Dr. Debayan Sarkar
Department : Chemistry
Research Interests
Halide Catalysis
Catalytic and Asymmetric Dearomatisation Reactions
Sustainable Synthesis and Waste to Fine Chemicals
Visible Light Catalysed Reactions
Electrocatalytic Organic Transformations
Total Synthesis of Natural Products and important biomolecules
Atom economic synthetic transformations
Publications
Das, Biswajit, Sushree Ranjan Sahoo, Amitabha Das, Biswarup Pathak, and Debayan Sarkar. “Sustainable Organic Photocatalysis for Site-Selective Hydrazocoupling of Electron-Rich Arenes.“Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 42, 7733–7738
Arisawa, M., Sawahata, K., Yamada, T., Sarkar, D. and Yamaguchi, M., 2018. Rhodium-catalyzed insertion reaction of PhP group of pentaphenylcyclopentaphosphine with acyclic and cyclic disulfides. Organic letters, 20(4), pp.938-941.
Ruthenium (VIII) catalysed ipso-Dearomative Spiro-etherification and Spiro-amidation of Phenols Debayan Sarkar* and Nilendri Rout Organic Letters 2019 21, 11, 4132-4136
Redox Economic Synthesis of Trisubstituted Piperidones via Ruthenium Catalyzed Atom-economic Couplings of N-protected 1,5-Aminoalcohols and Michael Acceptors Barry M Trost, Debayan Sarkar, Nabakumar Bera Adv. Synth. Catal. 2019, 361, 5648–56
Bera, Nabakumar, Shantanu Samanta, and Debayan Sarkar. “Stereoselective Synthesis of Oxacycles via Ruthenium-Catalyzed Atom-Economic Coupling of Propargyl Alcohols and Michael Acceptors.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry 86, no. 23 (2021): 16369-16395.J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 23, 16369–16395
Sahoo, Sushree Ranjan, Debayan Sarkar, Felix Henkel, and Hans Reuter. “Copper (I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Functionalized Indolizinones from Substituted Pyridine Homologated Ynones.” J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 2, 902–911
Sahoo, Sushree Ranjan, Biswajit Das, Debayan Sarkar, and Hans Reuter. “Temperature-Controlled Chemoselective Synthesis of Multisubstituted 4-Alkynyl/trans-4-Alkenyl Coumarins.” J. Org. Chem. 87, no. 21 (2022): 13529-13541.
Photoredox Catalyzed Thiocyanative Cyclization of Biaryl Ynones to Thiocyanated Spiro[5.5]trienones: An External Oxidant and Transition-Metal Free Approach. Samanta, Shantanu; Sarkar, Debayan Chem Photo Chem 2023 87, (Accepted Article) doi/abs/10.1002/cptc.202200335
Roy, Barnali, Puspendu Kuila, and Debayan Sarkar. “Visible Light Promoted Brominative Dearomatization of Biaryl Ynones to Spirocycles.“ J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 15, 10925–10945
Bera, Nabakumar, Bhabani Sankar Lenka, Burkhard König, and Debayan Sarkar. “Riboflavin Photocatalyzed Dearomative Spiro-Etherification of Naphthols.” J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 13, 7977–7987