• "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.

• Sept. 11, 2025:  Congratulations to Dr. Mintu Munda for being selected as the winner of the Outstanding Student Paper Award 2024 for the Organic Chemistry category for his RSC Advances article “Total synthesis of naturally occurring abietane diterpenoids via a late-stage Fe(iii)-bTAML catalysed Csp3–H functionalization”

• Mar. 22, 2025: Congratulations to Suman Noskar for receiving ACS Journal of Organic Chemistry Award for Best Poster Presentation at the "Inter IISER-NISER Chemistry Meet 2025 (IINCM-25)" held at IISER Pune!

• Feb. 01,  2025: Congratulations to Apurba Das for receiving Best Poster Award at the '2-Day International Symposium on ''Sustainable Technologies - The Way Forward'' and 61st Annual Convention 2024 of Indian Photobiology Society' organized by UEM Kolkata (31 Jan - 01 Feb, 2025)!

• Feb. 01,  2025: Congratulations to Suman Noskar for receiving Best Poster Award at the 2-Day Symposium on Recent Advances in Chemistry Research and Translation (ReACT 2025) organized by IISER Kolkata (31 Jan-01 Feb, 2025)!

• Jan. 10, 2025: Mr. Debgopal Jana's research on the Asymmetric Synthesis of Taiwaniaquinone H via a Late-Stage Oxidative Decarboxylation has been featured as a front cover page in Journal of Organic Chemistry, Issue 01 [J. Org. Chem., 2025, 90, 517- 528]

• Dec. 13, 2024: Mr. Monosij Nandy's research on the total synthesis of (+)-brevianamides A and B has been featured as a supplementary cover in Organic Letters, Issue 49 [Org. Lett., 2024, 26, 10424-10429]

• 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]

• Oct. 09, 2024: Congratulations to Ranjit Murmu for receiving Best Poster Award at the XIX J-NOST (National Organic Symposium Trust) Conference 2024 held at IIT Gandhinagar ( Oct. 07 - 09)!

• Oct. 03, 2024: Congratulations Alakesh for becoming a fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI) !

• 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]

• July 30, 2024: Congratulations to Monosij Nandy and Shilpa Dangar for receiving Best Poster Award at the CRS Symposium 2024- Rasayan 19 organized by IISER Kolkata!

• July 13, 2024: Congratulations to Ranjit Murmu and Nanda Kishore Roy for receiving Best Poster Award at the ETOMC-2024 organized by IISER Kolkata!

• 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!

• Aug. 02, 2023: Ms. Rhituparna Nandi & Mr. Sovan Niyogi's research on the Total Synthesis of Indolosesquiterpene Alkaloids Dixiamycins A and B with a Rare N-N Bond has been featured as an  inside front cover page in Chemical Science [Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 8047-8053].

• 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).

• March 15, 2023: Congratulations Alakesh for becoming the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry !

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

• Dec 18, 2022: Congratulations to Mintu Munda  for the Association of Kinetics Award  for his poster research work on Total Syntheses of Indolosesquiterpene Alkaloids, Xiamycins C-F via Csp3-H Functionalization at the 59th Annual Convention of Chemists 2022 organized  by Indian Chemical Society and hosted by IIT(ISM) Dhanbad!

• Dec 18, 2022: Congratulations to Arindam Khatua  for the Prof. S. T. Nandibewoor Award for his poster research work on Approach to Cyclotryptamine Alkaloids via Organocatalyzed Michael Addition onto Nitroethylene at the 59th Annual Convention of Chemists 2022 organized  by Indian Chemical Society and hosted by IIT(ISM) Dhanbad!

• Dec 18, 2022: Congratulations to Ayan Mondal for the Prof. P. Sengupta Memorial Award for his poster research work on the total synthesis of (+)- and (-)-Crinane via Palladium Catalyzed Deacylative Allylation at the 59th Annual Convention of Chemists 2022 organized  by Indian Chemical Society and hosted by IIT(ISM) Dhanbad!

• 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.

• Dec. 24, 2021: Congratulations to Sovan Niyogi for the Prof. B. N. Mankard Memorial Award for his research presentation on total synthesis of natural products at the 58th  RTCS-OBC-2021 jointly organized by IISER Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur!

• Dec. 24, 2021: Congratulations to Arindam Khatua for the ICS Research Excellence Award for his work on total synthesis of (±)-folicanthine at the 58th  RTCS-OBC-2021 jointly organized by IISER Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur!

• Dec. 24, 2021: Congratulations to Sourav Kundu for the Prof. P. Sengupta Memorial Award for his poster research work on the total synthesis of deoxyxiamycin A at the 58th RTCS-OBC-2021 jointly organized by IISER Kolkata and IIT Kharagpur!

• 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 Dr. Alakesh Bisai for the prestigious CRSI Young Scientist Award at the 23rd CRSI-NSC held at IISER Bhopal!

• 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!

• Dec. 21, 2019: Congratulations to Satyajit Majumder for the 'Best Poster Award' in XV-J-NOST conference organized by University of Delhi, during October 19-21, 2019

• Dec. 08, 2018: Congratulations to Avishek Roy for the 'Best Poster Award' in  I-DEC 2018 , held at IISER Bhopal during 06-08 December, 2018.

• 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.

• Dec. 16, 2016: Congratulations to  Nivesh  for receiving best poster prize at 'International Conference in Organic Synthesis 21' organized by IIT Bombay, (11th - 16th December, 2016)!

• Aug. 25, 2016: Prathyusha and Gaurav visited the research group of Prof. Burkhard Koenig group at the University of Regensburg, Germany

• 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.

• May 5, 2014: Vaishnavi joined Prof. Burkhard Koenig group at the University of Regensburg, Germany as a DAAD-WISE Scholar.

• Dec. 01, 2017: Dr. Subhajit Bhunia has been awarded the prestigious CAS, President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Postdoctoral Fellowship, who is currently working with Prof. Dawei Ma Group, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

• Dec. 21, 2016: Dr. Badrinath Kakde has been awarded the prestigious CAS, President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Postdoctoral Fellowship, who is currently working with  Prof. Ang Li, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

• Dec. 21, 2016:  Dr. Subhadip De has been awarded the prestigious CAS, President's International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) Postdoctoral Fellowship, who is currently working with Prof. Dawei Ma Group, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry.

• July 09, 2016:  Congratulations to Santanu for receiving SERB Indo-US postdoctoral fellowship.