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59). Adrija Ghosh, Vishal Kumar Parida, and Debasis Banerjee, Challenges and opportunities on sustainable electrochemical transformations: application towards the synthesis of pharmaceuticals, and precursors of drug like molecules. Green Chem., 2024, 26, 5770-5789.   DOI: 10.1039/D3GC04881K

58). Sourajit Bera, Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, and Debasis Banerjee, Harnessing alcohols as sustainable reagents for late-stage functionalization: Synthesis of drugs and bio-inspired compounds. Chem. Soc. Rev. 2024, 53, 4607-4647    DOI: 10.1039/d3cs00942d

This article is part of the themed collection: 2023 Pioneering Investigators

57). Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Atanu Bera, and Debasis Banerjee, Direct Synthesis of Gem-β,β′-Bis(alkyl) Alcohols Using Nickel Catalysis via Sequential DCR Approach. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 4018-4029.    DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.4c00647

56). Suteerna Mullick, Adrija Ghosh and Debasis Banerjee, Recent advances on cross-coupling of alcohols via borrowing hydrogen catalysis. Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 4002-4014. DOI: 10.1039/D4CC00003J

This article is part of the themed collection: 2024 Pioneering Investigators    Highlighted on the Front Cover page    Tweeted by @ChemCommun

55). Motahar Sk, Shuvojit Haldar, Sourajit Bera, and Debasis Banerjee, Recent advances on semi-hydrogenation of alkyne to (E)-selective olefins. Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 1517-1533.    DOI: 10.1039/D3CC05395D

This article is part of the themed collection: 2023 CRSI Medal Winners Collection

54). Purushotam, Atanu Bera, and Debasis Banerjee, Recent advances on non-precious metal-catalysed fluorination, trifluoromethylation, and perfluoro-alkylation of N-heteroarenes. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2023, 21, 9298-9315.    DOI: 10.1039/D3OB01132A

This article is part of the themed collection: Celebrating 175 years of IIT Roorkee      Highlighted on the Front Cover page

53). Atanu Bera, Adrija Ghosh and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Alkylation of Oxindoles with Secondary Alcohols. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 7162–7171.    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c00402

52). Motahar Sk, Atanu Bera, Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Sequential Dehydrogenation and Cyclization of 2-Amino(Nitro)-benzyl Alcohols with Alkyl Alcohols: Synthesis of C-3-Substituted Quinolines. ChemCatChem 2023, 15, e202300412.    DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202300412

51). Adrija Ghosh, Atanu Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel Catalyzed Alkylation of Oxindoles with Alkyl Alcohols. ChemCatChem 2023, 15, e202201433.    DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202201433

50). Gargi, Shadab Saifi, Motahar Sk, A. S. K. Sinha, A. Aijaz and Debasis Banerjee, Immobilizing a homogeneous manganese catalyst into MOF pores for α-alkylation of methylene ketones with alcohols. Dalton Trans, 2022, 51, 17973-17977.    DOI: 10.1039/D2DT02629E

49). Special Issue Paper: Earth Abundant Metal-Catalyzed Sustainable Organic Transformations. Guest Editor: Debasis Banerjee in Tetrahedron/Tetrahedron Letters 2021.

48). Atanu Bera, Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Recent advances on non-precious transition metal catalysed C-H functionalization of N-heteroarenes. Chem. Commun., 2022, 58, 10-28.    DOI: 10.1039/D1CC05899A

This article is part of the themed collection: Functionalization of unreactive C-H bonds

47). Book Chapter: Adrija Ghosh, Atanu Bera, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Book Chapter: Electrochemical Oxidative C−H functionalization: A Metal-free Approach    DOI: 10.1002/9783527834242.chf0224

46). Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Recent advances in sustainable organic transformations using methanol: Expanding the scope of hydrogen borrowing catalysis. Org. Chem. Front, 2021, 8, 7077-7096.    DOI: 10.1039/D1QO01412A

45). Atanu Bera, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Recent Advances in Synthesis of N-Heteroarenes via Catalytic Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles. Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 13042-13058.    DOI: 10.1039/D1CC04919D

This article is part of the themed collection: 2021 Emerging Investigators

44). Shadab, Gargi, Motahar; A. Aijaz and Debasis Banerjee, Heterogenizing Homogeneous Nickel Catalyst Using Nano-Confined Strategy for Selective Synthesis of Mono- and 1,2-Disubstituted Benzimidazoles. Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 6042–16047.    DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02017

43). Sourajit Bera, Lalit Mohan Kabadwal and Debasis Banerjee, Recent Advances in Transition Metal-Catalyzed (1, n) Annulation using (De)-hydrogenative Coupling with Alcohols. Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 9807-9819.    DOI: 10.1039/D1CC03404A

This article is part of the themed collection: Green synthesis

42). Atanu Bera and Debasis Banerjee, A Ni(II)-PINCER COMPLEX FOR CATALYTIC AMINATION OF ALCOHOLS

Patent No: 20210268IN

41). Shuvojit Halder and Debasis Banerjee, A METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF PRIMARY AMIDES

Patent No: 20210267IN

40). Shuvojit Halder and Debasis Banerjee, COBALT-BASED HETEROATOM RICH SUPPORTED HETEROGENEOUS CATALYST AND ITS METHOD OF PREPARATION THEREOF

Patent No: 20210269IN

39). Shuvojit Halder and Debasis Banerjee, A METHOD FOR THE SYNTHESIS OF SECONDARY AMIDES

Patent No: 20210257IN

38). Motahar Sk, Jagadish Das and Debasis Banerjee, Book Chapter: Recent Advances in Iron Catalysis  DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-03943-119-9

ISBN 978-3-03943-118-2 (Hbk); ISBN 978-3-03943-119-9 (PDF)

37). Sourajit Bera, Atanu Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles using Molecular Oxygen. Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 6458-6463.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.0c02271

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36). Sourajit Bera, Atanu Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrogen-Borrowing Strategy: Chemo-selective Alkylation of Nitriles with Alcohols. Chem Commun. 2020, 56, 6850-6853.   DOI: 10.1039/d0cc02261f

35). Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Iron-Catalysed alkylation of 2-methyl and 4-methyl azaarenes with alcohols via C-H bond activation. Chem Commun. 2020, 56, 4777-4780.   DOI: 10.1039/D0CC01593H

34). Motahar Sk, Jagadish Das and Debasis Banerjee, A simple Iron-Catalyst for alkenylation of Ketones using Primary alcohols. Molecules. 2020, 25, 1590.     DOI: 10.3390/molecules25071590

Invited article: Special issues on Recent advances in Iron Catalysis

33). Anitha Alanthadka, Sourajit Bera, Mari Vellakkaran and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Double Dehydrogenative Coupling of Secondary Alcohols and β-Amino Alcohols to Access Substituted Pyrroles. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 13557-13564.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01819

32). Jagadish Das, Mari Vellakkaran, Motahar Sk. and Debasis Banerjee, Iron-Catalyzed Coupling of Methyl N-Heteroarenes with Primary Alcohols: Direct Access to E-Selective Olefins. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 7514-7518.   DOI: 0.1021/acs.orglett.9b02793

Tweeted by ‎@JOC_OL and @chemiscience      Most Read article Aug-Sept 2019

31). Anitha Alanthadka, Sourajit Bera and Debasis Banerjee, Iron-Catalyzed Ligand Free α-Alkylation of Methylene Ketones and β-Alkylation of Secondary Alcohols Using Primary Alcohols. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 11676-11686.    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.9b01600

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30). Jagadish Das, Mari Vellakkaran and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalysed Direct α-Olefination of Alkyl Substituted N-Heteroarenes with Alcohol. Chem Commun. 2019, 55, 7530-7533.   DOI: 10.1039/C9CC03591E

29). Atanu Bera, Motahar Sk, Khushboo Singh and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalysed Dehydrogenative Coupling of Aromatic Diamines with Alcohols: Selective Synthesis of Substituted Benzimidazoles and Quinoxalines. Chem Commun. 2019, 55, 5958-5961.    DOI: 10.1039/C9CC02319D

Highlighted in the themed collection: Most popular organic chemistry articles.

28). Jagadish Das, Mari Vellakkaran and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Alkylation of Ketone Enolates: Synthesis of Mono-Selective Linear Ketones. J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 769-779.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02609

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27). Khushboo Singh, Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Sourajit Bera, Anitha Alanthadka and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Synthesis of N-substituted Pyrroles using Diols with Aryl and Alkyl Amines. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 15406-15414.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02666

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26). Lalit Mohan Kabadwal, Jagadish Das, and Debasis Banerjee, Mn(II)-Catalysed Alkylation of Methylene Ketones with Alcohols: Direct Access to Functionalised Branched Products. Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 14069-14072.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.8b02666

25). Mari Vellakkaran, Jagadish Das, Sourajit Bera, and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalysed Alkylation of C(sp3)-H Bond with Alcohols: Direct Access to Functionalised N-Heteroaromatics. Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 12369-12372.   DOI: 10.1039/C8CC06370B

Highlighted in the themed collection: 20th Anniversary of the CRSI: Celebrating Indian Chemistry in ChemCommun.

24). Jagadish Das,Khushboo Singh, Mari Vellakkaran, and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrogen-Borrowing Strategy for α-Alkylation of Ketones with Alcohols: A New Route to Branched gem-Bis(alkyl) Ketones. Org. Lett., 2018, 20, 5587−5591.   DOI: 10.1021/acs.orglett.8b02256

Highlighted in the Virtual Issue: Letters from India: A Perspective on Organic Chemistry 20th Anniversary of Organic Letters

Most Read Article Sep-Oct-2018     Highlighted in Synfacts

23). Khushboo Singh, Mari Vellakkaran and Debasis Banerjee, A Nitrogen Ligated Nickel-Catalyst Enables Selective Intermolecular Cyclisation of β- and γ-Amino Alcohols with Ketones: Access to Five and Six-member N-Heterocycles. Green Chem., 2018, 20, 2250–2256.   DOI: 10.1039/C8GC00318A

22). Jagadish Das and Debasis Banerjee, Nickel-Catalyzed Phosphine Free Direct N‑Alkylation of Amides with Alcohols. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 3378−3384.    DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.7b03215

21). Mari Vellakkaran, Khushboo Singh, and Debasis Banerjee, An Efficient and Selective Nickel-Catalyzed Direct N-Alkylation of Anilines with Alcoholsth Alcohols. ACS Catal. 2017, 7, 8152–8158.   DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.7b02817