Biography

Dr. Doddi was born in A.P, after his graduation, pursued MSc at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. After a second master's thesis at the University of Bonn in Germany moved to Ruhr University Bochum, where he was a member of GSCB (Graduate School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Faculty of Chemistry and Biochemistry), and obtained Der. rer. nat (Doctoral degree) in synthetic & applied organometallic chemistry in the research group of Prof. Dr. Roland A Fischer. With a doctoral degree in organometallics, he then moved to the research group of Prof. Dr. Dr. Matthias Tamm, Technical University Braunschweig in Germany where he had conducted three years of postdoctoral work in the field of hardcore low-valent main group element and transition metal organometallic chemistry.

After the postdoctoral stint, he served as subgroup leader at TU Braunschweig for about three years. During this period he worked on various aspects and applications of numerous N-heterocyclic carbenes for the isolation of novel main group organometallic fragments which were subsequently employed as ligands and new Frustrated Lewis Acid/Base pairs (FLP systems). Several of such species were employed in the trapping, isolation of unusual group 6 to 11 transition metal organometallic/fragments complexes. The former species were subsequently employed in the investigation of their suitability as ancillary ligands in the homogeneous catalysis such as in the bimetallic gold catalysis.

Ramanujan Fellowship/Research award

Title of the project; Rational design of a novel class of anionic group 14 tetranylidenes: From synthesis to application of their complexes in small molecule activation and catalysis” funded SERB, GoI. Under this project various ortho-substituted triphenyphosphine ligands were designed and isolated, and subsequently studied their utility in homogeneous catalysis

Start-up Research Grant (SRG)

N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Supported Anionic Sila- and Garmanylideness and Applications in Homogeneous Catalysis as New Ancillary Ligands
A series of 1,2-substituted silylphosphine ligands featuring Si-H and Si-CH3 groups were prepared and their reactivity studies were conducted towards various transition metals such as Copper, Silver, Zinc, Ruthenium, and Iron. The catalytic performance of the [P,Si] ligands supported copper/silver/ruthenium complexes were studied and introduced them as new molecular catalysts in some selected organic transformations. In addition to this, a series of main group complexes of the aforementioned ligands were also explored and their molecular structures were also established.

MOE-STARS project

Ligand designs and the development of molecular organomettalic catalysts for the activation of carbon dioxide gas and its functionalization reactions.

Key Publications

1) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Analogues of Nucleophilic Phosphinidene Transition Metal Complexes A.Doddi, D. Bockfeld, T. Bannenberg, and M. Tamm Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 14878 –14887 (Hot Paper) Selected for cover picture of the issue 

2) N-heterocyclic Carbene Supported Main-Group Adducts and their use as Ligands in Transition Metal Chemistry  A. Doddi, M. Peters and M. Tamm  Chem. Rev. 2019, 25, 13119-13123

3) N-Heterocyclic carbene-stabilised arsinidene (AsH) A. Doddi, M. Weinhart, A. Hinz, D. Bockfeld, J. M. Goicoechea, M. Scheer and M. Tamm Chem. Comm., 2017, 53, 6069-6072  Featured on cover

4) N-Heterocyclic Carbene Phosphinidyne Transition Metal Complexes A. Doddi, D. Bockfeld, T. Bannenburg, Peter. G. Jones and M. Tamm Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 13568–13572; Angew. Chem. 2014, 126, 13786-13790 

5) Low Valent Ge2 and Ge4 Species Trapped by N-Heterocyclic Gallylene A. Doddi, C. Gemel, M. Winter, R. A. Fischer, C. Goedecke,H. S. Rezpa, G. Frenking Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 450-454; Angew. Chem. 2013, 125, 468-472