DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

DEEPAN CHOWDHURY

Biography

I was born in 24th July 1992 in Hind motor, in Hooghly district in West Bengal, India. I joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras in July 2017, a Ph.D. student under the guidance of Dr. Mahiuddin Baidya. My research interests focus around Transition metal catalyzed C-H activation reactions and it’s applications in Total Synthesis of Natural Products. Outside Chemistry, I am extremely passionate about Politics, Football (East Bengal) and Cricket (M.S. Dhoni). I have also tried my hands in poetry and writing short stories and published a few works.

Education

  • M. Sc University of Hyderabad, 2015
  • B. Sc University of Calcutta, 2013

Research Interests

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Representative Publications

Ruthenium (II) Catalysis/Noncovalent Interaction Synergy for Cross-Dehydrogenative Coupling of Arene Carboxylic Acids Suman Dana, Deepan Chowdhury, Anup Mandal, Francis AS Chipem, Mahiuddin Baidya ACS Catal. 2018, 8, 11, 10173-10179.

Iron Nitrate/TEMPO: a Superior Homogeneous Catalyst for Oxidation of Primary Alcohols to Nitriles in Air Shashi Dighe, Deepan Chowdhury, Sanjay Batra Adv. Synth. Catal.2014,356, 3892 – 3896.

Ru-II-Catalyzed Annulative Coupling of Benzoic Acids with Vinyl Sulfone via Weak Carboxylate-Assisted CH Bond Activation Anup Mandal, Suman Dana, Deepan Chowdhury, Mahiuddin Baidya AsianJ. Org.Chem.2018,7,1302 –1306.

Nonenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of in situ GeneratedHemithioacetals: Access to 1,3-Disubstituted Phthalans Utpal Nath, Deepan Chowdhury, Subhas Chandra Pan Adv. Synth. Catal.2018,360, 1628–1633″

 

Honors and Rewards

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DEEPAN CHOWDHURY

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