Suman De Sarkar
Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: sds [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
• Transition Metal Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation and Co-operative Catalysis• Photoredox Catalysis• Organic Electrochemistry
Academic Background:
- PhD (Organic Chemistry), Organic Chemistry Institute (Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster, Germany), 2010
- MSc (Chemistry), IIT Kanpur, 2007
- BSc (Chemistry), Vivekananda College (University of Calcutta), 2005
Positions:
- Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
- Assitant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2015 - 2019)
- Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, Georg-August-University, Goettingen, Germany (2013 - 2015)
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland (2011 - 2013)
Awards and Honors:
- DSM Science & Technology Award, Netherlands from DSM (2011)
- D. C. Mukherjee Gold Medal award from Vivekananda College, Kolkata, India (2005)
Selected Publications:
- Das, Sanju; Maiti, Debabrata and De Sarkar, Suman. 2018."Synthesis of Polysubstituted Quinolines from Alpha - 2-Aminoaryl Alcohols Via Nickel-catalyzed Dehydrogenative Coupling." J. Org. Chem., 83, 00
- Dey, Soumen and De Sarkar, Suman. 2017."Synthetic Applications of Vinyl Ruthenium Carbene Derived from Diazoalkanes and Alkynes." Adv. Synth. Catal., 359, 2709
- De Sarkar, Suman. 2016."Remote C-H Functionalization by a Palladium - Catalyzed Transannular Approach." Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 55, 10558
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