DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

SOURAV KAR

Biography

I am from a small village Hogla, West Bengal. I did my B.Sc from RKMRC Narendrapur, Kolkata and completed my M.Sc from IIT Madras. I joined as a PhD student in January, 2017 under the guidance of Prof. sundargopal Ghosh.

Education

  • M. Sc from IIT Madras
  • B. Sc from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur

Research Interests

  • I am currently working on metal-boron chemistry that includes the reaction of monocyclopentadienyl metal halides or hydrides with monoborane reagents (BH3.THF, LiBH4.THF or BHCl2.SMe2), containing one to four or more transition metals and one to ten or more boron atoms. Metallaboranes that incorporate early transition metals or rare earth are sparsely explored area of cluster chemistry and the challenge is to find synthetic routes. The common theme that drives much of the chemistry is the use of a number of transition-metal (e.g., Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Ru, Co, Rh) monocyclopentadienyl chloride complexes as starting materials, and exploring their reactions with monoborane reagents and employing them in catalysis.

Representative Publications

 Trimetallic Cubane-type Clusters: Transition metal Variation as a Probe of the Roots of Hypoelectronic Metallaheteroboranes: S. Kar, K. Saha, S. Saha, K. Bakthabachalam, V. dorcet and S. Ghosh, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 10896.

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

 Synthesis, chemistry and electronic structures of group 9 metallaboranes: R. Borthakur, S. Kar, S. K. Barik, S. Bhattacharya, G. Kundu, B. Varghese and S. Ghosh, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 1524.

 Cluster Fusion: Face-fused Macropolyhedral Tetracobaltaboranes: Md. Zafar, S. Kar, C. Nandi, R. Ramalakshmi and S. Ghosh Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 47.

 Chalcogen stabilized trimetallic clusters: synthesis, structures, and bonding of [(Cp*M)3(E)6+m(BH)n] (M = Nb or Ta; E = S or Se; m = 0 or 1 or 2; n = 0 or 1): S. Kar, S. Bairagi, K. Saha, B. Raghavendra, and S. Ghosh Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, 4203.

 

Honors and Rewards

  • Best Poster Award at ""International Conference on Emerging Trends in Chemical Science"", 2018."
  • Inspire Scholarship 2012

SOURAV KAR

CY15D200

Guide

DR. SUNDARGOPAL GHOSH