Publications:

 

(1) Magnetically Sensitive non-polar exciplex: the perfluoronaphthalene – anthracene system; A. Misra, R. Dutta, Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury, Chem. Phys. Letts. 281 (1997) 254-260.

 

(2)   Molecular recognition: Hydrogen bonding induced configurational locking of a new photoresponsive receptor by dicarboxylic acids; S. Goswami, K. Ghosh, Mintu Halder; Tet. Letts. 40 (1999) 1735-1738.

 

(3)  Magnetic field effect on photoinduced electron transfer reaction between [Ru(bpy)2(H3pzbzim)]2+ and N,N’-methylviologen in micellar solution: A laser flash photolytic study in high fields; A. Misra, Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury; Res. Chem. Intermed. 25 (1999) 813-826.

 

(4)  Inversion in magnetic field effect of benzilketyl : SDS radical pair at high fields; A. Misra, Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury; Chem. Phys. Letts. 305 (1999) 63-70.

 

(5)  Magnetic field effect on the micellar (C60)n·--pyrene·+radical-pair system; Mintu Haldar, A. Misra, A. K. Banerjee, M. Chowdhury; J. Photochem. Photobiol. A. 127 (1999) 7-12.

 

(6)  Magnetic field effect on the micellar surface bound benzophenone tetracarboxylic acid-sodium salt in aqueous cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide medium; Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury, Chem. Phys. Letts. 312 (1999) 432-439.

 

(7)  Large magnetic-field effect on the radical pair generated from the photo-induced electron transfer from skatole to 2,4,6-triphenyl pyrilium tetrafluoroborate in aqueous SDS micellar medium, Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury; Chem. Phys. Letts. 319 (2000) 349-354.

 

(8)  Magnetic-field effect in Chemistry – The Indian Scenerio; S. Basu, Mintu Haldar, M. Chowdhury, Proc. of Ind. Acad. of Sc.  66A (2000) 267-288.

 

(9) Spectral assignment of dual conformers of 1,2,3,6,7,8-hexahydropyrene in supersonic jet; A. Chakraborty, D. Nath, Mintu Halder, N. Guchhait, M. Chowdhury; J. Chem. Phys. 114 (2001) 865-875.

(10) Large magnetic field effect on the back electron transfer from uncharged radical to its cationic partner in anionic micelle; P. P. Parui, Mintu Halder, K. R. Gopidas, D. N. Nath, M. Chowdhury; Molecular Physics 100 (2002) 2895-2901.

 

(11) Magnetic Field Control of the Back-Electron-Transfer Process Following Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PIET) in Biphenyl/ Phenylpyrylium Salts in SDS Micellar Medium; Mintu Halder, P. P. Parui,  K. R. Gopidas, D. N. Nath, M. Chowdhury; J. Phys. Chem. A. 106 (2002) 2200-2206.

 

(12) Micellar confinement of charged donor-acceptor system: a case of large MFE; Mintu Halder, P. P. Parui,  K. R. Gopidas, D. N. Nath, M. Chowdhury; RIKEN Review 44 (2002) 53-55.

 

(13) A Comparative Femtosecond Coherence Study of the Unligated Monomeric Hemeproteins Myoglobin and Leghemoglobin;  Mintu Halder, K. Das, P. K. Chowdhury, S. Kundu, M. S. Hargrove, J. W.  Petrich; J. Phys. Chem. B. 107 (2003) 9933-9938.

 

(14) Effects of Distal Pocket Mutations on the Geminate Recombination of NO with Leghemoglobin on the Picosecond Time Scale ; P. K. Chowdhury, S. Kundu, Mintu Halder, K. Das, M. S.  Hargrove, J. W.  Petrich,  J. Phys. Chem. B.  107 (2003) 9122-9127.

 

(15) Generation of Fluorescent Adducts of Malondialdehyde and Amino Acids:  Towards an Understanding of Lipofuscin; P. K. Chowdhury, Mintu Halder, P. K. Choudhury, G. A. Kraus, M. J. Desai, D. W. Armstrong, T. A. Casey, M. A. Rasmussen, J. W. Petrich; Photochem. Photobiol. 79 (2004) 21-25.

 

(16) Adsorption of trivalent lanthanides on the SDS micellar interface; Mintu Halder*, D. N. Nath; Chem. Phys. Letts. 387 (2004) 81-84.

 

(17) The Complex of Apomyoglobin with the Fluorescent Dye, Coumarin 153 ; P. K. Chowdhury, Mintu Halder, L. Sanders, R. A. Arnold, Y. Liu, D. W. Armstrong, S. Kundu, M. S. Hargrove, X. Song,  J. W. Petrich;  Photochem. Photobiol. 79 (2004) 440-446.

 

(18) Dynamic Solvation in Room Temperature Ionic Liquids; P. K. Chowdhury, Mintu Halder, L. Sanders, T. Calhoun, J. L. Anderson, D. W. Armstrong, X. Song,  J. W. Petrich; J. Phys. Chem. B. 108 (2004) 10245-10255.

 

(19) A Comparative study of large magnetic field effect on the radical pair generated by the photo-induced electron transfer from indoles to 2,4,6-triphenyl pyrylium tetrafluoroborate and its thia-analogue in aqueous SDS micellar medium; Mintu Halder*, Chem. Phys. 303 (2004) 243-253

 

(20)  Hypericin and its perylene quinone analogs:  Probing structure, dynamics, and interactions with the environment; Mintu Halder, P. K. Chowdhury, M. S. Gordon,  J. W. Petrich, K. Das , J. Park, Y. Alexeev; Adv. Photochem. Vol-28, p 1-26 (2005).

 

(21) The Separation of Hypericin’s Enantiomers and Their Photophysics in Chiral Environments, L. Sanders, Mintu Halder, T. L. Xiao, J. Ding, D. W. Armstrong, J. W. Petrich ; Photochem. Photobiol.  81 (2005) 183–186

 

(22) Interaction of Glutathione S-Transferase with Hypericin: A Photophysical Study; Mintu Halder; P. K. Chowdhury, R. Das, P. Mukherjee, W. M. Atkins, J. W. Petrich,
 J. Phys. Chem. B. 109 (2005) 19484-19489.

 

(23) Synthesis of hydroxy and methoxy perylene quinones, their spectroscopic and computational characterization, and their antiviral activity; G. Krishnamoorthy, S. Webb, T. Nguyen, P. K. Chowdhury, Mintu Halder, N. J. Wills, S. Carpenter, G. A. Kraus, M.S. Gordon,  J. W. Petrich;  Photochem. Photobiol. 81 (2005) 924-933.

 

 

(24) Maristentorin, a Novel Pigment from the Positively Phototactic Marine Ciliate Maristentor dinoferus, Is Structurally Related to Hypericin and Stentorin; P. Mukherjee, P.; D. B. Fulton; Mintu Halder, X. Han, D. W. Armstrong, J. W. Petrich, C. S. Lobban;  J. Phys. Chem. B. 110 (2006) 6359-6364.

 

(25) Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of Solvation Dynamics of Ionic Fluids: Appropriateness of Dielectric Theory and the Role of DC Conductivity; Mintu Halder; Headley, L. S.; Mukherjee, P.; Song, X.; Petrich, J.  W.; J. Phys. Chem. A. 110 (2006) 8623-8626.

 

(26) Dynamic Solvation in Imidazolium-Based Ionic Liquids on Short Time Scales; Lindsay Sanders Headley, Prasun Mukherjee, Jared L. Anderson, Rongfang Ding, Mintu Halder, Daniel W. Armstrong, Xueyu Song, and Jacob W. Petrich;  J. Phys. Chem. A. 110 (2006) 9549-9554.

 

(27) Prasun Mukherjee, Jeffrey A. Crank, Mintu Halder, Daniel W. Armstrong, Jacob W. Petrich; Assessing the Roles of the Constituents of Ionic Liquids in Dynamic Solvation: Comparison of an Ionic Liquid in Micellar and Bulk Form; J. Phys. Chem. A. 110 (2006) 10725-10730.

 

(28) Prasun Mukherjee, Mintu Halder, Mark S. Hargrove, Jacob W. Petrich; Characterization of the Interactions of Fluorescent Probes with Proteins: Coumarin 153 and 1,8-ANS in complex with Holo- and Apomyoglobin; Photochem. PhotoBiol. (accepted, 2006).

 

(29) Determination of the Critical Micellar Concentration (CMC) of a Cationic Micelle from Stokes Shift data; Mintu Halder; The Chemical Educator 12 (2007) 33-36