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

Visible light-driven dearomative metacycloadditions of 2-acetonaphthalenes via triplet energy transfer cascade 

Nat. Commun. 2025, 16, 2991

Effect of π‑Linkages in Covalent Organic Framework-CatalyzedLight-Harvesting Thioesterification Reaction

ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2025, 17, 14047−14057

Latest News from the Group

March 14, 2025

Pramod's paper just accepted in Nat. Commun. Congratulations to Pramod

Feb 25, 2025

Ayan's paper just accepted in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces.. Congratulations to Ayan

Feb 20, 2025

Pramod's paper just accepted in Org. Lett.. Congratulations to Pramod

Jan 9, 2025

Kakoli's paper just accepted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.. Congratulations to Kakoli 

Jan 2, 2025

We welcome Sourav and Subha as a graduate student to our lab! 


Dec 20, 2024

Congratulations Ayan for successifully defending PhD thesis.


Oct 20, 2024

Congratulations Animesh for successifully defending PhD thesis.


Oct 29, 2024

Ayan's paper just accepted in ChemCatChem . Congratulations to Ayan