Dr. Nanda Dulal Paul, originally from Kamakhyaguri, after completing his schooling from Kamakhyaguri High School, passed B. Sc, with Chemistry (Hons.) from St. Xaviers College, Kolkata in 2005 and completed his M.Sc. in chemistry with Inorganic Chemistry specialization in 2007 from the University of Calcutta. He did his Ph.D. at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, IACS, Kolkata under the supervision of Professor Sreebrata Goswami from 2007-2012. In July 2012 he moved to the van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands as an ERC funded scientific researcher. Before completing his tenure as a scientific researcher at HIMS with Prof. Bas de Bruin, he was offered the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIEST, Shibpur in November 2013. Since January 2014, he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, IIEST. He is married to Sutanuva and has two little sons Navayan and Suvayan.
- Scientific Researcher, Van't Hoff Institute of Molecular Science, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2012-Dec 2013. (With Professor Bas de Bruin)
- Ph. D. in Science, IACS (Jadavpur University), Kolkata, India, 2012 (Advisor: Professor Sreebrata Goswami)
- M. Sc. University of Calcutta, 2007
- B. Sc., St. Xavier's College, Calcutta University, 2005
Synthesis of new ligands and catalysts, Homogeneous and Bio-inspired catalysis, Spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, DFT, New redox non-innocent ligand design, Synthesis of new catalysts featuring cheap and earth abundant transition metal ions, Development of alternative approaches in homogeneous catalysis using ligand centered redox events, Metal catalyzed C-H functionalization/activation, Dehydrogenation and cross dehydrogenative coupling, Photo catalytic reactions.
Group Homepage: https://ndpaul.wixsite.com/icndp
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Siuli Das, Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Guin, Abhishek Das, and Nanda D. Paul, Zinc Stabilized Azo-anion Radical in Dehydrogenative Synthesis of N-Heterocycles. An Exclusively Ligand Centered Redox Controlled Approach, XX, XX, ACS Catal (https://doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.1c00275), 2021
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Rina Sikari, Gargi Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Guin, and Nanda D. Paul, Nickel-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Annulation of Nitriles and Benzylamines by C-H/N-H Activation, 86, 279, J. Org. Chem., 2021
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Suman Sinha, Siuli Das, Rakesh Mondal, Sutanuva Mandal, and Nanda D. Paul, Cobalt Complexes of Redox Noninnocent Azo-aromatic Pincers. Isolation, Characterization, and Application as Catalyst for the Synthesis of Quinazolin-4(3H)-ones, 49, 8448, Dalton Trans, 2020
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Gargi Chakraborty, Rina Sikari, Rakesh Mondal, Sutanuva Mandal, and Nanda D. Paul, Nickel Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyrimidines via Dehydrogenative Functionalization of Alcohols, 9, 431, A. J. Org. Chem., 2020
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Rakesh Mondal, Suman Sinha, Siuli Das, Gargi Chakraborty, and Nanda D. Paul*, Iron Catalyzed Synthesis of Pyrimidines Under Air, DOI 10.1002/adsc.201901172, Adv. Synth. & Catal., 2019
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Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakrabortya, Kaj M.van Vliet, Nicolaas P. van Leest, Bas de Bruin, Nanda D.Paul*, Copper-catalyzed oxidative dehydrogenative functionalization of alkanes to allylic esters, 490, 163-173, Inorg. Chim. Acta (Invited article on the occasion of 60th birth anniversary of Prof. G. K. Lahiri), 2019
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Siuli Das, Suman Sinha, Deepannita Samanta, Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakraborty, Paula Brandaõ, Nanda D. Paul*, Metal–Ligand Cooperative Approach To Achieve Dehydrogenative Functionalization of Alcohols to Quinolines and Quinazolin-4(3H)-ones under Mild Aerobic Conditions, 84, 10160-10171, J. Org. Chem., 2019
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Rina Sikari, Suman Sinha, Siuli Das, Anannya Saha, Gargi Chakraborty, Rakesh Mondal, Nanda D. Paul*, Achieving Nickel Catalyzed C–S Cross-Coupling under Mild Conditions Using Metal–Ligand Cooperativity, 84, 4072-4085, J. Org. Chem., 2019
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Suman Sinha, Rina Sikari, Vivek Sinha, Upasona Jash, Siuli Das, Paula Brandão, Serhiy Demeshko, Franc Meyer, Bas de Bruin and Nanda D. Paul*, Iron-Catalyzed/Mediated C-N Bond Formation: Competition Between Substrate Amination vs. Ligand Amination, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 2019
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Gargi Chakraborty, Rina Sikari, Siuli Das, Rakesh Mondal, Suman Sinha, Seemika Banerjee and Nanda D. Paul, Dehydrogenative Synthesis of Quinolines, 2-Aminoquinolines and Quinazolines using Singlet Di-radical Ni(II)-Catalysts, J. Org. Chem. 2019, 2019