Dr. Ganesh Chandra Nandi

Field(s) of Specialization Metal catalyzed organic transformation towards the synthesis of bio-active molecules, Asymmetric catalysis, Green synthesis, Heterocyclic chemistry, Fluorescent organic molecules-design and applications

Qualification

Examination Board / University Period of Study Subjects
PhD Banaras Hindu University Jan 2008 to July 2012 Organic Synthesis
M.Sc Banaras Hindu University 2004-2006 Organic Chemistry (Spl.)
B.Sc The University of Burdwan, WB 2001 to 2004 Chemistry (Hons)

Experience

Job Title Employer From To
Assistant Professor NIT-Trichy April 2018 Till date
DST-INSPIRE Faculty CSIR-NIIST, Trivandrum Jan 2015 March 2018
Post-doctoral Fellow University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Oct 2013 Dec 2014
Post-doctoral Fellow University of North Florida, USA Aug 2012 July 2013
Research Chemist Chembiotek Res. Intl. Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata June 2006 Nov 2007

AWARDS RECEIVED

Year of Award Name of the Award Awarding Organization
2014 DST-INSPIRE Faculty DST

Details of Academic and Administrative Work in addition to teaching

Academic and Administrative Work Duration
PhD Exam Coordinator for Chemistry (June 2019 session, 2020 to 2023) June 2019 - 2023
Member of Sophisticated Instrumentation Facility (SIF) 2020 - 2023
Member of Library Action Committee (LAC) 2020 - 2023
Member of Institute Innovation Council (IIC) 2021 - 2024
Hostel Warden Nov 2021 - Nov 2024
NSS Program Officer 2018 - 2020

Details of Major R & D Projects

Title of Project Funding Agency Duration Status
Synthesis and applications of Sulfonimidamides in organic and biological chemistry DST-INSPIRE Jan 2015 - Jan 2020 Completed (35 L)
Synthesis of sulfoximines via novel routes DST-SERB June 2019 - May 2022 Completed (37 L)
Synthesis of Organo Silanes CSIR September 2021 - August 2024 Completed (27 L)

PhD Students

Completed

  1. Irfana Jesin C. P. (Reg. June 2018)
  2. Ravindra S. (Reg. June 2018)

Ongoing

  1. Sabashini (Thesis submitted)
  2. K. Natarajan (Reg. June 2020)
  3. V. R. Padma Priya (Reg. June 2020)
  4. A. Antony Haritha Mercy (Reg. Jan 2022)
  5. S. Richard (Reg. June 2022)
  6. V. Navaneetha Krishnan (Reg. June 2024)

MSc Project Students

  1. Sugapriya S (Jan 2024 - May 2024)
  2. Hariprasad R (Jan 2023 - May 2023)
  3. Imdadul Haque (Jan 2023 - May 2023)
  4. Suraj Sharma (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
  5. Shivam Kumar Dubey (Jan 2022 - May 2022)
  6. Sudhangshu S Barik (Jan 2021 - May 2021)
  7. Ankit Dubey (Jan 2021 - May 2021)
  8. Abinash (Jan 2020 - May 2020)
  9. Rohith J (Jan 2019 - May 2019)
  10. Antony Haritha Mercy A (Jan 2019 - May 2019)
  11. Sai Shruthi M (Jan 2019 - May 2019)

Publications

Books & Monographs

  1. Book Chapter: Nandi, G. C.* S. Ravindra, C. P. Irfana Jesin, P. Sasikumar, and K. V. Radhakrishnan* Cu-catalyzed Homocoupling reactions.2020 (John Wiley & Sons)
  2. Book Chapter: P. Sasikumar, T. S. Priyadarshini, Sanjay Varma, Nandi, G. C. and K. V. Radhakrishnan* Cu - Catalyzed Carbonylation Reactions.2020 (John Wiley & Sons).
  3. Monograph: Multicomponent Reactions: Applications of b-Naphthol, b-oxodithioesters and N,S-aryl aminoacetals; Nandi, G. C.; Lambert Academic Publishing; 2013. ISBN No. 978-3-659-32149-8

Independent Work

  1. Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Natarajan K., Sugapriya S., Ganesh Chandra Nandi*, A Rapid, Mild and Direct Route to Sulfonimidoyl Fluoride from Sulfenamide J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 16426-16432.
  2. Arivalagan Shabashini, Prasenjit Giri, Sathiaraj Richard, Ahmad Husain, Manas K. Panda*, and Nandi G. C.* Tunable Photoresponsive Behavior of Organic Materials by Polymorphic Variation: Topochemical [2 + 2] Cycloaddition vs E–Z Isomerization. Cryst. Growth Des. 2024, 24, 19, 7897-7903
  3. Arivalagan Shabashini, Sathiaraj Richard, Trupti Solanky, Arnab Biswas, Sumit Kumar*,Sumit Kumar Panja *,Nandi G. C.* Effect of dipolar state on J-type aggregation of acceptor group modified pyrene-based push-pull systems. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2024, 458, 1145971
  4. Natarajan K., Jayakumar V., Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Nandi G. C.* InCl3 Catalyzed Simultaneous Reductive Sulfoximination and O-silylation: Synthesis of Silyloxy Benzylsulfoximine. Org. Biomol. Chem., 2024, 22, 6699-6702
  5. Padma Priya V. R., Antony Haritha Mercy A., Natarajan K., Ravindra S., Nandi G. C.* 1,2-Difunctionalization of Aryne with Sulfenamide and Organohalide: A Mild and Metal-Free Access to S-(o-halo)aryl Sulfilimines. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 89, 12, 9043-9050
  6. Richard S., Shabashini A., Panja S. K., Nandi G. C.* A Near-Infrared (NIR) Organic Probe for Rapid Naked-Eye Detection of Fluoride Ions in Aqueous Medium. Anal. Methods 2024, 16, 3306-3310
  7. Ravindra S., Irfana Jesin C. P., Hariprasad R., Natarajan K., Padmapriya V. R., Nandi G. C.* Sulfonimidamide as Directing Group for Pd-Mediated Ortho C-H Chlorination of Arenes. ChemistrySelect 2024, 9 (3), e202304253
  8. K. Natarajan, S. Ravindra, V. R. Padma Priya, Ramesh Kataria, Nandi G. C.* Synthesis of Sulfonimidamide-Based 1,2-Benzothiazines by [4+2] Oxidative Annulation of Sulfonimidamides and Alkynes in Water Under Visible Light. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2024, 27 (6), e202301217
  9. Mercy A. A. H., Priya V. R. P., Hariprasad R., Gayathri K., Ravindra S., Ramesh K., Nandi G. C.* Facile Synthesis of N-(α-Furanyl) Alkyl Sulfoximines via Gold Catalyzed Michael Addition/Cyclization of Enynones and Sulfoximines. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2024, 22, 945-949
  10. Shabashini A., Richard S., Panda M. K.*, Panja S. K.*, Nandi G. C.* Real-Time Visualization of Latent Fingermarks with Level 3 Details Based on a Solid-State Emissive Organic Fluorophore Using the Powder Dusting Method. Mater. Advances 2024, 5, 1099-1105
  11. V. R. Padma Priya, A. Antony Haritha Mercy, K. Natarajan, Nandi G. C.* Sulfoximines as S-Aryl Surrogates: A Photocatalytic Rapid, Metal-Free, Mild Protocol to Access 3-Arylsulfenyl Indoles. Synlett 2024; 35(03): 279-284
  12. Ravindra S., Natarajan K., Padmapriya V. R., Kataria R., Nandi G. C.* Visible Light Mediated Co‐Catalyzed Isocyanide Insertion with Sulfonyl Azide: Synthesis of Sulfonyl Carbamimidic Azide and Sulfonyl Aminotetrazole via Carbodiimide. Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29 (72), e202303153
  13. Shabashini A., Richard S., Panja S. K., Nandi G. C.* Tricyanopyrroline-Based Colorimetric NIR Probe for Rapid ‘Naked-Eye’ Fluoride Ion Detection. Dyes Pigm. 2023, 216, 111376
  14. Ravindra. S., Dubey​. S. K., Kataria. R., Nandi G. C.* Ni-Catalyzed Mild Synthesis of Sulfonylurea via Tandem Coupling of Sulfonyl Azide, Isocyanide, and Water. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 88, 11, 7477–7482.
  15. Irfana Jesin C. P., Kataria, R., Nandi G. C.* Synthesis of α-Sulfoximino Tetrazoles via Azido-Ugi 4-Component Reaction. SynOpen, 2022, 6, 319-328 (Invited Article).
  16. Irfana Jesin C. P., Priya V. R. P., Kataria R., Alisha V., Vimalkumar P. S., Joseph A. G., Nandi G. C.* A One-Pot Tandem Synthesis of Sulfoximine-Based Urea From Organic Acid via Curtius Rearrangement. ChemistrySelect, 2022, 7 (39), e202202898.
  17. K. Natarajan, Suraj Sharma, Irfana Jesin C. P., Ramesh Kataria, Nandi G. C.* One-pot Synthesis of Novel α-Sulfoximinophosphonate via Kabachnik–Fields Reactions. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 7036-7039.
  18. V. R. Padmapriya, C. P. Irfana Jesin, Nandi G. C.* Transition-metal-free N-(o-halo)arylation of sulfoximines / sulfonimidamides. Synlett, 2023, 34, 678-682 (Invited Article).
  19. Shabashini. A., Panja. S.K., Biswas. A., Bera. S., Nandi G. C.* ICT based photoacid probe for microsolvation and H-bonding assisted proton transfer process from solute to solvents. J. Photochem. Photobiol. A: Chem. 2022, 432, 114087.
  20. Padma Priya V. R., Natarajan, K., Nandi G. C.* Advances in the Photoredox Catalysis of S(VI) Compounds. Tetrahedron 2022, Article no. 132711.
  21. Ravindra, S., Abinash Nayak, Jesin, C. P. I., Nandi G. C.* Direct Synthesis of Sulfonimidoyl Guanidines from Sulfonimidoyl Azides under Dual (Cobalt and Photoredox) Catalysis. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2022, 364, 1144-1149.
  22. Shabashini, A., Ramar, V., Karthikeyan, B., Panda, M. K., Nandi G. C.* Design and Synthesis of Triphenylamine Based Cyano Stilbenes for Picric Acid Sensing and Two Photon Absorption Applications. ChemistrySelect 2021, 6, 12300–12308.
  23. Natarajan, K., Jesin, C. P. I., Mercy, A. A. H., Nandi G. C.* A Metal-free Petasis Reaction Towards the Synthesis of N-(α-Substituted)Alkyl Sulfoximines / Sulfonimidamides. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2021, 19, 7061-7065.
  24. Shabashini, A., Panja, S. K., Nandi G. C.* Applications of Carbon Dots (CDs) in Latent Fingerprints Imaging. Chem. Asian J. 2021, 16, 1057-1072 (HOT PAPER).
  25. Ravindra S., Jesin, I., Shabashini, A., Nandi, G. C.* Recent Advances in the Preparations and Synthetic Applications of Oxaziridines and Diaziridines. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 1756–1781.
  26. Nandi, G. C.* Advances in the Synthesis and Applications of Three-Membered Sila-, Sila-Aza/-Phospha/-Oxa/-Thia Cyclopropanes. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 587-606.
  27. Jesin, I., Mercy, A. H., Ravindra S., Kataria, S., Nandi, G. C.* A Mild and Metal-Free Protocol Towards the Synthesis of Triarylmethanes by Reactions of (Hetero)Arylboronic Acids and Orthohydroxyarylaldehydes. J. Org. Chem. 2020, 85, 3000.
  28. Ravindra S., Rohith, J., Jesin, I., Kataria, R., Nandi, G. C.* Chemistry Select 2019, 47, 14004.
  29. Jesin, I., Ravindra S., Nandi, G. C.* Sulfonimidamide as a Directing Agent for Pd-Catalyzed Regioselective Oxidative C-H Acyloxylation of Arenes. Tetrahedron 2019, 75, 130622.
  30. (Review) Jesin, I., Nandi, G. C.* Recent Advances in the A3 Coupling Reactions and Their Applications. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 16, 2704 (I. F: 3.02).
  31. Jesin, I., Nandi, G. C.* Catalyst-Controlled Dual Reactivity of Sulfonimidamides: Synthesis of Propargylamines and N-Propargyl Sulfonimidamides. Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 743-749.
  32. Nandi, G. C., Jesin, I.* Direct Synthesis of N‐Acyl Sulfonimidamides and N‐Sulfonimidoyl Amidines from Sulfonimidoyl Azides. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 2465.
  33. (Review) Nandi, G. C., Arvidsson, P. I.* Sulfonimidamides: Synthesis and Applications in Preparative Organic Chemistry. Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 2976.
  34. Nandi, G. C.* Cu-Catalyzed Mild Synthesis of N-Imidoyl/Oxoimidoyl Sulfonimidamides via Three Component Coupling of Sulfonimidamides, Azides and Alkynes. Eur. J. Org Chem. 45, 6633-6638, 2017.
  35. Nandi, G. C.* Raju, C. CuBr/TBHP-mediated Synthesis of N-acyl Sulfonimidamides via the Oxidative Cross-Coupling of Sulfonimidamides and Aldehyde. Org. Biomol. Chem. 15, 2234, 2017.
  36. Nandi, G. C.* Soumini K. Catalyst-Controlled Straightforward Synthesis of Pyrrole/Furan via Propargylation/Cycloisomerization of Alpha-Oxoketene-N,S-Acetals. J. Org. Chem. 81, 11909, 2016.
  37. Nandi, G. C.*, Singh, M. S.* p-TSA/Base Promoted Propargylation/Cyclization of -Ketothioamides for the Regioselective Synthesis of Highly Substituted (Hydro)Thiophenes. J. Org. Chem. 81, 5824, 2016.
  38. Nandi, G. C.* An Efficient Cu-Catalyzed Microwave-Assisted Synthesis of Diaryl Sulfones. Synthetic Communications 47, 319, 2017
  39. Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Wakchaure, P. B.; Chinthakindi, P.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Naicker, T.; Arvidsson, P. I. Pd-catalyzed C–N coupling of vinylbromides and sulfonimidamides: a facile synthesis of N-vinylsulfonimidamides. RSc Adv. 5, 62084–62090, 2015.
  40. Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Naicker, T.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Arvidsson, P. I. Cu(OAc)2-Catalysed Oxidative Dual C–H/N–H Activation of Terminal Alkynes and N-Deprotected Sulfonimidamides: An Easy Access to N-Alkynylated Sulfonimidamides. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2861–2867, 2015.
  41. Nandi, G. C.; Kota, S. R.; Govender, T.; Kruger, H. G.; Arvidsson, P. I. Cu(OAc)2 Promoted Chan-Lam-Evans C-N cross coupling reactions on the N-nitrogen and N’-nitrogen atoms of sulfonimidamides with aryl boronic acids. Tetrahedron, 70, 5428-5433, 2014.
  42. Nandi, G. C.; Bunge, S. D. Laali, K. K.* Selectfluor-mediated mild oxidative halogenation and thiocyanation of 1-aryl-allenes with TMSX (X = Cl, Br, I, NCS) and NH4SCN. Tetrahedron Lett, 55, 2401-2405, 2014.
  43. Nandi, G. C.; Borosky, G. L.; Kumar, G. G. K. S. N.; Laali, K. K.* Electrophilic Addition of Propargylic Cations to Allenes: Formation of Crowded Chloro- and Azido-Enynes by Trapping of the Resulting Allylic Cations with TMSX (X = Cl, N3): A Synthetic and Computational Study. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 5455-5463, 2013.
  44. Nandi, G. C.; Rathman, B. M.; Laali, K. K. Mild conversion of propargylic alcohols to α,β-unsaturated enones in ionic liquids (ILs); a new ‘metal free’ life for the Rupe rearrangement. Tetrahedron Lett. 54, 6258-6263, 2013.
  45. (Review Article) Nandi, G. C.; Chanda, T.; Singh, M. S.* β-Oxodithioesters: A New Frontier for Diverse Heterocyclic Architectures. R.Sc Adv. 3, 14183-14198, 2013.
  46. Nandi, G. C.; Laali, K. K. Schmidt Reaction in Ionic Liquids: Highly Efficient and Selective Conversion of Aromatic and Heteroaromatic Aldehydes to Nitriles with [BMIM(SO3H)][OTf] as Catalyst and [BMIM][PF6] as Solvent. Tetrahedron Lett. 54, 2177-2179, 2013.
  47. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* DABCO-Promoted three-component regioselective synthesis of functionalized chromen-5-ones and pyrano[3,2-c]chromen-5-ones via direct annulation of α-oxoketene-N,S-arylaminoacetals under solvent-free conditions Green Chem. 14, 447-455, 2012.
  48. Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.; Ila, H. Highly regioselective one-pot three component synthesis of 1-aryl-3,4-substituted/annulated-5-N-(cycloamino)/alkyl aminopyrazoles from β-oxodithioesters Eur. J. Org. Chem. 967-974, 2012.
  49. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S. One-pot two-component [3 + 2] cycloaddition/annulation protocol for the synthesis of highly functionalized thiophene derivatives. J. Org. Chem. 76, 8009–8014, 2011.
  50. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Silica-gel-catalyzed efficient synthesis of quinoxaline derivatives under solvent-free conditions. Synth. Commun. 41, 417-425, 2011.
  51. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* Biginelli and Hantzsch-type reactions leading to highly functionalized dihydropyrimidinone, thiocoumarin, and pyridopyrimidinone frameworks via ring annulation with β-oxodithioesters. J. Org. Chem. 75, 7785-7795, 2010.
  52. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.; First InCl3-catalyzed, three-component coupling of aldehydes, β-naphthol, and 6-amino-1,3-dimethyluracil to functionalized naphthopyranopyrimidines. Synlett. 1133-1137, 2010.
  53. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S. An efficient one-pot synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[a]xanthene-11-one and diazabenzo[a]anthracene-9,11-dione derivatives under solvent-free condition. Tetrahedron 65, 7129-7134, 2009.
  54. Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Atom-efficient and environment-friendly multicomponent synthesis of amidoalkyl naphthols catalyzed by P2O5. Tetrahedron Lett. 50, 7220-7222, 2009.
  55. Chinthakindi, P. K.; Nandi, G. C.; Govender, T; Kruger, H. G.; Naicker, T.; Arvidsson, P. I. An Efficient Protecting-Group-Free Synthesis of Vinylic Sulfoximines via Horner–Wadsworth–Emmons Reaction. Synlett 27, 1423-1427, 2016.
  56. Koley, S.; Chowdhury, S.; Chanda, T.; Ramulu, B. J.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Iron Promoted Domino Annulation of -Enolic dithioesters with Ninhydrin Under Solvent-Free Conditions: Chemoselective Direct Access to Indeno[1,2-b]thiophenes. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 5501-5508, 2014.
  57. Chowdhury, S.; Chanda, T.; Nandi, G. C.; Koley, S.; Pandey, S. K.; Singh, M. S.* Y(OTf)3 catalyzed substitution dependent oxidative C(sp3)–C(sp3) cleavage and regioselective dehydration of β-allyl-β-hydroxydithioesters: alternate route to α,β-unsaturated ketones and functionalized dienes. Tetrahedron 69, 8899-8903, 2013.
  58. Ramulu, B. J.; Chanda, T.; Chowdhury, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Organocatalyzed straightforward synthesis of highly fluorescent 3,5-disubstituted 2,6-dicyanoanilines via domino annulation of -enolicdithioesters with malononitrile. RSc Adv. 3, 5345-5349, 2013.
  59. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* Highly convergent one-pot four-component regioselective synthesis of 4H-benzo[f]chromenes via annulation of -oxodithioesters. Tetrahedron 68, 1247-1252, 2012.
  60. Chowdhury, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Samai, S.; Singh, M. S.* Regioselective synthesis of tetrahydrothiochromen-5-ones via a one-pot three-component solvent-free domino protocol. Org. Lett.13, 3762-3765, 2011.
  61. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Chowdhury, S.; Singh, M. S.* L-Proline catalyzed synthesis of densely functionalized pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines via three-component one-pot domino Knoevenagel aza-Diels–Alder reaction. Tetrahedron 67, 5935-5941, 2011.
  62. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, P.; Gupta, A.; Singh, M. S.* Microwave assisted synthesis, chemiluminescent and theoretical studies of bromoalkyl esters of acridine-9-carboxylic acid. Ind. J. Chem. 50B, 580-586, 2011.
  63. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, M. S.* An efficient and facile one-pot synthesis of propargylamines by three-component coupling of aldehydes, amines, and alkynes via C–H activation catalyzed by NiCl2. Tetrahedron Lett. 51, 5555-5558, 2010.
  64. Kumar, R.; Nandi, G. C.; Verma, R. K.; Singh, M. S.* A facile approach for the synthesis of 14-aryl- or alkyl-14H-dibenzo[a,j]xanthenes under solvent-free condition. Tetrahedron Lett., 51, 442-445, 2010.
  65. Singh, P; Tripathi, R; Verma, R. K.; Nandi, G. C.; Gupta, A; Singh, M. S.* Synthesis of New Benzosubstituted Dioxaphosphonines Containing Quinoxaline Subunit. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements 185, 2142–2151, 2010.
  66. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Kumar, R.; Singh, M. S.* Multicomponent one-pot solvent-free synthesis of functionalized unsymmetrical dihydro-1H-indeno[1,2-b]pyridines. Tetrahedron Lett. 50, 7096-7098, 2009.
  67. Samai, S.; Nandi, G. C.; Singh, P.; Singh, M. S.* L-Proline: an efficient catalyst for the one-pot synthesis of 2,4,5-trisubstituted and 1,2,4,5-tetrasubstituted imidazoles. Tetrahedron 65, 10155-10161, 2009.

Contact Address

Dr Ganesh Chandra Nandi,
Assistant Professor,
NIT-Tiruchirappalli-620015,
Tiruchirappalli - 620 015

Email : nandi@nitt.edu; / ganeshnandi@gmail.com
Mobile No: +91 7034458790
Phone: +91 431 2503635