PUBLICATIONS
BOOK AND CHAPTERS
Surajit Haldar, Sumana Mandal, and Chandan K. Jana, C–H Arylation of Saturated N-Heterocycles, in Handbook of C–H Functionalization, WILEY-VCH GmbH, DOI: 10.1002/9783527834242.chf0105.
A. Srivastava and Chandan K. Jana (Eds.): Heterocycles via Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling: synthesis and functionalization, Springer, ISBN 978-981-13-9143-9
RESEARCH PAPER
Metal-free stereoselective C(sp3 )–H indolation of N-heterocycles to potent antimicrobial non-canonical tryp–pro hybrids
Subhajit Saha, Soumya Ranjan Bag, Abdul Akhir, Deepanshi Saxena, Rahul Maitra, Sidharth Chopra and Chandan K. Jana
Green Chem., 2026, 28, 365-374. Article Link
First Published On 4th November 2025
One-pot Modular Synthesis of Hydroquinolines, Hydrofluorenones, and Aryl Fluorenones
Nandini Ray, Santanu Ghosh, Kaushik Soni, Kalishankar Bhattacharyya, Chandan K Jana
Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, e02912. Article Link
Total Syntheses of Avapyran and Dysiquinol D through a Stereoconvergent Fusion of Dihydrobenzopyran
Partha Pratim Nath and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Lett. 2025, 27, 29, 7727–7732. Article Link
Nitroso-azomethine(ene) reaction enabled annulations of nitrosoarenes, azomethines and alkenes
Anisha Purkait, Surya Veer Singh Pal, Kaushik Soni, Kalishankar Bhattacharyya and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 8541–8544. Article Link
Iminium and azonium-activated metal and oxidant-free C–H functionalization of aliphatic amines
Nandini Ray and Chandan K Jana
Chem. Commun., 2023, 59, 8504–8519. Article Link
Ring Opening of Pyrrolinium Ions Enabled Regioselective Synthesis of 4-Alkyl N-Arylpyrazoles
Soumita Dwari, Partha Pratim Nath and Chandan K. Jana
J. Org. Chem. 2022, 87, 11947−11957. Article Link
Proline selective labeling via on-site construction of naphthoxazole (NapOx)
Subhra Kanti Roy, Anisha Purkait, Rajib Shome, Saurav Das, Debapratim Das, Siddhartha Sankar Ghosh, and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 5909-5912. Article Link
Metal-free C–H functionalization of pyrrolidine to pyrrolinium-based room temperature ionic liquid crystals
Sumana Mandal, Ravindra Kumar Gupta, Suraj Kumar Pathak, DS Shankar Rao, S Krishna Prasad, Achalkumar Ammathnadu Sudhakar, Chandan K. Jana
New J. Chem., 2021, 45, 8064-8071. Article Link
Computational Investigation of Multifaceted Cationic Rearrangement and Stereo-and Regioselectivity in the Formation of Dysideanone’s Analogues
Sriman De, Eti Mahal, Md Ashraful Haque, Chandan K. Jana, Debasis Koley
J. Org. Chem. 2021, 86, 1133–1140. Article link
Environmentally benign decarboxylative N-, O-, and S-acetylations and acylations
Santanu Ghosh, Anisha Purkait, and Chandan K. Jana
Green Chem., 2020, 22, 8721–8727. Article link
Lewis Acid Catalyzed Reactivity Switch: Pseudo Three-Component Annulation of Nitrosoarenes and (Epoxy)styrenes
Anisha Purkait, Subhajit Saha, Santanu Ghosh and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 15032-15035. Article link
Diastereoselective and Reversed Regioselective Annulations of N-Alkyl Anilines to Julolidines and Lilolidines
Sumana Mandal, Subhajit Saha and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Lett., 2020, 22, 12, 4883–4887. Article link
Acid mediated coupling of aliphatic amines and nitrosoarenes to indoles
Subhra Kanti Roy, Anisha Purkait, SK Md Tarik Aziz and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun. 2020, 56, 3167-3170. Article link
The work is highlighted in Synfacts 2020, 16, 1152
Metal Free Biomimetic Deaminative Direct C-C Coupling of Unprotected Primary Amines with Active Methylene Compounds
Santanu Ghosh and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 17, 10153-10157. Article link
Rapid Access to Cinnamamides and Piper Amides via Three Component Coupling of Arylaldehyde, Amines, and Meldrum’s Acid
Santanu Ghosh and Chandan K. Jana
Green Chem., 2019, 21, 5803-5807. Article link
N-aminations of Benzylamines and Alicyclic Amines with Nitro-soarenes to Hydrazone and Hydrazides
Anisha Purkait and Chandan K. Jana
Synthesis, 2019, 51, 2687-2696. Article link
An invited article for the special issue “Amination Reactions in Organic Synthesis“
Regio- and Enantioselective (Het)arylation of β-Alkenyl Pyrroline to α-Aryl-β-alkenyl Pyrrolidines
Soumita Dwari and Chandan K. Jana
ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 2445–2454. Article link
An invited article
Direct (Het)Arylation of Tetrahydroisoquinoline via a Metal and Oxidant Free C(sp3)-H Functionalization Enabled Three Component Reaction
Surajit Haldar and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019, 18, 1800-1804. Article link
An invited article for the issue New Talent
Metal Free Direct C(sp2)-H Arylaminations Using Nitrosoarenes to 2-hydroxy-di(het)aryl Amines as Multifunctional Aβ-aggregation Modulators
Subhra Kanti Roy, Anuj Tiwari, Mohammed Saleem and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun. 2018, 54,14081-14084. Article link
Nature-inspired development of unnatural meroterpenoids as the non-toxic anti-colon cancer agents
Md Ashraful Haque, Bethsebie L. Sailo, Ganesan Padmavathi, Ajaikumar B. Kunnumakkara Chandan K. Jana
European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 160 (2018) 256-265. Article link
Metal Free C-H Functionalization Enabled Diastereoselective Multicomponent Reaction of N-heterocycles to Fused Heteropolycycles
Sumana Mandal, Soumita Dwari, and Chandan K. Jana
J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 8874-8887. Article link
C–H functionalization enabled stereoselective Ugi-azide reaction to α-tetrazolyl alicyclic amines
Surajit Haldar, Subhajit Saha, Sumana Mandal and Chandan K. Jana
Green Chem. 2018, 20, 3463-3467. Article link
Metal-Free Thermal Activation of Molecular Oxygen Enabled Direct α-CH2-Oxygenation of Free Amines
Santanu Ghosh and Chandan K. Jana
J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 260-266.Article link
Regiodivergent Remote Arylation of Cycloalkanols to Dysideanone’s Fused Carbotetracycles and Its Bridged Isomers
Md Ashraful Haque and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 13300–13304.Article link
Metal-Free Sequential C(sp2)–H/OH and C(sp3)–H Aminations of Nitrosoarenes and N-Heterocycles to Ring-Fused Imidazoles
Anisha Purkait, Subhra Kanti Roy, Hemant Kumar Srivastava, and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Lett. 2017, 19, 2540-2543. Article link
Iterative Direct C(sp3)-H Functionalization of Amines: Diastereoselective Divergent Syntheses of α, α′-Disubstituted Alicyclic Amines
Sujit Mahato and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017, 15, 1655-1660. Article link
Aminofluorene-Mediated Biomimetic Domino Amination–Oxygenation of Aldehydes to Amides
Santanu Ghosh and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 5788–5791Article link
Classical-Reaction-Driven Stereo- and Regioselective C(sp3)–H Functionalization of Aliphatic Amines
Sujit Mahato and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Rec. 2016, 16, 1477-1488. (Personal Account; invited review) Article link
Synthesis, In silico studies and In vitro evaluation for antioxidant and antibacterial properties of diarylmethylamines: A novel class of structurally simple and highly poten pharmacophore
Sujit Mahato, Anuma Singh, Latha L Rangan, and Chandan K. Jana
Eur. J. Pharm. Sci. 2016, 88, 202-209. Article link
Regio-, Diastereo-selective and Enantiospecific Metal Free C(sp3)-H Arylation: A Facile Access to Optically Active 5-aryl 2,5-disubstituted Pyrrolidine
Surajit Haldar, Subhra Kanti Roy, Bholanath Maity, Debasis Koley, and Chandan K Jana
Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 15290–15298. Article link
Direct β-C(sp3)-H Functionalization of Aliphatic Amines to α,β-Unsaturated Imines, Aldehydes and Chromenes
Sumana Mandal, Sujit Mahato, and Chandan K. Jana
Org. Lett., 2015, 17, 3762-3765. Article link
Divergent Reaction: Metal & Oxidant Free Direct C-H Aryloxylation and Hydride Free Formal Reductive N- benzylation of N-heterocycles
Sujit Mahato, Md Ashraful Haque, Soumita Dwari, and Chandan K. Jana
RSC Adv., 2014,4, 46214– 46217.Article link
Diastereoselective α-C-H Functionalization of Aliphatic N-heterocycles: An Efficient Route to Ring Fused Oxazines
Sujit Mahato, Surajit Haldar and Chandan K. Jana
Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 332 – 334.Article link
Metal and Oxidant Free Direct sp3 C-H Arylation of Pyrrolidine
Surajit Haldar, Sujit Mahato and Chandan K. Jana
Asian J. Org. Chem. 2014, 3, 44 – 47. Article link
A Gold–Carbon Nanoparticle Composite as an Efficient Catalyst for Homocoupling Reaction
Md Palashuddin Sk, Chandan K. Jana* and Arun Chattopadhyay
Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 8235 – 8237.Article link
Withanolide A: Synthesis and Structural Requirements for Neurite Outgrowth
Raphael Liffert, Johannes Hoecker, Chandan Kumar Jana, Tom M. Woods, Patrick Burch, Henning Jessen, Markus Neuburger and Karl Gademann
Chem. Sci. 2013, 4, 2851– 2857. Article Link
Syntheses of Taiwaniaquinone F and Taiwaniaquinol A via an Unusual Remote C–H Functionalization.
Christophe Thommen, Chandan Kumar Jana, Markus Neuburger, and Karl Gademann
Org. Lett. 2013, 15, 1390 –1393. Article Link
Synthesis of Withanolide A, Biological Evaluation of its Neuritogenic Properties and Studies on Secretase Inhibition
Chandan Kumar Jana, Johannes Hoecker, Tom M. Woods, Henning J. Jessen, Markus Neuburger and Karl Gademann
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2011, 50, 8407-8411. Article Link
Connecting C19 Nor-Diterpenoids to C20 Diterpenes: Total Syntheses of 6-Hydroxy-5,6-dehydrosugiol, 6-Hydroxysugiol, Taiwaniaquinone H and Formal Synthesis of Dichroanone
Chandan Kumar Jana, Rosario Scopelliti and Karl Gademann
Synthesis, 2010, No. 13, pp 2223–2232, Art ID: C03010SS Article Link
A Synthetic Entry into the Taiwaniaquinoids Based on a Biogenetic Hypothesis: Total Synthesis of (–)-Taiwaniaquinone H
Chandan Kumar Jana, Rosario Scopelliti and Karl Gademann
Chem. Eur. J.2010, 16, 7692-7695 Article link
Copper Catalyzed Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions of 2-Nitrosopyridine with Ketenes
Indranil Chatterjee, Chandan Kumar Jana, Marc Steinmetz, Stefan Grimme and Armido Studer
Adv. Synth. Cat. 2010, 352, 945-948 Article link
Enantioselective Nitroso Diels-Alder Reaction and its Application for the Synthesis of (–)-Peracetylated-Conduramine-A-1
Chandan Kumar Jana, Stefan Grimme and Armido Studer
Chem. Eur. J. 2009, 15, 9078-9084 Article link
Total Synthesis of (+)-trans-Dihydronarciclasine via a Catalytic Enantioselective Regiodivergent Nitroso Diels-Alder Reaction
Chandan Kumar Jana and Armido Studer
Chem. Eur. J. 2008, 14, 6326-6328.Article link
Divergent Reactions for Racemates: Catalytic Enantioselective and Regiodivergent Nitroso Diels-Alder Reactions
Chandan Kumar Jana and Armido Studer
Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. 2007, 46, 6542-6544Article link
Structure of Poly(propyl ether imine) Dendrimer from Fully Atomistic Molecular Dynamics Simulation and by Small Angle X-ray Scattering
Chandan Jana, G. Jayamurugan, R. Ganapathy, P. K. Maiti, N. Jayaraman and A. K. Sood
J. Chem. Phys. 124, 204719 (2006)Article link
Aggregation and mesomorphic properties of ‘double-headed’ carbohydrate amphiphiles
Chandan Jana, B. N. Murthy, N. Jayaraman and C. V. Yelamaggad
Phase Transitions 2005, 78, 529-535. Article link