Publications

• Mladenović, D.; Martins, M.; Samanc, M.; Charneca, M.; Paul, A.; Santos, D. M.F.; Bayrakçeken, A.; Šljukić, B.; Low-cost transition metals (Fe, Ni, Co) on carbon aerogel for water electrolysis and supercapacitor applications. Electrochimica Acta, 2025, 540, 147226. Link

• Khan, R.A., Altowairqi, M.F., Alhumud, H.S., Laeeq, S., Paul, A., Alshammari, S.G., Alsaeedi, H. and Alsalme, A. A simple tetrahedral zinc (II) complex with co-ligand ‘2-amino-5-methylthiadiazole’as bromide ion sensor: Synthesis, crystal structure, ability to turn on luminescence response for Br¯ ion and computational studies. Inorg. Chimica Acta, 2025, p.122756. Link 

• Mohan, B.; Modi, K.; Singh, G.; Paul, A.; Garazade, I.M.; Arm Pombeiro, A.J.L.; Liu, X.; Sun, W.; Kim, S.S. Understanding the Electrochemical MOF Sensors in Detecting Cancer with Special Emphasis on Breast Carcinoma Biomarkers. Top Curr Chem 2025, 383, 9. (Link)

• Laeeq, S.; Khan, R.A.; Alsaeedi, H.; Paul, A.; Arman, H.D.; and Alsalme, A. Thiazolyl-derived Organic motif as Chemosensor: Synthesis, Structure Elucidation and Turn ON/OFF Luminescent Sensing. J. Mol. Struct., 2025, 1326, 141047. (Link) 

2024

• Besleaga, I.; Fesenko, A. A.; Paul, A.; Šljukić, B.; Rapta, P.; Pombeiro, A. J. L.; Shutalev, A. D.; Arion, V. B. Nickel(II) Complexes with 14-Membered bis-Thiosemicarbazide and bis-Isothiosemicarbazide Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization and Catalysis of Oxygen Evolution Reaction. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 15826-15841. (Link)

     (selected as a back cover of the journal) 'HOT article'

• Paul, A.*; Gusmão, F.; Mahmoud, A. G.; Hazra, S.; Rakočević, L.; Šljukić, B.; Khan, R. A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Catalyzing Towards Clean Energy: Tuning Oxygen Evolution Reaction by Amide-Functionalized Co(II) and Ni(II) Pristine Coordination Polymers. CrystEngComm 2024, 26, 2755–2764. (Link)

      (selected as a front cover of the journal issue) 

• Milikić, J.; Gusmão, F.; Knežević, S.; Gavrilov, N.; Paul, A.; Santos, D. M. F.; Šljukić, B. Transition Metal-Based Polyoxometalates for Oxygen Electrode Bifunctional Electrocatalysis. Batteries 2024, 10(6), 197. (Link) 

• Paul, A*.; Liu, P.; Mahmoud, A. G.; Rakocevic, L.; Alegria, E. C. B. A.; Khan, R. A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Wang, Z.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Highly Efficient Cu(II) Coordination Polymer Catalyst for the Conversion of Hazardous Volatile Organic Compounds. Chemosphere 2024, 364, 143001. (Link) 

• Gupta, G.; Paul, A.*; Gupta, A.; Lee, J.; Lee, C. Y. Removal of Organic Dyes from Aqueous Solution Using Novel Pyrene Appended Zn(II)-Based Metal-Organic Framework and Its Photocatalytic Property. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 15732-15741. (Link) 

• Khan, R. A.; AlFawaz, A.; Alhamed, A. A.; AlMuryyi, N. A.; Hasan, I.; Paul, A.; Alshammari, S. G.; Abdulwahab, A. R. A.; Arman, H. D.; Alsalme, A. Cadmium (II) Metal–Organic Architecture Based on Versatile Multi-N-Donor “3,5-Diaminotriazole” and Dicarboxylate Spacer: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Its Photocatalytic Degradation of Organic Dye. Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2024, 1–13. (Link) 

• Khan, M. Q.; Ahmad, K.; Raza, W.; Khan, R. A.; Sutradhar, M.; Paul, A. Hydrothermally Synthesized MoS2 as Electrochemical Catalyst for the Fabrication of Thiabendazole Electrochemical Sensor and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells. Catalysts 2024, 14(2), 107. (Link)

• Khan, R. A.; AlFawaz, A.; Hasan, I.; AlMuryyi, N. A.; Alhamed, A. A.; Laeeq, S.; Dey, S.; Paul, A.; Alsalme, A. Multifaceted Properties of an Engineered Three-Dimensional Zn(ii)-Metal-Organic Coordination Polymer: Synthesis, Crystal Structure, Efficient Photocatalytic Degradation of an Organic Dye and Selective Luminescent Sensing. New J. Chem. 2024, 48, 1287–1299. (Link)

• Khan, R. A.; Jaafar, M. H.; Paul, A.; Alsalme, A. Spectroscopic and Chemical Bonding Analysis of Luminescent bis(Diphenylphosphino)Methane Derived Binuclear Heteroleptic Silver(I) Complex of Norharmane with Argentophilic Interaction. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2024, 560, 121834. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Garazade, I. M.; Karmakar, A.; Khan, R. A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Nunes, A. V. M.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Nitrogen-Rich Tetrazole-Amide Functionalized Zn-Metal-Organic Framework as Catalyst for Efficient Catalytic CO2 Cycloaddition with Epoxides. Catalysts 2024, 14, 6. (Link) 

          (featured as a cover of the journal issue)

• Paul, A.*; Khan, R. A.; Shaik, G. M.; Shaik, J. P.; Nesterov, D.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. Synthesis, Characterization, and Anticancer Potential of Pyrene-Appended Schiff Base Tin(IV) Complexes: Experimental and Computational Insights. New J. Chem. 2024, 48, 2907–2919. (Link)

• Gupta, G. G.; Gusmão, F.; Paul, A.*; Šljukić, B.; Santos, D. M. F.; Lee, J.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L.; Lee, C. Y. A Mixed-Ligand Co Metal–Organic Framework and Its Carbon Composites as Excellent Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Green-Energy Devices. Dalton Trans. 2024, 53, 5001–5009. (Link)

2023

• Khan, R. A.; AlFawaz, A.; Alhamed, A. A.; AlMuryyi, N. A.; Hasan, I.; Paul, A.; Dey, S.; Alshammari, S. G.; Arman, H. D.; Alsalme, A. 3D Construction of a Cobalt(II) Coordination Polymer as a Photocatalyst for the Degradation of Methyl Green Dye under Visible Light and Its Mechanistic Pathway. New J. Chem. 2023, 47(48), 22289–22298. (Link) 

• Karmakar, A.; Paul, A.*; Santos, P. M. R.; Santos, I. R. M.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Novel Anthracene and Pyrene Containing Cd(II)-Based Coordination Polymers for Adsorptive Removal of Toxic Dyes from Aqueous Medium. Colloids Surf. A: Physicochem. Eng. Asp. 2023, 670, 131488. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Khan, R. A.; Shaik, G. M.; Shaik, J. P.; Rai, A. K.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Anthracene Appended Organotin(IV) Compounds: Synthesis, Structure Elucidation and Their Cytotoxicity against A549 and RBL Cancer Cell Lines. Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2023, 37, e7232. (Link)  

• Mahmoud, A. G.; Librando, I. L.; Paul, A.*.; Carabineiro, S. A. C.; Ferraria, A. M.; Botelho do Rego, A. M.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Geraldes, C. F. G. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Novel Organotin-PTA Complexes Supported on Mesoporous Carbon Materials as Recyclable Catalysts for Solvent-Free Cyanosilylation of Aldehydes. Catal. Today, 2023, 423, 114270. (Link) 

• Hazra, S.; Kuznetsov, M. L.; Paul, A.; Garazade, I. M.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Theoretical Analysis of CuII···Cl Semicoordination Bond in Supramolecular Heterometallic {CuII}{SnIV} Cocrystals. Organometallics 2023, 42 (18), 2672–2683. (Link) 

• Librando, I. L.; Paul, A.*; Mahmoud, A. G.; Gurbanov, A. V.; Carabineiro, S. A. C.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Geraldes, C. F. G. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Triazaphosphaadamantane-Functionalized Terpyridine Metal Complexes: Cyclohexane Oxidation in Homogeneous and Carbon-Supported Catalysis. RSC Sustain. 2023, 1, 147–158. (Link) 

• Karmakar, A.; Paul, A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Polyaromatic Group Embedded Cd(II)-Coordination Polymers for Microwave-Assisted Solvent-Free Strecker-Type Cyanation of Acetals. Molecules 2023, 28 (3), 945. (Link) 

2022

• Paul, A.*; Radinović, K.; Hazra, S.; Mladenović, D.; Šljukić, B.; Khan, R. A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Electrocatalytic Behavior of an Amide Functionalized Mn(II) Coordination Polymer on ORR, OER and HER. Molecules 2022, 27, 7323. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Silva, T. A. R.; Soliman, M. M. A.; Karačić, J.; Šljukić, B.; Alegria, E. C. B. A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Benzimidazole Schiff Base Copper(II) Complexes as Catalysts for Environmental and Energy Applications: VOC Oxidation, Oxygen Reduction and Water Splitting Reactions. Int. J. Hydrogen Energy 2022, 47 (55), 23175–23190. (Link)

• Karmakar, A.; Paul, A.; Santos, P. M. R.; Santos, I. R. M.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Design and Construction of Polyaromatic Group Containing Cd(II)-Based Coordination Polymers for Solvent-Free Strecker-Type Cyanation of Acetals. New J. Chem. 2022, 46, 10201. (Link) 

• Karmakar, A.; Paul, A.*; Santos, I.; Santos, P.; Sabatini, E. P.; Gurbanov, A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Highly Efficient Adsorptive Removal of Organic Dyes from Aqueous Solution Using Polyaromatic Group Containing Zn(II)-Based Coordination Polymers. Cryst. Growth & Des. 2022, 22 (4), 2248–2265. (Link) 

2021

• Anbu, S.; Paul, A.; Stasiuk, G. J.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Recent Developments in Molecular Sensor Designs for Inorganic Pyrophosphate Detection and Biological Imaging. Coord. Chem. Rev. 2021, 431, 213744. (Link) 

• Karmakar, A.; Paul, A.; Sabatini, E. P.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Pyrene Carboxylate Ligand Based Coordination Polymers for Microwave-Assisted Solvent-Free Cyanosilylation of Aldehydes. Molecules 2021, 26, 1101. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Singh, P.; Kuznetsov, M. L.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Karmakar, A.; Koch, B.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Influence of Anchoring Moieties on New Benzimidazole-Based Schiff Base Copper(II) Complexes towards Estrogen Dependent Breast Cancer Cells. Dalton Trans. 2021, 50, 3701–3716. (Link)  

• Paul, A.*; Karmakar, A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. 1D Zn(II) Coordination Polymers as Effective Heterogeneous Catalysts in Microwave-Assisted Single-Pot Deacetalization-Knoevenagel Tandem Reactions in Solvent-Free Conditions. Catalysts 2021, 11, 90. (Link) 

• Anbu, S.; Paul, A.; Surendranath, K.; Solaiman, N. S.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. A benzimidazole-based new fluorogenic differential/sequential chemosensor for Cu2+, Zn2+, CN-, P2O74-, DNA, its live-cell imaging and pyrosequencing applications. Sens. Actuators B: Chem. 2021, 337, 129785. (Link) 

• Anbu, S.; Paul, A.; Surendranath, K.; Sidali, A.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Naphthalimide-phenanthroimidazole incorporated new fluorescent sensor for "turn-on" Cu2+ detection in living cancer cells”, J. Inorg. Biochem., 2021, 220, 111466. (Link) 

2020

• Paul, A.*; Hazra, S.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Biological Evaluation of Azo- and Imino-Based Carboxylate Triphenyltin(IV) Compounds. Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 930–941. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Upadhyay, K. K.; Backović, G.; Karmakar, A.; Vieira Ferreira, L. F.; Šljukić, B.; Montemor, M. F.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Versatility of Amide-Functionalized Co(II) and Ni(II) Coordination Polymers: From Thermochromic-Triggered Structural Transformations to Supercapacitors and Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting. Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 16301−16318. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Das, K.; Karmakar, A.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. A Mechanistic Insight into the Rapid and Selective Removal of Congo Red by an Amide Functionalised Zn(II) Metal Organic Framework. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 12970–12984. (Link). 

     (selected as a back cover of the journal issue) 

• Paul, A.*; Martins, L. M. D. R. S.; Karmakar, A.; Kuznetsov, M. L.; Novikov, A. S.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Environmentally Benign Benzyl Alcohol Oxidation and C-C Coupling Catalysed by Amide Functionalized 3D Co(II) and Zn(II) Metal Organic Frameworks. J. Catal. 2020, 385, 324–337. (Link) 

• Paul, A.*; Martins, L. M. D. R. S.; Karmakar, A.; Kuznetsov, M. L.; Guedes da Silva, M. F. C.; Pombeiro, A. J. L. Zn(II)-to-Cu(II) Transmetalation in an Amide Functionalized Complex and Catalytic Applications in Styrene Oxidation and Nitroaldol Coupling. Molecules 2020, 25, 2644. (Link)