Debanjan Rana, M.Sc.

Debanjan Rana
© Marius Kühnemund / Uni MS
Debanjan Rana
PhD Student
Room 427, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8335323
F: +49 251 8339772
debanjan.rana@uni-muenster.de
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  • Curriculum Vitae

    since 12/2021 PhD thesis in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    2016 - 2021 BS-MS Dual degree from IISER Bhopal, major in Chemistry and minor in Engineering science; Master’s thesis in the group of Dr. Sachin Dev Verma, IISER Bhopal, India
    05/2019 - 07/2019 Summer Internship at IIT Bombay, India; Supervisor: Prof. Debabrata Maiti
    06/2018 - 07/2018 Research Internship in the group of Prof. Eiichi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
    05/2017 - 07/2017 Summer Internship at IACS Kolkata, India; Supervisor: Prof. Abhishek Dey
    2016 12th, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith Deoghar, India, AISSCE (CBSE): 97%
    2014 10th, Ramakrishna Mission Vidyapith Deoghar, India, AISSE (CBSE): 10 CGPA

  • Awards and Scholarships

    2016 - 2021 Kishore Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana (KVPY) Fellowship
    2018 University of Tokyo Research Internship Program Fellowship

  • Publications

     F. Zhang, H. Sekhar Sasmal,§ D. Rana,§ F. Glorius,
    Switchable and Chemoselective Arene Hydrogenation for Efficient Late Stage Applications,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 18682-18688.
    § These authors contributed equally.

    L. Schlosser, D. Rana, P. Pflüger, F. Katzenburg, F. Glorius,*
    EnTdecker – A machine learning-based platform for guiding substrate discovery in energy transfer catalysis,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 13266-13275.

    D. Rana, P. M. Pflüger, N. P. Hölter, G. Tan, F. Glorius,
    Standardizing Substrate Selection: A Strategy toward Unbiased Evaluation of Reaction Generality,
    ACS Cent. Sci. 2024, 10, 899-906.

    S. Dutta, Y.-L. Lu,§ J. E. Erchinger,§ H. Shao, E. Studer, F. Schäfer, H. Wang, D. Rana, C. G. Daniliuc, K. N. Houk,* F. Glorius,*
    Double Strain-Release [2π+2σ]-Photocycloaddition,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024, 146, 5232-5241.
    § These authors contributed equally.

    J. E. Erchinger, R. Hoogesteger,§ R. Laskar,§ S. Dutta, C. Hümpel, D. Rana, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius,
    EnT-Mediated N–S Bond Homolysis of a Bifunctional Reagent Leading to Aliphatic Sulfonyl Fluorides,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 2364-2374.
    § These authors contributed equally

    S. Roy, D. Rana,
    Machine Learning in Nonlinear Dynamical Systems,
    Resonance 2021, 26, 953-970.