Dr. Debayan Sarkar

Associate Professor

1D-402, POD Building
Email: sarkard[at]iiti.ac.in
Phone: +91 0731 660 33xx

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Research Interests

  • Visible Light Catalysed Reactions
  • Electrocatalytic Organic Transformations
  • Total Synthesis of Natural Products and important biomolecules
  • Atom economic synthetic transformations
  • Asymmetric Dearomatisation Reactions

Selected Publications

  • Empowering Visible Light Catalysis: Brominative Dearomatizationof Biaryl Ynones. Barnali Roy, Puspendu Kuila, Debayan Sarkar* ChemRxiv 2022 https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/621776e1c3e9da0d30755e2b
  • Stereoselective Synthesis of Oxacycles via Ruthenium Catalyzed Atom-Economic Coupling of Propargyl Alcohols and Michael Acceptors J. Org. Chem 2021, 86, 23, 16369-16395 Nabakumar; Samanta, Shantanu; Sarkar, Debayan
  • Copper(I) Catalyzed Synthesis of Selanyl methylene 4-chromanol and aurone Derivatives Sushree Ranjan Sahoo and Debayan Sarkar* Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry 2020, 18, 4619-4627
  • Copper(I) Catalyzed Synthesis of Functionalized N-Fused Indolizinone from Substituted Pyridine Homologated-ynones Sushree Ranjan Sahoo Debayan Sarkar, Journal of Organic Chemistry 2020, 85, 2, 902-911 • Visible Light Catalysed Selenylative Intramolecular Dearomative Carbo-spirocyclisation (IDCS) of Homologated-ynones. Sushree Ranjan Sahoo and Debayan Sarkar European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2020, 7, 891-896
  • 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 Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2019, 361, 24, 5648-5653. (Most Downloaded Paper 2020)
  • Ruthenium (VIII) catalysed ipso-Dearomative Spiro-etherification and Spiro-amidation of Phenols Debayan Sarkar* and Nilendri Rout Organic Letters 2019 21, 11, 4132-4136