswabrata for publishing their work on "On Water Cp*Ir(III)-Catalyzed C–H Functionalization for the Synthesis of Chromones through Annulation of Salicylaldehydes with Diazo-Ketones" in The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

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12th March 2019

Suvankar successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled to "Transition-metal-catalyzed external oxidant free C-C and C-N bond formation". Congratulation to Dr. Suvankar !!! 

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March 2019

Congrats Shuvendu for being awarded as first position holder in Flash Poster Presentation at IC-CBSDD-2019 held at Berhampur University, Odisha, India

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March 2019

MSM delivered a lecture at International Conference on Chemical & Biological Sciences in Drug Discovery-2019 (IC-CBSDD-2019) held at Berhampur University, Odisha, India

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February 2019

Welcome to our new Post Doc. Dr. Suchand Basuli

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January 2019

Congratulations to Suvankar & Sourav for publishing their work on Rh(III)-catalyzed synthesis of (Z)-selective enamides on Organic letters.

 

December 2018

MSM delivered a lecture at International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC 2018) held at Goa, India

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December 2018

Congratulation to Ankush, Avishek, Shuvendu, and Anushree for publishing their work on [4+2] benzannulation of 2-alkenyl indoles with aldehydes in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry !!!

 

December 2018

MSM delivered a lecture at Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS 2018) held at IIT Guwahati

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November 2018

Congratulation to Sourav and Raja for publishing their work on Co and Rh- catalyzed ketone-directed C-H Amidation of Arenes in Chemistry-A European Journal !!! "Invited for cover picture & Selected as hot paper"

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October 2018

Congratulations to Raja and Sourav for publishing their work on Co-catalyzed ketone-directed alkenylation in. Adv. Synth. Catal !!!

 

October 2018

Congratulations to Shuvendu and Ankush for publishing their work on carbazoles & indolocarbazoles in. Org. Lett. !!!

 

October 2018

Congratulations to Samrat and Beauty for publishing their work on hapalindoles in. Org. Lett. !!!

 

July 2018

Group welcomes our new Ph.D students Ganesh & Minakshi !!!!

 

June 2018

The inside cover picture in Adv. Synth. Catal. designed by Samrat Kundu and Sourav has been accepted. Congrats!!!!

 

May 2018

We welcome our new Masters Students Mahadeb & Biswabrata.

 

May 2018

Congratulations to Avijit for securing PhD position in the ''Technische Universität Berlin''.

Congratulations to Sripati  for securing PhD position in the ''RWTH Aachen University''.

Congratulations to Sudip  for securing PhD position in the ''University of Münster''.

 

May 2018

Sourav's manuscript on '' Cobalt(III)‐Catalyzed Construction of Benzofurans, Benzofuranones and One‐Pot Orthogonal C−H Functionalizations to Access Polysubstituted Benzofurans'' is accepted for publication in Adv. Synth. Catal. Congrats!!!!

 

March 2018

Congrats Raja for being awarded as outstanding poster presenter on  'Ketone-Directed Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C–H Allylation on Arenes and Indoles' in National  Symposium on 'Emerging Trends in Chemical Science', 2018, Calcutta University.

 

December 2017

MSM delivered a talk at the conference ''CFOS-17'' at IIT Roorkee

 

December 2017

Raja and Sourav's manuscript on '' Weakly Coordinating Ketone-Directed Cp*Co(III)-Catalyzed C–H Allylation on Arenes and Indoles'' is accepted for publication in Org. Lett. Congrats!!!!

 

December 2017

MSM attended a three days Indo-US Bilateral Workshop on “Organometallic Chemistry: From Fundamentals to Applications” held at Rhythm Lonavla. 

 

November 2017

MSM delivered a talk as an invited speaker at the conference “Material Chemistry for Better Tomorrow 2017'' organized by Asutosh College, Kolkata.  

 

July 2017

Welcome to our new graduate students Arya and Samrat Kundu. 

 

March 2017

Congrats!!!! Ankush and Samrat for publishing their manuscript in Adv. Synth. Catal.

 

MSM delivered a talk as invited speaker in the international conference 'ICRTCBSMNPDD-2017' entitled as 'Sequential Brønsted Acid/Base Catalyzed Domino C3-Alkenylation of Indoles: A One-Pot Access to Carbazoles and Carbazole Alkaloids'

 

February 2017

MSM delivered a talk as invited speaker in the conference 'Organic Molecules: Synthesis and Applications'

 

January 2017

Congrats!!!! Samrat and Ankush for publishing their first manuscript in Org. Lett. 

 

December 2016

Congrats!!!! Sourav and Suvankar for getting their second manuscript accepted in J. Org. Chem.

 

December 2016

Samrat and Ankush presented two posters at the international conference 'ICOS-21'' organized by IIT Bombay.

 

We welcome our winter project students Sudip and Sripati.

 

November 2016

Congrats!!!! Suvankar and Sourav for publishing the first manuscript of our Group in J. Org. Chem.

 

July 2016 

We welcome our new PhD student Haripriyo, Raja, and Shuvendu.   

 

June 2016 

Ananya, Tanumay, and Ritesh joined the group for MSc thesis work.

 

May 2015 

Swagata Paul from NIT Jamshedpur joined the group as visiting summer student.

 

February 2016 

Congratulations to Avick for securing PhD position in the ''Texas A&M University''

Congratulations to Anushree  for securing PhD position in the ''University of Washington''

 

September 2015 

Our proposal has been accepted, and INR 50.00 Lakhs funding has been granted under SERB, DST, India.

 

June 2015 

Dr. Beauty Das Joins the group as Post Doc 

 

May 2015 

Avick and Anushree join the group for their master thesis work

Sunny Das from IIT Kanpur joins the group as visiting summer student

 

December 2014 

Sourav joins the group for his PhD thesis work

 

July 2014 

We welcome our new group members Ankush, Samrat, and Suvankar