Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
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Dr. Subhendu Naskar

Joined Institute on : 10-Aug-2009

  • Professor
  • Chemistry
  • M.Sc. , Ph.D.
Contact Address

Qtr. No- C-II/80, Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra, Ranchi

Kamardang; P.O.-Belsingha; P.S.-Falta; Dist-24 Parganas (S); West Bengal; Pin-743504

  • Phone Office - 9470162183
  • Phone Residence - 9470162183
  • Email - subhendu@bitmesra.ac.in
Work Experience

Teaching : 12 Years

Research : 19 Years

Individual: 13 Years
Professional Background

10/08/2009 onwards : Assistant Professor in the chemistry Dept.; Birla Institute of Technology-Mesra, Ranchi
Research Areas

Renewable Energy Research:

  • Photosynthetic Water Oxidation, Hydrogen Evolution, Reduction of CO2 into valuable chemical feedstock- Electrocatalytic and Photoelectrocatalytic methods
  • Photoelectrochemical Solar Cell
  • Dye sensitized Solar Cell

Biocoordination Chemistry:

Development of metalloenzymatic mimics

Design, synthesis and characterization of model complexes for different biological catalysis. Studying the catalysis with suitable methods utilizing spectroscopic techniques e.g., FT- IR, UV-Vis-NIR, NMR, EPR, Fluorescece etc; Electrochemical techniques e.g., Cyclic voltammetry, Differential Pulse Voltammetry, Square Wave Voltammetry, Coulometry etc. and theoretical investigation by means of DFT-TDDFT study
Award and Honours
  • 2008: DST Fast Track Young Scientist
  • 2006: Post doctoral research associate, University of Paris, France
Publications

                                                                        List of Publications

 

  1. Water Soluble 3D-Metal-Based Molecular Catalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Mohammad Adnan Khan , Sonal Shruti , Sahanwaj Khan , Sumita Hazra & Subhendu Naskar; Comments on Inorganic Chemistry, 2026; DOI: 10.1080/02603594.2026.2616775
  2. Electrocatalytic proton reduction by mononuclear cobalt complexes of bis(benzimidazolyl)pyridine ligands: experimental and theoretical study; Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta, Md. Adnan Khan, Narayan Ch. Jana, Bidraha Bagh and Subhendu Naskar; New J. Chem., 2025, 49, 16134; DOI: 10.1039/d5nj01975c rsc.li/njc

 

  1. Electrocatalytic water oxidation by molecular cobalt-terpyridine complexes in alkaline medium: experimental and theoretical study; Md. Adnan Khan, Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta and Subhendu Naskar; New J. Chem., 2025, 49, 6963; DOI: 10.1039/d4nj05517a rsc.li/njc

 

  1. Water-soluble binuclear aquo Cu(II) complex with an amide ligand as an electrocatalyst for the OER, HER and CO2RR; Md. Adnan Khan, Sonal Shruti, Swaraj Sengupta, Sahanwaj Khan, Prabhakar Bhardwaj, Pankaj Kumar and Subhendu Naskar; RSC Adv.,2025,15, 46425; DOI: 10.1039/d5ra07824e rsc.li/rsc-advances
  2. Earth Abundant Transition Metal Complexes as Molecular Water Oxidation Catalysts;Md. Adnan Khan, Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta, , Md. Palashuddin Sk, Narayan Ch. Jana, Subhendu Naskar; Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2024, 504, 215679. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2024.215679
  3. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by Mononuclear Copper Complexes of bis-amide Ligands with N4 donor: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation;Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta, Md. Adnan Khan, Md. Palashuddin Sk, Narayan Ch. Jana, Subhendu Naskar,  Inorganic Chemistry;2024;63,4,1888.https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.3c03512?urlappend=%3Fref%3DPDF&jav=VoR&rel=cite-as
  4. Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by heteroleptic Ruthenium complexes of 2,6-bis(benzimidazolyl) pyridine Scaffold: A mechanistic investigation;Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta, Md. Adnan Khan, Md. Palashuddin Sk, Subhendu Naskar;  Dalton Trans., 2023; 52, 7590-7601; DOI: 10.1039/d3dt00128h
  5. Manganese based Molecular Water Oxidation Catalyst: From Natural to Artificial Photosynthesis; Mohammad Adnan Khan, Ushir Ranjan Sen, Sahanwaj Khan, Swaraj Sengupta, Sonal Shruti, Subhendu Naskar; Comments on Inorganic Chemistry; 2022, doi: 10.1080/02603594.2022.2130273
  6. Chemical and electrochemical water oxidation catalyzed by heteroleptic Ru (III) complexes of anionic 2,6 pyridine dicarboxylate ligand: Experimental and theoretical study;  Sahanwaj Khan , Subhendu Naskar; Polyhedron; 2022, 222, 115898, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2022.115898
  7. 6. Square planar Ni(II) thiosemicarbazone complexes as functional models for carbon monoxide dehydrogenase; Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Heike Mayer Figge, William S. Sheldrick; Journal of the Indian Chemical Society;2022, 99(5), 100422, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jics.2022.100422
  8. Electrocatalytic hydrogen production and carbon dioxide conversion by earth abundant transition metal complexes of the Schiff base ligand:(E)-1-((2-dimethylamino)-propylimino)methyl)naphthalene-2-ol; Swaraj Sengupta, Sahanwaj Khan, Binitendra Naath Mongal, William Lewis, Michel Fleck, Shyamal K. Chattopadhyay, Subhendu Naskar; Polyhedron;2020,191, 114798, Doi: 10.1016/j.poly.2020.114798
  9. Trinuclear copper and mononuclear nickel complexes of oxime containing Schiff bases: Single crystal X-ray structure, catecholase and phenoxazinone synthase activity, catalytic study for the homocoupling of benzyl amines; Swaraj Sengupta, Sahanwaj Khan, Shyamal K. Chattopadhyay, Indrani Banerjee, Tarun K. Panda, Subhendu Naskar; Polyhedron;2020,182, 114512, Doi:10.1016/j.poly.2020.114512
  10. Mn(IV), Co(II) and Ni(II) complexes of the Schiff bases of 2-hydroxy-naphthaldehyde with amino alcohols: synthesis, characterization and electrochemical study; DFT 4study and Catecholase activity of Mn(IV) complex; Shipra Sagar , Arfa Parween , Tarun K. Mandal , William Lewis, Subhendu Naskar; Journal of Coordination Chemistry; 2020, 73, 20–22, 2919–2940, https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2020.1832657

14.       Mn(III) and Cu(II) complexes of 1-((3-(dimethylamino)propylimino)methyl)naphthalen-2-Synthesis, characterization, catecholase and phenoxazinone synthase activity and DFT-TDDFT study; Swaraj Sengupta, Binitendra Naath Mongal, Suman Das, Tarun K. Panda, Tarun K. Mandal,Michel Fleck, Shyamal K. Chattopadhyay, Subhendu Naskar; Journal of Coordination Chemistry;2018,71-8, 1214–1233, https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2018.1453065

15.        Ruthenium(II) complexes of thiosemicarbazones: Synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, spectroscopy, electrochemistry, DFT studies and fluoride sensing properties; Bipinbihari Ghosh, Piyali Adak, Subhendu Naskar, Bholanath Pakhira, Partha Mitra, Rupam Dinda,Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Inorganica Chimica Acta;2017,459,1-14, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2017.01.011

16.        Ruthenium(II/III) complexes of redox non-innocent bis (thiosemicarbazone) ligands: Synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, electrochemical, DNA binding and DFT studies; Bipinbihari Ghosh, Piyali Adak, Subhendu Naskar, Bholanath Pakhira, Partha Mitra, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron,2017 ,131, 74–85, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2017.04.013

17.        Ci-Symmetry, [2 - 2] grid, square copper complex with the N4,N5-bis(4-fluorophenyl)-1H-imidazole 4,5-dicarboxamide ligand: structure, catecholase activity, magnetic properties and DFT calculations; Arfa Parween, Sumita Naskar, Antonio J. Mota, Arturo Espinosa Ferao, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay,  Eric Rivie`re, William Lewis and Subhendu Naskar;NewJ.Chem.,2017 ,41, 11750-11758, https://doi.org/10.1039/C7NJ01667K

18.       Cubane-like tetranuclear Cu(II) complexes bearing a Cu4O4 core: crystal structure, magnetic properties, DFT calculations and phenoxazinone synthase like activity; Shipra Sagar, Swaraj Sengupta, Shyamal K. Chattopadhyay, Antonio J. Mota, Arturo Espinosa Ferao, Eric Riviere, William Lewis, Subhendu Naskar; Dalton Trans.;2017,46, 1249-1259, https://doi.org/10.1039/C6DT03754B

19.       Synthesis, characterization, electrochemical and theoretical study of substituted phenyl-terpyridine and pyridine-quinoline based mixed chelate ruthenium complexes; Binitendra N. Mongal, Subhendu Naskar; J. Coord. Chem;2017,70,3; 451–462, https://doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2016.1268257

20.       Coordination complexes of Schiff base ligand: 5-diethylamino 2-thiazole 2-yliminomethyl phenol with manganese, cobalt, nickel and copper; phenoxazinone synthase like activity of copper complex; Shipra Sagar, Subhendu Naskar; Journal of the Indian Chemical Society; 2017, 94, 29-36

21.        Synthesis and Characterization of 1,2,4-triazole containing Schiff base ligands and their Cu(II) complexes; Arfa Parween, Subhendu Naskar; Journal of the Indian Chemical Society; 2017,94, 135-140

22.        Ruthenium Complexes of Substituted Terpyridine and Pyridyl-quinoline Based Ligands with Ancillary Ligands: Synthesis, Characterization, Electrochemical Study and DFT Calculation; Binitendra N. Mongal,  Sumita Naskar, Arunava Pal, Sayantani Bhattacharya, Dr.Tarun K. Mandal, Jayati Datta, Subhendu Naskar; Chemistryselect;2016,1, 3276 – 3287, DOI:10.1002/SLCT.201600483

23.        A Novel Ruthenium Sensitizer with -OMe Substituted Phenyl-Terpyridine Ligand for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells; Binitendra Naath Mongal, Sayantani Bhattacharya, Swaraj Sengupta, Tarun Kanti Mandal, Jayati Datta, Subhendu Naskar , Solar Energy;2016  , 107-118, 134, DOI:10.1016/J.SOLENER.2016.04.035

24.        Complexation study of schiff base ligand: pyridine-2-ylimino methyl naphthanol with Co+2, Mn+2 and Ni+2 ions in solid and solution phase; Shipra Sagara, Binitendra Naath Mongala, Abhijit Duttab, Paritosh Mondalb, William Lewis, Nadis Sabaa,, Subhendu Naskar ; Journal of Coordination Chemistry,2016 ,69-15, 2364–2376, doi.org/10.1080/00958972.2016.1203422

25.        Synthesis, characterisation, electrochemical study and photovoltaic measurements of a new terpyridine and pyridine-quinoline based mixed chelate ruthenium dye; Binitendra Naath Mongal , Arunava Pal ,Tarun Kanti, Mandal, Jayati Datta , Subhendu Naskar ; Polyhedron, 2015,102, 615-626, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2015.10.040

26.        Acid–base behavior, electrochemical properties and DFT study of redox non-innocent phenol–imidazole ligands and their Cu complexes; Arfa Parween, Tarun Kanti Mandal, Régis Guillot , Subhendu Naskar ; Polyhedron, 2015,99,34-46, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2015.06.014

27.        Synthesis, characterization and theoretical studies of the heteroleptic       Ruthenium(II) complexes of 2,6-bis(benzimidazolyl)pyridine; Sumita Naskar, Bholanath Pakhira , Dipankar Mishra, Partha Mitra, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Subhendu Naskar ; Polyhedron,2015,100, 170-179, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2015.07.058

28.        Heteroleptic Ru(II) complexes containing aroyl hydrazone and 2,2'-bipyridyl:  Synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, electrochemical and DFT studies; Bipinbihari Ghosh, Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Arturo Espinosa, Sam C.K. Hau, Thomas C.W. Mak, Ryo Sekiya, Reiko Kuroda and  Shyamal Kumar      Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron;2014 ,72, 115-121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2014.01.031

29.        Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Structures, and Spectroscopic, Electrochemical,and  Theoretical Studies of MnIII Complexes of Pyridoxal Schiff Bases with Two  Diamines; Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Ray J. Butcher, Montserrat Corbella, Arturo Espinosa Ferao and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Eur. J. Inorg. Chem,2013, 3249–3260,  https://doi.org/10.1002/ejic.201300047

30.        X-ray crystal structure and magneto-structural correlation of [Cu(dmoTSCH)Cl]2 .H2O (dmoTSCH = monoanion of diacetylmonooxime thiosemicarbazone); Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Heike Mayer-Figge, William S. Sheldrick, Montserrat Corbella, Javier Tercero, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay , Polyhedron,2012, 35, 77-86, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2011.12.042

31.        Synthesis, X-Ray Crystal Structure and Spectroscopic Properties of 1,2,3,4-      Tetrahydro-2-(thenyl)-3-(N-thenylidine)-4-oxoquinazoline; Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Alexander J. Blake, Haregewine Tadesse and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Journal of Chemical Crystallography; 2011, 41, 986-990

32.        Synthesis and spectroscopic properties of cobalt(III) complexes of some aroyl hydrazones. X-ray crystal structures of one cobalt(III) complex and two aroyl hydrazone ligands ; Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Satyajit Mondal, Paresh Kumar Majhi, Mike G.B. Drew and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Inorganica Chimica Acta; 2011 , 371, 100-106, 10.1016/j.ica.2011.03.051

33.        Synthesis, X-ray crystal structures, spectroscopic and cyclic voltammetric studies of Cu(II) Schiff base complexes of pyridoxal; Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, Hake M. Figgie , William S. Sheldrick , Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Polyhedron,2011 , 30 , 529-534, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2010.11.027

34.       Synthesis, crystal structures and spectroscopic properties of two Zn(II) Schiff’s base complexes of pyridoxal; Subhendu Naskar, Sumita Naskar, Hake M. Figgie, William S. Sheldrick and  Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay ; Polyhedron,2010 29,1, 493-499, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2009.06.040

35.        Synthesis, X-ray crystal structure and spectroscopic properties of two Ni(II) complexes of pyridoxal Schiff’s basas of diamines. Importance of steric factors in  stabilization of water helices in the lattices of metal complex; Inorganica Chimica Acta;2010,363, 404–411, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2009.11.007

36.        Structural and spectroscopic properties of Ru(II) complexes of 4-    (aryl)thiosemicarbazones of thiophen-2-carbaldehyde; Sumita Naskar, Subhendu Naskar, M. G. B. Drew, S. I. Gorelsky, Lassalle Benedikt, Ally Aukauloo, S. K. Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron, 2009 , 18-28, 4101 – 4109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2009.09.030

37.       Boron-Capped Cobalt Trisglyoximato Complexes as Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen  Evolution: X-ray, Electrochemical and Spectroelectrochemical Characterisations, Olivier Pantani, Subhendu Naskar, Régis Guillot, Pierre Millet, Elodie Anxolabéhère-Mallart, Ally Aukauloo; Angewandte Chemie; 2008 , 47, 9948-9950,  https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.200803643

38.       Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Structure and DFT Calculations of bis(N-(2-picolyl) picolinamido) Mn(III) Hexafluorophosphate; Sumita Hazra, Subhendu Naskar, Dipankar Mishra, Serge I. Gorelsky, Heike M. Figgie, William S. Sheldrick, S. K. Chattopadhyay; Dalton Trans; 2007 ; 4143-4148, https://doi.org/10.1039/B707229E

39.        Crystal engineering with aroyl hydrazones of diacetyl monooxime – Molecular and supramolecular structures of two Ni(II) and two Zn(II) complexes; Subhendu Naskar, Dipankar Mishra, Ray J. Butcher and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron;2007,26,14, 3703-3714, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2007.03.063

40.        Versatility of 2,6-diacetylpyridine (dap) hydrazones in generating varied molecular architectures: Synthesis and structural characterization of a binuclear double helical Zn(II) complex and a Mn(II) coordination polymer; Subhendu Naskar, Montserrat Corbella, Alexander J. Blake and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Dalton Trans.;2007 , 1150–1159, https://doi.org/10.1039/B615004G

41.        Synthesis, characterization, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of trans,trans,trans-bis(triphenyl phosphine) bis(aroyl hydrazonato)ruthenium(II) complexes; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar, Alexander J. Blake, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Inorg. Chim. Acta;2007, 360, 2291-2297, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2006.11.012

42.       Synthesis, characterization and crystal structure of [Ni(dap(A)2)]2 (dap =  2,6-    diacetylpyridine bis(anthraniloyl hydrazone) a molecule possessing an infinite double helical chain  in the solid state. Subhendu Naskar, Dipankar Mishra, Alexander. J. Blake and Shyamal. K. Chattopadhyay; Structural Chemistry, Special Issue- Structural Science in India; 2007 ; 18, 217–222, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11224-006-9086-1

43.        Synthesis, spectroscopic and redox properties of some ruthenium(II) thiosemicarbazone complexes: Structural description of four of these complexes; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar, Michael G. B. Drew and Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Inorg. Chim. Acta;  2006 ,359, 585-592, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2005.11.001

44.        Versatility of 2,6-diacetylpyridine (dap) hydrazones in stabilizing uncommon coordination geometry of Mn(II): Synthesis, spectroscopic, structural characterization and magnetic properties of several seven and eight coordinated MnII complexes; Subhendu Naskar, Dipankar Mishra, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Montse Corbella, Alexander. J. Blake; Dalton Trans,.2005 , 2428-2435, https://doi.org/10.1039/B503891J

45.        Mononuclear and binuclear ruthenium (II) complexes with 4-(phenyl)thiosemicarbazone of benzaldehyde: A discussion on the relative stabilities of the     four      membered  and    five    membered   chelate  rings  formed   by  the ligand; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar, Mike G. B. Drew, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron, 2005 , 24, 1861-1868, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2005.05.018

46.        Synthesis, crystal structure determination, spectroscopic and electrochemical  studies of trans-[Ru(PPh3)2(bbpH2)Cl]Cl.CHCl3.H2O(bbpH2=2,6-bis(benzimidazolyl) pyridine) – an infinite double columnar supramolecule in the solid state; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar, Shyamal K.Chattopadhyay,Milan Maji, Parbati Sengupta, Rupam Dinda, Saktiprasad Ghosh, Thomas C. W. Mak ; Transition Met. Chem.;2005 ,30 352-356, doi.org/10.1007/s11243-004-5860-3

47.        Ruthenium(II/III) mediated transformation of 1,2-bis(2?-pyridylmethyleneimino)  benzene (L) to 2-(2?-benzimidazolyl) pyridine (L′H) and its in situ formed  complexes with Ru(II) : X-ray structure of trans-[Ru(PPh3)2 (L′H)2](ClO4)2 ; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar, Raymond J. Butcher, Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Inorg. Chim. Acta , 2005,358, 3115-3121, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2005.03.055

48.       Synthesis, spectroscopic and electrochemical properties of some heteroleptic tris- chelates of ruthenium(II) involving 2,2?-bipyridine(bpy) and N-(aryl) pyridine-2-aldimine (L) : X-ray crystal structures of [Ru(bpy)(L2)2](ClO4)2.H2O and 3-N (4- tolyl) imidazo [1,5a] pyridinium perchlorate; Dipankar Mishra, Subhendu Naskar,Bibhutosh Adhikary, Raymond J. Butcher,  Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay; Polyhedron,2005 ,24, 201-208, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.poly.2004.11.011

49.        Reaction of cis- Ru (bpy )2 Cl2 with 1-phenyl  5-(aminophenyl) 9-(2-pyridyl)benzimidazole derivatives : Crystal structures of  N-(4- chlorophenyl ) imidazo [1,5a] pyridine  and cis-[ Ru ( bpy )2 ( MeCN )2] (ClO4)2; Shyamal Kumar Chattopadhyay, Kamala Mitra, Subhendu Biswas, Subhendu           Naskar, Dipankar Mishra,Bibhutosh Adhikary, Roger G. Harrison, John F. Cannon; Transition Met. Chem;2004,29,1-6, https://doi.org/10.1023/B:TMCH.0000014472.16425.cc

50.        Studies on the relative stabilities of Mn(II) and Mn(III) in Complexes with N4O2  Donor Environments: Crystal Structures of  [Mn(pybzhz)2] and [Mn(Ophsal)(imzH)2] ClO4 (pybzhz = N-(benzoyl)-N¢ - (picolin­ylidene) hydrazine, Ophsal = N, N¢ -o-phenylene­bis­(salicylidene­imine), imzH=imidazole) S. Naskar, S. Biswas, D. Mishra, B. Adhikary, L. R. Falvello, T. Soler,   C.H. Schwalbe , S. K.  Chattopadhyay; Inorg. Chim. Acta.; 2004, 357, 4257-4264, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ica.2004.06.018
Member of Professional Bodies

Life member: Indian Society of Chemist and Biologist
Current Sponsored Projects

1. "Development of Transition Metal Complexes as Water Oxidation Catalyst" - Extra Mural Research (EMR) Funding project sponsored by SERB-DST, New Delhi
Intellectual Property Rights (IPR)
  1. Indian Patent, published on 16/01/2026; A METHOD FOR PREPARING ELECTROCATALYST-MODIFIED ELECTRODE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL HYDROGEN EVOLUTION REACTION; Subhendu Naskar, Md. Adnan Khan, Sonal Sgruti, Swaraj Sengupta and Subhendu Naskar