Dr. Pradip Kumar Das

I am an experienced researcher, having worked as an Assistant Professor and Scientist for over 8 years. My areas of expertise include chemical synthesis, electrocatalysis, and data analysis. I possess excellent laboratory and field experiment skills and am capable of mentoring new hires. I am a hardworking individual who is highly organized and maintains a positive attitude. I am passionate about achieving research excellence and am always willing to take on additional responsibilities to help the team achieve its goals. I am seeking a full-time position that offers professional challenges and allows me to utilize my interpersonal skills, time management, and problem-solving abilities.

• EPR, Resonance Raman, and DFT Calculations on Thiolate and Imidazole Bound Iron (III) Porphyrin Complexes: Role of Axial Ligand in Tuning the Electronic Structure; Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, Sudipta Chatterjee, and Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem., 2012, 51, 10704-10714.
• Resonance Raman, EPR, and DFT Calculations of a Phenolate Bound Iron Porphyrin Complex: Electrostatic vs Covalent Contribution to Bonding; Pradip Kumar Das and Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 7361-7370.
• Spectroscopic characterization of a phenolate bound FeII-O2 adduct: gauging the relative ‘‘push’’ effect of a phenolate axial ligand; Pradip Kumar Das, Kaustuv Mittra, and Abhishek Dey; Chem. Commun., 2014, 50, 5218 5220.
• Mixed valence species in synthetic cytochrome P450 model system; Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, Ashley B. Macquarters, Nicolai Lenhert & Abhishek Dey; Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U S A (PNAS), 2016, 113, 6611- 6616.
• 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; Atanu Rana,1# Pradip Kumar Das1#, Biswajit Mondal,1 Subal Dey,1 Danielle Crouthers,2 Marcetta Y. Darensbourg2 Abhishek Dey1; Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2018, 3633-3643.
• O2 Reduction Reaction by Biologically Relevant Anionic Ligand Bound Iron Porphyrin Complexes; Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Biswajit Mondal and Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem., 2013, 52, 12963-12971.
• Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction Reaction by Synthetic Analogues of Cytochrome P450 and Myoglobin: In-Situ Resonance Raman and Dynamic Electrochemistry Investigations; Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 9897-9907.
• Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by [Fe-Fe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models; Subal Dey, Atanu Rana, Danielle Crouthers, Biswajit Mondal, Pradip Kumar Das, Marcetta Y. Darensbourg and Abhishek Dey; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 8847-8850.
• Concerted Proton–Electron Transfer in Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrin Complexes: Axial Ligands Tuning H/D Isotope Effect; Sudipta Chatterjee, Kushal Sengupta, Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 2383-2392.
• Tuning the thermodynamic onset potential of O2 reduction reaction by synthetic iron-porphyrin complex; Sk Amanullah, Pradip Kumar Das, Subhra Samanta, and Abhishek Dey; Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 10010-10013.
• Synergic Effect on Oxygen Reduction Reaction of Strapped Iron Porphyrins Polymerised around Carbon Nanotubes; Manel Hanana†, Hélène Arcostanzo†, Morgane Bouget‡ Pradip Kumar Das‡, Stéphane Le Gac‡, Renaud Cornut†, Bruno Jousselme†, Bernard Boitrel & Stéphane Campidelli; New. J. Chem., 2018, 42, 19749-19754.
• Resonance Raman Spectroscopy and DFT Calculations on Ferrous Porphyrin Dioxygen Adducts with Different Axial Ligands: Correlation of Ground State Wave function and Geometric Parameters with Experimental Vibrational Frequencies; Asmita Singha, Pradip Kumar Das, Abhishek Dey; Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 10704-10715.
• A Heme Ferric Carbon Monoxide Adduct; Atanu Rana, Sk Amanullah, Pradip Kumar Das, Ashley B. McQuarters, Nicolai Lehnert, Abhishek Dey; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, 5073-5077.
• Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalyzed by Overhanging Carboxylic Acid Strapped Iron Porphyrins adsorbed on Carbon Nanotubes B. Boitrel, M. Bouget, Pradip. Kumar Das, S. Le Gac, M. Hanana, H. Arcostanzo, R. Cornut, B. Jousselme, and S. Campidelli; J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2020, 24, 675-684.
• Ligand-centered reactivity of a pseudo-dearomatized phosphorus-nitrogen PN3P-Rhodium complex towards molecular oxygen at room temperature, Chunhui Zhou†, Kristin Munkerup†, Yuan Wang, Pradip Kumar Das, and Kuo-Wei Huang; Inorg. Chem. Front., 2020, 7, 2017-2022.
• Mechanistic elucidation of the role of metal oxidation states in nickel-mediated electrocatalytic coupling of benzyl halides; Pradip Kumar Das†, Priyanka Chakraborty†, Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap, Huaifeng Li and Kuo Wei Huang; Green Synthesis and Catalysis, 2020, 1, 143-149.
• Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Phosphorus-Nitrogen O=PN3-Pincer Complex; Pradip Kumar Das,1 Priyanka Chakraborty,1 Sarmistha Bhunia,2 Priyanka Chakraborty, Atanu Rana,2 Abhishek Dey2 and Kuo Wei Huang;1 Inorg. Chem., 2020, 60, 614-622.
• Redox-Neutral Imination of Alcohol with Azide: A Sustainable Alternative to the Staudinger/Aza-Wittig Reaction; Huaifeng Li, Daniel Lupp, Pradip Kumar Das, Li Yang, Théo P. Gonçalves, Mei-Hui Huang, Marwa El Hajoui, Lan-Chang Liang & Kuo-Wei Huang; ACS Catal., 2021, 11, 4071-4076.
• Functional Myoglobin Model Composed of a Strapped Porphyrin/Cyclodextrin Supramolecular Complex with an Overhanging COOH That Increases O2/CO Binding Selectivity in Aqueous Solution; Qiyue Mao, Pradip Kumar Das, Stéphane Le Gac, Bernard Boitrel, Vincent Dorcet, Koji Oohora, Takashi Hayashi, and Hiroaki Kitagishi; Inorg. Chem., 2021, 60, 12392-12404.
• Efficient and chemoselective hydrogenation of aldehydes catalyzed by well-defined PN3–pincer manganese(II) catalyst precursors: an application in furfural conversion; Sandeep Suryabhan Gholap, Abdullah Al Dakhil, Priyanka Chakraborty, Huaifeng Li, Indranil Dutta, Pradip K. Das, and Kuo-Wei Huang; Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 11815-11818.

• Effect of Axial Ligands on Electronic Structure and O2 Reduction by Iron Porphyrin Complexes: Towards a Quantitative Understanding of the Push Effect. Subhra Samanta, Pradip Kumar Das, Sudipta Chatterjee, and Abhishek dey
• J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2015, 19, 92.
• Mononuclear iron hydrogenase; Subal Dey, Pradip Kumar Das, and Abhishek Dey
• Coor. Chem. Rev., 2013, 257, 42-63.

• Title: Senior Scientist I
• Date of Birth: 03/01/88
• Gender: Male