I have done my B.Sc. with Chemistry Honours from St. Xavier’s College (1976-79), Calcutta, and M.Sc. (Chemistry) from the University of Calcutta with Inorganic Chemistry Specialization (1979-81). Thereafter, I did doctoral research at the Inorganic Chemistry Department of Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, under the mentorship of Prof. S. Ghosh and obtained my Ph.D. degree in 1988. I joined B. E. College in July 1989 and since then I have been a faculty of this institute, which has undergone transformations from a Govt. Engineering College to Deemed University (B. E. College (D.U.)), State University (BESU) and finally to IIEST, Shibpur.
My research interest is in the field of Coordination and Bioinorganic chemistry, particularly, the study of model complexes that mimic biocatalytic reactions, medicinal applications of metal complexes and metal complex based sensors for biomolecules.
During 2006-2007, I worked as a Brain Pool Research Fellow of Korea Federation of Science and Technology Societies (KOFST) and worked at the Advanced Materials Division of Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology.
- B.Sc.:Chemistry Honours from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata (Under University of Calcutta)
- M.Sc.: Chemistry with Inorganic Chemistry special paper, from University of Calcutta
- Ph.D.: Chemistry (1988); Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur, Calcutta- 700 032 (Jadvpur University)
Thesis title: “Chemistry of Ruthenium ligated to some hard-soft donors”
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S. Sengupta, S. Khan, B. N. Mongal, W. Lewis, M. Fleck, S. K. Chattopadhyay, S. Naskar, Electrocatalytic hydrogen production and carbon dioxide conversion by earth abundant transition metal complexes of the Schiff base ligand (E)-1-((2-dimethylamino)-propylimino)methyl)naphthalene-2-ol, 191, 114798 (p1-10), Polyhedron, 2020
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M. Chakraborty, A. Mondal, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Structural divergence in binuclear Cu(II) pyridoxal Schiff base complexes probed by co-ligand: Catecholase mimetic activity and sulphide ion sensing, 44, 12916–712925, New. J. Chem., 2020
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S. Sengupta, S. Khan, S. K. Chattopadhyay, I. Banerjee, T. K. Panda, S. Naskar, Trinuclear copper and mononuclear nickel complexes of oxime containing Schiff bases: Single crystal X-ray structure, catecholase and phenoxazinone synthase activity, catalytic study for the homocoupling of benzyl amines, 182, 114512 (p1-10), Polyhedron, 2020
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A. Mondal, C. Das, M. Corbella, A. Bauzá, A. Frontera, M. Saha, S. Mondal, K. D. Saha, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Biological promiscuity of a binuclear Cu(II) complex of aminoguanidine Schiff base: DNA binding, anticancer activities and histidine sensing ability of the complex, 44, 7319–7328, New. J. Chem., 2020
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P. Adak, B. Ghosh, A. Bauzá, A. Frontera, S. R. Herron, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Binuclear, and tetranuclear Zn(II) complexes with thiosemicarbazones: synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, ATP-sensing, DNA-binding, phosphatase activity and theoretical calculations, 10, 12735-12746, RSC Adv., 2020
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P. Adak, A, Mondal, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Manganese(II) complexes of an oxygen-nitrogen donor Schiff base ligand showing efficient catecholase activity: synthesis, spectroscopic and kinetic studies, 44, 3748–3754, New J. Chem., 2020
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M. Chakraborty, S. Mondal, C. Cardin, A. L. Rheingold, C. D. Mukhopadhyay, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Yb(III), Sm(III) and La(III) complexes of a tetradentate pyridoxal Schiff base ligand: Their DNA-binding activity and bio-imaging applications, 175, 114167 (p1-9), Polyhedron, 2020
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S. Mondal, M. Chakraborty, A. Mondal, B. Pakhira, S. K. Mukhopadhyay, A. Banik, S. Sengupta, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Crystal Structure, spectroscopic, DNA binding studies and DFT calculations of a Zn(II) complex, 43, 5466-5474, New. J. Chem, 2019
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S. Sengupta, S. Khan, S. K. Chattopadhyay, I. Banerjee. T. K Panda , S, Naskar, Tetranuclear copper and mononuclear nickel complex of the Schiff base of(3Z)-3-hydrazonobutan-2-one oxime with different aromatic carbonyl compounds: Synthesis, single crystal X-ray structure, catecholase activity, phenoxazinone synthase activity, catalytic study for the homocoupling of benzyl amines, ChemRxiv, 2019
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M. Chakraborty, S. Mondal, C. Cardin, A. L. Rheingold, C. D. Mukhopadhyay, S. K. Chattopadhyay, Yb(III), Sm(III) and La(III) complexes of a tetradentate pyridoxal Schiff base ligand: Their DNA-binding activity and bio-imaging applications, 114-167, Polyhedron, 2019