Indian Institute of Technology Ropar

Biography

Dr. Avijit Goswami completed his M.Sc. in Chemistry (specializing in organic chemistry) from Indian Institute of Techology Bombay in 2000. After working for one year as a research assistant in the field of heterogeneous catalysis, Dr. Goswami moved to Heidelberg University, Germany, to pursue doctoral studies. In 2005, he received his doctoral degree under the supervision of Prof. Walter Siebert. His doctoral thesis focused on transition metal-mediated cyclotrimerization reactions of various borylacetylenes and amino acetylenes.

Dr. Goswami spent one year as a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Guenter Helmchen at Heidelberg University, working on iridium-catalyzed asymmetric allylic animation and alkylation reactions. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious JSPS fellowship for postdoctoral study at Kanagawa University, Japan under the guidance of Professor Sentaro Okamoto.

Before joining IIT Ropar as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry in December 2009, he worked with Professor Kyoko Nozaki at The University of Tokyo in the direction of design and synthesizing new cobalt-based chiral salen catalyst for co-polymerization of propylene oxide with carbon dioxide, to prepare biodegradable polycarbonate.

Research Interests

• Synthetic Organic and Polymer Chemistry.
  
• Asymmetric Synthesis Using Chiral Transition-Metal Complexes as Catalysts.
  
• Development of New Organic Transformations Mediated by Organometallic Compounds.

Education

• Ph.D., Heidelberg University, Germany, 2001-05
• M.Sc., Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India, 1998-2000
• B.Sc., Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India, 1994-98

Work Experience

• Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, 2009-Present
  
• Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology,The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 2008-09
  
• Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Kanagawa University, Yokohama, Japan, 2006-08
  
• Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Chemistry, Heidelberg University Heidelberg, Germany, 2005-06
  

1) J. I. Watanabe, Y. Ki. Sugiyama, A. Nomura, S. Azumatei, A. Goswami, N. Saino, S. Okamoto, Quick Access to Diverse Polymerizable Molecules (a Monomer Library) by Catalytic [2+2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions of Functionalized Alkynes, Macromolecules, 2010, 43, 2213-2218.

2) Avijit Goswami, Taichi Ito, Naoko Saino, Kouki Kase, Chikashi Matsuno and Sentaro Okamoto, “Selective Dimerization of 1,6-Diynes Catalyzed by Ionic Liquid-Supported Nickel Complexes in An Ionic Liquid/Toluene Biphasic System”, Chem. Commun. 2009, 439-441.

3) A. Goswami, K. Ohtaki, K. Kase, T. Ito, S. Okamoto, “Synthesis of substituted 2,2’-bipyridines and 2,2’:6’,2’-terpyridines by cobalt-catalyzed cycloaddition reactions of nitriles and α,ω-diynes with exclusive regioselectivity”, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2008, 350, 143-152.

4) A. Goswami, T. Ito, S. Okamoto, “Efficient activation of 2-iminomethyl- pyridine/cobalt-based alkyne [2+2+2] cycloaddition catalyst by addition of silver salt”, Adv. Synth. Catal. 2007, 349, 2368-2374.

5) K. Kase, A. Goswami, K. Ohtaki, E. Tanabe, N. Saino, S. Okamoto, “On demand generation of an efficient catalyst for pyridine formation from unactivated nitriles and α,ω-diynes using CoCl2-6H2O, dppe and Zn”, Org. Lett. 2007, 9, 931-934.

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