Curriculum vitae

Dr. (Mrs.) Suman Lata JainAssistant Professor AcSIR &Senior Scientist Ph. 91-135-2525-788 (O)

2660788 (R); 9997277335 (M)Head, Synthetic & Applied Chemistry AreaChemical Sciences DivisionCSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum Fax 91-135-2660098/2660202Dehradun - 248 005 (INDIA)

sumanjain@hotmail.com; suman@iip.res.in

Date of Birth 26-10-1975

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS:

Degree University Year Division_______________________________________________________________________Ph.D. H.N.B.Garhwal University, Srinagar (India) 2004

Worked at Indian Institute of Petroleum, Dehradun (India)Thesis Title: (Studies in Transition Metal Catalyzed

Synthetic Transformations)

M.Sc. (Chem.) Rajasthan University Jaipur, India 1998 I (79 %) Gold

Medalist

B.Sc. (B.Z.C) Rajasthan University Jaipur, India 1995 Ι (71%)_______________________________________________________________________

FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS:

Awarded CRSI-Bronze medal-2017 Awarded INSA Professor DS Kothari Chair award 2017-18 Awarded INSA-Deputation of Indian scientists abroad under bilateral exchange

programme 2017-18 Founder member of Indian National Young Academy of Science (INYAS) Awarded SERB-Women Excellence Award by DST-2013 Awarded CSI- Young Scientist Award-2010 Awarded INSA-Young Scientist Medal-2005 Awarded NASI-Platinum Jubilee Young Scientist Awrad-2007 Awarded best paper award in International Conference on "Unconventional Sources of

Fossil Fuels and Carbon Management, ICUSFFCM-2011" held in Gandhinagar, Gujrat during 21-22 Feb 2011

Awarded Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellowship - 2007 Awarded PPP-DAAD (Indo-German) fellowship-2007 Awarded Hindustan Platinum Award for best oral presentation by Catalysis Society of

India-2007. Received most cited research paper Award for the paper published in Tetrahedron

Letters by Elsevier Publications-2006 Selected and participated in the 18th Meeting of Nobel Laureates and Students In

Chemistry-2006 held at Lindau, Germany and visited various research Institution of Germany during 1-7th July 2006.

Awarded Indo-French Post-doc Fellowship-2006 University Topper and Gold Medalist in M. Sc Awarded GATE (Graduate and Aptitude Test of Engineering)-1998 Fellowship Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (NET-CSIR) (1999-2001),

POSITIONS HELD (In Chronological Order)

 S. No. Period (From) Place of Employment Designation

1. 2011-present CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

Senior Scientist

2. 2009-2011 CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

QHS-Scientist Fellow

3 2007-2008 University of Regensburg, Germany

AvH-Humboldt Fellow

4. 2004-2009 CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

CSIR-Research Associate

5. 2001-2002 CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

Senior Research Fellow

6. 1999-2001 CSIR-Indian Institute of Petroleum

Junior Research Fellow (CSIR-NET)

AREAS OF RESEARCH INTEREST:

Nanomaterials, Green Chemistry, PhotocatalysisPhotocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to high value chemicalsUtilization of carbon dioxide for fuel and value added chemicalsPetrochemicals/ value addition of refinery streamsDevelopment of novel synthetic methodologies for organic reactionsDevelopment of cost effective environmentally benign multi-functional additives for lubricating formulations

List of PublicationsBook Chapters

1. P. Kumar, S. L. Jain and R. Boukherroub, Graphene-based nanocomposite materials for the photoreduction of carbon dioxide into valuable organic compounds, Innovations in Nanomaterials , Nova Science Publishers, Inc. USA. (In Press)

2. P. Kumar, A. Kumar, C. Joshi, R. Boukherroub, S. L. Jain, Graphene-semiconductor hybrid photocatalysts and their application in solar fuel production, Graphene Composites, WILEY-Scrivener Publisher, USA (In Press)

3. Suman L. Jain and Rabah Boukherroub “Photocatalysis with graphene related materials” for Encyclopedia of Interfacial Chemistry: Surface Science and Electrochemistry by Elsevier (Submitted)

4. Anurag Kumar, Pankaj Prajapati and Suman L. Jain Recent advances in the graphene based composite photocatalysts for selective organic transformations, submitted to Advanced Materials Series, Wiley-Scrivener, USA

5. Pawan Kumar and Suman L. Jain “Recent aspects of two dimensional carbonaceous materials for solar fuel generation, submitted to Advanced Materials Series, Wiley-Scrivener, USA.

Research Papers (In SCI Journals)

2017

201. Anurag Kumar, Abderrahmane Hamdi, Yannick Coffinier, Ahmed Addad, Pascal Roussel, Rabah Boukherrroub and Suman L. Jain “Solar driven coupling of benzylamines using Cu2O/carbon quantum dots heterostructured composite as visible active photocatalyst”Green Chemistry (Revision submitted)

200. Ponnekanti Nagendramma, Praveen K. Khatri, Gananath D. Thakre and Suman L. Jain “Lubrication capabilities of amino acid based ionic liquids as green bio-lubricant additives”Journal of Molecular Liquids 2017 (doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2017.08.115)

199. Praveen K. Khatri, Prashant Kumar, Ponnnekanti Nagendramma and Suman L. Jain “Sulfonated Graphene Oxide as an Efficient Solid Acid Carbocatalyst for Esterification of Fatty Acids with Polyols” Letters in Organic Chemistry (Revision submitted)

198. Anurag Kumar, Pankaj Prajapati, MS Aathira, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain “Boosted photocatalytic activity of cobalt phthalocyanine for CO2 reduction upon immobilization on an organic semiconductor under visible light.App. Catal. B. Env. (Accepted)

197. Anurag Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Rajnikant Borkar, Amit Bansiwal, Nitin Labhsetwar and Suman L. Jain Metal-organic hybrid: Photoreduction of CO2 using graphitic carbon nitride supported heteroleptic iridium complex under visible light irradiation, Carbon 2017, 123, 371-379

196. Praveen K. Khatri, Mounika Aila, Aruna Kukrety, R. C, Saxena, R. K. Singh and Suman L. Jain “High performance multifunctional fuel additives derived from renewable fatty acids and phosphazene" Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society (In press).

195. Deepak K. Chauhan, Pawan Kumar, Rahul Painuly, Sunil Kumar, Suman L. Jain, Sudip K. Ganguly, Kinetics and feasibility studies of thiol oxidation using magnetically separable Mg-Al layered double hydroxide supported cobalt phthalocyanine catalyst, Fuel Processing Technology (Online available) Volume 162, July 2017, Pages 135–146

194. Pawan Kumar, Anurag Kumar, Clémence Queffélec, Dietrich Gudat, Qi Wang, Suman L. Jain, Rabah Boukherroub and Sabine Szunerits “Visible light assisted hydrogen generation from complete decomposition of hydrous hydrazine using rhodium modified TiO2 photocatalyst”, Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 2017, 16, 1036-1042.

193. Raj K. Singh, Aruna Kukrety, Arvind Kumar, Ajay Chouhan, Rakesh C. Saxena, Siddharth S. Ray, Suman L. Jain, Synthesis, characterization and evaluation performance of N,N-Dimethylacrylamide–alkyl acrylate co-polymers as novel multi-functional additives for lube oil, Advances in Polymer Technology 2017 (DOI: 10.1002/adv.21826)

192. Nilesh R. Manwar, Rajnikant G. Borkar, Rohini Khobragade, Amit K. Bansiwal, Sadhana S. Rayalu, Suman L. Jain, and Nitin K. Labhsetwar “Efficient Solar Photo-electrochemical Hydrogen Generation Using Nanocrystalline CeFeO3 Synthesized by A Modified Microwave Assisted Method” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, 2017, 42 (16) 10931–10942.

191. Anurag Kumar, Pawan Kumar and Suman L. Jain “Nanoporous carbon nitride grafted cobalt complex (Co@npg-C3N4) via Click reaction for visible light assisted esterification of aldehydes”ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 3437–3443.

190. Raj K. Singh, Aruna Kukrety, Rakesh C. Saxena, Ajay Chouhan, Suman L. Jain and Siddharth S. Ray “Phosphazene based novel organo-inorganic hybrid salt: synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation additive in polyol” RSC Adv., 2017,7, 13390-13397

189. Pradeep Kumar, Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri, Subham Paul and Suman L. Jain “Post combustion capture and conversion of carbon dioxide using histidine derived ionic liquid at ambient conditions” Journal of Industrial and Engineering Chemistry, 2017, 49, 152–157.

188. Amer Al-Nafiey, Anurag Kumar, Malika Kumar, Ahmed Addad, Brigitte Sieber, Sabine Szunerits, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain, Nickel oxide nanoparticles grafted on reduced graphene oxide (rGO/NiO) as efficient photocatalyst for reduction of nitroaromatics under visible light irradiation, J. Photochem. Photobio. A: Chem. 2017, 336, 198–207.

187. Mohammad Azam, Saud Agata Al-Resayes Trzesowska-Kruszynska, Rafal Kruszynski, Pawan Kumar, Suman L. Jain, Seven–Coordinated chiral uranyl(VI) salen complex as effective catalyst for C-H bond activation of dialkylanilines under visible light, Polyhedron, 2017, 124, 177–183.

186. Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Alexandre Barras, Brigitte Sieber, Ahmed Addad, Luc Boussekey, Sabine Szunerits, Rabah Boukherroub, Suman L. Jain “Core–shell structured reduced graphene oxide wrapped magnetically separable rGO@CuZnO@Fe3O4 microspheres as superior photocatalyst for CO2 reduction under visible light” Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volume 205, 15 May 2017, Pages 654–665.

2016185. Vineeta Panwar, Siddarth S. Ray, Suman L. Jain “Highly efficient (CoOx-N@C, PANI) nanopowder

derived from pyrolysis of polyaniline grafted cobalt acetate for oxidative methyl esterification of benzyl alcohols” Editor’s choice paper, Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical, Volume 427, February 2017, Pages 31–38

183. Vineeta Panwar, Siddharth S. Ray, Suman L. Jain, Polymer coated magnetically separable organocatalyst for C-N bond formation via aza-Michael addition, Tetrahedron Lett. Volume 57, Issue 46, 16 November 2016, Pages 5026–5032

184. Jyoti Porwal, Subodh Kumar, Savita Kaul and Suman L. Jain “Guanidine based task specific ionic liquids for the synthesis of biolubricant range esters under solvent-free condition, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 93640 – 93644 November 2016, Pages 5026–5032

182. Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri, Suman L. Jain “Amino Acid Derived Ionic Liquid Supported Iron Schiff Base Catalyzed Greener Approach for the Aerobic Oxidation of Amines to Nitriles” Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 57, Issue 7, 17 February 2016, Pages 723–727

181. Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri, Suman L. Jain “Amino Acid Derived Ionic Liquid Supported Iron Schiff Base Catalyzed Greener Approach for the Aerobic Oxidation of Amines to Nitriles” ChemInform, 2016, 47, 23.

180. Vineeta Panwar, Ankushi Bansal, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman L. Jain “Renewable waste rice husk grafted oxo-vanadium catalyst for oxidation of tertiary amines to N-oxidesRSC Advances, 2016,6, 71550-71556.

179. Padma L. Patnam, Siddharth S. Ray, Alok K. Chatterjee and Suman L. Jain “Self-driven graft polymerization of vinyl monomers on poultry chicken feathers in the absence of initiator/ catalyst” J. Applied Polymer Science, 2017, 134, 44645. (DOI: 10.1002/app.44645)

178. Houcem Maaoui, Pawan Kumar, Anurag Kumar, Guo-Hui Pan, Radouane Chtourou, Sabine Szunerits, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain “Prussian blue/carbon dots nanocomposite as efficient visible light active photocatalyst for C-H activation of amines”Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences, 2016, 15, 1282 – 1288

177. Padma L. Patnam, Mukesh Bhatt, Raghuvir Singh, Sandeep Saran and Suman L. Jain “Magnetically separable chicken feather: a biopolymer based heterogeneous catalyst for oxidation of organic substrates”RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 60888-60895

176. Sudip K. Ganguly, Neetu Varun, Anshul Sharma, Kareena Gill, Poonam Gupta, Suman L. Jain Laura A. Pellegrini “Mass Transfer and Hydrodynamic Aspects of Kinetics Studies in Light Oil Sweetening: A Review” ChemBioEng Reviews, 2016, Volume 3, Issue 3, pages 159–170.

175. Arvind Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Subham Paul and Suman L. Jain “Visible light assisted reduction of nitrobenzenes using Fe(bpy)3+2/rGO nanocomposite as photocatalystApplied Surface Science, 2016, 386, 103-114.

174. Deepak Chauhan, Padmalatha, Sudip K. Ganguly and Suman L. Jain “Two in one approach: renewable support and enhanced catalysis for sweetening using chicken feather bound cobalt(II) phthalocyanine under alkali free environment, RSC Advances, 2016, 6, 51983 - 51988

173. Praveen K. Khatri, Chetan Joshi, Gananath D. Thakre and Suman L. Jain “Halogen- free ammonium- organoborate ionic liquids as lubricating additives: effect of alkyl chain lengths on the tribological performance”New J. Chem. 2016, 40, 5294 - 5299

172. Anurag Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Manvi Manchanda, Rabah Boukherroub, and Suman L. Jain “Nickel Decorated on Phosphorous-Doped Carbon Nitride as an Efficient Photocatalyst for Reduction of Nitrobenzenes”Nanomaterials, 2016, 6(4), 59; doi:10.3390/nano6040059

171. Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Ambrish K. Srivastava, Piyush Gupta, Rabah Boukherroub, and Suman L. Jain “Visible Light Assisted Photocatalytic [3 + 2] Azide–Alkyne “Click” Reaction for the Synthesis of 1,4-Substituted 1,2,3-Triazoles Using a Novel Bimetallic Ru–Mn Complex”ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering 2016, 4 (1), pp 69–75

170. Arvind Kumar, Ankushi Bansal, Babita Behera, Suman L. Jain “Siddharth S. Ray Ternary hybrid polymeric nanocomposites through grafting of polystyrene on graphene oxide-TiO2 by surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization (SI-ATRP)”Materials Chem. & Physics , 172, 189-196 (DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2016.01.064)

169. P. Padma Latha, Raj Kumar Singh, Aruna Kukrety, Rakesh C. Saxena, Mukesh Bhatt and Suman L. Jain “Poultry chicken feather derived biodegradable multifunctional additives for lubricating formulations”ACS-Sustainable and Engineering Chem. 2016, 2016, 4 (3), pp 999–1005.

168. Rashi Gusain, Pawan Kumar, Om P. Sharma, Suman L. Jain, Om P. Khatri, CuO-Reduced Graphene Oxide Nanocomposites for Photocatalytic Conversion of CO2 into Methanol under Visible Light Irradiation Appl. Cat. B. Environmental Volume 181, February 2016, Pages 352–362

167. Arvind Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Srikanth Ponnada, Abhishek K. Pathak, Asgar Ali, Bojja Sreedhar and Suman L. Jain “[Fe(bpy)3]2+ grafted graphitic carbon nitride hybrid for visible light assisted oxidative coupling of benzylamines under mild reaction conditions.”Green Chem., 2016, 18, 2514-2521

166. Chetan Joshi, Pawan Kumar, Babita Behera, Alexendre Barras, Sabine Szunerits, Rabah Boukherroub, Suman L Jain “Graphene/hemin hybrid material as efficient green catalyst for stereoselective olefination of aldehydes”RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 100011-100017

165. Subodh Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Arghya Deb, Debabrata Maiti, Suman L. Jain “Graphene oxide grafted with iridium complex as a superior heterogeneous catalyst for chemical fixation of carbon dioxide to dimethylformamide” Carbon 2016, 100, 632–640

164. Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri and Suman L. Jain “Amino acid ionic liquid bound copper Schiff base catalyzed highly efficient three component A3-coupling reaction”Catalysis Commun. Volume 77, 5 March 2016, Pages 113–117

163. Jyoti Porwal, Neha Karanwal, Savita Kaul and Suman L. Jain “Carbocatalysis: N-doped reduced graphene oxide catalyzed esterification of fatty acids with long chain alcohols”New J. Chem., 2016, 40, 1547-1553

162. Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri, Indrajit K. Ghosh and Suman L. Jain “Silver assisted separation of n-decane/1-decene using distillable CO2-derived alkyl carbamate ionic liquids”Fluid Phase Equilibria, 2016, Volume 412, Pages 101–106

161. Manish Varyani, Praveen K. Khatri and Suman L. Jain “Amino acid derived ionic liquid supported iron Schiff base catalyzed greener approach for the aerobic oxidation of amines to nitrilesTetrahedron Lett. 2016, 57, 723–727

2013-2015

160. Praveen K. Khatri, Gananath D. Thakre, and Suman L. Jain “Tribological Performance Evaluation of Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Derived from Amino Acids” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2013, 52 (45), pp 15829–15837.

159. Panwar, Vineeta; Kumar, Arvind; Singh, Raghuvir; Gupta, Piyush; Ray, Siddharth; Jain, Suman “Nickel decorated graphene oxide/polyaniline hybrid: a robust and highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst for hydrogenation of terminal alkynes" Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2015, 54 (45), pp 11493–11499

158. Vineeta Panwar, Amer Al-Nafiey, Ahmed Addad, Brigitte Sieber, Pascal Roussel, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain “Magnetic Co3O4/reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite as superior heterogeneous catalyst for one-pot oxidative esterification of aldehydes to methyl esters”RSC Advances 2015,5, 88567-88573

157. Pawan Kumar, Harshal P. Mungse, Om P. Khatri and Suman L. Jain “Nitrogen-doped graphene-supported copper complex: a novel photocatalyst for CO2 reduction under visible light irradiation”RSC Adv., 2015,5, 54929-54935

156. Manish Varyani, Indrajit K Ghosh and Suman L. Jain “Copper ingrained poly(ethylene)glycols as cost effective and reusable media for selective 1-decene/n-decane separation” RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 77037-77041

155. Padma P Latha, Mukesh Bhatt and Suman Lata Jain “Sustainable catalysis using magnetic chicken feathers decorated with Pd (0) for Suzuki-cross coupling reaction”Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 56, Issue 42, 14 October 2015, Pages 5718–5722

154. Pawan Kumar, Harshal P. Mungse, Stephane Cordier, Rabah Boukherroub, Om P. Khatri, and Suman L. Jain “Hexamolybdenum clusters supported on graphene oxide: Visible-light induced photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide into methanol”Carbon, 2015, 94, 91 –100.

153. Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Nitin Labhsetwar, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain “A novel Ru/TiO2 hybrid nanocomposite catalyzed photoreduction of CO2 to methanol under visible light”. Nanoscale 2015,7, 15258-15267

152. Ankushi Bansal, Pawan Kumar, Chandra Dutt Sharma, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman. L. Jain “Light-initiated controlled free radical polymerization of methacrylates using iron based photocatalyst in visible light” J. Pol. Sci. A, 2015 Volume 53, Issue 23, p 2739–2746151.

151. Deepak Chauhan, Pawan Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Nitin Labhsetwar, Sudip K. Ganguly and Suman L. Jain “Photo-assisted oxidation of thiols to disulfides using cobalt “Nanorust” under visible light” New J. Chem. 2015, 39, 6193-6200.

150. Subodh Kumar, Nikita Singhal, Raj Kumar Singh and Suman L. Jain “Dual catalysis with magnetic chitosan: direct synthesis of cyclic carbonates from olefins with carbon dioxide using isobutyraldehyde as sacrificial reductant”Dalton Trans, 2015, 44, 11860-11866

149. Vineeta Panwar, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman L. Jain “Potassium ion cationized polyether cyanide [K+{PEG}CN-] as a novel cyanide source for oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines”Tetrahedron Letters, Volume 56, Issue 28, 8 July 2015, Pages 4184–4186

148. Pawan Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Chetan Joshi, Piyush Gupta, Raghuvir Singh and Suman L. Jain “Heterostructured nanocomposite tin phthalocyanine@mesoporous ceria (SnPc@CeO2) for photoreduction of CO2 in visible light”RSC Advances 2015, 5, 42414-42421

147. Sanny Verma, Subodh Kumar, Efrat Shawat, Gilbert Daniel Nessim, Suman L. Jain “Carbon nanofibers decorated with oxo-rhenium complexes: highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst for oxidation of amines with hydrogen peroxide”J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. Volume 402, June 2015, Pages 46–52

146. Pawan Kumar, Deepak Chauhan, Chetan Joshi and Suman L. Jain “Highly Active Cobalt Doped Meso-ceria for Visible Light Assisted base Free Oxidation of Mercaptanes to Disulfides” J. Basic & App. Eng. Res. Volume 2, Number 17; July-September, 2015, pp. 1528-1528

145. Praveen K. Khatri, Mounika Aila, Jyoti Porwal, Savita Kaul, Suman L. Jain “Industrial resin “INDION 130”modified with vanadyl cations as highly efficient heterogeneous catalyst for epoxidation of fatty compounds with TBHP oxidantNew J. Chem. 2015, 39, 5960-5965

144. Vineeta Panwar, Pawan Kumar, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman L. Jain PEGylated magnetic nanoparticles (PEG@Fe3O4) as cost effective alternative for oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines via C-H activationApp. Catal. A. Gen. Volume 498, 2015, Pages 25–31

143. Pawan Kumar, Nikolay G. Naumov, Rabah Boukherroub and Suman L. Jain “Octahedral Rhenium K4[Re6S8(CN)6] and Cu(OH)2 cluster modified TiO2 for the Photoreduction of CO2 under Visible Light IrradiationApplied Catalysis A: General Volume 499, 25 June 2015, Pages 32–38

142. Subodh Kumar, Sanny Verma and Suman L. Jain “Amino-functionalized nanostarch grafted palladium nanoparticles catalyzed base free direct formylation of aromatic iodides using CO 2 as C1 source”Tetrahedron Letters 05/2015; 56(19). DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.03.077

141. N. Karanwal, Praveen K. Khatri, Sandeep Joshi, G. D. Thakre, R. C. Saxena, Savita Kaul and Suman L. Jain “Efficacies of novel Gemini compounds derived from dibasic acids as multifunctional additives for tribological applications”Ind. Eng Chem. Res 2015, 54 (27), pp 6831–6835

140. Ankushi Bansal, Arvind Kumar, Pawan Kumar, Sreedhar Bojja, Alok K. Chatterjee, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman L. Jain “Visible light-induced surface initiated atom transfer radical polymerization of methyl methacrylate on titania/reduced graphene oxide nanocompositesRSC Adv., 2015,5, 21189-21196

139. Pawan Kumar, Kareena Gill, Sunil Kumar, Sudip K. Ganguly, Suman L. Jain “Magnetic Fe3O4@MgAl-LDH composite grafted with cobalt phthalocyanine as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the oxidation of mercaptans”J. Mol Catal. A (Online published) Volume 401, 15 May 2015, Pages 48–54

138. Praveen K. Khatri, Neha Karanwal, Savita Kaul, Suman L. Jain “Sulfonated polymer impregnated carbon composite as a solid acid catalyst for the selective synthesis of furfural from xylose” Tetrahedron Lett 2015, 56, 1203–1206

137. Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Poly(Propylene Carbonate) - Zinc Oxide Nanocomposites Thi Nga Tran, Thanh Binh Mai, Long Giang Bach, Yeon Tae Jeong, Suman L. Jane & Kwon Taek LimMol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst., Vol. 597: pp. 45–51, 2014

136. Subodh Kumar, Sanny Verma, Efrat Shawat, Gilbert Daniel Nessim and Suman L. Jain “Amino-functionalized carbon nanofibres as efficient metal free catalyst for synthesis of quinazoline-2,4(1H,3H)-diones from CO2 and 2-aminobenzonitriles”RSC Advances 2015,5, 24670-24674

135. Praveen K. Khatri, Manvi Manchanda, Indrajit K. Ghosh and Suman L. Jain “Polymer impregnated sulfonated carbon composite solid acid catalyst for alkylation of phenol with methyl-tert-butyl ether” RSC Adv., 2015, 5 (5), 3286 - 3290

134. Subodh Kumar and Suman L. Jain “An efficient copper catalyzed formylation of amines utilizing CO2 and hydrogen”RSC Advances 2014,4, 64277-64279

133. Pawan Kumar, Amit Bansiwal, Nitin Labsetwar and Suman L. Jain “Visible light assisted photocatalytic reduction of CO2 using graphene oxide supported heteroleptic ruthenium complex”Green Chem. 2015,17, 1605-1609

132. Subodh Kumar, Stephane Cordier, Rabah Boukherroub, Om P. Khatri and Suman L. Jain “Graphene oxide supported molybdenum cluster: first heterogenized homogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of dimethylcarbonate from CO2 and methanol”Chem. Eur. J. Volume 21, Issue 8, pages 3488–3494, February 16, 2015

131. Pawan Kumar, R. K. Chauhan and Suman L. Jain “Photo-induced reduction of CO2 using magnetically separable Ru-CoPc@TiO2@SiO2@Fe3O4 catalyst under visible light irradiation” Dalton Trans 2015, 44, 4546 - 4553

130. Pawan Kumar, Garima Singh and Suman L. Jain “Photoinduced oxidation of thiols to disulfides catalyzed by graphene oxide functionalized with iron phthalocyanine under alkali free conditions”RSC Advances., 2014,4, 50331-50337

129 Subodh Kumar, R. K. Singh and Suman L. Jain “1,1,3,3-Tetramethylguanidinium hydrogen sulphate (TMG·HSO4) ionic liquid in carbon dioxide enriched water: a highly efficient acidic catalytic system for the hydrolysis of cellulose”RSC Advances 2014, 4, 58238-58242

128. A Review on Gas-Liquid Reactions in Light Oil Sweetening: Kinetics and Reactor Design Aspects.ChemBioChem Volume 1, Issue 5, pages 204–213, October, 2014

127. Subodh Kumar, Pawan Kumar and Suman L. Jain “Graphene oxide immobilized copper phthalocyanine tetrasulphonamide: first heterogenized homogeneous catalyst for dimethylcarbonate J. Material Chem. A:, 2014, 2, 18861-18866

126. Subodh Kumar, Jitendrea Kumar, Savita Kaul and Suman L. Jain “Carbon dioxide promoted hydrolysis of xylose to furfural using 1,1,3,3-tetramethyl guanidinium hydrogen sulfate: a remarkable enhancement in reaction rateInd. Eng. Chem. Res., 2014, 53 (40), pp 15571–15575

125. Subodh Kumar and Suman L. Jain “Polyethylene glycol enfolded KBr assisted base catalyzed synthesis of dimethyl carbonate from methanol and carbon dioxide”Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2014, 53 (41), pp 15798–15801

124. Garima Singh, Praveen Khatri, Sudip ganguly and Suman L Jain “Magnetic silica beads functionalized with cobalt phthalocyanine for the oxidation of mercaptans in an alkali free aqueous medium”RSC Adv., 2014, 4 (55), 29124 - 29130

123. Sanny Verma, Mounica Aila, Savita Kaul and Suman L. Jain “Immobilized oxo-vanadium Schiff base on graphene oxide as an efficient and recyclable catalyst for epoxidation of fatty acids and esters" RSC Advances 2014, 4, 30598-30604

122. Pawan Kumar, Bir Sain and Suman L. Jain “Photocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to methanol using ruthenium trinuclear polyazine complex immobilized to graphene oxide under visible light irradiation”J. Material Chem. A 2014, 2, 11246-11253

121. Praveen K. Khatri, Shivani, Raghuvir Singh, Suman L. Jain, Om P. Khatri “Grafting of Rhenium-oxo complex to Schiff base functionalized graphene oxide: an efficient catalyst for the oxidation of amines”Dalton Trans., 2014, 43 (21), 8054 – 8061

120. Sanny Verma, Deepak Verma, Anil K. Sinha and Suman L. Jain “Palladium complex immobilized on graphene oxide-magnetic nanoparticle composites for ester synthesis by aerobic oxidative esterification of alcohols”Applied Catal. A: Gen. (Accepted)

119. Pawan Kumar, Subodh Kumar, Stéphane Cordier, Serge Paofai, Rabah Boukherroub* and Suman L. Jain “Photoreduction of CO2 to methanol with hexanuclear molybdenum [Mo6Br14]2- cluster units under visible light irradiation”RSC Advances 4(20),10420-10423, May 2014

118. Pawan Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Bojja Sreedhar, Bir Sain, Siddharth S. Ray and Suman L. Jain “Cobalt phthalocyanine immobilized on graphene oxide: an efficient visible active catalyst for the photoreduction of carbon dioxide” Chem: Eur J. 2014 May 12; 20(20), 6154-61

117. Sanny Verma, Deepak Verma and Suman L. Jain “Magnetically separable palladium-graphene nanocomposite as heterogeneous catalyst for the synthesis of 2-alkylquinolines via one pot reaction of anilines with alkenyl ethers”Tetrahedron Letters, 2014, 55, 2406–2409.

116. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain “Polyethylene Glycol Wrapped Potassium Bromide Assisted Chemical Fixation of Carbon Dioxide”Ind. & Eng Chem. Res. 2014, 53 (2), pp 541–546

115. Pawan Kumar, Sanny Verma and Suman L. Jain “TiO2 immobilized Ru(II) polyazine complex: a visible-light active photoredox catalyst for oxidative cyanation of tertiary aminesJ. Material Chem. A 2(13),4514-4519, April 2014

114. Sanny Verma, Sandeep Saran, and Suman L. Jain Glycinatocopper (II) complex as an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for aromatic Finkelstein reaction of aryl and heteroaryl bromides to chloridesApplied Catal. A: Gen 2014, 472, 178-183

113. Sanny Verma, Sangeeta Pandita and Suman L. Jain “Microwave assisted synthesis of nitro phenols from the reaction of phenols with urea nitrate under acid free conditions”Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 1320-1322

112. Subodh Kumar and Suman L. Jain An easy base assisted synthesis of unsymmetrical carbonates from alcohols with dimethyl carbonate.Monatshefte fur Chemie - Chemical Monthly 2014, 145, 791-795.

111. Subodh Kumar, Pawan Kumar and Suman L. Jain “Ruthenium-carbamato-complex derived from siloxylated amine and carbon dioxide for the oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines”RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 24013-24016

110. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain “Nanostarch functionalized cobalt chelate based ionic liquid for the synthesis of carbamates from amines and dimethyl carbonateDalton Trans 2013, 42, 15214-15218

109. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain “Nanosized Zinc Peroxide (ZnO2): A Novel Inorganic Oxidant for the Oxidation of Aromatic Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds”Inorg. Chem. Front., 2014, 1, 534-539

108. Sanny Verma, Jean Le Bras, Suman L. Jain, Jacques Muzart “Nanocrystalline starch grafted palladium (II) complex for the Mizoroki- Heck reaction”Dalton Trans., 2013, 42 (40), 14454 - 14459

107. Sanny Verma and Suman L. Jain “Nanocrystalline Zinc peroxide mediated unprecedented nitrene transfer: an expeditious access to aziridines”RSC Advances 2013, 3 (43), 19830 – 19833

106. Sanny Verma, Jean Le Bras, Suman L. Jain, Jacques Muzart “Thiol-yne Click on Nano-Starch: An Expedient Approach for Grafting of Oxo-Vanadium Schiff Base Catalyst and its use in the Oxidation of Alcohols”Applied Catal. A: Gen. 2014, 468, 334–340.

105. Sanny Verma, Deependra Tripathi, Piyush Gupta, Raghuvir Singh, Gajendra Mohan Bahuguna, L.N.Shivakumar K, R. K. Chauhan, Sandeep Saran and Suman L. Jain “Highly dispersed palladium nanoparticles grafted onto nanocrystalline starch for the oxidation of alcohols using molecular oxygen as oxidant”Dalton Trans. 2013, 42(32), 11522-7

104. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain “L-Proline/ TBAB-catalyzed phosgene free synthesis of methyl carbamates from amines and dimethyl carbonate”New J. Chem. 2013, 2935 – 2938

103. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain “Non-symmetrical dialkyl carbonate synthesis promoted by 1-(3-trimethoxysilylpropyl)-3-methylimidazolium chloride”New J. Chem.  2013, 37, 3057-3061

102. Praveen K. Khatri, Kwon T. Lim and Suman L. Jain “Multiple catalytic motifs grafted on cyclotriphosphazene core: a novel catalyst for the chemical activation of carbon dioxide”Tetrahedron Letters 2013, 54, 6648–6650

101. P. Padmalatha, Praveen K. Khatri and Suman L. Jain “Selenium-doped TiO2 as an efficient photocatalyst for the oxidation of tetrahydrofuran to gamma-butyrolactone using hydrogen peroxide as oxidant”Synlett 2013, 24, 1405-1409

100. Deepak Verma, Sanny Verma, Anil K. Sinha and Suman L. Jain “Iron nanoparticles supported to graphene oxide: a robust heterogeneous catalyst for the oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with the magnetic catalyst separation” ChemPlusChem 2013, 78, 860-865

99. Sanny Verma, Raghuvir Singh, Deependra Tripathi, Piyush Gupta, Gajendra Mohan Bahuguna and Suman L. Jain “Thiourea dioxide with TBHP: a fruitful and greener recipe for the catalytic oxidation of alcohols” RSC Advances 2013, 3, 4184-4188

98. Praveen Khatri, Suman L. Jain “Glycerol ingrained Copper: an efficient recyclable catalyst for the N-arylation of amines with aryl halides” Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 2740–2743.

201297. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain “Thiourea dioxide catalyzed multi-component coupling reaction for

the one step synthesis of naphthopyran derivativesTetrahedron Letters 2012, 54 (45) 6055-6058

96. Combined thiourea dioxide-water: an effective reusable catalyst for the synthesis of polyhydroquinolines via Hantzsch multi-component couplingChem. Lett. 2012, 45 (9), 920-922

95. Sanny Verma, Neeraj Kumar, Suman L. Jain “Trans-bis(glycinato)copper(II): An efficient heterogeneous catalyst for cross coupling of phenols with aryl halides under solvent free conditions.Tetrahedron Letters 2012,:53 (35) 4665-4668

94. Sanny Verma and Suman L. Jain Thiourea dioxide in water as a recyclable catalyst for the synthesis of structurally diverse dihydropyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine-2,4-diones” Tetrahedron Letters 2012, 53(21) 2595-2600

93. Praveen K, Khatri, Suman L. Jain “Multiple oxo-vanadium Schiff base containing cyclotriphosphazene as a robust heterogeneous catalyst for regioselective oxidation of naphthols and phenols to quinones.Catalysis Letters 2012, 142, 1020-1025.

92. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain* “Chemically modified expended starch grafted Ni-acetylacetonate/TBAB: an effective reusable catalytic combination for the cycloaddition of carbon dioxide to epoxides”Catalysis Today 2012, 198, 204-208

91. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain “Complexation of KBr3 with poly(ethylene glycol): efficient bromination of aromatics under solvent-less conditions”Organic Chemistry: Current Research 2012, Volume 1 • Issue 2 • 1000105

90. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain “Metal Acetylacetonates as Highly Efficient and Cost Effective Catalysts for the Synthesis of Cyclic Carbonates from CO2 and Epoxides”Catalysis Letters 2012, 142, 615-618

89. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain, Bir Sain “Thiourea dioxide promoted cobalt-catalyzed hydrolysis of imines: dual activation via organocatalysis and metal catalysisRSC Advances 2012, 2, 789-791

88. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “A recyclable PEG-crowned potassium tribromide [{K+PEG}.Br3

-] for the synthesis of tetrabromobisphenol-A”International Journal of Industrial Chemistry, 2012, 3, 23

201187. Sanny Verma, Harshal P. Mungse,a Neeraj Kumar, Suman L. Jain*, Bir Sain, Om P. Khatri

“Graphene Oxide: an Efficient and Reusable Carbocatalyst for Aza-Michael Addition of Amines to Activated Alkenes.Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 12673-12675

86. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain*, Sweety Singhal and Bir Sain “Efficient Synthesis of 3,4-Dihydropyrimidinones in 1-n-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrachloroindate (BMI.InCl4)Indus.& Eng. Chem. Res, 2011, 50, 11463–11466

85. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “PEG-embedded KBr3: a recyclable catalyst for multicomponent coupling reaction for the efficient synthesis of functionalized piperidinesBeil. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 7, 1334-1341

84. Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Significant rate acceleration in carbonate synthesis from carbon dioxide and oxiranes using dimethyl carbonate as a recyclable medium Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52, 6957-6959

83. Sanny Verma, Subodh Kumar, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain Thiourea dioxide promoted efficient organocatalytic one-pot synthesis for the library of novel heterocyclic compoundsOrg. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9 (20), 6943 – 6948

82. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain*, Sweety Singhal and Bir Sain “An efficient 1-n-butyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrachloroindate catalyzed solvent free synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones. Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 2011, 50, 11463-66

81. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “An efficient biomaterial supported bifunctional organocatalyst (ES-SO3

-C5H5NH+) for the synthesis of β-amino carbonyls.Organic & Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 2314-2318.

80. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain Starch immobilized Ru-containing ionic liquid catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with hydrogen peroxide ChemCatChem 2011, 3, 1329-1332

79. Subodh Kumar, Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Thiourea dioxide (TUD): a robust organocatalyst for oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides with TBHP under mild reaction conditions” Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52, 3393-3396

78. Sanny Verma, Mahasweta Nandi, Arindam Modak, Suman L. Jain*, Asim Bhaumik “Novel organic-inorganic hybrid mesoporous silica supported oxo-vanadium Schiff base for selective oxidation of alcohols Advanced Synth. & Catal 2011, 353, 1897-1902

77. Praveen Khatri, Suman L. Jain*, S. Sivakumar and Bir Sain “Polyethylene glycol clicked Co(II) Schiff base and its catalytic activity for the oxidative dehydrogenation of secondary amines Organic & Biomol. Chem. 2011, 9, 3370-3374

76. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Poly(ethylene glycol) embedded potassium tribromide (PEG.KBr3) as a recyclable catalyst for oxidation of alcohols Indus. & Eng. Chem. Res. 2011, 50, 5862-5865

75. Suman. L. Jain*, Arindam Modak and Asim Bhaumik “Novel Mesoporous Silica Immobilized Bifunctional Organocatalyst via click chemistry for Michael addition reactionGreen Chem. 2011, 13, 586-590.

74. J. K. Joseph, S. Singhal, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Stereoselective Synthesis of endo-7-Halo-3-Oxo-2-Azabicyclo[4.1.0] Heptanes by Reductive hydrodehalogenation of gem-DihalocyclopropanesCurrent Organic Chemistry 2011, 15, 1230-1235.

73. Praveen K. Khatri, Bhawan Singh, Suman L. Jain*, A. K. Sinha and Bir Sain “Cyclotriphosphazene grafted silica: a novel support for immobilizing the oxo-vanadium Schiff base moieties for hydroxylation of benzeneChemical Communications 2011, 47, 1610-1612

72. Praveen Khati, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Ultrasound promoted oxidation of sulfides with hydrogen peroxide under catalyst free conditions Indus. & Eng. Chem. Res 2011, 50, 701-704

71. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Mild organic ammonium tribromide mediated regioselective ring opening of epoxides with alcohols, water, acetic anhydride and amines under solvent free reaction conditionsSynthetic Commun. 2011, 41, 1829-1837

2010

70. Sanny Verma, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “PEG-Embedded thiourea dioxide (PEG.TUD) as a novel organocatalyst for the direct synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinonesTetrahedron Letters 2010, 51, 6897-6900

69. B. S. Rana, Suman L. Jain*, Bhawan Singh, A. Bhaumik, Bir Sain and A. K. Sinha,”Click on silica: systematic immobilization of cobalt (II) Schiff base complexes to the mesoporous silica via click reaction and their catalytic activity for aerobic oxidation of alcohols Dalton Trans. 2010, 39, 760

68. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Covalently Anchored Polymer Immobilized Co(II) Phthalocyanine as Efficient Catalyst for Oxidation of Mercaptans using Molecular Oxygen as Oxidant” Ind. & Eng. Chem. Res. 2010, 49(14), 6674-6677.

67. Suman L. Jain*, B. S. Rana, Anil K. Sinha, Bhawan Singh, M. Nandi, Asim Bhaumik, Bir Sain. ”An improved high yielding immobilization of vanadium Schiff base complexes on mesoporous silica via azide-alkyne cycloaddition for the oxidation of sulfides”Green Chem. 2010, 12, 374

66. Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain N-Methylpyrrolidin-2-one hydrotribromide (MPHT): a versatile reagent for organic transformations Russian Chemical Reviews 2010, 79, 747-758

65. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Oxidative Cyanation of Amines Using Heterogeneous Iron Phthalocyanines” Synfacts 2010, 8, 967

64. S. Singhal, Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Heterogeneously catalyzed oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with sodium cyanide/hydrogen peroxide using polymer supported Fe (II) phthalocyanines as catalyst. Advanced Synthesis and Catalysis 2010, 352, 1338

63. Bhawan Singh, Suman L. Jain*, B. S. Rana, A. K. Sinha, Praveen K. Khatri and Bir Sain Covalently attached silica bound oxo-rhenium as a potent catalyst for the one-pot oxidative conversion of aldehydes and primary amines to nitrones using solid UHP as oxidant. ChemCatChem 2010, 10, 1188-1190

62. Jomy K. Joseph, Sweety Singhal; Suman L. Jain* and Bir Sain “Synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones in the presence of water under solvent free conditions using conventional heating, microwave irradiation/ultrasound Green Chem. Lett & Rev. 2010, 3, 23-26.

2009

61. Bhawan Singh, Suman L. Jain, Praveen Khatri,and Bir Sain “Nafion supported molybdenum oxychloride: An efficient and recyclable catalyst for one-pot synthesis of nitrones from primary amines and aldehydes under mild reaction conditions.Green Chem. 2009, 11, 1941.

60. Jomy K. Joseph, Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain, R. Sivakumaran, Basant Kumar and Bir Sain “Studies on vanadium catalyzed direct hydroxylation of aromatic hydrocarbons using hydrogen peroxide as oxidant.Catalysis Today 2009, 141, 211-214

59. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph, Fritz E. Kuehn, Oliver Reiser “An Efficient Synthesis of Poly (ethylene glycol) Supported Fe (II) Porphyrin Using a Click Reaction and its Catalytic Activity for the Olefination of Aldehydes. Adv. Syn. & Catal. 2009, 351, 230-234.

58. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “An efficient aerobic oxidative cyanation of tertiary amines with sodium cyanide using vanadium based systems as catalysts. Chem. Commun. 2009, 2371-2372.

2008

57. Suman L. Jain, V.V.D.N Prasad and Bir Sain “Alumina supported MoO3: An efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyridine-2(1H)-ones under solvent free conditionsCatal. Commun. 2008, 9, 499-503

56. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain, and Bir Sain “MoO3/Al2O3: An efficient and reusable heterogeneous catalyst for solvent free synthesis of Coumarins via Pecchman condensation Heterocycles 2008, 75, 1205-1211

55. Suman Jain and Oliver Reiser “Immobilization of Cobalt(II) Schiff Base Complexes on Polystyrene Resin and a Study of Their Catalytic Activity for the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols.ChemSusChem 2008, 1, 534-541

54. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Alumina Supported MoO3: An Efficient and Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst for Regioselective Ring Opening of Epoxides with Thiols, Acetic Anhydride and Alcohols under solvent free conditionChem. Lett 2008, 37, 620-621

53. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “An efficient approach for immobilizing the oxo-vanadium Schiff base onto polymer supports using Staudinger ligation Adv. Syn. & Catal. 2008, 350, 1479-1483

52. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Oxidation of sulfides with polymer supported oxo-vanadium catalyst Synfacts 2008, 10, 1117

2007

51. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph, Bir Sain: Alumina supported MoO3: An efficient and recyclable catalyst for selective oxidation of tertiary nitrogen compounds to N-oxides using anhydrous TBHP as oxidant under mild reaction conditions Catalysis Letters 2007, 115, 8-12.

50. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Alumina supported MoO3 as a highly efficient and recyclable heterogeneous catalyst for the chemoselective acetylation of alcohols, phenols amines and thiols with acetic anhydride under solvent free conditions”J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2007, 268, 108-111.

49. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph, Sweety Singhal, Bir Sain “Metallophthalocyanines (MPcs) as efficient heterogeneous catalysts for Biginelli condensation: Application and comparison in catalytic activity of different MPcs for one pot synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidin-2-(1H)-ones.J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2007, 268, 134-138.

48. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain, V.V.D.N Prasad and Bir Sain “An environmentally friendly oxidation system for selective oxygenation of aldimines to oxaziridines with anhydrous TBHP using alumina supported MoO3 as recyclable herterogeneous catalyst”Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2007, 2051–2054

47. Suman L. Jain, Sweety Singhal and Bir Sain “PEG-Assisted solvent and catalyst free synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones under mild reaction conditions”Green Chem. 2007, 7, 740-741

46. Suman L. Jain, Sweety Singhal and Bir Sain “[Bmim]BF4- immobilized rhenium-catalyzed highly efficient oxygenation of aldimines to oxaziridines using solid peroxides as oxidants”J. Organometallic Chem. 2007, 692, 2930-2935

45. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph and Bir Sain “Ionic liquid promoted an improved synthesis of 3,4-dihydropyrimidinones using [bmim]BF4 immobilized Cu (II) acetylacetonate as recyclable catalytic system.Catalysis Letters 2007, 115, 52-55.

44. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Novel transition metal free oxidation of aromatic aldehydes to carboxylic acids using N-methylpyrrolidin-2-one hydrotribromide (MPHT) as catalyst and hydrogen peroxide as oxidant.Catal. Commun. 2007, 8, 83-87.

2006

43. Suman L. Jain, Bir Sain: Ionic liquid promoted highly efficient aziridination of alkenes with Chloramine-T using N-bromosuccinimide as catalyst.Green Chem. 2006, 8, 943-946

42. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma, and Bir Sain “Ruthenium-Catalyzed Biginelli Condensation: A Simple and Efficient One-Pot Synthesis of 3,4-Dihydropyrimidin-2(1H)-ones under Mild Reaction Conditions”J. Heterocyclic Chem. 2006, 43, 777-779.

41. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Metallophthalocyanines Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of Olefins with Trimethylsilyl diazomethane: A Facile and Stereoselective Synthesis of Silylcyclopropanes”Catal. Commun. 2006, 7, 454-456.

40. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “N-Methylpyrolidin-2-One hydrotribromide (MPHT) as a New and Efficient Reagent for the Oxidation of Sulfides to Sulfoxides and Sulfones”Synth. Commun. 2006, 36, 2743-2747

39. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph and Bir Sain “N-Methylpyrrolidine-2-one hydrotribromide: An efficient and new catalyst for the aziridination of alkenes using Chloramine-T under solvent free conditions."J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2006, 256, 16-20

38. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Highly efficient and selective oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones under organic solvent and transition metal free conditionsTetrahedron 2006, 62, 6841-6847.

37. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma, Bir Sain “Methyltrioxorhenium and sodium bromide catalyzed oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds with H2O2 using [bmim]BF4 ionic liquid as novel recyclable green solventBull Chem. Soc. Jpn 2006, 1601

36. Suman L. Jain, Jomy K. Joseph and Bir Sain “Rhenium catalyzed highly efficient oxidations of tertiary nitrogen compounds to N- oxides using sodium percarbonate as oxygen source.”Synlett 2006, 2661

35. Sweety Singhal, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain: A Simple and Improved Regioselective Bromination of Aromatic Compounds using N-Methylpyrolidin-2-one hydrotribromide and Aqueous Hydrogen Peroxide under mild Reaction Conditions.J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2006, 258, 198-202

34. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Oxidation of Alcohols and vic-Diols with H2O2 using Catalytic Amounts of N-Methylpyrrolidin-2-one Hydrotribromide”Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2006, 590-594

33. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Perfluorinated Resinsulphonic acid (Nafion-HR) Catalyzed highly Efficient Oxidations of Organic Compounds with Hydrogen Peroxide”Applied Catal. A. Gen 2006, 301, 259-264.

32. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “V2O5-O2 As a Simple and Efficient Protocol for the Oxidative Coupling of 2-Naphthols to Binaphthols under mild Reaction ConditionsCatal. Commun. 2006, 7, 184-187.

31. Jomy K. Joseph, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Ion Exchange Resins as Recyclable and Heterogeneous Solid Acid Catalysts for the Biginelli Condensation: An Improved Protocol for the Synthesis of 3,4-Dihydropyrimidin-2-ones”J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem 2006, 247, 99-102.

30. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “An Efficient Transition Metal Free Oxidation of Benzylic Aad Secondary Alcohols to The Carbonyl Compounds Using N-Bromosuccinimide/ NH4Cl SystemSynth. Commun. 2006, 36, 1459–1462

29. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Copper Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydropyridin-2-ones with Trimethyl-silyldiazomethane: A Facile and Selective Synthesis of 2-Aza-3-oxobicyclo[4.1.0]heptanesHeterocycles 2006, 68, 475-481

200528. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain. “An Unusual Copper Catalyzed Iodine Mediated

Aziridination of Olefins With The Direct Use Of P-ToluenesulphonamideSynth. Commun. 2005, 35, 9-13

27. Vishal B. sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “A New and Efficient Transition Metal Free Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols to Ketones using Aqueous HBr and H2O2”Synlett, 2005, 1, 173-175.

26. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “Ruthenium Catalyzed Oxidation of 1,2-Diols to 1,2-Diketones using Bromamine-T as Oxidizing Agent”Synth. Commun. 2005, 35, 465-469

25. Virender, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Indium-mediated highly efficient cyclopropanation of olefins using CH2I2 as methylene transfer reagent Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 37-38.

24. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L Jain and Bir Sain “Ruthenium Catalyzed Imidation of Aldehydes using PhI=NTs as Imido Transfer ReagentJ. Chem Res (S) 2005, 182-183

23. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “Ruthenium Catalyzed Imido-Transfer Reactions of Aldehydes: An Easy Access to N-Sulfonyl Aldimines under mild Reaction Conditions.J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem, 2005, 239, 92-95

2004

22. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L Jain and Bir Sain “An Efficient Cobalt (II) Catalyzed Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols to Carbonyl Compounds with N-Bromosuccinimide”J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2004, 227, 47-49.

21. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Copper Catalyzed Cyclopropanation of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydropyridin -2-ones with Diazoacetates. A Facile and Stereoselective Synthesis of 3-Oxo-2-azabicyclo [4.1.0] heptanes.J. Mol. Catal. A :Chem. 2004, 212, 91-98.

20. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Cobalt (II) Schiff Base catalyzed aerobic oxidation of secondary alcohols to ketones”J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2004, 212, 55-59.

19. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “Methyltrioxorhenium Catalyzed Oxidation of 1,2-Diols to 1,2-Diketones Using Hydrogen Peroxide as Oxidant.Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 1233-1235.

18. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Metallophthalocyanines as Potent Catalysts for Cyclopropanation of Olefins with Ethyldiazoacetate”Catalysis Lett. 2004, 94, 57-59

17. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Bromamine-T/ RuCl3 as an Efficient System for the Oxidation of Tertiary Amines to N-OxidesTetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 4281-4283.

16. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain A Novel Imido-Transfer Reactions of Aldehydes with Ph3P=NTs using RuCl2(PPh3)3 as Catalyst”Tetrahedron Lett. 2004, 45, 4341-4343.

15. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Copper (II) Schiff Base Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of 2- Naphthols to BinaphtholsJ. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2004, 219, 61-64.

14. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “An Efficient Method for the Olefination of Aldehydes with Ethyl diazoacetate using Iron (II) phthalocyanine as Catalyst.Catalysis Lett. 2004, 98, 141-143.

13. Suman. L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “An Efficient Transition Metal Free Aziridination of Alkenes with Chloramine-T using aqueous H2O2 / HBr.Tetrahedron Lett., 2004, 45, 8731-8732

2003

12. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Aziridination of Alkenes Using N-Iodo-N-potassio-p-toluenesulphonamide as Nitrene Precursor.Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 575-577

11. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Cobalt Phthalocyanine Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Secondary Alcohols: An Efficient and Simple Synthesis of Ketones.Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 383-386.

10. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “An Unconventional Cobalt Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Tertiary Nitrogen Compounds to N-Oxides”Angew. Chem. Int. Edit. 2003, 42, 1265-1267.

9. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Metal Phthalocyanines as Potent Catalysts for Aziridination of Olefins. J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem. 2003, 195, 283-287

8. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Methyltrioxorhenium Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Organonitrogen Compounds. Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 3235-3237

7. Vishal B. Sharma, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Methyltrioxorhenium Catalyzed Oxidative Coupling of 2-Naphthols to BinaphtholsTetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 2655-2656

6. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “Copper Catalyzed Imination of Pyridines using PhI=NTs as Nitrene Precursor.Tetrahedron Lett. 2003, 44, 4385-4387

5. Suman L. Jain, Vishal B. Sharma and Bir Sain “Methyltrioxorhenium Catalyzed Oxidative Cleavage of α-Hydroxycarbonyl Compounds to Carboxylic acids with Hydrogen Peroxide”Synth. Commun 2003, 33, 3875-3878

2002

4. T. V. Rao, K. Narasimha Rao, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Cobalt Phthalocyanine Mediated Aerobic Oxidation of Thiols: A Simple and Convenient Preparation of Disulphides.

Synth. Commun. 2002, 32(8), 1151-11573. T. V. Rao, Rajendra S. Dongre, Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Iron (III)–Ethylenediaminetetraacetic

acid Mediated Aerobic Oxidation of -Hydroxyketones: A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of -Diketones.Synth. Commun. 2002, 32(17), 2637-2641

2. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Ruthenium Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of Tertiary Nitrogen Compounds With Molecular Oxygen: An Easy Access to N-Oxides Under Mild Conditions.Chem. Commun. 2002, 10, 1040-1041

2001

1. Suman L. Jain and Bir Sain “Cobalt Phthalocyanine tetrasulphonamide Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidation of -Hydrodxyketones: An Efficient and Simple Synthesis of -DiketonesJ. Mol. Catal, A: Chem, 2001, 176, 101-104.

Patents (Indian and Foreign):List of foreign patents

S. No

Country Title Inventors Comp. Filing Date

Application No. Grant Date Patent No.

1 USA Process for direct hydroxylation of aromatic hydrocarbons

Jain Suman Lata, Joseph Jomy K, Singhal Sweety, Sain Bir, Sivakumaran Ragunathan, Kumar Basant

30/10/2008 12/261351 24/08/2010 7781622

2 USA A process for microwave assisted synthesis of n-methyl pyrrolidone

Praveen Kumar Khatri; Suman Lata Jain; A K Chaterjee, Bir Sain

14/477,075 4-9-2014 28-7-2015 9,09,0560

3 USA A composition for the calorimetric detection of water in hydrocarbon fuels and a process for the preparation thereof

Praveen K. Khatri, Suman L Jain, Indrajit K Ghosh, Umesh Kumar, A K Chatterjee, M O Garg

14/594,873 12-1-2015 US 20150198576 A1

4 USA An improved process for the production of tertiary butyl phenols

Praveen Kumar Khatri, Suman L Jain, Indrajit Kumar Ghosh

14/955,607, 1-12-2015 6-9-2016 9434668B1

5 USA An improved process for the production of 1,3-butadiene

Umesh Kumar, Indrajit K. Ghosh, Suman L. Jain

28-3-2016

List of Indian Patents

S. No Title Inventors Date of filing Application No.

1 Process for oxidative desulphurization of liquid hydrocarbon fuels by using organosulphonic acid-h2o2 as oxidation system

Jain Suman Lata, Sharma Vishal Bharat, Bir Sain, Nautiyal Bhagat Ram, Nanoti Shrikant Madhusudan, Sharma Yogendra Kumar,Dharam Paul, T V Rao, M O Garg, A K Gupta

20/07/2005 1893DEL2005

2 Process for oxidative desulphurization of liquid hydrocarbon fuels by using carboxylic acids urea-H2O2 adduct as oxidation system

Bir Sain, Jain Suman Lata, Sharma Vishal Bharat, Nautiyal Bhagat Ram, Tumula Venkateshwar Rao, Dharam Pal, Sharma Yogendra Kumar, Nanoti Shrikant Madhusudan, Garg Madhukar Onkarnath, Gupta Ashok Kumar, Khanna Mhan Krishan

20/07/2005 1892DEL2005

3 A process for direct hydroxylation of aromatic hydrocarbons

Jain Suman Lata, Joseph Jomy K, Singhal Sweety, Sain Bir, Sivakumaran Ragunathan, Kumar Basant

--- 0204DEL2008

4 A process for covalent immobilization of oxidation catalyst

Jain Suman Lata, Sinha Anil Kumar, Singh Bhawan, Rana Bharat Singh, Khatri Praveen Kumar, Sain Bir

13/08/2010 1899DEL2010

5 An improved process for the preparation of tetrabromobisphenol-a

Jain Suman Lata, Verma Sanny, Sain Bir

02/11/2010 2620DEL2010

6 An improved process for the selective separation of linear terminal olefins and n-paraffins from a coker distillate

Indrajit K Ghosh, Suman Lata Jain, Jagdish Kumar, A K Chatterjee, Bir Sain

12-10-2012 3192Del2012

7 An improved process for the production of gamma-butyrolactone

P Padmalatha, Parveen Kumar Khatri, Suman Lata Jain, A K Chatterjee, Bir Sain

30-01-2013 0248Del2013

8 An improved process for the production of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP)

P. Padma Latha, Praveen K. Khatri, Umesh Kumar, Indrajit K. Ghosh, Suman L. Jain, Alok K. Chatterjee, Bir Sain

4-9-2013 2616DEL2013

9 Process for microwave assisted synthesis of N-methyl pyrrolidone

Praveen Kumar Khatri, Suman Lata Jain , Alok K. Chatterjee, Bir Sain

4-9-2013 2617DEL2013

10 An improved method for the colorimetric detection of water in hydrocarbon fuels

Praveen K. Khatri, Suman L Jain, Indrajit K Ghosh, Umesh Kumar, A K Chatterjee, M O Garg

13-1-2014 93Del 2014

11 A process for the free radical polymerization of vinyl monomers using chicken feather keratin as catalyst

P. Padma Latha, Ankushi Bansal, Indu Shekhar, Umesh Kumar, Suman L. Jain, S S Ray, Alok K. Chatterjee

1-4-2014 0938DEL2014

12 An improved process for the production of tertiary butyl phenols

Praveen Kumar Khatri,, Suman L Jain, Indrajit Kumar Ghosh

9-4-2015 992Del2015

13 An improved process for the production of N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP)

Indrajit K. Ghosh, Suman L. Jain, Praveen K. Khatri, S S Ray, M O Garg

31-7-2015India, PCT

2353Del2015

14 An improved process for the production of 1,3-butadiene

Umesh Kumar, Indrajit K. Ghosh, Suman L. Jain

7-10-2016 201611034417

15. Covalently bound chicken feather grafted enzymes, preparation thereof and application as biocatalyst

Sunil K. Suman, Padma P Patnam, Suman L. Jain 15-12-2016

201611042735

16 Metal salts of amino acids, their preparation and uses for co-polymerization of epoxides with carbon dioxide

Padma Latha Patnam, Pawan Kumar, Suman Lata Jain, S S Ray

28-10-2016 201611037018