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Personal Profile
First of all welcome to my website! I was born in 1988 at a small village Balagarh (Hooghly, West Bengal), and grew up at Kalna (a small town in Burdwan district, West Bengal, India). I have completed my schooling education from Kalna Ambika Mahismardini High School and my graduate education from Kalna College. Then I was admitted to Burdwan University for M.Sc. study in Chemistry (2009-2011). After that, I have got a chance to do a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry at IIT Bombay and completed my doctorate degree in 2015. Since then I am doing postdoctoral research in the same field.
Research Experience
Research Associate
March 2021 - Continue
Computational investigation on thermally activated delayed fluorescent molecules jointly with Prof. Ayan Datta and Prof. Sudip Malik at the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
SERB National Postdoc 2018
March 2019 - February 2021
Computational spectroscopic study of organic polymorphs, especially singlet fission phenomenon, with Prof. Ayan Datta at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
Research Associate
May 2018 - February 2019
TATA Steel project (searching for organic binders on hematite surface) with Prof. Ayan Datta at Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India.
SERB Indo-US Postdoc 2016
Calculations of nonlinear optical properties of organic donor-acceptor systems with Prof. Jochen Autschbach at University of Buffalo, SUNY, New York, USA.
February 2017 - February 2018
Institute Postdoc Fellow
Spectroscopic properties of HCA proteins with Prof. Srabani Taraphder at IIT Kharagpur.
October 2015 - December 2016
Academics
July 2011 - August 2015
Ph.D.
Supervisor: Prof. Sambhu N. Datta
Institute: Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay, Mumbai 400076, India
Thesis Title: Computational Investigations of Organic Molecular Magnetism:
Photomagnets, Ferromagnets, Spin glass and Superparamagnet
July 2009 - June 2011
M.Sc.
Institute: The University of Burdwan, Burdwan 713104, West Bengal, India
Subject: Chemistry
Special: Physical Chemistry
August 2006 - August 2009
B.Sc.
Institute: Kalna College, The University of Burdwan
Subject: Chemistry (Honours), Physics, Mathematices
Research Interest
Research Publications
Mandal, S.; Pal, A. K.; Mandal, N.; Mukhopadhyay, T. K.; Datta, A. Harnessing Noncovalent Interactions for a Directed Evolution of a Six-Component Molecular Crystal. J. Phys. Chem. B 2021, 125, 12584−12591. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.1c06341. (ISSN 1520-6106, Impact factor 2.99)
Biswas, S.; Manna, G.; Das, B.; Bhattacharya, A.; Pal, A. K.; Datta, A.; Alam, P.; Laskar, I. R.; Mondal, P.; Mukhopadhyay, M. K.; Sanyal, M. K.; Acharya, S. Origin of Intense Luminescence from Supramolecular 2D Molecular Crystals. Small 2021, 2103212. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202103212. (ISSN 1613-6829, Impact factor: 13.3)
Gayen, K.; Hazra, S.; Pal, A. K.; Paul, S.; Datta, A.; Banerjee, A. Tuning of optoelectronic properties of peptide appended core substituted naphthalenediimides: The role of self-assembly of two positional isomers. Soft Matter, 2021, 17, 7168–7176. DOI: 10.1039/D1SM00752A. (ISSN 1744-6848, Impact Factor: 3.679)
Pal, A. K.; Bhattacharyya, K.; Datta, A. Polymorphism Dependent 9-phosphoanthracene Derivative Exhibiting Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescence: A Computational Investigation. J. Phys. Chem. A (Josef Michl Festschrift) 2020, 124, 11025-11037. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c10203. (ISSN: 1520-5215; Impact factor: 2.60)
Roy, M; Pal, A. K.; Adhikari, A.; Datta, A.; Mondal, R. Paradoxical Design of A Serendipitous Pyrazolate Bridging Mode: A Pragmatic Strategy for Inducing Ineluctable Ferromagnetic Coupling. Dalton Trans. 2020, 49, 13704-13716. DOI: 10.1039/D0DT02468F. (ISSN 1477-9234; Impact factor: 4.17)
Mandal, N.; Pal, A. K.; Gain, P.; Zohaib, A.; Datta, A. Transition-State like Planar Structures for Amine Inversion with Ultralong C─ C Bonds in Diamino-o-carborane and Diamino-o-dodecahedron. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5331-5337. DOI: 10.1021/jacs.0c0018. (ISSN: 1520-5126; Impact factor: 14.695).
Pal, A. K.; Bhattacharyya, K.; Datta, A. Remote Functionalization through Symmetric or Asymmetric Substitutions Control the Pathway of Intermolecular Singlet Fission. J. Chem. Theo. Comput. 2019, 15, 5014-5023. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00419. (ISSN: 1549-9626; Impact factor: 5.301).
Pal, A. K.; Duignan, T. J.; Autschbach, J. Calculation of Linear and Nonlinear Optical Properties of Azobenzene Derivatives with Kohn-Sham and Coupled-Cluster Methods. Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 2018, 20, 7303-7316. DOI: 10.1039/C7CP08655E (ISSN: 1463-9076; Impact factor: 3.91)
Bishnoi, S.; Milton, M. D.; Paul, T. K.; Pal, A. K.; Taraphder, S. Small Nonplanar Phenothiazine‐5‐oxide‐Based Molecules: Structural Characterization, Photophysical, Thermal and Computational Studies. ChemistrySelect, 2017, 2, 3084-3092. DOI: 10.1002/slct.201700279 (ISSN: 2365-6549; Impact factor: 1.81)
Pal, A. K.; Datta, S. N. Ferrocene-Based Diradicals of Iminonitroxide, Nitronylnitroxide and Verdazyl, and Their Cations are Possible SMM: A Quantum Chemical Study. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2017, 676, 70-76. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2017.03.043 (ISSN: 0009-2614; Impact factor: 2.03)
Pal, A. K.; Kumar, A.; Datta, S. N. Geometrical Structure of meta-Xylylene Based Symmetric Polyradicals and their Magnetic Nature: A Density Functional Study. Chem. Phys. Lett. 2016, 648, 189-194. DOI: 10.1016/j.cplett.2016.02.024 (ISSN: 0009-2614; Impact factor: 2.03)
Pal, A. K.; Hansda, S.; Datta, S. N. Quantum Chemical Investigation of meta-Phenylene Based One-dimensional Polymer Chain. J. Phys. Chem. A 2015, 119 (10), 2176–2185. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b01081 (ISSN: 1520-5215; Impact factor: 2.883)
Hansda, S.; Pal, A. K.; Datta, S. N. Ferromagnetic Nature of Silicon Substituted meta-Xylylene Polyradicals. J. Phys. Chem. C, 2015, 119 (7), 3754–3761. DOI: 10.1021/jp5112247 (ISSN: 1932-7455; Impact factor: 4.19)
Pal, A. K.; Datta, S. N. Quantum Chemical Investigation of Calix[4]arene Based Radicals with Bis(biphenylene)methyl Linkers as Precursors of Spinglass and Superparamagnets. J. Phys. Chem. C 2014, 118, 27599−27610. DOI: 10.1021/jp509972m (ISSN: 1932-7455; Impact factor: 4.19)
Pal, A. K.; Reta Mañeru, D.; Latif, I. A.; Moreira, I de P. R.; Francesc Illas, F.; Datta, S. N.; Theoretical and Computational Investigation of meta-Phenylene as Ferromagnetic Coupler in Nitronyl Nitroxide Diradicals. Theo. Chem. Acc. 2014, 133, 1472/1–12. DOI: 10.1007/s00214-014-1472-y (ISSN: 1432-2234; Impact factor: 2.23)
Reta Mañeru, D.; Pal, A. K.; Moreira, I de P.R.; Datta, S. N.; Illas, F. The TripletSinglet Gap in the meta-Xylylene Radical: A not so Simple One. J. Chem. Theo. Comput. 2014, 10, 335–345. DOI: 10.1021/ct400883m (ISSN: 1549-9626; Impact factor: 5.339)
Pal, A. K.; Hansda, S.; Datta, S. N.; Illas. F. Theoretical Investigation of Stilbene as Photochromic Spin Coupler. J. Phys. Chem. A 2013, 117, 1773–1783. DOI: 10.1021/jp306715y (ISSN: 1520-5215; Impact factor: 2.60)
Sadhukhan, T.; Hansda, S.; Pal, A. K.; Venkatakrishna, G. V.; Latif, I. A.; Datta, S. N. Theoretical Investigation of Photomagnetic Properties of Oxoverdazyl-Substituted Pyrenes. J. Phys. Chem. A 2013, 117, 8609–8622. DOI: 10.1021/jp3006537 (ISSN: 1520-5215; Impact factor: 2.60)
Datta, S. N.; Pal, A. K.; Hansda, S.; Latif, I. A. On the Photomagnetism of Nitronyl Nitroxide, Imino Nitroxide, and Verdazyl-Substituted Azobenzene. J. Phys. Chem. A 2012, 116, 3304–3311. DOI: 10.1021/jp3006537 (ISSN: 1520-5215; Impact factor: 2.60)
Recognitions
Award for Excellence in Ph.D. Thesis
August 2015
Awarded by IIT Bombay
SERB National Postdoc Scholarship
February 2019
Awarded by SERB
SERB Indo-US Postdoctoral Scholarship
September 2016
Awarded by SERB-IUSSTF

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