Indian Institute of Technology, Patna

Dr. Neeladri Das

Dr. Neeladri Das

Associate Professor

Ph.D, University of Utah, U.S.A.

Ph: +91-6115-233023, Short CV

neeladri[*AT]iitp.ac.in,neeladri2002[*AT]yahoo.co.in
http://scholar.google.co.in/citations?user=CXySO3UAAAAJ&hl=en

Research Areas

Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Polymer (Porous Organic Polymers - POPs) and Materials Chemistry (including Metal-Organic Frameworks - MOFs)

Ph.D Students

Arnab Chakraborty

Sk Abdul Wahed

Mustafa Maqbool

Biplove Kumar

Research Associate

Former Group Members

Sourav Chakraborty Ph.D IIT Patna 2014	Snehasish Mondal Ph.D IIT Patna 2017	Sourav Bhowmick Ph.D IIT Patna 2018	Achintya Jana Ph.D IIT Patna 2018	Ranajit Bera Ph.D IIT Patna 2019	Khushwant Singh Ph.D IIT Patna 2021
Mosim Ansari Ph.D IIT Patna 2022	Akhtar Alam Ph.D IIT Patna 2022	Saurabh Kumar CSIR-RA: 2020-2023	Atikur Hassan Ph.D IIT Patna 2024
Amit K. Jaiswal (M.Tech. Nano Sc. & Tech. – 2015) Charu Meena (B.Tech. Chem. Sc. & Tech. – 2018) Vishvesh Narain Rai (B.Tech. Chem. Sc. & Tech. – 2018) Santu Goswami (M.Sc. Chemistry – 2019): Ph.D. Research Scholar, IISER Kolkata Amit Meena (B.Tech. Chem. Sc. & Tech. – 2019) B. Vidya Sagar (B.Tech. Chem. Sc. & Tech. – 2019): ONGC, A Maharatna Company Kamaljeet Kundu (M.Sc. Chemistry – 2020) Ankur Yadav (M.Sc. Chemistry - 2021) Prince (M.Sc. Chemistry - 2022): Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Southern California, Los Angeles Sohom Chandra (M.Sc. Chemistry - 2022): Ph.D. Research Scholar, University of Oklahoma, Norman Abhinav Srivastava (M.Sc. Chemistry - 2023) Sayan Kumar Biswas (M.Sc. Chemistry - 2023): Ph.D. Research Scholar, Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Professional Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of California, Irvine,USA, 2007
Postdoctoral Research Associate, TU Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 2008

Awards & Honours

Dr. Neeladri Das have been awarded the "Chemical Science" Poster Prize at 6^th EuCheMS (The European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) conference on Nitrogen Ligands held in Beaune France (13-17th Sept, 2015). This prize was given by the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK.

Sponsored projects

Title	Sponsored by	Status
“Construction of Highly Porous .. Organic Linkers”	Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India.	Completed
“DNA supramolecular self assembly for construction of functional nanostructures”	Department of Biotechnology, Govt. of India (Co-PI)	Completed
“Design and Synthesis of … Polymers”	Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Govt. of India.	Completed

Teaching

CH-001: (Preparatory Chemistry I)
CH-002: (Preparatory Chemistry II)
CH-101: (Chemistry for 1st year B-Tech Students)
CH-102: (Chemistry for 1st year B-Tech Students)
CH-103: (Chemistry for 1st year)
CH-110: (Chemistry Laboratory for 1st year B-Tech Students)
CH-204: (Polymer Chemistry for B.Tech. Students)
CH-202: Inorganic Chemistry
CH-301: Industrial Chemistry
CH-307: Analytical Techniques in Chemistry
CH-310: Chemical Technology Lab II
CH-425: Chemistry of s- and p-block elements (for 1st year M.Sc. students)
CH-426: Chemistry of Transition Metals (for 1st year M.Sc. students)
CH-440: Inorganic Chemistry Lab (M.Sc. course)
CH-502: (Supramolecular Chemistry (Elective course for M. Tech. Students)
NT-513: (Nanomaterial Synthesis and Device Fabrication Laboratory (M. Tech. Students)
CH-525: Organometallic and Bioinorganic Chemistry of Transition Metals
CH-701: (Supramolecular Chemistry, for PhD students)

Publications

2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012

Sayan Kumar Biswas, Arnab Chakraborty, Neeladri Das, Design and synthesis of self-assembled Pt(II)-based macrocycle and interaction with thiocyanate ion, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Volume 576, 2025, 122448, ISSN 0020-1693, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2024.122448

Noorullah Baig, Suchetha Shetty, Sk Abdul Wahed, Atikur Hassan, Neeladri Das,* Bassam Alameddine,* Designing highly porous three-dimensional triazine-bearing covalent organic polymers as prominent adsorbents of carbon dioxide and iodine, Materials Today Chemistry, Volume 41, 2024, 102339, ISSN 2468-5194, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtchem.2024.102339
Maitri Patel, N.A. Chaudhary, Deepak Kumar, Kuldeep Mishra, Neeladri Das, A.N. Prajapati, Effect of introducing different molecular liquid solvents on electrochemical and physical properties of sodium ion conducting polymer gel electrolytes, Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2024, Volume 410, 125577, ISSN 0167-7322, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2024.125577
Atikur Hassan, Rishabh Kumar Pandey, Arnab Chakraborty, Sk. Abdul Wahed, Rajagopala Rao Tammineni and Neeladri Das*, Green synthesis of an ionic porous organic polymer for efficient capture of environmentally toxic MnO4— and I3— from water, Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript, DOI - 10.1039/D4SM00679H
Atikur Hassan*, Sk Abdul Wahed, Swapnanil Goswami, Subhadip Mondal, and Neeladri Das*, Selective Capture of Bromine over Iodine by a Nanometer-Sized Covalent Organic Framework Containing Imines and Hydrazones, ACS Appl. Nano Mater. 2024, Articles ASAP (Letter), DOI: 10.1021/acsanm.4c02442
Atikur Hassan, Sraddhya Roy, Ananya Das, Sk Abdul Wahed, Aparajita Bairagi, Subhadip Mondal, Nabanita Chatterjee*, Neeladri Das*, Covalent Organic Frameworks as Potential Drug Carriers and Chemotherapeutic Agents for Ovarian Cancers, ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2024, Articles ASAP (Letter), DOI: 10.1021/acsbiomaterials.4c0035
Atikur Hassan, Md Mofizur Rahman Mollah, Ravikumar Jayashree, Ashish Jain, Soumen Das*, and Neeladri Das*, Ultrafast Removal of Thorium and Uranium from Radioactive Waste and Groundwater Using Highly Efficient and Radiation-Resistant Functionalized Triptycene-Based Porous Organic Polymers, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2024, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.4c01397
Noorullah Baig, Suchetha Shetty, Sk Abdul Wahed, Atikur Hassan, Neeladri Das*, Bassam Alameddine*, Promising CO2 Capture and Effective Iodine Adsorption of Hyper-Cross-Linked Conjugated Porous Organic Polymers Prepared from a Cyclopentannulation Reaction,ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, (Forum Article), DOI: 10.1021/acsami.4c02948
Arnab Chakraborty, Vinod K. Rajana, Cevella Saritha, Abhinav Srivastava, Debabrata Mandal, and Neeladri Das*, A new Eosin Y-based ‘turnon’ fluorescent sensor for ratiometric sensing of toxic mercury ion (Hg²⁺) offering unaided eye detection and its antibacterial activity, Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2024, 134207, ISSN 0304-3894, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhazmat.2024.134207.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304389424007866)
Prince, Sohom Chandra, Atikur Hassan, Saurabh Kumar, M. Ravi Chandra, and Neeladri Das*, A hydroxy containing, naphthalene-based and imine linked porous organic polymer for rapid iodine uptake, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, Volume 367,2024, 112976, ISSN 1387-1811.

Atikur Hassan and Neeladri Das*, Triptycene-Based Cationic Porous Organic Polymer for the Swift and Effective Removal of Organic and Inorganic Anionic Water Pollutants, ACS Appl. Eng. Mater., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaenm.3c00562
Atikur Hassan, Suman Nayak, Prolay Das and Neeladri Das*. Efficient Optoelectronic Sensing of HCl Vapor and Effective Iodine Capture/Storage by Hybrid Porous Organic Polymers Incorporating Triptycene and Phosphazene Motifs. ACS Materials Letters 2024, 6, XXX, 81–93. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.3c01387
Atikur Hassan, Akanksha Singh Baghel, Amit Kumar* and Neeladri Das*. Palladium(II)-immobilized Triptycene based Hypercrosslinked Polymers: An Efficient, Green, and Reusable Heterogenous Catalyst for Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-coupling Reaction. Chemistry – An Asian Journal 2023, e202300778. https://doi.org/10.1002/asia.202300778
Shetty, S.; Baig, N.; Wahed, S.A.; Hassan, A.; Das, N.; Alameddine, B. Iodine and Nickel Ions Adsorption by Conjugated Copolymers Bearing Repeating Units of Dicyclopentapyrenyl and Various Thiophene Derivatives. Polymers 2023, 15, 4153. https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15204153
Atikur Hassan, Md Mofizur Rahman Mollah, Soumen Das and Neeladri Das*, Rapid and Selective Removal of Toxic and Radioactive Anionic Pollutants by an Ionic Covalent Organic Framework (iCOF-2), J. Mater. Chem. A, 2023, Accepted Manuscript, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3TA02557H
Suman Nayak, Atikur Hassan, Neeladri Das* and Prolay Das*, Carbon dot-based superhydrophobic modification of a covalent organic framework for oil-in-water emulsion separation, Chem. Commun., 2023, https://doi.org/10.1039/D3CC02128A
Atikur Hassan and Neeladri Das*, Chemically Stable and Heteroatom Containing Porous Organic Polymers for Efficient Iodine Vapor Capture and its Storage, ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2023, DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.3c00746
Arnab Chakraborty, Khushwant Singh, Payal Vaswani, Ankit Gangrade, Dhiraj Bhatia, Neeladri Das*, Flexible and rigid ionic organoplatinum complexes and their antiproliferative activities, Appl. Organomet. Chem., 2023, e7172. https://doi.org/10.1002/aoc.7172
Prince, Atikur Hassan, Sohom Chandra, Akhtar Alam and Neeladri Das*, Super-Fast Iodine Capture by an Ionic Covalent Organic Network (iCON) from Aqueous and Vapor Medium, RSC Sustain., 2023, 1, 511-522
Atikur Hassan, Cevella Saritha, Vinod K. Rajana, Debabrata Mandal, Neeladri Das, Rationally Designed Ionic Covalent Organic Networks (iCONs) with Efficient Antimicrobial Activities,
, ACS Macro Lett. 2023, 12, 3, 376–381, doi:10.1021/acsmacrolett.2c00686
Fajal, S., Hassan, A., Mandal, W., Shirolkar, M..M., Let, S., Das, N. and Ghosh, S..K. (2022), Ordered Macro/Microporous Ionic Organic Framework for Efficient Separation of Toxic Pollutants from Water. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202214095; Angew. Chem. 2023, 135, e202214095.

Book Chapter in “Supramolecular Coordination Complexes: Design, Synthesis, and Applications”
Published: September 30, 2022
Imprint: Elsevier
eBook ISBN: 9780323907057
Paperback ISBN: 9780323905824
Atikur Hassan, Ranajit Bera, Akhtar Alam, Neeladri Das, Triptycene based fluorinated polymers with improved carbon dioxide capture and hydrogen/methane storage, Microporous and Mesoporous Materials, 2022, 346, 112320
Arnab Chakraborty, Shambhavi Pandey, Rishabh Kumar Pandey, Khushwant Singh, Saurabh Kumar, Santosh Kumar, T. Rajagopala Rao, Neeladri Das, Self-assembled neutral and ionic [2 + 2] metallomacrocycles using a new flexible ditopic Pt (II)–based organometallic tecton bearing a pyrimidine motif: Facile syntheses and enhanced anticancer potency, Appl. Organomet. Chem., 2022; doi.org/10.1002/aoc.6917
Samapika Mallik, Anwesha Mahapatra, Itishree Pradhan, Mosim Ansari, Neeladri Das, Puneet Mishra, Tohru Tsuruoka, Kazuya Terabe and Alpana Nayak, Quantized Conductance Behaviour Observed in an Atomic Switch using Triptycene-based Polymer, J. Mater. Chem. C, 2022,10, 13225-13233
Sohom Chandra, Atikur Hassan, Prince, Akhtar Alam, and Neeladri Das, Rapid and Efficient Removal of Diverse Anionic Water Contaminants Using a Guanidium-Based Ionic Covalent Organic Network (iCON), ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. 2022, 4, 9, 6630–6641
Kumar, S, Jana, A, Bhowmick, S, Das, N. Topical progress in medicinal applications of self-assembled organoplatinum complexes using diverse Pt (II)– and N–based tectons, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2022; e6722.
A. Hassan, A. Alam, S. Chandra, Prince and N. Das, Triptycene-based and imine linked porous uniform microspheres for efficient and reversible scavenging of iodine from various media: a systematic study, Environ. Sci.: Adv., 2022, 1, 320-330
Chakraborty, A., Jaiswal, C., Hassan, A., Kumar, S., Singh, K., Mandal, B. B., Das, N., Tunable and improved antiproliferative activity of Pt (II)-based organometallics bearing alkynyls and 1,2,3-triazole moieties, Appl. Organomet. Chem. 2022, e6711.
Santosh Kumar, Atikur Hassan, Neeladri Das, Joonseok Koh, Triazine based nanoarchitectonics of porous organic polymers for CO2 storage,Materials Letters, 2022, 131757.
M. Ansari, N. Das, Triptycene-based porous photoluminescent polymers with dual role: efficient capture of carbon dioxide and sensitive detection of picric acid, Materials Today Chemistry Volume 23, 2022, 100723.

Mosim Ansari, Samapika Mallik, Achintya Jana, Alpana Nayak, and Neeladri Das, Photoresponsive polymers with danglingtriptycene units as efficient receptor for fullerene-C60, J. Polym. Sci. 2021, 59( 23), 2959.
Mosim Ansari, Ranajit Bera, Neeladri Das, A Triptycene Derived Hypercrosslinked Polymer (HCP) for Gas Capture and Separation Applications, J. Appl. Polym. Sci. 2021, e51449.
Atikur Hassan, Akhtar Alam, Mosim Ansari, Neeladri Das,Hydroxy Functionalized Triptycene Based Covalent Organic Polymers for Ultra-High Radioactive Iodine Uptake, Chemical Engineering Journal, 2022, Volume 27, 130950, ISSN 1385-8947,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.130950.
Mosim Ansari, Atikur Hassan, Akhtar Alam,Neeladri Das,A mesoporous polymer bearing 3D-Triptycene,–OH and azo-functionalities:Reversible and efficient capture of carbon dioxide and iodine vapor,Microporous and Mesoporous Materials,Volume 323, 2021, 111242, ISSN 1387-1811,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2021.111242.
Fluorinated Iron(ii) clathrochelate units in metalorganic based copolymers: improved porosity, iodine uptake, and dye adsorption properties, Suchetha Shetty, Noorullah Baig, Atikur Hassan, Saleh Al-Mousawi, Neeladri Das and Bassam Alameddine,RSC Adv.,2021,11, 14986-14995
Triptycene based and nitrogen rich hyper cross linked polymers (TNHCPs) as efficient CO₂ and iodine adsorbent, Atikur Hassan, Santu Goswami, Akhtar Alam, Ranajit Bera, Neeladri Das, Separation and Purification Technology, "Volume 257,2021, 117923", ISSN 1383-5866, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2020.117923

Silsesquioxane-based and Triptycene-linked Nanoporous Polymers (STNPs) with High Surface Area for CO2 Uptake and Efficient Dye Removal Applications, Akhtar Alam, Atikur Hassan, Ranajit Bera and Neeladri Das, Mater. Adv., 2020, 1, 3406-3416
Capture and chemical fixation of carbon dioxide by chitosan grafted multiwalled carbon nanotubes, Nazrul Hsan, Pradip K. Dutta, Santosh Kumar, Neeladri Das, Joonseok Koh, Journal of CO₂ Utilization, 2020, Volume 41, 101237, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcou.2020.101237
An experimental and computational study of pyrimidine based bis-uracil derivatives as efficient candidates for optical, nonlinear optical,and drug discovery applications,Bharti Mohan, Mukesh Choudhary,Gaurav Kumar, Shabbir Muhammad, Neeladri Das, Khushwant Singh,Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi & Santosh Kumar (2020) Synthetic Communications,50:14, 2199-2225, DOI: 10.1080/00397911.2020.1771369
Copper(II) and Nickel(II) Complexes of Tridentate Hydrazide and Schiff Base Ligands Containing Phenyl and Naphthalyl Groups: Synthesis,Structural, Molecular Docking and Density Functional Study., N.Noorussabah, Mukesh Choudhary, Neeladri Das, Bharti Mohan, Khushwant Singh, Raman K. Singh, Khursheed Ahmad, Shabbir Muhammad & Santosh Kumar; J. Inorg. Organomet. Polym.(2020).
Synthesis, Characterization and Adsorption Studies of a Novel Triptycene based Hydroxyl Azo-Nanoporous Polymer for Environmental Remediation, Mosim Ansari, Akhtar Alam, Ranajit Bera, Atikur Hassan,Santu Goswami and Neeladri Das*, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering (2020), 8(2), 103558.doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2019.103558
Synthesis, characterizations, crystal structures, and theoretical studies of copper(II) and nickel(II) coordination complexes, Bharti Mohan, Mukesh Choudhary, Shabbir Muhammad, Neeladri Das, Khushwant Singh, Achintya Jana, Sulakshna Bharti, H. Algarni, Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi & Santosh Kumar, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, 2020,DOI: 10.1080/00958972.2020.1761961:
Triptycene Based and Schiff-base Linked Porous Networks: Efficient Gas Uptake,High CO2/N2 Selectivity and Excellent Antiproliferative Activities, Akhtar Alam, Snehasis Mishra, Atikur Hassan, Ranajit Bera, Sriparna Dutta, Krishna Das Saha, and Neeladri Das,ACS Omega 2020, 5, 8, 4250-4260.
Polyphenylene networks containing triptycene units: Promising porous materials for CO2, CH4,and H2 adsorption,Suchetha Shetty,Noorullah Baig,Atikur Hassan,Saleh Al-Mousawi,Neeladri Das,and Bassam Alameddin,Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micromeso.2020.110256.
Chitosan-based zeolite-Y and ZSM-5 porousbiocomposites for H2 and CO2 storage Carbohydrate Polymers,Santosh Kumar,Ranajit Bera,Neeladri Das,and Joonseok Koh,Carbohydrate Polymers 232 (2020) 115808.
Triptycene based Fluorescent Polymers with Azo Motif Pendants: Effect of Alkyl chain on Fluorescence, Morphology and Picric Acid Sensing, Mosim Ansari, Atikur Hassan, Akhtar Alam, Achintya Jana, and Neeladri Das, Reactive and Functional Polymers 146 (2020) 104408

Triptycene Based and Amine Linked Nanoporous Networks for Efficient CO₂ Capture and Separation, Akhtar Alam, Ranajit Bera, Mosim Ansari, Atikur Hassan, and Neeladri Das*, Front. Energy Res. - Carbon Capture, Storage, and Utilization, (Invited Article for a collection on Gas Adsorption and Separation in Energy and Environmental Applications), DOI: 10.3389/fenrg.2019.00141
A Pt(II)‐based Hexagonal Ionic Supramolecular Coordination Complex and its DNA Interactions, Khushwant Singh, Sonam Kumari, Achintya Jana, Prolay Das and Neeladri Das, ChemistrySelect 2019, 4, 8255 – 8262, (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/slct.201901844)
Triptycene-Derived Photoresponsive Fluorescent Azo-Polymer as Chemosensor for Picric Acid Detection, Mosim Ansari, Ranajit Bera, Snehasish Mondal and Neeladri Das, ACS Omega, 2019, 4, 5, 9383-9392, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.9b00497
Isomeric platinum organometallics derived from pyrimidine, pyridazine or pyrazine and their potential as antitumor drugs, Khushwant Singh, Achintya Jana, Petra Lippmann, Ingo Ott, Neeladri Das, Inorganica Chimica Acta, Invited article for Special Issue “Pt antitumor drugs and their chemistry” Available online 11 April 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2019.04.028
Synthesis, characterizations, crystal structures, BSA-binding, molecular docking and cytotoxic activities of nickel(II) and copper(II) coordination complexes with bidentate N,S-chelating ligand, Noorussabah, M. Choudhary, Achintya Jana, Neeladri Das, B. Mohan, K. Ahmad, Sangeeta, S. Bharti, M. K. Mishra & S. R. Sharma, Journal of Coordination Chemistry, Accepted Author Version Posted Online: 01 Apr 2019 https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2019.1602867
Triptycene, Phenolic-OH and Azo-functionalized Porous Organic Polymers: Efficient and Selective CO2 capture Ranajit Bera, Mosim Ansari, Akhtar Alam, and Neeladri Das, ACS Appl. Polym. Mater., 2019, 1, 5, 959-968
Pyrimidine derivatives with terminal Pyridyl heterocycles: Facile Synthesis and Their Antiproliferative Activities, Khushwant Singh, Achintya Jana, Petra Lippmann, Ingo Ott, and Neeladri Das, J. Heterocyclic Chem., 2019, Published: 15 April 2019 https://doi.org/10.1002/jhet.3547
Polymorphic self-assembly of pyrazine-based tectons at the solution–solid interface - Achintya Jana, Puneet Mishra and Neeladri Das Beilstein J. Nanotechnol., 2019, 10, 494-499
Heterobimetallic (Fe^II/Pt^II)-Based Supramolecular Coordination Complexes Using 1,1^′-Ferrocene Dicarboxylate: Self-Assembly and Interaction with Carbon Dots - Achintya Jana, Saptarshi Mandal, Khushwant Singh, Prolay Das, and Neeladri Das Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58 (3), pp 2042–2053, DOI:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03058
Design, Synthesis, Characterization, and Antiproliferative Activity of Organoplatinum Compounds Bearing a 1,2,3-Triazole Ring - Khushwant Singh, Ankit Gangrade, Achintya Jana, Biman B. Mandal, and Neeladri Das ACS Omega 2019, 4, 1, 835-841, DOI : 10.1021/acsomega.8b02849
Chitosan grafted graphene oxide aerogel: Synthesis, characterization and carbon dioxide capture study - Nazrul Hsan, P.K. Dutta, Santosh Kumar, Ranajit Bera and Neeladri Das, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 125 (2019) 300–306
Self-Assembled Neutral [2 + 2] Platinacycles Showing Minimal DNA Interactions - Khushwant Singh, Sonam Kumari, Achintya Jana, Sourav Bhowmick, Prolay Das and Neeladri Das, Polyhedron Volume 157, 1 January 2019, Pages 267-275 doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2018.09.075.
A dual approach to study the key features of nickel (II) and copper (II) coordination complexes: Synthesis, crystal structure, optical and nonlinear properties - Bharti Mohan, Achintya Jana, Neeladri Das, S. Bharti, M. Choudhary, S. Muhammad, Santosh Kumar, A. G.Al-Sehemi, H. Algarni, Inorg. Chimica Acta, Volume 484, 1 January 2019, Pages 148-159, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2018.09.037
Self-Assembly of Pt(II) based Nanoscalar Ionic Hexagons and Their Anticancer Potencies - Achintya Jana, Sourav Bhowmick, Santosh Kumar, Khushwant Singh, Pankaj Garg, Neeladri Das, Inorg. Chimica Acta, Volume 484, 1 January 2019, Pages 19-26, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2018.09.009

Triptycene Based Fluorescent Polymers with Pendant Alkyl Chains: Interaction with Fullerene and Morphology of Thin Films - Mosim Ansari, Samapika Mallik, Snehasish Mondal, Ranajit Bera, Achintya Jana, Alpana Nayak and Neeladri Das, Polymer International, 2018-11-04 | journal-article, DOI: 10.1002/pi.5737
Nanoporous azo polymers (NAPs) for selective CO₂ uptake - Ranajit Bera, Mosim Ansari, Akhtar Alam and Neeladri Das, Journal of CO₂ Utilization, Volume 28, December 2018, Pages 385-392.
Syntheses, crystal structures, antioxidant SOD-like properties and in-vitro antimicrobial studies of Cu(II) and Ni (II) complexes with 2-((E)-(4-bromo-2-chlorophenylimino) methyl)-6-bromo-4-nitrophenol and (E)-1-(3, 5-dichloro-2-hydroxybenzylidene)-4, 4-dimethylthiosemicarbazide - Bharti Mohan, Achintya Jana, Neeladri Das, Sulakshna Bharti, Mukesh Choudhary*, Journal of Molecular Structure, 2018, Volume 1171, Pages 94-109.
Self-Assembly of a [1+1] Ionic Hexagonal Macrocycle and its Antiproliferative Activity - Khushwant Singh, Ankit Gangrade, Sourav Bhowmick, Achintya Jana, Biman B. Mandal and Neeladri Das, Front. Chem., 2018 | doi: 10.3389/fchem.2018.00087 (This invited article is part of the Research Topic "Supramolecular Metal-Based Entities for Biomedical and Biological Applications")
Concentration Dependent Supramolecular Interconversions of Triptycene-Based Cubic, Prismatic, and Tetrahedral Structures - Sourav chakraborty, Kevin R Endres, Ranajit Bera, Lukasz Wojtas, Charles N. Moorefield, Mary Jane Saunders, Neeladri Das, Chrys Wesdemiotis and George R Newkome, Dalton Trans., 2018, http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/C7DT04571A
Selective CO2 capture and versatile dye adsorption using a microporous polymer with triptycene and 1,2,3-triazole motifs - Ranajit Bera, Mosim Ansari, Snehasish Mondal, Neeladri Das*, European Polymer Journal, 2018, 99, 259–267
Self-Assembly of Flexible [2 + 2] Ionic Metallamacrocycles and Their Cytotoxicity Potency - Achintya Jana, Petra Lippmann, Ingo Ott, Neeladri Das*, Inorganica Chimica Acta, 2018, 471, 223-227
Triptycene based microporous polymers (TMPs): Efficient small gas (H2 and CO2) storage and high CO2/N2 selectivity - Ranajit Bera, Snehasish Mondal, Neeladri Das* Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 257C (2018) pp. 253-261, DOI:10.1016/j.micromeso.2017.08.045

Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of Ionic Irregular Hexagonal Metallamacrocycles via an Organometallic Clip and Their Cytotoxicity Potency - Sourav Bhowmick, Achintya Jana, Khushwant Singh, Prerak Gupta, Ankit Gangrade, Biman B. Mandal*, and Neeladri Das* Inorg.Chem.,(Forum Article), 2017, DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b01561
Design and synthesis of triptycene based fluorescent polymer with pendent triazole: Effect of functionality on host–guest interaction Snehasish Mondal, Achintya Jana, Ranajit Bera and Neeladri Das* J. Polym. Sci. A Polym. Chem. Volume 55, Issue 22, 2017, Pages:3725–3735 DOI: 10.1002/pola.28757.
Self-assembly of DNA-porphyrin hybrid molecules for the creation of antimicrobial nanonetwork Rina Kumari, Mohd. Imran Khan, Sourav Bhowmick, Kislay K. Sinha, Neeladri Das*, Prolay Das* Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, B: Biology 172 (2017) 28–35 DOI information: 10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2017.05.010
Self-Assembly of [2+2] Platina Macrocycles Using a Flexible Organometallic Clip A. Jana, Neeladri Das*, ChemistrySelect 2017, 2, 4099.DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700479.
Pyrazine based Pt(II) bis-alkynyl organometallic complexes: Synthesis, characterization, and cytotoxic effect on A549 human lung carcinoma cells Sourav Bhowmick, Achintya Jana, Subba R. Marri, Prerak Gupta, J.N. Behera, Biman B. Mandal* and Neeladri Das* Appl Organometal Chem. 2017:e3824. DOI:10.1002/aoc.3824
Nanoporous triptycene based network polyamides (TBPs) for selective CO2 uptake Ranajit Bera, Snehasish Mondal, Neeladri Das*, Polymer, 2017, 111, 275-284.
Design of a Flexible Organometallic Tecton: Host-Guest Chemistry with Picric Acid and Self-assembly of Platina Macrocycles A. Jana, S. Bhowmick, S. Kaur, H. K. Kashyap and Neeladri Das*, Dalton Trans.,2017, 46(6), 1986-1995, DOI: 10.1039/C6DT03498E.

Hierarchical coassembly of DNA–triptycene hybrid molecular building blocks and zinc protoporphyrin IX: Rina Kumari, Sumit Singh, Mohan Monisha, Sourav Bhowmick, Anindya Roy, Neeladri Das, Prolay Das Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 7, 697–707.
DOI:10.3762/bjnano.7.62
https://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjnano/single/articleFullText.htm?publicId=2190-4286-7-62&vt=f&tpn=0&bpn=home
Zinc-mediated diastereoselective assembly of a trinuclear circular helicate Jesus Sanmartín-Matalobos,* Matilde Fondo, Ana M. García-Deibe, Martín Amoza, Pilar Bermejo, M. Raquel Domínguez, Antonio J. Mota, J. Luis Pérez-Lustres, Sourav Bhowmick and Neeladri Das*, RSC Adv., 2016,6,21228-21234
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA01783E
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c6ra01783e#!divAbstract
S. Bhowmick, S. Chakraborty, S. R. Marri, J. N. Behera and Neeladri Das*; Pyrazine-Based Donor Tectons: Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Characterization, RSC Advances, 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C5RA21484J.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2016/ra/c5ra21484j

Triptycene based 1,2,3-Triazole linked Network Polymers (TNPs) : Small Gas Storage and Selective CO2 Capture, Snehasish Mondal and Neeladri Das, J. Mater. Chem. A, 2015, Accepted Manuscript, DOI: 10.1039/C5TA06939D.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/ta/c5ta06939d#!divAbstract
Bhowmick, S., Chakraborty, S., Das, A., Nallapeta, S., and Das, N.*; Pyrazine Motif Containing Hexagonal Macrocycles: Synthesis, Characterization, and Host–Guest Chemistry with Nitro Aromatics, Inorg.Chem., DOI information: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01156.
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01156
Mondal, S.; and Das, N.*; Synthesis of Triptycene Based Non-Conjugated Polytriazole: Temperature Dependent Regioselectivity and Host-Guest Interaction with Nitroaromatics, Polymer, DOI information: 10.1016/j.polymer.2015.08.022.
Bhowmick, S.; Chakraborty, S.; Das, A.; Rajamohanan, P.R.; Das, N.*; Pyrazine Based Organometallic Complex: Synthesis, Characterization and Supramolecular Chemistry, Inorg. Chem., 2015,
http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ic502581x
Chakraborty, S.; Bhowmick, S.; Ma, J.; Tan, H.; Das, N.; Size Dependent Effect of New Organometallic Triptycene Tectons on the Dimension of Self-Assembled Macrocycles, Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers, 2015, 2, 290- 297.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/qi/c4qi00211c#!divAbstract

Mondal, S.; and Das, N.; Triptycene based organosoluble polyamides: synthesis, characterization and study of the effect of chain flexibility on morphology, RSC Adv., 2014,4, 61383-61393.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/ra/c4ra10476e
Kumari, R.; Bhowmick, S.; Das, N.; Das, P., Binding and interaction of di- and tri-substituted organometallic triptycene palladium complexes with DNA, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2014, DOI 10.1007/s00775-014-1180-z.
Chakraborty, S.; Mondal, S.; Bhowmick, S.; Ma, J.; Tan, H.; Neogi, S.; Das, N.; Triptycene based organometallic complexes: a new class of acceptor synthons for supramolecular ensembles, Dalton Trans., 2014,43, 13270-13277.
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/dt/c4dt01298d
Synthesis, characterization and DNA interaction studies of new triptycene derivatives, Sourav Chakraborty, Snehasish Mondal, Rina Kumari, Sourav Bhowmick, Prolay Das, and Neeladri Das, Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2014, 10, 1290–1298.
http://www.beilstein-journals.org/bjoc/content/pdf/1860-5397-10-130.pdf
Khutia, A.; Shen, W. Z.; Das, N.; Sanz Miguel, P. J.; Lippert B., Rationalizing the formation and versatility of multinuclear metal complexes of bis (1-methyluracil-5-yl) methane as hybrids between classical calix arenes and metallacalixaromatics, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2014, 417, 274-286
Chakraborty, S., Mondal, S., Das N., Triptycene Based Chemosensors for Selective Detection of Mercury (II)/Iron (III) in Aqueous Medium, Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2014, 413, 214-220

Singh, O. M.; Devi, L. R.; Das, N., Synthesis of 2,6-diaminopyridine substituted α-oxoketene S,N-acetals: Crystal structure and hydrogen bonding interactions, J. Chem. Sci., 2013, 125(5), 1103–1107.
Mondal, S.; Chakraborty, S.; Bhowmick, S.; Das, N., Synthesis of Triptycene-Based Organosoluble, Thermally Stable, and Fluorescent Polymers: Efficient Host–Guest Complexation with Fullerene, Macromolecules, 2013, 46(17), 6824–6831
Chakraborty, S.; Mondal, S.; Li, Q.; Das, N., Synthesis and characterization of triptycene based tripods and design of a metallasupramolecular cage, Tetrahedron Lett., 2013; 54(13), 1681-1685.

Chakraborty S.; Miguel, P. J. S.; Albertí, F. M.; Das N., Construction of Preorganized Uracil Based Polytopic Tectons for Hydrogen-bonded Supramolecular Architectures, J. Mol. Struct., 2012; 99-105.
Das, N.; Miguel, P. J. S, Khutia, A.; Lazar, M.; Lippert, B.; Hybrids between classical and metallacalix[4]arenes based on uracil and cis-PtIIL2 entities (L = PPh₃ or L₂ = 2,2’-bipyridine); Dalton Trans., 2009; 9120-9122.
Canham, S. M.; Bass, J. Y.; Navarro, O.; Lim, S-G.; Das, N.; Blum, S A.; Towards the Single-Molecule Investigation of Organometallic Reaction Mechanisms: Single-Molecule Imaging of Fluorophore-Tagged Palladium(II) Complexes; Organometallics. 2008; 27(10); 2172-2175.
Yang, H. –B.; Das, N.; Huang, F.; Hawkridge, A. M.; Muddiman, D. C.; Stang, P. J.; “Molecular Architecture via Coordination:Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Hexagonal Metallodendrimers with Designed Building Blocks”; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006; 128(31); 10014-10015.
Jude, H.; Sinclair, D.; Das, N.; Sherburn, M. S.; Stang, P. J.; “Self-Assembly of Supramolecular Platinum Complexes with bis-Pyridyl Cavitands”; J. Org. Chem. 2006; 71(11); 4155-4163.
Das, N.; Ghosh, A.; Singh, O. M.; Stang, P. J., “Facile Synthesis of Enantiopure Chiral Molecular Rectangles Exhibiting Induced Circular Dichroism”; Org. Lett. 2006; 8(8); 1701-1704.
Das, N.; Stang, P. J.; Arif, A. M.; Campana, C. F., “Synthesis and Structural Characterization of Carborane Containing Neutral, Self-Assembled Pt-Metallacycles.”; J. Org. Chem.; 2005; 70(25); 10440-10446.
Das, N.; Ghosh, A.; Arif, A. M.; Stang, P. J., “Self-Assembly of Neutral Platinum Based Supramolecular Ensembles Incorporating Oxocarbon Dianions and Oxalate”; Inorg. Chem.; 2005; 44(20); 7130-7137.
Das, N.; Arif, A. M.; Stang, P. J.; Sieger, M.; Sarkar, B.; Kaim, W.; Fiedler, J., “Self Assembly of Heterobimetallic Neutral Macrocycles Incorporating Ferrocene Spacer Groups: Spectroelectrochemical Analysis of the Double Two-Electron Oxidation of a Molecular Rectangle”; Inorg. Chem.; 2005; 44(16); 5798-5804.
Addicott, C.; Das, N.; Stang, P. J., “Self-Recognition in the Coordination Driven Self-Assembly of 2-D Polygons.”; Inorg. Chem.; 2004; 43(17); 5335-5338.
Das, N.; Mukherjee, P. S.; Arif, A. M.; Stang, P. J., “Facile Self-Assembly of Predesigned Neutral 2D Pt-Macrocycles via a New Class of Rigid Oxygen Donor Linkers”; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; 2003; 125(46); 13950-13951.
Das, N; Gupta, S; Mazumdar, S., “Direct Observation of Release of Cytochrome c from Lipid-Encapsulated Protein by Peroxide and Superoxide: A Possible Mechanism for Drug-Induced Apoptosis.” Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun.; 2001; 286(2); 311-314.

Conferences Attended

National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) Organized by the Department of Chemistry: January 6 - 7, Chemistry Department, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
13th International Virtual Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM) 2022, organized by School of Advanced Research in Petrochemicals (SARP) - Advanced Research School of Technology & Product Simulation (ARSTPS), Chennai, R&D wing of Central Institute of Petrochemicals Engineering & Technology (CIPET): March 8 - 12
National Seminar of The Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, ISCA Patna Chapter, organized by Langat Singh College (B.R.A Bihar University), Muzaffarpur : 3rd- 4th December 2021
18th biennial international symposium on “Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry” (MTIC-XVIII) - (Short Invited Lecture)
Fifth International Conference on Polymer Processing and Characterization (ICPPC – 2019) on 11-13 October 2019 at Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India (Invited Talk)
6^th EuCheMS (The European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences) conference on Nitrogen Ligands held in Beaune France (13-17th Sept, 2015).
MACRO 2015 (an international symposium on Polymer Science and Technology,at IACS, Kolkata, between 23rd-26th January, 2015 (invited lecture)
"International Conference on Polymers and Allied Materials" (ICPAM-2014) held in Patna (30-31st May, 2014).
15th Asian Chemical Congress (15ACC) 2013 held in Singapore (Aug 19-23, 2013).
5th EuCheMS Conference on Nitrogen Ligands” organized jointly by European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences and the University of Granada, Spain (4th-8th September, 2011).

Invited Lecture

National Symposium on Convergence of Chemistry & Materials (CCM-2023) Organized by the Department of Chemistry: January 6 - 7, Chemistry Department, BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus
Keynote lecture at 13th International Virtual Conference on Advancements in Polymeric Materials (APM) 2022, organized by CIPET – 09.03.2022
Keynote speaker at National Seminar of The Indian Science Congress Association Kolkata, ISCA Patna Chapter, organized by Langat Singh College (B.R.A Bihar University), Muzaffarpur – 03.12.2021
DBT Star College Scheme, Dept. of Chemistry and Dept. of Biotechnology, Patna Science College, Patna University (23.01.2020)
Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XVIII) – IIT Guwahati (11.12.2019)
Fifth International Conference on Polymer Processing and Characterization (ICPPC – 2019) - Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India (11.10.2019)
MACRO 2015 - IACS, Kolkata (24.01. 2015)

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