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Congratulations!!! to Abhijit & coauthors for their publication in Inorg. Chem.

Fine-Tuning the Excited-State Dynamics of Heteroleptic Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl Complexes with Systematic Variation of Benzazole-Substituted 8-Hydroxyquinolines, Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64(18), 8906-8922.

A. Saha, S. Kundu, M. Verma, S. K. Rajput, R. J. Butcher, A. Datta, and A.  K. Patra*

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c05440 

Congratulations!!! to Sunanda & coauthors for their publication in Chem. Commun.

Luminescent terbium(III) probes containing aromatic amino acid-based antenna for discrimination between adenine and guanine nucleotides, Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 1886-1889.

S. Pradhan, N. Shukla, G. Panigrahi, A.  K. Patra*

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4CC05232C

Congratulations!!! to Nitin & coauthors for their publication in Inorg. Chem. 

A Multifaceted Luminescent Europium (III) Probe for the Discrimination of Nucleoside Phosphates and Detection of Organophosphate Nerve Agents, Inorg. Chem. 2025, 64, 1287-1309.

N. Shukla, V. Singhmar, J. Sayala, A. K. Patra *

https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c03955 

Congratulations!!! to Ramranjan & coauthors for their publication in Chem. Eur. J. 

Unravelling the Relaxation Pathway and Excited State Dynamics of Ruthenium (II) Polypyridyl Complexes Incorporating Phosphorus‐Based Monodentate Ligands, Chem. Eur. J. 2025, 31, chem.202401598. 

R. Mishra, A. Saha, P. Chatterjee, S. Kundu, M. Verma, S. Sarkar, S. Sivakumar, A. Datta, A. K. Patra*

https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202404231 

Congratulations!!! to Ramranjan & coauthors for their publication in Dalton Transactions.

A serendipitous crossed aldol reaction in the ligand periphery of a Ru (ii) polypyridyl complex in silica bed: prospects for delivering anticancer agents for photoactivated chemotherapy 

Mishra, Ramranjan; Chatterjee, Pritha; Patra,  Ashis K. * Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 18484-18493.

https://doi.org/10.1039/D4DT02337D 

Congratulations!!! to Pritha & coauthors for their publication in Inorganic Chemistry.

Dual Photoreactive Ternary Ruthenium(II) Terpyridyl Complexes: A Comparative Study on Visible-Light-Induced Single-Step Dissociation of Bidentate Ligands and Generation of Singlet Oxygen

Chatterjee, Pritha; Mishra, Ramranjan; Chawla, Sakshi; Sonkar, Avinash ; De, Arijit; Patra, Ashis * Inorg. Chem. 2024, 63, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.4c01727  

Congratulations!!! to Juhi & coauthors for their publication in Dalton Transactions.

Photocytotoxic kinetically stable ruthenium(II)-N,N-donor polypyridyl complexes of oxalate with anticancer activity against HepG2 liver cancer cells.

Juhi Sayala, Ekta Srivastava, Priyaranjan Kumar, Nitin Shukla, Ashok Kumar and Ashis K. Patra* Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, DOI: 10.1039/D3DT04058E  

Congratulations!!! to Abhijit Saha & coauthors for their publication in Dalton Transactions.

Hyphenation of lipophilic Ruthenium(II)-diphosphine core with 5-Fluorouracil effective against glioblastoma brain cancer cells.

Abhijit Saha, Indranil Mondal, Anuj Kumari, Avinash Kumar Sonkar, Ramranjan Mishra, Ritu Kulshreshtha, and Ashis K. Patra* Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, DOI: 10.1039/D3DT02941G 

Congratulations!!! to Ramranjan Mishra & coauthors for their publication in Inorganic Chemistry

Ruthenium(II) Polypyridyl-Based Photocages for an Anticancer Phytochemical Diallyl Sulfide: Comparative Dark and Photoreactivity Studies of Caged and Precursor Uncaged Complexes, Ramranjan Mishra, Abhijit Saha, Pritha Chatterjee, Atish Bhattacharyya, and Ashis K. Patra*

Inorg. Chem. 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c02038 

Congratulations!!! to Dr. Priyaranjan Kumar & coauthors for their publication in Dalton Trans.

Quaternary Ru(II) Complexes of Terpyridines, Saccharin and 1, 2-Azoles: Effect of Substituents on Molecular Structure, Speciation, Photoactivity, and Photocytotoxicity

Priyaranjan Kumar, Prerana Singh, Sanjoy Saren, Juhi Sayala, Sri Sivakumar, and  Ashis K. Patra

Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 18416-18437 

20 Nov. 2022: Mrs. Usha Yadav  for submission of her Ph.D. Thesis titled "Design And Photophysical Studies Of Luminescent Lanthanide Complexes For Sensing Biochemical Threat Agents And Biological Applications" . Hearty Congratulations!!! Usha.

08 January 2022:Congratulations to Zafar Abbas and co-authors for his publication in the Journal of Luminescence!!!

Luminescent β-diketonate coordinated europium(III) sensor for rapid and sensitive detection of Bacillus Anthracis biomarker

Zafar Abbas and Ashis K. Patra, J. Lumin. 2022, 244, 118726

20 June, 2021: Congratulations to Zafar Abbas & co-workers for the publication in Journal of Materials Chemistry C

Luminescent heteroleptic Eu(III) probes for selective detection of diethyl chlorophosphate as G-series nerve agent mimic in vapor phase using solid-state films

Zafar Abbas, Usha Yadav, Ray J. Butcher and Ashis K. Patra Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2021, 9, 10037-10051 

05 May 2021: Congratulations!!! to Priyaranjan and all co-authors for their work published in Dalton Transactions. 

Kinetically Labile Ruthenium(II) Complexes of Terpyridines and Saccharin: Effect of Substituents on Photoactivity, Solvation Kinetics, and Photocytotoxicity,  Dalton Trans. 2021,50, 8196-8217.

3rd April 2021: Congratulations to Srikanth and co-authors for their paper published in Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 

Luminescent Lanthanide(III) complexes of DTPA-bis(amido-phenyl-terpyridine) for bioimaging and phototherapeutic applications, Srikanth Dasari, Swati Singh, Zafar Abbas, Sri Sivakumar, Ashis K. Patra, Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 2021, 256, 119709.

18 August 2020:Congratulations to Zafar Abbas and co-authors for his publication in the New Journal of Chemistry!!!

Luminescent Eu(III) and Tb(III) bimetallic complexes of N,N′-heterocyclic bases and tolfenamic acid: structures, photophysical aspects and biological activity

Zafar Abbas, Prerana Singh, Srikanth Dasari, Sri Sivakumar and  Ashis K. Patra,  New J. Chem. 2020,44, 15685-15697.