Ashis Kumar Jena

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EXPERTISE INFORMATION

Research Group

Organic Synthesis and Nano Chemistry

Areas of Interest

1. Organic Synthesis (N-Heterocycle Synthesis, New Methodology Development and Catalysis) 2. Nano Chemistry (Nano Catalysis, Nano Sensor and Nano Medicines)

Dr. Ashis Kumar Jena

Assistant Professor-III, Chemistry

M.Sc.,Ph.D. (NIT,Rourkela)

jenaashis016@gmail.com

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PERSONAL INFORMATION

Dr. Ashis Kumar Jena, currently holds the position of Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemistry, MSCB University, Baripada, Odisha, India, since 2016. He received his Ph.D. (Organic Chemistry) in 2014 from NIT Rourkela and joined as an assistant professor at Centurion University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha in 2014. Subsequently he was joined as an Ad-hoc faculty at NIT Jamshedpur and continued from 2014 to 2016 before joining at MSCBU. The research interest of his group includes organic synthesis and nano chemistry. With more than 17 years of research experience and 12 years of teaching experience, he has published 21 scopous as well as web of science indexed international journals. Dr. Jena has undertaken 05 sponsored research projects as Principal Investigator/Co-Investigator, and acted as a active member of DST-FIST programme (2019-24) of Department of Chemistry, MSCBU. Under his supervision, 02 students are awarded PhD, 01 is submitted thesis and 04 are continuing. He has authored 01 book published by leading scientific publishing house. He served as reviewer for many international journals like ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, ACS Applied Nano Materials, Chem Cat Chem, Nanoscale Advances, Analyst, Analytical Methods and ACS Applied Optical Materials etc.

Dr. Jena is a Community Associate member of the American Chemical Society, Affiliate member of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and Life member, Orissa Chemical Society as well as Society for Materials Chemistry, India. He is the recipient of Prof. R. C. Tripathy Memorial Award-2024 (contributions in chemical sciences) from the Orissa Chemical Society.

Research Group: Organic Synthesis and Nano Chemistry

  • Organic Synthesis (N-Heterocycle Synthesis, New Methodology Development and Catalysis)
  • Nano Chemistry (Nano Catalysis, Nano Sensor and Nano Medicines)

  • Ph.D., NIT Rourkela, 2014
  • M.Sc., Utkal University, 2008

  • Assistant Professor (Stage III), MSCB University, May 2025 – Cont.
  • Assistant Professor (Stage II), MSCB University, May 2020 – May 2025
  • Assistant Professor (Stage I), MSCB University (Erstwhile North Orissa University) May 2016 – May 2020
  • SERB Start-up Fellow, NIT Jamshedpur , March 2016 – April 2016
  • Ad-hoc Faculty, NIT Jamshedpur, August 2014 – March 2016
  • Asst. Professor, Centurion University, March 2014 – July 2014

  • Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Ashis Kumar Jena,⃰ Simon Watre Sangma, Milan Kumar Dey and Cuckoo Mahapatra, Solvatochromic propargyl-modified carbon dots as a fluorometric dual sensor for Pd (II) and water in organic solvents, New Journal of Chemistry, 2026, doi: 10.1039/d6nj01587e(Impact Factor-2.6)
  • Biswajit Mohapatra, Swagatika Sahu,* Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Ashis Kumar Jena, Room Temperature Synthesized carbon dots as fluorescence/smartphone assisted colorimetric sensor for Mitoxantrone, ChemistrySelect, 2026 (Accepted) (Impact Factor-2.3)
  • Sanhita Swain,Swagatika Dehury, Indrani Mohanty, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Swagatika Sahu,*Ashis Kumar Jena,* Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots with antibacterial activity for dual mode Fluorescence and Smartphone-assisted colorimetry detection of Epirubicin, Analytical Methods, 2026, 3198 (Impact Factor-3.0)
  • Chinmaya Chirasundar Behera, Milan Kumar Dey, and Ashis Kumar Jena* High-Yielding Green Emissive Carbon Dots as Band-Shifted Fluorescence-Enhancing Sensor for Cd(II), Analysis & Sensing 2026, 6, e202500105. https://doi.org/10.1002/anse.202500105(Impact Factor-3.3)
  • Sanhita Swain,Ashis Kumar Jena,*Arakshita Majhi and Swagatika Sahu*Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots for Ratiometric Fluorescence/Colorimetry/Smartphone-Based Detection of Daunorubicin, ChemistrySelect, 2025, 10, e02033(Impact Factor-2.3)
  • Sanhita Swain, and Ashis Kumar Jena,* Green synthesis of N,S-doped carbon dots from Giloy stem for fluorimetry detection  of  4-nitrophenol,  triple-mode  detection  of  congo  red  and  anti-oxidant applications, ACS Omega, 2025, 10, 5874 (Impact Factor-5.2, Citation – 07)
  • Gayatree Panda, Swagatika Dehury, Himadri Gourav Behuria, Bijesh Kumar Biswal, Ashis Kumar Jena, Indrani Mohanty, Sasmita Hotta, Santosh Kumar Padhi, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Gymnema saponin-induced lipid flip-flop identifies rigid membrane phenotype of methicillin resistant S. aureus and enhances it’s antibiotic susceptibility,Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 2025, 765, 110303 (Impact Factor-3.5, Citation – 01)
  • Dibya Das, Tanmayee Mohanta, and Ashis Kumar Jena,*Reusable Cu Nanoparticles Catalysed Synthesis of Aryl Substituted Fluorescent Pyrazines for Iron Sensing and Ink Applications, European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2024, 24, ejoc202400259 (Impact Factor-2.8, Citation – 03) Highlighted in Synfact (2025, 21, 02, 174)
  • Tanmayee Mohanta, Himadri Gaurav Behuria, Santosh Kumar Sahu, Ashis Kumar Jena,*and Swagatika Sahu,*Green Synthesis of N,S-Doped Carbon Dots for Tartrazine Detection and Antibacterial Activity, Analyst, 2023, 148, 5597-5604 (Impact Factor – 3.6, Citation – 23) Featured as a Cover Page
  • Sanhita Swain, Ashis Kumar Jena,* and Tanmayee Mohanta, Ratiometric Fluorescence/Colorimetry/Smartphone Triple-Mode Real-Time Detection of Doxorubicin by Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Dots, ACS Applied Optical Materials, 2023, 1, 1236−1244 (Impact Factor – 3.4, Citation – 19)
  • Chandan Kumar Pal and Ashis Kumar Jena,* Ce-catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of Substituted Pyrazole from 1,2-Diols via Tandem Oxidation and C-C/C-N Bond Formation, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2023, 21, 59-64(Impact Factor-2.8, Citation-13)
  • Dibya Das, Ashis Kumar Jena,* Chandan Kumar Pal, Laurens Bourda, Kristof Van Hecke, CuI Nanoparticles-Catalyzed Regioselective Synthesis of 3-Nitro-2-arylimidazo[1,2-a]pyridines using Oxygen as Oxidant, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2022, 11, e2021007- e2021011(Impact Factor – 2.3, Citation-10)
  • Himadri Gourav Behuria, Gandarvakottai Senthilkumar Arumugam, Chandan Kumar Pal, Ashis Kumar Jena, and Santosh Kumar Sahu*, Lipid Flip-Flop-Inducing Antimicrobial Phytochemicals from Gymnemasylvestre are Bacterial Membrane Permeability Enhancers, ACS Omega, 2021, 6, 35667-35678.(Impact Factor – 5.2, Citation – 10)
  • Chandan Kumar Pal, Ashis Kumar Jena,*Dibya Das,Swagatika Sahu,** Rajesh Kumar Singh,Triethanolamine-Mediated Magnetically Separable Fe3O4-Pd Nanoparticles Catalyzed Heck Reaction under Ligand-Free Conditions, ChemistrySelect, 2021, 6, 7944-7949. (Impact Factor – 2.3, Citation: 12)
  • Chandan Kumar Pal, Swagatika Sahu, Ranjan Kumar Sahu, Rajesh Kumar Singh, Ashis Kumar Jena,* Magnetically Recyclable Palladium Nanoparticles (Fe3O4-Pd) for Oxidative Coupling between Amides with Olefins at Room Temperature, Applied Organometallic Chemistry, 2019, 33, e4985(Impact Factor = 4.3, Citation = 08)
  • Ashis Kumar Jena* and Swagatika Sahu,Review on Fe-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom oxidative coupling reactions: En route to heterocycles. J. Chem. Pharm. Res., 2017, 9(10), 315-341.
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis Kumar Jena, Cu/Fe-catalyzed carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom cross-coupling reactions, Organic Chemistry: Current Research, 2015, 4, 1-21. (Impact Factor = 1.97, Total Citation = 15)
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis Kumar Jena, Fe-Catalyzed one-pot synthesis of 1,3- and 1,3,5-  substituted pyrazoles from hydrazones and vicinal diols, J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 9401-9406. (Impact Factor = 3.3, Total Citation = 97) Highlighted in SYNFACT, 2013, 9, 28, Highlighted in Organic Chemistry Portal, 2013
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra, Heterogeneous magnetic catalyst for S-arylation reactions, Appl. Catal. A- Gen. 2012, 433-434, 258-264. (Impact Factor = 4.8, Total Citation = 53)
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis K. Jena, M. Raghavender, Stereoselective Synthesis of Enamides by Palladium Catalyzed Coupling of Amides with Electron Deficient Olefins, ACS Catalysis 2012, 2, 539-543. (Impact Factor = 13.6, Total Citation = 41)
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra, Ligand-free Fe-Cu Cocatalyzed  Cross-Coupling of Terminal Alkynes with aryl halides, Chem. Lett. 2011, 40, 956-958.   (Paper in celebration for the 2010 Novel Prize in Chemistry, Also highlighted in Chem. Abstr. 148, 144205, 2008) (Impact Factor = 1.1, Total Citation = 39)
  • Niranjan Panda,*Ashis Kumar Jena, Sasmita Mohapatra, Smruti Ranjan Rout, Copper ferrite nanoparticle mediated N-arylation of heterocycles: A ligand free reaction, Tetrahedron Lett. 2011, 52, 1924-1927 (Impact Factor = 1. 4, Total Citation = 160). Highlighted in SYNFACT, 2011, 686)
  • N Panda,* S. Karmakar, A. K. Jena, Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some novel   pyrazolopyridine derivatives, Chem. Het. Comp. 2010, 46, 1500-1508. (Impact Factor = 1.2, Total Citation = 41) Highlighted in ChemInfom Abstract, 2011, 42, 39

  • Paper Code: CH – 103
    Paper Name: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-I
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: —
    Paper Name: POLYMER CHEMISTRY
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 202
    Paper Name: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY-II
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 303
    Paper Name: ORGANIC SYNTHESIS – I
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 304
    Paper Name: ORGANIC GENERAL PRACTICAL
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 401
    Paper Name: SPECTROSCOPY-II
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 402
    Paper Name: ORGANIC SYNTHESIS – II
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE
  • Paper Code: CH – 403
    Paper Name: PRACTICAL
    Teaching Years: 2016-CONTINUE

  • Nodal Officer, Internship and Community Service Program (10.6.2026-onwards)
  • Member, IQAC/NAAC, MSCB University (27.04.2026 onwards)
  • Member, Incubation Centre, MSCB University (27.04.2026 onwards)
  • Member, R & D Cell, MSCB University (27.04.2026 onwards)
  • Member, Website Development Committee, MSCBU
  • Centre Superintendent, B.Sc. Nursing (7th Sem & 5th Sem) Exam-2024
  • Centre Superintendent, B.Sc. Nursing (5th Sem & 1st Sem) Exam-2022
  • Centre Superintendent, B.Sc. Nursing (6th Sem & 4th Sem) Exam-2024
  • Member, Inspection Team for college affiliation
  • Member, Subject Research Committee, MSCB University (Dt. 09.03.2023 onwards)
  • Verifying Officer, PG Admission, MSCB University (2024-25, 2025-26, 2026-27)
  • Core Committee Member, Int. B.Ed.-M.Ed. Admission, MSCB University (2022-23, 2023-24)
  • Member, Board of Studies, MSCB University (Dt. 21.03.2022 onwards)
  • Member, Project Monitoring Cell, Institutional Development Plan under OURIIP (World Bank Funded)
  • Deputy Superintendent, Revenue Inspector Exam. Date: 29.08.2021
  • Member, Student Service Centre, MSCB University (Dt. 01.07.2025 to Continue)
  • Member, Institutional Laboratory Safety Committee (03.11.2021 – Continue)
  • Mentor, Swayam Programme, North Orissa University (Aug 2020 – May 2021)
  • Centre Coordinator, Civil Service Coaching Centre, North Orissa University (March 2019 – Jun 2020)
  • Deputy Director, IQAC, North Orissa University (June 2017 –  Jun 2018)
  • Centre Coordinator, NOU Study Center, DDCE, North Orissa University (June 2017- Aug 2020)

  • Professor R. C. Tripathy Memorial Award, 2024, Odisha Chemical Society
  • Best Oral Presenter award for oral presentation in the International Virtual Conference on “Innovation in Chemical Science-2020: An International Meet for Quality and Quantity (ICSIMQQ-2020)” organized by Vellore Institute of Technology, Chennai.
  • Young Scientist Award (2015), SERB, DST, Govt. of India.
  • Prof. G. B. Behera Best Thesis Award (2014), Orissa Chemical Society.
  • Institute Post Doctoral Fellowship (Oct 2013 – Nov 2013), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal.
  • Prof. R. K. Nanda Award (2011) for best research paper presentation at Silver Jubilee Annual Conference of Orissa Chemical Society, India.
  • Institute Fellowship (Feb 2009 – Jul 2013), National Institute of Technology, Rourkela, India.
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (2008), Govt. of India.
  • Qualified National Eligibility Test in Lectureship (Jun-2008) and (Dec-2008), conducted by Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, Govt. of India.

  • Affiliate Member, Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (Membership ID: 743042)
  • Community Associate Member, American Chemical Society, USA (Membership No.: 32220228)
  • Life Member, Orissa Chemical Society
  • Life Member, Society for Materials Chemistry (Membership No.: LM 2272)
  • Life Member, Society for Positron Annihilation and Nuclear Probes, (Membership No.: LM_0064)

  • Title: Synthesis of Imidazo-Fused Heterocycles via Domino Reactions for Anti-Cancer Application
    Funding Agency: OSHEC, Govt. of Odisha
    Amount: 9.54 Lakhs
    Duration: 02 Years
    Status: On-going (PI)
  • Title: Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Dots-Hydrogels Nanocomposites for Sensing and Removal of Toxic Heavy Metal Ions from Water
    Funding Agency: BRNS
    Amount: 37.84 Lakhs
    Duration: 03 Years
    Status: Completed (PI)
  • Title: Effects of high-level natural background radiation on amphibians around the Chhatrapur beach Placer
    Funding Agency: BRNS
    Amount: —
    Duration: 03 Years
    Status: On-going (Co-PI)
  • Title: Organic Synthesis and Material Chemistry for Societal Applications
    Funding Agency: MSCB University
    Amount: —
    Duration: 01 Year
    Status: Completed (Co-PI)
  • Title: Pd-catalyzed C(sp2)-C(sp2) and C(sp2)-N oxidative annulation reactions: En route to medicinally important molecules
    Funding Agency: SERB
    Amount: 13.3 Lakhs
    Duration: 03 Years
    Status: Completed (PI)