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Coordination and Bioinspired Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory
Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan
(21) Ghosh, K.; Mandi, A.; Bar, N.; Ray, A.; Khatun, M.; Mondal, D.; Das, G. K.; Chowdhury, P. Eu(III)-Guided Photochromism: Experiments, Understanding, and Prospects. Inorg. Chem. 2026, 65, 7174–7185.
(20) Dutta, L.; Das, A.; Hasan, B.; Paria, S.*; Mondal, D.* Comparing Electrocatalytic and Chemical Oxygen Reduction Reaction by a Molecular Copper Complex. Chem. Commun. 2025, 61, 10158–10161.
(19) Das, U.; Das, A. K.; Das, A.; Mondal, D.* Present State of Knowledge on the Electronic Structure and Oxidation State of Iron in the Brown Ring Complex: A Long-Standing Debatable Issue in Undergraduate Chemistry Courses. Dalton Trans. 2025, 54, 15686–15695.
(18) Ghosh, K.; Mandi, A.; Bar, N. G.; Ray, A.; Das, G. K.; Mondal, D.; Chowdhury, P. Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Optical Properties of 2,4-Diaminotoluene-Based Schiff Base: Experimental and Theoretical Approaches. Spectrochim. Acta, Part A 2025, 344, 126731.
(17) Mandi, A.; Bar, N.; Ray, A.; Ghosh, K.; Khatun, M.; Mondal, A.; Mondal, D.; Das, G. K.; Chowdhury, P. Synthesis of a Photochromic Schiff Base Metal Complex for the Spectroscopic, Thermodynamic, and Computational Studies. ChemistrySelect 2025, 10, e202501279.
(16) Ghosh, K.; Mandi, A.; Bar, N.; Ray, A.; Mondal, D.; Das, G. K.; Chowdhury, P. Synthesis of a New Schiff Base Probe: Crystal Structure, Spectral Properties, Understanding, and Prospect. J. Chem. Sci. 2024, 136, 66.
(15) Mandi, A.; Bar, N.; Biswas, D.; Ray, A.; Ghosh, K.; Mondal, D.; Das, G. K.; Chowdhury, P. Rhodamine 6G Salicylaldehyde Hydrazone–Zn Complex: Synthesis, Characterization, Photochromism, Understanding, and Application. J. Lumin. 2024, 271, 120611.
(14) Haldar, A.; Mandal, B.; Maji, S.; Chakraborty, P.; Mondal, D.*; Mandal, D.* Mononuclear Mn(III) Complex with a Terminal Azide Supported by Phenol-Based Tetradentate N2O2 Donor Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, Properties, and Catechol Oxidase Activity. Polyhedron 2023, 245, 116665.
(13) Rakshit, T.; Mandal, B.; Haldar, A.; Mondal, D.; Mandal, D.; Ganguly, R. Synthesis, Structure, and Catechol Oxidase Activity of Mononuclear Cu(II) Complex with a Phenol-Based Chelating Agent Containing N,N,O Donor Sites. Crystals 2022, 12, 511.
(12) Antkowiak, M.; Majee, M. C.; Maity, M.; Mondal, D.; Kaj, M.; Lesiów, M.; Bieńko, A.; Kronik, L.; Chaudhury, M.; Kamieniarz, G. Generalized Heisenberg-Type Magnetic Phenomena in Coordination Polymers with Nickel–Lanthanide Dinuclear Units. J. Phys. Chem. C 2021, 125, 11182–11196.
(11) Ali, I.; Mandal, B.; Saha, R.; Ghosh, R.; Majee, M. C.; Mondal, D.; Mitra, P.; Mandal, D. Mono- and Trinuclear Cobalt(III) Complexes with Sterically Constrained Phenol-Based N2O2 Ligand: Synthesis, Structure, and Catechol Oxidase Activity. Polyhedron 2020, 180, 114429.
(10) Mondal, D.; Majee, M. C.; Bhattacharya, K.; Long, J.; Larionova, J.; Khusniyarov, M. M.; Chaudhury, M. Crossover from Antiferromagnetic to Ferromagnetic Exchange Coupling in a New Family of Bis(μ-phenoxido)dicopper(II) Complexes: A Comprehensive Magnetostructural Correlation by Experimental and Theoretical Study. ACS Omega 2019, 4, 10558–10570.
(9) Mondal, D.; Majee, M. C.; Kundu, S.; Abbas, G.; Endo, A.; Khusniyarov, M. M.; Chaudhury, M. Dinuclear Iron(III) and Cobalt(III) Complexes Featuring a Biradical Bridge: Their Molecular Structures, Magnetic, Spectroscopic, and Redox Properties. Inorg. Chem. 2018, 57, 1004–1016.
(8) Raju, M.; Jana, K.; Mondal, D.; Suresh, E.; Ganguly, B.; Nair, R. R.; Chatterjee, P. B. Instant Detection of Hydrogen Cyanide Gas and Cyanide Salts in Solid Matrices and Water by the Cu(II) and Ni(II) Complexes of Intramolecularly Hydrogen-Bonded Zwitterions. Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 24, 10721–10731.
(7) Majee, M. C.; Abtab, S. M. T.; Mondal, D.; Maity, M.; Weselski, M.; Witwicki, M.; Bieńko, A.; Antkowiak, M.; Kamieniarz, G.; Chaudhury, M. Synthesis and Magnetostructural Studies on a New Family of Carbonato-Bridged 3d–4f Complexes Featuring a [CoII3LnIII3(CO3)] (Ln = La, Gd, Tb, Dy, and Ho) Core: Slow Magnetic Relaxation Displayed by the Cobalt(II)–Dysprosium(III) Analogue. Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 3425–3439.
(6) Mondal, D.; Kundu, S.; Majee, M. C.; Rana, A.; Endo, A.; Chaudhury, M. Ligand-Induced Tuning of Oxidase Activity of μ-Hydroxido Manganese(III) Complexes Using 3,5-Di-tert-butylcatechol as Substrate: Isolation and Characterization of Products Involving Oxidized Dioxolene Moiety. Inorg. Chem. 2017, 56, 9448–9460.
(5) Mondal, D.*; Majee, M. C. Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a New High-Valent Bis(oxo)-Bridged Manganese(IV) Complex and Its Catechol Oxidase Activity. Inorg. Chim. Acta 2017, 465, 70–77.
(4) Mondal, D.*; Bhattacharya, K. Synthesis and Structural Characterization of a Hemiacetal- and Aldehyde-Bound Diiron(III) Complex with Two Different Coordination Numbers: A Product of Oxidative Cleavage of a Carbon–Nitrogen Single Bond. Inorg. Chem. Commun. 2017, 84, 109–112.
(3) Mandal, B.; Chakraborty, T.; Ali, I.; Mondal, D.; Majee, M. C.; Raha, S.; Ghosh, K.; Mitra, P.; Mandal, D. Synthesis, Structure, Catechol Oxidase Activity, and Antibacterial Studies of a Mn(III) Complex with a Sterically Constrained Phenol-Based N2O2 Ligand. J. Indian Chem. Soc. 2017, 94, 1–9.
(2) Kundu, S.; Mondal, D.; Bhattacharya, K.; Endo, A.; Sanna, D.; Garribba, E.; Chaudhury, M. Nonoxido Vanadium(IV) Compounds Involving Dithiocarbazate-Based Tridentate ONS Ligands: Synthesis, Electronic and Molecular Structure, Spectroscopic, and Redox Properties. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 6203–6215.
(1) Bhattacharya, K.; Maity, M.; Mondal, D.; Endo, A.; Chaudhury, M. Targeted Synthesis of Heterobimetallic Compounds Containing a Discrete Vanadium(V)-μ-Oxygen-Iron(III) Core. Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 7454–7456.





















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