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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Publications

  1. Soumen Rakshit,  Jyotirmoy Mitra, Rajat Saha and  Ram Chandra Maji*, Ligand-driven redox transformations and catalytic activities of mononuclear copper complexes: structural and spectroscopic insights, Dalton Trans., 2025,54, 13215-13227. Link

  2. D. Datta , J. W. Lim, R. C. Maji*, and S. K. Maji*, Graphene Oxide-Wrapped Gold Nanorods for Direct Plasmon-Enhanced Electrocatalysis to Detect Hydrogen Peroxide and in the Hydrogen Evaluation Reaction, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2023, 6, 4, 2729–2740. Link

  3. S. Paul,   S. Pathak,   S. Sahoo,   R. C. Maji,   U. Bhattacharyya, D. Nandi A. R Chakravarty*,   Bichromophoric ruthenium(II) bis-terpyridine-BODIPY based photosensitizers for cellular imaging and photodynamic therapy, Dalton Trans., 2022, Accepted Manuscript, https://doi.org/10.1039/D2DT01137A. Link

  4. A. Bhandari,  S. Mishra, R. C. Maji,  A. Kumar,  M. M. Olmstead,  A. K. Patra*, Nickel(II)‐Mediated Reversible Thiolate/Disulfide Conversion as a Mimic for a Key Step of the Catalytic Cycle of Methyl‐Coenzyme M Reductase, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed.,  2020,59, 9177-9185, DOI:10.1002/anie.202001363. Link

  5. S. Paul, P. Kundu, U. Bhattacharyya, A. Garai, R. C. Maji, P. Kondaiah, A. R. Chakravarty*, Ruthenium(II) Conjugates of Boron-Dipyrromethene and Biotin for Targeted Photodynamic Therapy in Red Light, Inorg. Chem., 2020, 59, 913-924. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.9b03178. Link

  6. A. Bhandari, R. C. Maji, S. Mishra, A. Kumar, S. K. Barman, P. Pratim Das, K. B. Ghiassi, M. M. Olmstead, and A. K. Patra*., Model Complexes for the Nip Site of Acetyl Coenzyme A Synthase/Carbon Monoxide (CO) Dehydrogenase: Structure, Electrochemistry, and CO Reactivity. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 13713-13727. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b02276. Link

  7. S. Dutta, S. Biswas, R. C. Maji, R. Saha*, Environmentally Sustainable Fabrication of Cu1.94S-rGO Composite for Dual Environmental Application: Visible-Light-Active Photocatalyst and Room-Temperature Phenol Sensor. ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2018, 6,835–845. DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b03186. Link

  8. R. C. Maji, S. Mishra, A. Bhandari, R. Singh, M. M. Olmstead, A. K. Patra*, A Copper(II) Nitrite That Exhibits Change of Nitrite Binding Mode and Formation of Copper(II) Nitrosyl Prior to Nitric Oxide Evolution. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 1550–1561. DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b02897. Link

  9. R. C. Maji, P. P. Das, A. Bhandari, S. Mishra, M. Maji, K. B. Ghiassi,  M. M. Olmstead,   A. K. Patra*, Mixed valence copper–sulfur clusters of highest nuclearity: a Cu8 wheel and a Cu16 nanoball. Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 3334-3337. DOI:10.1039/C6CC08301C

  10. R. C. Maji, P. P. Das, S. Mishra, A. Bhandari, M. Maji, A. K. Patra*, Electron transfer mechanism of catalytic superoxide dismutation via Cu(II/I) complexes: evidence of cupric–superoxo/–hydroperoxo species. Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 11898–11910. DOI:10.1039/C6DT02220K

  11. R. C. Maji, A. Bhandari, R. Singh, S. Roy, S. K. Chatterjee, F. L. Bowles, K. B. Ghiassi, M. Maji, M. M. Olmstead, A. K. Patra*, Copper Coordinated Ligand Thioether-S and NO2- Oxidation: Relevance to CuM Site of Hydroxylases. Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 17587–17599. DOI:10.1039/C5DT02184G

  12. S. K. Chatterjee, R. C. Maji, S. K. Barman, M. M. Olmstead, A. K. Patra*, Hexacoordinate Nickel(II)/(III) Complexes that Mimic the Catalytic Cycle of Nickel Superoxide Dismutase. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2014, 53, 10184 –10189. doi.org/10.1002/anie.201404133

  13. R. C. Maji, S. K. Barman, S. Roy, S. K. Chatterjee, F. L. Bowles, M. M. Olmstead, A. K. Patra*, Copper Complexes Relevant to the Catalytic Cycle of Copper Nitrite Reductase: Electrochemical Detection of NO(g) Evolution and Flipping of NO2 Binding Mode upon CuII àCuI Reduction. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 11084−11095. DOI: 10.1021/ic401295t

  14. S. K. Chatterjee, S. Roy, S. K. Barman, R. C. Maji, M. M. Olmstead, A. K Patra*, Shuttling of Nickel Oxidation States in N4S2 Coordination Geometry versus Donor Strength of Tridentate N2S Donor Ligands. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 7625−7635. DOI: 10.1021/ic300606g

Conference

  1. “Superoxide Dismutation via Cu(II/I) Complexes Follows Electron Transfer Mechanisms Contrasting to Copper-Zinc Superoxide Dismutase” by R. C. Maji, S. Mishra, A. Bhandari, A. K. Patra in National Conference on Recent Developments in Chemistry 2 (RDC-2) during October, 3-5, 2016 at National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India. 

  2. “Ligand Donor Type Dictates The CuII/I Mediated Thioether-S Oxidation: Insight to the CuM Site of Hydroxylases” by R. C. Maji, A. Bhandari, S. C. Moi, M. Maji, Apurba K. Patra in the International Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry-XVI (MTIC-XVI) during December 03-05, 2015 at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India.

  3. “Functional Modelling of Copper Nitrite Reductase” by R. C. Maji, S. K. Chatterjee, M. Maji, S. K. Barman, M. M. Olmstead, A. K. Patra in the International Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry-XV (MTIC-XV) during December 13-16, 2013 at Indian institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttarakhand, India.

  4. “Functional modelling of Type-2 Copper Site of Copper Nitrite Reductases” by R. C. Maji, S. K. Chatterjee, A. K. Patra in National Conference on Recent Developments in Chemistry (RDC) during October, 03-05, 2013 at National Institute of Technology Durgapur, West Bengal, India. 

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