Faculty at School of Natural Sciences

Md. Mujahuddin Siddiqui

Md. Mujahuddin Siddiqui

Assistant Professor


Contact Information

  • 2014, Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay
  • 2007, M. Sc., S. R. T. Marathwada University, Maharashtra
  • 2005, B. Sc., S. R. T. Marathwada University, Maharashtra

  • 2022 – 2023 : Postdoctoral Fellow
    Prof. Dr. Stephan Schulz 
    University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • 2020 – 2021 : Postdoctoral Fellow
    Prof. Dr. Manuel Alcarazo                        
    University of Goettingen, Germany.
  • 2017 – 2020 :  SERB Overseas Postdoctoral Fellow
    Prof. Dr. Herbert W. Roesky        
    University of Goettingen, Germany
  • 2015- 2017 :  Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellow
    Prof. P. S. Mukherjee
    IISc Bangalore

  • Low-valent Main Group Chemistry, Catalysis with Earth Abundant Elements, CO2 Functionalization and Small Molecule Activation.

  • SERB-Overseas Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-2018)
  • Dr. D. S. Kothari Postdoctoral Fellowship (2016-2017)
  • Selected for 1st round of interviews for SPM Fellowship in 2009
  • Junior & Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India, (2009-2014)
  • Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Chemistry (2008)
  • Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test for Engineering (GATE) in Chemistry (2008)
  • Qualified Maharashtra State Eligibility Test (SET) in Chemistry (2008)

  1. “Donor-Stabilized Antimony (I) and Bismuth (I) Ions: Heavier Valence Isoelectronic Analogues of Carbones” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Mohd Nazish, Massimiliano Morganti, Christian Köhler, Jiali Cai, Lili Zhao, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Gernot Frenking, and Herbert W Roesky, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2021, 143, 1301-1306. (Cited in NatureIndex).
  2. “Synthesis and Coordination Behavior of a New Hybrid Bidentate Ligand with Phosphine and Silylene Donors” Mohd Nazish, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Annika Münch, Christina M. Legendre, Regine Herbst‐Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, and Herbert W. Roesky Chem. Eur. J. 2021, 27, 1744-1752.
  3. “A Neutral Three‐Membered 2π Aromatic Disilaborirane and the Unique Conversion into a Four‐Membered BSi2N‐Ring” Samir Kumar Sarkar, Rinkumoni Chaliha, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Samya Banerjee, Annika Münch, Regine Herbst‐Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Eluvathingal D Jemmis, and Herbert W. Roesky, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2020, 59, 23015-23019.
  4. “Cyclic (Alkyl)(Amino) Carbene-Stabilized Aluminum and Gallium Radicals Based on Amidinate Scaffolds” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui,+ Samya Banerjee,+ Sanjoy Bose, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Sandeep K. Gupta, Johannes Kretsch, Nico Graw, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Sayan Dutta, Debasis Koley, and Herbert W Roesky, Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59 (7), 11253-11258 (+ These authors contribute equally), (Three most-read articles of August 2020).
  5. “Treatment of Silylene-Phosphinidene with Chalcogens Resulted Exclusively in the Formation of Silicon Bonded Chalcogens” Soumen Sinhababu, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Annika Münch, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, and Herbert W. Roesky Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 11422-11426.
  6. “Isolation of Base Stabilized Fluoroborylene and its Radical Cation” Samir Kumar Sarkar, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Subrata Kundu, Munmun Ghosh, Johannes Kretsch, Peter Stollberg, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, A Claudia Stückl, Brigitte Schwederski, Wolfgang Kaim, Sagar Ghorai, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Herbert W. Roesky, Dalton Trans, 2019, 48, 8551-8555.
  7. “Synthesis of cAAC Stabilized Biradical of “Me2Si” and “Me2SiCl” Monoradical form Me2SiCl2- an Important Feedstock Material” Soumen Sinhababu, Subrata Kundu, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Alexander N. Paesch, Regine Herbst‐Irmer, Brigitte Schwederski, Pinaki Saha, Lili Zhao, Gernot Frenking, Wolfgang Kaim, Dietmar Stalke and Herbert W. Roesky, Chem. Commun. 2019, 55, 4534-4537.
  8. “Isolation of Transient Acyclic Germanium(I) Radicals Stabilized by Cyclic Alkylamino Carbenes” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Soumen Sinhababu, Paul Niklas Ruth, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Munmun Ghosh, Mingxing Fu, Lili Zhao, David Casanova, Gernot Frenking, Brigitte Schwederski, Wolfgang Kaim, and Herbert W. Roesky J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141 (5), 1908-1912.
  9. “Ruthenium(II) Metalla[2]Catenanes and Macrocycles via Donor-Dependent Self-Assembly. Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui+, Rupak Saha+ and Partha Sarathi Mukherjee, Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58 (7), 4491-4499 (+ These authors contribute equally).
  10. “Silanylidene and Germanylidene Anions: Valence-Isoelectronic Species to the Well-Studied Phosphinidene” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui+, Soumen Sinhababu+, Sayan Dutta, Subrata Kundu, Paul Niklas Ruth, Annika Muench, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Debasis Koley, and Herbert W. Roesky, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57 (36), 11776-11780. (+ These authors contribute equally).
  11. “Comparison of Two Phosphinidenes Binding to Silicon(IV)dichloride as well as to Silylene” Subrata Kundu, Soumen Sinhababu, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Anna V. Luebben, Birger Dittrich, Tao Yang, Gernot Frenking, and Herbert W. Roesky J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (30), 9409-9412.
  12. "Water-Soluble Pd8L4 Self-Assembled Molecular Barrel as an Aqueous Carrier for Hydrophobic Curcumin" Imtiyaz Ahmad Bhat, Ruchi Jain, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Deepak K. Saini, and Partha Sarathi Mukherjee Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56 (9), 5352–5360.
  13. “1,1’-Bis(dipyrrolylphosphino)ferrocene: Synthesis, Coordination Chemistry and Structural Studies” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui,+ Latchupatula Radhakrishna,+ Joel T. Mague, and Maravanji S. Balakrishna J. Organomet. Chem. 2016, 782, 15-24. (+ These authors contribute equally).
  14. “Construction of the First Rhodium(I) Cyclic Pentameric Structure [Rh(CO)Cl{(μ-NtBuP)2(C≡CPh)2}]5 Using (Phenylethynyl) Cyclodiphosphazanes” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Joel T. Mague, and Maravanji S. Balakrishna  Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54 (4), 1200-1203.
  15. “Diamondoid-type Copper Coordination Polymers Containing Soft Cyclodiphosphazane Ligands” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Joel T. Mague, and Maravanji S. Balakrishna Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54 (13), 6063-6065.
  16. “Bischalcogenides and Transition Metal Complexes of Cyclodiphosphazane Derived Diphosphaferrocenophane” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Joel T. Mague, and Maravanji S. Balakrishna Polyhedron 2015, 101, 179-184.
  17. “Application of Quinoxaline based Diimidazolium Salt in Palladium Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Mohammed Waheed, Sajad A. Bhat and Maravanji S. Balakrishna J. Chem. Sci. 2015, 127 (5), 879-884.
  18. “Cis-Bisphenylalkynyl Cyclodiphosphazane: Oxidation Reactions and Transition Metal Complexes” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Joel T. Mague, and Maravanji S. Balakrishna, J. Organomet. Chem. 2015, 794, 81-87.
  19. “Novel Zeotype Frameworks with Soft Cyclodiphosphazane Linkers and Soft Cu4X4 clusters as Nodes” Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Shaikh M. Mobin, Irena Senkovska, Stefan Kaskel and Maravanji S. Balakrishna, Chem. Commun. 2014, 50 (82), 12273–12276 (Cover Article).
  20. “New Bisphosphomide Ligands, 1,3-Phenylenebis ((diphenylphosphino)methanone) [1,3-Ph2PC(O)}2C6H4] and (2-Bromo-1,3-phenylene)bis((diphenylphosphino)methanone) [1,3-Ph2PC(O)}2C6H4Br]: Synthesis, Coordination behavior, DFT Calculations and Catalytic Studies” Pawan Kumar, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Yerrnaidu Reddi, Joel T. Mague, Raghavan B. Sunoj and Maravanji S. Balakrishna Dalton Trans, 2013, 42 (32), 11385 -11399.

  • Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui and Herbert W. Roesky “Synthesis and Isolation of Compounds and Radicals of Group 14 with Low-valent Elements” 11th Gottinger Chemie Forum held in the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Gottingen, on July 4, 2019.

  1. Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui and Maravanji S. Balakrishna “Group 11 metal complexes of alkynyl substituted cyclodiphosphazane [(μ-NtBuP)2(C≡CPh)2]” New Horizons in Chemistry, held in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, on October 3-4, 2011.
  2. Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui and Maravanji S. Balakrishna “Synthesis and Transition Metal Chemistry of Alkynyl Functionalized Cyclodiphosphazane, [(μ-NtBuP)2(C8H5)2]” 3rd Asian Conference on Coordination Chemistry, New Delhi, INDIA, held in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Delhi, on October 17-20, 2011.
  3. Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui and Maravanji S. Balakrishna “Phosphorus based ligands: Synthesis, Transition Metal Chemistry and Catalytic Applications” IITB ACS Symposium held at Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, on October 1-2, 2012.
  4. Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui and Maravanji S. Balakrishna M. S. “Soft Cyclodiphosphazane Based Linkers in the Construction of MOFs: Gas adsorption and Redox properties”  16th CRSI National Symposium in Chemistry held in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, on February 7-9, 2014.