Shubham Snehil
PhD - Since October 2025
Previous: BS+MS Chem at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Current: PhD student - Integrated bio/photo-catalytic ether synthesis: alcohol activation by alkoxysulfonium salt formation
Publications: Chem. Eur. J. 2025, in press; Org. Lett., 2025, in press; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202408886.
Funding: IP-Cat CDT Studentship
Prizes: Best Master’s Thesis Award (2024-2025), MITACS GRI Scholarship, 2023.
Biography: Born and raised in Jharkhand India, I qualified the JEE Advanced examination and pursued my Integrated MSc in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. During my undergraduate level, I joined the lab of Prof. Modhu Sudan Maji to work on diastereoselective allylation using allyl boronic acids and keto sulfinyl imines. Over the next three years, I worked on the total synthesis of Stephanotic acid, asymmetric allylation on Bis-N-Sulfinylimine and allylation-oxy cope rearrangement in alkenyl keto imines using functionalized allyl boronic acids. During the summer of 2023, I joined the lab of Prof. Graham Murphy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada to develop new reactions using diaryliodonium salts on styrene derivatives for three months, funded by MITACS research fellowship. In my free time, I enjoy playing piano and guitar, reading books and exploring restaurants.
PhD - Since October 2025
Previous: BS+MS Chem at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur
Current: PhD student - Integrated bio/photo-catalytic ether synthesis: alcohol activation by alkoxysulfonium salt formation
Publications: Chem. Eur. J. 2025, in press; Org. Lett., 2025, in press; Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2024, 63, e202408886.
Funding: IP-Cat CDT Studentship
Prizes: Best Master’s Thesis Award (2024-2025), MITACS GRI Scholarship, 2023.
Biography: Born and raised in Jharkhand India, I qualified the JEE Advanced examination and pursued my Integrated MSc in Chemistry from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. During my undergraduate level, I joined the lab of Prof. Modhu Sudan Maji to work on diastereoselective allylation using allyl boronic acids and keto sulfinyl imines. Over the next three years, I worked on the total synthesis of Stephanotic acid, asymmetric allylation on Bis-N-Sulfinylimine and allylation-oxy cope rearrangement in alkenyl keto imines using functionalized allyl boronic acids. During the summer of 2023, I joined the lab of Prof. Graham Murphy at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada to develop new reactions using diaryliodonium salts on styrene derivatives for three months, funded by MITACS research fellowship. In my free time, I enjoy playing piano and guitar, reading books and exploring restaurants.