Associate Professor1D-402, POD BuildingEmail: sarkard[at]iiti.ac.in Phone: +91 0731 660 3179 Group Website | ![]() |
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
- 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 Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2019, 361, 24, 5648-5653. (Most Downloaded Paper 2020)
- 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
- 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. 85, no. 2 (2019): 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.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry (2023).
- Bera, Nabakumar, Bhabani Sankar Lenka, Burkhard König, and Debayan Sarkar. “Riboflavin Photocatalyzed Dearomative Spiro-Etherification of Naphthols.” The Journal of Organic Chemistry (2023).