RSC Advances are delighted to welcome Sandip Murarka, IIT Jodhpur, India as an Associate Editor!
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Dr. Murarka pursued his PhD from WWU Münster under the supervision of Prof. Armido Studer. After completing his Ph.D. (2013), he worked as a Max-Planck postdoctoral research fellow in the laboratory of Prof. Herbert Waldmann at Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund (2013-2016). Following a year long stay (2016-2017) as a Team Leader at Syngene International Limited, a pharmaceutical company, he decided to return to academia. In May 2017, he joined the Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India, as an Assistant Professor and was promoted to the post of Associate Professor in June 2022. He is currently the Head of the Chemistry department at IIT Jodhpur.
Dr. Murarka’s current research activities include the study of novel activation modes and the development of chemoselective and sustainable synthetic transformations. His research group utilizes sustainable chemical tools, such as base-metal catalysis, photocatalysis, and electro-organic synthesis, to convert feedstock chemicals to value-added compounds and pharmaceutically relevant molecular architectures. He is a recipient of the Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (2026) by AvH Foundation, CRSI Bronze Medal (2026) by Chemical Research Society of India, Thieme Chemistry Journal Award (2022) by Thieme, and Merck Young Scientist Award (runners up, 2023) by Merck. He is an Early Career Advisory Board Member (ECAB) of journals, such as ChemistrySelect (Wiley-VCH), Chemistry an Asian Journal (Wiley-VCH), and Organic Chemistry Frontiers (RSC). He is also an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). |
Sandip’s research areas include all things Organic Catalysis.
Read some of Sandip’s recent Royal Society of Chemistry Publications:
1. Photoredox-Catalyzed Multicomponent Transformation Towards Functionalized trans-2,3-Disubstituted Indolines
M. Siva Prasad, Sneha Chandra, Prahallad Meher, Sandip Murarka*
Chem. Commun., 2026,62, 589-593
2. Iron Photocatalysis Towards Site-Selective C(sp3)-H Alkylation of Glycines and Peptides
Satya Prakash Panda, M. Siva Prasad, Prahallad Meher, Oliver Reiser*, Sandip Murarka*
Chem. Sci., 2025, 16, 22084-22090
3. Photoredox-Catalyzed Arylative and Aryl Sulfonylative Radical Cascades Involving Diaryliodonium Reagents: Synthesis of Functionalized Pyrazolones
Karan Ramdas Thombare, Sushanta Kumar Parida, Prahallad Meher, Sandip Murarka*
Chem. Commun., 2024,60, 13907-13910
4. Direct C-H Alkylation of 3,4-Dihydroquinoxaline-2-one with N-(acyloxy)phthalimide via Radical-Radical Cross Coupling
Sudhir Kumar Hota, Gulshan Singh, Sandip Murarka*
Chem. Commun., 2024,60, 6268-6271
5. Visible light photoredox-catalyzed arylative cyclization to access benzimidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolin-6(5H)-ones
Prahallad Meher, Raj Kumar Samanta, Sourav Manna, Sandip Murarka*
Chem. Commun., 2023,59, 6092-6095
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