Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Bhopal

INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH BHOPAL

Name: Dr. Joyanta Choudhury
Designation: Assistant Professor
Department: Chemistry
E-Mail: joyanta@iiserb.ac.in
Phone: +91-755-4092318
Fax: +91-755-4092392

Academic Profile:

Assistant Professor (April 2011- Present), Chemistry, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India.
Dean of Faculty Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2010-March 2011), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Advisor: Prof. Milko E. van der Boom).
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow (Sept 2008-Oct 2010), Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel (Host: Prof. Milko E. van der Boom).
TSRI Postdoctoral Fellow (Nov 2007-Aug 2008), The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida, USA (Advisor: Prof. Roy A. Periana).
DST Research Associate (Aug 2006-Oct 20007), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (Advisor: Prof. Sujit Roy).
Ph.D. Chemistry (2001-2006), Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India (Advisor: Prof. Sujit Roy).

Research Interest:

Transition-Metal Organometallic Chemistry: Mechanism and Applications towards Homogeneous Catalysis

C-H, N-H, O-H Bond Activation / Small Molecule Activation & Functionalization

Stimuli-Responsive Surface / Smart Surface / Functional Molecular Assembly on Solid Surface

Selected Publications:

From IISER-B:

ChemCatChem 2012, 4, 609-611. Choudhury, J.* New Strategies for CO2-to-Methanol Conversion.
Angew. Chem,. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 10772-10774. Choudhury, J.* N-Heterocyclic Nitrenium Ligands: A Missing Link Explored.

From Postdoctoral & Doctoral Studies:

Organometallics 2012, 31 , 1271-1274. Orbach, M.; Choudhury, J.; Lahav, M.; Zenkina, O. V.; Diskin-Posner, Y.; Leitus, G.; Iron, M. A.; van der Boom, M. E.* Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions with Fluorinated Substrates: Mechanistic Insights into the Undesired Hydrodehalogenation of Aryl-Halides.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 9295-9297. Choudhury, J.; Kaminker, R.; Motiei, L.; de Ruiter, G.; Morozov, M.; Lupo, F.; Gulino, A.; van der Boom, M. E.* Linear vs Exponential Formation of Molecular-Based Assemblies.
Angew. Chem,. Int. Ed. 2010, 49, 4780-4783. de Ruiter, G.; Motiei, L.; Choudhury, J.; Oded, N.; van der Boom, M. E.* Electrically Addressable Multistate Volatile Memory with Flip-Flop and Flip-Flap-Flop Logic Circuits on a Solid Support.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2010, 132, 12528-12530. Motiei, L.; Yao, Y.; Choudhury, J.; Yan, H.; Marks, T. J.*; van der Boom, M. E.*; Facchetti, A.* Self-Propagating Molecular Assemblies as Interlayers for Efficient Inverted Bulk-Heterojunction Solar Cells.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 6162–6163. Choudhury, J.; Podder, S.; Roy, S.* Cooperative Friedel–Crafts Catalysis in Heterobimetallic Regime: Alkylation of Aromatics by pi-Activated Alcohols.