Organometallic chemistry and its application in catalysis, new drug development and material chemistry
Academic Background
PhD (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, 2002
MSc (Chemistry), University of Kalyani, 1996, Secured first rank in University
BSc (Chemistry), University of Kalyani, 1993, Secured 3rd Rank in University
Positions
Professor, IISER Kolkata ( - )
Associate Professor, IISER Kolkata (2013 - 2014)
Assistant Professor, IISER Kolkata (2007 - 2013)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Goettingen (2006 - 2007)
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Riverside (2002 - 2005)
Awards and Honors
SKM delivers Physics Colloquium from University of Greifswald, Germany (2016)
Honor from ACS (2014)
Honor from ACS (2013)
YIM Boston Young Scientist Award from YIM Boston at MIT, USA (2012)
Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship from Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (2005)
Selected Publications
Selected Publications:
Ahmed, J.; Prasannan, S.; Vijaykumar, G.; Jose, A.; Raj, M. and Mandal, S. K.. 2017."A new face of phenalenyl-based radicals in the transition metal-free C–H arylation of heteroarenes at room temperature: trapping the radical initiator via C–C ?-bond formation." Chem. Sci., ,
Mukherjee, A.; Sau, S. C. and Mandal, S. K,. 2017."Exploring Closed-Shell Cationic Phenalenyl: From Catalysis to Spin Electronics." Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 1679-1691
Sau, Samaresh Chandra; Bhattacharjee, R.; Vardhanapu, Pavan Kumar; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Datta, A. and Mandal, Swadhin Kumar. 2016."Metal Free Reduction of CO2 to Methoxyborane Under Ambient Conditions through Borondiformate Formation." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 15147
Paira, Rupankar; Singh, Bhagat; Hota, Pradip K; Ahmed, Jasimuddin; Sau, Samaresh Ch; Jhonpeter, Justin and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2016."Phenalenyl Based Radical in Transition Metal Free Catalytic C-H Functionalization." J. Org. Chem., 81, 2432–2441
Paryar, Anand; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Dey, Suman Kr.; Singh, Santosh K; Kurongot, Shreekumar and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2015."Switching Closed-Shell to Open-Shell Phenalenyl: Toward Designing Electroactive Materials." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 5955-5960
All Publications:
Ahmed, J.; Prasannan, S.; Vijaykumar, G.; Jose, A.; Raj, M. and Mandal, S. K.. 2017."A new face of phenalenyl-based radicals in the transition metal-free C–H arylation of heteroarenes at room temperature: trapping the radical initiator via C–C ?-bond formation." Chem. Sci., ,
Mukherjee, A.; Sau, S. C. and Mandal, S. K,. 2017."Exploring Closed-Shell Cationic Phenalenyl: From Catalysis to Spin Electronics." Acc. Chem. Res., 50, 1679-1691
2017."Direct C-H Arylation of Heteroarenes with Aryl Chlorides using Abnormal NHC Coordinated Palladium Catalyst, J. Ahmed, S. C. Sau, S. Prasannan, P. K. Hota, P. K. Vardhanapu, G. Vijaykumar and S. K. Mandal." Eur. J. Org. Chem., 5, 1004-1011
2017."Development of an antibody-drug conjugate platform using platinum as a linker, N. Gupta, J. Kancharla, S. Kaushik, A. Ansari, S. Hossain, R. Goyal, M. Pandey, J. Sivaccumar, S. Hussain, A. Sarkar, A. Sengupta, S. K. Mandal, M Roy, S. Sengupta." Chem. Sci., 8, 2387-2395
Sau, Samaresh Chandra; Bhattacharjee, R.; Vardhanapu, Pavan Kumar; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Datta, A. and Mandal, Swadhin Kumar. 2016."Metal Free Reduction of CO2 to Methoxyborane Under Ambient Conditions through Borondiformate Formation." Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 55, 15147
Bhunia, Mrinal; Hota, Pradip Kumar; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Adhikari, Debasish and Mandal, Swadhin Kumar. 2016."A Highly Efficient Catalyst for Selective Reduction of Imines to Amines: An Abnormal-NHC?Fe(0) Complex in Reduction Chemistry." Organometallics, 35, 2930-2937
Thakur, Arunabha; Vardhanapu, Pavan K; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Hota, Pradip Kr and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2016."Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Mediated Capture of CO2, N2O and Activation of Small Molecules Under Ambient Condition." Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. , 2016, 913–920
Paira, Rupankar; Singh, Bhagat; Hota, Pradip K; Ahmed, Jasimuddin; Sau, Samaresh Ch; Jhonpeter, Justin and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2016."Phenalenyl Based Radical in Transition Metal Free Catalytic C-H Functionalization." J. Org. Chem., 81, 2432–2441
Vijaykumar, Gonela and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2016."An Abnormal N-heterocyclic Carbene Nickel Catalyst for Reduction of Nitroarenes." Dalton Trans., 45, 7421-7426
Mukherjee, Arup; Sen, Tamal K; Baskaran, S; Sivasankar, C and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2015."Hydrolysis of An Organozirconium Complex: The First Polyoxometallic Heptanuclear Zirconium Oxide." J. Organomet. Chem, 775, 76-79
Paryar, Anand; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Dey, Suman Kr.; Singh, Santosh K; Kurongot, Shreekumar and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2015."Switching Closed-Shell to Open-Shell Phenalenyl: Toward Designing Electroactive Materials." J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137, 5955-5960
Hota, Pradip K; Vijaykumar, Gonela; Paryar, Anand; Sau, Samaresh Ch; Sen, Tamal K and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2015."An Abnormal NHC Based Palladium Dimer: Aqueous Oxidative Heck Coupling Under Ambient Temperature ." Adv. Synth. Catalysis , 357, 3162-3170
Sau, Samaresh Ch; Roy, Sudipta Raha and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2014."Integrating Organometallic Catalysis with Organocatalysis: A Consecutive Catalytic Approach in One-Pot." Chemistry Asian Journal, 9, 2806-2813
Mukherjee, Arup; Samuel, Prinson P; Schulzke, Carola and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2014."Main Group Chemistry of 9-Hydroxophenalenone: Syntheses and Structural Characterization of the Alkaline Earth and Zinc Complexes." J. Chem. Sci. , 126, 1581-1588
Roy, Sudipta Raha; Sau, Samaresh Ch. and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2014."Chemoselective Reduction of the Carbonyl Functionality through Hydrosilylation: Integrating Click Reaction with Hydrosilylation in One Pot ." J. Org. Chem., 79, 9150-9160.
Roy, Sudipta Raha; Nijamuddin, A; Paryar, Anand; Vardhanapu, Pavan; Ghosh, Anup; Mandal, Prasun K; Datta, Ayan and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2014."Phenalenyl in Different Role: Catalytic Activation through the Nonbonding Molecular Orbita." ACS Catalysis , 4, 4307–4319
Santra, Subhankar; Hota, Pradip K; Bhattacharyya, Rangeet; Bera, Parthasarathi; Ghosh, Prasenjit and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2013."Palladium Nanoparticles on Graphite Oxide: Highly Recyclable Catalyst for the Synthesis Biaryl Cores." ACS Catalysis, 3 , 2776?2789
Mukherjee, Arup; Sen, Tamal K; Ghorai, Pradip K and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2013."Organozinc Catalyst on Phenalenyl Scaffold for Intramolecular Hydroamination of Aminoalkenes." Organometallics, 32, 7213–7224
Sen, T K; Sau, S C; Mukherjee, A; Hota, P; Mandal, S K; Maity, D and Koley, D. 2013."Abnormal N-heterocyclic Carbene Main Group Organometallic Chemistry: A Debut to the Homogenous Catalysis." Dalton Trans., 42, 14253 -260
Sau, S C; Roy, S R; Sen, T K; Mullangi, D and Mandal, S K. 2013."An Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Copper(I) Complex in Versatile Click Chemistry." Adv. Synth. Cat., 355, 2982-2991
Mukherjee, A; Sen, T K; Ghorai, P K and Mandal, S K. 2013."The Non-innocent Phenalenyl Unit: An Electronic Nest to Modulate the Catalytic Activity in Hydroamination Reaction." Scientific Reports, 3, 2821
Santra, S; Hota, P K; Bhattacharyya, R; Bera, P; Ghosh, P and Mandal, S K. 2013."Palladium Nanoparticles on Graphite Oxide: Highly Recyclable Catalyst for the Synthesis Biaryl Cores." ACS Catalysis, 3, 2776-2789
Mukherjee, A; Sen, T K; Ghorai, P K and Mandal, S K. 2013."Organozinc Catalyst on Phenalenyl Scaffold for Intramolecular Hydroamination of Aminoalkenes." Organometallics, 32, 7213-7224
Patra, A; Sen, T K; Musie, G T; Mandal, S K and Bera, M. 2013." “A novel copper(II) coordination polymer with carboxylate and isoindol backbones of a bifunctional ligand" 2013, 1047, 317-323. ." J. Mol. Struc., 1047, 317-323
Chakraborty, T; Sen, T K; Singh, H; Das, D; Mandal, S K and Mitra, C. 2013.""Experimental Realization of Thermal Entanglement in a Molecular chain" ." J. Appl. Phys. , 114, 144904
Raman, Karthik V; Kamerbeek, Alexander M.; Mukherjee, Arup; Atodiresei, Nicolae; Sen, Tamal K; Lazic, Predrag; Caciuc, Vasile; Michel, Reent; Stalke, Dietmar; Mandal, Swadhin K; Bluegel, Stephan; Muenzenberg, Markus and Moodera, Jagadeesh. 2013."Interface-engineered templates for molecular spin memory devices." Nature, 493, 509-513
Sen, Tamal K; Mukherjee, Arup; Modak, Arghya; Mandal, Swadhin K and Koley, Debasis. 2013."Substitution Effect on Phenalenyl Backbone in the Rate of Organozinc Catalyzed ROP of Cyclic Esters." Dalton Trans., 42, 1893-1904
Patra, Ayan; Sen, Tamal K.; Ghorai, Atanu; Musie, Ghezai T.; Mandal, Swadhin K.; Ghosh, Utpal and Bera, Manindranath. 2013."Synthesis, Structure, Spectroscopic Characterization and Protein Binding Affinity of New Water Soluble Hetero- and Homometallic Tetranuclear [CuII2ZnII2] and [CuII4] Clusters." Inorganic Chemistry, 52, 2880?2890
Mukherjee, Arup; Sen, Tamal K; Mandal, Swadhin K; Maity, Bholanath and Koley, Debasis. 2013."Construction of Oxygen-bridged Multimetallic Assembly: Dual Catalysts for Hydroamination Reactions." RSC Advances, 3, 1255–1264
Dey, Suman K; Honecker, Andreas; Mitra, Partha; Mandal, Swadhin K. and Mukherjee, Arindam. 2012."Magneto-structural studies of tetranuclear manganese [MnIII2MnII2] complexes of 9-hydroxy phenalenone with weak ?-? interactions." Eur. J. Inorg. Chem, XX, 5814-5824
Chakraborty, Tanmoy; Sen, Tamal K; Singh, Harkirat; Das, Diptaranjan; Mandal, Swadhin K. and Mitra, Chiranjib. 2012."Comparative study of magnetic behaviour in three classic molecular magnets." Solid State Commun, 152, 1945-1950
Mukherjee, Arup; Sen, Tamal K.; Ghorai, Pradip Kr.; Samuel, Prinson P.; Schulzke, Carola and Mandal, Swadhin K. 2012."Phenalenyl-Based Organozinc Catalysts for Intramolecular Hydroamination Reactions: A Combined Catalytic, Kinetic, and Mechanistic Investigation of the Catalytic Cycle." Chemistry -A European Journal, 18, 10530-545
Santra, Subhankar; Ranjan, Priyadarshi; Bera, Parthasarathi; Ghosh, Prasenjit and Mandal, Swadhin K.. 2012."Anchored palladium nanoparticles onto single walled carbon nanotubes: Recyclable heterogeneous nanocatalyst in the synthesis of N-containing heterocycles via copper free acyl Sonogashira reaction." RSC Advances, 2, 7523–7533
Sen, Tamal K; Mukherjee, Arup; Modak, Arghya; Ghorai, Pradip Kr.; Kratzert, Daniel; Granitzka, Markus; Stalke, Dietmar and Mandal, Swadhin K.. 2012."Phenalenyl Based Molecules: Tuning the Lowest Unoccupied Molecular Orbital to Design Catalyst." Chemistry A European Journal, 18, 54-58
Sau, Samaresh Chandra; Santra, Subhankar; Sen, Tamal K; Mandal, Swadhin K and Koley, Debasis. 2012."Abnormal N-Heterocyclic Carbene Palladium Complex: Living Catalyst for Activation of Aryl Chlorides in Suzuki–Miyaura Cross Coupling." Chemical Communications, 48, 555-557
Patra, Ayan; Sen, Tamal K; Bhattacharyya, Rangeet; Mandal, Swadhin K and Bera, Manindranath. 2012."Diversity of carboxylate binding in an unusual tetranuclear zinc cluster: Correlation between spectroscopic investigations ." RSC Advances, 2, 1774-1777
Mandal, Swadhin K and Roesky, Herbert W. 2012."Group 14 Hydrides with Low-Valent Elements for Small Molecules Activation." Accounts of Chemical Research, 45, 298-307
