Very educative for akshara bisarya who attempted to attain a better control on the systematic formation of NNN Pincer-Manganese and their eventual disproportionation. Yet active for Guerbet β-Alkylation of Alcohols | pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… IIT Guwahati SERB Organometallics

Nicely done by Pran Gobinda Nandi in a comprehensive study on β-Methylation of Alcohols Catalyzed by Pincer–Ruthenium | Organometallics pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati SERB Organometallics

Three cheers to vinay for demonstrating the catalytic conversion of feed-agnostic ethanol to clean-burning hydrogen and value-added acetic acid using pincer-ruthenium complexes pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… IIT Guwahati Department of Chemistry IITG SERB DSTIndia Catalysis Sci & Tech

To her pleasant surprise, Narjinari's Live realized that a simple base metal salt CoCl2 could catalyze the acceptorless or transfer dehydrogenation of glycerol to lactic acid and hydrogen or isopropanol – …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch… IIT Guwahati Department of Chemistry IITG SERB ChemEurJ: Chemistry - A European Journal

Acceptorless or Transfer Dehydrogenation of Glycerol Catalyzed by Base Metal Salt Cobaltous Chloride - Facile Access to Lactic Acid and Hydrogen or Isopropanol (Kumar et al.) IIT Guwahati, Akshai Kumar onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ch…

Congratulations to Himani Narjinari and Dr. Akshai Kumar A. S.

Grateful to Main-group Molecules to Materials for awarding me the best poster in the ACS Catalysis category. ACS Publications Akshai Kumar Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati

Base metal CoCl2 at room temperature as an anodic electrocatalyst gives impressive current densities for (m)ethanol electro-oxidation with industrially valuable sodium carbonate as sole by-product. See the work from Akshai Kumar IIT Guwahati pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Nicely done by all the authors. Thoroughly enjoyed the discussions that shaped this Feature Article on Production of hydrogen from alcohols - now published in Chemical Communications pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… IIT Guwahati Department of Chemistry IITG Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) Arnab Dutta IIT Bombay

'Production of hydrogen from alcohols via homogeneous catalytic transformations mediated by molecular transition-metal complexes' New from Arnab Dutta, Akshai Kumar and co. at IIT Guwahati Akshai Kumar, Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati, Department of Chemistry IITG, Arnab Dutta pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

A Comprehensive work by Babu V on Pincer-Iron Catalysts for transformation of Bio-Diesel waste Glycerol to Lactic Acid in high yields and excellent selectivity | Inorganic Chemistry pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… IIT Guwahati Department of Chemistry IITG Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Inorganic Chemistry

Following our continued efforts towards transformation of Bio-Diesel waste Glycerol to Lactic Acid akshara bisarya demonstrates that NNN pincer–Mn and precursor MnCl2 can act as catalyst- Dalton Transactions pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… IIT Guwahati Department of Chemistry IITG Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati DaltonTransactions

Nicely done by Pran Gobinda Nandi for a comprehensive work on Pincer-Ruthenium-Catalyzed Direct Formation of Fuel-Grade Alkanes via a Net-Decarboxylative Coupling of Alcohols | ACS Catalysis pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation

Yet another fruitful collaboration with Arnab Dutta . Enjoyed thoroughly Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation

Kudos to Vikas Saini for a detailed work on Pincer–Ruthenium Catalyzed Selective α‐Alkylation of Nitriles - Vikas - ChemCatChem - Wiley Online Library …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/cc… Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation Chemistry Europe

Great team effort. Thanks to Chemical Communications and all the co-authors

Indeed enjoyed this collaborative effort Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation

A selective and efficient catalyst system for acceptorless glycerol dehydrogenation to lactic acid. An immensely enjoyable collaboration with Akshai Kumar. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Yes indeed. Thoroughly enjoyed this collaborative endeavor with Andrew Weller. Kudos to Vikas Saini and all the authors Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation ACS Publications

A comprehensive study by Niharika Tanwar in 3d-metal based anodic pincer electro-catalysts dispersed in solution for the electro-catalytic oxidation of (m)ethanol - pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art… Department of Chemistry IITG IIT Guwahati Centre for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati Anusandhan National Research Foundation