Dr. Arpan Das
Assistant Professor
- Office 208, Dept. of Chemistry, School of Basic Sciences, IIT Bhubaneswar, Argul- 752050, Odisha, India
- 06747135158
- arpandas@iitbbs.ac.in
- Department of Chemistry
Research Interests:
Synthetic Main Group/ Organometallic Chemistry & Catalysis, CO2 activation and functionalization, Materials for Redox Flow Battery
Funded PhD Positions are available in AD Research Group. Directly send your CV to Dr. Arpan Das (arpandas@iitbbs.ac.in/ apndas9@gmail.com)
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| S. No. | Degree | Year | Subject | University/Institution |
| 1. | PhD | 2022 | Chemical Sciences | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata |
| 2. | MS | 2017 | Chemical Sciences | Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata |
| 3. | BSc. | 2014 | Chemistry (Hons.) | Burdwan Raj College, The University of Burdwan |
CY5L002 : Inorganic Chemistry-Structure, Principle and Reactivity: MSc. 1st Year, 1st Semester, 2025
CY1P001 : Chemistry Laboratory for B.Tech. , BTech 1st semester, 2025
CY5L013 : The Principles of Organometallic and Bio-inorganic Chemistry : MSc. 1st year 2nd semester, 2026
Mr. Pradip Pal (MS Thesis starting in June 2026)
Mr. Laxmidhar Malik (MS Thesis starting in June 2026)
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| 8 | Alexander von-Humboldt Fellowship | Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation, Germany | 2024 | ||
| 7 | Best Poster Award | 30th International Conferenceon Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC) 2024 Agra, India | 2024 | ||
| 6 | Selected for Oral Presentation | International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC 2020)-Goa, India. | 2020 | ||
| 5 | Selected for Oral Presentation | Inorganic Chemistry Discussion Meeting, IISER Kolkata | 2020 | ||
| 4 | Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering | Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore | 2016 | ||
| 3 | National Eligibility Test (NET) | CSIR- HRDG | 2015 | ||
| 2 | Joint Admission test for Masters (JAM) | IIT Kanpur | 2014 | ||
| 1 | INSPIRE SHE Scholarship | Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India | 2011 |
Prime Minister’s Early Career Research (PM-ECR) Grant, Year: 2026, Research Funding: 60 Lakhs
- P. Duari, Al. Linke, M. Shishkova, Q. Le Dé, A. Das, V. H. Gessner*, Isolation of Anionic N-Heterocyclic Olefins and Their Versatile Reactivity, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2025 doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516374,
- A. Das,# Q. Le De,# V. H. Gessner,* (# Both the authors contributed equally) Rethinking Carbanion Chemistry: From Carbanionic Substituents to Weakly Coordinating Carbanions, Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2025, doi.org/10.1038/s41570-025-00725-3
- Mondal, Y. Zhang, P. Duari, K. -S. Feichtner, A. Das, L. Zhao, G. Frenking, V. H. Gessner,* PPh3/Isocyanide and N2/Isocyanide Exchange: Pathways to Isolable Alkali Metal Keteniminyl Anions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition., 2025, e202504325 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202504325)
- Biswas, S. Kolb, S. H. Röttger, A. Das, L. J. Patalag, P. P. Dey, S. Sil, S. Maji, S. Chakrabarty, O. S. Wenger, A. Bhunia,* D. B. Werz,* and S. K. Mandal* A BOIMPY Dye Enables Multi-Photoinduced Electron Transfer Catalysis: Reaching Super-Reducing Properties. Angewandte Chemie International Edition., 2024, e202416472 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202416472).
- Maji, B. Gope, M. Sharma, A. Das, A. Jose, A. Biswas, K. Bhattacharyya, S. K. Mandal. Independent LUMO Reactivity in Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Thiones: Synthesis of a Stable Radical Anion. Angewandte Chemie International Edition., 2024, e202418673 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202418673).
- A. Das, S. Saha, S. Maji, P. Sarkar, M. Bhatt, A. Bhunia, A. Dutta*, S. K. Pati*, S. K. Mandal*. Highly Stable Self-Regenerating Organic Multi-Redox Systems derived from Bicyclic (Alkyl)(amino)carbenes (BICAACs). Chemistry A European Journal. 2024, 30, e202303411 (https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202303411).
- S. Maji, A. Das, M. M. Bhatt, S. K. Mandal*. Metal-free organocatalytic S-formylation of thiols using CO2. Nature Catalysis, 2024, 7, 375–385 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-024-01114-7).
- Sk, S. Biswas, N. Dutta, A. Das, N. Suryadevara, G. Vijaykumar, P. Bhunia, M. Ruben, S. Mandal, M. Bera* Structures and Properties of a Series of High-Spin [CoII2] Complexes Supported by Ancillary Benzoate, Ortho-Hydroxybenzoate, and Para-Hydroxybenzoate. Crystal Growth & Design, 2023, 23, 5925-5940 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.3c00521).
- A. Das, P. Sarkar, S. Maji, S. K. Pati* and S. K. Mandal*. Mesoionic N-Heterocyclic Imines as Super Nucleophiles in Catalytic Coupling of Amides with CO2. Angewandte Chemie International Edition., 2022, 61, e202213614 (https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202213614).
- Maji, P. Sarkar, A. Das, S. K. Pati*, and S. K. Mandal*. Benzimidazolylidene-Stabilized Borenium Ion for Catalytic Hydrogenation of N‑Heterocycles. Inorganic Chemistry,2022, 61, 14282–14287 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.2c01841).
- Sreejyothi P., Sarkar, S. Dutta, A. Das, S. K. Pati* and S. K. Mandal*. Regioselective ring-opening of epoxides towards Markovnikov alcohols: a metal-free catalytic approach using abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene. Chemical Communications, 2022, 58, 9540-9543 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D2CC03549A).
- Majumder, S. Haldar, N. Dutta, A. Das, M. Bera*. Cu (II), Mn (II) and Zn (II) Complexes of Anthracene‐Affixed Carboxylate‐Rich Tridentate Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, Spectroscopic Investigation and Their DNA Binding Profile, Chemistry Select, 2022, 7, e202104319 (https://doi.org/10.1002/slct.202104319).
- Majumder, S. Sk, A. Das, G. Vijaykumar, M. K. Sahoo, J. N. Behera, M. Bera*. Ancillary-Ligand-Assisted Variation in Nuclearities Leading to the Formation of Di-, Tri-, and Tetranuclear Copper (II) Complexes with Multifaceted Carboxylate Coordination. ACS omega, 2022, 7, 39985-39997
- Majumder, N. Dutta, A. Das, L. Carrella, M. Bera*. Exploring new water soluble bridged dicopper (II) assemblies: Synthesis, structure, spectroscopic characterization, properties, and their interactions with D-glucosamine. Polyhedron, 2021, 208, 115417 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2021.115417).
- A. Das, S. Chakraborty and S. K. Mandal*. Abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene based Ni(II) π-allyl complex towards molecular oxygen activation. Chemistry—An Asian Journal, 2021, 16, 2257–2260 (https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202100568).
- Ahmed, P. Datta, A. Das, S. Jomy, S. K Mandal*. Switching between mono and doubly reduced odd alternant hydrocarbon: designing a redox catalyst. Chemical Science, 2021, 12, 3039− 3049 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SC05972B).
- M. Rajendran, N. Gautam, P. Sarkar, J. Ahmed, A. Das, S. Das, S. K. Pati*, S. K. Mandal*. Bicyclic (alkyl)(amino) carbene stabilized zinc (0) complex with singlet biradicaloid ground state. Chemical Communications, 2021, 57, 5282–5285 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC01298C).
- S. Maji, A. Das, S. K. Mandal*. Mesoionic N-heterocyclic olefin catalysed reductive functionalization of CO2for consecutive N-methylation of amines. Chemical Science, 2021, 12, 12174–12180 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SC02819G).
- Chakraborty, A. Das, S. K. Mandal*. Redox-active Ligand Based Mn(I)-Catalyst for Hydrosilylative Ester Reduction. Chemical Communications, 2021, 57, 12671-12674 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC05614J).
- A. Das, J. Ahmed, N. M. Rajendran, D. Adhikari, S. K. Mandal*. A Bottleable Imidazole-Based Radical as a Single Electron Transfer Reagent. Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2021, 86, 1246–1252 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02465).
- Bhunia, # S. R. Sahoo, # A. Das, J. Ahmed, P. Sreejyothi and S. K. Mandal*. (# Both the authors contributed equally). Transition metal-free catalytic reduction of primary amides using an abnormal NHC based potassium complex: integrating nucleophilicity with Lewis acidic activation. Chemical Science, 2020, 11, 1848−1854 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9SC05953A).
- Chakraborty, A. Das, J. Ahmed, S. Barman, S. K. Mandal*. Designing a Cr-catalyst bearing redox noninnocent phenalenyl-based ligand towards hydrosilylative CO2 functionalization. Chemical Communications, 2020, 56, 13788−13791 (https://doi.org/10.1039/D0CC05348A).
- Dutta, A. Majumder, A. Das, A. Chatterjee, M. Tarafder, B. Datta, M. Bera*. Synthetic, structural, spectral and DNA binding aspects of copper (II), nickel (II) and zinc (II) dimers of new carboxylate-based tripodal ligand. Journal of Molecular Structure, 2020, 1206, 127708 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2020.127708).
- Haldar, N. Dutta, G. Vijaykumar, A. Das, L. Carrella, A. Oliver, M. Bera*. Synthesis, structure and properties of new heterometallic octanuclear Li2Na2Cu4 and decanuclear Li2Zn8 complexes. polyhedron, 2019, 172, 58-66 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2019.03.013).
- A. Das, P. K. Hota, and S. K. Mandal*. Nickel Catalyzed C(sp2)-H Borylation of Arenes. Organometallics, 2019, 38, 3286–3293 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.9b00364).
- Das, # H. S. Das, # B. Singh, R. K. Haridasan, A. Das, S. K. Mandal* (# Both the authors contributed equally), Catalytic Reduction of Nitriles by Polymethylhydrosiloxane Using a Phenalenyl-Based Iron(III) Complex. Inorganic Chemistry, 2019, 58, 11274–11278 (https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b01377).
- S. Das, # S. Das, # K. Dey, B. Singh, R. K. Hari, A. Das, J. Ahmed, S. K. Mandal* (# Both the authors contributed equally) Primary amides to amines or nitriles: a dual role by a single catalyst. Chemical Communications, 2019, 79, 11868-11871 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC05856G).
- Ahmed, # A. K. Swain, # A. Das, R. Govindarajan, S. K. Mandal* (# Both the authors contributed equally). A K-arylacetylide complex for catalytic terminal alkyne functionalization using KOtBu as a precatalyst. Chemical Communications, 2019, 92, 13860−13863 (https://doi.org/10.1039/C9CC07833A).
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| 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC) 2024 Agra, India | 2024 | ||
| International Conference on Organometallics and Catalysis (ICOC 2020)-Goa, India. | 2020 | ||
| International BRICS symposium on “Frontiers in Inorganic Chemistry: Catalytic and Biomedical Applications”, IISER Kolkata, India | 2020 | ||
| Indo-French Symposium on “Small Molecule Activation for Fuels and Commodity Chemicals Production”, IACS Kolkata, India. | 2019 |
| S. No. | Position Held | Name of the institute | From | To |
| 3 | Assistant Professor | IIT Bhubaneswar | 19.05.2025 | To Date |
| 2. | Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany | 1.10.2024 | 30.04.2025 |
| 1. | Research Assistant | Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany | 01.05.2023 | 30.09.2024 |
Detail of patents.
| S. No. | Patent Title | Name of Applicant(s) | Patent No. | Award Date | Agency/Country | Status |
| 1 | Stable radical cation based multi redox molecule and material, its synthesis method and applications thereof. | S. K. Mandal, A. Das, S. Maji | (Application number 202331037636 )
Application dated 31.05.2023 |
publication date (U/S 11A) 06/12/2024 | Indian Patent | Awaiting Request for Examination |