DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

Professor

DR. SUNDARGOPAL GHOSH

Biography

After graduating from Science College, Calcutta in 1993, Professor Ghosh obtained his Ph. D in Inorganic Chemistry in 1998 at Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay for research on Fischer Carbene Complexes. He then spent five years as a post – doctoral researcher at the University of Notre Dame, where he developed a new synthetic route to hypoelectronic metallaborane clusters. He joined Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras as Assistant Professor in 2005.

Education

  • 1998 – Ph. D from IIT Bombay
  • 1992 – M. Sc from Science College, Calcutta
  • 1990 - B. Sc from Calcutta University

Research Interests

  • Metallaboranes of early transition metals and rare earth metals and their application in catalysis.
  • Transition metal diborane and diborene complexes.
  • Application of transition metal sigma and agostic borate complexes in catalysis
  • Boron-controlled CO2 reduction.

Representative Publications

  Hypoelectronic Titanaboranes: Icosahedral and Tetracapped Tetrahedral Clusters Comprising Bridging Hydrides: S. Bairagi, D. Chatterjee, S. Giri and S. Ghosh,  Commun.202561, 3696. 

Stabilization of Ethane-like Dianionic Diborane(6) in Monometallic Titanium Complexes and its Subsequent B(sp3)-B(sp3) Bond Cleavage: S. Bairagi, S. Giri, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh,  Chem. Int. Ed.2025, e202417170.

 Small Ring Molecules Comprising 3-6 Boron Atoms: An Account on Synthesis, Structure, and Orbital Engineering: S. Kar, S. Bairagi, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis, H. Himmel and S. Ghosh,  Chem. Res.202457, 2901.

  Quantifying Variation in Cooperative B-H Bond Activations by Os(II) and Os(III) κ2-N,S-chelated Complexes: Same, but Different: S. Gayen, F. Assanar, S. Shyamal, P. D. Dorairaj and S. Ghosh,  Sci.202415, 15913.

Rule Breaker Boron Clusters: A New Class of Hypoelectronic Osmaborane Clusters [(Cp*Os)2BnHn] (n = 6-10): K. Kar, S. Kar and S. Ghosh,  Sci.202415, 4179.

Kar, A. N. Pradhan and S. Ghosh, Polyhedral Metallaboranes and Metallacarboranes. in: Comprehensive Organometallic Chemistry IV. Ed. G. Parkin, K. Meyer, D. O’hare, Elsevier, 2022, 9, 263-369.

Hexagonal Planar [B6H6] within a [B6H12] Borate complex; Structure and Bonding of [(Cp*Ti)2(μ–ɳ6:ɳ6-B6H6)(μ-H)6]: S. Kar, S. Bairagi, A. Haridas, G. Joshi, E. D. Jemmis and S. Ghosh, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202208293. [Highlighted in ChemistryViews]

Macropolyhedral syn-B18H22, the “Forgotten” Isomer: D. Patel, B. S. Sooraj, K. Kirakci, J. Machacek, M. Kučeráková, J. Bould, M. Dusek, M. Frey, C. Neumann, S. Ghosh, A. Turchanin, T. Pradeep and T. Base,  Am. Chem. Soc., 2023, 145, 17975. 

DR. SUNDARGOPAL GHOSH

Professor
  • sghosh@iitm.ac.in
  • +91-44-2257-4230 (Office)
  • +91-44-2257-6230 (Residential)
  • CYB 317, Department of Chemistry
  • Indian Institute of Technology Madras
  • Chennai - 600036
  • INDIA

Honors and Recognitions

  • Associate Editor, Inorganica Chimica Acta.
  • Honorary Editor, Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Journal of the Indian Chemical Society.
  • Professor Priyadaranjan Ray Memorial Award, 2018
  • Elected as Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences (FASc) 2017
  • Elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences (FNASc) 2017
  • Recipient of Institute Research & Development Awards (IRDA) 2013
  • Recipient of CRSI Bronze Medal 2013
  • Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship 2007

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