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22344
World Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
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Overview

Debabrata Maiti is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their primary field of study is Chemistry, with a focus on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. The scientist has also contributed to works in Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science.

Their research prominently features catalytic processes and functionalization methods, specifically in the catalytic C-H functionalization methods, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, and synthesis and catalytic reactions. Other recurring topics in their work include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, radical photochemical reactions, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Debabrata Maiti's recent papers include:

  • Toolbox for Distal C-H Bond Functionalizations in Organic Molecules, 2021, Chemical Reviews
  • Arene diversification through distal C(sp 2)−H functionalization, 2021, Science
  • Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal-iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • Transition Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp2)-H Bond Functionalization, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C-H activation, 2021, Chemical Science

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers in the field. Their frequent co-authors include Srimanta Guin, Trisha Bhattacharya, Argha Saha, Soumya Kumar Sinha, and Goutam Kumar Lahiri.

Debabrata Maiti has published extensively across several notable scientific journals, with a strong presence in:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Toolbox for Distal C-H Bond Functionalizations in Organic Molecules.

    Soumya Kumar Sinha;Srimanta Guin;Sudip Maiti;Jyoti Prasad Biswas

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Functionalized Primary and Secondary Amines with Aryl and Heteroaryl Halides: Two Ligands Suffice in Most Cases

    Debabrata Maiti;Brett P. Fors;Jaclyn L. Henderson;Yoshinori Nakamura

  • Decarboxylation as the Key Step in C−C Bond‐Forming Reactions

    Tuhin Patra;Debabrata Maiti

  • Arene diversification through distal C(sp2)-H functionalization.

    Uttam Dutta;Sudip Maiti;Trisha Bhattacharya;Debabrata Maiti

  • Remote para-C-H Functionalization of Arenes by a D-Shaped Biphenyl Template-Based Assembly.

    Sukdev Bag;Tuhin Patra;Atanu Modak;Arghya Deb

  • Accessing Remote meta- and para-C(sp 2 )-H Bonds with Covalently Attached Directing Groups.

    Aniruddha Dey;Soumya Kumar Sinha;Tapas Kumar Achar;Debabrata Maiti

  • Organic synthesis with the most abundant transition metal–iron: from rust to multitasking catalysts

    Sujoy Rana;Jyoti Prasad Biswas;Sabarni Paul;Aniruddha Paik

  • Reactions of a copper(II) superoxo complex lead to C-H and O-H substrate oxygenation: modeling copper-monooxygenase C-H hydroxylation.

    Debabrata Maiti;Dong-Heon Lee;Dong-Heon Lee;Katya Gaoutchenova;Christian Würtele

  • Oxidative Trifluoromethylation of Unactivated Olefins: An Efficient and Practical Synthesis of α‐Trifluoromethyl‐Substituted Ketones

    Arghya Deb;Srimanta Manna;Atanu Modak;Tuhin Patra

  • C-H deuteration of organic compounds and potential drug candidates.

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  • Transition Metal Catalyzed Enantioselective C(sp2)–H Bond Functionalization

    Tapas Kumar Achar;Sudip Maiti;Sadhan Jana;Debabrata Maiti

  • Efficient and Stereoselective Nitration of Mono- and Disubstituted Olefins with AgNO2 and TEMPO

    Soham Maity;Srimanta Manna;Sujoy Rana;Togati Naveen

  • Palladium-catalyzed aryl C-H olefination with unactivated, aliphatic alkenes.

    Arghya Deb;Sukdev Bag;Rajesh Kancherla;Debabrata Maiti

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Synthesis of Benzofurans and Coumarins from Phenols and Olefins†

    Upendra Sharma;Togati Naveen;Arun Maji;Srimanta Manna

  • Orthogonal Cu- and Pd-Based Catalyst Systems for the O-and N-Arylation of Aminophenols

    Debabrata Maiti;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C-H activation.

    Trisha Bhattacharya;Animesh Ghosh;Debabrata Maiti;Debabrata Maiti

  • Palladium(II)-Catalyzed meta-C-H Olefination: Constructing Multisubstituted Arenes through Homo-Diolefination and Sequential Hetero-Diolefination.

    Unknown

  • Cu-Catalyzed Arylation of Phenols: Synthesis of Sterically Hindered and Heteroaryl Diaryl Ethers

    Debabrata Maiti;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Stereoselective Nitration of Olefins with tBuONO and TEMPO: Direct Access to Nitroolefins under Metal-free Conditions

    Soham Maity;Togati Naveen;Upendra Sharma;Debabrata Maiti

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Directed para C−H Functionalization of Phenols

    Tuhin Patra;Sukdev Bag;Rajesh Kancherla;Anirban Mondal

  • Meta-Selective Arene C–H Bond Olefination of Arylacetic Acid Using a Nitrile-Based Directing Group

    Milan Bera;Atanu Modak;Tuhin Patra;Arun Maji

  • A 1:1 copper-dioxygen adduct is an end-on bound superoxo copper(II) complex which undergoes oxygenation reactions with phenols.

    Debabrata Maiti;H. Christopher Fry;Julia S. Woertink;Michael A. Vance

  • A general and efficient aldehyde decarbonylation reaction by using a palladium catalyst

    Atanu Modak;Arghya Deb;Tuhin Patra;Sujoy Rana

Frequent Co-Authors

Goutam Kumar Lahiri
Goutam Kumar Lahiri Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Kenneth D. Karlin
Kenneth D. Karlin Johns Hopkins University
Giuseppe Zanoni
Giuseppe Zanoni University of Pavia
Amy A. Sarjeant
Amy A. Sarjeant Bristol Myers Squibb
Raghavan B. Sunoj
Raghavan B. Sunoj Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Robert S. Paton
Robert S. Paton Colorado State University
Shaikh M. Mobin
Shaikh M. Mobin Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Jörg Sundermeyer
Jörg Sundermeyer Philipp University of Marburg

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