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Dipak Samanta

School: 

Chemical Sciences

Designation: 

Assistant Professor

Education: 

2014                 Ph. D.: Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly                                                                                          

                         Thesis Title: Self-Assembled Coordination Cages for Catalysis and Proton Conduction

                         Supervisor: Prof. Partha Sarathi Mukherjee

                         Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India                                                            

2009                 M. Sc.: Chemistry                                                                                                                       

                         Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, India

2007                 B. Sc.: Chemistry (Hons.)                                                                                                     

                         Presidency College, Kolkata (Now Presidency University), West Bengal, India

 

Awards: 

1. Inspire Faculty Award in Chemistry on 2019 call by Department of Science & Technology (DST), India
2. Recipient of a Travel Fellowship at the International Symposium on Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (ISMSC 2016)
3. Poster award at International Conference on Structural Chemistry of Molecules and Materials (SCOMM-2014)
4. Recipient of “Shyama Prasad Mukherjee” (SPM) Fellowship (2009)
5. Qualified GATE in 2009 securing 99.73 percentile (All India Rank - 18)
6. Qualified CSIR-NET (December, 2008 and June, 2009)
7. Institute Merit Scholarship for outstanding academic performance throughout all four semesters in MSc at IIT Madras
8. Qualified JAM (Joint Admission Test for MSc. at IITs), 2007, All India Rank – 131

Publications: 

1. Reversible Photoswitching of Encapsulated Azobenzenes in Water

D. Samanta, J. Gemen, Z. Chu, Y. Diskin-Posner, L. J. W. Shimon, R. Klajn. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 2018, 115, 9379-9384.

2. Reversible Chromism of Spiropyran in the Cavity of a Flexible Coordination Cage

D. Samanta, D. Galaktionova, J. Gemen, L. J. W. Shimon, Y. D. -Posner, L. Avram, P. Král, R. Klajn. Nat. Commun. 2018, 9, 641.

3. Clathrates Grow up (Perspectives)

D. Samanta, R. Klajn. Science 2017, 355, 912.

4. Stepwise Construction of Self-Assembled Heterometallic Cages Showing High Proton Conductivity

R. Saha, D. Samanta, A. J. Bhattacharyya, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2017, 23, 8980-8986.

5. Aqueous Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles

D. Samanta, R. Klajn. Adv. Optical Mater. 2016, 4, 1373-1377. 

6. Covalent Postassembly Modification and Water Adsorption in Pd₃ Self-Assembled Trinuclear Barrels

D. Samanta, A. Chowdhury, P. S. Mukherjee. Inorg. Chem. 2016, 55, 1562-1568. 

7. Template-Free Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of Discrete Hexanuclear Prismatic Cages Employing Half-Sandwich Octahedral Ru^II₂ Acceptors and Triimidazole Donors

A. A. Adeyemo, S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, Inorg. Chim. Acta 2016, 440, 62-68. 

8. Light-Controlled Self-Assembly of Non-Photoresponsive Nanoparticles

P. K. Kundu, D. Samanta, R. Leizrowice, B. Margulis, H. Zhao, M. Börner, T. Udayabhaskararao,  D. Manna, R. Klajn. Nat. Chem. 2015, 7, 646-652.

9. A Pd₂₄ Pregnant Molecular Nanoball: Self-Templated Stellation by Precise Mapping of Coordination Sites

I. A. Bhat, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9497-9502.

10. Sunlight-Induced Covalent Marriage of Two Triply Interlocked Pd₆ Cages and Their Facile Thermal Separation

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17006-17009.

11. Component Selection in Self-Assembly of Pd(II)-Nanocages and Cage to Cage Transformations

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 12483-12492. (IF-5.16)

12. Self-Assembly of Discrete Metallamacrocycles Employing Half-Sandwich Octahedral Diruthenium(II) Building Units and Imidazole-Based Ligands

D. Samanta, S. Shanmugaraju, A. A. Adeyemo, P. S. Mukherjee. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry 2014, 751, 703-710. (Invited Article for 50^th Anniversary Special Issue)

13. Structural Diversity in Multinuclear Pd^II Assemblies that Show Low-Humidity Proton Conduction

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2014, 20, 5649-5656.

14. Self-Assembled Multicomponent Pd₆ Aggregates Showing Low-Humidity Proton Conduction

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 1595-1598.

15. New Structural Topologies in a Series of 3d Metal Complexes with Isomeric Phenylenediacetates and 1,3,5-Tris(1-imidazolyl)benzene Ligand: Syntheses, Structures, and Magnetic and Luminescence Properties

S. Mukherjee, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Cryst. Growth Des. 2013, 13, 5335-5343.

16. Pt^II₆ Nanoscopic Cages with an Organometallic Backbone as Sensors for Picric Acid

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 16784-16795.

17. Multicomponent Self-Sorting of a Pd₇ Molecular Boat and Its Use in Catalytic Knoevenagel Condensation

D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2013, 49, 4307-4309.

18. Self-Assembly of Ru₄ and Ru₈ Assemblies by Coordination Using Organometallic Ru(II)₂ Precursors: Synthesis, Characterization and Properties

S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, P. S. Mukherjee. Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2012, 8, 313-322.

19. Self-Assembled Pd₆ Open Cage with Triimidazole Walls and the Use of its Confined Nanospace for Catalytic Knoevenagel- and Diels–Alder Reactions in Aqueous Medium

D. Samanta, S. Mukherjee, Y. P. Patil, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Eur. J. 2012, 18, 12322-12329.

20. Pillar Height Dependent Formation of Unprecedented Pd₈ Molecular Swing and Pd₆ Molecular Boat via Multicomponent Self-Assembly

D. Samanta, S. Shanmugaraju, S. A. Joshi, Y. P. Patil, M. Nethaji, P. S. Mukherjee. Chem. Commun. 2012, 48, 2298-2300.

21. Coordination-Driven Self-Assembly of 2D-Metallamacrocycles Using a Shape-Selective Pt^II₂-Organometallic 90◦ Acceptor: Design, Synthesis and Sensing Study

S. Shanmugaraju, D. Samanta, B. Gole, P. S. Mukherjee. Dalton Trans. 2011, 40, 12333-12341.