Dr. SUVANKAR DEBBARMA
Home Address:
Working Address:
Urban Castle Kawauchi (340)
Department of Chemistry
Kawauchi Daikumachi, 56
Graduate School of Science,
Miyagi, Aoba Ward,
Tohoku University, Sendai
Sendai- 980-0853, Japan.
Japan- 980-8578
Email: suvankarchemiitm@gmail.com // debbarma.suvankar.a8@tohoku.ac.jp
Ph:- +91-8170849063
Ph:- +81-8033281759
PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Sex: Male
Marital Status: Single
Date of Birth: 22-05-1990

OBJECTIVE:

Nationality: Indian“Committed to do good & quality research in Synthetic Organic Chemistry”EDUCATIONS:
Ph. D., (2014 – 2019): Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IITKharagpur), India. (Suorevisor Prof. Dr. Modhu Sudan Maji.)
Thesis title: ‘Transition-Metal-Catalyzed External Oxidant Free C–C and C–N Bond Formation’
M. Sc., (2011 – 2013): Department of Chemistry, (Organic Special): First Class, Indian Institute ofTechnology Madras (IIT-Madras), India. (supervisor Prof. Dr. S. Baskaran.)
Thesis Title: ‘Synthesis of New Organocatalyst for Asymmetric Transformation’
B.Sc., (2008 – 2011): Chemistry Honors (First class), Vidyasagar University, West Bengal, India.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:
Apr, 2022 –Nov 2022

Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Tohoku University
Sendai, Japan. (PI: Prof. Dr. Yujiro Hayashi.)●Jun, 2020 – Mar 2022:

Asymmetric total synthesis of Amphidinolide N

Institute Research Associate (RA), Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology
Kharagpur (IIT-Kharagpur), India. (Suorevisor Prof. Dr. Modhu Sudan Maji.)●Development of a novel strategy for asymmetric C–H functionalization using peptide ligand
assisted Cp*Co(III)-catalysis.

Sep, 2019 – Jan 2020: Post-Doctoral Fellow (Fixed-Term Researcher)Principal Investigator: Prof. Dr. Shengming Ma. Department of Chemistry, Fudan
University/Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), CAS, China.

●Developed a novel strategy for Asymmetric Synthesis of Allene Carboxyliclate through Dynamic
Kinetic Resolutions. (manuscript communicated)

July 2014 – Aug 2019

Ph. D., Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India.
●Developed a low temperature strategy for C–C bond formation through transition metal catalyzed
C–H allylation strategy.

●Significant contribution has been made to the C–N bond formation, by developing a moderncatalytic approach for amide synthesis through an aldehyde C–H bond activation. This leads tosynthesize wide range of biologically important molecules.

●A benign catalytic method has been developed to synthesize biologically important Z-Enamide,
through a stereo controlled manner.

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Considering the environmental issues of every chemical synthesis, we have first developed a water
medium iridium catalysis for the synthesis of wide range of biologically important Chromon
derivatives, utilizing various diazo-ketones.

●A complete training has been gained for various metal catalyst synthesis and its utilizations throughrange of catalysis.

May 2012 – April 2013:

M. Sc., Project, Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India.
●Paved a new strategy for the synthesis of Thiourea based Organo-Catalyst.

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Explored the basic concept of asymmetric catalysis through the newly designed catalyst in a
pragmatic way.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
July 2014 – May 2018:

Teaching Assistantship, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur,
India.

●Assisted practical classes for under graduate student, B. Tech. (1st, 2nd semesters), as a part ofteaching assistance ship (TA).

●Two-year theory teaching for under graduate student, B. Tech. (7th, 8th semesters), as a part ofteaching assistance ship (TA).
Sub: Basic stereo chemistry, metal catalysis, basic NMR course (1H, 13C, DEPT), (Class strength~50 students).

AWARDS & HONORS:●Fudan University post-doctoral fellowship (2019-2021), CAS.

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Full time research fellowship (July 2014 to March 2019) by IIT Kharagpur, India.

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Full time junior research fellowship (May 2013 to April 2015) UGC, India.

●Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE, 2013).

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Awarded IIT Madras Merit Scholarship during M.Sc. (August 2011 to May 2013), India.

●CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) (December, 2012).

●CSIR-UGC National Eligibility Test (NET) (June, 2012).

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Joint Admission Test for MSc (JAM) 2011.

RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS:
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Wei-Feng Zheng, Suvankar Debbarma, Yuling Li, Jie Wang, Wanli Zhang, Hui Qian, Yin-Long Guo andShengming Ma. Metal-Catalyzed Enantioselective Carboxylation Boosted by Aryl Bromides. (Communicated).

2.

Suvankar Debbarma, Md Raja SK, Biswabrata Modak and Modhu Sudan Maji. On-Water Cp*Ir(III)-Catalyzed
C–H Functionalization for the Synthesis of Chromones through Annulation of Salicylaldehydes with DiazoKetones. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 6207–6216. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.9b00418(Invited for cover picture)3.

Suvankar Debbarma, Sourav Sekhar Bera and Modhu Sudan Maji. Harnessing Stereospecific Z-Enamides
through Silver-Free Cp*Rh(III) Catalysis by Using Isoxazoles as Masked Electrophiles. Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 835–839. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.8b04130

4.

Sourav Sekhar Bera, Suvankar Debbarma and Modhu Sudan Maji. Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed Construction ofBenzofurans, Benzofuranones and One-Pot Orthogonal C−H Functionalizations to Access Polysubstituted
Benzofurans. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 2204–2210. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsc.201800298(Invited for cover picture)

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Sourav Sekhar Bera, Suvankar Debbarma, Avick Kumar Ghosh, Santanu Chand and Modhu Sudan Maji.
Cp*CoIII–Catalyzed syn-Selective C–H Hydroarylation of Alkynes Using Benzamides: An Approach Toward
Highly Conjugated Organic Frameworks. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 82, 420–430.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.6b02516

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Suvankar Debbarma and Modhu Sudan Maji. Cp*RhIII-Catalyzed Directed Amidation of Aldehydes withAnthranils.

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Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 2017, 3699–3706. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.201700457

Suvankar Debbarma, Sourav Sekhar Bera, and Modhu Sudan Maji. Cp*Rh(III)-Catalyzed Low Temperature C–
H Allylation of N-Aryl-trichloro Acetimidamide. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 11716–11725.
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.6b02150