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Dr. Subhash Banerjee

Assistant Professor

Department of Chemistry

Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur (C.G.)

Email: ********@*****.***

Phone: 882-***-**** (Mobile)

Dr. Banerjee has joined in the Department of Chemistry at Guru Ghasidas University on August,

2011. He was awarded doctoral research fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial

Research (CSIR), India, on the basis of a nationally competitive examination (NET) in 2003. Dr.

Banerjee has completed Ph.D. in Synthetic Organic Chemistry from Indian Association for the

Cultivation o f Science, Jadavpur, India. After that he received a post-doctoral fellowship from

the NanoScience Technology Center at the University of Central Florida, USA. During this time,

he was involved in several NSF funded research projects and he designed and developed

quantum dot based nano -probes for nano-bio imaging and sensing. Then, he moved to the

University of South Dakota, USA for his second post-doctoral research and he was mainly

involved in the catalysis by nano -materials. Dr. Banerjee has published several papers in peer -

reviewed international journals and also presented research work s in many international

symposiums. He has also been invited to review papers from several international journals such

as Journal of Organic Chemistry, Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of Molecular Catalysis: A, Letters

in Organic Chemistry, Chemical Papers etc. He was a member of American Chemical Society.

Dr. Banerjee has also been selected in Who s who in America in 2011.

Experience

Assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at Guru Ghasidas University,

Bilaspur, C. G., India, August 2011- Present.

Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Chemistry, the University of South Dakota,

United States of America, June 2009-June 2011.

Post-doctoral research associate, NanoScience Technology Center, the University of

Central Florida, United States of America, July 2007-May 2009.

Education

Ph.D., Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, India, 2007.

M.Sc. (1st Class), The University o f Burdwan, West Bengal, India, 2002.

B.Sc. (1st Class), Suri Vidyasagae College, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal,

India, 2000.

Research I nterests

Design and development of green catalysts and reagents for organic transformations.

Application of nanoparticles in organic synthesis; Catalysis by unsupported as well as

solid supported metal & metal oxide nanoparticles.

Heterogeneous catalysis: Catalysis by MCM-41, MCM-48 supported precious transition

metal salts, or complexes.

Fabrication of inexpensive visible light activated photo-catalysts for clean hydrogen

production by photo -splitting of water.

Research Publications

1. Synthesis of Substituted Acetylenes, Aryl Alkyl Ethers, 2-Alkene-4-Ynoates, and Nitriles

Using Heterogeneous Mesoporous Pd-MCM-48 as Reusable Catalyst S. Banerjee,* V.

Balasanthiran, H. Khatri, R. Koodali and G. Sereda Tetrahedron 2011, 67, 5717-5724.

2. A Green One-Pot Multicomponent Synthesis of 4H-Pyrans and Polysubstituted Aniline

Derivatives of Biological, Pharmacological, and Optical Applications Using Silica

Nanoparticles as Reusable Catalyst S. Banerjee,* A. Horn, H. Khatri and G. Sereda

Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1878-1881.

3. Semiconductor CdS:Mn/ZnS Quantum Dots for Sensing Applications S. Banerjee and

S. Santra Proc. SPIE. 2010, 7674,767403.

4. Pd-MCM-48: A Novel and Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Selective

Hydrogenations and Coupling Reactions S. Banerjee,* V. Balasanthiran, R. Koodali

and G. Sereda Org. Biomol. Chem. 2010, 8, 4316-4321.

5. Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Grown on Carboxy-Functionalized Graphite: An Efficient

Reusable Catalyst for Alkylation of Arenes V. Rajpara, S. Banerjee* and G. Sereda

Synthesis 2010, 2835-2840.

(This paper has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACTS for its important

insights: Alkylation of Arenes with Fe3O4 Nanoparticles on Oxidized Graphite, 2010, 11,

1320).

6. Silica Nanoparticles as Reusable Catalyst: A Straight-Forward Route For The Synthesis

of Thioethers, Thioesters, Vinyl Thioethers and Thio-Michael Adducts Under Neutral

Reaction Conditions S. Banerjee,* J. Das, R. Alverez and S. Santra New. J. Chem.

2010, 34,302-306.

7. One-Step, Three-Component Synthesis of Highly Substituted Pyridines Using Silica

Nanoparticle as Reusable Catalyst S. Banerjee* and G. Sereda Tetrahedron Lett.

2009, 50, 6959-6962.

(This paper has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACTS for its important

insights: Three Component Synthesis of Substituted Pyridines with Silica Nanopartilces,

2010, 1, 0119).

8. Remarkable Catalytic Activity of Silica Nanoparticle in the Michael Addition of Active

Methylene Compounds to Conjugated Alkenes S. Banerjee* and S. Santra

Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 2037-2040.

(This paper has been selected by the Editorial Board of SYNFACTS for its important

insights: Novel Catalytic Activity of Silica Nanoparticles in a One Step Bis -Michael

Addition SYNFACTS 2009, 7, 814.)

9. Native Silica Nanoparticle Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Addition of Thiols to

Unactivated Alkenes and Alkynes: A New Route to Linear and Vinyl Thioethers S.

Banerjee, J. Das and S. Santra Tetrahedron Lett. 2009, 50, 124-127.

10. Quantum Dots Based ON/OFF Probe for Detection of Glutathione S. Banerjee, S. Kar,

M. J. Pereze and S. Santra J. Phys. Chem. C. 2009, 113, 9659 9663.

11. A Simple Strategy for Qdot Assisted Selective Detection of Cd 2+ S. Banerjee, S. Kar

and S. Santra Chem. Commun. 2008, 3037-3039.

12. A Simple, Efficient and Green Protocol for the One-Pot Synthesis of Tetrahydrobenzo[b]

Pyran Derivatives using a Task-Specific Ionic liquid, [bmIm]OH B. C. Ranu and S.

Banerjee Indian J. Chem. Soc. 2008, 47, 1108-1112.

13. Ionic liquid Promoted Interrupted Feist -Benary Reaction with High Diastereoselectivity

B. C. Ranu, L. K. Adak and S. Banerjee, Tetrahedron Lett. 2008, 49, 4613-4617.

14. Catalysis by Ionic Liquids: Significant Rate Acceleration with the Use of [pmIm]Br in

the Three-Component Synthesis of Dithiocarbamates B. C. Ranu, A. Saha and S.

Banerjee, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2008, 519-523.

15. Regioselective Cross-Coupling of Allylindium Reagents with Activated Benzyl bromides

A Simple and Efficient Procedure for the Synthesis of Terminal Alkenes B. C. Ranu,

S. Banerjee and L. K. Adak, Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 7374-7379.

16. Ionic Liquid Promoted Regio - and Stereo-selective Thiolysis of Epoxides - A Simple and

Green Approach to -Hydroxy- and -Keto-Sulfides B. C. Ranu, T. Mandal, S.

Banerjee, and S. S. Dey, Aust. J. Chem. 2007, 60, 278-283.

17. Efficient Stereo and Regioselect ive Cleavage of Epoxides and Aziridines Using an Ionic

Liquid as Reagent and Reaction Medium B. C. Ranu, L. K. Adak and S. Banerjee,

Can. J. Chem. 2007, 85, 366-371.

18. Halogenation of Carbonyl Compounds by an Ionic Liquid, [AcMIm]X, and Ceric

Ammonium Nitrate (CAN) B. C. Ranu, L. K. Adak and S. Banerjee, Aust. J. Chem.

2007, 60, 358-362.

19. Ionic Liquid - Promoted Stereoselective Synthesis of ( Z)-Vinyl Bromides by [bmIm]OH

under Organic Solvent - Free Conditions B. C. Ranu, S. Banerjee and J. Gupta, Synth.

Commun. 2007, 37, 2869-2976.

20. Significant rate Acceleration of the Aza-Michael Reaction in Water B. C. Ranu and S.

Banerjee, Tetrahedron Lett. 2007, 48, 141-143.

21. Ionic Liquid as Catalyst and Solvent. The Remarkable Effect of a Basic Ionic Liquid,

[bmIm]OH on Michael Addition and Alkylation of Active Methylene compounds B. C.

Ranu, S. Banerjee and R. Jana, Tetrahedron 2006, 63, 776-782.

22. Homocoupling of Terminal Alkynes to 1,4-Disubstituted 1,3-Diynes Promoted by

Copper(I) Iodide and a Task Specific Ionic Liquid, [bmIm]OH A Green Approch B.

C. Ranu and S. Banerjee, Lett. Org. Chem. 2006, 3, 607-609.

23. Indium Triflate Catalyzed Rearrange ment of Aryl-substituted Cyclopropyl Carbinols to 1,

4-Disubstituted 1, 3-Butadienes B. C. Ranu and S. Banerjee, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006,

3012-3015.

24. Catalysis by Ionic Liquid. A Novel, Simple and Green Protocol for the Synthesis of

Substituted Conjugated Butadienes by Cyclopropyl Carbinyl Rearrangement by

[pmIm]Br under Organic Solvent Free Condition B. C. Ranu, S. Banerjee and A. Das,

Tetrahedron Lett. 2006, 47, 881-884.

25. Indium (I) Iodide-Promoted Cleavage of Diphenyl Diselenide and Disulfide and

Subsequent Palladium (0)-Catalyzed Condensation with Vinylic Bromides. A Simple

One-Pot Synthesis of Vinylic Selenides and Sulfides B. C. Ranu, K. C. Chattopadhaya

and S. Banerjee, J. Org. Chem. 2006, 71, 423-425.

26. Ionic Liquid as Catalyst and Reaction Medium. The Dramatic Influence of a Task

Specific Ionic Liquid [bmIm]OH in Michael Addition of Active Methylene Compounds

to Conjugated Ketones, Carboxylic Esters and Nitriles B. C. Ranu, and S. Banerjee,

Org. Lett. 2005, 7, 3049-3052.

27. Ionic Liquid as Reagent. A Green Procedure for the Regioselective Conversion of

Epoxides to vicinal-Halohydrins using [AcMIm]X under Catalyst - and Solvent-Free

Conditions B. C. Ranu and S. Banerjee, J. Org. Chem. 2005, 70, 4517- 4520.

28. Selective Reductive Cleavage of 2,3-Epoxybromides by the InCl3-NaBH4 Reagent

System B. C. Ranu, S. Banerjee and A. Das, Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 8579-8581.

International Conferences/Seminars/Symposiums

1. Controlled Functionalization of Quantum Dots and Titania Nanorods with Trityl Resin as

a Solid Support S. Banerjee, V. Rajpara, G. Sereda, H. Rohwer, J. D., Hoefelmeyer

Poster presentation at the SD-EPSCoR RII Track 1 PANS AAAS Review/All

Investigator Meeting and the Diversity Summit, June 1-3, 2011, Chamberlin, South

Dakota, USA

2. Controlled Functionalization of Quantum Dots and Titania Nanorods with Trityl Resin as

a Solid Support S. Banerjee, V. Rajpara, G. Sereda, H. Rohwer, J. D., Hoefelmeyer

Poster presentation at the 241th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 27-31,

2011, Anaheim, California, USA.

3. Pd-MCM-48: An Efficient and Versatile Heterogeneous Catalyst for Chemo - and

Regioselective Hydrogenation and Coupling Reactions S. Banerjee, V. Balasanthiran,

R. Koodali and G. Sereda Oral presentation at the 241th ACS National Meeting &

Exposition, March 27-31, 2011, Anaheim, California, USA.

4. Catalysis by Loose Silica and Graphite-Supported Iron-oxide NPs A. Horn, S.

Banerjee, T. Clark, V. Rajpara and G. Sereda, poster presentation at NPURC Summer

Symposium August 6, 2010, Ponka, NE, USA.

5. Catalysis by SiO2 Nanoparticles: An Efficient and Reusable Catalyst for MCR Leading to

Tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyran and Anilines Derivatives S. Banerjee, A. Horn and G.

Sereda, the annual NSF EPSCoR RII All Investigator Meeting, June 13-15, 2010,

Chamberlin, South Dakota, USA.

6. Semiconductor CdS:Mn/ZnS Quantum Dots for Sensing Applications S. Banerjee and

S. Santra Smart Biomedical and Physiological Sensor Technologies VII, Thursday

April 8, 2010, Orlando, Florida, USA.

7. Application of Nanomaterials S. Banerjee Oral Presentation at the Workshop in

Nanochemistry at the University of South Dakota, June 11, 2010, Vermillion, USA

(Invited talk).

8. Catalysis of Ionic Organic Reactions by Oxide Nanoparticles: Effect of The Graphite

Support on Their Catalytic Activity S. Banerjee, V. Rajpara and G. Sereda, Poster

presentation at the 239th ACS National Meeting & Exposition, March 21-25, 2010, San

Francisco, California, USA.

9. Catalytic Activity of Loose and Graphite-Supported Oxide Nanoparticles towards Ionic

Organic Reactions S. Banerjee and G. Sereda, Poster presentation at 5th Annual

Minnesota Nanotechnology Conference, November 17-18, 2009, Minnesota,

Minneapolis, USA.

10. Limited Functionalization of Quantum Dots V. Rajpara, S. Banerjee and G. Sereda,

Poster presentation at 5th Annual Minnesota Nanotechnology Conference, November

17-18, 2009, Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.

11. Iron Oxide Nanoparticles Deposited on Graphite as a Catalyst for Friedel Crafts

Alkylation V. Rajpara, S. Banerjee and G. Sereda, South Dakota/Wyoming EPSCoR

State Conference, September 23-24, 2009, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, USA.

12. Remarkable catalytic activity of Free-Silica Nanoparticles in Organic Transformations -

S. Banerjee and S. Santra, Oral Presentation at the 85th annual Florida Annual

Meeting and Exposition (FAME), May 14-16, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA.

13. Native Silica Nanoparticles in Organic Transformations - J. Das, S. Banerjee and S.

Santra, Oral Presentation at the 85th annual Florida Annual Meeting and Exposition

(FAME), May 14-16, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA.

14. Multimodal Quantum Dot Based Probes for Non-Invasive Bio Imaging- S. Banerjee and

S. Santra, Oral Presentation at the 2nd Annual Young Researchers Forum, October

2007, Gainesville, Florida, USA.

National Symposiums

15. Ionic Liquid as Catalyst and Reaction Media: Remarkable Catalytic Activity of

[bmIm]OH in Michael Addition and Alkylation of Active Methylene Compounds S.

Banerjee, R. Jana and B. C. Ranu, Poster presentation at 8th CRSI National

Symposium in Chemistry, February 3-5, 2006, IIT Bombay, India.

Awards and Honors

Awarded National Scholarship from Government of India, 1995

Awarded doctoral research fellowship from Council of Scientific and Industrial Research

(CSIR), India, on the basis of a nationally competitive examination (NET), 2003

Junior Research Fellowship, IACS, Kolkata, September 2003 August 2005

Senior Research Fellowship, IACS, Kolkata, September 2005 June 2007

Post Doctoral Fellowship, NanoScience Technology Center, The University of Central

Florida, USA, July 2007 June 2009

Post Doctoral Fellowship, Department of Chemistry, The University of South Dakota,

USA, June 2009 June 2011

Selected Who s who in America, 2011

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