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  • "Highly Stereoselective Syntheses of Proline Derived Vicinal Amino Alcohols via Grignard Addition onto N-Tosylprolinal" Saikat Chaudhuri, Amarchand Parida, Santanu Ghosh, and Alakesh Bisai* Synlett 2016, 27, 215-220. (DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1560802) which is qualified for the best paper award competition by editor!

  • "Oxidative Dimerization of 2-Oxindoles Promoted by KOtBu-I2: Total Synthesis of Folicanthine" Santanu Ghosh, Saikat Chaudhuri, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 1373-1376. ( DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b00032), which is a most downloaded article!

  • "Unified Approach to the Spiro(pyrrolidinyl-oxindole) and Hexahydropyrrolo[2,3-b]indole Alkaloids: Total Syntheses of Pseudophrynamines 270 and 272A" (Subhadip De, Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 5922-5925.(DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.5b03082) Highlighted in 'Organic Chemistry Portal' as 'The Bisai Synthesis of (-)-Physovenine'.

  • "Concise Total Syntheses of mesembrane and crinane" Mrinal Kanti Das, Subhadip De, Shubhashish, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2015, 13, 3585-3588. (DOI: 10.1039/C5OB00183H), which is a most downloaded article!

  • "Enantioselective Construction of Vicinal All-Carbon Quaternary Centers via Catalytic Double Asymmetric Decarboxylative Allylation" Santanu Ghosh, Subhajit Bhunia, Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhadip De, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 2434-2437 (DOI: 10.1039/C3CC49064E), which is a most downloaded article!

  • ''Intramolecular Dehydrogenative Coupling of sp2 C-H and sp3 C-H Bonds: An Expeditious Route to 2-Oxindoles''  Santanu Ghosh, Subhadip De, Badrinath N. Kakde, Subhajit Bhunia, Amit Adhikary, and Alakesh Bisai* Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5864-5867. (DOI: 10.1021/ol302767w). Highlighted as one of the 5 Most-Read Article in December 2012; ChemInform Volume 44, Issue 17, Date: April 23, 2013.

  • ''Lewis-Acid Catalyzed Friedel-Crafts Alkylations of 3-Hydroxy-2-oxindoles: An Efficient Approach to the Core Structure of Azonazine'' Santanu Ghosh, Lakshmana K. Kinthada, Subhajit Bhunia, and Alakesh Bisai* Chem. Commun. 2012, 10132-10134. (DOI: 10.1039/C2CC35283D). Highlighted in ChemInform Volume 44, Issue 14, Date: April 2, 2013.

  • Oct. 18, 2024: Mr. Sovan Niyogi’s research on the total synthesis of (+)-Dixiamycin C has been featured as a front cover page in Organic Letters, Issue 41 [Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 8643-8974]



  • Aug 05, 2024: Mr. Ranjit Murmu’s research on the total synthesis of oridamycins A and B has been featured as an inside cover page in Chemical Communications, Issue 72 [Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 9737–9740]



  • Feb 25, 2024: Congratulations to Souvik Pal for receiving Best Poster Award at the IINCM-2024 organized by IISER Kolkata.

  • March, 2024: Congratulations to Alakesh for joining Editorial Advisory Board, Tetrahedron Lett. and Tetrahedron (March, 2024)

  • Jan 17, 2024: Congratulations to Souvik Pal for Best Poster Award  in the Indo-French FCSB-2024 Conference hosted by the University of Hyderabad !

  • Dec 19, 2023: Congratulations to Souvik Pal for Best Poster Award  in 4th Flow Chemistry and Natural Product Synthesis Symposium organized by NIPER Kolkata!

  • Nov 20, 2023: Congratulations to Ranjit Murmu for the Best Poster Award (IPS Research Excelence Award) in 4th International Conference on Emerging Smart Materials in Applied Chemistry (ESMAC-2023) organized at CSIR IMMT & KIIT Bhubaneswar!

  • Nov 20, 2023: Congratulations to Debgopal Jana for the Best Poster Award from @RSC Advance at 4th International Conference on Emerging Smart Materials in Applied Chemistry (ESMAC-2023) organized at CSIR IMMT & KIIT Bhubaneswar!
  • Oct. 26, 2023: Congratulations to Mr. Suman Noskar for receiving the prestigious PMRF fellowship from Ministry of Education, Government of India!


  • April 13, 2023: The President of the RSC has invited Prof. Alakesh Bisai, Department of Chemical Sciences of IISER Kolkata, to become a 'Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry' (2023) through the 'Leaders in the Field' Scheme, based on research contributions in the field of Natural Product Synthesis [research highlights in 'Organic Chemistry Portal' as 'The Bisai Synthesis of (-)-Physovenine' and 'The Bisai Synthesis of Lycoramine']. Highlighted in IISER Kolkata News Letter ( March 2023 Edition).


  • Jan 25, 2023: Congratulations to Rhituparna Nandi for the Best Oral Presentation award in "ChemSci-2023: Leaders in the field Symposium" held at JNCASR.




  • Nov 01, 2022: Congratulations to Mr. Monosij Nandy for receiving the prestigious PMRF fellowship from Ministry of Education, Government of India!

  • Sep 29, 2022: Congratulations Alakesh for the prestigious Professor Dhananjay Nasipuri Memorial Award for the year 2021 from Indian Chemical Society in recognition of scholastic contribution to the field of chemical sciences.

  • Febuary 17, 2022: Congratulations Alakesh for the prestigious CDRI Awards for the Excellence in Drug Research from the Chemical Sciences category for the year 2022.




  • Sep. 30, 2021: Congratulations to Abhinay Yadav for the ACS Organic Letters Award for his poster presentation on the Total Synthesis of (-)-Maritidine at the 27th CRSI-NSC-2021 organized by IISER Kolkata!

  • Sep. 30, 2021: Congratulations to Souvik Pal for the ACS Omega award for his poster presentation on total synthesis of natural products at the 27th CRSI-NSC-2021 organized by IISER Kolkata!


  • July 15, 2018: Congratulations to Arindam Maity for the best poster award on his poster on synthetic approaches to the hexahydro[2,3-b]-pyrroloindoline alkaloids from 23rd CRSI-NSC held at IISER Bhopal!



  • July 15, 2018: Congratulations to Arindam Maity for the 'Best Poster Award' in the 23rd CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry, held at IISER Bhopal during 13-15 July, 2018.

  • Jan. 01, 2017: Congratulations to Naresh for the 'Best Poster Award' in the Inter-IISER Chemistry Meet (IICM-2017) duirng Jan. 20-22, 2017 at IISER Bhopal.



  • May 30, 2016: Congratulations to Vaishnavi for securing the 'Proficiency Medal 2016' in Chemistry Discipline of BS-MS Dual Degree Programme

  • Nov. 06, 2015: The AB group congratulates to Santanu for Eli Lilly Outstanding Thesis Award for 2015.







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