DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
Dr. Debotra Sarkar is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. His research focuses on the synthesis, electronic structure, and reactivity of low-valent main-group compounds, with an emphasis on their roles in small-molecule activation, redox chemistry, and catalysis.
He received his M.Sc. in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 2015 and his Ph.D. in 2020 from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, as a DAAD Doctoral Research Fellow. Following his doctoral studies, he carried out postdoctoral research at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany; the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Hyderabad; and the University of Oxford, UK, as a Walter-Benjamin Fellow of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). In 2025, he briefly served as an Assistant Professor at IIT (BHU), Varanasi, before joining IIT Madras.
D. Sarkar*, P. Vasko, L. Ying, J. Strujis, A. E. Crumpton, S. Aldridge*, Dehydrogenative Dual Ammonia Activation and Transfer by an N-Heterocyclic Boryloxy Aluminyl Compound, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202502326 (Hot Paper).
D. Sarkar*, P. Vasko, T. Gluharev, L. P. Griffin, C. Bogle, J. Tang, A. F. Roper, A. E. Crumpton, S. Aldridge*, Synthesis, Isolation, and Reactivity Studies of ‘Naked’ Acyclic Gallyl and Indyl Anions, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, DOI: 10.1002/anie.202407427 (Hot Article).
D. Sarkar*, A. F. Roper, A. E. Crumpton, M. M. D. Roy, L. P. Griffin, C. Bogle, S. Aldridge*, Reversible [4 + 1] Cycloaddition of Arenes via a ‘Naked’ Acyclic Aluminyl Compound, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024, 146, 11792–11800.
D. Sarkar, S. Dutta, F. Hanusch, D. Koley, S. Inoue, Synthesis and Reactivity of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Supported Heavier Nitrile Ylides, Chem. Sci., 2024, 15, 2391–2397 (Hot Article).
D. Sarkar, C. Weetman, S. Inoue, Reversible Activation and Transfer of White Phosphorus by Silyl-Stannylene*, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2021, 60, 3519–3523.
D. Sarkar, C. Weetman, E. Schubert, S. Dutta, D. Koley, S. Inoue, N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Stabilized Germa-Acylium Ion: Reactivity and Utility in Catalytic CO₂ Functionalizations, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2020, 142, 15403–15411.
