ANUP BHUNIA
Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
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About
Anup completed his bachelor's in chemistry from Midnapore College in 2009. In the year 2011, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IIT-Guwahati) with an M. Sc. in Chemistry. During his master's study, he worked on Lewis’s acid-catalyzed stereoselective organic synthesis to develop biologically important complex heterocycles under the supervision of Prof. Anil Kumar Saikia, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Guwahati. He qualified both NET (All India rank-42) and GATE (All India rank-72) in 2011.
Afterward, he joined the group of Prof. Akkattu T. Biju at the CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory Pune as a Ph.D. student. There, he was working on his Ph. D. thesis entitled ‘Transition-Metal-Free Carbon-Carbon and Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Forming Reactions using N-Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysis and Aryne Chemistry’. He was awarded the Eli Lilly and Company Asia Outstanding Thesis Award for his doctoral research.
Soon after that, he moved to Münster as an Alexander von Humboldt to start his post-doctoral studies under the supervision of Prof. Armido Studer at the Organisch Chemisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, where he was involved in several research projects on organometallics, catalysis, and radical chemistry. His main research in Münster has involved in designing new reagents for gas-free synthetic transformations with improved stereoselectivity.
In April 2021, he joined the Department of Chemical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata (IISER Kolkata) as a Ramanujan Fellow to start his independent research career. At IISER Kolkata, he works on redox catalysis based on solid-state (mechanochemistry) radical chemistry, electrochemistry, and photochemistry.
In June 2024, he joined the IIT Hyderabad as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Employment
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Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Assistant Professor2024 - Present
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Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata Ramanujan Fellow2021 - 2024
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Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster Post Doctoral Fellow2017 - 2021
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Publications (35)
- Machine Learning Assisted Materials Classification to Boost Catalyst Design for Electrochemical Oxidation Save
- Controlled Heterogeneous Electrocatalytic Oxidation of Carboxylates and Halides for the Synthesis of Novel Chemicals Save
- Thionoamides and Their Se and Te Analogs Save
- Uncovering the On-Pathway Reaction Intermediates for Metal-Free Atom Transfer Radical Addition to Olefins through Photogenerated Phenalenyl Radical Anion Save
- Denitrogenation of tosylhydrazones: synthesis of aryl alkyl sulfones catalyzed by a phenalenyl-based molecule Save
- The energy storage application of core-/yolk–shell structures in sodium batteries Save
- Triple-photoinduced electron transfer (tri-PET) catalysis for activation of super strong bonds Save
- Intramolecular Radical Oxygen-Transfer Reactions Using Nitroarenes Save
- Mechanochemical solid state single electron transfer from reduced organic hydrocarbon for catalytic aryl-halide bond activation Save
- Fe-Catalyzed Anaerobic Mukaiyama-Type Hydration of Alkenes using Nitroarenes Save