SG Catalysis Lab
IISER Berhampur
Transition Metal Catalysis . Organocatalysis . Asymmetric Synthesis
Research Interests
Group News
Oct. 2024: Congratulations Sibasis and Suravi on their publication in The Journal of Organic Chemistry!
Aug. 2024: Our work on skipped enynes is now published in Organic Letters. Congratulations to Bhavya!
Aug. 2024: Two PhD students join the team. A warm welcome to Abinash and Sangram!
May 2024: Congratulations Chhanda and Saswat once again! NHC/Pd synergistic catalysis review has been published in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
Dec. 2023: Congratulations Saswat and Chhanda on their publication in Chemical Communications!
Nov. 2023: Congratulations Subhamoy and Bhavya on their publication in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry!
Aug 2023: Bhavya joins the group as a Ph.D student
Jan 2023: Suravi joins the group as a Ph.D student from IIT Patna
Nov. 2022: Chhanda has been offered the prestigious Prime Minister's Research Fellowship. Congratulations!
May 2022: Bhavya joins the group for iPh.D project
July 2021: Chhanda joins the group as a Ph.D student from University of Kalyani
Sept. 2020: Abhisek joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow from IISER Bhopal
Nov. 2019: Our invited review is now online in Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry
Sept. 2019: Arpan joins the group as a post-doctoral fellow from the University of Tulsa
July 2019: Subhamoy joins the group as a Ph.D student from Tezpur University
March 2018: SG receives funding from SERB under the scheme 'Core Research Grant'
Nov. 2018: Shikha has been selected as one of the recipients of 'Thieme Chemistry Journal Awards 2019'
July 2018: Sibasis joins the group as a Ph.D student from VIT, Vellore
The research in my group is focused on ‘catalysis’, in particular on the use of catalysis to effect enantioselectivity in organic transformations. Our focus is also on developing new ligands and catalysts, introducing new concepts for asymmetric catalysis and exploiting them to solve the challenges in the asymmetric synthesis. Motivated by the zeal to provide practical solutions to the existing problems in asymmetric synthesis, our group aims to contribute to the development of the processes that are scalable, efficient from the point of view of atom economy and are environmentally benign.
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We are hiring! The group has two doctoral positions open from August 2024. Interested candidates may directly write to the PI at sgandhi@iiserbpr.ac.in
Join Us!
We are looking for highly motivated doctoral candidates. Interested students may write to the PI with their CV at sgandhi@iiserbpr.ac.in
CONTACT US
Dr. Shikha Gandhi
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Berhampur
Transit Campus: Industrial Training Institute (ITI) Berhampur
Berhampur - 760 010, Ganjam District, Odisha
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P: (+91)-680-2227-757
