Chirantan Roy Choudhury, Ph.D. (Jadavpur University)
Assistant Professor
Tel: +91-33-25241975, 25241976, 25241978-79; Mob. No: +919836306502 ; Fax: +91-3325241977
Email: crchoudhury2000@yahoo.com / crchoudhury1909@gmail.com
Research Areas: Coordination chemistry, biological study and nanocomposites
Research Interest:
1. Synthesis, structural characterization of new multinuclear metal complexes, their
magneto-structural correlations, along with the DFT calculations to establish the
probable pathways for the exchange of magnetic interactions.
2. Application of these metal complexes in the field of bioinorganic Chemistry in
vitro as well as in vivo and their possible use for the anti-cancer drug.
3. Development of Dye sensitized solar cells using functionalized metal complexes.
4. Development of Sol-Gel derived inorganic-organic nanocomposites, dye-doped
nanomaterials, and metal incorporated core-shell nanoparticles.
Member of Professional Bodies:
Life member, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Jadavpur,
Kolkata – 700 032.
Life member of Indian Chemical Society, Kolkata.
Academic Qualification:
1. Ph.D.- Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 2003
2. M.Sc. in Chemistry- Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1999
(Specialisation: Inorganic Chemistry)
3. B.Sc. in Chemistry: Jadavpur University, Kolkata, 1997
Professional Recognition, Fellowship and Award received:
1. Research Associate (CSIR), Jadavpur University, Year: 2004.
2. Best Scientist award in D.M.S.R.D.E., Defence Research & Development
Organisation, Govt. of India, for the work on “Development of Sol-Gel derived
Inorganic Organic Nanocomposites” (Ministry of Defence, Kanpur – 208013,
Uttar Pradesh), Year: 2006.
Professional Experience:
Position
Year
University/College/Institution
Assistant Professor 06.03.2009-till date
Department of Chemistry
in Chemistry
West Bengal State University
Berunanpukuria, Malikapur,
Barasat, 24 Pgs (N), Kolkata-700126
Lecturer in Chemistry
02.11.2006 – 05.03.2009
New Alipore College, Kolkata – 700053
(Honours degree college under
University of Calcutta, West Bengal)
Scientist ‘C’
MOCVD, (Electronic
& Smart Materials
Group)
Lecturer in Chemistry
04.02.2005 – 30.10.2006
D.M.S.R.D.E., Defence Research &
Development Organisation, Govt. of
India, Ministry of Defence, Kanpur –
208013, Uttar Pradesh
Institute of Genetic Engineering, Badu,
Kolkata – 700128 (Under University of
Kalyani, West Bengal)
01.08.2004 –03.02.2005
On going project(s):
CSIR sanctioned project, No. 01(2537)/11/EMR-II , Titled “Design Synthesis
Characterization of Some Transition Metal Complexes: Possible Application in DyeSensitized Solar-cell.”
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
1. One new linear double phenoxide-bridged trinuclear Cu(II) Schiff base
complex: Synthesis, crystallographic elucidation, magneto-structural
correlation and DFT Study
S. Saha, A. Sasmal, C. R. Choudhury, C. J. Gómez-Garcia, E. Garribba, S.
Mitra
Polyhedron, 69 (2014) 262-269
2.
Synthesis, crystal structure, antimicrobial screening and density functional
theory calculation of nickel(II), cobalt(II) and zinc(II) mononuclear Schiff
base complexes
S. Saha, A. Sasmal, C. R. Choudhury, G. Pilet, A. Bauzá, A. Frontera, S.
Chakraborty,S. Mitra
Inorg. Chim. Acta, 425 (2015) 211-220
3.
Photocatalytic properties of mixed oxides of BaCrO4 and TiO2
T.K. Ghorai, C.R. Choudhury, S. Biswas, M. Chakraborty, R. Das, J. Sengupta
SMC Bulletin 2 (2011) 49.
4.
Architecture of a new selenocyanato bridged one-dimensional polymeric complex
of cadmium(II): synthesis, crystal structure and spectroscopic studies
R.R Choudhury, C.R. Choudhury, S.R. Batten, S. Mitra
Struct. Chem.,19 (2008) 645.
5.
Two new halo-bridged cadmium(II) polymers: Effect of halogen towards metal
coordination
R.Karmakar, C.R.Choudhury, D.L. Hughes, S. Mitra
Inorg. Chim. Acta, 360 (2007) 2631.
6.
Two new copper(II) complexes with the shortest (N-N) diazine based rigid ligand:
Example of unusual tridentate coordination mode
R.Karmakar, C.R.Choudhury, S.R. Batten, S. Mitra,
J. Mol. Struct., 826 (2007) 75.
7.
New Cu(II) complexes with polydentate chelating Schiff base ligands:
Synthesis,structures, characterizations and biochemical activity studies
B. Samanta, J. Chakraborty, C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, D.K. Dey, S.R. Batten,
P. Jensen, G.P.A.Yap, S. Mitra,
Struct. Chem., 18 (2007) 33.
8.
J. Chakraborty, R. K. B. Singh, B. Samanta, C. R.Choudhury, S. K. Dey, P.
Talukder, M. J. Borah, S. Mitra.
Z. Naturforsch. 61b (2006) 1209.
9.
A novel polymeric Cu(II) assemblage and a monomeric Ni(II) complex from a
new easy-to-prepare flexible polytopic ligand : synthesis, structural and magnetic
studies
S. Sen, C.R. Choudhury, P. Talukder, S. Mitra, M. Westerhausen, A. N. Kneifel,
C. Desplanches, N. Daro, J.-P. Sutter
Polyhedron 25 (2006) 1271.
10.
Two new end-to-end single dicyanamide bridged Cu(II) complexes with Schiff
base ligands : structural, electrochemical and magnetic properties
R. Karmakar, C. R.Choudhury, D.L. Hughes, G.P.A. Yap, M.S. El Fallah; C.
Desplanches; J. P.Sutter; S. Mitra
Inorg. Chim. Acta 359( 2006) 1184.
11.
Synthesis, structure and .Fluorescence of two novel manganese(II) and zinc(II)1,3,5-benzene tricarboxylate coordination polymers: Extended 3D supramolecular
architectures stabilized by hydrogen bonding
A.Majumder , S. Shit, C. R.Choudhury, S.R. Batten, G. Pilet, D. Luneau, N.
Daro, J.-P. Sutter, N. Chottopadhyay, S. Mitra
Inorg. Chim. Acta, 358 (2005) 3855.
12.
One Novel Cu(II)–Amino Acid Schiff Base Complex Derived from
Salicylaldehyde and L-Serine: Identification of Unusual Monodentate 4,4′Bipyridine
R.Karmakar, C.R.Choudhury, S. Mitra, L.Dahlenburg
Struct. Chem. (Published in web)
13.
Synthesis and Structural Characterisation of Two Copper(II) Complexes of N-(1acetyl-2-propylidene)(2-pyridylmethyl) amine
R. Karmakar, C. R. Choudhury, A.S. Batsanov, S. R. Batten, S. Mitra
Struct. Chem. 16 (2005) 535.
14.
One novel 3-carbonato bridged copper(II) complex: Synthesis, structural study
and low-temperature magnetic study
A. Majumder, C. R. Choudhury, S. Mitra, G. Rosair, M. S. El. Fallah, J.
Ribas
Chem. Commun., (2005) 2158.
15.
Two new Mn(II) and Co(II) complexes with tridentate 2,4,6-Tris(2-pyridyl)-1,3,5
– triazine ligand
A. Majumder, C.R. Choudhury, S. Mitra, C. Marschner, J. Baumgartner
Z. Naturforsch.(Sec. B) 60b (2005) 99.
16.
{4-Bromo-2-[2-(5-bromo-2-oxidobenzylideneaminomethyl)phenylimino methyl]
phenolato O,N,N´,O´} nickel(II)
S. Chackraborty, B. Samanta, C.R. Choudhury, S. Mitra, A.K. Mukherjee
Acta Cryst. C60 (2004) m578
17.
One novel dichromato-bridged Nickel(II) polymeric complex: Formation of
metal-oxygen chain structure
R. Karmakar , C. R. Choudhury , V.Gramlich , S. Mitra
Inorg. Chim. Acta, 357 (2004) 3785
18.
One novel manganese(III) quadridentate Schiff-base dimeric complex: Synthesis,
crystal structure and magnetic properties
R. Karmakar, C. R. Choudhury, G.Bravic, J.P. Sutter, S.Mitra
Polyhedron, (2004) 949
19.
A Novel Doubly Phenoxo-bridged Cu(II) Trimer :Synthesis, Crystal Structure and
Low-temperature Magnetic Behaviour
A. Datta, C.R. Choudhury, P. Talukder, S. Mitra, L. Dahlenburg, T. Matsushita
J. Chem. Res., (2004) 642
20.
Synthesis and crystal structure of one novel polynuclear complex
[Cu2(bpc)2(N3)4Ca(H2O)2Na2(H2O)2]n having three different transition and nontransition metal centres
S. Sen, C. R. Choudhury, N. K. Karan, A. Datta, S. Mitra, V. Gramlich
Inorg. Chem. Commun., 6 (2003) 1311.
21.
Synthesis, characterisation and magnetic properties of one novel racemic Cu-Co
cyano-bridged complex
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, N. Mondal, S. Mitra, J. Ribas, K.M.A. Malik
Bull. Chem. Soc., Jpn , 77 (2004) 959
22.
Synthesis, characterisation and structural study of one thermally stable novel oxo dinuclear iron(II) complex forming infinite helical chains through pi-pi
stacking
M.K. Saha, D.K. Dey, C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, S. Mitra, C.W. Lehmann
Chem. Lett. (2003) 1136.
23.
Mössbauer, epr, magnetic properties and thermally induced stereochemical
studies on some double complex salts of cyclic ligand containing cationic
copper(II) complexes and hexacyanoferrate(III) anion in the solid state
P. Kundu, C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, D. Banerjee, S. Kumar, S. Mitra
Ind. J. Chem., 42A (2003) 1604.
24.
Two novel selenocyanato bridged polymeric and molecular complexes of Cd(II):
Presence of both end-to-end and end-on coordination
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, N. Mondal, S. Mitra, V. Gramlich
Inorg. Chim. Acta 353C (2003) 217.
25.
First report of singly phenoxo-bridged copper(II) dimeric complexes: synthesis,
crystal structure and low-temperature magnetic behaviour study
C.R. Choudhury, Subrata Kumar Dey, R. Karmakar, S. Mitra, C.D. Wu, C.Z. Lu
New J. Chem. 27 (2003) 1360.
26.
The first Zn(II) helical chain polymers containing both bridging and terminal
carboxylato groups
C.R. Choudhury, A. Datta, S. Mitra, V. Gramlich, K.M. Abdul Malik
Inorg. Chem. Commun. 6 (2003) 790.
27.
Isolation and characterisation of one novel thermally stable octahedral
bicarbonato complex of Bis(2-picolylamine)copper(II): Identification of rare
monodentate coordination
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, S. Mitra, V. Gramlich
Dalton Trans. (2003) 1059.
28.
A novel approach of synthesis of a tridentate ligand having nitrogen donor sites in
the presence of copper(II) ion and crystal structure of its complex
S.K. Dey, C.R. Choudhury, S.P. Dey, D.K. Dey, N. Mondal, S. O.G. Mahalli,
K.M.A. Malik, S. Mitra
J. Chem. Res.(S), (2002) 496.
29.
A Pyrazine-Bridged Ni(II) Coordination Polymer
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, S. Sen, B. Bag, S. Mitra, V. Gramlich
Z. Naturforsch.(Sec. B), 57B (2002) 1191.
30.
A new cyanato-bridged polymeric complex [Cd3(NCO)6(NH2CH2C5H4N)3]n with
a zig-zag ladder shaped structure
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, N. Mondal, S. Mitra, S.O.G. Mahalli, K.M.A. Malik
Inorg. Chem. Commun., 4 (2001) 419.
31.
Synthesis
and
structural
characterization
of
[Ni(Me2NCH2CH2CH2N=CHC6H4O)2]
C.R. Choudhury, S.K. Dey, N. Mondal, S. Mitra, S.O.G. Mahalli, K.M.A. Malik
J. Chem. Crystallogr., 31 (2001) 57.