Manna Group
Department of Chemistry
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi
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Doctoral Students
Dr. Rajashree Newar
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Home town: Gogamukh, Assam
B.Sc.-North Lakhimpur College, Assam
M.Sc.-NIT Silchar, Assam
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Ph.D.- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (August 2017 - July 2022)
CSIR-Research Fellow
Thesis title: Metal-Organic Frameworks Supported Single-site Base-metal Catalysts for Organic Transformations
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Current position: Postdoc at University of California San Diego
under Prof. Seth M. Cohen
Previous position: Postdoc at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lyon, France.
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Key publications:
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Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 10964-10970.
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Inorganic Chemistry, 2020, 59, 10473−10481.
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Catalysis Science & Technology, 2022, 12, 6795-6804.
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Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2022, e202101019.
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Dr. Neha Antil
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Home town: Sonipat, Haryana
B.Sc.-University of Delhi
M.Sc.- IIT Roorkee
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Ph.D.- Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (August 2018 - August 2022)
UGC-Research Fellow
Thesis title: Development of single-site metal-organic framework-catalysts for sustainable organic transformations
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Current position: Postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion (MPI CEC), Germany, under Prof. Walter Leitner (director of MPI CEC)
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Key publications:
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J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 6156-6165.
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ACS Catalysis, 2021, 11, 3943-3957
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ACS Catalysis, 2021, 11, 10450-10459.
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ACS Catalysis, 2022, 12, 11159-11168.
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Inorganic Chemistry, 2021, 60, 9029-9039.
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Inorganic Chemistry, 2022, 61, 1031-1040.
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Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr. Ajay Kumar
Ph.D.-Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University
Postdoc: IIT Delhi (Sep 2019 - March-2022)
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Current position: Assistant Professor
Department of Chemistry,
Ramjas College, University of Delhi.
Key publications:​
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ACS Catalysis, 2021, 11, 3943-3957
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Inorganic Chemistry, 2021, 60, 9029-9039.
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Inorganic Chemistry, 2022, 61, 1031-1040.
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M. Sc. Students
Kajol Tonk (2017 - 2018)
Current position: PhD student
Iowa State University, USA
Aditya Rana (2018 - 2019)
Kajal (2019 - 2020)
Sumit Mehta (2018 - 2019)
Shivam Srivastav (2019 - 2020)
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Monika Soni (2020 - 2021)
Raman (2020 - 2021)
Nikita Rao (2017 - 2018)
Tanmay Malik (2022 - 2023)
Himani (2023 - 2024)
Smitkriti (2021 - 2022)
Richa Singh (2022 - 2023)
Kavita Fulara (2023 - 2024)
Simesh Kumar (2021 - 2022)
M. Tech. Students
Deepti Mishra (2018 - 2019) Riya (2020 - 2021) Himani Sharma (2021- 2022)