DEPARTMENT OF CHEMISTRY
INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS

SUVAM SAHA

Biography

Suvam was born in Balurghat, a small town in West Bengal, India. He completed his B.Sc. degree with Honours in Chemistry from Ramakrishna Mission Residential College, Narendrapur, in 2016. He went on to earn his M.Sc. in Chemistry from IIT Madras in 2018. His master’s thesis, titled “Metallaboranes and Metallaheteroboranes of Group 5 Metals”, was awarded the Best Thesis in Chemistry that year. Suvam subsequently joined Professor Ghosh’s lab as a Ph.D. student, where he is currently working on small molecule activation through metal–ligand cooperativity. Beyond the lab, Suvam enjoys reading detective fiction, cooking, and following football-especially watching FC Barcelona in action.

 

Education

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

Research Interests

  • Small molecule activation through metal ligand cooperativity

Representative Publications

Cooperative B-H Activation: Ligand Diversity in Groups 6 and 8 Transition Metal κ2N,E-chelated Complexes (E = S or Se): S. Saha, S. Mohapatra, M. Kumar, D. Yadav and S. Ghosh,  Chem., 2025, 64, 2618.

Synthesis, Structure and Bonding of Group 8 Transition Metal Germyl Complexes, [Cp*M {κ2-Ge,S-GeCl2C7H4NS2}(PPh3)] (M = Ru or Os): S. Saha, F. Assanar, A. Ahmad, A. Bains, S. Nagendran and S. Ghosh, Organometallics, 2024, 43, 718.

Honors and Rewards

  • Prof. Ramamurthy Endowment prize 2018

SUVAM SAHA

CY18D009

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