Debashis Chakraborty joined the Department of Chemistry, IIT – Madras in 2005 after the rigourous post – doctoral and industrial experience. He is an organometallic chemist and his research focusses upon catalyst development for polymer synthesis and homogeneous catalysis, activation of water and CO2

Publications

WORK EXPERIENCE

1. Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

(a) Research Interests

Organometallic Chemistry for Polymer Synthesis and Catalysis, Homogeneous Catalysis, CO2 Sequestration, Chemical Process Development and Heterogeneous Catalysis

(b) Research Summary

In my independent career as an Academic Faculty, I have worked in a variety of research areas which include the applications of organometallic compounds of main-group and transition metals and simple metal salts as suitable catalysts for processes that include the following:

  1. Transition metal organometallic compounds and metal salts were used as suitable catalysts for the ring-opening polymerization reaction of cyclic esters and lactides with the goal of understanding the relationships between the pendant ancillary ligand(s) on the metal center upon the polymerization behaviour and characteristics.
  2. Metal-free ring-opening polymerization catalysts for cyclic esters and lactide polymerization using phosphorus(V) compounds.
  3. Synthesis of new non-metallocene pre-catalysts for olefin polymerization.
  4. Synthesis of catalysts for the ring-opening copolymerization reactions of epoxides with CO2 and anhydrides.5. Demonstrated the use of simple metal salts as catalysts for various organic transformations.