Prof Saurav Chatterjee Associate Professor Email: saurav at nitrkl.ac.in Phone: +91-(0) 661-2462656 Office: # 305 B, Main building Personal Home Page: http://sites.google.com/site/sauravnitrkl/ Academic profile University of Burdwan Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai (Organometallic Chemistry) Research & Professional Experience : Associate Professor, NIT Rourkela, India : 2009 till date Assistant Professor, NIT Rourkela, India : 2007 2009 CSIR Pool Scientist (SRA), IIT Bombay : 2005 to 2007 Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bonn, Germany: 2003 to 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, Ruhr Uni- Bochum, Germany : 2002 to 2003 Honours and Affiliation: DAAD fellowship for research stay (2012) : University of Duisburg Essen, Germany Research Interest: Organometllic Chemistry, Transition metal clusters, Ferrocene chemistry Research Group: Ph.D. Students: (3)... M.S. Students: (11)... Recent Publications: 1. Synthesis and characterization of diphosphine bridged homo and heterometallic clusters containing chalcogen as naked atoms Saurav Chatterjee *, Sumanta K. Patel, Shaikh M. Mobin. Journal of
Organometallic Chemistry 696 (2011) 1782. 2. Synthesis and characterization of bridged and chelated diphosphine coordinated transition metal chalcogenide clusters, [(CO) 18 Fe 6 3 -Te) 4 -PPh 2 (CH 2 ) 2 PPh 2 }] and [(CO) n Fe 2 3 -Y) 2 M{PPh 2 -R-PPh 2 }], 5 -C 5 H 4 ) 2 Fe}, {(CH 2 ) 2 }] Saurav Chatterjee *, Sumanta K. Patel, Vijaylakhsmi Tirkey, Shaikh M. Mobin, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 699 (2012) 12. List of Publications: PUBLICATIONS 1. Synthesis and characterization of cis and trans isomers of the mixed chalcogen clusters [Cp 2 Mo 2 Fe 2 (CO) 8 3-3-Se)] and [Cp 2 Mo 2 Fe 2 (CO) 8 3-3-Te)] P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, S. Ghose, M.F. Mahon, J. Organomet. Chem., 1999, 587, 93. 2. Novel approach to mixed Group 15/16 element ligands:-formation of unusual trichalcogenophosphonato ligands in mixed Fe/Cr clusters, M. Scheer, S.B. Umbarkar, S. Chatterjee, R. Trivedi, P. Mathur Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2001, 40, 376. 1 3. Synthesis, structure and reactivity of mixed- -acetylide 5 1 -C5 H 5 )MFe 2 3 -E) 2 (CO) 6 -CCPh) (M = Mo or W and E = Se or Te) P. Mathur, A.K. Bhunia, A. Kumar, S. Chatterjee, S.M. Mobin, Organometallics, 2002, 21, 2215. 4. Synthesis, characterisation and redox behaviour of isocyanide incorporated, chalcogen stabilised mixed-metal clusters. P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, G.K. Lahiri, S. Chakraborty, J.H. Kaldis and M. J. McGlinchey, J. Organomet. Chem., 2004, 689, 122. 5. Second Molecular Hyperpolarizability of Mixed Transition Metal, Non-metal Clusters, P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, B. P. Singh, T. Kundu, R. Trivedi, S. B. Umbarkar, M. Scheer, J. Cluster Sci., 2004, 15, 13. 6. Studies on the Synthesis, Structure and Reactivity of heterocyclic metallonitridophosphinates. T. Bauer, S. Chatterjee, S. Schulz, M. Nieger, I. Krossing, Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, 2005, 631, 2900. 7. Oxo incorporated metal acetylide complexes P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee Comments on Inorganic Chemistry (Review), 2005, 26, 255. 8. Mixed Metal Acetylide Clusters. P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee and V.D. Avasare Adv. Organomet. Chem., 2008, 55, 201-277. ( Book Chapter)
9. Photochemical route to unusual tri-tungsten ferrocenylacetylene cluster [W 3 - (H)C CFc} 2 (CO) 12 ] and a dimetallacyclodecatetraene [W 2-2 2 2 2-2 2 - (Fc)C C(H)C(H)=C(Fc)C(Fc)=C(H)-C(H)=C(Fc)}(CO) 6 ]. P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, A. Das, S. M. Mobin. J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 819. 10. Synthesis, structure and electrochemistry of CO incorporated diruthenium metallacyclic compounds [Ru 2 (CO) 6 { - 2 : 2-1,4-Fc2 C 5 H 2 O}] and [Ru 2 (CO) 6 { - 2 : 2-1,5- Fc 2 C 5 H 2 O}], P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, A. Das, G. K. Lahiri, S. Maji, S. M. Mobin, J. Organomet. Chem. 2007, 692, 1601. 11. Manganese Containing Heterometallic Clusters Containing Ligands Derived from Elements of Groups 15 and 16. P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, Y.V. Torubaev, J. Cluster Sci., 2007, 18, 505-534. 12. - - -{FcCCCC(Fc)-C(O)- - - {FcCCCC(Fc)-C(O)-C(-CCFc)C(Fc)}]. P. Mathur, S. Chatterjee, A. Das, G. K. Lahiri, S. Maji, S. M. Mobin, J. Organomet. Chem. 2008, 693, 1919. 13. Formation of N-Methylated cyclic ligand systems from unusual reactions between trimethyl N-oxide and acetylenes on Fe 3 Te 2 (CO) 9 and contrast with reactions on Fe 3 E 2 (CO) 9 ( E = S, Se). P, Mathur; A. K. Singh; J. R.Mohanty; S.Chatterjee; S. M. Mobin,. Organometallics 2008, 27, 5094. 14. Metal carbonyl-promoted reactions of ferrocenylacetylene with sulfur to form thiophene, dithiine, thioketone and vinylthioketone derivatives. P. Mathur, A.K. Singh, S. Chatterjee, V.K. Singh, S.M. Mobin, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2010, 695, 950. 15. Synthesis and characterization of diphosphine bridged homo and heterometallic clusters containing chalcogen as naked atoms Saurav Chatterjee *, Sumanta K. Patel, Shaikh M. Mobin. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 696 (2011) 1782. 16. Synthesis and characterization of bridged and chelated diphosphine coordinated transition metal chalcogenide clusters, [(CO) 18 Fe 6 3 -Te) 4 -PPh 2 (CH 2 ) 2 PPh 2 }] and [(CO) n Fe 2 3 -Y) 2 M{PPh 2 -R-PPh 2 }],
5 -C 5 H 4 ) 2 Fe}, {(CH 2 ) 2 }] Saurav Chatterjee *, Sumanta K. Patel, Vijaylakhsmi Tirkey, Shaikh M. Mobin, Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 699 (2012) 12. Patents: NIL Conferences: Recent List of Invited Talk/ Paper Presented in Conferences /Symposia S.No. Names of the Authors 1 Saurav Chatterjee Title of the Paper/Talk Synthesis of Transition Metal Chalcogenide Clusters as Organometallic Precursor for Nanostructures Name of the Conference Date, Year and Place ICMAT 2011 Singapore ( 26 th June -1 st July) 2 Vijaylakshmi Tirkey, Sumanta K. Patel, Saurav Chatterjee * Bridged and chelated diphosphine coordinated transition metal chalcogenide clusters MTIC Hyderabad ( 10 th 13 th Dec 2011) 3 Sasmita Mishra, Vijaylakshmi Tirkey, Saurav Chatterjee * 5 -C 5 H 5 based organometallic compounds and their biological studies. CRSI Trivandrum ( 3 rd -5 th Feb 2012) Sponsored/ Consultancy Projects: S.No Title of the Project 1 Synthesis and characterization of transition metal acetylides, their reactivity studies and electrochemical behavior. 2 Metal Complexes of Ferrocene Based Ligands, their Electrochemical Behavior and Biological properties Sponsoring Agency Year Value (lakhs) Co- Investigators, if any Completed/ongoing DST 2009-12 19 NIL ongoing CSIR 2011-14 17 NIL ongoing