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Volume 122 Issue 6 November 2010 pp 857-865 Full Papers
Relaxation of the excited 𝑁-(2-hydroxy benzylidene) aniline molecule: An
Biswajit Chowdhury Rina De Pinaky Sett Joydeep Chowdhury
The photophysical behaviour of N-(2-hydroxy benzylidene) aniline or most commonly known as salicylideneaniline (SA) has been investigated using the
Volume 125 Issue 3 May 2013 pp 679-686
TPR and TPD studies of effects of Cu and Ca promotion on Fe-Zn-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts
Olusola O James Biswajit Chowdhury Sudip Maity
Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) and temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) were used to study the effects of Cu and Ca promotion on Fe-Zn-based Fischer-Tropsch catalysts. The reduction temperature for Fe2O3 → Fe3O4 was unaffected by Ca addition but decreased when promoted with Cu. Fe-Zn promoted with Cu and Ca showed even much lower reduction temperature for Fe2O3→Fe3O4. Ca promotion enhances carburization and increases surface acidity and basicity of the Fe-Zn oxide precursor. While Cu inhibits carburization and decreases the surface acidity and basicity of the Fe-Zn oxide precursor. The implications of these effects on the application of catalysts for FT are discussed.
Volume 129 Issue 10 October 2017 pp 1627-1637 REGULAR ARTICLE
Catalytic aspects of a copper(II) complex: biological oxidase to oxygenase activity
BISWAJIT CHOWDHURY MILAN MAJI BHASKAR BISWAS
A coper(II) complex, [Cu(dpa)2(OAc)](ClO4) (1) [dpa =2, 2'-dipyridylamine; OAc = acetate], has been synthesized and crystallographically characterized. X-ray structure analysis revealed that this mononuclear Cu(II) complex crystallizes as a rare class of hexa coordination geometry named bicapped square pyramidalgeometry with P2₁/c space group. This copper complex displays excellent catalytic efficiency, kcat /KM (h⁻¹) = 6.17 × 10⁵ towards the oxidative coupling of 2-aminophenol (2-AP) to aminophenoxazin-3-one. Further, upon stoichiometric addition of copper(II) complex to 3,5-DTBC in presence of molecular oxygen in ethanol medium, the copper complex affords predominantly extradiol cleavage products along with a small amount of benzoquinone and a trace amount of intradiol cleavage products at a rate, kobs = 1.09 × 10⁻³ min ⁻¹, which provide substantial evidence for the oxygen activation mechanism. This paper presents a novel addition of a copper(II) complex having the potential to mimic the active site of phenoxazinone synthase and catechol dioxygenase enzymes with significant catalytic efficiency.
Volume 130 Issue 12 December 2018 Article ID 0161
BISWAJIT CHOWDHURY BIPLAB BHOWMIK AMRITA SAHU MAYANK JOSHI SUVENDU PAUL ANGSHUMAN ROY CHOUDHURY BHASKAR BISWAS
In this work, we have synthesised and structurally characterized a mononuclear cobalt(III) complex,[Co(2-O-pn)2] Cl 2H2O (1), (2-O-pn = 1,3-diamino-2-propanolate). From the X-ray structure of the cobalt complex, it is revealed that Co(III) ion in 1 adopts an octahedral geometry and crystallizes in the monoclinicsystem with C2/c space group. The lattice aqua molecule in combination with chloride ion in 1 forms a waterchloride cluster, (H2O)2 ··· (Cl)2 through strong H-bonding interaction mediated
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