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Sumit Khanra

Associate Professor
Dept: Chemical Sciences
E-mail: sumit.khanra [at] iiserkol.ac.in
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Research Interest:
  • Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry towards  Chemical, photochemical or electrochemical water splitting and transporting the electrons needed for hydrogen production.
  • Nano-Magnetism: Synthesis of polynuclear Cluster & cage compounds with tuned structures, development of magnetic materials and towards quantum computation.
  • Small molecules like O2 , N2, CO2 activation by Inorganic & Organometallic Compounds.
  • High-valent Transition metal-Oxo or nitrido species towards C-H bond activation
  • Pd & Rh catalyzed C-C, C-N bond formation & C-H bond activation


Academic Background:
  1. Ph. D (Chemistry), Max-Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Germany
  2. M. Sc. (Chemistry), Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
  3. B. Sc. (Hons in Chemistry),  Jadavpur University Kolkata, India


Positions:
  1. Post doctoral Fellow, Max-Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry, Germany (2005-2006)
  2. Magmanet (EU network of Excellence) funded Research Associate, University of Manchester, UK (2006-2008).
  3. EPSRC funded Research Associate, University of Glasgow, UK (2008-2009).
  4. Assistant Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata ( July 2009 - July 2015).
  5. Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Kolkata ( July 2015 - ).


Awards and Honors:
  1. CSIR-UGC (Council for Scientific & Industrial Research- University Grants Commission) National Eligibility Test (CSIR-category) in Chemical Sciences
  2. Qualified institute fellowship in Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, in the Solid-State Chemistry Department.
  3. Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry.
  4. "Anil Majumdar memorial award" for securing highest marks in M.Sc Chemistry examination Jadavpur University, India
  5. "Bimanesh Sur memorial award" for securing highest marks in Inorganic Chemistry, Jadavpur University, India
  6. "Nanigopal memorial award" for an outstanding performance in M.Sc Chemistry examination, Jadavpur University, India


Selected Publications:
  1. A Mixed-Valence Manganese Cubane Trapped by Inequivalent Trilacunary Polyoxometalate Ligands. Scott G. Mitchell, Sumit Khanra, Haralampos N. Miras,Alessandro Prescimone, Geoffrey J.T. Cooper, Ross S. Winter, Euan K. Brechin, De-Liang Long, Richard J. Cogdell, Leroy Cronin.Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 9154-9157.
  2. A Mixed-Valence Manganese Cubane Trapped by Inequivalent Trilacunary Polyoxometalate Ligands. Scott G. Mitchell,Sumit Khanra, Haralampos N. Miras,Alessandro Prescimone, Geoffrey J.T. Cooper, Ross S. Winter, Euan K. Brechin, De-Liang Long, Richard J. Cogdell, Leroy Cronin. Angew. Chem. 2011, 123, 9320-9323.
  3. Hexanuclear Copper(II) Cage with {Cu3OHOCu3} Core supported by a Dicompartmental Oxime Ligand with m-xylyl Spacer: Synthesis, Molecular structure and Magnetic Studies. Sibasree Karmakar, Oindrila Das, Subhamoy Ghosh, Ennio Zangrando, Mara Johann, Eva Rentschler, Thomas Weyhermüller, Tapan Kanti Paine and Sumit Khanra. Dalton Trans 2010, 39, 10920-10927.