Education
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2011 – Ph. D from WWE Muenster, Germany
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2007 – M. Sc from IIT, Kharagpur
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2005 – B. Sc from University of Calcutta
Organometallic Chemistry Lab (OMCL)
33. "Recent Advances in the Syntheses and Catalytic Applications of Homonuclear Ru-, Rh-, and Ir-Complexes of CNHC^C Cyclometalated Ligands. Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, Praseetha Mathoor Illam, S. N. R. Donthireddy, Priya, and Arnab Rit* Chem.Eur.J. 2021, 27, 16581-16600.
32. "Modulating the electronics of orthometalated RuII-NHC complexes via substitution patterns or NHC donors: Studies towards the impacts in catalysis. Praseetha Mathoor Illam, Vivek Kumar Singh, Priya, and Arnab Rit* J. Organomet. Chem. 2021, 951, 122008 (invited article for the special issue "Frontiers in Organometallic Chemistry").
31."[(PPh3)2NiCl2]-Catalyzed C–N Bond Formation Reaction via Borrowing Hydrogen Strategy: Access to Diverse Secondary Amines and Quinolines" S. N. R. Donthireddy, Vipin K. Pandey, and Arnab Rit* J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 6994–7001.
30. "Hetero- and Homobimetallic Complexes Bridged by a Bis(NHC) Ligand: Synthesis via Selective Sequential Metalation and Catalytic Applications in Tandem Organic Transformations" Rajeev C. Nishad, Shashi Kumar, and Arnab Rit*, Organometallics 2021, 40, 915-926.
29. "Silver-Catalyzed Hydroboration of C–X (X = C, O, N) Multiple Bonds" Vipin K. Pandey, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, and Arnab Rit*, Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 1681-1686
28. "Atom‐Economic Alk(en)ylations of Esters, Amides, and Methyl Heteroarenes Utilizing Alcohols Following Dehydrogenative Strategies" S. N. R. Donthireddy, Chandra Shekhar Tiwari, Shashi Kumar, Dr. Arnab Rit*, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2021, 10, 464-484 ("Early Career Special Collection")
27. "Self-Assembly of Benzimidazole Derived Tris-NHC Ligands and AgI-ions to Hexanuclear Organometallic Cages and Their Unusual Transmetalation Chemistry" Rajeev C. Nishad, Arnab Rit*, Chem. Eur. J., 2021, 27, 594-599.
26. "Naphthyl-Derived Orthometalated RuII-NHC Complexes: Effect of the NHC Donors and/or Substitution Pattern on Their Synthesis and Catalytic Activity" Somnath Bauri, Anirban Mallik and Arnab Rit*, Organometallics, 2020, 39, 3362-3374.
25. “Transition metal complexes of a bis(carbene) ligand featuring 1,2,4-triazolin-5-ylidene donors: structural diversity and catalytic applications” Vivek Kumar Singh, S. N. R. Donthireddy, Praseetha Mathoor Illam, and Arnab Rit,* Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 11958-11970.
24.“Catalyst- and solvent-free efficient access to N-alkylated amines via reductive amination using HBpin” Vipin K. Pandey, Somnath Bauri, and Arnab Rit,* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2020, 18, 3853-3857.
23. “Activation of protic, hydridic and apolar E-H bonds by a boryl-substituted Ge(II) cation” R. J. Morgan, Arnab Rit, C. P. Sindlinger, R. Tirfoin, J. Campos, J. Hicks, K. E. Chirstensen, H, Niu, and S. Aldridge, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 306-315.
22. “Ruthenium(II) complexes of heteroditopic N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: efficient catalysts for C-N Bond Formations via hydrogen borrowing strategy under solvent-free conditions” S. N. R. Donthireddy, Praseetha M. Illam, and Arnab Rit,* Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 1835-1847.
21. “Catalyst-free and solvent-free facile hydroboration of imines” Vipin K. Pandey, S. N. R. Donthireddy, and Arnab Rit,* Chem. Asian J. 2019, 14, 3255-3258.
20. “Heteroditopic Ru(II)- and Ir(III)-NHC complexes with pendant 1,2,3-triazole/triazolylidene groups: stereoelectronic impact on transfer hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds” Praseetha M. Illam, S. N. R. Donthireddy, Sayantan Chakrabartty, and Arnab Rit,*Organometallics 2019, 38, 2610-2623.
19. “AgSbF6-Catalyzed anti-Markovnikov hydroboration of terminal alkynes” Ramesh Mamidala, Vipin K. Pandey, and Arnab Rit,* Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 989-992.
18. “Zinc dihydride and mixed halo hydrides supported by an N-heterocyclic carbene” Arnab Rit, Ann-Kristin Wiegand, Debabrata Mukherjee, Thomas P. Spaniol, and Jun Okuda, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 1114-1119.
17. “Effect of ancillary ligand in cyclometalated Ru(II)-NHC-catalyzed transfer hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds” Somnath Bauri, S. N. R. Donthireddy, Praseetha M. Illam, and Arnab Rit,* Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 14582-14593.
