School of Basic Sciences

Dr. Arpan Das

Assistant Professor
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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)
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)

S. No. Name of Award
Awarding Agency
Year
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

  1. 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, 
  2. 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
  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)
  4. 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).
  5. 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).
  6. 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).
  7. S. MajiA. 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).
  8. 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).
  9. 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).
  10. 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).
  11. 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).
  12. 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).
  13. 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
  14. 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).
  15. 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).
  16. 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).
  17. 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).
  18. 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).
  19. 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).
  20. 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).
  21. 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).
  22. 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).
  23. 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).
  24. 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).
  25. 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).
  26. 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).
  27. 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).
  28. 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).
International Conferences
Year
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
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