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Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

 

Marie Curie Research Fellow

Sayan Kar received his Integrated MSc degree (Chemistry) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (India) in 2015 with Proficiency Medals. He obtained his PhD in 2019 from University of Southern California (Los Angeles, USA) with Prof. G. K. Surya Prakash as PhD advisor working on carbon dioxide capture and recycling. Subsequently, he joined the research group of Prof. David Milstein at Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel) as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on the development of sustainable catalytic reactions with transition metal complexes. Since 2021, he is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Prof. Erwin Reisner's group at the University of Cambridge working toward developing processes for renewable fuel production from atmospheric carbon dioxide.

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Publications

Metal-Ligand Cooperation Facilitates Bond Activation and Catalytic Hydrogenation with Zinc Pincer Complexes.
M Rauch, S Kar, A Kumar, L Avram, LJW Shimon, D Milstein
– J Am Chem Soc
(2020)
142,
14513
Selective Room-Temperature Hydrogenation of Amides to Amines and Alcohols Catalyzed by a Ruthenium Pincer Complex and Mechanistic Insight.
S Kar, M Rauch, A Kumar, G Leitus, Y Ben-David, D Milstein
– ACS Catalysis
(2020)
10,
5511
Hydroxide Based Integrated CO2 Capture from Air and Conversion to Methanol
R Sen, A Goeppert, S Kar, GKS Prakash
– J Am Chem Soc
(2020)
142,
4544
Integrated CO2 Capture and Conversion to Formate and Methanol: Connecting Two Threads
S Kar, A Goeppert, GKS Prakash
– Acc Chem Res
(2019)
52,
2892
Catalytic Homogeneous Hydrogenation of CO to Methanol via Formamide.
S Kar, A Goeppert, GKS Prakash
– J Am Chem Soc
(2019)
141,
12518
Combined CO2 Capture and Hydrogenation to Methanol: Amine Immobilization Enables Easy Recycling of Active Elements
S Kar, A Goeppert, GKS Prakash
– ChemSusChem
(2019)
12,
3172
Mechanistic Insights into Ruthenium-Pincer-Catalyzed Amine-Assisted Homogeneous Hydrogenation of CO2 to Methanol.
S Kar, R Sen, J Kothandaraman, A Goeppert, R Chowdhury, SB Munoz, R Haiges, GKS Prakash
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2019)
141,
3160
A Carbon-Neutral CO2 Capture, Conversion, and Utilization Cycle with Low-Temperature Regeneration of Sodium Hydroxide
S Kar, A Goeppert, V Galvan, R Chowdhury, J Olah, GKS Prakash
– Journal of the American Chemical Society
(2018)
140,
16873
Structural parameters to consider in selecting silica supports for polyethylenimine based CO2 solid adsorbents. Importance of pore size
H Zhang, A Goeppert, S Kar, GKS Prakash
– JOURNAL OF CO2 UTILIZATION
(2018)
26,
246
Advances in Homogeneous Catalysis for Low Temperature Methanol Reforming in the Context of the Methanol Economy
J Kothandaraman, S Kar, A Goeppert, R Sen, GKS Prakash
– Topics in Catalysis
(2018)
61,
542
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Research Group

Telephone number

01223 336396 (shared)

Email address

sk2191@cam.ac.uk