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 January 2014. Presently he holds the position of Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry. 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.
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Subhajit Chakraborty, Rakesh Mondal, Subhasree Pal, Amit Kumar Guin, Lisa Roy, and Nanda D. Paul, Zn(II)-Catalyzed Selective N?Alkylation of Amines with Alcohols Using Redox Noninnocent Azo-Aromatic Ligand as Electron and Hydrogen Reservoir, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c01773, J. Org. Chem., 2022
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Suman Sinha, Muhammed Sahad E, Rakesh Mondal, Siuli Das, Litty Thomas Manamel, Paula Brandão, Bas de Bruin, Bikas C. Das, and Nanda D. Paul, A Singlet-Diradical Co(III)-Dimer as Non-volatile Resistive Switching Device. Synthesis, Redox-Induced Interconversion and Current-Voltage Characteristics, 144, 20442–20451, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2022
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Gargi Chakraborty, Subhasree Pal, Subhajit Chakraborty and Nanda D. Paul, Nickel Catalyzed Sustainable and Selective Alkylation of Alcohols to ?-Alkylated Ketones via Borrowing Hydrogen Approach, DOI: 10.1055/a-1934-1056, Synlett (Invited Article, Special Issue on Chemistry and Catalysis in India), 2022
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Rakesh Mondal, Amit Kumar Guin, Subhasree Pal, Sucheta Mondal and Nanda D. Paul, Sustainable Synthesis of Pyrazoles using Alcohols as the Primary Feedstock by An Iron Catalyzed Tandem C–C and C–N Coupling Approach, 9, 5246-5258, Org. Chem. Front., 2022
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Amit Kumar Guin, Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakraborty, Subhasree Pal and Nanda D. Paul, Ruthenium Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Functionalization of Alcohols to Pyrroles. A Comparison between Metal-Ligand Cooperative and Non-Cooperative Approaches, 87, 7106–7123, J. Org. Chem., 2022
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Rakesh Mondal, Amit Kumar Guin, Subhajit Chakraborty and Nanda D Paul, Iron Catalyzed Metal-Ligand Cooperative Approach towards Sustainable Synthesis of Azines and N-Acylhydrazones in Air, 87, 2921–2934, J. Org. Chem., 2022
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Siuli Das, Rakesh Mondal, Amit Kumar Guin and Nanda D Paul, Ligand Centered Redox Enabled Sustainable Synthesis of Triazines and Pyrimidines Using A Zinc-Stabilized Azo-Anion Radical Catalyst, 20, 3105-3117, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2022
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Rakesh Mondal, Amit Kumar Guin, Gargi Chakraborty and Nanda D. Paul, Metal-Ligand Cooperative Approaches in Homogeneous Catalysis Using Transition Metal Complex Catalysts of Redox Noninnocent Ligands, 20, 296-328, Org. Biomol. Chem. (Invited Review Article), 2022
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Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Guin, Susmita Sarkar and Nanda D. Paul, Iron Catalyzed Alkyne-Based Multicomponent Synthesis of Pyrimidines under Air, 86, 13186–13197, J. Org. Chem., 2021
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Rakesh Mondal, Gargi Chakraborty, Amit Kumar Guin, Subhasree Pal and Nanda D. Paul, Iron Catalyzed Metal-Ligand Cooperative Approaches towards Sustainable Synthesis of Quinolines and Quinazolin-4(3H)-ones, 100, 132479, Tetrahedron (Invited article, special issue on sustainable catalysis), 2021