Prof. Sujit Roy

Professor

School of Basic Sciences

Office : School of Basic Sciences, Room No 208

Phone : 674-7135158

Email : sroy@iitbbs.ac.in, sujitroy.chem@gmail.com, royiitkgp@gmail.com

Education

Degree	Discipline	Year	School
PhD	Organometallic Chemistry	1987	Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Post-doctoral Associate	Organometallic Chemistry & Material Science	1987-1990	University of Western Ontario, Canada
JICA Scholar for the International School on Catalysis	Organometallics & Asymmetric Catalysis	May-Nov 1998	Catalysis Research Center, Hokkaido University, Japan

Research Interests

Organometallic Chemistry; C-H Functionalization; Alcohol Activation; Multimetallic Catalysis; Pot-Economy via the Tandem approach

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Teaching

Chemistry (CY1L001) Environmental Science, Technology and Management (ID3L003) Principles of Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry (CY5L006) Metal Complexes in Catalysis (CY7L005) Catalyst Design and Function (CY7L027) Organometallic strategies in Organic Synthesis (CY7L032) Physical Methods in Inorganic Chemistry (CY7L006) Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory (CY5P002)

Recent Publication (International Journals)	Author(s)/Speaker(s)
Anuradha Mohanty, Sujit Roy Glaser–Hay hetero-coupling in a bimetallic regime: A Ni(II)/Ag(I) assisted base, ligand and additive free route to selective unsymmetrical 1,3-diynes	Chemical Communications 2017, 53, 93-98, 10796-10799
Utilization of flow chemistry in catalysis: New avenues for the selective synthesis of Bis (indolyl) methanes Tetrahedron 2017, 73, 1812-1819	Swapna Sarita Mohapatra, ZE Wilson, Sujit Roy, SV Ley
Mercury based drug in ancient India: The red sulfide of mercury in nanoscale Journal of Ayurveda and integrative medicine 2017, 8, 93-98	Priyabrata Mukhi, Swapna Sarita Mohapatra, M Bhattacharjee, KK Ray, TS Muraleedharan, A Arun, R Sathyavathi, RR Juluri, PV Satyam, Alok K Panda, Ashis Biswas, S Nayak, Sreedhar Bojja, S Pratihar, Sujit Roy
Re-entry of tin in N-alkylation: first example of a homogeneous heterobimetallic Pd–Sn catalyst for base and additive free alkylation of amine and surrogates with alcohol Tetrahedron Letters 2016, 57, 2749-2753.	Mohanty, Anuradha; Roy, Sujit
Recent advances in heterobimetallic catalysis across a ‘‘transition metal–tin’’ motif Chemical Society Review 2015, 44, 3666-3690.	Das, Debjit; Mohapatra, Swapna Sarita; Roy, Sujit
Palladium (II) in electrophilic activation of aldehydes and enones: efficient C-3 functionalization of indoles Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56, 5709-5713	Mohapatra, Swapna Sarita; Mukhi, Priyabrata, Mohanty, Anuradha, Pal, Satyanarayan; Sahoo, Aditya Omprakash; Das, Debjit; Roy, Sujit
Quantum confinement and quasiparticle corrections in α-HgS from first principles Surface Science 2015, 636, 54-58	Lanzillo N.A., Roy Sujit., Nayak S.
Multimetallic Iridium-Tin (Ir-Sn3) Catalyst in N-Acyliminium Ion Chemistry: Synthesis of 3-Substituted Isoindolinones via Intra and Intermolecular Amidoalkylation Reaction Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2014, 356, 2627 – 2642	Maity, Arnab Kumar; Roy, Sujit
SnCl2 insertion into Ir-Cl and Rh-Cl bonds: Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity of three-legged piano-stool trichlorostannyl iridium and rhodium complexes Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2014, 768, 42-49	Maity, Arnab Kumar; Bhattacharjee, Manish; Roy, Sujit
Palladium(II) Catalyzed Efficient C-3 Functionalization of Indoles with Benzylic and Allylic Alcohols under Co-Catalyst, Acid, Base, Additive and External Ligand-Free Conditions Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis 2013, 355, 1308-1314	Das, Debjit; Roy, Sujit
Heterobimetallic Pd-Sn Catalysis: Michael Addition Reaction with C-, N-, O-, and S-Nucleophiles and in Situ Diagnostics Journal of Organic Chemistry 2013, 78, 2430-2442	Das, Debjit; Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Heterobimetallic Pd-Sn catalysis: highly selective intermolecular hydroarylation of α-methyl substituted aryl alkenes Tetrahedron Letters 2013, 54, 335-338.	Das, Debjit; Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Heterobimetallic Ir-Sn catalysis: aza-Friedel-Crafts reaction of N-sulfonyl aldimines Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 2816-2826	Chatterjee, Paresh Nath; Maity, Arnab Kumar; Mohapatra, Swapna Sarita; Roy, Sujit
Multimetallic Ir-Sn3-catalyzed substitution reaction of π-activated alcohols with carbon and heteroatom nucleophiles Tetrahedron 2013, 69, 942-956	Maity, Arnab Kumar; Chatterjee, Paresh Nath; Roy, Sujit
A Multimetallic Piano-Stool Ir-Sn3 Catalyst for Nucleophilic Substitution Reaction of γ-Hydroxy Lactams through N-Acyliminium Ions Journal of Organic Chemistry 2012, 77, 2935-2941.	Maity, Arnab Kumar; Roy, Sujit
Heterobimetallic Pd-Sn Catalysis: A Suzuki, Tandem Ring-Closing Sequence toward Indeno[2,1-b]thiophenes and Indeno[2,1-b]indoles Organic Letters 2012, 14, 4870-4873.	Das, Debjit; Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Allylic activation across an Ir-Sn heterobimetallic catalyst: nucleophilic substitution and disproportionation of allylic alcohol Tetrahedron 2012, 68, 3776-3785	Chatterjee, Paresh Nath; Roy, Sujit
First example of a heterobimetallic 'Pd-Sn' catalyst for direct activation of alcohol: efficient allylation, benzylation and propargylation of arenes, heteroarenes, active methylenes and allyl-Si nucleophiles Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2012, 10, 4537-4542	Das, Debjit; Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Mal, Dipakranjan; Roy, Sujit
Ag(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective Ring-Opening of N-Tosylaziridine and N-Tosylazetidine with S-, O-, and N-Nucleophiles and Tethered Dinucleophiles Journal of Organic Chemistry 2011, 76, 1475-1478.	Bera, Milan; Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Reactivity and selectivity of organotin reagents in allylation and arylation: nucleophilicity parameter as a guide Organometallics 2011, 30, 3257-3269	Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Alkylation of 1,3-dicarbonyl compounds with benzylic and propargylic alcohols using Ir-Sn bimetallic catalyst: synthesis of fully decorated furans and pyrroles Tetrahedron 2011, 67, 4569-4577	Chatterjee, Paresh Nath; Roy, Sujit
Mono cationic palladium(II): Synthesis, characterization and catalytic activity in Suzuki coupling Inorganica Chimica Acta 2011, 372, 362-366.	Pratihar, Sanjay; Marek, Jaromir; Roy, Sujit
Nucleophilicity and Site Selectivity of Commonly Used Arenes and Heteroarenes Journal of Organic Chemistry 2011, 76, 4219.	Pratihar, Sanjay; Roy, Sujit
Making and Breaking of Sn-C and In-C Bonds in Situ: The Cases of Allyltins and Allylindiums Chemical Reviews 2010, 110, 2472-2535.	Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
Propargylic Activation Across a Heterobimetallic Ir-Sn Catalyst: Nucleophilic Substitution and Indene Formation with Propargylic Alcohols Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 4413-4423	Chatterjee, Paresh Nath; Roy, Sujit
Silver(I)-Diene Complexes as Versatile Catalysts for the C-Arylation of N-Tosylaziridines: Mechanistic Insight from In Situ Diagnostics Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 4402-4412	Bera, Milan; Roy, Sujit
Reactivity of IrCl(PPh3)3 with diphenylacetylene - A direct route to 1-iridaindene Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2009, 87(1), 183-187.	Choudhury, Joyanta; Pratihar, Sanjay; Maity, Arnab Kumar; Roy, Sujit
Silver(I)-Catalyzed Dual Activation of Propargylic Alcohol and Aziridine/Azetidine: Triggering Ring-Opening and Endo-Selective Ring-Closing in a Cascade Journal of Organic Chemistry 2009, 74(22), 8814-8817.	Bera, Milan; Roy, Sujit
Ir/Sn dual reagent catalysis for the alkylation of arenes with benzyl alcohols: Kinetic evidence for an electrophilic pathway and a guide towards electronic tuning of catalyst efficiency Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (2008), 279(1), 37-46.	Choudhury, Joyanta; Roy, Sujit
Ir/Sn dual-reagent catalysis towards highly selective alkylation of arenes and heteroarenes with benzyl alcohols Journal of Chemical Sciences (2008), 120(5), 429-439.	Roy, Sujit; Podder, Susmita; Choudhury, Joyanta
Selenophilicity of copper in selenium-carbon bond formation from selenous acid using Cu(II)/Sn(II) reagent Phosphorus, Sulfur and Silicon and the Related Elements (2008), 183(12), 2943-2955	Choudhury, Joyanta; Sinha, Pradipta; Prabhakar, S.; Vairamani, M.; Roy, Sujit
A facile C-arylation of N-tosyl aziridines via Ag(I) catalysis Tetrahedron Letters (2007), 48(40), 7144-7146.	Bera, Milan; Roy, Sujit
Dual-Reagent Catalysis within Ir-Sn Domain: Highly Selective Alkylation of Arenes and Heteroarenes with Aromatic Aldehydes Journal of Organic Chemistry (2007), 72(8), 3100-3103	Podder, Susmita; Choudhury, Joyanta; Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
Efficient and selective alkylation of arenes and heteroarenes with benzyl and allyl ethers using a Ir/Sn bimetallic catalyst Tetrahedron (2007), 63(37), 9146-9152.	Podder, Susmita; Roy, Sujit
Generation of Ir-Sn and Rh-Sn bonds from the oxidative addition of tin(IV) halides to [Ir(μ-Cl)(1,5-COD)]2 and [Rh(μ-Cl)(1,5-COD)]2 Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2007), 692(25), 5614-5620.	Choudhury, Joyanta; Kumar, D. Krishna; Roy, Sujit
Pd/Sn(II)-mediated three-component cascade coupling (3-C3) approaches Tetrahedron Letters (2007), 48(7), 1183-1186.	Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Jana, Prithwish Kumar; Roy, Sujit
Pd0/SnII promoted Barbier-type allylation and crotylation of sulfonimines Tetrahedron Letters (2007), 48(40), 7177-7180.	Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
Recent advances in the synthesis and properties of ferrocenes having an unsaturated backbone Coordination Chemistry Reviews (2007), 251(1+2), 203-221.	Debroy, Paromita; Roy, Sujit
Secondary Benzylation with Benzyl Alcohols Catalyzed by A High-Valent Heterobimetallic Ir-Sn Complex Journal of Organic Chemistry (2007), 72(8), 3129-3132	Podder, Susmita; Choudhury, Joyanta; Roy, Sujit
A facile transesterification route to ferrocenyl esters Inorganica Chimica Acta (2006), 359(4), 1215-1221	Debroy, Paromita; Naskar, Dinabandhu; Roy, Sujit
Highly efficient Barbier allylation with allyl alcohol using iridium(I)/tin(II): unusual and indirect roles of allyl alcohol and tin Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical (2006), 246(1-2), 231-236	Banerjee, Moloy; Roy, Sujit
Highly efficient water promoted allylation and propargylation of aryl epoxides via rearrangement-carbonyl addition Tetrahedron (2006), 62(4), 678-683	Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
SnCl2 mediated efficient N,N-dialkylation of azides to tertiary-amine via potential stannaimine intermediate Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2006), 691(8), 1525-1530	Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
Binding of Amino Acids into a Novel Multiresponsive Ferrocene Receptor Having an Ene Backbone Organic Letters (2005), 7(3), 403-406	Debroy, Paromita; Banerjee, Moloy; Prasad, Madhumita; Moulik, Satya P.; Roy, Sujit
Cooperative Friedel-Crafts Catalysis in Heterobimetallic Regime: Alkylation of Aromatics by π-Activated Alcohols Journal of the American Chemical Society (2005), 127(17), 6162-6163	Choudhury, Joyanta; Podder, Susmita; Roy, Sujit
Synthesis of Alkynyl and Vinyl Selenides via Selenodecarboxylation of Arylpropiolic and Cinnamic Acids Organometallics (2005), 24(25), 6136-6140.	Das, Jaya Prakash; Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Roy, Sujit
Tuning the reactivity of organotin(IV) by LiOH: allylation and propargylation of epoxides via redox transmetalation Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2005), 690(6), 1422-1428	Banerjee, Moloy; Roy, Ujjal Kanti; Sinha, Pradipta; Roy, Sujit
Barbier Reaction in the Regime of Metal Oxide: Carbonyl Allylation over β-SnO/Cu2O and Surface Diagnostics Organometallics (2004), 23(1), 67-71	Sinha, Pradipta; Roy, Sujit
Rhodium(I)-Catalyzed Carbonyl Allenylation versus Propargylation via Redox Transmetalation Across Tetragonal Tin(II) Oxide Organic Letters (2004), 6(13), 2137-2140	Banerjee, Moloy; Roy, Sujit
Palladium(0) catalyzed regioselective carbonyl propargylation across tetragonal tin(II) oxide via redox transmetallation Chemical Communications (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (2003), (4), 534-535.	Banerjee, Moloy; Roy, Sujit
Synthesis of ferrocenes with ene-terminus via water-promoted Barbier-like carbonyl allylation using bimetallic copper(II)/tin(II) reagent Journal of Organometallic Chemistry (2003), 675(1-2), 105-112	Debroy, Paromita; Roy, Sujit
A Nitro-Hunsdiecker Reaction: From Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids to Nitrostyrenes and Nitroarenes Organic Letters (2002), 4(18), 3055-3058	Das, Jaya Prakash; Sinha, Pradipta; Roy, Sujit
Catalytic Hunsdiecker Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids: How Efficient Is the Catalyst? Journal of Organic Chemistry (2002), 67(22), 7861-7864.	Das, Jaya Prakash; Roy, Sujit
Barbier reaction in the regime of metal oxide: the first example of carbonyl allylation mediated by tetragonal tin(II) oxide Chemical Communications (Cambridge, United Kingdom) (2001), (18), 1798-1799.	Sinha, Pradipta; Roy, Sujit
Copper(II)/Tin(II) Reagent for Allylation, Propargylation, Alkylation, and Benzylation of Disulfides and Elemental Sulfur: New Insight into the "Copper Effect" Organometallics (2001), 20(1), 157-162	Sinha, Pradipta; Kundu, Abhijit; Roy, Sujit; Prabhakar, Sripadi; Vairamani, M.; Sankar, A. Ravi; Kunwar, A. C
Copper(II)/Tin(II) Reagent for Allylation, Propargylation, Alkynylation, and Benzylation of Diselenides: A Novel Bimetallic Reactivity Organometallics (2000), 19(1), 105-107.	Kundu, Abhijit; Roy, Sujit

Academic Honors & Awards

Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (2008)
Chemical Research Society of India Bronze Medal (2004)
CSIR Young Scientist Award in Chemical Sciences (1994)
University Gold Medal in MSc (1980)

PhD: 17 (Awarded), 3 (Ongoing); MSc/MTech: 14 (Completed); 2 (Ongoing)