Research Interests

• Halide catalysis
• Catalytic and Asymmetric Dearomatization Reactions
• Sustainable Synthesis and Waste to Fine Chemicals
• Visible Light Catalysed Reactions
• Electrocatalytic Organic Transformations
• Total Synthesis of Natural Products and important biomolecules
• Atom economic synthetic transformations

Visible Light Photodynamic inactivation of Microbes on Food & Vegetable Surfaces, an alternative to Cold Storage

News & Events

We are pleased to inform you that the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, is organizing an International INDO-GERMAN conference on “Sustainable Chemistry-III, 2025” from March 18-20, 2025, at Nalanda Auditorium, IIT Indore, to bring together chemists and biologists to share their recent contributions to the frontier areas of Sustainable Chemistry 2025.

Another feather in the cap!! Congratulations to Mr. Shantanu Samamta for bagging the CRSI Best Poster Award at the 34^th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal.

Congratulations to Mr. Niladri Sekhar Roy, who achieved the Best Oral Presentation Award at the 3^rd Madhya Pradesh PhD Colloquium organized by Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis (AIGGPA), Bhopal.

We are very happy to inform you that we won the Grand Finale Challenge of Atman 2.0 organized at TIH, IIT Bombay in the presence of the Honorable Ministry of State Education, Govt. of India, Dr. Sukanta Majumdar, and DST Secretary, Prof. Abhay Karandikar. Out of 84 proposals, 7 best proposals are funded upto 2 crore grant for each after multiple rounds of presentation.

The team will work on the Project : “Development of Portable Kit-An Alternative to traditional Post Harvest Management”.

The same is tweeted by the ANRF with the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1011494727673270&id=100064382571801&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=wybwJwRHvEo9PjBf#

Congratulations to Mr. Niladri Sekhar Roy, who received the ‘Best Poster Award’ out of 309 posters at the international conference “Environment 2024” (https://event.iitg.ac.in/env2024/) organized by IIT Guwahati. Project Title: “Post-Harvest Storage Solution for Small and Marginal Farmers Employing Visible Light—An Alternative to Cold Storages.”

Congratulations to Dr. Debayan Sarkar and his team for getting remarkable mentions in various newspapers, including ‘Times of India‘, ‘Dainik Bhaskar‘, ‘Free Press‘ and so on, showcasing an innovative post-harvest preservation method via photo-dynamic inactivation (PDI), an alternative to cold-storages

Fastest Dearomatisation : Prof. Debayan Sarkar disclosing the fastest and Time economic Dearomatisation reaction developed by their group

Video Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vIq-kuAFkNXtD-yFZAOMSmHbdMpHBD2F/view?usp=drivesdk

Mr. Rama Kant Mishra, a Ph.D student  of our group, received the Best ACS Poster Award at the “Recent Advances in Chemical Sciences RACS-2024” event conducted at IIEST Shibpur.

Congratulations to Dr. Debayan Sarkar and his team for launching “Chemgreen innovations Pvt. Ltd “

Special award of Rs. 15000 per paper for Lab students in journals like Science, Organic Letters, ACS Catalysis, Chemcomm, JACS, Nature Chemistry, Nature Catalysis, Angrew Chemie, Nature Communications, Chemicals Science, Green Chemistry, JACS, Chem.

Please see the advertisement for Postdoc Mobility under the IGP project. A postdoctoral fellow will be paid a consolidated monthly salary of 1500 Euros and One-time To & Fro -1050 Euros. The Postdoc will work with Prof. Burkhard Koenig at the University of Regensburg, Germany, and the Indian PI will be Dr. Debayan Sarkar. The funding is under the IGP Project- Chemical Innovations for a Sustainable Future funded by UGC, Govt. Of India.

Heartly Congratulations to our Alumni Dr. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo for the DST Inspire Faculty Position at IIT Kanpur

We are delighted to inform you that Dr. Debayan Sarkar has been chosen as the ChemComm Pioneering Investigator 2023

DS group is hosting “International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry : 2024 under Indo German Higher Education partnership” on 20^th-22^nd February, 2024

We are pleased to inform you that the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, is organizing an International INDO-GERMAN conference on “Sustainable Chemistry-2024” from February 20-22, 2024, at Kenilworth Resorts Goa, to bring together chemists and biologists to share their recent contributions to the frontier areas of Sustainable Chemistry 2024

Heartly Congratulations to Puspendu for getting offer from Ashoka university Faculty position

Our group’s work on Gold catalysis has entered in organic chemistry portal J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 9729. DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.2c00780

https://www.organic-chemistry.org/Highlights/2023/19June.shtm

Dr. Sarkar recently visited University of Hyderabad, Sapala Organics Ltd, Dr. Reddy’s Life Sciences & Ekalavya Center of Organic Agriculture.

Congratulations Niladri Sekhar Roy for secured Second place in SCIENTIFIQUE: Oral presentation under department of chemistry during Research and Industrial Conclave -Integration 2023 organised By Students’ Academic Board,IIT Guwahati and IIT GUWAHATI Research park.

Congratulations Dr. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo for being Selected as Inspire Faculty Fellow

DS group is hosting “International Conference on Sustainable Chemistry : 2023 under Indo German Higher Education partnership” on 22^nd-23^rd February, 2023

We are pleased to inform you that the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, is organizing an International conference on “Sustainable Chemistry-2023” under Indo German Higher Education partnership from 22^nd-23^rd February, 2024 to bring together chemists and biologists to share their recent contributions to the frontier areas of Sustainable Chemistry 2023

Conference Link : https://iitichemcon.iiti.ac.in/

Nabakumar Bera joined TCG Lifesciences Chembiotech as a Research Associate
POST DOC VACANCY under Indo-German Higher Education Partnerships (UGC-DAAD)

The Orissa Chemical Society has selected Professor Debayan Sarkar(Department of Chemistry) as the winner of Prof. R. C. Tripathy Award (Inside the State) for the year 2021. Many congratulations.

Chemical Innovations For Sustainable Future 2020- 2024 ( Principal Investigator), 1.92 Crores Funding Agency : UGC-DAAD, Under Indo-German Higher Education Partnerships, PI ( Just sanctioned)

Developing Enantioselective Carbon-heteroatom Bond Formations Employing Visible Light, 44 Lakhs, 2021-2024 Funding Agency: SERB, Department of Science and Technology, PI