Dr. Debabrata Maiti

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Chemistry

    Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

    Powai, Mumbai 400076

    

    Ph:   022-2576 7155     

    Fax: 022 -2576 7152

    Email: dmaiti[at]chem.iitb.ac.in

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Academic Background

Ph.D.; Johns Hopkins University, USA (2003-2008).

M.Sc.; IIT Bombay (2001-2003)


Professional Experience

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008-2010)

Assistant Professor, IIT Bombay (December-2010- )

 

Positions available for motivated Post Doctoral candidates.



Research Interests

 

  • Development of Transition-Metal Mediated Reactions
  • Bioinspired Catalysis

Representative Publications:

       
  • Maiti, Debabrata; Fors, Brett P.; Henderson, Jaclyn L.; Nakamura, Yoshinori; Buchwald, Stephen L.; Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Functionalized Primary and Secondary Amines with Aryl and Heteroaryl Halides: Two Ligands Suffice In Most Cases Chem. Sci. 2011, 2, 57

  • Woertink, Julia S; Tian, Li; Maiti, Debabrata; Lucas, Heather R.; Himes, Richard A.; Karlin, Kenneth D.; Neese, Frank; Wartele, Christian; Holthausen, Max C.; Bill, Eckhard; Sundermeyer, Jarg; Schindler, Siegfried; Spectroscopic and Computational Studies of an End-on Bound Superoxo-Cu(II) Complex: Geometric and Electronic Factors That Determine the Ground State Inorg. Chem., 2010, 49, 9450.

  • Maiti, Debabrata and Buchwald, Stephen L. Cu-Catalyzed Arylation of Phenols: Synthesis of Sterically Hindered and Heteroaryl Diaryl Ethers J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 1791.

  • Maiti, Debabrata and Buchwald, Stephen L. Orthogonal Cu- and Pd-Based Catalyst Systems for the O- and N-Arylation of Aminophenols J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2009, 131, 17423.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Woertink, Julia S.; Ghiladi, Reza A.; Solomon, Edward I. and Karlin, Kenneth D. Molecular Oxygen and Sulfur Reactivity of a Cyclotriveratrylene Derived Trinuclear Copper (I) Complex Inorg. Chem., 2009, 48, 8342.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Itoh, Shinobu; Karlin, Kenneth D. Suggestion of an Organometallic Intermediate in an Intramolecular Dechlorination Reaction Involving Copper(I) and a ArCH2Cl Moiety J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 5644

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Lee, Dong-Heon; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Pau, M. Monita; Solomon, Edward I.; Gaoutchenova, Katya; Sundermeyer, Jarg; Karlin, Kenneth D. Reaction of a Copper-Dioxygen Complex with Nitrogen Monoxide ((O) Leads to a Copper(II)-Peroxynitrite Species J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2008, 130, 6700.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Lee, Dong-Heon; Gaoutchenova, Katya; Wartele, Christian; Holthausen, Max C.; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Sundermeyer, Jarg; Schindler, Siegfried; Karlin, Kenneth D. Copper(II)-Superoxo Complex Reactions Lead to C-H and O-H Substrate Oxygenations; Modeling Copper-Monooxygenase C-H Hydroxylation Angew. Chem., Int. Ed.,(VIP) 2008, 47, 82.

  • Maiti Debabrata; Amy A. Narducci; Karlin, Kenneth D. Copper-Hydroperoxo-Mediated N-Debenzylation Chemistry Mimicking Aspects of Copper Monooxygenases Inorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 8736.

  • Maiti Debabrata; Woertink, Julia S.; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Solomon, Edward I.; Karlin, Kenneth D. Copper Dioxygen Adducts: Formation of bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) versus (m-1,2)peroxodicopper(II) Complexes with Small Changes in One Pyridyl-Ligand SubstituentInorg. Chem., 2008, 47, 3787

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Woertink, Julia S.; Vance, Michael A.; Milligan, Ashley E.; Solomon, Edward I.; Karlin, Kenneth D. Copper(I)/S8 Reversible Reactions Leading to an End-on Bound Dicopper(II) Disulfide Complex: Nucleophilic Reactivity and Analogies to Copper-Dioxygen Chemistry J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 8882.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Lucas, Heather R.; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Karlin, Kenneth D. Aryl Hydroxylation from a Mononuclear Copper-Hydroperoxo Species J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 6998.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Sarjeant, Amy A. Narducci; Karlin, Kenneth D. Copper(II)-Hydroperoxo Complex Induced Oxidative N-Dealkylation Chemistry J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007,129, 6720.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Fry, H. Christopher; Woertink, Julia S.; Vance, Michael A.; Solomon, Edward I.; Karlin, Kenneth D. A 1:1 Copper-Dioxygen Adduct is an End-on Bound Superoxo Copper(II) Complex which Undergoes Oxygenation Reactions with Phenols J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2007, 129, 264.

  • Helton, Matthew E.; Maiti, Debabrata; Zakharov, Lev N.; Rheingold, Arnold L.; Porco, John A., Jr.; Karlin, Kenneth D. A mu - 2: 2-Disulfide Dicopper(II) Complex from Reaction of S8 with a Copper(I) Precursor: Reactivity of the Bound Disulfur Moiety Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2006, 45, 1138.

  • Maiti, Debabrata; Paul, Himadri; Chanda, Nripen; Chakraborty, Soma; Mondal, Biplab; Puranik, Vedavati G.; Lahiri, Goutam Kumar. Synthesis, Structure, Spectral and Electron-Transfer Properties of Octahedral-[CoIII(L)2]+/[ZnII(L)2] and Square Planar-[CuII(L){OC(=O)CH3}] Complexes Incorporating Anionic form of Tridentate Bis(8-quinolinyl)amine [N1C9H6-N2-C9H6N3, L-] Ligand Polyhedron, 2004, 23, 831.