Dr. Indranil Chatterjee
Assistant Professor
Chemical Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Ropar
India
Biography
Dr. Indranil Chatterjee was born in Kolkata, India in 1983. He obtained his B.Sc. from Calcutta University, India in 2006, and then he moved to IIT Kharagpur for his M.Sc. study. In 2008 he moved to Germany for his Ph.D. study at Westfälische Wilhelms-University Muenster under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Armido Studer, where his studies centered on catalytic asymmetric cycloaddition reactions. After finishing his Ph.D. study in November 2011, he joined as a Postdoctoral fellow with Prof. Paolo Melchiorre in ICIQ, Tarragona, Spain in 2012. His area of research mainly focused on new organocatalytic cascade reactions. After that from 2014 to 2016 he did another Post-Doc with Prof. Martin Oestreich at the Technische Universität Berlin, concentrating his research on Lewis acid catalysis. Since December 2016 he is holding a position of Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.
Research Interest
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Photoredox Chemistry, Dual Catalysis, Organocatalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis, Total Synthesis
Publications
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Chatterjee I., Oestreich M. (2016): Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines and Alkenes Using Cyclohexa-1,4-dienes as Dihydrogen Surrogates. Organic Letters 18, 2463–2466. Highlighted in Synfacts (2016), 12, 971.
