D. K. Maity

Professor
Chemical Sciences
Homi Bhabha National Institute
India

Biography

He has done Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He is working as Professor & Associate Dean in Homi Bhabha National Institute. Awards & Recognitions 1. 2015-Distinguished Faculty Award by HBNI for contributions to Research & Teaching in Chemical Sciences 2. 2014-Bronze Medal by Chemical Research Society of India for contributions in Theoretical & Computational Chemistry 3. 2012-Fellow of National Academy of Sciences India 4. 2007 & 2008-Represented India as Head Mentor in International Chemistry Olympiad 5. 2006-Dai-Ichi Fellow, UICT, Mumbai

Research Intrest

1. Theoretical & Coputational Chemistry: Spectroscopy of microhydrated ions and molecular systems 2. Connecting properties of molecules to materials 3. Studies on radical cations of organic S/Se systems 4. Desiging new ligands for extraction of actinides & lanthanides 5. Desiging new dye molecules for laser applications

List of Publications
"On the behavior of quantum chemical bond orders in the vicinity of a saddle point on the reaction path" D. K. Maity and S. P. Bhattacharyya, J. Am. Chem. Soc.(Commun), 1990, 112, 3223-3225.
"Mechanism and quantum mechanical tunneling effects on inner hydrogen atom transfer in free base porphyrin: a direct ab-initio dynamics study", D. K. Maity, R. L. Bell and T. N. Truong, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 897-906.
"Structure, bonding and spectra of cyclic dithia radical cations: a theoretical study", D. K. Maity, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 8321.
“Instability range of microsolvated multiply charged negative ions: Prediction from detachment energy of stable hydrated clusters”, A. K. Pathak, A. K. Samanta, D. K. Maity, T. Mukherjee, and S. K. Ghosh, Phys.Rev.E, 2011, 83, 021112(6).
“Steric Effects on Uranyl Complexation: Synthetic, Structural and Theoretical Studies of Carbamoyl Pyrazole Compounds of the Uranyl(VI) ion”, D. Das, S. Kannan, D. K Maity and M. G. B. Drew, Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 4869-4876.
“Supramolecular Interaction of Coumarin1 Dye with Cucurbit[7]uril as Host: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study”, M. Gupta, D. K. Maity*, M. K. Singh, S. K. Nayak and A. K. Ray, J. Phys. Chem. B, 2012, 116, 5551-5558.
“How much water is needed to ionize formic acid?”, D. K. Maity*, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2013, 117, 8660-8670.
“Effect of microhydration on dissociation of trifluoroacetic acid”, Parvathi K. and D. K. Maity*, J. Phys. Chem. A, 2014, 118, 5443-5453.
“Supramolecular Macrocyclic Pd(II) and Pt(II) Squares and Rectangles with Aryldithiolate Ligands and their Excellent Catalytic Activity in Suzuki C−C Coupling Reaction”, K. V. Vivekananda, S. Dey, D. K. Maity*, N. Bhuvanesh, and V. K. Jain, Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 10153-10162.
A serendipitous synthesis of 11a-hydroxy-11,11a-dihydrobenzo[e]indeno[2,1-b][1,4]diazepine-10,12-dione derivatives by condensation of 2-aminobenzamides with ninhydrin in water” , R. V. Devi, A. M. Garande, D. K. Maity* and P. M. Bhate, J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 1689-1695.