Professor

Department of Organic Chemistry

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, INDIA

Phone: +91-80-2293 2850/2849

E-mail: sm@iisc.ac.in

Graduate Students

Chandrabhushan Tripathi

Group Member from Aug 2010 till Feb 2016

Thesis Title: Lewis Base and Hydrogen-Bonding Catalysis by Thioureas: From Chemoselective Alcohol Oxidation to Asymmetric Iodofunctionalizations of Alkenes and Dienes

Present Position:

Senior Scientist, CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI), Lucknow

Madhu Sudan Manna

Group Member from Aug 2010 till March 2016

Thesis Title: Controlling Stereochemistry at the Quaternary Center Using Bifunctional (Thio)urea Catalysis

Present Position:

Scientist at Eikon Therapeutics, Hayward, CA, USA

Undergraduate Students

OrgChem@IISc

Aritra Sil

Group Member from Aug 2014 till April 2015

Present Position:

Senior Process Engineer, ASM, Tempe, Arizona, USA

Postdocs

Dr. Vikas Kumar

Group Member from Sept 2011 till Sept 2013

Present Position:

Project Manager, PolyPeptide Laboratories Pvt Ltd, India

Prof. Santanu Mukherjee

 

Satavisha Kayal

Group Member from Aug 2011 till April 2017

Thesis Title: Organocatalytic Cascade Cyclizations for the Enantioselective Synthesis of Spirooxindoles

Present Position:

Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune

Interns

Abhijnan Ray Choudhury

Group Member from Aug 2010 till November 2017

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Formation: from Bifunctional to Anion-Binding Catalysis

Present Position:

Principal Scientist, SAI Life Sciences Limited, Hyderabad

Soumya Jyoti Singha Roy

Group Member from Aug 2011 till January 2018

Thesis Title: Catalytic Enantioselective Allylic Alkylative Desymmetrization, Carbon-Carbon and CarbonHeteroatom Bond Forming Reactions

Present Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Christopher Parker, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA

Rahul Suresh

Group Member from August 2016 till April 2018

Present Position:

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with
Prof. Thorsten Bach, Technical University Munich, Germany

Amit Kumar Simlandy

Group Member from Aug 2013 till November 2018

Thesis Title: Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions: From Organocatalysts to Quantum Dots

Present Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISER) Berhampur

Bidisha Ray

Group Member from Jun 2012 till November 2018

Thesis Title: Catalytic Asymmetric Direct and Vinylogous Aldol, Michael and Alkylation Reactions

Present Position:

Minhajul Islam

Group Member from August 2019 till April 2020

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay under Prof. Debabrata Maiti

Rahul Sarkar

Group Member from May 2014 till January 2021

Thesis Title: Stereocontrol through Catalytic Enantioselective C(sp²)-H and C(sp³)-H Alkylation: From Bifunctional Organocatalysis to Iridium-Catalysis

Present Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Abhishek Chatterjee, Boston College, USA

Niket Manoj

Group Member from August 2020 till June 2021

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Colorado State University, USA under Prof. Robert Paton

Project Assistant

Suman Das

Group Member from November 2021 till June 2022

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA under Prof. Kevin Brown

Deepak Kumar Behera

Group Member from July 2022 till December 2022

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Max-Planck Institute fuer Kohlenforschung, Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany under Prof. Tobias Ritter

Biki Ghosh

Group Member from Aug 2017 till February 2023

Thesis Title: Enantioselective Annulation Reactions: From Fischer Indolization to de novo Arene Construction

Present Position:

Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow with
Prof. Thorsten Bach, Technical University Munich, Germany

Subhrajit Karmakar

Group Member from October 2022 till June 2023

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA under Prof. Jared Lewis

Biplab Pradhan

Group Member from January 2024 till July 2024

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata under Prof. Biplab Maji

Sourav Patra

Group Member from August 2024 till December 2024

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Kolkata under Prof. Biplab Maji

Dr. Pratibha Mahto

Group Member from May 2023 till March 2025

Present Position:

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Ranchi Women’s College, Ranchi

Sayan Ray

Group Member from Aug 2018 till June 2025

Thesis Title: Breaking Symmetry - Organocatalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Natural and Unnatural Ladderanes

Present Position:

Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. David Sarlah, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA

Aditya Chakrabarty

Group Member from May 2018 till July 2025

Thesis Title: Iridium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Alkylation of Enols and Surrogates

Present Position:

To begin postdoc soon...

Sankash Mitra

Group Member from May 2017 till Aug 2025

Thesis Title: Iridium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Alkylation of Unsaturated Carbonyls

Present Position:

To begin postdoc soon...

MSc Student

Katyayani Mishra

Group Member from Aug 2024 till April 2025

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany under Prof. Stefen Huber

Srijani Biswas

Group Member from January 2025 till July 2025

Present Position:

Graduate Student at Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Pune under Prof. Buddhadeb Chattopadhyay