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

Special award of Rs. 15000 per paper for Lab students in journals like Organic Letters, ACS Catalysis, Chemcomm, JACS, Nature Chemistry, Nature Catalysis, Angrew Chemie, Chemical Reviews, Chemicals Science, Green Chemistry, Science. This will be valid for next 3 years.

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

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

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

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