DR. ARNAB RIT

After graduating from IIT Kharagpur in 2007, Dr. Rit has earned his doctorate degree in Organometallic Chemistry in 2011 from WWU Muenster, Germany. After that, he was a post-doctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen, Germany for about 2 years and Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow for one and half year at the University of Oxford. In December 2015 he joined IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor.

Redefining the Coordination Mode of 1,2,4-Triazolylidene: Bridging the Gap Between Molecular Organometallic Chemistry and Extended Porous Architectures. S. Kumar, Priyadharshini V., Arnab Rit*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202514207. Selected as “Frontispiece”.

 Adaptive Defluoroamination of Aryl Fluorides: Harnessing the Catalytic Potential of a Unique Zinc Amide Compound. S. Sahoo and Arnab Rit*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202504156. Selected as “Hot Paper”.

Stimuli-Responsive Equilibrium in N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Supported Transition Metal Complexes: Selective Isolation of Multinuclear Species. Shashi Kumar and Arnab Rit*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2025, 64, e202505558.

 Unravelling a Bench Stable Zinc-amide Compound as a Highly Active Multitasking Catalyst for the Radical Mediated Selective Alk(en)ylation of Unactivated Carbocycles Under Mild Conditions. S. Sahoo, S. Manna, and Arnab Rit,* Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 5238-5247. Selected for “2024 Most Popular Catalysis Article Collections”.

“Self-Assembly of a Bis-NHC Ligand and Coinage Metal Ions: Unprecedented Metal Driven Chemistry between the Tri- and Tetranuclear Species.” Rajeev C. Nishad, Shashi Kumar, and Arnab Rit,* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61, e202206788.