Cell Biology
Debabrata Maiti
Specially Appointed Professor
Organic synthesisBio-inspired catalysisPhotoredox catalysisLignin valorisationHeterocyclic chemistry
Biography
Debabrata Maiti received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from University of Calcutta in 2001 and he completed Master’s degree in Chemistry from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 2003. The same year, he joined Prof. Kenneth D. Karlin’s group in John Hopkins University for doctoral studies. His thesis title is “Oxidative reactivity of synthetic reduced copper complexes” and he defended his PhD in 2008. After a two and half year post-doctoral stint at MIT under the supervision of Prof. Stephen L. Buchwald, he joined Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as an assistant professor in 2011. He got promoted to associate professor in 2015, and to professor in 2021. He served as a visiting faculty in University of Pavia, Italy from 2017-2019. He is an Associate Editor of The Journal of Organic Chemistry and in the editorial board of journals like Organometallics, Chemistry - An Asian Journal, Inorganica Chimica Acta and Current Organocatalysis.
Expectations for WRHI
Collaborating with WRHI opens opportunities for combining our expertise in C-H activation with different research fields like Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT). We expect that such collaborations can bring enormous developments in areas such as medicinal chemistry and cancer therapy.
| 2021- | Professor, IIT Bombay, Department of Chemistry, India |
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| 2019- | Specially Appointed Professor, Institute of Innovative Research, Tokyo Institute of Technology |
| 2017-2019 | Visiting Professor, University of Pavia, Italy |
| 2015-2021 | Associate Professor, IIT Bombay, Department of Chemistry, India |
| 2010-2015 | Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay, Department of Chemistry, India |
| 2008-2010 | Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| 2019 | NASI Scopus Young Scientist Award |
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| 2019 | FRSC – Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry |
| 2017 | OPPI – Young Scientist Award |
| 2015 | Alkyl Amines – Young Scientist Award |
| 2014 | INSA – Young Scientist Award |
| 2014 | ISCB – Young Scientist Award |
| 2014 | AVRA – Young Scientist Award |
| 2014 | CRSI Young Scientist Award |
| 2013 | IAS-Young Associate |
| 2013 | NASI- Young Scientist Platinum Jubilee Award |
| 2019 | Iqbal, N.; Iqbal, N.; Maiti, D.; Cho, E. J. Access to Multi-Functionalized Benzofurans through Aryl-Nickelation of Alkynes: Efficient Synthesis of Anti-Arrhythmic Drug Amiodarone Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, DOI: 10.1002/anie.201909015 |
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| 2019 | Dolui, P.; Das, J.; Chandrashekar, H. B.; Anjana, S. S.; Maiti, D. Ligand-Enabled Pd(II)-Catalyzed Iterative γ-C(sp3)-H Arylation of Free Aliphatic Acid Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 13773 |
| 2019 | Kankanala, R.; Biswas, J. P.; Jana, S.; Achar, T. K.; Porey, S.; Maiti, D. Co‐ordination assisted distal C−H alkylation of fused heterocycles Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 13946 |
| 2019 | Agasti, S.; Pal, T.; Achar, T. K.; Maiti, S.; Pal, D.; Mandal, S.; Daud, K.; Lahiri, G. K.; Maiti, D. Regioselective Synthesis of Fused Furans via Decarboxylative Annulation of α,β-Alkenyl Carboxylic Acid with Cyclic Ketone: Synthesis of Biheteroaryl Derivatives Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 11039 |
| 2019 | Achar, T. K.; Zhang, S.; Mondal, R.; M, S. S.; Maiti, S.; Maity, S.; Pal, N.; Paton, R. S.; Maiti, D. Palladium-Catalyzed Directed meta-Selective C-H Allylation of Arenes: Unactivated Internal Olefins as Allyl Surrogates. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10353 |
| 2019 | Guin, S.; Dolui, P.; Zhang, X.; Paul, S.; Singh, V. K; Pradhan, S.; Chandrashekar, H. B.; S. S. Anjana.; Paton, R. S.; Maiti, D. Iterative Arylation of Amino Acids and Aliphatic Amines via-C(sp3)-H Activation: Experimental and Computational Exploration. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 5633 |
| 2019 | Dey, A.; Sinha, S. K.; Achar, T. K.; Maiti, D. Game of Directors: Accessing Remote Meta- and Para-C-H Bonds With Covalently Attached Directing Groups. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 10820 |
| 2018 | Maji, A.; Dahiya, A.; Lu, G.; Bhattacharya, T.; Brochetta, M.; Liu, P.; Zanoni, G.; Maiti, D. H-Bonded Template Assisted Para Selective Carboalkylation Using Soft Electrophilic Vinyl Ether Nat Commun. 2018, DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-06018-2 |
| 2018 | Jayarajan, R.; Das, J.; Bag, S.; Choudhury, R.; Maiti, D. Diverse Meta-C-H Functionalization of Arenes Across Different Linker Lengths Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 7659 |
| 2017 | Maji, A.; Guin, S.; Feng, S.; Dahiya, A.; Singh, V. K.; Liu, P.; Maiti, D. Experimental and Computational Exploration of para-Selective Silylation with a Hydrogen-Bonded Template Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 14903 |
| 2017 | Bag, S.; Jayarajan, R.; Dutta, U.; Chowdhury, R.; Mondal, R.; Maiti, D. Remote meta-C–H cyanation of arenes enabled by pyrimidine-based auxiliary Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 12538 |
| 2017 | Bera, M.; Agasti, S.; Chowdhury, R.; Mondal, R.; Pal, D.; Maiti, D. XPhos Ligated Rhodium Catalyzed meta-C-H Functionalization of Arenes Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 5272 |
| 2017 | Bag, S.; Jayarajan, R.; Mondal, R.; Maiti, D. Template-assisted meta-C–H alkylation and alkenylation of arenes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 3182 |
| 2017 | Deb, A.; Hazra, A.; Peng, Q.; Paton, R. S.; Maiti, D. Detailed Mechanistic Studies on Palladium Catalyzed Selective C-H Olefination with Aliphatic Alkenes: A Significant Influence of Proton Shuttling J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 39, 763 |
| 2017 | Naveen, T.; Deb, A.; Maiti, D. Copper/P(t-Bu)3-Mediated Regiospecific Synthesis of Fused Furans and Naphthofurans Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 129, 1111 |
| 2016 | Thrimurtulu, N.; Dey,A.; Maiti, D.; Volla, C. M. R. Cobalt Catalyzed sp2-C-H Activation and Intermolecular Heterocyclization with Allenes at Room Temprature Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 12361 |
| 2016 | Patra, T.; Bag, S.; Kancherla, R.; Mondal, A.; Dey, A.; Pimparkar, S.; Agasti, S.; Modak, A.; Maiti, D. Palladium-Catalyzed Directed para C H Functionalization of Phenols Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 775 |
| 2015 | Bag, S.; Patra, T.; Modak,A.; Deb, A.; Maity, S.; Dutta, U.; Dey, A.; Kancherla, R.; Maji, A.; Hazra, A.; Bera, M.; Maiti, D. Remote para-C-H Functionalization of Arenes by a D-Shaped Biphenyl Template-Based Assembly J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11888 |
| 2015 | Bera, M; Maji, A.; Sahoo, S. K.; Maiti, D. Pd(II)-Catalyzed meta-CH Olefination: Constructing Multi-substituted Arenes through Homo-diolefination and Sequential Hetero-diolefination Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 8515 |