Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
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Degree	Year	University
Ph.D. 2012 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras M.Sc 2006 University of Calcutta B.Sc 2004 Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur

Name Of The Institution Position Held Period NIT Rourkela DST-Inspire Faculty 2015, April to 2017, August

Name Of Organization Postition Held Period Advinus, a TATA Enterprise, Bangalore Assistant research Scientist 2006 to 2007

Organic Chemistry

Teaching: Organometallic chemistry, Basic and advanced (2-D) nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, Medicinal Chemistry (Vitamins), Basic Organic Chemistry; UG , PG and Engineering Laboratory.

1. Development of Cheap Transition metal based Catalyst for Various Organic Transformations (C-H activation, C-C, C-X bond formation reaction) 2. Dithienylethene (DTE) based Organic Materials 3. Supramolecules and Host Guest Chemistry

Teaching experience 2.5 years at NIT Rourkela as a DST-Inspire Faculty 2022-2023: SERB international research excellence fellowship, Texas A&M University, USA (with Prof. Francois P. Gabbai) (2014-2015): Postdoctoral Research Fellow (IISER-Kolkata, India) (2012-2014): Postdoctoral Research Fellow (TU Dresden, Germany)

Title of the paper Journal of publication Year Role Vol Number-Page Name Oxidative cross dehydrogenative coupling directed carbamates synthesis using Cu(II) pincer complex as active catalyst under mild reaction condition. J. Heterocycl. Chem. 2023 Krishna Mohan Das, Arunabha Thakur -1-14 Non-conjugated Bis-(dithienylethene)-naphthalenediimide as a Dynamic Anti-counterfeiting Agent: Driving the Wheel of Photoswitching Enactment Chem. Eur. J. 2023 Sayan Kumar Bag, Manisha Karmakar, Bijan Mondal, Arunabha Thakur Doi: 10.1002/chem.202301314- Preparation of 5-(Acyloxymethyl)furfurals from Carbohydrates Using Zinc Chloride/Acetic Acid Catalyst System and Their Synthetic Value Addition. ACS Omega 2023 Navya Subray Bhat, Abhishek Kumar Yadav, Manisha Karmakar, Arunabha Thakur, Sib Sankar Mal, Saikat Dutta 8, 8-8119-8124 Peptide Bridged Napthalimide-Dithienylethene Diad with Aggregation Induced Emission Activity: Application in Forensic Fingerprint Technology ChemPhotoChem 2023 Manisha Karmakar, Sayan Kumar Bag, Arunabha Thakur Doi: 10.1002/cptc.202300077- Microwave-assisted synthesis of E-aldimines, N-heterocycles and H2 by dehydrogenative coupling of benzyl alcohol and aniline derivatives using CoCl2 as catalyst J. Org. Chem. 2023 Adwitiya Pal, Krishna Mohan Das, Arunabha Thakur Doi: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00682- More

Awarded By Award Name Year DST-INSA DST-Inspire Faculty award 2015 ACS membership award 2015

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Status Year Sushil Ranjan Bhatta Functionalized ferrocene for the detection of biologically relevant ions Complete Manisha Karmakar Synthetic Organometallic Chemistry; Electrochemical and optical chemisensors for the recognition of biologically important molecules Ongoing Krishna Mohan Das Organometallic Chemistry: Development of Copper based catalyst for various organic transformation Ongoing Adwitiya Pal Unusual catalysts to meet energy demand: NHC and Co based catalyst. Ongoing Sayan Kumar Bag DTE based molecular photo-switch Ongoing

Name Of The Scholar Title Of The Thesis Co-Superviser Year Subhojit Bhunia 2022 Sayantan Bera 2022 Nabakishore Gorain 2021 Deepak Bhuyan 2020 Sourav Ghosh 2020 More

Project Title Worked As Funding Agency Amount Duration Period Status CSIR Principal Investigator CSIR 6 lakhs 3 years 2019 to 2022 Ongoing WBDST-DBT project Principal Investigator WB-DST/DBT 3 years 2019 to 2022 Ongoing RUSA 2.0 Principal Investigator RUSA 7 lakhs 1 year 2019 to 2020 Complete UGC-Start Up grants Principal Investigator UGC 10 lakhs 3 years 2018 to 2020 Complete Synthesis and characterization of carbene stabilized mixed binary pnictogens and B(I) compounds for small molecule activation Principal Investigator DST 35 Lakhs 5 years 2015 to 2020 Complete

Title Organised By Venue Year Advancement in the Molecular World: Materials and Catalysis NIT SURATKAL 2021 One day Symposium on Chemical Science CHEMICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY OF INDIA (CRSI) 2020 Ferrocenyl Electrochemical Chemosensors: Application in Molecular Logic IISER-Kolkata 2018 Frustrated Lewis pairs and abnormal carbene NIT Sikim NIT Sikim 2015

Title Member American Chemical Society 2015

Program Name Organised By Venue Year Type Of Participation Chemical Sciences: from concepts to applications Jadavpur University 2021 Organized as a coordinator of a UGC sponsored Refresher course RECENT TRENDS in CATALYSIS RTC 2020 NIT-Calicut 2020 Presented a poster International Conference on Chemistry for Human Development (ICCHD-2020) Heritage Institute of Technology, Kolkata 2020 Chairing a scientific session Emerging Trends in Chemical Sciences Department of Chemistry, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. 2020 Frontiers In Inorganic Chemistry: Catalytic and Biomedical Applications IISER Kolkata 2020 Attended and served as a judge for a poster session a BRICS Workshop-2020 More

Type of Professional Activity Period Regular reviewer for international journal of high repute such as, organometallics, Inorganic chemistry, crystal engineering communication etc.  to  Back To Top