Department of Chemistry IITM

Biography

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.

Education

1998 – Ph. D from IIT Bombay
1992 – M. Sc from Science College, Calcutta
1990 - B. Sc from Calcutta University

Research Interests

Metallaboranes of early transition metals and rare earth metals and their application in catalysis.
Transition metal diborane and diborene complexes.
Application of transition metal sigma and agostic borate complexes in catalysis
Boron-controlled CO2 reduction.

Representative Publications

K. Saha, S. Ghorai, S. Kar, S. Saha, R. Halder, B. Raghavendra, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh; Stabilization of Classical [B₂H₅]^‐: Structure and Bonding of [(Cp*Ta)₂(B₂H₅)(µ‐H)L₂] (Cp* = η⁵‐C₅Me₅; L = SCH₂S); Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2019, 58, 17684.

R. Borthakur, K.Saha, S.Kar and S. Ghosh; Recent advances in transition metal diborane(6), diborane(4) and diborene(2) chemistry; Coord. Chem. Rev., 2019, 399, 213021.

B. Mondal, R. Bag, S. Ghorai, K. Bakthavachalam, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh; Synthesis, Structure, Bonding and Reactivity of Metal Complexes comprising Diborane(4) and Diborene(2): [{Cp*Mo(CO)₂}₂{µ-η²:η²-B₂H₄}] and [{Cp*M(CO)₂}₂B₂H₂M(CO)₄], M= Mo,W; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 8079.

A. De, Q.-F. Zhang, B. Mondal, L. F. Cheung, S. Kar, K. Saha, B. Varghese, L.-S. Wang and S. Ghosh; [(Cp₂M)₂B₉H₁₁] (M = Zr or Hf): early transition metal ‘guarded’ heptaborane with strong covalent and electrostatic bonding; Chem. Sci., 2018, 9, 1976.

R. S. Anju, D. K. Roy, B. Mondal, K. Yuvaraj, C. Arivazhagan, K. Saha, B. Varghese and S. Ghosh; Reactivity of Diruthenium and Dirhodium Analogues of Pentaborane(9): Agostic versus Boratrane Complexes; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,2014, 53, 2873.

H. Braunschweig, A. Damme, R. D. Dewhurst, S. Ghosh, T. Kramer, B. Pfaffinger, K. Radacki and A. Vargas; Electronic and Structural Effects of Stepwise Borylation and Quaternization on Borirene Aromaticity; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 1903.

D. K. Roy, S. K. Bose, R. S. Anju, B. Mondal, V. Ramkumar and S. Ghosh; Boron Beyond the Icosahedral Barrier: A 16-Vertex Metallaborane; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 3222.