Dr. Koushik Saha

Profile

Academic positionPost Doc
Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry
KeywordsDiboene complexes, π-π stacking, Polyaromatic heterocycles, Borylene, Macrocycles
Honours and awards

2021: Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers by Alexander von Humboldt foundation, Germany

2020: Prof Werner Prize by IIT Madras, India for the best Ph.D. Thesis in Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry

2018: Institute Research Award 2018, IIT Madras for the recognition of impactful work done as a Ph.D. scholar in 2017-18

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityChennai
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras
InstituteDepartment of Chemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Holger BraunschweigInstitut für Anorganische Chemie, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2021

Programme(s)

2021Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2024Koushik Saha & Holger Braunschweig: Characterization of a secondary carbon-centred radical. In: Nature Synthesis, 2024,
2024Dario Duwe, Koushik Saha, Lukas Endres, Tobias Brückner, Rian D. Dewhurst, Maximilian Dietz, Krzysztof Radacki, Felipe Fantuzzi and Holger Braunschweig: Stepwise and selective synthesis of chelating, multimetallic and mixed-metal π-diborene complexes. In: Chemical Communications, 60, 2024, 1120-1123
2023Dr. Wei Lu, Nicola Hensiek, Dr. Koushik Saha, Dr. Rian D. Dewhurst, Dr. Marcel Härterich, Dr. Conor Pranckevicius, Dr. Stephan Hagspiel, Dr. Maximilian Dietz, Dr. Ivo Krummenacher, Prof. Dr. Holger Braunschweig: Electron-Precise Dicationic Tetraboranes: Syntheses, Structures and Rearrangement to an Alkylidene Borate-Borenium Zwitterion and a 1,3-Azaborinine. In: Chemistry – A European Journal, 29, 2023, e202300644