Misba Siddique

Dynamic guest lecturer with a passion for inspiring students at Maharani’s Science College for Women. Good knowledge of scientific techniques, including GC-MS and FT-NMR, while fostering an engaging learning environment. Recognized for exceptional communication skills and adaptability, enhancing student understanding and performance through innovative course materials.

• Best Poster Award in 20th European Organic Chemistry Congress-2024, Paris, France.
• Best Poster Award in Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry-XXI (MTIC-2024), IIT Kharagpur.
• Qualified CSIR-NET 2019 (All India ranking 108)
• Qualified KSET-2018
• Professor C. Anjanamurthy's gold medal for securing the highest marks in M. Sc chemistry.
• Sathyabhama Devi Roy Endowment Gold Medal for securing the highest marks in Organic Chemistry in M.Sc.
• Qualified National Means-cum-Merit Scholarship Exam (NMMS) 2010
• State-level debate champion 2011, 2015

• Date of Birth: 11/17/94
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married
• Religion: Islam

• Urdu
• Hindi
• Kannada
• English

• Heteroditopic Chelating NHC Ligand-Supported CoIII Complexes: Catalysts for the Reductive Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide under Ambient Conditions, Misba Siddique, Biswaranjan Boity, Arnab Rit, Organometallics, 2023, 42, 1395, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.2c00670
• Control over Borrowing Hydrogen and Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling Process for the CoIII-NHC Catalysed Chemoselective Alkylation and Cyclisation of 1, 2 Phenylenediamine with Alcohols, Misba Siddique, Biswaranjan Boity, Arnab Rit, Catal. Sci. Technol., 2023, 13, 7172, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CY01235B
• CobaltIII Complexes of Pyridine-Functionalized Chelating NHC Ligands: Effective Catalysts for the Olefination of Alcohols Using Sulfones, Misba Siddique, Mehali Das, Arnab Rit, Organometallics, 2024, 43, 1482, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.organomet.4c00184
• Study on the Effect of Auxiliary Ligands in CoIII-NHC Complexes Towards Alkylation of Amines Using Alcohols, Misba Siddique, Biswaranjan Boity, Arnab Rit, J. Organomet. Chem., 2025, 1027, 123479, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jorganchem.2024.123479
• Amine-functionalized Bifunctional CoIII-NHC Complexes: Highly Effective Phosphine-free Catalysts for the α-alkylation of Nitriles, Biswaranjan Boity, Misba Siddique, Arnab Rit, Chem. Commun., 2024, 60, 3142, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC05454C
• N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Supported Nickel-Catalyzed Selective (Un)Symmetrical N-Alkylation of Aromatic Diamines with Alcohols, S. N. R. Reddy, Misba Siddique, Arnab Rit, J. Org. Chem., 2023, 1027, 123479, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.2c02639

• Dr. Arnab Rit, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036, arnabrit@iitm.ac.in
• Dr. Sundargopal Ghosh, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036, sghosh@iitm.ac.in
• Dr. Kartik Chandra Mondal, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, Chennai, 600036, csdkartik@iitm.ac.in

• Reading books and newspapers
• Drawing
• Cooking

• Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry-XXI (MTIC-2024), Kharagpur, 2024, Best Poster Award
• 20th European Organic Chemistry Congress, Paris, France, 2024, Best Poster Award
• 30th International Conference on Organometallic Chemistry (ICOMC-2024), Agra, 2024
• Frontiers in Sustainable Catalysis and Organometallics (FISCO-2024), Jaipur, 2024
• Chemistry in house symposium (CiHS-2023), IITM, Chennai, 2023
• 31st CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry (CRSI-2023), Rourkela, 2023
• National level conference on innovations in chemical science, Mysore, Karnataka, 2020
• Three-day webinar held on recent trends in science, Mysore, Karnataka, 2020

Batch Reactions (Air and moisture sensitive reactions from milligram to gram scale synthesis), Autoclave Reactions, Freeze-pump-thaw degassing of solvents, Glovebox (MBRAUN), GC-MS, FT-NMR, Schlenk line technique, Rotary evaporator, JULABO Immersion Cooler,  Centrifuge tube machine, MNOVA, TopSpin, ChemDraw, Origin, SSH, FT-IR, multinuclear FT-NMR, Mass Spectrometry, XRD

• Synthesis of Nickel Complexes for The Activation of Small Molecules Having Inert Chemical Bond C-F via Catalytic C-X (X= B, H) Bond Formation Reactions.
• A Simple Concerted Synthesis and Functionalization of 2-Methylquinoline and 2-Aminoquinoline Derivatives Using a Single Cobalt-NHC Complex.
• Synthesis of Various Heteroditopic Chelating NHC Ligand Systems and Corresponding Supported Cobalt-Complexes: Catalysts for The Reductive Functionalization of Carbon Dioxide Under Ambient Conditions.
• Designing a Chemoselective Alkylation and Cyclisation of 1,2-Phenylenediamine with Alcohols by Control over Borrowing Hydrogen (BH) and Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Coupling (ADC) Process by using CoIII-NHC complexes.
• Synthesis of CobaltIII Complexes of Pyridine Functionalized Chelating NHC Ligands: Effective Catalysts for the Olefination of Alcohols Using Sulphones.
• Study on the Effect of Auxiliary Ligands in CoIII-NHC Complexes Towards Alkylation of Amines Using Alcohols.
• Synthesis of Amine-functionalized Bifunctional CoIII-NHC Complexes: Highly Effective Phosphine-free Catalysts for the α-alkylation of Nitriles.
• Synthesis of N-Heterocyclic Carbene-Supported Nickel-Catalyst for Selective (Un)Symmetrical N-Alkylation of Aromatic Diamines with Alcohols.

• Reading newspapers, current affairs, cooking, cleaning, watching cricket matches, and listening to music, and inspirational talks