Dr. Soumyajit Das

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Office: Room 323 (Main campus, SS Bhatnagar Block)

Phone: 01881-232067

Webpage: https://soumyajitiitg.wixsite.com/mysite

Designation: 
Assistant Professor
Department: 
Department of Chemistry
Education: 
Ph.D. (Chemistry): Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, West Bengal, 2007-2012 (Thesis advisor: Prof. Sanjio S. Zade)
M.Sc. (Chemistry): Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, 2005-2007 (Project advisor: Prof. Parameswar K. Iyer)
B.Sc. (Chemistry, Hons.): Bagati Sreegopal Banerjee College, Mogra, Hooghly, West Bengal, 2002-2005 (affiliation: The University of Burdwan)
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Teaching Courses:

  • CY101 - Chemistry for Engineers
  • EV201 - Environmental Science and Engineering
  • GE101 - Technology Museum Lab
  • CY427/CY701 - Molecular Spectroscopy
Research Interest:
  • Synthesis of novel π-conjugated systems
  • Open-shell polycyclic arenes and heteroarenes
  • Organic spin-electronics
Research Funding:
  • ISIRD Phase I (IIT Ropar), 2019-2020
  • ISIRD Phase II (IIT Ropar), 2019-2022
  • Start-up Research Grant (SERB, DST India), 2019-2021
Current PhD Students:
  • Mr. Priyank Kumar Sharma (M.Sc Chemistry - NIT Jalandhar)
  • Mr. Himanshu (M.Sc Chemistry - IIT Ropar)
Publications:
   From IIT Ropar
 

1. Himanshu Sharma, Priyank Kumar Sharma, Soumyajit Das*: Revisiting indeno[2,1-c]fluorene synthesis while exploring the fully conjugated s-indaceno[2,1-c:6,5-c']difluorene. Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 11319-11322.

Before joining IIT Ropar

 1.   Qingbiao Qi, Jing Zhang, Soumyajit Das, Wangdong Zeng, Jie Luo, Jie Zhang, Peng Wang, Jishan Wu: Push-pull type alkoxy-wrapped N-annulated perylenes for dye-sensitized solar cells. RSC Advances 2016, 6(84), 81184-81190.

 2.     Rui Huang, Hoa Phan, Tun Seng Herng, Pan Hu, Wangdong Zeng, Shao-qiang Dong, Soumyajit Das, Yongjia Shen, Jun Ding, David Casanova, Jishan Wu: Higher order π-conjugated polycyclic hydrocarbons with open-shell singlet ground state: nonazethrene versus nonacene. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138(32), 10323.

 3.     Soumyajit Das, Tun Seng Herng, Jose L. Zafra, Paula Mayorga Burrezo, Masaaki Kitano, Masatoshi Ishida, Tullimilli Y. Gopalakrishna, Pan Hu, Atsuhiro Osuka, Juan Casado, Jun Ding, David Casanova, Jishan Wu: Fully-fused quinoidal/aromatic carbazole macrocycles with poly-radical characters. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2016, 138(24), 7782. [Selected for JACS Spotlight]

 4.     Priya Yadav, Soumyajit Das, Hoa Phan, Tun Seng Herng, Jun Ding, Jishan Wu: Kinetically blocked stable 5,6:12,13-dibenzozethrene: a laterally π-extended zethrene with enhanced diradical character. Organic Letters 2016, 18(12), 2886.

 5.     Pan Hu, Sangsu Lee, Kyu Hyung Park, Soumyajit Das, Tun Seng Herng, Theo P Gonçalves, Kuo-Wei Huang, Jun Ding, Dongho Kim, Jishan Wu: Octazethrene and its isomer with different diradical characters and chemical reactivity: the role of the bridge structure. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2016, 81(7), 2911.

6.     Soumyajit Das, Jishan Wu: Toward singlet–triplet bistable nonalternant kekulé hydrocarbons: azulene-to-naphthalene rearrangement. Organic Letters 2015, 17(23), 5854.

 7.     Soumyajit Das, Sangsu Lee, Minjung Son, Xiaojian Zhu, Wenhua Zhang, Bin Zheng, Pan Hu, Zebing Zeng, Zhe Sun, Wangdong Zeng, Run-Wei Li, Kuo-Wei Huang, Jun Ding, Dongho Kim, Jishan Wu: para-Quinodimethane-bridged perylene dimers and pericondensed quaterrylenes: the effect of the fusion mode on the ground states and physical properties. Chemistry - A European Journal 2014, 20(36), 11410.

8.     Zhe Sun, Sangsu Lee, Kyu Hyung Park, Xiaojian Zhu, Wenhua Zhang, Bin Zheng, Pan Hu, Zebing Zeng, Soumyajit Das, Yuan Li, Chunyan Chi, Run-Wei Li, Kuo-Wei Huang, Jun Ding, Dongho Kim, Jishan Wu: Dibenzoheptazethrene isomers with different biradical characters: an exercise of Clar's aromatic sextet rule in singlet biradicaloids. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2013, 135(48), 18229.

 

9.     Soumyajit Das, Palas Baran Pati, Sanjio S Zade: Cyclopenta[c]thiophene-based D−A conjugated copolymers: effect of heteroatoms (S, Se, and N) of benzazole acceptors on the properties of polymers. Macromolecules 2012, 45(13), 5410.

10.  Palas Baran Pati, Soumyajit Das, Sanjio S Zade: Benzooxadiazaole-based D–A–D co-oligomers: synthesis and electropolymerization. Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry 2012, 50(19), 3996.

11.  Anjan Bedi, Satyaprasad P. Senanayak, Soumyajit Das, K S Narayan, Sanjio S Zade: Cyclopenta[c]thiophene oligomers based solution processable D–A copolymers and their application as FET materials. Polymer Chemistry 2012, 3(6), 1453.

12.  Soumyajit Das, Santanu Mandal, Balaram Mukhopadhyay, Sanjio S Zade: Synthesis of carbohydrate-functionalized thiophene-capped cyclopenta[c]thiophene for concanavalin A recognition. Tetrahedron Letters 2012, 53(12), 1464.

13.  Soumyajit Das, Anjan Bedi, G Rama Krishna, C Malla Reddy, Sanjio S Zade: Cyclopenta[c]selenophene based cooligomers and their polymers: comparative study with thiophene analogues. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 2011, 9(20), 6963.

14.  Soumyajit Das, Satyaprasad P Senanayak, Anjan Bedi, K S Narayan, Sanjio S Zade: Synthesis and charge carrier mobility of a solution-processable conjugated copolymer based on cyclopenta[c]thiophene. Polymer 2011, 52(25), 5780.

 14.  Soumyajit Das, Satyaprasad P Senanayak, Anjan Bedi, K S Narayan, Sanjio S Zade: Synthesis and charge carrier mobility of a solution-processable conjugated copolymer based on cyclopenta[c]thiophene. Polymer 2011, 52(25), 5780.

15.  Soumyajit Das, Pradip Kumar Dutta, Snigdha Panda, Sanjio S Zade: 3,4-Ethylenedioxythiophene and 3,4-ethylenedioxyselenophene: synthesis and reactivity of Cα-Si bond. The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75(14), 4868.

16.  Soumyajit Das, Sanjio S Zade: Poly(cyclopenta[c]selenophene): a new polyselenophene. Chemical Communications 2010, 46, 1168.

Book Chapters:

 1.   "Open-shell benzenoid polycyclic hydrocarbons" by Soumyajit Das, Jishan Wu, in a book entitled 'Polycyclic Arenes and Heteroarenes: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications', Editor: Qian Miao, Wiley-VCH, 2015, 3.

2. "Polycyclic hydrocarbons with an open-shell ground state" by Soumyajit Das, Jishan Wu, in a book entitled 'Chemistry of Carbon Nanostructures', Editor: Klaus Müllen, Xinliang Feng, DeGreuyter, 2017, 253.

Work Experience: 
Assistant Professor (Mar 2019 – Present), Indian Institute of Technology Ropar.
Senior Scientist (Mar 2018 – Feb 2019), Aurigene Discovery, Bangalore.
Research Scientist (Sep 2016 – Feb 2018), Sai Life Sciences, Pune.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Mar 2012 – Aug 2016), National University of Singapore (advisor: Prof. Jishan Wu)