Dr. Himadri Sekhar Sasmal

Dr. Himadri Sekhar Sasmal
© Dr. Himadri Sekhar Sasmal
Dr. Himadri Sekhar Sasmal
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Room 405, OC/BC I
Corrensstraße 36
48149 Münster
T: +49 251 8335311
F: +49 251 8339772
himadri.sasmal@uni-muenster.de
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  • Curriculum Vitae

    since 01/2022 Postdoctoral research in the group of Prof. Dr. Frank Glorius, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
    12/2015 - 06/2021 Ph.D. from IISER Kolkata, Department of Chemical Sciences, India; Advisor: Prof. Rahul Banerjee; Thesis title: Nano-structuration of Covalent Organic Frameworks and Their Dimensionality Driven Applications
    08/2015 - 12/2015 Project assistant in CSIR-NCL, Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, Pune, India; Advisor: Prof. Rahul Banerjee
    06/2014 - 05/2015 Master thesis from IIT Kharagpur, Department of Chemistry, India; Advisor: Prof. Kumar Biradha; Thesis title: Exploration of Cocrystals and Salts with Benzimidazole and Pyridine Containing Molecules with Carboxylic acids via Heterosynthons
    07/2013 - 05/2015 M.Sc. from IIT Kharagpur, Department of Chemistry, India
    05/2014 - 07/2014 Summer Research Project from IACS Kolkata, School of Biological Sciences, India; Advisor: Prof. Prosenjit Sen; Project title: Chemical Synthesis of Phospholipids
    07/2010 - 05/2013 B.Sc. from Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belur Math, University of Calcutta, India

  • Awards and Scholarships

    1.  “INSPIRE” Scholarship (Department of Science and Technology, DST) from Government of India for the period of 2010-2015 (Top 1% of the successful students in terms of aggregate marks in class 12 board examination).
    2. Qualified all India IIT entrance examination (IIT-JAM), 2013 (All India Rank: 83).
    3.  Qualified all India CSIR National Eligibility Test (CSIR-NET) in 2013 (All India Rank: 48) and 2014 (All India Rank: 45) and was awarded the research fellowship (CSIR NET-JRF) in 2015 for the period of five years.
    4. Qualified all India Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE), 2016.
    5. Best Performing Student of the Year 2018: Awarded by the Department of Chemical Sciences, IISER Kolkata.
    6. First Prize in Innovative Idea Competition 2019: Awarded for the Oral Presentation and the Research Proposal organized by DSIR-TOCIC, IIT Kharagpur, CSIR-CGCRI, and CSIR-CMERI.
    7. Financial Grant to Attend International Scientific Events: Awarded by the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Govt. of India in 2019.
    8. Research Excellence Award 2020: Awarded in the 'Catalysis and Synthesis 2020' (CS 2020) Conference, IISER Kolkata.

  • 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.

    M. Das, M. Kohlstädt,* M. Enders, S. Burger, H. S. Sasmal, B. Zimmermann, A. Schäfer, B. J. Tyler, H. F. Arlinghaus, I. Krossing, U. Würfel, F. Glorius,*
    Surface Modification of ITO with N-Heterocyclic Carbene Precursors Results in Electron Selective Contacts in Organic Photovoltaic Devices,
    Chem. Eur. J. 2023, 29, e202301482.

    F. Zhang, H. S. Sasmal, C. G. Daniliuc, F. Glorius,
    Ru-NHC-Catalyzed Asymmetric, Complete Hydrogenation of Indoles and Benzofurans: One Catalyst with Dual Function,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 15695-15701.

    A. Kaithal, H. Sekhar Sasmal, S. Dutta, F. Schäfer, L. Schlichter, F. Glorius,
    cis-Selective Hydrogenation of Aryl Germanes: A Direct Approach to Access Saturated Carbo- and Heterocyclic Germanes,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 4109-4118.

    Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Saikat Bag, Bittu Chandra, Poulami Majumder, Himangshu Kuiry, Suvendu Karak, Sayam Sen Gupta, Rahul Banerjee,
    Heterogeneous C–H Functionalization in Water via Porous Covalent Organic Framework Nanofilms: A Case of Catalytic Sphere Transmutation,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 8426-8436.

    Kaushik Dey, Surojit Bhunia, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, C. Malla Reddy, Rahul Banerjee,
    Self-Assembly-Driven Nanomechanics in Porous Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 955-963.

    Ashok Kumar Mahato, Saikat Bag, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal*, Kaushik Dey, Indrajit Giri, Mercedes Linares-Moreau, Carlos Carbonell, Paolo Falcaro*, E. Bhoje Gowd, Ratheesh K. Vijayaraghavan*, Rahul Banerjee*,
    Crystallizing Sub 10 nm Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films via Interfacial–Residual Concomitance,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 20916-20926. [* Corresponding authors]

    Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Arjun Halder, Shebeeb Kunjattu H, Kaushik Dey, Athulya Nadol, Thalasseril G. Ajithkumar, Prachiti Ravindra Bedadur, Rahul Banerjee,
    Covalent Self-Assembly in Two Dimensions: Connecting Covalent Organic Framework Nanospheres into Crystalline and Porous Thin Films,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 20371-20379.

    Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Harshitha Barike Aiyappa, Siddheshwar N. Bhange, Suvendu Karak, Arjun Halder, Sreekumar Kurungot, Rahul Banerjee,
    Superprotonic Conductivity in Flexible Porous Covalent Organic Framework Membranes,
    Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 10894 -10898.
    Selected as Very Important Paper' (VIP) by Editors & appeared in 'Hot Topic: Membranes

    Arjun Halder, Meena Ghosh, Abdul Khayum M, Saibal Bera, Matthew Addicoat, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Suvendu Karak, Sreekumar Kurungot, and Rahul Banerjee,
    Interlayer Hydrogen-Bonded Covalent Organic Frameworks as High-Performance Supercapacitors,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 10941-10945.

    Shouvik Mitra,§ Himadri Sekhar Sasmal,§ Tanay Kundu, Sharath Kandambeth, Kavya Illath, David Díaz Díaz, Rahul Banerjee,
    Targeted Drug Delivery in Covalent Organic Nanosheets (CONs) via Sequential Postsynthetic Modification,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 4513-4520.
    § Both authors contributed equally

    Suvendu Karak, Sharath Kandambeth, Bishnu P. Biswal, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Sushil Kumar, Pradip Pachfule, Rahul Banerjee,
    Constructing Ultraporous Covalent Organic Frameworks in Seconds via an Organic Terracotta Process,
    J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2017, 139, 1856-1862.

    Mohitosh Bhadra, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Arghya Basu, Siba P. Midya, Sharath Kandambeth, Pradip Pachfule, Ekambaram Balaraman, Rahul Banerjee,
    Predesigned Metal-Anchored Building Block for In Situ Generation of Pd Nanoparticles in Porous Covalent Organic Framework: Application in Heterogeneous Tandem Catalysis,
    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 9, 13785-13792.

    Avishek Dey, Satyanarayana K. Konavarapu, Himadri Sekhar Sasmal, Kumar Biradha,
    Porous Coordination Polymers Containing Pyridine-3,5-Bis(5-azabenzimidazole): Exploration of Water Sorption, Selective Dye Adsorption, and Luminescent Properties,
    Cryst. Growth Des. 2016, 16, 5976-5984.

  • Conferences Attended

    • Catalysis and Synthesis 2020 (CS 2020) Conference held in IISER Kolkata, India (Participant, 2020).
    • 14th International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC-2019) held in Lecce, Italy (Poster presentation, 2019).
    • RSC India Roadshow held in IISER Kolkata, India (Participant, 2018).
    • RSC India Roadshow held in CSIR-NCL, Pune, India (Participant, 2017).
    • 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr-2017) held in Hyderabad, India (Poster presentation, 2017).
    • 44th National Seminar on Crystallography (NSC44) held in IISER Pune, India (Participant, 2016).