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dray@chem.iitkgp.ac.in

A-112, IIT Campus, Kharagpur - 721302, West Bengal

Research Statement

1. Coordination cluster synthesis. 2. Exploration for new ligands suitable for multimetallic coordination aggregate formation. 3. Solution studies using spectroscopy. 4. Reactivity, functional behavior, catalytic and protein binding studies. 5. Evaluation in solid state: single crystal X-ray structure determination, PXRD studies, variable temperature magnetic studies and FT-IR evaluation. 6. Theoretical justifications from DFT based calculation.

Publications

Journal Publications

Krishna Chattopadhyay, Gavin A. Craig, María Jose? Heras Ojea, Moumita Pait, Animesh Kundu, Junseong Lee,Mark Murrie,Antonio Frontera, and Debashis Ray, "Dangling and Hydrolyzed Ligand Arms in [Mn3] and [Mn6] Coordination Assemblies: Synthesis, Characterization, and Functional Activity" Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 2639?2652, 2017
Tufan Singha Mahapatra,Anupam Roy,Susmitnarayan Chaudhury,Swagata Dasgupta,Shankar Lal Shrivastava,Valerio Bertolasi and Debashis Ray, "Trapping of a Methanoato Bridge in 1,1,3,3 Mode for [Cu4] Aggregate Formation: Synthesis, Steric Control on Nuclearity,Antimicrobial Activity, and DNA-Interaction Properties" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem.2017, 769–779, 2017
Krishna Chattopadhyay, Gavin A. Craig, Animesh Kundu, Valerio Bertolasi, Mark Murrie,and Debashis Ray, "Hydroxido-Supported and Carboxylato Bridge-Driven Aggregation for Discrete [Ni4] and Interconnected [Ni2]n Complexes" Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 10783?10792, 2016
Tufan Singha Mahapatra, Dipmalya Basak, Santanu Chand, Jeff Lengyel, Michael Shatruk, Valerio Bertolasi and Debashis Ray, "Competitive coordination aggregation for V-shaped [Co3] and disc-like [Co7] complexes: synthesis, magnetic properties and catechol oxidase activity" Dalton Trans, 45, 2016, 13576–13589, 2016
Krishna Chattopadhyay, Bikash Kumar Shaw, Shyamal Kumar Saha and Debashis Ray, "Unique trapping of paddlewheel copper(II) carboxylate by ligand-bound {Cu2} fragments for [Cu6] assembly" Dalton Transactions, 45, 2016, 6928-6938., 2016
by Tufan Singha Mahapatra, Krishna Chattopadhyay, Dipmalya Basak, Manisha Das, Avik Bhanja, Mousumi Biswas and Debashis Ray , "Forced ether oxygen coordination from reduced Schiff base ligand in [Cu2] complexes : Synthetic preference, trapping of carboxylates and catechol oxidation " J Indian Chem Society (Special Issue - 80th birth anniversary of Prof. Animesh Chakravorty), 92, 1939-47 (2016), 2016
Tufan Singha Mahapatra, Antonio Bauza´, Debodyuti Dutta, Sabyashachi Mishra, Antonio Frontera, and Debashis Ray , "Carboxylate Coordination Assisted Aggregation for Quasi-Tetrahedral and Partial-Dicubane [Cu4] Coordination Clusters" ChemistrySelect, 01, 64-75 (2016), 2016
by Pait, Moumita Shatruk, Michael Ray, Debashis , "Anion coordination selective [Mn3] and [Mn4] assemblies: synthesis, structural diversity, magnetic properties and catechol oxidase activity " Dalton Transactions, 44, 11741-11754 (2015), 2015

Projects

New Polymers and Polymer Composites: Design, Synthesis, and Advanced Applications
Client: SRIC, IIT Kharagpur
PI: Profs. T. Pathak and D. Dhara  |  Co-Consultant(s): Profs. A. Basak, A. Mahanty, D. Mal, T. Pal, S. K. Patra, C. R. Raj, A. Rajakumar, D. Ray, J. K. Ray

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Research Group

Current Members

Avik Bhanja
Avik Bhanja
Synthesis and Characterization of 3d-4f Complexes
avikbhanja19@gmail.com