Arup Mukherjee

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Areas of Interest

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

Education

• PhD, 2013, IISER Kolkata (Supervisor: Prof. Swadhin K. Mandal)

Teaching

• CYL507: Chemistry of Main Group Elements
• CYL603:Organometallic Chemistry: Principles and Applications

Professional Experience

• November, 2024-till date:Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bhilai, India.
• October, 2017-November, 2024:Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bhilai, India.
• 2015-2017:Post Doctoral Fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),USA. (Supervisor: Prof. Christopher C. Cummins)
• 2013-2015:Post Doctoral Fellow at Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. (Supervisor: Prof. David Milstein)

Honors/Awards/Fellowships

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

Selected Publications

1. Nad,P.; Goswami; P.; Kisan, H. K.*; Mukherjee A.*
   Unlocking the Potential of Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane in Reductive Desulfurization of Thioamides with Silane
   Chem Eur. J. 2025, 31, e202500738.
   
   
2. Chowdhury, D.; Mukherjee, A.*
   Unlocking an Additive-free and Catalyst-free Dual Approach for the Amide Reductions to Amines
   Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 1605-16908.
   
   
3. Chowdhury, D.; Gupta, K.; Gamidi, R.K.; Jindal G.*; Mukherjee, A.*
   Unraveling the Metal-Ligand Cooperativity in a Phosphine-Free Mn(II)-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitriles to Primary Amines and Dehydrogenation of Dimethylamine Borane
   ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 15777-15789.
   
   
4. Chowdhury, D.; Sutradhar, R.; Paul, A.*;Mukherjee, A.*
   Insight Into the MOtBu (M= Na, K)-Mediated Dehydrogenation of Dimethylamine-Borane and Transfer Hydrogenation of Nitriles to Primary Amines
   Chem Eur. J. 2024, 30, e202400942.
   
   
5. Chowdhury, D.; Goswami, S.; Gamidi, R.K.; Mukherjee, A.*
   Transfer Semi-hydrogenation of Terminal Alkynes with a Well-defined Iron Complex of Nitriles to Primary Amines
   Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 3484-3489.
   
   
6. Nad, P.; ;Mukherjee, A.*
   A Lewis Acid-Base Pair Catalyzed Dearomative Transformation of Unprotected Indoles via B-H Bond Activation
   Chem Asian. J. 2023, 18, e202300714.
   
   
7. Nad, P.; Behera, A.K.; Sen, A.*; Mukherjee, A.*
   Catalytic and Mechanistic Approach to the Metal-Free N-Alkylation of 2-Aminopyridines with Diketones
   J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 15403-15414.
   
   
8. 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.
   
   
9. 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.
   
   
10. 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.
    
    
11. 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.
    
    
12. Raman, K. V.; Kamerbeek, A. M.; Mukherjee, A.; Atodiresei, N.; Sen, T. K.; Lazi?,Caciuc, P. V.; Michel, R.; Stalke, D.; Mandal, S. K.; Blugel, S.; Munzenberg, M., Moodera, J. S.
    Interface Engineered Templates for Molecular Spin Memory Devices
    Nature 2013, 493, 509-513.
    
    
13. 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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