Sumit Khanra

Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences (DCS)
E-mail: sumit.khanra [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
Transition Metal Complexes with Redox-Active "Noninnocent Ligand": Electronic Structure, Chemical Transformation and catalysis. C-H Bond activation coupled with dioxygen activation with such transition metal complexes. Synthesis, Electronic spectroscopy, Vibrational spectroscopy,NMR spectroscopy, EPR Spectroscopy, single crystal X-ray structure, magnetic charcterization, XPS.Polynuclear transition metal complexes.
Academic Background:
- Ph.D in Chemical Sciences (Chemical Sciences), MPI, Germany (Max-Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry), 2005
Positions:
- Professor, IISER Kolkata (current)
- Associate Professor, IISER KOLKATA (2015 - 2024)
- Assistant Professor, IISER KOLKATA (2009 - 2015)