DR. SUNDARGOPAL GHOSH

After graduating from Science College, Calcutta in 1993, Professor Ghosh obtained his Ph. D in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for research on Fischer Carbene Complexes. He then spent five years as a post – doctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame, where he developed a new synthetic route to hypoelectronic metallaborane clusters. He joined Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in 2005.

  Hypoelectronic Titanaboranes: Icosahedral and Tetracapped Tetrahedral Clusters Comprising Bridging Hydrides: S. Bairagi, D. Chatterjee, S. Giri and S. Ghosh,  Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 3696. 

Stabilization of Ethane-like Dianionic Diborane(6) in Monometallic Titanium Complexes and its Subsequent B(sp³)-B(sp³) Bond Cleavage: S. Bairagi, S. Giri, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh,  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, e202417170.

 Small Ring Molecules Comprising 3-6 Boron Atoms: An Account on Synthesis, Structure, and Orbital Engineering: S. Kar, S. Bairagi, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis, H. Himmel and S. Ghosh,  Acc. Chem. Res., 2024, 57, 2901.

  Quantifying Variation in Cooperative B-H Bond Activations by Os(II) and Os(III) κ²-N,S-chelated Complexes: Same, but Different: S. Gayen, F. Assanar, S. Shyamal, P. D. Dorairaj and S. Ghosh,  Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 15913.

Rule Breaker Boron Clusters: A New Class of Hypoelectronic Osmaborane Clusters [(Cp^*Os)₂B_nH_n] (n = 6-10): K. Kar, S. Kar and S. Ghosh,  Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 4179.

Kar, A. N. Pradhan and S. Ghosh, Polyhedral Metallaboranes and Metallacarboranes. in: Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV. Ed. G. Parkin, K. Meyer, D. O’hare, Elsevier, 2022, 9, 263-369.

Hexagonal Planar [B6H6] within a [B6H12] Borate complex; Structure and Bonding of [(Cp*Ti)2(μ–ɳ6:ɳ6-B6H6)(μ-H)6]: S. Kar, S. Bairagi, A. Haridas, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202208293. [Highlighted in ChemistryViews]

Macropolyhedral syn-B₁₈H₂₂, the “Forgotten” Isomer: D. Patel, B. S. Sooraj, K. Kirakci, J. Machacek, M. Kučeráková, J. Bould, M. Dusek, M. Frey, C. Neumann, S. Ghosh, A. Turchanin, T. Pradeep and T. Base, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 17975.