The Mukherjee Group

Patents:-

1. Indian Patent filed on 30th MAY, 2018, under Application No.201831020332 entitled "HEXADENTATE CHELATE‐BASED CONTRAST AGENT AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME" (Chandan Mukherjee and Mahmuda Khannam)

2. Indian Patent filed on 30th MAY, 2018, under Application No. 201831020333 entitled "PENTADENTATE CHELATE‐BASED CONTRAST AGENT AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SAME" (Chandan Mukherjee and Mahmuda Khannam)

3. Indian Patent filed on 28th August, 2021, under Application No. 202131039091 entitled "STABLE AQUATED Mn(II) COMPLEX AND ITS ENCAPSULATED POROUS SILICA NANOPARTICLE AS T₁-T₂ MRI CONTRAST AGENT" (Chandan Mukherjee and Riya Mallik)

4. Indian Patent filed on 22nd May, 2026, under Application No. 202631064770 entitled "A TRANSITION METAL COMPLEX BASED MRI CONTRAST AND ANGIOGRAPHIC AGENT A METHOD OF SYNTHESIS THEREOF" (Chandan Mukherjee and Geetanjali Deka)

 
Publications (Selected) :-                                             

''A Rigid, Mono(Aquated) Mn(II)-Based Complex as MRI Contrast Agent for the Liver and Brain Vasculature Imaging'' Geetanjali Deka, Arisha Arora, Priyanka Bhat, Harsh Kumar Rawat, Hari Mohan, S. Senthil Kumaran, and Chandan Mukherjee*, J. Med. Chem, 2026, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.6c02169.

"Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to C₁ and C₂ Oxygenates by Involving Organic Radicals-Coordinated Zn(II) Complex Coated on a Graphite Electrode" Prasenjit Sarkar, Paulomi Bose, Chinmay Jana, Ritwik Adhikari, Nisha Job, Kalishankar Bhattacharyya, Animes Kumar Golder and Chandan Mukherjee*, Inorg. Chem., 2026, 65, 17897-17907.

"Cyano-Substituted Phenoxazine Moiety as an Organophotoredox Catalyst for C-C, C-B and C-P Coupling Reactions with Aryl Halides" Aditi Das and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2026, 62, 8910-8914.

"Liver-Directing Fe(III)-Based MRI Contrast Agent" Geetanjali Deka, Arisha Arora, Priyanka Bhat, Vandna, Hari Mohan, S. Senthil Kumaran, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Small, 2025, 21, e11465.

"Porous Silica Nanoparticles Entrapped Small Gd(III) and Mn(II) Complexes as MRI Contrast Agents"  Geetanjali Deka, Riya Mallik, Ismile Sk and Chandan Mukherjee, ACS Appl. Bio Mater., 2025, 8, 4592-4611.

"2-Amidophenolate and 2-Iminosemiquinone Radical-Coordinated Vanadyl Complex as Catholyte for Non-Aqueous Redox-Flow Batteries" Ritwik Adhikari, Prasenjit Sarkar, Animes Kumar Golder and Chandan Mukherjee, Chem. Asian. J., 2025, 20, e202401350.
 

"A Triradical-Containing Trinuclear Pd(II) Complex: Spin-Polarized Electronic Transmission, Analog Resistive Switching and Neuromorphic Advancements" Prasenjit Sarkar, Litty Thomas Manamel, Puranjay Saha, Chinmay Jana, Amrit Sarmah, Kannan Udaya Mohanan, Bikas C Das and Chandan Mukherjee, Mater. Horiz., 2025, 12, 246-257.

"Folate Receptor Targeting Mn(II) Complex Encapsulated Porous Silica Nanoparticle as an MRI Contrast Agent for Early-State Detection of Cancer" Riya Mallik, Muktashree Saha, Basab Ghosh, Nisha Chauhan, Hari Mohan, S. Senthil Kumaran and Chandan Mukherjee*, Small, 2025, 21, 2401787.

"A Bis(Aquated) Mn(II)-Based MRI Contrast Agent with a Rigid Hydroquinazoline Unit: Synthesis, Characterization, and in Vivo MR Imaging Study" Riya Mallik, Muktashree Saha, Amrit Sharma, Vandna Singh, Hari Mohan, S. Senthil Kumaran and Chandan Mukherjee*, ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2024, 7, 1831-1841.

"Mn(II) Complex Impregnated Porous Silica Nanoparticles as Zn(II)-Responsive 'Smart' MRI Contrast Agent for Pancreas Imaging", Riya Mallik, Muktashree Saha, Vandna Singh, Hari Mohan, S. Senthil Kumaran and Chandan Mukherjee*, J. Mater. Chem. B, 2023, 11, 8251-8261.

"The Electrostatic Confinement of Aquated Monocationic Gd(III) Complex-Molecules within the Inner Core of Porous Silica Nanoparticles Creates a Highly Efficient T₁ Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging", Riya Mallik, Mahmuda Khannam, Muktashree Saha, Srivani Marandi, Sachin Kumar and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans. 2022, 51, 14138-14149.

"Where is the Unpaired Electron Density? A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Finding on the Geometric and Electronic Structures of the Co(III) and Mn(IV) Complexes of the Unsymmetrical Non-Innocent Pincer ONS Ligand", Prasenjit Sarkar, Amrit Sarmah and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 16723-16732.

"Electrochemical Conversion of CO₂ to C₂ Oxygenates on Pb(II)-Salen Catalysts-Coated Graphite Electrodes: Role of Salen Ligand and Appended Ligand-Substituents to the Production", Paulomi Bose, Chandan Mukherjee*, and Animes Kumar Golder*, Chem. Eng. J, 2022, 431, 134092.

"Porous Silica Nanospheres with a Confined Mono(aquated) Mn(II)-Complex: A Potential T₁-T₂ Dual Contrast Agent for Magnetic Resonance Imaging", Riya Mallik, Muktashree Saha, and Chandan Mukherjee*, ACS Appl. Bio Mater. 2021, 4, 8356-8367.

"A combined experimental and theoretical study on a single, unsupported oxo-bridged Mn(III, III) dimer coordinated to two iminobenzosemiquinone π-radical anions", Ganesh Chandra Paul, Prasenjit Sarkar, Amrit Sarmah, Prantick Shaw, Suvendu Maity, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2021, 50, 8768-8775.

"Synthesis, Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Characterizations, and Theoretical Elucidation of an Elusive Aminyl Radical Containing Cu^II-Aminyl-Iminosemiquinone Complex", Prasenjit Sarkar, Amrit Sarma and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2021, 57, 1352-1355.

                                                                       

"The range of antiferromagnetic coupling governs the conductivity: semiconducting behavior and ammonia gas sensing property of diamagnetic hexaradical-containing tetranuclear Co^III₄ cluster and its nonradical congener", Prasenjit Sarkar, Tukhar Jyoti Konch, Tapas Kamilya, Kalyan Raidongia, Somobrata Acharya, Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 15220-15223.

"A Ni^II Complex of Tetradentate Salen Ligand H₂L^NH₂ Comprising an Anchoring -NH₂ Group: Synthesis, Characterization and Electrocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to Alcohols" Paulomi Bose, Animes Kumar Golder, and Chandan Mukherjee* Inorg. Chem. Front, 2019, 6, 1721-1728.

"Geometry-Driven Iminosemiquinone Radical to Cu(II) Electron Transfer and Stabilization of an Elusive Five-Coordinate Cu(I) Complex: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity with KO₂" Ganesh Chandra Paul, Kanu Das, Suvendu Maity, Samiyara Begum, Hemant Kumar Srivastava, and Chandan Mukherjee* Inorg. Chem., 2019, 58, 1782-1793.

"A Non-innocent Pincer H₃L^ONS Ligand and Its Corresponding Octahedral Low-Spin Fe(III) Complex Formation via Ligand-Centric Homolytic S-S Bond Scission" Prasenjit Sarkar and  Chandan Mukherjee, Dalton. Trans., 2018, 47, 13337-13341.

"A Bishydrated, Eight-Coordinate Gd(III) Complex with Very Fast Water Exchange: Synthesis, Characterization, and Phantom MR Imaging" Bedika Phukan, Kyangwi P. Malikidogo, Celia S. Bonnet , Eva Toth, Samsuzzoha Mondal, Chandan Mukherjee, ChemistrySelect, 2018, 3, 7668-7673.

"A New Bis(aquated) High Relaxivity Mn(II) Complex as an Alternative to Gd(III)-Based MRI Contrast Agent" Bedika Phukan, Chandan Mukherjee*, Upashi Goswami, Amrit Sarmah, Subhajit Mukherjee, Suban K. Sahoo, and Sankar Ch. Moi, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57, 2631-2638.

 

"Interactions of Alkali and Alkali-Earth Metals in Water-Soluble Heterometallic Fe^III/M (M = Na⁺, K⁺, Ca²⁺)-Type Coordination Complex" Bedika Phukan, Samir Ghorai, Kashmiri Deka, Pritam Deb and Chandan Mukherjee*, Cryst. Growth Des., 2018, 18, 531-539.

"A New Heptadentate Picolinate-Based Ligand and Its Corresponding Gd(III) Complex: the Effect of Picolinate versus Acetate Pendant on Complex Property" Bedika Phukan, Chandan Mukherjee,* and Raunak Varshney, Dalton. Trans., 2018, 47, 135-142. 

                                                                                 

"Monoradical-Containing Four-Coordinate Co(III) Complexes: Homolytic S-S, Se-Se Bond Cleavage and Catalytic Isocyanate to Urea Conversion Under Sunlight" Ganesh Chandra Paul, Samir Ghorai and Chandan Mukherjee,* Chem. Commun., 2017, 53, 8022-8025.

"An Iminosemiquinone-Coordinated Oxidovanadium(V) Complex: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study" Prasenjit Sarkar, Manas Kumar Mondal, Amrit Sarmah, Suvendu Maity, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 8068-8077.

"Dioxygen Reactivity of an Iron Complex of 2-Aminophenol-Appended Ligand: Crystallographic Evidence of the Aromatic Ring Cleavage Product of the 2-Aminophenol Unit", Ganesh Chandra Paul, Sridhar Banerjee, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 729-736.

"Bis-pyridobenzene as a fluorescence light-up sensor for Hg²⁺ ion in water" Ujjal Ghosh, Subhendu Sekhar Bag,* and Chandan Mukherjee*, Sens. Actuators, B, 2017, 238, 903-907.

"A Solid-State Valence Tautomeric Octahedral {Co^II[(BQ-N-Cat)]₂}⁰ Complex Formation via Ligand-Centered Phenolic C-O Bond breaking and Co-O Bond making " Manas Kumar Mondal, Archana Tiwari, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 11995-11998.

"An Unprecedented One-Step Synthesis of Octahedral Cu(II)-Bis(iminoquinone) Complexes and their Reactivity with NaBH₄" Manas Kumar Mondal, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 13532-13540.

"An Elusive Vinyl Radical Isolated as an Appended Unit in a Five-Coordinate Co(III)-Bis(Iminobenzosemiquinone) Complex Formed via Ligand-Centered C-S Bond Cleavage" Prasenjit Sarkar, Archana Tiwari, Amrit Sarmah, Subhrajyoti Bhandary, Ram Kinkar Roy, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2016, 52, 10613-10616.

 "Secondary Interaction versus Intra-molecular π-π Interaction in Cu(II)-Diradical Complexes⁺" Richa Rakshit, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem., 2016, 2731-2737.

"Effect of Geometrical Distortion on the Electronic Structure: Synthesis and Characterization of Monoradical-Coordinated Two Mononuclear Cu(II) Complexes",  Samir Ghorai, Amrit Sarmah, Ram Kinkar Roy, Archana Tiwari,  and Chandan Mukherjee*, Inorg. Chem., 2016, 55, 1370-1380.

"A Water-Soluble and Water-Coordinated Mn(II) Complex: Synthesis, Characterization and Phantom MRI Image Study", Bedika Phukan, Anant B Patel, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 12990-12994.

 "Unprecedented Iminobenzosemiquinone and Iminobenzoquinone Coordinated Mononuclear Cu(II) Complex Formation under Air",  Manas Kumar Mondal, Abul Kalam Biswas, Bishwajit Ganguly,* and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 9375-9381.

 "Inter-ligand azo (N=N) unit formation and stabilization of a Co(II)-diradical complex via metal-to-ligand dπ-pπ* back donation: synthesis, characterization, and theoretical study" Richa Rakshit, Samir Ghorai, Amrit Sarmah, Archana Tiwari, Ram Kinkar Roy and Chandan Mukherjee*, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 3724-3727.

"Salen Ligand Complexes as Electrocatalysts for Direct Electrochemical Reduction of Gaseous Carbon Dioxide to Value Added Products" Surya Singh, Bedika Phukan, Chandan Mukherjee,* and Anil Verma*, RSC. Adv, 2015, 5, 3581-3589.

                                                           

"Cu(II)-Mediated Transformation of a Tridentate Non-Innocent Ligand to a Tetradentate Salen-Type Innocent Ligand",
Samir Ghorai, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Asian J., 2014, 3518-3524.

"Synthesis and Characterization of A Tetraradical-Containing Octanuclear Vanadium Cluster Formed via Ligand C-N bond Breaking and C-O bond Making" Samir Ghorai, and Chandan Mukherjee*,  RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 24698-24703.

"Effect of Ligand Substituent Coordination on the Geometry and the Electronic Structure of Cu(II)-Diradical Complexes" Richa Rakshit,  Samir Ghorai, Soumava Biswas, and Chandan Mukherjee*,  Inorg. Chem., 2014, 53, 3333-3337.

"Effect of ligand substituent on the reactivity of Ni(II) complexes towards oxygen" Samir Ghorai, and Chandan Mukherjee*,  Dalton. Trans., 2014, 43, 394-397.

"Solvatochromic fluorescent cyanophenoxazine: design, synthesis, photophysical properties and fluorescence light-up sensing of ct-DNA" Subhendu Sekhar Bag*, Samir Ghorai, Subhashis Jana, and Chandan Mukherjee*,  RSC Adv., 2013, 3, 5374-5377.

"Ortho-Substituent Induced Triradical-Containing Tetranucelar Vanadium(IV) Cluster Formation via C-N Bond Breaking and C-O Bond Making", Samir Ghorai, and Chandan Mukherjee*, Chem. Commun., 2012, 10180-10182.