Congratulations to Dr. Ravi Kumar for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. His thesis focused on developing organometallic catalyst for catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 and N-heteroarenes. OSML also thanks the external examiner, Prof. Yuichiro Himeda, for his valuable comments.

Congratulations to Dr. Sanajit Kumar Mandal for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis titled "Exploring Cobalt-NHC-based Molecular Electrocatalysts for the Electrochemical H2 Evolution and CO2 Reduction Reactions". OSML also thanks the external examiner, Prof. T. K. Paine

We are happy to share that our recent work has been published in Angewandte Chemie. We demonstrated a bottom up topology engineering approach towards stimuli-responsive Double-Heptagon-Embedded wavy shaped PAHs. Congrats Dr. Sohel Rana doi.org/10.1002/anie.2…

Congratulations to Dr. Sohel Rana for winning the best poster award at ICOMC 2024 held in Agra, India on 14-18 July 2024.

Congratulations to our recent graduates, Dr. Ravi Kumar, Dr. Sanajit Kumar Mandal, Dr. Ritu Bhardwaj and Sumit Nag, who received their degrees at the 11th convocation of IISER Bhopal.

We are happy to share that our recent work "Hyper-Cross-Linked Polymer-Based Self-Supported Reusable Ru-NHC Catalyst for Amine-Assisted Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol" in collab with Bera Group group is now published in ACS Catalysis. doi.org/10.1021/acscat….

We are happy to share that our recent work has been published in Inorganic Chemistry . We demonstrated Co electrocatalyst for selective electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) to produce CO, H2, and HCO2H. Congrats to Dr. Sanajit Kumar Mandal Sanajit Kumar Mandal doi.org/10.1021/acs.in…

Don't miss "The Key Role of Proton-Responsive Groups in Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (eHER)" by Joyanta Choudhury and co-workers. Read the full review article here …mistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

We are pleased to announce ICCCU-24, organized by NCCCU under the Department of Science and Technology. Join us at JNCASR from December 9-13, 2024. Researchers and professionals in CCU are invited to participate. Please register via the website: scpgroup.wixsite.com/icccu2024

Delighted to share that our recent research article titled "Annulated oxazolium anion–π + AIEgens", published in Chemical Communications . Congratulations to Dr. Sohel Rana and Surajit Manna. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…

If you're interested in understanding the role of hydride transfer in CO2 reduction catalysis, then this paper by Joyanta Choudhury and co-workers in Accounts of Chemical Research is for you! Read full article here. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

Congrats Dr. Sohel Rana for defending his Ph.D. thesis titled "Cp*Rh(III)-Catalyzed Orchestrated C–H Activation-Annulative π‐Extension Approach toward Topologically Diverse Function-Enriched Polycyclic Azolium Compounds". OSML also thanks external examiner, Prof. Debabrata Maiti

We are happy to share that our recent work on "H2-Evolving Cobalt–Protic-NHC Catalysts: Kinetic Zone Diagram Analysis and Mechanistic Insights" is now published in ACS Catalysis . Congrats to Sanajit Kumar Mandal and Anusha for nice work. pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.10…

Our recent work on "Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction to HCO2H by Protic NHC-Ir Complexes" is now published in Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. Congratulations to Saswati Ray 2220213 and Sanajit Kumar Mandal for this exciting work. Read full article here. doi.org/10.1016/j.jorg…

Rocking the stage now Prof. Joyanta Choudhury OSML from IISER Bhopal on bottom-up molecular engineering through orchestrated C-H activation -annulation showcasing the potential of π-expanded hetero helicene chemistry. #ischa2024

Congratulations to Shivankar Jagota for winning the best poster award at 7th International Symposium on C-H Activation ISCHA 2024 held in IIT Bombay, India on 6-9th December, 2024.

Congratulations to Dr. Ravi Kumar for being selected for the CO2 India Best PhD Thesis Oral Presentation and winning the Best Poster Presentation Award at CACEE TIFR held at TIFR Mumbai, from December 16-20, 2024.

Congratulations Dr. Sohel Rana for accomplishing this milestone with flying colors. We are confident that more such accolades are on the way! We shall miss you terribly but we know this is part of the process. We wish you all the best for your future endeavours. Keep shining!

Congratulations to Manisha Pal and Saurabh Kumar Bhati for receiving the best poster award at 34th CRSI-National Symposium Chemical Research Society of India (CRSI) in Chemistry held at IISER Bhopal during Feb 6-8, 2025.

Currently we have a Research Associate-I position in our group. If you wish to apply for this post, you may contact Prof. Joyanta Choudhury ([email protected]). Please visit the following link for more details. iiserb.ac.in/assets_externa…