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Dr. Tuhin Patra

Assistant Professor
  • Office: 207, SBS
  • tuhinpatra@iitbbs.ac.in
  • Department of Chemistry
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Research Interests:
Photocatalysis, Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry, Flow Chemistry
Education
Degree Discipline Year School
  Ph.D. Chemistry 2017 IIT Bombay
  M.Sc. Chemistry 2011 IIT Bombay
  B.Sc. Chemistry (Hons.) 2009 University of Calcutta
  • Best Poster Award in 20th Organometallic Catalysis Directed towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 20) in Heidelberg, Germany (2019)
  • Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (2017)
  • Carl Storm International Diversity (CSID) Award for attending Gordon Research Conference in Newport, RI (2016)
  • IIT Bombay Research Paper Award (2014)
  1. “Oxidative cleavage of alkenes by photosensitized nitroarenes” Tuhin Patra, Thomas Wirth, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202213772.
  2. “Hypervalent bromine(III) compounds: synthesis, applications, prospects” Bethan Winterson, Tuhin Patra, Thomas Wirth, Synthesis 2022, 54, 1261-1271.
  3. “Recent developments in hydrodecyanation and decyanative functionalization reactions” Nilanjan Paul, Tuhin Patra, Debabrata Maiti, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2022, 11, e2021005.
  4. “Metal-free, photosensitized oxyimination of unactivated alkenes with bifunctional oxime carbonates” Tuhin Patra, Mowpriya Das, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Frank Glorius, Nat. Catal. 2021, 4, 54-61.
  5. “Overriding ortho selectivity by template assisted meta-C”H activation of benzophenones” Emanuele Casali, Prakriti Kalra, Massimo Brochetta, Tania Borsari, Andrea Gandini, Tuhin Patra, Giuseppe Zanoni, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 7281-7284.
  6. “Photosensitized intermolecular carboimination of alkenes through the persistent radical effect” Tuhin Patra, Peter Bellotti, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Frank Glorius, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 3172-3177.
  7. “Visible-light-photosensitized aryl and alkyl decarboxylative functionalization reactions” Tuhin Patra, Satobhisha Mukherjee, Jiajia Ma, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Frank Glorius, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10514-10520.
  8. “DMSO as switchable alkylating agent in heteroarene C”H functionalization” R. Aleyda Garza-Sanchez, Tuhin Patra, Adrian Tlahuext-Aca, Felix Strieth-Kalthoff, Frank Glorius, Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 10064-10068.
  9. “Cooperative catalysis: A strategy to synthesize trifluoromethyl-thioesters from aldehydes” Satobhisha Mukherjee, Tuhin Patra, Frank Glorius, ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 5842-5846.
  10. “Highly enantioselective [5+2] annulations through cooperative NHC organocatalysis and palladium catalysis” Santanu Singha, Tuhin Patra, Constantin G Daniliuc, Frank Glorius, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 3551-3554.
  11. “Group 9 transition metal-catalyzed C”H halogenations” Fabian Lied, Tuhin Patra, Frank Glorius, Isr. J. Chem. 2017, 57, 945-952.
  12. “Decarboxylation as the key step in C”C bond forming reactions” Tuhin Patra, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 7382-7401.
  13. “Palladium-catalyzed remote meta-selective C”H bond silylation and germanylation” Atanu Modak, Tuhin Patra, Rajdip Chowdhury, Suman Raul, Debabrata Maiti, Organometallics 2017, 36, 2418-2423.
  14. “Pd-catalyzed directed para-C”H functionalization of phenol” Tuhin Patra, Sukdev Bag, Rajesh Kancherla, Anirban Mondal, Aniruddha Dey, Sandeep Pimparkar, Soumitra Agasti, Atanu Modak, Debabrata Maiti, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 7751-7755.
  15. “Sequential meta-C”H olefination of synthetically versatile benzyl silanes: effective synthesis of meta-olefinated toluene, benzaldehyde and benzyl alcohols” Tuhin Patra, Rahul Watile, Soumitra Agasti, Togati Naveen, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 2027-2030.
  16. “Copper mediated decarboxylative direct C”H arylation of heteroarenes with benzoic acids” Tuhin Patra, Sudip Nandi, Santosh K Sahoo, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2016, 52, 1432-1435.
  17. “Remote para-C”H functionalization of arenes by a D-shaped biphenyl template-based assembly” Sukdev Bag, Tuhin Patra, Atanu Modak, Arghya Deb, Soham Maity, Uttam Dutta, Aniruddha Dey, Rajesh Kancherla, Arun Maji, Avijit Hazra, Milan Bera, Debabrata Maiti, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11888-11891.
  18. “Meta-selective arene C”H bond olefination of arylacetic acid using a nitrile-based directing group” Milan Bera, Atanu Modak, Tuhin Patra, Arun Maji, Debabrata Maiti, Org. Lett. 2014, 16, 5760-5763.
  19. “Catalytic electrophilic halogenations and halo-alkoxylations by non-heme iron-halides” Sujoy Rana, Sukdev Bag, Tuhin Patra, Debabrata Maiti, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2014, 356, 2453-2458.
  20. “Nickel-catalyzed hydrogenolysis of unactivated carbon-cyano bonds” Tuhin Patra, Soumitra Agasti, Atanu Modak, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 8362-8364.
  21. “Oxidative trifluoromethylation of unactivated olefins: An efficient and practical synthesis of -trifluoromethyl ketones” Arghya Deb, Srimanta Manna, Atanu Modak, Tuhin Patra, Soham Maity, Debabrata Maiti, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 9747-9750.
  22. “Iron-mediated decarboxylative trifluoromethylation of ,-unsaturated carboxylic acids with trifluoromethanesulfinate” Tuhin Patra, Arghya Deb, Srimanta Manna, Upendra Sharma, Debabrata Maiti, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 5247-5250.
  23. “Nickel-catalyzed decyanation of inert carbon-cyano bonds” Tuhin Patra, Soumitra Agasti, Akanksha, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 69-71.
  24. “Four-center oxidation state combinations and near-infrared absorption in [Ru(pap)(Q)2]n , (Q = 3,5-Di-tert-butyl-N-aryl-1,2-benzoquinonemonoimine and pap = 2-Phenylazopyridine)” Dipanwita Das, Hemlata Agarwala, Abhishek Dutta Chowdhury, Tuhin Patra, Shaikh M Mobin, Biprajit Sarkar, Wolfgang Kaim, Goutam Kumar Lahiri, Chem. Eur. J. 2013, 19, 7384-7394.
  25. “A general and efficient aldehyde decarbonylation reaction by using a palladium catalyst” Atanu Modak, Arghya Deb, Tuhin Patra, Sujoy Rana, Soham Maity, Debabrata Maiti, Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 4253-4255.
  26. “Metal mediated deformylation reactions: synthetic and biological avenues” Tuhin Patra, Srimanta Manna, Debabrata Maiti, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 12140-12142.
Book Chapters
  1. “Iron catalysis in synthetic chemistry” Sujoy Rana, Atanu Modak, Soham Maity, Tuhin Patra, Debabrata Maiti, Progress in Inorganic Chemistry: Vol. 59, Edited by Kenneth D. Karlin. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Patents

  1.  “Template assembly” Debabrata Maiti, Sukdev Bag, Tuhin Patra, IPA No. 2421/MUM/2015
  2. “Template-assisted method of selective functionalization of remotely located para-C–H bond comprised on arene” Debabrata Maiti, Sukdev Bag, Tuhin Patra, IPA No. 2422/MUM/2015
  1. Poster presentation in the 20th Organometallic Catalysis Directed Towards Organic Synthesis (OMCOS 20) in Heidelberg, Germany (21-25 July, 2019)
  2. Poster presentation in the 16th Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS XVI) in Brussels, Belgium (8-13 July, 2018)
  3. Poster presentation in Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Organometallic Chemistry, Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, USA (9-10 July and 10-15 July, 2016)
National Conference
  1. Oral presentation at In-House symposium, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, India (April 2, 2016)
  2. Poster presentation in 15th National symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XV), IIT Roorkee, India (13-16 December, 2013)

2020- 2022 EPSRC Research Associate in Flow Electrosynthesis (Cardiff University, UK)

2017- 2020 Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow (University of Münster, Germany)

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