Professor, IISER Bhopal

Joyanta Choudhury

Department : Chemistry

+91 755 269 1333

joyanta@iiserb.ac.in

http://jcomchem.wixsite.com/osml

Research Interests

Transition-Metal Organometallic Chemistry: Mechanism and Applications towards Homogeneous Catalysis
C-H, N-H, O-H Bond Activation / Small Molecule Activation & Functionalization
Stimuli-Responsive Surface / Smart Surface / Functional Molecular Assembly on Solid Surface

Professional Summary

Assistant Professor (April 2011- May 2017), Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
Dean of Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2010-March 2011), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Advisor: Prof. Milko E. van der Boom).
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow (Sept 2008-Oct 2010), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Host: Prof. Milko E. van der Boom).
TSRI Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2007-Aug 2008), The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, USA (Advisor: Prof. Roy A. Periana).
DST Research Associate (Aug 2006-Oct 2007), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (Advisor: Prof. Sujit Roy).

Publications

Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO₂ by Direct Air Capture to Valuable C1 Products Using Homogenous Catalysts R Bhardwaj, J Choudhury Chemistry–An Asian Journal, e202401327 (2025)
Protic Ru(II)-NHC Pincer Catalyst for the Catalytic Hydrogenation of CO₂ and Its Derivatives to Methanol A Bhattacherya, M Kaur, R Kumar, J Choudhury, JK Bera Organometallics 44 (1), 244-254 (2024)
The Key Role of Proton‐Responsive Groups in Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution Reaction S Kumar Mandal, S Ray, J Choudhury ChemCatChem 16 (23), e202401149 (2024)
Electrocatalytic CO2 reduction to HCO2H by protic NHC-Ir complexes S Ray, SK Mandal, J Choudhury Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 1022, 123422 (2024)
H₂-Evolving Cobalt–Protic-NHC Catalysts: Kinetic Zone Diagram Analysis and Mechanistic Insights SK Mandal, A Gupta, J Choudhury ACS Catalysis 14 (23), 17263-17275 (2024)
Reusable water‐soluble homogeneous catalyst in aqueous‐phase transfer hydrogenation of N‐heteroarenes with formic acid: Uracil‐based bifunctional Ir‐NHC catalyst is the key B Maji, J Choudhury Applied Organometallic Chemistry 38 (10), e6720 (2024)
Hydride Transfer-Based CO₂ Reduction Catalysis: Navigating Metal Hydride to Organic Hydride in the Catalytic Loop J Choudhury, R Bhardwaj, SK Mandal Accounts of Chemical Research 57 (19), 2859-2871 (2024)
Single‐Site Heterogenized Molecular Catalysts towards CO₂ Hydrogenation to Formates, Formamides and Methanol T Mandal, R Kumar, S Kumar, J Choudhury ChemCatChem 16 (17), e202400272 (2024)
Three-Way Control on Product Selectivity in Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction Reaction Using a Single Molecular Co–NHC Catalyst SK Mandal, J Choudhury Inorganic Chemistry 63 (35), 16327-16336 (2024)
Hyper-Cross-Linked Polymer-Based Self-Supported Reusable Ru-NHC Catalyst for Amine-Assisted Hydrogenation of CO₂ to Methanol R Kumar, T Mandal, A Bhattacherya, MK Pandey, JK Bera, J Choudhury ACS Catalysis 14 (17), 13236-13245 (2024)
Orchestrated Octuple C− H Activation: A Bottom‐Up Topology Engineering Approach toward Stimuli‐Responsive Double‐Heptagon‐Embedded Wavy Polycyclic Heteroaromatics SS Rana, J Choudhury Angewandte Chemie International Edition 63 (31), e202406514 (2024)
Unveiling N-Fused Nitreniums as Potent Catalytic Photooxidants SS Rana, J Choudhury Journal of the American Chemical Society 146 (6), 3603-3608 (2024)
[Fe]-Hydrogenase-Inspired Proton-Shuttle Installation in a Molecular Cobalt Complex for High-Efficiency H₂ Evolution Reaction SK Mandal, C Sunil, J Choudhury ACS Catalysis 14 (3), 2058-2070 (2024)
Annulated oxazolium anion–π+ AIEgens SS Rana, S Manna, J Choudhury Chemical Communications 60 (78), 10942-10945 (2024)
A phosphine-free molecularly-defined Ni (ii) complex in catalytic hydrogenation of CO 2 R Bhardwaj, J Choudhury Chemical Communications 60 (74), 10176-10179 (2024)