Research Interest

Computational Organic Chemistry, Computational Asymmetric Catalysis, Heterobimetallic Catalysis, Enzyme Catalysis, Catalyst Design.

  Academic Background

Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. (Advisor: Prof. Raghavan. B. Sunoj)
M.Sc.: Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India.
Integrated B.Sc.B.Ed.: Regional Institute of Education, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.

  Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Bhilai, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India, 10th March 2023-Continuing.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, IIT Patna, Bihar, India, 3rd January 2023-9th March 2023.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Utkal University, Odisha, India, 17th December 2014-2nd January 2023.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, 18th August 2019-26th August 2020 ( Advisor: Prof. Sason Shaik).

  Sponsored projects:

Title	Principal Investigator	Sponsored by	Status
Transition State Modeling on Cooperative Multi- Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions	Dr. Hemanta Kumar Kisan	Government of Odisha Science and Technology Department	Ongoing
Understanding P450 Enzyme Catalysis and harnessing the Origin of Selectivity for Enzyme/Biomimetic Catalyst Design using DFT and QM/MM Computation	Dr. Hemanta Kumar Kisan	Utkal University, Odisha under WB-OHEPEE Programme	Ongoing

  Awards:

Institute Excellence in PhD Thesis Award 2017."Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India"
Junior Research Fellowship 2010, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.

  Selected Publications

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1542-9021

1)	Jena, S.; Tulsiyan, K. D.; Kar, R. K.; Kisan, H. K.; Biswal H. S. "Doubling Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Efficiency in Proteins with Extrinsic 2-Thioamide Probes: Implications to Thio-modified Nucleobases." Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 4373.
2)	Kumar, A.;Kisan, H. K.; Huynh, H. V. "Reactivity Studies and Electronic Properties of an N-Arylated Acyclic Amino Carbene." Organometallics 2021, 40, 1699.
3)	Pradhan, K. C.; Kisan, H. K.; Pal, S."Unexpected ortho C-H bond activation in coordinated 7,8-benzoquinoline: Synthesis and characterisation of heteroleptic Ir(III)-7,8-benzoquinoline complexes." RSC Adv. 2021, 11, 12578.
4)	Kalita, S.; Shaik, S.; Kisan, H. K.; Dubey, K. D. "A Paradigm Shift in the Catalytic Cycle of P450-The Preparatory Choreography During O2 Binding, and Origins of the Necessity for Two Protonation Pathways." ACS Catal., 2020, 10, 11481.
5)	Pareek, S.; Jain, D.; Hussain, S.; Biswas, A.; Shrivastava, R.; Parida, S. K.; Kisan, H. K.; Lgaz, H.; Chung, I.-M.; Behera, D."A New Insight into Corrosion Inhibition Mechanism of Copper in Aerated 3.5% (by weight) NaCl Solution by Eco-friendly Imidazopyrimidine Dye: Experimental and Theoretical Approach." Chemical Engineering Journal 2019, 358, 725.
6)	Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B. "Insights on the Origin of Regiodivergence in the Parallel Kinetic Resolution of rac-Aziridines using a Chiral Lanthanum-Yttrium Bimetallic Catalyst." ACS Catal., 2018, 8, 7633.
7)	Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B. "Asymmetric Cooperative Catalysis in a Three-Component Reaction: Mechanism and Origin of Enantio- and Diastereoselectivities." Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 3746.
8)	Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B. "Axial Coordination Dichotomy in Dirhodium Carbenoid Catalysis: A Curious Case of Cooperative Asymmetric Dual-Catalytic Approach toward Amino Ester." J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 2192.
9)	Jindal, G.; Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B. "Mechanistic Insights on Cooperative Catalysis through Computational Quantum Chemical Methods." ACS Catal., 2015, 5, 480.
10)	Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B. "Deciphering the Origin of Cooperative Catalysis by Dirhodium Acetate and Chiral Spiro Phosphoric Acid in an Asymmetric Amination Reaction." Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 14639.
11)	Kolay, S.; Wadawale, A.; Das, D.; Kisan, H. K.; Sunoj, R. B.; Jain, V. K. "Cyclopalladation of dimesityl selenide:synthesis, reactivity, structural characterization, isolation os an intermediate complex with C-H...Pd intra-molecular interaction and computational studies." Dalton Trans., 2013, 42, 10828.