2025
58. Water-Driven Modulation of Multiresponsive Properties in Acylhydrazone-based Crystals
Deepak Manoharan, Aritra Bhowmik, Manish Kumar Mishra* and Soumyajit Ghosh*
Chem. Commun., 2025, 61, 12139-12142
57. Caffeine vs. Theophylline Cocrystals: Insights into Structure–Mechanical Behavior and Piezoelectricity
Aritra Bhowmik, Sanjivani Bamane, Ashish Kumar Saxena, and Manish Kumar Mishra*
Crystal Growth & Design, 2025, 25, 13, 5007-5021
56. Mechanical flexibility, photosalient, and acidochromism of benzylidene indanone based molecular crystals
Riyaaz Ahamed, Aritra Bhowmik, Manish Kumar Mishra* and Soumyajit Ghosh*
Crystal Growth & Design, 2025, 25, 12, 4481-4493
55. Photo-Induced Cracking in a Bi-Component Molecular Solid: Capturing Structural Intermediates
Mollah Rohan Ahsan, Manish Kumar Mishra, and Arijit Mukherjee
Chem. Asian J., 2025, 20, 9, e202401518
54. Simultaneously Mechanically Flexible, Photobending, and Acidochromic Cyanostilbene Molecular Crystals
Thiyagaraj Parthasarathy, Manish Kumar Mishra, Biswajit Bhattacharya, Franziska Emmerling and Soumyajit Ghosh
Crystal Growth & Design., 2025, 25, 309-318
2024
53. Structural Basis for Two-Dimensional Flexible Pharmaceutical Solvate Crystal: Indomethacin Methanol
Aritra Bhowmik, Sanjivani Bamane and Manish Kumar Mishra*
CrystEngComm, 2024, 26, 5694-5698
52. Template-Assisted Visible Light-Induced [2 + 2] Photodimerization in a Pseudopolymorphic Binary Solid: Topotactic Transformation vs Photoinduced Crystal Melting
Mollah Rohan Ahsan, Harshit Varma, Manish Kumar Mishra and Arijit Mukherjee
Crystal Growth & Design., 2024, 24, 5193-5199
2023
51. Recent Advances in Nanomechanical Measurements and Their Application for Pharmaceutical Crystals (Invited Review Article)
Manish Kumar Mishra,* Pinki Mahur, Praveena Manimunda, Kamini Mishra
Mol. Pharm, 2023, 20, 4848-4867
50. Isolation of anhydrous tetrabutylphosphonium lanthanide hexa- and penta-nitrates from ionic liquids
Ethan A. Hiti, Manish Kumar Mishra, Volodymyr Smetana, Anja-Verena Mudring, and Robin D. Rogers
Polyhedron., 2023, 232, 116277
2022
49. CO2 capture from ambient air via crystallization with tetraalkylammonium hydroxides
Manish Kumar Mishra, Volodymyr Smetana, Ethan Hiti, Hannah, Wineinger, Fengrui Qu, Anja-Verena Mudring And Robin D. Rogers
Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 17724-17732
48. Pressure and Temperature Induced Dual Responsive Molecular Crystals: Effect of Polymorphism
Ragaverthini Chinnasamy, Bhushan Munjal, Raj Suryanarayanan, Abdul Malik P. Peedikakkal, Manish Kumar Mishra* And and Soumyajit Ghosh*
Cryst. Growth Des., 2022, 22, 615-624
47. Mechanical anisotropy and tabletability of famotidine polymorphs
Pratik P. Upadhyaya, Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Andrew. D. Bond
CrystEngComm., 2022, 24, 1795-1802
2021
46. Elastic Molecular Crystals: From Serendipity to Design to Applications (Review Article)
Soumyajit Ghosh and Manish Kumar Mishra*
Cryst. Growth Des., 2021, 21, 2566 - 2580
45. Activation volume of the elastic-plastic transition in molecular crystals
MSRN Kiran, Manish Kumar Mishra, and Upadrasta Ramamurty
Cryst. Growth Des., 2021, 21, 5183 - 5191
44. Probing time-dependent phase transformation in a flexible metal-organic framework with nanoindentation
Prakash Kanoo, Manish Kumar Mishra, and Arpan Hazra
Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 11380-11384
43. Reversible facile single-crystal-to-single-crystal polymorphic transition accompanied by unit cell volume expansion and twinning
Kunlin Wang, Chenguang Wang, Manish Kumar Mishra, Victor G. Young, and Changquan Calvin Sun
CrystEngComm., 2021 23, 2648-2653
42. Catalytic Enantioselective Synthesis of Aryl-Methyl Organophosphorus Compounds
Arun Yadav, Dileep Kumar, Manish Kumar Mishra, Deeksha, and Chandra Bhushan Tripathi
J. Org. Chem., 2021, 86, 2000-2011
41. Structure-Property Correlations in Piracetam Polytypes
Pratik P. Upadhyaya, Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Andrew. D. Bond
CrystEngComm., 2021, 23, 1226-1233
2020
40. Structural Basis for Mechanical Anisotropy in Polymorphs of a Caffeine-Glutaric Acid Cocrystal
Manish Kumar Mishra*, Kamini Mishra, Aditya Narayan, C. Malla Reddy* and Venu R. Vangala*
Cryst. Growth Des., 2020, 20, 6306-6315
39. Crystallographic Evidence of Watson-Crick Connectivity in the Base Pair of Anionic Adenine with Thymine
Manish Kumar Mishra, Steven P Kelley, Volodymyr Smetana, David A. Dixon, Ashley S. McNeill, Anja-Verena Mudring, and Robin D. Rogers
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 2020, 117, 18224-18230
38. Forcing Dicyanamide Coordination to f-Elements by Dissolution in Dicyanamide-based Ionic Liquids
Si-Fu Tang, Volodymyr Smetana, Manish Kumar Mishra, Steven P. Kelley, Olivier Renier, Robin D. Rogers and Anja-Verena Mudring
Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 7227-7237
37. Chloroaluminate Liquid Clathrates: Is It the Cations or the Anions That Drive the Solubility of Aromatics?
Rajkumar Kore, Manish Kumar Mishra, Uma Maheshwar Gonela, and Robin D. Rogers
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2020, 59, 18419-18424
36. Conformation-directed interaction anisotropy leading to distinct bending behaviors of two ROY polymorphs
Manish Kumar Mishra And and Changquan Calvin Sun
Cryst. Growth Des., 2020, 20, 4764-4769
35. Are ionic liquids and liquid coordination complexes really different? Synthesis, characterization, and catalytic activity of AlCl3/base catalysts
Rajkumar Kore, Steven Paul Kelley, Anand Sawant, Manish Kumar Mishra, and Robin D. Rogers,
Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 5362-5365
(This article is part of the themed collection: Chemical Communications HOT Articles) (Highlighted in RSC ChemComm Blog)
34. Crystallographic and energetic insights into reduced dissolution and physical stability of a drug-surfactant salt: The case of norfloxacin lauryl sulfate
Yiwang Guo, Manish Kumar Mishra, Chenguang Wang and Changquan Calvin Sun
Mol. Pharmaceutics., 2020, 17, 579-587
2019
33. A uranyl metal-organic framework arising from the coordination of a partially hydrolyzed tetrauranyl node with the tautomerically diverse 1,4-(diamidoximyl)benzene ligand
Manish Kumar Mishra, Yogesh P. Patil, Steven P. Kelley, and Robin D. Rogers
Cryst. Growth Des., 2019, 19, 5466-5470
32. Probing stress-induced phase transformation in aspirin polymorphs using Raman spectroscopy enabled nanoindentation
Praveena Manimunda, Syed A. Asif, and Manish Kumar Mishra*
Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 9200-9203
31. A twistable pharmaceutical crystal exhibiting exceptional plasticity and tabletability
Shenye Hu‡, Manish Kumar Misha‡ and Changquan C. Sun
(‡These authors contributed equally to this work.)
(Selected for the cover page of the journal)
Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 3818 - 3822
30. Enhanced acidity and activity of aluminum/gallium-based ionic liquids resulting from dynamic anionic speciation
Kai Li, Hemant Choudhary, Manish Kumar Mishra, and Robin D. Rogers
ACS Catal., 2019, 9, 9789-9793
29. Structural diversity in tetrakis(4-pyridyl)porphyrin supramolecular building blocks
Manish Kumar Mishra, Hemant Choudhary, David Cordes, Steven P. Kelley, and Robin D. Rogers
Cryst. Growth Des., 2019, 19, 3529-3542
28. Solubility studies of cyclosporine using ionic liquids
Paula Berton, Manish Kumar Mishra, Hemant Choudhary, Allan S. Myerson and Robin D. Rogers
ACS Omega., 2019, 4 (5), 7938 - 7943
27. An exceptionally elastic single-component pharmaceutical crystal
Kunlin Wang‡, Manish Kumar Misha‡ and Changquan C Sun (‡These authors contributed equally to this work)
Chem. Mater., 2019, 31, 1794-1799
(This article was featured in ACS Editors' Choice.) (This article is listed as one of the top 20 downloaded articles in Chemistry of Materials) (Highlight in Materials Research Society (MRS) Bulletin news).
26. Crystallographic insights into the behavior of highly acidic metal cations in ionic liquids from reactions of titanium tetrachloride with [1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium][x] ionic liquids (x = chloride, bromide, tetrafluoroborate)
Manish Kumar Mishra, Steven P. Kelley, Meghna Dilip, Thomas P. Vaid, David Cordes And Scott Griffin and Robin D. Rogers,
Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 1764-773
2018
25. From molecules to interactions to crystal engineering: Mechanical properties of organic solids (Review article)
Subhankar Saha, Manish Kumar Mishra, C. Malla Reddy and Gautam R. Desiraju
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51, 2957-2967
24. Elastic flexibility tuning via interaction factor modulation in molecular crystals
Manish Kumar Mishra, Sourabh B. Kadambi, Upadrasta Ramamurty and Soumyajit Ghosh
Chem. Commun., 2018, 54, 9047 - 9050
23. Early assessment of bulk powder processability as a part of solid form screening
Pratik P. Upadhyay, Nawin Pudasaini, Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty And and Jukka Rantanen,
Chemical Engineering Research and Design., 2018, 136, 447 - 455
22. Can melting point trends help us develop new tools to control the crystal packing of weakly interacting ions?
Manish Kumar Mishra, Steven P. Kelley, Julia L. Shamshina, Hemant Choudhary and Robin D. Rogers
Cryst. Growth Des., 2018, 18, 597 - 601
2017
21. Structural analysis of elastically bent organic crystals by in situ indentation and micro-Raman spectroscopy
Manish Kumar Mishra, * Kamini Mishra And Syed A. Syed Asif and Praveena Manimunda
Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 13035-13038
20. In-situ high-pressure study of an elastic crystal by FTIR spectroscopy
Manish Kumar Mishra, * Pallavi Prasanna Ghalsasi, M N Deo, Himal Bhatt, Himanshu Poswal, Soumyajit Ghosh and Somnath Ganguly,
CrystEngComm., 2017, 19, 7083 - 7087
19. Mechanical anisotropy and pressure-induced structural changes in piroxicam crystals probed by in situ indentation and Raman Spectroscopy
Praveena Manimunda, Eric D. Hintsala, Syed Asif and Manish Kumar Mishra*
JOM., 2017, 69(1), 57-63
18. Oxine based unsymmetrical (O?, N, S/Se) pincer ligands and their palladium(II) complexes: synthesis, structural aspects and applications as a catalyst in amine and copper-free Sonogashira coupling
Satyendra Kumar, Fariha Saleem, Manish Kumar Mishra and Ajai K. Singh
New J. Chem., 2017, 41, 2745-2755
2016
17. Mechanical property design of molecular solids (Review article)
Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty and Gautam R. Desiraju,
Curr. Opin. Solid State Mater. Sci., 2016, 20, 361 - 370
16. On the loading rate sensitivity of plastic deformation in molecular crystals
Devaraj Raut, MSRN Kiran, Manish Kumar Mishra, Abdullah M. Asiri and Upadrasta Ramamurty
CrystEngComm., 2016, 18, 3551-3555 (Cover page)
2015
15. Dual stress and thermally driven mechanical properties of the same organic crystal: 2,6-dichlorobenzylidene-4-fluoro-3-nitroaniline
Soumyajit Ghosh, Manish Kumar Mishra, Somnath Ganguly and Gautam R. Desiraju
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 9912 - 9921
14. Solid solution hardening of molecular crystals: Tautomeric polymorphs of omeprazole
Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Gautam R. Desiraju
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2015, 137, 1794-1797 (Highlighted in spotlights on J. Am. Chem. Soc. publications, DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b01539)
13. Designing elastic organic crystals: Highly flexible polyhalogenated N-benzylidineanilines
Soumyajit Ghosh, ‡ Manish Kumar Mishra, ‡ Sourabh B. Kadambi, Upadrasta Ramamurty and Gautam R. Desiraju (‡These authors contributed equally to this work)
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 2674 - 2678
12. Bioinspired reductionistic peptide engineering for exceptional mechanical properties
M. B. Avinash, Devaraj Raut, Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty and T. Govindaraju
Sci. Rep., 2015, 5, 16070
11. Crystal chemistry and photomechanical behavior of 3,4-dimethoxycinnamic acid: Correlation between maximum yield in the solid state topochemical reaction and cooperative molecular motion
Manish Kumar Mishra, Arijit Mukherjee, Upadrasta Ramamurty and Gautam R. Desiraju
IUCrJ., 2015, 2, 653 - 660
Highlighted article of the IUCrJ Journal (Selected for scientific commentary on IUCrJ; DOI: 10.1107/S2052252515019922).
10. Anisotropy in the mechanical properties of organic crystals: temperature dependence
Reda M. Mohamed, Manish Kumar Mishra, Laila M Al-Harbi, Mohammed S Al-Ghamdi, and Upadrasta Ramamurty
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 64156 - 64162
9. Hardness Alternation in α,ω-Alkanedicarboxylic Acids
Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Gautam R. Desiraju
Chem. Asian J., 2015, 10, 2176 - 2181
Highlighted in spotlights on Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 32/2015 (DOI:10.1002/anie.201583213), Chem. Eur. J. 34/2015 (DOI: 10.1002/chem.201583413), ChemPlusChem 8/2015 (DOI: 10.1002/cplu.201580813) and ChemBioChem 12/2015 (DOI: 10.1002/cbic.201581213)
8. Bimodal nanoindentation response of the (001) face in crystalline sodium saccharin dihydrate
Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Gautam R. Desiraju
Maced. J. Chem. Chem. Eng., 2015, 34, 51 - 55
7. Temperature dependence of mechanical properties in molecular crystals
Reda M. Mohamed, Manish Kumar Mishra, Laila M. AL-Harbi, Mohammed S. Al-Ghamdi, Abdullah M. Asiri, Chilla Malla Reddy and Upadrasta Ramamurty
Cryst. Growth Des., 2015., 15, 2474 - 2479
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6. IR spectroscopy as a probe for C–HX hydrogen-bonded supramolecular synthons
Subhankar Saha, Lalit Rajput, Sumy Joseph, Manish Kumar Mishra, Somnath Ganguly, and Gautam R. Desiraju
CrystEngComm., 2015, 17, 1273-1290
5. Tuning mechanical properties of pharmaceutical crystals with multicomponent crystals: Voriconazole as a case study
Palash Sanphui, Manish Kumar Mishra, Upadrasta Ramamurty and Gautam R. Desiraju
Mol. Pharmaceutics., 2015, 12, 889 - 897
2014
4. Studying microstructure in molecular crystals with nanoindentation: Intergrowth polymorphism in felodipine
Manish Kumar Mishra, Gautam R. Desiraju, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Andrew D. Bond
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 201453, 13102 - 13105
3. Solubility-hardness correlation in molecular crystals: Curcumin and sulfathiazole polymorphs
Manish Kumar Mishra, Palash Sanphui, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Gautam R. Desiraju
Cryst. Growth Des., 2014 14, 3054 - 3061
2013
2. Odd even effect in the elastic modulii of alhpa, omega-alkanedicarboxylic acids
Manish Kumar Mishra, Sunil Varughese, Upadrasta Ramamurty, and Gautam R. Desiraju
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2013, 135, 8121-8124
2012
1. Crystal engineering in the Desiraju research group in Bangalore
Shaunak Chakraborty, Ritesh Dubey, Sumy Joseph, Manish Kumar Mishra, Arijit Mukherjee, Kafeel Ahmed Siddiqui, Srinu Tothadi, Tejender Singh Thakur and Sunil Varughese
Cryst. Growth Des., 2012, 12, 4688-4691