“If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein


“What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.”
Isaac Newton

35. A Maji,† S. Chauhan,† O. Singh,† S. Kumari,† K. Ghosh Ni-Catalyzed Synthesis of Trisubstituted Hydrazones via Cascade Dehydrogenative Coupling of Alcohol The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 00, 0000 (2026).

34. S. Jeevanandham,† A Maji,† N. Kumari, B. S. Gu, J. No, H. C. Choi, D. Oh, K. An, A. Kumar, I. S. Lee Ligand–Substrate Self-Sorting in Silica-Encased Rh-Nanopetals as Model Catalyst for Hydroformylation of Arylalkenes Nano Letters, 25, 15970 (2025). Link


33. Y. R. Hong,† N. Kumari,† A Maji,† C. Kim, S. Jeevanandham, A. Kumar, B. S. Gu, M. G. Kim, Y. J. Lee, G. Kim, S. Choi, J. No, H. C. Choi, D. Lee, Y. Yun, I. S. Lee Turing-Type Catalytic 2D‑Metal Nanomesh Inside Silica-Bilayer for Multicomponent Reaction Controls Journal of the American Chemical Society, 147, 41023 (2025). Link

32. S Kumari, A Maji, R Chauhan, R. Saini, V. K. Chaudhary, U. P. Singh, K. Ghosh Sustainable Multicomponent Synthesis of Benzoxazoles from Alcohols and Aldehydes Catalyzed by Copper Catalysts Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 14, e00572 (2025). (Just Accepted) Link
Special Collection on International Conference on Fundamental and Advanced Research in Chemistry (FARC) 2024


31. A Maji,† S Kumari,† R Chauhan, O. Singh, K. Ghosh Synthesis of Pyrimidines and 1,3,5-Triazines via Cobalt-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Coupling in Air Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 14, e00578 (2025). (Just Accepted) Link
Special Collection on International Conference on Fundamental and Advanced Research in Chemistry (FARC) 2024


30. Y. R. Hong,† N. Kumari,† J. Kim,† A Maji, M. G. Kim, K. M. Jo, S. Y. Choi, J.H. Shim, I. S. Lee High-Density Catalytic Sites Grafting on 2D-Metal Oxides forAcceptorless Alcohol Dehydrogenation Anghew Chem Int. Ed, 64, e202423169 (2025). Link

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29. S. Jeevanandham,† A Maji,† A. Acharya,† N. Kumari, B. Su Gu, Y. Yoon, D. Lee, H. C. Choi, H. Woo Kim, Y. Yun, A. Kumar, I. S. Lee Ligand-Shell Cooperativity in Bilayer Silica 2 Sandwiched Mixed-Metals Nanocatalyst Design for 3 Absolute Selectivity Switch ACS Nano , 19, 6142–6151(2025). Link
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28. A Maji, O. Singh, K. Sharma, S. Kumari and K. Ghosh Well Defined Phosphine Free Ni-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation of Secondary Alcohols for the Synthesis of Ketones and Ketazines Chem. Asian J. , 19, e202400818 (2024). Link
Dedicated to Professor G. K. Lahiri on his 65th birthday.


27. A Maji, A. Yadav, S. Sharma, R. Saini, A. Singh, A. Mohanty, C. K Nandi and K. Ghosh One-pot synthesis of 1, 2-dihydro [1,2,4] triazinium salt by copper-assisted unprecedented cyclization reaction: Applications in DNA and protein interaction studies ChemPlusChem, 89, e202400219 (2024). Link


26. A. Sau, D. Mahapatra, A Maji, S. Dey, A . Roy and S. Kundu Methyl Formate, an Alternative Transfer Hydrogenating Agent for Chemoselective Reduction of N-Heteroarenes and Azoarenes Org. Lett., 26, 4486 (2024). Link


25. A Mandal, M Pradhan, A Maji, R Debnath and S Kundu Nanoparticles of Cobalt for the Reversible (De)Hydrogenation and Oxidative Dehydrogenation of N-Heterocycles under Mild Conditions ACS Appl. Nano Mater., 7, 10182 (2024). Link



24. S Kumari, A Maji, R Chauhan, V K Chaudhary, T Kush, M Joshi, A R Choudhury and K. Ghosh Dehydrogenative N-N coupling and facile synthesis of cobalt complexes supported by tetrazene based ligand: Synthesis of N-heterocycles via acceptorless dehydrogenation reaction. European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 27, e202400051 (2024). Link


23. A Singh, O Singh, A Maji, S, Singh, N, Singh, P K Maji and K Ghosh, Catalytic transfer hydrogenation of substituted nitro-aromatics through in-situ generated Co(0) nanoparticle from Co(II) complexes supported by pentadentate ligands. Molecular Catalysis, 555, 113835 (2024). Link

22. O Singh, A Singh, A Maji, R Chauhan, P Gupta, and K Ghosh, Crystal structure of phenoxyl radical complex relevant to metal-site of galactose oxidase enzyme: A facile one-pot synthesis, evidence for hydrogen atom transfer and DNA cleavage via self-activation. Dalton Transactions, 53, 986 (2024). Link


21. S Jeevanandham, A Maji, A Acharya, N Kumari, B S Gu, Y K Yoon, H C Choi, A Kumar and I S Lee, Electrochemical ultrathin metal-atomic layer deposition for silica microenvironment-assisted Cu-based catalysis. Advance Functional Material, 34, 2311752 (2024). Link
(Selected as front Cover)


20. S Gupta, S Dey, A Maji, D Panja A Sinha, A Sau, S Kundu, CuO NPs catalyzed selective valorization of vicinal glycols to α‑hydroxy carboxylic acids via dehydrogenation strategy. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 11, 17930–17940 (2023). Link


19. A Maji, S Gupta, D Panja S. Sutradhar, S Kundu, Hydrogenation of N-heterocycles by a well-defined phosphine-free nanganese catalyst using ammonia−borane. Organometallic, 2023, 42, 3385–3396 (2023). Link
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18. A Singh, B Boro, A Maji, O Singh, S Singh, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Design and synthesis of dinuclear cobalt(II) complexes derived from strong π-acidic ligands: crystal structure and studies on the oxidation of sp3 C–H bonds. New Journal of Chemistry, 47, 8951-8959 (2023). Link


17. R Saini, C Rao, A Maji, PM Mishra, A Yadav, CK Nandi, K Ghosh, Design and synthesis of novel palladium cyclometallate-based fluorescent probe: Studies on interaction with cell membrane by confocal and fluorescence lifetime imaging. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, 237, 112019 (2022). Link


16. S Gupta, A Maji, D Panja, M Halder, S Kundu, CuO NPs catalyzed synthesis of quinolines, pyridines, and pyrroles via dehydrogenative coupling strategy. Journal of Catalysis, 413, 1017 (2022). Link



15. A Maji, S Gupta, M Maji, S Kundu, Well-defined phosphine-free manganese (II)-complex-catalyzed synthesis of quinolines, pyrroles, and pyridines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 87, 8351 (2022). Link
14. O Singh, A Maji, A Singh, N Singh, K Ghosh, A new family of complexes derived from bis (imino) pyridine‐type ligands: Crystal structures and bio‐molecular interaction studies. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 35, e6177 (2021). Link


13. A Maji, S Rathi, A Singh, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Mononuclear iron(III) complexes derived from tridentate ligands containing non-innocent phenolato donors: Self-activated nuclease, protease, and phenoxazinone synthase activity studies. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 35, e6185 (2021). Link


12. A Singh, A Maji, A Mohanty, K Ghosh, Design and synthesis of base-metal nickel (II) based catalysts: Studies on nearly selective formation of 1-butene from ethylene. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, 934, 121631 (2021). Link


11. A Singh, A Maji, M Joshi, AR Choudhury, K Ghosh, Designed pincer ligand supported Co(II)-based catalysts for dehydrogenative activation of alcohols: Studies on N-alkylation of amines, α-alkylation of ketones and synthesis of quinolines. Dalton Transactions, 50, 8567 (2021). Link


10. P R Singh, A Maji, O Singh, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Transfer hydrogenation via generation of hydride intermediate and base-free alcohol oxidation activity studies on designed ruthenium complexes derived from NNN pincer type ligands. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 34, e5615 (2020). Link


9. A Maji, A Singh, N Singh, K Ghosh, Efficient organoruthenium catalysts for α-alkylation of ketones and amide with alcohols: synthesis of quinolines via hydrogen borrowing strategy and their mechanistic studies. ChemCatChem, 12, 3108 (2020). Link


8. A Maji, O Singh, S Singh, A Mohanty, PK Maji, K Ghosh, Palladium-based catalysts supported by unsymmetrical XYC–1 type pincer ligands: C5 arylation of imidazoles and synthesis of octinoxate utilizing the Mizoroki–Heck reaction. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 17, 1596 (2020). Selected as Hot Topic: C-C Coupling Pincer Chemistry and Catalysis Link


7. A Singh, A Maji, A Mohanty, K Ghosh, Copper-based catalysts derived from salen-type ligands: synthesis of 5-substituted-1H-tetrazoles via [3+2] cycloaddition and propargylamines via A3-coupling reactions. New Journal of Chemistry, 44, 18399 (2020). Link
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6. A Maji, O Singh, S Rathi, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Rational design of sterically hindered and unsymmetrical NpyNimOph pincer-type ligands and their palladium(II) complexes: catalytic applications in Suzuki–Miyaura reaction and allylation of aldehydes. ChemistrySelect, 4, 7246 (2019). Link
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5. O Singh, P Gupta, A Singh, A Maji, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol to benzaldehyde, 1-phenylethanol to acetophenone and fluorene to fluorenol catalysed by iron (II) complexes supported by pincer-type ligands: Studies on rapid degradation of organic dyes. Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 33, e4825 (2019) Link


4. S. Rathi, A Maji, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Manganese (II) complexes of tridentate ligands having NNN donors: Structure, DFT calculations, superoxide dismutase, DNA interaction, nuclease and protease activity studies. Inorganica Chimica Acta, 486, 261 (2019). Link


3. A Maji, A Singh, A Mohanty, PK Maji, K Ghosh, Ferrocenyl palladacycles derived from unsymmetrical pincer-type ligands: evidence of Pd(0) nanoparticle generation during the Suzuki–Miyaura reaction and applications in the direct arylation of thiazoles and isoxazoles. Dalton Transactions, 48, 17083 (2019). Link


2. O Singh, A Maji, UP Singh, K Ghosh, Water-soluble copper complex derived from ligand TETATA having NNN ddonors: studies on rapid degradation of organic dyes, catecholase and phenoxazinone synthase activities. ChemistrySelect, 3, 2968 (2018). Link


1. S Rathi, A Maji, O Singh, K Ghosh, Mononuclear iron complexes derived from tridentate ligands: Synthesis, characterization, DFT calculations and DNA interaction studies. Journal Indian Chemical Society, 92, 1913 (2015). Link
Dedicated tp Professor Animesh Chakravorty on the occasion of his 80th birth anniversary