May 2024: Sukalyan was awarded as a Best Reviewer-2023 by RSC- Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Many congratulations to him!

 

April 2024: Sukalyan was promoted to Principal Scientist. Many congratulations to him!

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March 2024: Anil joined our group as a Dissertation Student. Welcome to the group.

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February 2024: Ajijur has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations to Ajijur!

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January 2024: Vimal joined our group as a Dissertation Student. Welcome to the group.

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January 2024: Anupam was selected as CSIR-SRF. Congratulations to him!

 

January 2024: Upendra joined our group as a Project Associate-I. Welcome to the group.

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December 2023: Ajijur received the prestigious JSPS fellowship and he will join the Shibasaki Group at The Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Tokyo, Japan. Many congratulations to him!

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December 2023: Anupam Best Oral Presentation Award in Gujarat Research Scholars' Connect, 2023 held at the CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, Gujarat on 7th-8th December, 23. Congratulations to him!

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December 2023: Shivali and Nehal joined our group as Dissertation Students. Welcome to the group.

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October 2023: Ajijur's thesis entitled "Development of Catalytic Procedures for the Synthesis of Useful Fine Chemicals by using Carboxylic Acids and/or Their Equivalents as Substrates" has been submitted to AcSIR. Congratulations to him!

 

October 2023: Aniket and Ajijur's review paper on "Bioinspired Functionalization of Carbonyl Compounds Enabled by Metal Chelated Bifunctional Ligands" got published in Chemistry- a European Journal. Congratulations to them!

 

September 2023: Rupali was promoted to SRF. Congratulations to her!

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August 2023: Anupam and Shivani's recent work on "Catalytic cascade synthesis of cyanohydrin esters via water/O2-induced cyanide transfer from K3Fe(CN)6" was published in Chemical Communications. Congratulations to them!

 

August 2023: A collaborative research work on "Exploring Amine-rich Supramolecular Silver(I)-Metallogels for Autonomous Self-healing and as Catalysts for Three Component Coupling Reaction" published in Dalton Transactions. Congratulations to Ajijur!

 

July 2023: Ajijur's research article on "Copper catalyzed Construction of Amide Linkages via Coupling between Unactivated Acids and Amides" got published in Synlett. Congratulations to him!

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July 2023: Ajijur, and Shivani's review paper on "Recent advances in catalytic decarboxylative transformations of carboxylic acid groups attached to a non-aromatic sp2 or sp carbon" published in Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. Congratulations to them!

 

March 2023: Article of Anupam, Rupali, and Jogendra on the topic "Functionalization of alkyl groups adjacent to azoles: Application to the synthesis of alpha-functionalized carboxylic acids" published in Synlett. Congratulations to all. This review article published in "Special Issue Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis in India" has been selected for the journal's cover page.

 

March 2023: Sukalyan was invited for a talk at International Symposium, Dibrugarh University (RAMCC 2023).

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February 2023: Anupam and Rupali secured First position in Oral Presentation and Poster Presentation respectively, held at the 8th All Gujarat Research Scholars' Meet AGRSM-VIII. Congratulations to them!

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February 2023: Ajijur and Anupam delivered an Oral presentation while Rupali showcased her work through a Poster Presentation, held at the "8th All Gujarat Research Scholars' Meet AGRSM-VIII" organized by the Indian Chemical Society and Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.

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February 2023: S ukalyan received an invitation to serve as an adjudicator and delivered an invited lecture at the "8th All Gujarat Research Scholars' Meet AGRSM-VIII" organized by the Indian Chemical Society and Dept. of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara.

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February 2023: Ajijur presented a poster at the 30th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry and the 16th CRSI-RSC Joint Symposium Series in Chemistry organized by JNU, New Delhi.

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January 2023: S ukalyan visited BITS Pilani and delivered an invited lecture.

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January 2023: S ukalyan visited IICT Hyderabad and delivered an invited lecture.

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January 2023: Ajijur and Rupali's recent work on propargyl amine synthesis was published in The Journal of Organic Chemistry. Congratulations to all!

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January 2023: S ukalyan has received the prestigious Thieme Chemistry Journal award for 2023. Congratulations to him!

 

January 2023: Tapan joined our group as a dissertation student for four months. Welcome Tapan.

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December 2022: Sanyami and Deep have joined our group for a dissertation course for two months. Welcome Sanyami and Deep.

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December 2022: Anupam presented a poster at the 59th Annual Convention of Chemists "Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences- 2022” organized by the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, IIT(ISM) Dhanbad, under the Aegis of Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata, India.

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December 2022: Sukalyan attained the 2nd Edition of Gujarat Chemical Conclave-Challenges & Way Forward organized by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

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December 2022: A new project entitled "Development of Catalytic α-Functionalization Strategies for Carboxylic Acid Equivalents: Application in Marine-Derived Bioactive Compounds" has been awarded under DST-CRG Scheme. Congratulations to all!

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November 2022: Jogendra joined as a post-doc fellow under the guidance of Dr. Lucas J. Goossen at Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. Congratulations to him!

 

October 2022: Ajijur, Aniket, and Jogendra's book chapter on “α-Functionalization of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acid Equivalents via direct C-H oxidation". In Handbook of CH-Functionalization (CHF) (Chapter 77), Ed: D. Maity, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, United Kingdom. Congratulations to all of them!

 

October 2022: Jogendra, Aniket, and Ajijur's book chapter on "Transition metal catalyzed C(sp3)-H bond functionalization adjacent to heterocycles". In Handbook of CH-Functionalization (CHF) (Chapter 15), Ed: D. Maity, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, United Kingdom. Congratulations to all of them! 

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September 2022: Aniket has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Aniket!

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August 2022: Jogendra has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Jogendra!

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August 2022: Anil Rajendra Paraskar has joined our group as a CSIR-JRF. Welcome Anil to our group.

 

July 2022: Anupam, Rupali and Jogendra's review paper on "Functionalization of alkyl groups adjacent to azoles: Application to the synthesis of alpha-functionalized carboxylic acids" published in Synlett. Congratulations to all. This review article has published in "Special Issue Chemical Synthesis and Catalysis in India".

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July 2022: Aniket, Anusuya, Ajijur and Jogendra's work on cooperativity between substrate and ligand has been published in Journal of Organic Chemistry. Many congratulations to them.

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July 2022: Shreedhar has been appointed as an Assistant Professor at KL (Deemed to be University), Guntur, Andhra Pradesh.

 

June 2022: Aniket has joined The University of Birmingham, England as a post-doc fellow for three years under the guidance of Dr. Paul Davies.

 

June 2022: Jogendra explored Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany for two weeks during the Research Explorer Ruhr (RER) Programme as a visiting scholar.

 

June 2022: Aniket's thesis entitled "Development of Novel Catalytic Approaches towards the Proximal-Selective Functionalization of Selected Organic Building Blocks" has been submitted to AcSIR. Congratulations to him.

 

May 2022: Jogendra has submitted his thesis entitled "Development of Catalytic Procedures for the Functionalization of Unactivated C–H Bonds by Heteroatom-Based Substituents". Congratulations to him.

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April 2022: Jogendra has been selected in the Research Explorer Ruhr (RER) Programme organized by Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany as a visiting scholar during June 2022.

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April 2022: Jogendra, Anupam and Aniket's work entitled "Enhancing the Extent of Enolization for α-C–H Bonds of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acid Equivalents via Ion Pair Catalysis: Application toward α-Chalcogenation" published in Journal of Organic Chemistry. Many congratulations to them.

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March 2022: Shivani has been awarded UGC-JRF June 2021.

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March 2022: Sukalyan Bhadra has been recognized as an outstanding reviewer for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry in 2021.

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March 2022: Shivani Singh Chauhan joined our group as a Project Associate-I.

 

March 2022: Aniket and Anupam have received second prize in Oral Presentation and first prize in Poster Presentation respectively in International Conference in Organic, Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry (ICOMP- 2022) organized by Navrachna University, Vadodara.

 

January 2022: Anupam and Jogendra's recent work on catalytic direct cyanomethylenation published in j. Org. Chem. Congratulations to Anupam and Jogendra.

 

December 2021: Ajijur won the RSC Advances Best Poster Presentation Prize at Recent Trends in Chemical Sciences- Organic & Bio-Chemistry (RTCS-OBC 2021) held between December 22-24, 2021.

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October 2021: Our collaboration work on perfumery chemicals has been published in Chemical Industry Digest.

 

August 2021: Rupali Dasharath Shinde joined our group as a UGC-JRF.

 

August 2021: Our review paper on "Functionalization of C(sp3)-H bonds adjacent to heterocycles catalyzed by earth abundant transition metals" just got accepted in Tetrahedron.

 

May 2021: Aniket and Sreedhar's new book chapter entitled "C(sp3)–H Bond Hetero-functionalization of Aliphatic Carboxylic Acid Equivalents Enabled by Transition Metals"  in: Pant K.K., Gupta S.K., Ahmad E. (eds) Catalysis for Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65017-9_13 is online now.

 

April 2021: Ajijur, Anupam and Aniket's work on N‐Acylation of cyclic amines by arylglyoxylic acids via radical‐radical cross‐coupling published in European Journal of Organic Chemistry. Many congratulations to them.

 

November 2020: An Indian Patent has been filed for our work on Camostat Mesylate intermediates.

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September 2020: Pruthviraj Sureshkumar Nai joined our group as a Project Associate-I. 

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September 2020: Ajijur was promoted to SRF.

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April 2020: Aniket was selected as one of the Ruhr University Bochum research Explore. Under this program he will get an opportunity to visit Ruhr University Bochum, Germany during Nov- Dec 2020.

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March 2020: Professor Lukas J. Goossen, Ruhr University Bochum and Professor Debasis Koley, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata visited our lab.

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March 2020: Sukalyan was invited for a talk at International Conference in Organometallics and Catalysis 2020 held at Goa.

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February 2020: Jogendra, Ajijur and Anupam’s Minireview on Direct heterofunctionalization of Aliphatic Carboxylic acid equivalents was accepted. Congratulations to all of them!!

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February 2020: Sreedhar left the group and started his career as a Research Scientist in SPRERI Anand. All the best Sreedhar!!

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January 2020: Anupam enrolled in AcSIR for PhD program.

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January 2020: Jogendra participated in the presentation competition on the “Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019” organized AcSIR, CSIR-CSMCRI Bhavnagar.

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November 2019: Aniket was promoted to SRF.

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November 2019: Aniket, Jogendra and Anupam participated in the one-day DST-ACS workshop held at CSIR-CSMCRI.

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August 2019: Professor Brindaban C. Ranu, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science Kolkata visited our Lab.

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July 2019: Aniket received the best poster award in NSCFC 2019. Congratulations Aniket!

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July 2019: Aniket, Sreedhar and Anupam presented posters, while Jogendra and Ajijur participated in “National Seminar on Catalysis for Fine Chemicals (NSCFC) – 2019” organized by CSIR-CSMCRI Bhavnagar.

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July 2019: Aniket and Ajijur’s work on Direct Chalogenation reaction was accepted in Organic Letters. Congratulations to Aniket and Ajijur.

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June 2019: Roshan and Naresh from Sikkim Manipal Institute of Technology (SMIT) have joined our lab for two months to pursue their MSc Dissertations.

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May 2019: Sukalyan and Sreedhar presented posters in 17th National Workshop on “Catalysis for Clean Energy and Sustainable Future” organized by Catalysis Society of India held at IIT Delhi.

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March 2019: Jogendra and Aniket’s work on C(sp3)–H-Methoxylation was published in Org. Biomol. Chem. Congratulations to Jogendra and Aniket.

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February 2019: Damini and Dikhsha from Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore have joined our lab for two months to pursue their MSc Dissertations.

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February 2019: Aniket presented a poster in 24th CRSI symposium jointly organized by CSIR-CLRI Chennai and IIT Madras. He received the ACS best poster award. Congratulations Aniket!

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January 2019: Ajijur enrolled in AcSIR for PhD program.

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January 2019: Jogendra promoted to UGC-SRF.

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December 2018: Jogendra presented a poster in Frontiers in Chemical Sciences (FICS)–2018 organized by IIT Guwahati.

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October 2018: Anupam joined as a project assistant and Sreedhar joined as a Research Associate in our group in an FTT Project.

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September 2018: Ajijur participated in the National Seminar in Organic Transformation and Catalysis (NSOTC-2018).

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September 2018: Aniket and Jogendra presented posters in National Seminar in Organic Transformations and Catalysis” (NSOTC-2018) organized by CSIR-CSMCRI Bhavnagar. Aniket received the best poster award. Congratulations Aniket!

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August 2018: Ajijur joined our group as a CSIR-JRF.

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August 2018: Aniket enrolled in AcSIR for PhD program.

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May 2018: Aniket and Jogendra’s work on Chelation-assisted dearyloxylative amination got accepted in Org. Biomol. Chem. Congratulations to Aniket and Jogendra.

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March 2018: Our review article entitled “Substrate Directed Asymmetric Reactions” was accepted in Chemical Review.