Welcome to 

Organic Synthesis & Catalysis Laboratory

@The Maji Research Group




Our Motivation

Synthesis of organic molecules in a simple, efficient, and cost-effective manner is of great importance to the human society for achieving value-added molecules with potential activity for pharmaceutical, and chemical industries, materials sciences, energy supply, crop protection, nutrition, etc. In this respect, catalysis is the critical technology for developing such processes and is becoming increasingly critical in the 21st century. My research focuses on developing small molecular catalysts using cheap and abundant resources for environmentally benign and economically sound catalytic transformations. It combines the knowledge of organic synthesis, organometallic chemistry, and physical organic chemistry to activate small molecules and asymmetric transformations to produce synthetically and pharmaceutically relevant molecules.

Recent Publications

Divergent Synthesis of Pyrazoles via Manganese Pincer Complex Catalyzed Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling Reactions

Catalytic acceptorless dehydrogenative borylation of styrenes enabled by a molecularly defined manganese complex

                    Chem. Sci., 2024,15, 1098-1105 

Latest News from the Group

May 17, 2024

We congratulate Koushik Sarkar for successfully defending his thesis.

April 25, 2024

We congratulate Pramod Rai, Kakoli Maji, and Pramod Kumar for successfully defending their thesis.

April 24, 2024

Congratulations to Koushik for his recent publication in Chemistry - A European Journal

April 15, 2024

We welcome Dr. Sanchari Shome as a NPDF to our lab!

Dec 28 , 2023

We welcome Amrendra as a graduate student to our lab!

Oct 13 , 2023

Congratulations to Angshuman & Pramod for their recent publication in Chemical Science

Sept 19 , 2023

Congratulations to Pramod Kumar for his recent publication in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A 

Aug 21

We welcome Sujoy as a graduate student to our lab!

July 28

We welcome Sudipta as a graduate student to our lab!

July 25

We welcome Debjyoti, Sumeet, and Anusha as undergrads for completion of their MS-project with us!