Areas of Interest

• Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Organometallic Catalysis and Mechanitic Study, Small molecule activation & functionalization for fuels and fine chemicals, Green and sustainable chemistry.

Education

• PhD, 2013, IISER Kolkata

Teaching

• CY1020: Applied Chemistry-I
• CY1021: Applied Chemistry-II

Professional Experience

• October, 2017-till date:Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bhilai, India.
• 2015-2017:Post Doctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),USA.
• 2013-2015:Post Doctoral Fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
• May, 2013-October, 2013: Research Scientist, IISER Kolkata, India.

Honors/Awards/Fellowships

• IISER Kolkata Alumni Award 2018.
• Fulbright-Nehru Postdoctoral Fellowship.
• PBC Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Selected Publications

1. Mukherjee, A.; Sau, S. C.; Mandal; S. K.
   Exploring the Closed-Shell Cationic Phenalenyl: From Catalysis to Spin-Electronics,
   Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 1679–1691.
   
   
2. Mukherjee, A.; Nerush, A.; Leitus, G.; Shimon, L. J. W.; Ben David, Y.; Jalapa, N. A. E.; Milstein, D.
   Manganese-Catalyzed Environmentally Benign Dehydrogenative Coupling of Alcohols and Amines to Form Aldimines and H2: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study,
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 4298–4301.
   
   
3. Mukherjee, A.; Srimani, D.; Chakraborty, S.; Ben David, Y.; Milstein, D.
   Selective Hydrogenation of Nitriles to Primary Amines Catalyzed by a Cobalt Pincer Complex ,
   J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 8888–8891.
   
   
4. Srimani, D.; Mukherjee, A.; Goldberg, A. F. G.; Leitus, G.; Diskin-Posner, Y.; Shimon, L. J. W.; Ben David, Y.; Milstein, D.
   Cobalt Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols. Unexpected Reactivity Trend Indicates Ester Enolate Intermediacy,
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2015, 54, 12357–12360.
   
   
5. Raman, K. V.; Kamerbeek, A. M.; Mukherjee, A.; Atodiresei, N.; Sen, T. K.; Lazić,Caciuc, P. V.; Michel, R.; Stalke, D.; Mandal, S. K.; Blügel, S.; Münzenberg, M., Moodera, J. S.
   Interface Engineered Templates for Molecular Spin Memory Devices,
   Nature 2013, 493, 509–513.
   
   
6. Mukherjee, A.; Nembenna, S.; Sen, T. K. Sarish, S. P.; Ghorai, P. K.; Ott, H.; Stalke, D.; Mandal, S. K.; Roesky, H. W.
   Assembling Zirconium and Calcium Moieties through an Oxygen Center for Intramolecular Hydroamination Reaction: A Single System for Double Activation.
   Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 3968–3972.

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