Research Group Publications

• Pawan Kumar, Anuradha Vijay Jagtap, Sharad Gupta And C. P. Vinod*, La Cu based heterogeneous perovskite catalyst for highly selective benzene hydroxylation under mild conditions, Chem Asian J., , (2022), DOI:10.1002/asia.202200788.
• C P Vinod And Vysakh Alengattil Bharathan, Process for the preparation of bimetallic core/shell nanoparticles and their catalytic applications, US Patent 11,305,344 B2., , (2022).
• S Mondal, D Bagchi, M Riyaz, S Sarkar, AK Singh, CP Vinod And SC Peter, In Situ Mechanistic Insights for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Chemically Modulated Ordered Intermetallic Catalyst Promoting Complete Electron Transfer, Journal of the American Chemical Society., 144, 26, 11859 - 11869 (2022), DOI:10.1021/jacs.2c04541.
• Risov Das, Kousik Das, Bitan Ray, C P Vinod And Sebastian C Peter*, Green Transformation of CO2 to Ethanol using Water and Sunlight by Cooperative Endeavour of Naturally Abundant Red Phosphorus and Bi2MoO6, Energy and Environmental Science., , (2022), DOI:doi.org/10.1039/D1EE02976B.
• D Goud, SR Churipard, D Bagchi, AK Singh, M Riyaz, CP Vinod And SC Peter*, Strain-Enhanced Phase Transformation of Iron Oxide for Higher Alcohol Production from CO2, ACS Catalysis., 12 (18), 11118 - 11128 (2022), DOI:10.1021/acscatal.2c03183.
• Soumi Mondal, Shreya Sarkar, Debabrata Bagchi, Tisita Das, Risov Das, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Ponnappa Kechanda Prasanna, CP Vinod, Sudip Chakraborty And Sebastian C Peter*, Morphology Tuned Pt3Ge Accelerates Water Dissociation to Industrial Standard Hydrogen Production over a wide pH Range, Advanced Materials., 34, 2202294 (2022), DOI:10.1002/adma.202202294.
• Debabrata Bagchi, Jithu Raj, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Arjun Cherevotan, Soumyabrata Roy, Kaja Sai Manoj, CP Vinod And Sebastian C. Peter*, Structure-Tailored Surface Oxide on Cu-Ga Intermetallics Enhances CO2 Reduction Selectivity to Methanol at Ultra-Low Potential, Advanced Materials., 34 (19), 2109426 (2022), DOI:doi.org/10.1002/adma.202109426.
• Lipipuspa Sahoo, Reeya Garg, Komalpreet Kaur, C. P. Vinod And Ujjal K. Gautam*, Ultrathin Twisty PdNi Alloy Nanowires as Highly Active ORR Electrocatalysts Exhibiting Morphology-Induced Durability over 200 K Cycles, Nano Letters., , (2022), DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c03704.
• Risov Das, Shreya Sarkar, Ritesh Kumar, Seethiraju D. Ramarao, Arjun Cherevotan, Mohammed Jasil, C. P. Vinod, Abhishek Kumar Singh And Sebastian C. Peter*, Noble-Metal-Free Heterojunction Photocatalyst for Selective CO2 Reduction to Methane upon Induced Strain Relaxation, ACS Catalysis., , 687 - 697 (2022), DOI:10.1021/acscatal.1c04587.
• Arjun Cherevotan, Bitan Ray, Sathyapal R Churipard, Komalpreet Kaur, Ujjal K Gautam, C P Vinod And Sebastian C Peter*, Influence of Support Textural Property on CO2 to Methane Activity of Ni/SiO2 Catalysts, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental., 317, 121692 (2022), DOI:10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.121692.
• Chandana Chandran, Himan Dev Singh, Liya S Leo, Pragalbh Shekhar, Deepak Rase, Debanjan Chakraborty, C. P. Vinod And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan*, A covalent organic framework with electrodeposited copper nanoparticles–a desirable catalyst for the Ullmann coupling reaction, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., 10(29), 15647 - 15656 (2022), DOI:10.1039/D2TA01326F.
• Arjun Cherevotan, Bitan Ray, Anish Yadav, Debabrata Bagchi, Ashutosh Kumar Singh, Mohd Riyaz, Sathyapal R Churipard, Vinay Naral, Komalpreet Kaur, Ujjal K Gautam, C. P. Vinod And Sebastian C Peter*, Tuning the hybridization and charge polarization in metal nanoparticles dispersed over Schiff base functionalized SBA-15 enhances CO 2 capture and conversion to formic acid, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., 10(35), 18354 - 18362 (2022), DOI:10.1039/D2TA03690H.
• Soumya K, I. Packia Selvam, C P Vinod And S. N. Potty*, Tuning of work function of ZnO by doping and co-doping: An investigation using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Thin Solid Films., , (2022), DOI:(just accepted).
• S Vashishth, DK Singh, C. P. Vinod And E Muthusamy*, Single step strategy for crafting tin/carbon soot composite as highly stable Li?ion battery anode, Electrochemical Science Advances., , (2022), DOI:10.1002/elsa.202100019.
• Sanchayita Mukhopadhyay, Mruthyunjayachari Chattanahalli Devendrachari, Sandeep C Kanade, C. P. Vinod, Harish Makri Nimbegondi Kotresh And Musthafa Ottakam Thotiyl*, Regio-isomerism Directed Electrocatalysis for Energy Efficient Zinc-air Battery, iScience., , (2022), DOI:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105179.
• Sattwick Haldar, Deepak Rase, Pragalbh Shekhar, Chitvan Jain, C. P. Vinod, En Zhang, Leonid Shupletsov, Stefan Kaskel And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Incorporating Conducting Polypyrrole into a Polyimide COF for Carbon?Free Ultra?High Energy Supercapacitor, Advanced Energy Materials., 12 (34), 2200754 (2022), DOI:10.1002/aenm.202200754.
• Gargi Kundu, Ruchi Dixit, Srinu Tothadi, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Versatile chemistry of six-membered NHC with boranes: bromination at sp3 borane, activation of the B–H bond of HBpin, and ring expansion of NHC, Dalton Trans., , (2022), DOI:10.1039/D2DT01707E.
• Rohit Kumar, Sayan Dutta, Vishal Sharma, Praval P. Singh, Rajesh G. Gonnade*, Debasis Koley* And Sakya S. Sen*, Monomeric Magnesium Catalyzed Alkene and Alkyne Hydroboration, Chem. Eur. J., , (2022), DOI:10.1002/chem.202201896.
  The first two authors contributed equally. Highlighted in Chemistry views: https://www.chemistryviews.org/monomeric-magnesium-complexes-for-catalysis/
• Gargi Kundu, Kajal Balayan, Srinu Tothadi And Sakya S. Sen*, Six-membered Saturated NHC Stabilized Borenium Cations: Isolation of a Cationic Analogue of Borinic Acid, Inorg. Chem., 61, 12991 - 12997 (2022).
• Gargi Kundu, Srinu Tothadi And Sakya S. Sen*, Nucleophilic Substitution at a Coordinatively Saturated Five-Membered NHC-Haloborane Centre, Inorganics., 10, 97 (1 - 13) (2022).
  This article belongs to the Special Issue Fifth Element: The Current State of Boron Chemistry
• Kritika Gour, Milan Kumar Bisai And Sakya S. Sen*, Hypersilyl Substituent in Heavier Low-valent Group 14 Chemistry, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., e202200071, 1 - 14 (2022).
  Invited Review
• Rohit Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Shailja Jain, Himanshu Sharma, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, A Well-Defined Calcium Compound Catalyzes Trimerization of Arylisocyanates into 1,3,5-Triarylisocyanurates, ChemCatChem., 14, e202101788 - (1-6) (2022).
  Part of a joint Special Collection on “Main Group Catalysis”
• Soumita Chakraborty, Shivanna Marappa, Sakshi Agarwal, Debabrata Bagchi, Ankit Rao, Chathakudath P Vinod, Sebastian C Peter, Abhishek Singh And Muthusamy Eswaramoorthy, Improvement in Oxygen Evolution Performance of NiFe Layered Double Hydroxide Grown in the Presence of 1T-Rich MoS2, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces., , (2022), DOI:10.1021/acsami.2c06210.
• Reeya Garg, Lipipuspa Sahoo, Komalpreet Kaur, CP Vinod And Ujjal K Gautam, Single-step insertion of M-Nx moieties in commercial carbon for sustainable bifunctional electrocatalysis: Mapping insertion capacity, mass loss, and carbon reconstruction, Carbon., 196, 1001 - 1011 (2022), DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2022.06.008.
• Swapnali P. Kirdant, Asma T. Biradar Tamboli And Vrushali H. Jadhav*, Recent Developments in the Applications of Biomass Derived Sulfonated Carbonaceous Solid Acid Catalysts, Helvetica Chem Acta., , (2022), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/hlca.202200032.
• Vrushali H. Jadhav and Sanjay P. Kamble, Conversion of agricultural crop waste into valuable chemicals, Elsevier Book Chapter., , (2022).
• Asma T. Biradar Tamboli And Swapnali P. Kirdant and Vrushali H. Jadhav*, Metal-free approach towards efficient synthesis of FDCA using a p-toluene sulfonic acid (p-TSA)-derived heterogeneous solid acid catalyst and oxone over two steps from HMF, fructose and glucose, New Journal of Chemistry., 46, 10272 - 10279 (2022), DOI:DOI https://doi.org/10.1039/D2NJ01207C.
• Kritika Gour And Sakya S. Sen*, Applications of Germylenes in Catalysis, Ed. Rebecca Melen, Encyclopedia of Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry., , (2022), DOI:10.1002/9781119951438.eibc2832.
  Invited Book Chapter
• Garima Tiwari, C P Vinod And Balaji R Jagirdar*, Controlled exchange bias behavior of manganese nanoparticles, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials., , 169504 (2022), DOI:10.1016/j.jmmm.2022.169504.
• D Bagchi, S Sarkar, AK Singh, CP Vinod And SC Peter*, Potential- and Time-Dependent Dynamic Nature of an Oxide-Derived PdIn Nanocatalyst during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction, ACS Nano., 16 (4), 6185 - 6196 (2022), DOI:10.1021/acsnano.1c11664.
• Gargi Kundu, V. S. Ajithkumar, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka, Srinu Tothadi And Sakya S. Sen* , Substitution at sp3 boron of a six-membered NHC-BH3: convenient access to a dihydroxyborenium cation, Chem. Commun., 58, 3783 - 3786 (2022).
• Sandip K. Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, Alpha-, Beta- and Gamma-Cellulose Quantification and Two-Stage Concentrated-Dilute Acid Lignin Recovery from Three Rice Husks: Lignin Characterization and Depolymerization, Waste and Biomass Valorization., , (2022), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-022-01704-1.
• Venkata Swaroopa Datta Devulapalli, Rinku Kushwaha, Edwin Ovalle, Himan Dev Singh, Pragalbh Shekhar, Debanjan Chakraborty, C P Vinod, Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan* And Eric Borguet*, Synergistic Electronic Effects in AuCo Nanoparticles Stabilized in a Triazine-Based Covalent Organic Framework: A Catalyst for Methyl Orange and Methylene Blue Reduction, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., , (2022), DOI:10.1021/acsanm.1c04212.
• Nitin B. Mhamane, Sibo Chetry, Ravi Ranjan, Thirumalaiswamy Raja And Chinnakonda S.Gopinath, Sustainable CO2 Reduction on In2O3 with Exclusive CO Selectivity: Catalysis and In Situ Valence Band Photoelectron Spectral Investigations, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., , (2022), DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c07897.
• Praveen Kumar, Himanshu Bajpai, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath And Meitram Niraj Luwang, Sulfur Functionalization via Epoxide Ring Opening on a Reduced Graphene Oxide Surface to Form Metal (II) Organo-bis-[1,2]-oxathiin, Inorg. Chem., , (2022), DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c02819.
• Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan*, Himan Dev Singh, Shyamapada Nandi, Debanjan Chakraborty, Kirandeep Singh And C. P. Vinod, Coordination flexibility aided CO2-specific gating in an Iron Isonicotinate MOF, Chemistry An Asian Journal., , (2022), DOI:10.1002/asia.202101305.
• Preeti Jain, Manali Chimote And C P Vinod*, Unprecedented stability in Au@ Co core-shell bimetallic catalyst supported on SBA-15 (Au@ Co/SBA-15) for atmospheric pressure CO hydrogenation, Materials Today Sustainability., , (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.mtsust.2021.100068.
• Vrushali H. Jadhav*, Glucaric Acid: Applications & Synthesis, Research & Review Journal of Chemistry., 10, 1 - 3 (2021).
• Anand S.Burange And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Catalytic applications of hydrotalcite and related materials in multi-component reactions: Concepts, challenges and future scope, Sustainable Chemistry and Pharmacy., , (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.scp.2021.100458.
• Nagendra Kulal, Rajappan Vetrivela, Chinnakonda S.Gopinath, Rahul K.Ravindran, Vinod N.Rao, Manjunath Shetty, R. Shrikanth, Dinesh Rangappa And Ganapati V. Shanbhaga, Green route for carbonylation of amines by CO2 using Sn-Ni-O bifunctional catalyst and theoretical study for finding best suited active sites, Chemical Engineering Journal., , (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.129439.
• Bijoy Tudu, Naresh Nalajala, Kasala P. Reddy, Pranjal Saikia And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Rationally Designed, Efficient, and Earth-Abundant Ni–Fe Cocatalysts for Solar Hydrogen Generation, ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., , (2021), DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.1c05158.
• Naresh Nalajala, Kranti N. salgaonkar, Inderjeet Chauhan, Shiva Prasad Mekala And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Aqueous Methanol to Formaldehyde and Hydrogen on Pd/TiO2 by Photocatalysis in Direct Sunlight: Structure Dependent Activity of Nano-Pd and Atomic Pt-Coated Counterparts, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., , (2021), DOI:h10.1021/acsaem.1c03080.
• Shunottara M Jogdand, Prachiti R Bedadur, Arun Torris, Ravi Agrawal, Ulhas K Kharul And R Nandini Devi, Addressing challenges in sealing of scalable multifiber module for O2 enrichment using LSCF membranes, Int J Appl Ceram Technol., , (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1111/ijac.13967.
• Shunottara M Jogdand, Prachiti R Bedadur, Arun Torris, Ulhas K Kharul, V Satyam Naidu And R Nandini Devi, Tuning the selectivity of CO2 hydrogenation using ceramic hollow fiber catalytic modules, React. Chem. Eng., 6, 1655 - 1665 (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D1RE00076D.
• Anurag Chahande, Disha Lathigara, Asmita Prabhune And R.Nandini Devi, Red fluorescent ultra-small gold nanoclusters functionalized with signal molecules to probe specificity in quorum sensing receptors in gram-negative bacteria, Archives of Microbiology., 203, 4293 - 4301 (2021), DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s00203-021-02338-y.
• Sanjukta Pahar, Vishal Sharma, Srinu Tothadi And Sakya S. Sen*, Pyridylpyrrolido ligand in Ge(II) and Sn(II) chemistry: Synthesis, reactivity and catalytic application, Dalton Trans., 50, 16678 - 16684 (2021).
  Dalton Transactions web collection themed around the topic of tin chemistry.
• Milan Kumar Bisai, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Sakya S. Sen*, Unsymmetrical sp2-sp3 Disilenes, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 60, 20706 - 20710 (2021).
  Selected as HOT Paper
• Rohit Kumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, Shailja Jain, Kumar Vanka* And Sakya S. Sen*, Deoxygenative hydroboration of primary and secondary amides: A catalyst- free and solvent-free approach, Chem. Commun., 57, 10596 - 10599 (2021).
• Richa Chaudhary and Paresh L. Dhepe, Upgrading lignin-derived monomers over basic supported metal catalysts, Fuel., 306, 121588 - 121588 (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2021.121588.
• Anup P. Tathod And P.L. Dhepe, Elucidating the effect of a solid base on the hydrogenation of C5 and C6 sugars over Pt-Sn bimetallic catalyst at room temperature, Carbohydrate Research., 505, 108341 (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2021.108341.
• Neha Ghosh and Paresh L. Dhepe, HPLC method development for chitin and chitosan valorization chemistry, Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications., Volume 2, 25 December 2021, 100139, (2021).
• Khan, Tufeil; Singh, Dheerendra; Samal, Pragnya; Krishnamurty, Sailaja; Dhepe And Paresh, Mechanistic investigations on catalytic transfer hydrogenation of lignin-derived monomers over Ru catalyst: Theoretical and kinetic studies, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering., , (2021).
• Popat Jori & Vrushali Jadhav*, Highly Efficient Zirconium Based Carbonaceous Solid Acid Catalyst for Selective Synthesis of 5?HMF from Fructose and Glucose in Isopropanol as a Solvent, Catalysis Letters., , (2021), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-021-03764-9.
• Gargi Kundu, V. S. Ajithkumar, Milan Kumar Bisai, Srinu Tothadi, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Diverse reactivity of carbenes and silylenes towards fluoropyridines, Chem. Commun., 57, 4428 - 4431 (2021).
• Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Diverse Reactivity of Hypersilylsilylene with Boranes and Three-Component Reactions with Aldehyde and HBpin, Inorg. Chem., 60, 1654 - 1663 (2021).
  Equal Contribution by the first two authors
• Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. Ajithkumar, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Sakya S. Sen*, Access to a Variety of Ge(II) and Sn(II) Compounds through Substitution of Hypersilyl Moiety, Organometallics., 40, 2651 - 2657 (2021).
• Milan Kumar Bisai, Vishal Sharma, Rajesh G. Gonnade* And Sakya S. Sen*, Reactivities of Silaimines with Boranes: From Cooperative B-H Bond Activation to Donor Stabilized Silyl Cation, Organometallics., 40, 2133 - 2138 (2021).
• Milan Kumar Bisai, Kritika Gour, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Lithium compound catalyzed deoxygenative hydroboration of primary, secondary and tertiary amides, Dalton Transactions., 50, 2354 - 2358 (2021).
• Milan Kumar Bisai, Kritika Gour, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka* And Sakya S. Sen*, Readily Available Lithium Compounds as Catalysts for the Hydroboration of Carbodiimides and Esters, J. Organometal. Chem., 949, 121924 (2021).
  (Invited article for a special issue on the occasion of Professor Pradeep Mathur 65th birthday)
• Chinnakonda S. Gopinath And Naresh Nalajala, A scalable and thin-film approach for solar hydrogen generation: a review on enhanced photocatalytic water splitting, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., , (2021), DOI:DOI : 10.1039/D0TA09619A.
• Anand S Burange, Komal G. Gadam, Prajyot S. Tugaonkar, Seema D. Thakur, Ravish K. Soni, Rubej R. Khan, Mubashira S. Tai And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath , Green synthesis of xanthene and acridine-based heterocycles of pharmaceutical importance: a review, Environmental Chemistry Letters., , (2021).
• Bindu Antil, Lakshya Kumar, Ravi Ranjan, Sulakshana Shenoy, Kartick Tarafder, Chinnakonda S Gopinath And Sasanka Deka, One-Dimensional Multichannel g-C3N4.7 Nanostructure Realizing an Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Its Theoretical Investigations, ACS Appl. Energy Mater., , (2021), DOI:DOI : 10.1021/acsaem.0c02858.
• Nagendra Kulal, Rajappan Vetrivel , Chinnakonda S. Gopinath , Rahul K. Ravindran , Vinod N. Rao , Manjunath Shetty, R. Shrikanth , Dinesh Rangappa And Ganapati V. Shanbhag, Green route for carbonylation of amines by CO2 using Sn-Ni-O bifunctional catalyst and theoretical study for finding best suited active sites, Chemical Engineering Journal., , (2021), DOI:DOI : 10.1016/j.cej.2021.129439.
• Shubhadeep Adak, Jabor Rabeah, Ravi Ranjan, Tuhin Suvra Khan, Mukesh Kumar Poddar, Rishi Kumar Gupta, Takehiko Sasaki, Sagar Kumar, Ankur Bordoloi, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Angelika Bruckner And Rajaram Bal, In-situ Experimental and Computational Approach to Investigate the Nature of Active Site in Low-temperature CO-PROX over CuOx-CeO2 Catalyst, Applied Catalysis A, General., , (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.apcata.2021.118305.
• Yogita Soni*, Sharad Gupta And C. P. Vinod*, Role of Metal-Support Interaction for Atmospheric Pressure CO2 Hydrogenation over Pd/(Ti)-SBA-15 catalysts: Effects of Titanium Composition on Products Selectivity, Molecular Catalysis., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Shibin Thundiyil, Sreekumar Kurungot And R. Nandini Devi, Efficient electrochemical oxygen reduction to hydrogen peroxide by transition metal doped silicate, Sr0.7Na0.3SiO3-?, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., 13, 382 - 390 (2021), DOI:10.1021/acsami.0c16311.
  Electrochemical oxygen reduction in a selective two-electron pathway is an efficient method for onsite production of H2O2. State of the art noble metal-based catalysts will be prohibitive for widespread applications, and hence earth-abundant oxide-based systems are most desired. Here we report transition metal (Mn, Fe, Ni, Cu)-doped silicates, Sr0.7Na0.3SiO3??, as potential electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction to H2O2 in alkaline conditions. These novel compounds are isostructural with the parent Sr0.7Na0.3SiO3?? and crystallize in monoclinic structure with corner-shared SiO4 groups forming cyclic trimers. The presence of Na stabilizes O vacancies created on doping, and the transition metal ions provide catalytically active sites. Electrochemical parameters estimated from Tafel and Koutechy–Levich plots suggest a two-electron transfer mechanism, indicating peroxide formation. This is confirmed by the rotating ring disc electrode method, and peroxide selectivity and Faradaic efficiency are calculated to be in the range of 65–82% and 50–68%, respectively, in a potential window 0.3 to 0.6 V (vs RHE). Of all the dopants, Ni imparts the maximum selectivity and efficiency as well as highest rate of formation of H2O2 at 1.65 ?mol s–1
• Shibin Thundiyil, Sreekumar Kurungot And R. Nandini Devi, Synergistic effect of B site co-doping with Co and Ce in bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis by oxygen deficient brownmillerite Ba2In2O5, Catal Today., 375, 494 - 500 (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.cattod.2020.05.046.
  Specificity in oxygen reduction and evolution reactions is pivotal in bifunctional catalysts in advanced energy devices which are expected to be active in a wide potential window and stable in both electrochemically reducing and oxidising atmospheres. State of the art noble metal catalysts for these reactions are fraught with issues whereas, metal oxides are expected to be stable in large potential window and can be tuned to have better bifunctional activity. Catalytically active metals, redox centers, oxygen vacancies etc. are some of the features of structured oxides which can be exploited in oxygen electrocatalysis. Brownmillerite family of compounds with general formula, A2B2O5 has high concentrations of ordered oxygen vacancy in a layer and can be promising bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts, by appropriate B site doping. Ba2In2O5 is a well studied system for its oxide ion conductivity and proximity of active B sites to O vacancies provide good O adsorption sites which are catalytically active. Here, Cobalt and Cerium are co-doped in Ba2In2O5, anticipating a synergistic effect of Ce(III)/Ce(IV) redox center in ORR and Co activity in OER along with O vacancies providing adsorption sites. We have studied the structural changes associated with the doping by Rietveld refinement of the XRD patterns and correlated the structure to bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic activity which is found to enhance on increasing the Co and Ce content.
• K. Rajendran, N. Pandurangan, C.P. Vinod, Tuhin S. Khan, Shelaka Gupta, M. Ali Haider And D. Jagadeesan*, CuO as a reactive and reusable reagent for the hydrogenation of nitroarenes, Applied Catalysis B (Environmental)., , (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.apcatb.2021.120417.
• Shreya Sarkar, Abhishek Rawat, Tisita Das, Mattia Gaboardi, Sudip Chakraborty, C. P. Vinod And Sebastian C. Peter*, Structure Tailored Non-Noble Metal based Ternary Chalcogenide Nanocrystals for Pt-like Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production, ChemSusChem., , (2021), DOI:10.1002/cssc.202100967.
• Sanjit Mondal, C. P. Vinod And Ujjal K. Gautam*, 'Autophagy’ and unique aerial oxygen harvesting properties exhibited by highly photocatalytic carbon quantum dots, Carbon., 181, 16 - 27 (2021), DOI:10.1016/j.carbon.2021.04.054.
• Ruchi Dixit, Milan Kumar Bisai, Sandeep Yadav, Vinita Yadav, Sakya S. Sen* And Kumar Vanka*, Substrate, Catalyst, and Solvent: The Triune Nature of Multitasking Reagents in Hydroboration and Cyanosilylation, Organometallics., 40, 1104 - 1112 (2021).
• Dheerendra Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, An efficient catalytic transfer hydrogenation-hydrodeoxygenation of lignin-derived monomers: Investigating catalyst properties-activity correlation, Catalysis Communications., 149, (2021).
• Rajesh Belgamwar, Ayan Maity, Tisita Das, Sudip Chakraborty, C. P. Vinod And Vivek Polshettiwar*, Lithium Silicates Nanosheets with Excellent Capture Capacity and Kinetics with Unprecedented Stability for High-Temperature CO2 Capture, Chemical Science., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Rinku Kushwaha, Sattwick Haldar, Pragalbh Shekhar, Akshara Krishnan, Jayeeta Saha, Pramiti Hui, C.P. Vinod, Chandramouli Subramaniam And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan*, Exceptional Capacitance Enhancement of a Non-conducting COF Through Potentialdriven Chemical Modulation by Redox Electrolyte, Advanced Energy Materials., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Sanjit Mondal, Lipipuspa Sahoo, C. P. Vinod And Ujjal K. Gautam*, Facile transfer of excited electrons in Au/SnS2 nanosheets for efficient solar-driven selective organic transformations, Applied Catalysis B (Environmental)., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Shreya Sarkar, Merin Varghese, C. P. Vinod And Sebastian C. Peter*, Conductive Interface Promoted Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction/Evolution Activity in Ultra-low Precious Metal based Hybrid Catalyst, Chemical Communications., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Arjun Cherevotan, Jithu Raj, Lakshay Dheer, Soumyabrata Roy, Shreya Sarkar, Risov Das, C P Vinod, Shaojun Xu, Peter P Wells, Umesh Waghmare And Sebastian Peter*, Operando Generated Ordered Heterogeneous Catalyst for the Selective Conversion of CO2 to Methanol, ACS Energy Letters., , (2021), DOI:(just accepted).
• Shreya Sarkar, S. D. Ramarao, Tisita Das, Risov Das, C. P. Vinod, Sudip Chakraborty And Sebastian C. Peter*, Unveiling the Roles of Lattice Strain and Descriptor Species on Pt-like Oxygen Reduction Activity in Pd-Bi catalysts, ACS Catalysis., , (2021), DOI:10.1021/acscatal.0c03415.
• Ruchi Jain And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Electronic Structure Evolution of Pd@Co Nanocatalysts Under Oxidation and Reduction Conditions and Preferential CO Oxidation, ChemCatChem., , (2020), DOI:DOI: 10.1002/cctc.202000644.
• Himanshu Bajpai, Kshirodra Kumar Patra, Ravi Ranjan, Naresh Nalajala, Kasala Prabhakar Reddy And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Can Half-a-Monolayer of Pt Simulate Activity Like That of Bulk Pt? Solar Hydrogen Activity Demonstration with Quasi-artificial Leaf Device, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces., , (2020), DOI:DOI: 10.1021/acsami.0c07431.
• Bijoy Tudu, Naresh Nalajala, Pranjal Saikia And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Cu–Ni Bimetal Integrated TiO2 Thin Film for Enhanced Solar Hydrogen Generation, Solar RRL., , (2020), DOI:DOI :10.1002/solr.201900557.
• M. Anthony Raja , Preethi V , Yash Pal , Naresh Nalajala And Chinnakonda S Gopinath, Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production from H2S using Nanostructured CNT blended CdZnS/Fe2O3 Thin Film on Glass Substrate, Journal of Physics: Conference Series., , (2020), DOI:DOI :10.1088/1742-6596/1495/1/012035.
• Anand S Burange And Chinnakonda S Gopinath, Shape-Controlled Metal Oxides for Selective Catalytic Oxidation, Advanced Heterogeneous Catalysts Volume 1: Applications at the Nano-Scale., , (2020), DOI:DOI: 10.1021/bk-2020-1359.ch010.
• Manoj Kumar Ghosalya, Kasala Prabhakar Reddy, Nitin B. Mhamane, Ravi Ranjan And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath , Gas–solid interactions with reactive and inert gas molecules by NAPUPS: can work function be a better descriptor of chemical reactivity?, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., , (2020), DOI:DOI : 10.1039/D0CP02456B.
• Bindu Antil , Ravi Ranjan , Chinnakonda S. Gopinath And Sasanka Deka, Directed holey and ordered g-C3N4.5 nanosheets by a hard template nanocasting approach for sustainable visible-light hydrogen evolution with prominent quantum efficiency, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., , (2020), DOI:DOI : 10.1039/D0TA02734K.
• Shibin Thundiyil, C. P. Vinod, Sreekumar Kurungot And R. Nandini Devi, Role of B site ion in bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis: A structure property correlation study on doped Ca2Fe2O5 brownmillerites, Phys Chem Chem Phys., 22, 15520 - 15527 (2020), DOI:10.1039/D0CP02391D.
  Role of B site doping with transition metal in brownmillerites, a perovskite related family of compounds, on bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis, viz., simultaneous reduction and evolution reactions, is analysed. Ca2Fe1.9M0.1O¬5 (M= Mn, Co, Ni, Cu) is synthesised and structurally characterised by powder XRD and Rietveld refinement. Valence states of the surface B site ions are identified by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Bifunctional oxygen electrochemistry is studied with RDE and RRDE techniques and correlated to the structural and electronic parameters like oxygen non-stoichiometry and B site catalytic activity. Since the widely accepted electronic descriptors like eg filling may not be sufficient for explaining bifunctional activity, B site electron donating capability as well as extent of oxygen vacancies enhancing O2 adsorption is also considered. Such structural parameters are also found to influence both ORR and OER and based on this, Ni doping is proposed as advantageous for the bifunctional activity.
• Sandip K. Singh and Paresh L. Dhepe, Formic-Acid-Induced using Recyclable-Ionic Liquids as Catalysts for Lignin Conversion into Aromatic Co-Products, Waste and Biomass Valorization., 11,Issue 11, 6261 - 6272 (2020).
• Irina Simakova, Paresh Dhepe And , Carbon Supported Size-Controlled Ru Catalysts for Selective Levulinic Acid Hydrogenation into gamma-Valerolactone, JOURNAL OF SIBERIAN FEDERAL UNIVERSITY-CHEMISTRY., 13, Issue 1, 5 - 16 (2020).
• Irina Simakova, Yulia Demidova, Mikhail Simonov, Sergey Prikhodko, Prashant Niphadkar, Vijay Bokade, Paresh Dhepe And Dmitry Murzin, Heterogeneously catalyzed g-valerolactone hydrogenation into 1,4-pentanediol in milder reaction conditions, Reactions., 1 (2), 54 - 71 (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.3390/reactions1020006.
• K.K. Hazarika, H. Talukdar, P. Sudarsanam, S.K. Bhargava And P. Bharali, Highly dispersed Mn2O3-Co3O4 nanostructures on carbon matrix as heterogeneous Fenton-like catalyst, Appl. Organometal. Chem., 34, e5512 - e5525 (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.5512 [IF: 3.14].
• Bimetallic Palladium–Nickel Nanoparticles Anchored on Carbon as High-Performance Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction and Formic Acid Oxidation Reactions, ACS Applied Energy Materials 3., 3, 9285 - 9295 (2020).
• Yogita Soni, Sumanta Pradhan, Mahesh K Bamnia, AK Yadav, SN Jha, D Bhattacharyya, Tuhin Suvra Khan, MA Haider And CP Vinod*, Spectroscopic Evidences for the Size Dependent Generation of Pd Species Responsible for the Low Temperature CO Oxidation Activity on Pd-SBA-15 Nanocatalyst, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental., 272, 118934 (2020), DOI:10.1016/j.apcatb.2020.118934.
• K. J. Betsy, Anish Lazar, Anjuna Pavithran And C. P. Vinod*, CO2 Hydrogenation to Formate by Palladium Nanoparticles Supported on N-Incorporated Periodic Mesoporous Organosilica, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering., , (2020), DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c03860.
• Sharad Gupta, Carmen Ciotonea, Sébastien Royer, Jean-Philippe Dacquin* And C. P. Vinod*, Engineering pore morphology using silica template route over mesoporous cobalt oxide and its implications in atmospheric pressure carbon dioxide hydrogenation to olefins, Applied Materials Today., 19, 100586 (2020), DOI:10.1016/j.apmt.2020.100586.
• Srinu Tothadi, Tabrez Rafique Shaikh, Sharad Gupta, Rambabu Dandela, C. P. Vinod And Ashwini K. Nangia*, Can We Identify the Salt–Cocrystal Continuum State Using XPS?, Cryst. Growth Des., , (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acs.cgd.0c00661.
• Gargi Kundu, Sanjukta Pahar, Srinu Tothadi And Sakya S. Sen*, Stepwise Nucleophilic Substitution to Access Saturated N-heterocyclic Carbene Haloboranes with Boron-Methyl Bonds, Organometallics., 39, 4696 - 4703 (2020).
• PARESH LAXMIKANT DHEPE, KALYANI GAJANANRAO SONONE And PRIYA LAXMANRAO LOKHANDE;, CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF 5-HYDROXYMETHYL FURFURAL TO 2, 5-FURAN DICARBOXYLIC ACID, Patent., , (2020).
• Paresh L Dhepe And Manuraj Kallumkal, DEPOLYMERIZATION OF POLYMERS WITH ESTER, ETHER AND CARBONATE LINKAGES USING ACIDIC IONIC LIQUID (AIL) CATALYST, patent., , (2020), DOI:202011007863.
• Preeti Jain, Sharad Gupta And C. P. Vinod*, Role of exposed crystal facets in the atmospheric pressure CO hydrogenation on Co3O4 nanostructures, Nanostructures and Nanoobjects., , (2020), DOI:(just accepted).
• Rajesh Belgamwar, Andrew GM Rankin, Ayan Maity, Amit Kumar Mishra, Jennifer S Go?mez, Julien Tre?bosc, C P Vinod, Olivier Lafon* And Vivek Polshettiwar*, Boron Nitride and Oxide Supported on Dendritic Fibrous Nanosilica for Catalytic Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering., , (2020), DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.0c04148.
• Sanjukta Pahar, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Tamal Das, Rajesh G. Gonnade, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Access to diverse germylenes and a six-membered dialane with a flexible beta-diketiminate, Chem. Commun., 56, 11871 - 11874 (2020).
• Sanjukta Pahar, Gargi Kundu And Sakya S. Sen*, Cyanosilylation by Compounds with Main-Group Elements: An Odyssey, ACS Omega., 5, 25477 - 25484 (2020).
  Invited Mini-Review
• Sanjit Mondal, Lipipuspa Sahoo, Yuvraj Vaishnav, Samita Mishra, Raj Sekhar Roy, C. P. Vinod, Arijit K De And Ujjal K. Gautam*, Wavelength dependent luminescence decay kinetics in quantum confined g-C3N4 nanosheets exhibiting high photocatalytic efficiency upon plasmonic coupling, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., , (2020), DOI:10.1039/d0ta08001b.
• Sandeep Yadav, Rohit Kumar, K. Vipin Raj, Prashant Yadav, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Amidinato Germylene-Zinc Complexes: Synthesis, Bonding, and Reactivity, Chem. Asian J., 15, 3116 - 3121 (2020).
  Early Career Special Collection Invitation
• Rinku Kushwaha, Dhananjayan Kaleeswaran, Sattwick Haldar, Debanjan Chakraborty, Dinesh Mullangi, Aditya Borah, C. P. Vinod, Ramaswamy Murugavel And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan*, Nanoporous Covalent Organic Framework Embedded with Fe/Fe3O4 Nanoparticles as Air-Stable Low-Density Nanomagnets, ACS Appl. Nano Mater., , (2020), DOI:10.1021/acsanm.0c01762.
• B. Changmai, P. Sudarsanam And L. Rokhum*, Biodiesel production using a renewable mesoporous solid catalyst, Ind. Crops Prod., 145, 111911 (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.indcrop.2019.111911 [IF - 4.244].
• P. Sudarsanam*, T. Duolikun, P.S. Babu, L. Rokhum And M.R. Johan, Recent developments in selective catalytic conversion of lignin into aromatics and their derivatives, Biomass Convers. Biorefin., , (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1007/s13399-019-00530-1 [IF - 2.602].
• Luqman H. Hashim, Ahmed Halilu, Putla Sudarsanam, Yahaya Balarabe Umar, Mohd Rafie Bin Johan And Suresh K. Bhargava, Bifunctional rice husk-derived SiO2-Cu-Al-Mg nanohybrid catalyst for one-pot conversion of biomass-derived furfural to furfuryl acetate, Fuel., 275, 117953 - 117961 (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fuel.2020.117953 [IF - 5.578].
• Bolla Govinda Rao, Putla Sudarsanam, Tumula Venkateshwar Rao, Mohamad Hassan Amin, Suresh K. Bhargava And Benjaram M. Reddy, Highly dispersed MnOx nanoparticles on shape?controlled SiO2 spheres for ecofriendly selective allylic oxidation of cyclohexene, Catal. Lett., , (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-020-03205-z [IF - 2.55].
• Anping Wang, Putla Sudarsanam, Yufei Xu, Heng Zhang, Hu Li And Song Yang, Functionalized magnetic nanosized materials for efficient biodiesel synthesis via acid–base/enzyme catalysis, Green Chem., 22, 2977 - 3012 (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1039/D0GC00924E [IF - 9.480].
• Putla Sudarsanam*, Hu Li* And Tatiparthi Vikram Sagar, TiO2-Based Water-Tolerant Acid Catalysis for Biomass-Based Fuels and Chemicals, ACS Catal., 10, 9555 - 9584 (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acscatal.0c01680 [IF - 12.35].
• Priyanka S. Pawar, Aboli A. Lokhande, Sachin U. Nandanwar, Prashant S. Niphadkar And Vijay V. Bokade, Synthesis of nickel hollow nanosphere supported over SiO2 catalyst and its catalytic activity for reduction of nitro compound, journal of environmental chemical engineering., submitted, (2020).
• Sachin U. Nandanwar, Simmy Rathod, Videsha Banal And Vivek Bokade, A review on selective production of acetophenone from oxidation of ethylbenzene over heterogeneous catalysts in a decade, Catalysis Letter., submitted, (2020).
• Jintao Miao , Sachin U. Nandanwar , Linze Du , Daniel L. Braedt, Qian Yang, Richard A. Horner, Joseph H. Holles And Jing Zhou, Activity of Ce1-xTixO2-delta supported nickel catalysts for dry reforming of methane, Applied Catalysis A: General., submitted, (2020).
• Rohit Kumar, Sandeep Yadav, Kritika Gour, Ekta Sangtani, Soumya Ranjan Dash, Abhishekram Raja, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Sakya S. Sen*, A Tale of Biphenyl and Terphenyl Substituents for Structurally Diverse Ketiminato Magnesium, Calcium and Germanium Complexes, Chem. Asian J., 15, 820 - 827 (2020).
  Equal contribution from the first two authors
• Zinoy Manappadan, Shubham Kumar, Krati Joshi, Thillai Govindaraja, Sailaja Krishnamurty And Kaliaperumal Selvaraj, Unravelling the distinct surface interactions of modified graphene nanostructures with methylene blue dye through experimental and computational approaches, Journal of Hazardous Materials., , (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2019.121755.
• S. U. Nandanwar, D. R. Corbin And M. B. Shiflett, A review of porous adsorbents for separation of nitrogen from natural gas, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research., , (2020).
• A. Gupta, S. U. Nandanwar, P. Niphadkar, I. Simakova And V. Bokade, Maximization of Furanic Compounds Formation by Dehydration and Hydrogenation of Xylose in One Step over SO3-H functionalized H-? catalyst in Alcohol Media, Biomass and Bioenergy., 139, 105646 (2020).
• Popat K. Jori And Vrushali H. Jadhav*, Efficient Synthesis of ?-Valerolactone-A Potential Fuel from Biomass Derived Levulinic Acid Using Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenation Over Hf@CCSO3H Catalyst, Catalysis Letters., 150, 2038 - 2044 (2020).
• Saurav Sarma, Sai Manoj Kaja, Vidyanshu Mishra, C. P. Vinod And Sebastian Peter*, Tweaking Palladium Electronic Structure to Attain Oxygen Reduction Activity Superior to Platinum/C, ACS Applied Energy Materials., , (2020), DOI:10.1021/acsaem.0c01241.
• Shibin Thundiyil, C P Vinod, Sreekumar Kurungot And R. Nandini Devi*, Role of B site ion in bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysis: A structure property correlation study on doped Ca2Fe2O5 brownmillerites, PhysChemChemPhys., , (2020), DOI:(just accepted).
• Rahul A. Jagtap, Pragnya Samal, C. P. Vinod, Sailaja Krishnamurty And Benudhar Punji*, Iron-Catalyzed C(sp2)-H Alkylation of Indolines and Benzo[h]quinoline with Unactivated Alkyl Chlorides through Chelation-Assistance, ACS Catalysis., , (2020), DOI:(just accepted).
• Reeya Garg, Sanjit Mondal, LIPIPUSPA SAHOO, C P Vinod And Ujjal K. Gautam*, Nanocrystalline Ag3PO4 for sunlight and ambient air driven oxidation of amines: high photocatalytic efficiency and a facile catalyst regeneration strategy, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces., (just accepted), (2020), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c05961.
• Sreekumar Kurungot, Rajith Illathvalappil, Fayis Kanheerampockil, Priyanka S Walko, Suresh K Bhat And R. Nandini Devi, Hierarchical Nanoflower Arrays of Co9S8?Ni3S2 on Nickel Foam: Highly Efficient Binder?free Electrocatalyst for Overall Water Splitting Application, Chemistry Europe., In press, (2020), DOI:10.1002/chem.202000839.
• Beesam Raghavendra, K Bakthavachalam, Tamal Das, Thierry Roisnel, Sakya S Sen*, Kumar Vanka* And Sundargopal Ghosh*, Transmetallation vs adduct: Diverse reactivity of N, O-ketiminato germylene with [Cp* MCl2] 2 (M= Rh or Ir; Cp*= eta5-C5Me5) and MCl5 (M= Nb and Ta), J. Organometal. Chem., 911, 121142(1) - 121142(8) (2020).
• V. S. Veena, Illath Kavya, Lazar Anish, C. P. Vinod, T. G. Ajithkumar And Sundaresan Jayanthi*, Dynamics in Amine-functionalized Mesoporous Hybrid Materials Probed through Deuterium MAS NMR and Molecular Dynamic Simulations, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C., , (2020), DOI:(just accepted).
• Kottaichamy Alagar, Begum Shabbah, Devendrachari Mruthyunjayachari, Manzoor Bhat Zahid, Thimmappa Ravikumar, Makri Nimbegondi Kotresh Harish*, C. P. Vinod* And Thotiyl Musthafa*, Geometrical Isomerism Directed Electrochemical Sensing, Analytical Chemistry., , (2020), DOI:(just accepted).
• Shreya Sarkar, Lakshay Dheer, C. P. Vinod, Ranjit Thapa, Umesh V. Waghmare And Sebastian C. Peter*, Stress-Induced Electronic Structure Modulation of Manganese-Incorporated Ni2P Leading to Enhanced Activity for Water Splitting, ACS Appl. Energy Materials., , (2020), DOI:10.1021/acsaem.9b02097.
• Dheerendra Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, Understanding the influence of alumina supported ruthenium catalysts synthesis and reaction parameters on the hydrodeoxygenation of lignin derived monomers, Journal Molecular Catalysis., Volume 480,110525, (2020), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mcat.2019.110525.
• Bindu Antil, Lakshya Kumar, KP Reddy, CS Gopinath And Sasanka Deka, Direct Thermal Polymerization Approach to N-Rich Holey Carbon Nitride Nanosheets and Their Promising Photocatalytic H2 Evolution and Charge-Storage Activities, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering., 7, 9428 - 9438 (2019).
• Sulakshana Shenoy, Eunyong Jang, Tae Joo Park, Chinnakonda S Gopinath And Kishore Sridharan, Cadmium sulfide nanostructures: Influence of morphology on the photocatalytic degradation of erioglaucine and hydrogen generation, Applied Surface Science., 483, 696 - 705 (2019).
• Kshirodra Kumar Patra, Manoj Kumar Ghosalya, Himanshu Bajpai, Sreeya Raj And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Oxidative Disproportionation of MoS2/GO to MoS2/MoO3-x/RGO: Integrated and Plasmonic 2D-Multifunctional Nanocomposite for Solar Hydrogen Generation From NIR and Visible Regions, Journal of Physical Chemistry C., , (2019), DOI:10.1021/acs.jpcc.9b05983.
• Subhash Pandharkar, Sachin Rondiya, Ajinkya Bhorde, Shruthi Nair, Rahul Aher, Priti Vairale, Ashish Waghmare, Dhirsing Naik, Ravindra Waykar, Yogesh Jadhav, Santosh Haram, Manoj Kumar Ghosalya, Chinnakonda Gopinath, Mohit Prasad And Sandesh Jadkar, Probing the effect of selenium substitution in kesterite?Cu2ZnSnS4 nanocrystals prepared by hot injection method, Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics., , (2019).
• Bijoy Tudu, Naresh Nalajala, Kasala P. Reddy, Pranjal Saikia And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Electronic Integration and Thin Film Aspects of Au?Pd/rGO/TiO2 for Improved Solar Hydrogen Generation, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces., , (2019), DOI:DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b07070.
• Nikitra N. Gupta, Amrin S. Punekar, Karthik Raja E. K. Raj, Medha M. Ghodekar, Vipul S. Patil, Chinnakonda S. Gopinath And Thirumalaiswamy Raja, Phase Transfer Ceria-Supported Nanocatalyst for Nitrile Hydration Reaction, ACS Omega., , (2019), DOI:DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.9b02173.
• Paresh L Dhepe And Neha Ghosh, VALORIZATION OF ANIMAL DERIVED BIOMASS BY USING SOLID ACID CATALYST, Patent., , (2019), DOI:202011031311.
• P. Sudarsanam*, E. Peeters, E.V. Makshina, V.I. Parvulescu And B.F. Sels*, Advances in porous and nanoscale catalysts for viable biomass conversion, Chem. Soc. Rev., 48, 2366 - 2421 (2019), DOI:10.1039/C8CS00452H [IF - 40.443].
• Pragnya paramita Samal, Krati Joshi, Selvaraj Kaliaperumal And Sailaja Krishnamurty, Probing the catalytic activity of pristine and doped Pd and Ni metal clusters towards H2O molecule, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry., , (2019), DOI:doi.org/10.1016/j.comptc.2019.112624.
• Suman Jhajharia And Kaliaperumal Selvaraj, Exploring battery type ZnO/ZnFe2O4 spheres-3D graphene electrode for supercapacitor: Advantage of yolk-shell over solid structure, ChemElectroChem., , (2019), DOI:doi.org/10.1002/celc.201901269.
• Prasad, Rajendra; Yadav, Amit; Gorain , Mahadeo; Chauhan, Deepak; Kundu, Gopal; Srivastava, Rohit; Selvaraj And Kaliaperumal*, Graphene Oxide Supported Liposomes as Red Emissive Theranostics for Phototriggered Tissue Visualization and Tumor Regression, ACS Appl. Bio. Mater., , (2019), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acsabm.9b00335.
• Pavan Dongapure, Sayan Bagchi, S. Mayadevi And R. Nandini Devi, Variations in activity of Ru/TiO2 and Ru/Al2O3 catalysts for CO2 hydrogenation: An investigation by in-situ infrared spectroscopy studies, Molecular Catalysis., 482, 110700 (2019), DOI:10.1016/j.mcat.2019.110700.
  CO2 hydrogenation to methane, an important reaction strategically and also for value adding to CO2, is investigated on two different catalysts, Ru supported on alumina as well as titania to understand better low temperature activity of Ru/TiO2 catalyst. In-situ infrared studies are carried out in three different steps, viz., (i) CO2 adsorption on fully reduced catalyst (ii) reaction of these adsorbed species with gaseous H2 and (iii) under co-feed of CO2 and H2, at different temperatures. On Ru/Al2O3 catalyst, CO2 reacts with hydroxyls on the support surface to form carbonate and adsorbs reductively on metal as CO. Further reduction to formate and methyl species occurs on reaction with H. Small concentration of the reactive intermediate formyl forms only at high temperatures. Whereas, bare TiO2 itself seems capable of reductive adsorption of CO2 as formate indicating enhanced reducibility of titania based catalyst. Formyl groups are observed at low temperatures in Ru/TiO2 in step (ii), which further forms methyl and gaseous methane at much lower temperatures when compared to alumina catalyst. Highly reactive CO species loosely bound to metal-support interface observed at high temperatures, which is not present on Ru/Al2O3 catalyst also makes this catalyst superior. In comparison, linearly bound CO seen in alumina catalyst is not as reactive.
• Gargi Kundu, Sriman De, Srinu Tothadi, Abhishek Das, Debasis Koley* And Sakya S. Sen*, Saturated N-Heterocyclic Carbene based Thiele's Hydrocarbon with a Tetrafluorophenylene Linker, Chem. Eur. J., 25, 16533 - 16537 (2019).
  The first two authors have contributed equally for the work.
• Alagar Raja Kottaichamy, Shabbah Begum, Neethu Christudas Dargily, Mohammed Azeezulla Nazrulla, Mruthyunjayachari Chattanahalli Devendrachari, Zahid Manzoor Bhat, Harish Makri Nimbegondi Kotresh*, C. P. Vinod* And Musthafa Ottakam Thotiyl*, "Unprecedented Isomerism-Activity Relation in Molecular Electrocatalysis", J. Phys. Chem. Lett., , (2019), DOI:10.1021/acs.jpclett.9b02689.
• Popat Jori And Vrushali Jadhav*, Transition Metal Free Glucose Derived Carbonaceous Catalyst Catalyzes Direct C-H Arylation of Unactivated Arenes with Aryl Halides, Chemistry Select., 4, 4848 - 4853 (2019).
• Kayaramkodath Chandran Ranjeesh, Leena George, Vivek Chandrakant Wakchaure, Goudappagouda And R. Nandini Devi and Sukumaran Santhosh Babu, A squaraine-linked metalloporphyrin two-dimensional polymer photocatalyst for hydrogen and oxygen evolution reactions, Chem. Commun., 55, 1627 - 1630 (2019), DOI:10.1039/C8CC09132C.
• Subrahmanyam Sappati, Leena George, Vincent Paul Swamy And R. Nandini Devi Prasenjit Ghosh, Descriptors to Predict Dye?Sensitized Semiconductor Based Photocatalyst for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction, Chem Cat Chem., Just Published, (2019), DOI:10.1002/cctc.201901924.
• Chaudhary, Richa; Dhepe And Paresh L, Depolymerization of Lignin Using a Solid Base Catalyst, ENERGY & FUELS., Volume: 33 Issue: 5, 4369 - 4377 (2019), DOI:10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00621.
• Sandip K. Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, Lignin Conversion Using Catalytic Ionic Liquids: Understanding the Role of Cations, Anions, and Hammett Acidity Functions, Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research., , (2019), DOI:10.1021/acs.iecr.9b03375.
• Milan Kumar Bisai, Sandeep Yadav, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, Lithium compounds as single site catalysts for hydroboration of alkenes and alkynes, Chem. Commun., 55, 11711 - 11714 (2019).
• Govind Porwal, Shelaka Gupta, Seshadri Sreedhala, Joes Elizabeth, Tuhin Khan, M. Ali Haider* And C. P. Vinod*, Mechanistic Insights into the Pathways of Phenol Hydrogenation on Pd Nanostructures, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering., , (2019), DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.9b03392.
• Debanjan Chakraborty, Pragalbh Shekhar, Himan Dev Singh, Rinku Kushwaha, C P Vinod And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Ag nanoparticles supported on a resorcinol?phenylenediamine based COF for chemical fixation of CO2, Chemistry–An Asian Journal., , (2019), DOI:10.1002/asia.201901157.
• Milan Kumar Bisai, V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, Tamal Das, Kumar Vanka, Rajesh G. Gonnade And Sakya S. Sen*, Synthesis and Reactivity of a Hypersilylsilylene, Inorg. Chem., 58, 10536 - 10542 (2019).
  This article is part of the Celebrating the Year of the Periodic Table: Emerging Investigators in Inorganic Chemistry special issue.
• Dilip K. Pandey, Shidheshwar B. Ankade, Abad Ali, C. P. Vinod And Benudhar Punji*, Nickel-catalyzed C-H alkylation of indoles with unactivated alkyl chlorides: Evidence of Ni(I)/Ni(III) pathway, Chemical Science., , (2019), DOI:(just accepted).
• A B Vysakh, K J Shebin, Ruchi Jain, P Sumanta, Chinnakonda S Gopinath And C P Vinod*, Surfactant free Synthesis of Au@Ni Core-shell Nanochains in Aqueous Medium as Efficient Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst, Applied Catalysis A- General., 575, 93 - 100 (2019).
• Boopathy Gnanaprakasam*, Akanksha M Pandey, Sandip G Agalave And C. P. Vinod, MnO2@Fe3O4 MNP: An Efficient and Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Benzylic sp3 C?H Oxidation, Chemistry An Asian Journal., , (2019), DOI:(just accepted).
• Kasala Prabhakar Reddy, Srikanth Dama, Nitin B. Mhamane, Manoj K. Ghosalya, Thirumalaiswamy Raja, Chilukuri V. Satyanarayanaa And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Molybdenum carbide catalyst for the reduction of CO2 to CO: surface science aspects by NAPPES and catalysis studies, Dalton Transactions., , (2019), DOI:10.1039/c9dt01774g.
• Ruchi Jain And Chinnakonda S Gopinath, Morphology-dependent, green, and selective catalytic styrene oxidation on Co3O4, Dalton Transactions., 48, 4574 - 4581 (2019).
• Naresh Nalajala, Kshirodra Kumar Patra, Pradnya A Bharad And Chinnakonda S Gopinath, Why the thin film form of a photocatalyst is better than the particulate form for direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion: a poor man's approach, RSC Advances., 9, 6094 - 6100 (2019).
• Meenakshi Chauhan, Kiran Soni, PE Karthik, Kasala Prabhakar Reddy, Chinnakonda S Gopinath And Sasanka Deka, Promising visible-light-driven hydrogen production from the water on a highly efficient CuCo2S4 nanosheet photocatalyst, Journal of Materials Chemistry A., 7, 6985 - 6994 (2019).
• Rahul Maity, Debanjan Chakraborty, Shyamapada Nandi, Ankit Kumar Yadav, Dinesh Mullangi, C.P. Vinod And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan, Aqueous-Phase Differentiation and Speciation of Fe3+ and Fe2+ Using Water-Stable Photoluminescent Lanthanide-Based Metal-Organic Framework, ACS Applied Nano Materials., , (2019), DOI:(just accepted).
• Debanjan Chakraborty, Shyamapada Nandi, Rajith Illathvalappil, Dinesh Mullangi, Rahul Maity, Santosh K. Singh, Sattwick Haldar, C. P. Vinod, Sreekumar Kurungot And Ramanathan Vaidhyanathan*, Carbon derived from soft pyrolysis of COF as a support for small-sized RuO2 showing exceptionally low-overpotential for OER, ACS Omega., , (2019), DOI:(just accepted).
• Moumita Pait, Gargi Kundu, Srinu Thothadi, Suvendu Karak, Shailja Jain, Kumar Vanka And Sakya S. Sen*, C-F Bond Activation by a Saturated N-Heterocyclic Carbene: Mesoionic Compound Formation and Adduct Formation with B(C6F5)3, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 58, 2804 - 2808 (2019).
  Equal contribution from the first two authors
• V. S. V. S. N. Swamy, K. Vipin Raj, Kumar Vanka*, Sakya S. Sen* And Herbert W. Roesky*, Silylene induced cooperative B–H bond activation and unprecedented aldehyde C–H bond splitting with amidinate ring expansion, Chem. Commun., 55, 3536 - 3539 (2019).
• D. Chakraborty, S. Nandi, D. Mullangi, S. Haldar, C. P. Vinod And R. Vaidhyanathan, Cu/Cu2O Nanoparticles Supported on a Phenol-Pyridyl COF as Heterogeneous Catalyst for the Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diynes via Glaser-Hay Coupling, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces., , (2019), DOI:10.1021/acsami.9b02860.
• Preeti Jain, K. A. Anila And C. P. Vinod*, Au based Ni and Co Bimetallic Core Shell Nanocatalysts for room temperature selective Decomposition of Hydrous Hydrazine to hydrogen, Chemistry Select., 4 (9), 2734 - 2740 (2019).
• Prangya Paramita Das, C. P. Vinod, Samik Nanda, Debasis Sen And Biswajit Chowdhury, Palladium Impregnated Amine Co-condensed Hexagonal Mesoporous Silica: A Novel Catalyst in Tailoring Suzuki and Heck Coupling Reactions in Base Free Condition, Chemistry Select., , (2019), DOI:10.1002/slct.201803485 (just accepted).
• Chandrani. Nayak, , Preeti Jain, C. P. Vinod, S. N. Jha And D. Bhattacharyyaa , In-situ X ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Fischer Tropsch Reaction with Co catalysts, Journal of Synchrotron Radiation., 26, 137 - 144 (2019).
• Gaurav Bajpai, Igamcha Moirangthem, Shuvam Sarkar, Sudipta RoyBarman, C.P.Vinod, Shubhra Bajpai, Sk.Riyajuddin, Kaushik Ghosh, Dharma R. Basaulah, Mahmud Khan, Shun-WeiLiui, Sajal Biring And SomadityaSen, Role of Li+ and Fe3+ in modified ZnO: Structural, vibrational, opto-electronic, mechanical and magnetic properties, Ceramics International., 45, Issue 6, 7232 - 7243 (2019).
• R Bhosale, S Jain, CP Vinod, S Kumar And S Ogale, A direct Z-scheme g-C3N4/FeWO4 nanocomposite for Enhanced and Selective Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction under Visible Light, ACS applied materials & interfaces., 11 (6), 6174 - 6183 (2019).
• AB Vysakh, KJ Shebin, Ruchi Jain, P Sumanta, Chinnakonda S Gopinath And CP Vinod, Surfactant free Synthesis of Au@ Ni Core-shell Nanochains in Aqueous Medium as Efficient Transfer Hydrogenation Catalyst, Applied Catalysis A: General., 575, 93 - 100 (2019).
• Kshirodra Kumar Patra, Pradnya Arunrao Bharad, Vanshika Jain And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, Direct Solar-to-Hydrogen Generation by Quasi Artificial Leaf Approach: Possibly Scalable and Economical Device, Journal of Material Chemistry A., DOI: 10.1039/C8TA11307F, (2019).
• Shibin Thundiyil, Sreekumar Kurungot And and R. Nandini Devi, Bifunctional Oxygen Reduction and Evolution Activity in Brownmillerites Ca2Fe(1–x)CoxO5, ACS Omega., 4, 31 - 38 (2019), DOI:10.1021/acsomega.8b02468.
  State-of-the-art catalysts for oxygen reduction and evolution reactions (ORR and OER), which form the basis of advanced fuel cell applications, are based on noble metals such as Pt and Ir. However, high cost and scarcity of noble metals have led to an increased demand of earth-abundant metal oxide catalysts, especially for bifunctional activity in ORR and OER. The fact that Pt and Ir or C, the cost-effective alternatives suggested, do not display satisfactory bifunctional activity has also helped in turning the interest to metal oxides which are stable under both ORR and OER conditions. Brownmillerite A2B2O5 type oxides are promising as bifunctional oxygen electrocatalysts because of intrinsic structural features, viz., oxygen vacancy and catalytic activity of the B-site transition metal. In this study, Co-doped Ca2Fe2O5 compounds are synthesized by the solid state method and structurally analyzed by Rietveld refinement of powder X-ray diffraction data. The compound Ca2Fe2O5, crystallizing in the Pcmn space group has alternative FeO4 tetrahedral and FeO6 octahedral layers. Its Co-doped analogue, Ca2Fe1.75Co0.25O5, also crystallizes in the same space group with both tetrahedral and octahedral Fe positions substituted with Co. However, Ca2FeCoO5 in the Pbcm space group shows interlayer ordering with Co-rich octahedra connected to Fe-rich tetrahedra and vice versa. Oxygen bifunctional activities of these catalysts are monitored by rotating disc electrode and rotating ring disc electrode techniques in alkaline media. A close analysis of the ORR and OER was conducted through comparison of various parameters such as onset potential, current density, halfwave potential, and other kinetic parameters, which suggests that the presence of Co in the B site aids in achieving better bifunctional activity and bulk conductivity. In addition, Co(II)/Co(III) redox systems and their comparative concentrations also play a decisive role in enhancing the activity.
• J. H. Khan, Babasaheb Matsagar, Kevin Wu And Paresh L. Dhepe, High surface area nanoporous carbon derived from high quality jute from Bangladesh, MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS., 216, 491 - 495 (2018), DOI:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2018.05.082.
• P. Sudarsanam*, B. Hillary, M.H. Amin, N. Rockstroh, U. Bentrup, A. Brueckner And S.K. Bhargava*, Heterostructured copper-ceria and iron-ceria nanorods: Role of morphology, redox, and acid properties in catalytic diesel soot combustion, Langmuir., 34, 2663 - 2673 (2018), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.7b03998 [IF - 3.557].
• P. Sudarsanam*, R. Zhong, S.V. den Bosch, S.M. Coman, V.I. Parvulescu* And B.F. Sels*, Functionalised heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable biomass valorisation, Chem. Soc. Rev., 47, 8349 - 8402 (2018), DOI:DOI: 10.1039/C8CS00410B [IF - 40.443].
• B. Ren, P. Sudarsanam, A.E. Kandjani, B. Hillary, M.H. Amin, S.K. Bhargava* And L.A. Jones*, Electrochemical detection of As (III) on a manganese oxide-ceria (Mn2O3/CeO2) nanocube modified Au electrode, Electroanalysis., 30, 928 - 936 (2018), DOI:doi.org/10.1002/elan.201700662 [IF - 2.554].
• B. Mallesham, P. Sudarsanam, B.V.S. Reddy, B.G. Rao And B.M. Reddy*, Nanostructured nickel/silica catalysts for continuous flow conversion of levulinic acid to valerolactone, ACS Omega., 3, 16839 - 16849 (2018), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.8b02008 [IF - 2.584].
• Deepak S. Chauhan, Rajendra Prasad, Janhavi Devrukhkar, Kaliaperumal Selvaraj And * Rohit Srivastava*, Disintegrable NIR Light Triggered Gold Nanorods Supported Liposomal Nanohybrids for Cancer Theranostics, Bioconjugate Chemistry., 19, 29, (5), 1510 - 1518 (2018), DOI:10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.7b00801.
• Deepak Kumar, Thillai Govindaraja Senthamarai Kannan, Sailaja Krishnamurty, Kaliaperumal Selvaraj And Sourav Pal, Dissociative Chemisorption of Hydrogen Molecule on Defective Graphene Supported Aluminium Clusters: A Computational Study, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics., , (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8CP05711G.
• Rajendra Prasad, Sachin Agawane, Deepak Chauhan, Rohit Srivatsava And Kaliaperumal Selvaraj*, In Vivo Examination of Folic Acid-Conjugated Gold-Silica Nanohybrids as Contrast Agents for Localized Tumor Diagnosis and Biodistribution, Bioconjugate Chemistry., , (2018), DOI:doi.org/10.1021/acs.bioconjchem.8b00522.
• Leena George, Subrahmanyam Sappati, Prasenjit Ghosh And R. Nandini Devi, Sensitizing with short conjugated molecules: Multimodal anchoring on ZnO nanoparticles for enhanced electron transfer characteristics, stability and H2 evolution, Catal Today., 309, 89 - 97 (2018), DOI:1016/j.cattod.2017.09.052.
  Sensitizing semiconductors with organic dyes is usually employed to improve efficiency of semiconductors towards visible light absorption and charge transport. However, till date most of the dyes are either noble metal based with complex and expensive synthesis procedure or have a very narrow absorption band. Further the photostability of the dyes is another important issue. In this work we have studied, using a combination of photophysical and computational methods, ZnO nanoparticles sensitized with transition metal free, cheap and easy to synthesize azoquinoline dye that has been designed to have multiple chelating sites, viz., carboxylic group and hydroxyl imine group as a photocatalyst for water splitting activity. We find that the presence of multiple chelating sites facilitates dual mode of anchoring on ZnO nanoparticles, which leads to enhanced photostability and H2 generation of the composite. This is attributed to the incorporation of resonance features in the dye that increases electron transfer between ZnO and dye in contrast to the charge accumulation and photo degradation observed in non-conjugated and single site anchoring counterparts. Electron transfer from ZnO to dye under UV light and reverse in visible light could be identified experimentally. Such simple designing aspects can aid in identifying better catalysts for photocatalytic water splitting.
• Ayasha Nadeema, Priyanka S. Walko, R. Nandini Devi And Sreekumar Kurungot, Alkaline Water Electrolysis by NiZn-Double Hydroxide-Derived Porous Nickel Selenide-Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Composite, ACS Applied Energy Materials., 1, 5500 - 5510 (2018), DOI:10.1021/acsaem.8b01081.
• Manisha G. Dohade And Paresh L. Dhepe, One pot conversion of furfural to 2-methylfuran in the presence of PtCo bimetallic catalyst, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy., Volume 20, Issue 4, 703 - 713 (2018), DOI:10.1007/s10098-017-1408-z.
  Biomass-derived furfural (FAL) is the platform chemical for synthesis of various value-added chemicals and fuels. One of the FAL-derived chemicals, i.e., 2-methylfuran (2-MF), is the potential biofuel due to its attractive chemical and physical properties. Various methods are reported for conversion of FAL to 2-MF which are operated at high temperature and high H2 pressure. In present work, one pot catalytic method was developed in batch mode process for conversion of FAL to 2-MF. Reactions are carried out in the presence of PtCo/C bimetallic catalyst under 0.5–1 MPa H2 pressure. Monometallic and bimetallic catalysts with different Pt and Co loading were prepared by wet impregnation method, and catalysts were characterized by transmission electron microscopy, BET surface area, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction and inductive coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy techniques. 59% 2-MF yield was achieved at 180 °C and lower (0.5 MPa) H2 pressure.
• Nilesh P. Tangale, P. S. Niphadkar And P. N. Joshi and Paresh L. Dhepe , Hierarchical K/LTL zeolite as a solid base for aqueous phase hydrogenation of xylose to xylitol, Microporous & Mesoporous Materials., Volume 278, 70 - 80 (2018).
  Post-synthesis modification by alkali treatment was employed for the synthesis of hierarchical K/LTL zeolites with varying degree of mesoporosity. For the alkali treatment, the concentration of aqueous KOH solution was changed from 0.3 to 2.8 M keeping the quantity per gram of zeolite fixed. The influence of the alkali concentration on the chemical composition, powder XRD crystallinity, morphology, basicity, and the textural properties of resultant hierarchical zeolites was investigated. Variation in the concentration of KOH solution was found to control the degree of preferential desilication with the preserved structural fingerprint of K/LTL zeolite. As a result, the generation of mesoporosity was observed along with 1) the decrease in the Si/Al ratio and percentage relative crystallinity, and 2) an increase in BET surface area and mesopore volume. 27Al MAS-NMR results showed that all the aluminum atoms present in the tetrahedral coordination after alkali treatment, which provides an elegant approach for significantly increasing the basic sites in the hierarchical zeolites. As a heterogeneous catalyst, the hierarchical K/LTL zeolites demonstrated the improved performance in the hydrogenation of xylose to xylitol as compared to the parent K/LTL zeolite. The different process parameters were assessed in order to maximize the hydrogenation activity. Among all the hierarchical zeolites, the enhanced catalytic activity was shown by the hierarchical K/LTL prepared by using 1.5 M KOH solution when it is used along with the 3.5 wt% platinum loaded ?-Al2O3 catalyst. This optimum activity may be attributed to the higher surface area, accessible basic sites, nano-sized Pt on ?-Al2O3, and the development of substantial intracrystalline mesoporosity for the enhanced molecular diffusion of reactant to and from the hierarchical zeolite with better-preserved crystallinity.
• Sandip Kumar Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, Experimental evidences for the existence of varying moieties and functional groups in assorted crop waste derived organosolv lignins, Industrial Crops and Products (2018)., Volume 119, 1, 144 - 151 (2018).
  Isolation of organosolv lignins (ORGLs, water:ethanol, 180oC, 1h, 93±5% mass balance) from various lignocellulosic materials like rice husk (RH), wheat straw (WS), bagasse (BG) & wood chips (WC) was done and experimental evidences are provided to perceive the differences in the structures of isolated lignins. To achieve this on bulk level, lignins were characterized by XRD, GPC, TGA & elemental analysis and on molecular level using UV-Vis, ATR, 1D/2D HSQC NMR techniques. Besides isolated lignins, crop wastes and pulps were also characterized to divulge details on their properties. It was revealed that lignins have varying concentrations of sinapyl (S), coniferyl (G) and p-coumaryl alcohols (H) and tricin (T) moieties. While, Tricin (T) type lignin moieties are observed only in RH and WS derived lignins, RH derived lignin has higher concentration of side chains than other isolated lignins. Additionally, it is discovered that most lignins have G as main moiety.
• Manisha Dohade And Paresh L. Dhepe, The efficient method for the cyclopentanone synthesis from furfural: Understanding the role of solvents, solubilities and bimetallic catalytic system, Catalysis Science & Technology., 8, 5259 - 5269 (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8CY01468J.
  The platform chemical, furfural (FAL), is obtained from C5 stream of biomass, and effective conversion into various chemicals including cyclopentanone (CPO) would find many industrial applications. It is desirable to convert FAL to CPO under low H2 pressure with high selectivity. In the current work, bimetallic catalysts with Pt as the base metal supported on carbon are evaluated in the synthesis of CPO using a biphasic solvent system. By tuning the solvent ratio, with toluene/water (3 : 4 v/v), 75% yield of CPO is achieved under 1 MPa H2 at 180 °C. The difference in solubility of the substrate, intermediates and products, along with the optimum ratio of Pt and Co metals plays a crucial role in achieving better yields.
• Manisha Dohade And Paresh L. Dhepe, Efficient conversion of Sugars to Sugar alcohols in presence of Ru/C catalyst under mild reaction condition, Catalysis in Green Chemistry and Engineering., 1 (3), 247 - 261 (2018), DOI:10.1615/CatalGreenChemEng.2018028533.
  Sugar alcohols (xylitol and sorbitol) produced from biomass derived xylose and glucose finds wide industrial application in food and pharmaceutical Industries. Hence it is worth to produce these sugar alcohols under mild reaction conditions at low temperature and low H2 pressure with concentrated feed (sugar) solution. In this work, Ru metal supported on carbon was used as a catalyst to convert xylose and glucose to yield xylitol and sorbitol respectively. 98% yield of xylitol and sorbitol was achieved under 0.5 MPa H2, at 100 °C. Under low H2 pressure (0.2 MPa) at 100 °C, 94% yield of xylitol and 91% yield of sorbitol was obtained. 98% yield of sugar alcohols (xylitol and sorbitol) was achieved with 40 wt% sugar solution under 1 MPa H2.
• Nilesh P. Tangale, Prashant S. Niphadkar And Prafulla N Joshi and Paresh Laxmikant Dhepe, KLTL-MCM-41 micro-mesoporous composite as solid base for the hydrogenation of sugars, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2018., 8, 6429 - 6440 (2018), DOI:DOI: 10.1039/C8CY01716F.
  An approach to the synthesis of KLTL-MCM-41 micro-mesoporous composites varying molar SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (20-8) was originated by following the green technology. The synthesis was based on recycling of waste mother liquor containing preformed KLTL zeolite crystals and unutilized reagents. The micro-mesoporous composites consist of preformed KLTL zeolite crystals through hydrothermal treatment in the first step. In the second step, the siliceous mother liquor was transformed into the mesoporous MCM-41. The physico-chemical properties of the KLTL-MCM-41 micro-mesoporous composites were determined by PXRD, ICP-OES, FTIR, CO2-TPD, 27Al MAS-NMR, TEM-EDX, HRTEM, and N2 adsorption-desorption measurements. The mesopores properties of KLTL-MCM-41 composites were depended on the molar SiO2/Al2O3 ratio. The characterization results accounted the following conclusions with decreasing SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio: 1) lowering the orderliness of mesophase, 2) decreasing the wall thickness of mesopores, and 3) decreasing BET surface area and pore volume. 27Al MAS-NMR showed that only tetrahedrally coordinated aluminium encountered for zeolite KLTL. Moreover, the total amount and the strength of the basic sites of KLTL-MCM-41 micro-mesoporous composites owing to exchangeable potassium content (Al/K ratio-1) decreased in the order: 8 MMC > 10 MMC > 15 MMC > 20 MMC. The catalytic activity of the synthesized micro-mesoporous samples was tested as a solid base for the hydrogenation of xylose to sugar alcohols.
• Yogita Soni, Kavya Illath, T. G. Ajithkumar And C. P. Vinod*, One Pot Ligand Exchange Method for a Highly Stable Au- SBA- 15 Catalyst and its room temperature CO Oxidation, Chemical Communications., 54 (91), 12412 - 12415 (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8CC06887A.
• Rahul A Jagtap, C. P. Vinod And B. Punji*, "Nickel-Catalyzed Straightforward and Regioselective C-H Alkenylation of Indoles with Alkenyl Bromides: Scope and Mechanistic Aspect", ACS Catalysis., 9 (1), 431 - 441 (2018), DOI:(just accepted).
• N Khatun, S Tiwari, CP Vinod, CM Tseng, S Wei Liu, S Biring And S Sen, Role of oxygen vacancies and interstitials on structural phase transition, grain growth, and optical properties of Ga doped TiO2, Journal of Applied Physics., 123 (24), 245702 (2018).
• Pradnya A. Bharad, Arun V. Nikam, Femi Thomas And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, CuOx?TiO2 Composites: Electronically Integrated Nanocomposites for Solar Hydrogen Generation, Chemistry select., 43, 12022 - 12030 (2018).
• Sandeep Yadav, Ruchi Dixit, Milan Kumar Bisai, Kumar Vanka* And Sakya S. Sen*, Alkaline Earth Metal Compounds of Methylpyridinato beta-diketiminate Ligands and their Catalytic Application in Hydroboration of Aldehydes and Ketones, Organometallics., 37, 4576 - 4584 (2018).
  The first two authors contributed equally for this paper
• Ruchi Jain And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath, New Strategy toward a Dual Functional Nanocatalyst at Ambient Conditions: Influence of the Pd–Co Interface in the Catalytic Activity of Pd@Co Core–Shell Nanoparticles, ACS Applied materials & Interfaces., Just Accepted, (2018), DOI:10.1021/acsami.8b12940.
• Kasala Prabhakar Reddy, Nitin B Mhamane, Manoj Kumar Ghosalya And Chinnakonda S. Gopinath*, Mapping Valence Band and Interface Electronic Structure Changes during Oxidation of Mo to MoO3 via MoO2 and MoO3 Reduction to MoO2 : A NAPPES Study, Journal of Physical Chemistry C., 122, 23034 - 23044 (2018).
• K. Bakthavachalam, Sayan Dutta, Arivazhagan C., Beesam Raghavendra, Anagha Haridas, Sakya S. Sen*, Debasis Koley* And Sundargopal Ghosh*, Cyclometallation of a germylene ligand by concerted metalation–deprotonation of a methyl group, Dalton Transactions., 47, 15835 - 15844 (2018).
• Babasaheb M. Matsagar And Paresh L. Dhepe, Glucose isomerization catalyzed by bone char and the selective production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural in aqueous media, Sustainable Energy Fuels., 2, 2148 - 2153 (2018), DOI:10.1039/c8se00339d.
  The selective production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) is important, and it is difficult with glucose substrates in a water solvent. Here we demonstrate a selective method for glucose-to-HMF conversion using the combined catalysis of bone char and 1-methyl-3-(3-sulfopropyl)-imidazolium hydrogen sulfate acidic ionic liquid catalysts with a high HMF selectivity (54%) in water.
• Sandip K.Singh And Paresh L. Dhepe, Novel Synthesis of Immobilized Brønsted- Acidic Ionic Liquid: Application in Lignin Depolymerization, Chemistryselect-Sustainable Chemistry., 3, 5461 - 5470 (2018), DOI:DOI: 10.1002/slct.201703050.
  Designing of efficient catalyst for the valorization of lignin is a topic of long neglect due to intrinsic properties of lignin. We show designing of an efficient, stable and recyclable Immobilized?Brønsted acidic ionic liquid (I?BAIL), which was further used as a solid acid catalyst for the depolymerization of lignin. The synthesized I?BAIL catalyst with sulfonic acid (–SO3H) groups was found to be stable until 250 °C and has 42.2 wt.% loading of BAIL anchored on silica framework. The detailed characterization (elemental, Thermogravimetric analysis, Fourier transformation?Infrared, Nuclear magnetic resonance) of catalyst disclosed formation of strong covalent bond between Si and carbon of BAIL, which in turn is responsible for achieving a stable catalyst. The catalyst could successfully depolymerize range of lignin substrates with high molecular weight (60000 Dalton) at 200 °C in 1 h to achieve 90% yield of tetrahydrofuran soluble products with good mass balance. The formation of products and correlation of products with lignin was achieved with the help of Nuclear magnetic resonance, gel permeation chromatography, gas chromatography, gas chromatography?mass spectrometry, high performance liquid chromatography etc.
• V. G. Landge, A. Mondal, V. Kumar, A. Nandakumar And E. Balaraman*, Manganese catalyzed N-alkylation of amines with alcohols: Ligand enabled selectivity, Org. Biomol. Chem., 16, 8175 - 8180 (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8OB01886C.
• V. G. Landge, A. Parveen, A. Nandakumar And E. Balaraman*, Pd(II)-catalyzed gamma-C(sp3)-H alkynylation of amides: A selective functionalization of R chain of amides R1C(O)NHR, Chem. Commun., 54, 7483 - 7486 (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8CC03445A.
• A. Mondal, M. Subaramanian, A. Nandakumar And E. Balaraman*, Manganese-catalyzed direct conversion of ester to amide with liberation of H2, Org. Lett., 20, 3381 - 3384 (2018), DOI:10.1021/acs.orglett.8b01305.
• S. P. Midya, J. Pitchaimani, V. G. Landge, V. Madhu* And E. Balaraman*, Direct access to N-alkylated amines and imines via acceptorless dehydrogenative coupling catalyzed by cobalt(II)-NNN pincer complex, Catal. Sci. Technol., 8, 3469 - 3473 (2018), DOI:10.1039/C8CY00859K.
• Manoj K. Sahoo, K. Saravanakumar, G. Jaiswal And E. Balaraman*, Photocatalysis enabling acceptorless dehydrogenation of diaryl hydrazines at room temperature, ACS Catal., 8, 7727 - 7733 (2018), DOI:10.1021/acscatal.8b01579.
• Siba P. Midya, J. Rana, J. Pitchaimani, A. Nandakumar, V. Madhu* And E. Balaraman*, Ni-catalyzed alpha-alkylation of unactivated amides and esters with alcohols via hydrogen auto-transfer strategy, ChemSusChem., , (2018), DOI:10.1002/cssc.201801443.
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• J. Rana, R. Babu, M. Subaramanian And E. Balaraman*, Ni-catalyzed dehydrogenative coupling of primary and secondary alcohols with methyl-N-heteroaromatics, Org. Chem. Front., 5, 3250 - 3255 (2018), DOI:10.1039/c8qo00764k.