Group News
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 !!!
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 !!!!
August 2020
Congratulations to Hari and Raja for publishing their paper on Catalyst Cooperativity for Bromocyclization, and Bromination of (Hetero)aromatics in Chemical Communications !!!
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.
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.
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 !!!
August 2020
Congratulations to Hari for publishing the review on Synthesis of Heterocycles by Isothiourea Organocatalysis in Journal of Hetrocyclic Chemistry !!!
July 2020
We welcome our new Masters Students Dhananjoy & Amit.
March 2020
Congratulations to Sourav for publishing his work on Co(III)-catalyzed C–H Amidation and Alkylation in Organic letters !!!
March 2020
MSM delivered a lecture at International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC 2020) held at Goa, India
February 2020
Congratulations to Shuvendu for publishing his work on synthesis of tetrahydro benzo[c]carbazoles in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.
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.
November 2019
Congratulations to Md Raja for publishing his Cobalt(III)-catalyzed ketone-directed C-H vinylation work in Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
September 2019
Our recent work on Functionalization of Indoles via Brønsted Acid Catalysis is highlighted in Synfacts 2019, 15, 1114
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
August 2019
Congratulations MSM for being promoted to Associate Professor. Thanks all for your valuable contributions and commitments to chemistry.
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"
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
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.
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 !!!
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
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
February 2019
Welcome to our new Post Doc. Dr. Suchand Basuli
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
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
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"
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