Prof. Dr. Arpan Das

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsInorganic Molecular Chemistry
KeywordsOrganometallic compounds, Radicals, Main group elements, Reactive intermediates, Carbon dioxide fixation
Honours and awards

2025: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bhubaneswar, Argul, Khordha, Odisha, India - 752050

2024: Awarded Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

2024: Best Poster Award at 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC), July 14-18, 2024 Jaypee Palace, Agra, India

2020: Selected speaker at ICOC international conference Goa, 2020, India

2016: Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), INDIA

2015: Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) conducted by CSIR-HRDG, INDIA

2014: Qualified IIT JAM (Joint Admission test for Masters), INDIA

2011: DST-INSPIRE (SHE) Fellow, INDIA

Current contact address

CountryIndia
CityBhubaneswar
InstitutionIndian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar
InstituteSchool of Basic Sciences

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Viktoria Däschlein-GessnerLehrstuhl für Anorganische Chemie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum
Start of initial sponsorship01/10/2024

Programme(s)

2024Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs

Publications (partial selection)

2025P. Duari, Dr. A. Linke, M. Shishkova, Dr. Q. Le Dé, Dr. A. Das, Prof. Dr. V. H. Gessner: Isolation of Anionic N-Heterocyclic Olefins and Their Versatile Reactivity. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, doi.org/10.1002/anie.202516374, 2025,
2025Sunita Mondal, Yihao Zhang, Prakash Duari, Kai-Stephan Feichtner, Arpan Das, Lili Zhao, Gernot Frenking, Viktoria H. Gessner: PPh3/Isocyanide and N2/Isocyanide Exchange: Pathways to Isolable Alkali Metal Keteniminyl Anions. In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, doi.org/10.1002/anie.202504325, 2025,
2025Das, A., Le Dé, Q. & Gessner, V.H. Rethinking carbanion chemistry from donor substituents to weakly coordinating carbanions. In: Nature Review Chemistry, 9, 2025, 523–536