Organometallics & Smart Materials Laboratory - OSML

Congratulations to Saswati Ray for winning the Best Poster Award at the International Conference on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XXII), held at Miranda House, University of Delhi, on 18-21 December 2025. IISER Bhopal

Read our review article published in focusing on a survey of metal-NHC complexes for CO₂ reduction. Congratulations to all the authors Saswati Ray, Saurabh and Pabitra

👉 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2025.217444
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Congratulations to our recent graduates, Dr. Samim Sohel Rana, Mr. Aayush Anand, Ms. Kalyani B, and Mr. Umesh Kumar, who received their degrees at the 12th convocation of IISER Bhopal.
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Currently we have a Research Associate-I position in our group. If you wish to apply for this post, you may contact Prof. Joyanta Choudhury ([email protected]). Please visit the following link for more details.

https://www.iiserb.ac.in/careers/rnd

Congratulations to Manisha Pal and Saurabh Kumar for receiving the best poster award at 34th CRSI-National Symposium in Chemistry held at IISER Bhopal during Feb 6-8, 2025.

We are excited to share that our recent work on "Directly-Knitted Hierarchical Porous Organometallic Polymer-Based Self-Supported Single-Site Catalyst for CO2 Hydrogenation in Water" is now published in Angew Chem. Congratulations to Tanmoy, Abhishek, Jatin and the Team for this fantastic work.

Directly‐Knitted Hierarchical Porous Organometallic Polymer‐Based Self‐Supported Single‐Site Catalyst for CO2 Hydrogenation in Water In recent times, heterogenization of homogeneous molecular catalysts onto various porous solid support structures has attracted significant research focus as a method for combining the advantages of ...

We are delighted to share that our recent work on "Annulation-Induced Hidden Reactivity of the 1,2,4-Triazole Backbone" in collaboration with Apurba Lal Koner group is now published in Angew Chem. Congratulations to Piru Karak, Manisha Pal, Barsha & the entire team for this fantastic work.

Annulation‐Induced Hidden Reactivity of the 1,2,4‐Triazole Backbone Triazoles are an important class of compounds with widespread applications and functionalization of triazole backbone is of significant interest. In comparison to 1,2,3-triazoles, C–H activation-func...

Our previously developed Rh-catalyzed annulation protocol ( https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SC04006A ) offered a beautiful dicationic helicene molecule which is now demonstrated to catalyze electrochemical H2 evolution reaction (HER) with weak acid as a proton source. See the work published now in J_A_C_S
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.3c04737

This is the 2nd JACS from OSML in 2023. Congratulations to Piru Karak and Sanajit for this amazing work.

Exploiting the NADP+/NADPH-like Hydride-Transfer Redox Cycle with Bis-Imidazolium-Embedded Heterohelicene for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction Generation of clean energy in a viable manner demands efficient and sustainable catalysts. One prospective method of clean energy generation is the electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Over the years, various transition metal-based complexes/polymeric organic materials were utilized in...

We are delighted to share that Dr. Abhishek Kumar was awarded with the Best Thesis Award in chemistry at the 10th convocation of IISER Bhopal. His thesis was titled 'Exploring Homogenous Transition Metal-based CO2 Reduction Catalysis via Transfer Hydrogenation and Electrochemical Routes'. Congratulations to him on this tremendous achievement.
Abhishek Tarika

Congratulations to our recent graduates, Dr. Pirudhan, Dr. Abhishek, Dr. Babulal, Chandana, and Mrityunjay who received their degrees at the 10th convocation of IISER Bhopal. We dearly missed Dr. Abhishek and Dr. Babulal who received their degrees in absentia.

Two recent articles have highlighted our work in JACS on regenerable NADP+ cofactor analogue for electrocatalytic CO2 reduction.
The article in Joule by lead author Prof. Xiaodong Zhuang talks about the impact of our work in the broader context of Metal-free molecular catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2023.05.025

Another article in SCIENCE CHINA Chemistry by the lead author Prof. Jian Liu highlights our work in the context of NAD(P) H-inspired CO2 reduction and beyond.
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/s11426-023-1687-2

We are proud to see our work making waves around the globe and congratulate Piru Karak and Sanajit for this feat.

Excited to share that our feature article in ChemComm was one of the most-read articles in 2022. Do check out the link to read about 'Cationic π-extended heteroaromatics via catalytic C–H activation annulative alkyne‐insertion sequence'
DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CC05590A