Dr. Indranil Chatterjee

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Room & Contact: 

Office: Room 221

Phone: 01881-242167

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Department: 

Department of Chemistry

Biography: 

Dr. Indranil Chatterjee was born in Kolkata, India in 1983. He obtained his B.Sc. from Calcutta University, India in 2006, and then he moved to IIT Kharagpur for his M.Sc. study. In 2008 he moved to Germany for his Ph.D. study at Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Armido Studer, where his studies centered on catalytic asymmetric cycloaddition reactions. After finishing his Ph.D. study in November 2011, he joined as a Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Paolo Melchiorre in ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain in 2012. His area of research mainly focused on new organocatalytic cascade reactions. After that from 2014 to 2016 he did another Post-Doc with Prof. Martin Oestreich at the Technische Universität Berlin, concentrating his research on Lewis acid catalysis. Since December 2016 he is holding a position of Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.

Areas of Research: 

Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Methodology Development

Photoredox Chemistry, Dual Catalysis

Organocatalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis

Total Synthesis

Education: 

Ph.D. (2011): Institute of Organic Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, Muenster, Germany. (Thesis Advisor: Professor Armido Studer).

M.Sc. (Chemistry) (2008): Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India. (Thesis Advisor: Professor Jaynta Kumar Ray).

B. Sc. (Chemistry) (2006): University of Calcutta, India.

Selected Publications/Patents: 
10. Chatterjee I., Oestreich M. (2016): Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines and Alkenes Using Cyclohexa-1,4-dienes as Dihydrogen Surrogates. Organic Letters 18, 2463–2466. Highlighted in Synfacts (2016), 12, 971.
9. Chatterjee I., Qu Z.-W., Grimme S., Oestreich M. (2015): B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Transfer of Dihydrogen from an Unsaturated Hydrocarbon to Another Unsaturated Hydrocarbon Source. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 54, 12158–12162.
8. Chatterjee I., Oestreich M. (2015): B(C6F5)3-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines and Related Heteroarenes Using Cyclohexa-1,4-dienes as Dihydrogen Source. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 54, 1965–1968.
7. Chakrabarty S., Chatterjee I., Wibbeling B., Daniliuc C. G., Studer A. (2014): Formal [3+2] Dipolar Cycloaddtion of Nitrosoarenes with Cyclopropanes – An Approach to Isoxazolidines. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 53, 5964–5968.
6. Chatterjee I., Bastida D., Melchiorre ‎P. (2013): Vinylogous Organocatalytic Triple Cascade Reaction: Forging Six Stereocenters in Complex Spiro-oxindolic Cyclohexanes. Advance Synthesis and Catalysis 355, 3124–3130.
5. Silvi M., Chatterjee I., Liu Y., Melchiorre P. (2013): "Controlling the Molecular Topology of Vinylogous Iminium Ions by Logical Substrate Design: Highly Regio- and Stereo-Selective Aminocatalytic 1,6-Addition to Linear 2,4-Dienals". Angewandte Chemie, International Edition , 10780–10783.
4. Chakrabarty S., Chatterjee I., Tebben L., Studer A. (2013): Reactions of Arynes with Nitrosoarenes - A New Approach to Substituted Carbazoles. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 52, 2968–2971. Highlighted in Synfacts (2013), 539 and Synfacts (2013), 705.
3. Chatterjee I., Fröhlich R., Studer A. (2011): Formation of Isoxazolidines via Enantioselective Cu-Catalyzed Annulation of 2-Nitrosopyridine with Allylstannanes. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition 50, 11257–11260. Highlighted in Synfacts (2011), 177.
2. Chou C.-M., Chatterjee I., Studer A. (2011): Stereospecific Palladium-Catalyzed Decarboxylative Csp3–Csp2 Coupling of 2,5-Cyclohexadiene-1-carboxylic Acid Derivatives with Aryl Iodides. Angewandte Chemie, International Edition , 8614–8617. Showcased as Back Cover.
1. Chatterjee I., Jana C. K., Steinmetz M., Grimme S., Studer A. (2010): Copper Catalyzed Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions of 2-Nitrosopyridine with Ketenes. Advance Synthesis and Catalysis 352, 945–948.
Work Experience: 

Assistant Professor (Since Dec. 2016): Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar.

Post-Doctoral fellows (2014-2016): Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

(Advisor: Prof. Martin Oestreich)

Post-Doctoral fellows (2012-2014): ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain.

(Advisor: Prof. Paolo Melchiorre)