DR. DEBASHIS CHAKRABORTY

Debashis Chakraborty joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT – Madras in 2005 after the rigourous post – doctoral and industrial experience. He is an organometallic chemist and his research focusses upon catalyst development for polymer synthesis and homogeneous catalysis, activation of water and CO₂

   Organometallics for Polymer Synthesis & Homogeneous Catalysis

    Sequestration and utilization of CO₂

    Activation of water

“Salen complexes of zirconium and hafnium: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies”. Mrinmay Mandal, Venkatachalam Ramkumar, Debashis Chakraborty* Polymer Chemistry 2019, DOI: 10.1039/C8PY01750F.

“Self-assembled dual-drug loaded core-shell nanoparticles based on metalfree fully alternating polyester for cancer theranostics”. Piyush Kumar Gupta, Sreenath Pappuru, Santosh Gupta, Bamadeb Patra, Debashis Chakraborty*, Rama Shanker Vermaa*. Material Science & Engineering C 2019, 101, 448–463. 

“Fully alternating and regioselective ring-opening copolymerization of phthalic anhydride with epoxides using highly active metal-free Lewis pairs as a catalyst”. Anjaneyulu Kummari, Sreenath Pappuru, Debashis Chakraborty*. Polymer Chemistry 2018, 9, 4052–4062.

“Nb and Ta benzotriazole or benzoxazole phenoxide complexes as catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization of glycidol to synthesize hyperbranched polyglycerols” Sreenath Pappuru, Debashis Chakraborty*, Venkatachalam Ramkumar. Dalton Transactions 2017, 46, 16640–16654.

“Gallium and indium complexes containing the bis(imino)phenoxide ligand: synthesis, structural characterization and polymerization studies”. Swarup Ghosh, Ravikumar R. Gowda, Rajamony Jagana, Debashis Chakraborty*.  Dalton Transactions 2015, 44, 10410–10422.