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  1. Chemical water oxidation by nonheme iron catalysts supported by di- and trinucleating N4 donor ligands: unveiling the role of coordinating buffer in directing cooperative catalysis

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, January 2026, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  2. Influence of Hemilabile Arm and Amide Functionality in the Ligand Backbone on Chemical and Electrochemical Dioxygen Reduction Catalyzed by Mononuclear Copper(II) Complexes

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, March 2025, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  3. Exploring Mechanistic Details and Catalyst Resilience in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation With a Cu(II) Complex Bearing a Redox‐Active Ligand

    Article • ChemCatChem, December 2024, Wiley

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  4. Electrochemical Generation of High-Valent Oxo-Manganese Complexes Featuring an Anionic N5 Ligand and Their Role in O―O Bond Formation

    Article • August 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  5. Rationally Designed Manganese-Based Metal–Organic Frameworks as Altruistic Metal Oxide Precursors for Noble Metal-Free Oxygen Reduction Reaction

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, February 2023, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  6. Highly Luminescent and Semiconducting Supramolecular Organic Charge Transfer Complex Generated via H‐Bonding Interaction Pathway

    Article • Crystal Research and Technology, January 2023, Wiley

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  7. Kinetic and mechanistic investigations of dioxygen reduction by a molecular Cu(ii) catalyst bearing a pentadentate amidate ligand

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  8. Electrochemical generation of high-valent oxo-manganese complexes featuring an anionic N5 ligand and their role in O–O bond formation

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2023, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  9. A Cobalt(III)−Hydroxo Complex Bearing a Pentadentate Amidate Ligand as an Electrocatalyst for Water Oxidation

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, December 2022, Wiley

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  10. High‐Valent Oxomanganese Complexes of Relevance in Oxyfunctionalization of Hydrocarbons

    Article • November 2022, Wiley

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  11. Pentadentate Copper(II)-amidate complex as a precatalyst for electrocatalytic proton reduction

    Article • International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, June 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  12. Oxygen Reduction Assisted by the Concert of Redox Activity and Proton Relay in a Cu(II) Complex

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, September 2020, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  13. Redox-active ligand assisted electrocatalytic water oxidation by a mononuclear cobalt complex

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2020, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  14. Synthesis, Characterization and Molecular Structure of Iron(III) Complex with Tridentate Diazene Ligand Having O,N,S Donor Set: Coexistence of Octahedral and Tetrahedral Iron(III) Sites in the Asymmetric Unit

    Article • Journal of Chemical Crystallography, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  15. A High Spin Mn(IV)-Oxo Complex Generated via Stepwise Proton and Electron Transfer from Mn(III)–Hydroxo Precursor: Characterization and C–H Bond Cleavage Reactivity

    Article • Inorganic Chemistry, July 2019, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  16. Synthesis, structures and catalase activities of bis(µ-oxo)diMnIII,III and bis(µ-acetato)diMnII,II complexes bearing a quinolyl donor tripod ligand

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  17. Alkyl-sulfur versus aryl-sulfur bond cleavage in tridentate alkylthiophenylazonaphthols by group 9 metal ions

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, July 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  18. Modeling Non-Heme Iron Halogenases: High-Spin Oxoiron(IV)–Halide Complexes That Halogenate C–H Bonds

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2016, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  19. Modeling TauD-J: A High-Spin Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex with High Reactivity toward C–H Bonds

    Article • Journal of the American Chemical Society, February 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  20. Aromatic hydroxylation using an oxo-bridged diiron(iii) complex: a bio-inspired functional model of toluene monooxygenases

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  21. Diferric oxo-bridged complexes of a polydentate aminopyridyl ligand: synthesis, structure and catalytic reactivity

    Article • Transition Metal Chemistry, September 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  22. Regioselective and regiospecific C(naphthyl)–H bond activation: Isolation, characterization, crystal structure and TDDFT study of isomeric cyclopalladates

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, July 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  23. A non-heme cationic Fe(iii)-complex intercalated in montmorillonite K-10: synthesis, characterization and catalytic alkane hydroxylation with H2O2 at room temperature

    Article • Catalysis Science & Technology, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  24. Selective olefin epoxidation catalyzed by metallocorroles in ionic liquid medium at room temperature

    Article • Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical, November 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  25. Catalytic hydrocarbon oxidation by iron complex of 5,10,15-tris(difluorophenyl)corrole via activation of hydroperoxides

    Article • Catalysis Communications, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  26. Regiospecific C(naphthyl)–H bond activation by platinum(II): Isolation, characterization, reactivity and TD-DFT study of the platinum(II) and platinum(IV) organometallates having [C,N,S] donor set

    Article • Journal of Organometallic Chemistry, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  27. Synthesis, characterization, X-ray structure and spectroscopic study of platinum(II) complexes with tridentate diazene ligands having O,N,S donor set

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, January 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  28. Palladium(II) complexes of terdentate azo ligands with an O,N,S donor set: Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, X-ray structure and TD-DFT calculations

    Article • Polyhedron, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  29. Fluorescence signaling systems for sensing Hg(ii) ion derived from A2B-corroles

    Article • Dalton Transactions, January 2012, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  30. Regiospecific C(naphthyl)–H Bond Activation by Platinum(II) – Isolation, Characterization, Reactivity and TD‐DFT Study of the Cycloplatinate Complexes

    Article • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, August 2011, Wiley

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  31. Electron deficient manganese(III) corrole catalyzed oxidation of alkanes and alkylbenzenes at room temperature

    Article • Catalysis Communications, July 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  32. Manganese(III) corrole catalyzed selective oxidation of alcohols to carbonyl compounds by tert-butyl hydroperoxide under mild condition

    Article • Catalysis Communications, February 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  33. C(naphthyl)–H bond activation by rhodium: isolation, characterization and TD-DFT study of the cyclometallates

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2011, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  34. Mild oxidation of hydrocarbons by tert-butyl hydroperoxide catalyzed by electron deficient manganese(III) corroles

    Article • Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical, November 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  35. Mild oxidation of hydrocarbons catalyzed by iron corrole with tert-butylhydroperoxide

    Article • Catalysis Communications, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  36. Selective hydroxylation of alkanes catalyzed by iron(IV)corrole

    Article • Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  37. 1-Phenyldiazenyl-8-Phenylhydrazononaphthalene-7(8H)-One-2-ol: Co-Existence of Azo-Hydroxy and Hydrazo-Keto Forms

    Article • Journal of Chemical Crystallography, June 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  38. Chiral Mn(III) salen catalyzed oxidation of hydrocarbons

    Article • Transition Metal Chemistry, April 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  39. Structure of Liquid Crystalline 1-Phenyl-3-{4-[4-(4-octyloxybenzoyloxy)phenyloxycarbonyl]phenyl}triazene-1-oxide at Low Temperature

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, March 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  40. Chiral iron(III)-salen-catalyzed oxidation of hydrocarbons

    Article • Catalysis Communications, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  41. Synthesis and Liquid Crystalline Properties of Novel Triazene-1-oxide Derivatives

    Article • Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, September 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  42. Liquid crystalline aryltriazene‐1‐oxides with two ester units: synthesis, characterisation, structure and thermal properties

    Article • Liquid Crystals, July 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  43. Novel synthetic route to liquid crystalline 4,4′‐bis(n‐alkoxy)azoxybenzenes: spectral characterisation, mesogenic behaviour and crystal structure of two new members

    Article • Liquid Crystals, May 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas, Dr Amitava Choudhury

  44. 1-Phenyl-3-{4-[4-(4-undecyloxybenzoyloxy)phenyloxycarbonyl]phenyl}triazene 1-oxide

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, March 2008, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  45. Chlorido{1-[2-(ethylsulfonyl)phenyldiazenyl]-4-methoxy-2-naphthyl-κ3C,N,O}palladium(II) sesquihydrate

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, November 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  46. 4,4′-Bis[2-(benzylsulfanyl)phenylhydrazono]-2,2′-binaphthalene-1,1′(4H,4′H)-dione

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, November 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  47. Di-μ-iodido-bis[iodido(triphenylphosphine-κP)platinum(II)]

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, October 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  48. Chlorido{1-[2-(methylsulfanyl)phenyldiazenyl]naphtholato-κ3 O,N,S}nickel(II)

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, October 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  49. (E)-4-{[2-(Methylsulfanyl)phenyl]diazenyl}phenol

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, June 2007, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  50. Regiospecific C(naphthyl)–H bond activation: Isolation and characterization of cyclopalladates

    Article • Inorganica Chimica Acta, April 2007, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  51. (E)-1-[2-(Benzylsulfanyl)phenyldiazenyl]-4-methoxynaphthalene

    Article • Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online, November 2006, International Union of Crystallography

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  52. Regiospecific cyclometallation: Synthesis, spectral properties and crystal structure of peri-palladate

    Article • Polyhedron, July 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas

  53. β-Diketonates of Cyclopalladated Arylazonaphthalenes: Synthesis, Characterization and Redox Activity

    Article • Transition Metal Chemistry, May 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Pinaki Bandyopadhyay, Dr Achintesh Narayan Biswas