Dr. Pradip Kumar Das
Pradip Kumar Das
Professional Positions:
February 2021 till date: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Vidyasagar Metropolitan College (VMC), West Bengal, India
February 2016 to July 2017: Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Rennes 1, Rennes, France with Prof. Bernard Boitrel
October 2017 to February 2021: Postdoctoral Research Associate at KAUST, Saudi Arabia, with Prof. Kuo-Wei Huang (Prof. Andy)
Education:
Ph.D. (2016): Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), University of Calcutta (Advisor: Prof. Abhishek Dey)
M. Sc. (2010): IIT Kanpur
B. Sc. (2008): Chemistry Hons., Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, University of Calcutta
Publications:
19. Pradip Kumar Das,1 Priyanka Chakraborty,1 Sarmistha Bhunia,2 Priyanka Chakraborty, Atanu Rana,2 Abhishek Dey*2 and Kuo Wei Huang;*1 "Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Phosphorus-Nitrogen O=PN3-Pincer Complex" Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 614-622.
18. Pradip Kumar Das†, Priyanka Chakraborty†, Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap, Huaifeng Li and Kuo Wei Huang;* "Mechanistic elucidation of the role of metal oxidation states in nickel mediated electrocatalytic coupling of benzyl halides" Green Synthesis and Catalysis, 2020, 1, 143-149.
17. Chunhui Zhou†, Kristin Munkerup†, Yuan Wang, Pradip Kumar Das, and Kuo-Wei Huang*; "Ligand-centered reactivity of a pseudo-dearomatized phosphorus-nitrogen PN3P* rhodium complex towards molecular oxygen at room temperature" Inorg. Chem. Front., 2020, 7, 2017-2022.
16. B. Boitrel,* M. Bouget, Pradip Kumar Das, S. Le Gac, M. Hanana, H. Arcostanzo, R. Cornut, B. Jousselme, and S. Campidelli*; "Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Overhanging Carboxylic Acid Strapped Iron Porphyrins adsorbed on Carbon Nanotubes" J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2020, 24, 675-684.
15. Atanu Rana, Sk Amanullah, Pradip Kumar Das, Ashley B. McQuarters, Nicolai Lehnert*, Abhishek Dey*; "A Heme Ferric Carbon Monoxide Adduct" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 5073-5077.
14. Asmita Singha, Pradip Kumar Das, Abhishek Dey*; "Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations on Ferrous Porphyrin Dioxygen Adducts with Different Axial Ligands: Correlation of Ground State Wavefunction and Geometric Parameters with Experimental Vibrational Frequencies" Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 10704-10715.
13. Manel Hanana,†, Hélène Arcostanzo,† Morgane Bouget,‡ Pradip Kumar Das,‡ Stéphane Le Gac,‡ Renaud Cornut,† Bruno Jousselme,† Bernard Boitrel*,‡ and Stéphane Campidelli*,†; Synergic Effect on Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Strapped Iron Porphyrins Polymerised around Carbon Nanotubes;
New. J. Chem., 2018, 42, 19749-19754.
12. Sk Amanullah, Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, and Abhishek Dey*; "Tuning the thermodynamic onset potential of O2 reduction reaction by synthetic iron-porphyrin complex" Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 10010-10013.
11. Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey*; "Concerted Proton–Electron Transfer in Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrin Complexes: Axial Ligands Tuning H/D Isotope Effect" Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 2383-2392.
10. Subal Dey, Atanu Rana, Danielle Crouthers, Biswajit Mondal, Pradip Kumar Das, Marcetta Y. Darensbourg, and Abhishek Dey*; "Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by [Fe-Fe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8847-8850.
9. Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey*; "Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction Reaction by Synthetic Analogues of Cytochrome P450 and Myoglobin: In-Situ Resonance Raman and Dynamic Electrochemistry Investigations" Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 9897-9907.
8. Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Biswajit Mondal, and Abhishek Dey*; "O2 Reduction Reaction by Biologically Relevant Anionic Ligand Bound Iron Porphyrin Complexes" Inorg. Chem., 2013, 52, 12963-12971.
7. Atanu Rana,1# Pradip Kumar Das1#, Biswajit Mondal,1 Subal Dey,1 Danielle Crouthers,2 Marcetta Y. Darensbourg*,2 Abhishek Dey*1; "Investigation of Bridgehead Effects on Reduction Potential in Alkyl and Aryl Azadithiolate-bridged (µ-SRS) [Fe(CO)3]2 Synthetic Analogues of [FeFe]-H2ase Active Site" Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 3633-3643.
6. Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, Ashley B. Macquarters, Nicolai Lenhert* and Abhishek Dey*; "Mixed valence species in synthetic cytochrome P450 model system"
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A (PNAS), 2016, 113, 6611-6616.
5. Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, Sudipta Chatterjee, and Abhishek dey*; "Effect of Axial Ligands on Electronic Structure and O2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrin Complexes: Towards a Quantitative Understanding of the push effect" J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2015, 19, 92.
4. Pradip Kumar Das, Kaustuv Mittra, and Abhishek Dey*; "Spectroscopic characterization of a phenolate bound FeII-O2 adduct: gauging the relative ‘‘push’’ effect of a phenolate axial ligand" Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5218-5220.
3. Pradip Kumar Das and Abhishek Dey*; "Resonance Raman, EPR and DFT Calculations of a Phenolate Bound Iron Porphyrin Complex: Electrostatic vs Covalent Contribution to Bonding" Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 7361-7370.
2. Subal Dey, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey*; "Mononuclear iron hydrogenase" Coor. Chem. Rev., 2013, 257, 42-63.
Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, Sudipta Chatterjee, and Abhishek Dey*; "EPR, Resonance Raman and DFT Calculations on Thiolate and Imidazole Bound Iron (III) Porphyrin Complexes: Role of Axial Ligand in Tuning the Electronic Structure" Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 10704-10714.