- +91-44-2257-4200
- cyoffice@iitm.ac.in
DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS
DR. ARNAB RIT
Associate Professor
arnabrit@iitm.ac.in
+91-44-2257-4205
CYB 315, Department of Chemistry Indian Institute of Technology Madras Chennai - 600036 INDIA
Education
Biography
After graduating from IIT Kharagpur, Dr. Rit has received his doctorate degree in Organometallic Chemistry from WWU Muenster, Germany. After that, he was a post-doctoral researcher at RWTH Aachen, Germany and Marie-Curie post-doctoral fellow at the University of Oxford. In December 2015, he joined IIT Madras as an Assistant Professor. Currently, he is an Associate Professor.
Research Interests
- Synthesis, structure, and reactivity (catalytic application) of multifunctional N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) based organometallic compounds
- Development of new ligand systems for polynuclear compounds – cooperativity among metal centers
- Main Group compounds for small molecule activation and catalysis
- NHC-based supramolecular chemistry
Honors and Recognitions
Representative Publications
- 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, 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 - 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 - 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” - Towards New Coordination Modes of 1,2,3-Triazolylidene: Controlled by the Nature of 1st Metalation in a Heteroditopic Bis-NHC Ligand
Praseetha Mathoor Illam, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, and Arnab Rit*
Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 13387–13392 - Synthesis of Quinazolinone Scaffolds via Zinc(II)-Stabilized Amidyl Radical Promoted Deaminative Approach Subarna Manna, Sangita Sahoo, and Arnab Rit* Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 7097–7100 — Top 25% downloaded articles (August)
- Alkene-Promoted NHC Ligand Substitution in Orthometalated Ru–NHC Complexes via σ-Bond Metathesis: A Mechanistic Insight
Arya Ramachandran, Somnath Bauri, and Arnab Rit* Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 5011 - A Tandem Catalytic Approach for the Synthesis of Aminophenones Using an Amine-Integrated Bifunctional Cobalt-NHC Complex
B. Boity, A. Sahoo, and Arnab Rit* Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 13229 - Amine-Functionalized Bifunctional Co(III)-NHC Complexes: Highly Effective Phosphine-Free Catalysts for the α-Alkylation of Nitriles
B. Boity, M. Siddique, and Arnab Rit* Chem. Commun. 2024, 60, 3142–3145 — Featured as “Inside Front Cover”
The Department of Chemistry is one of the first Departments to function after the Indian Institute of Technology Madras was founded in 1959