Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ashoka University
Ph.D. National Chemical Laboratory, PuneDr. Munmun Ghosh has completed her PhD from the National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) in Pune working on bioinorganic Chemistry especially, study of C-H bond mechanism by high-valent Fe(V)(O) mimicking the activity of cytochrome P450 in nature. During her PhD she was an INDIGO fellow in Regensburg University, Germany and BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany. She was also a visiting fellow at Carnegie Mellon University during her PhD. After finishing PhD, she joined Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) in Navi Mumbai as a scientist dealing with the properties of crude oil. She did her postdoc at Goettingen University, Germany as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. After this, she worked as a guest faculty at Delhi University.
Her research interest lies in dealing with molecular catalysts capable of performing electrochemical CO2 reduction to produce value-added products. She is also interested in molecular protein engineering, interdisciplinary research allying biology and chemistry.
A µ-Phosphido Diiron Dumbbell in Multiple Oxidation States; Munmun Ghosh, Hanna H. Cramer, Sebastian Dechert, Serhiy Demeshko, Shengfa Ye, Franc Meyer. Angewandte Chemie
DOI: 10.1002/anie.201908213 and 10.1002/ange.201908213
Isolation of Transient Acyclic Germanium (I) Radicals Stabilized by Cyclic Alkyl (amino) Carbenes; Mujahuddin M Siddiqui, Samir Kumar Sarkar, Soumen Sinhababu, Paul Niklas Ruth, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, Munmun Ghosh, Mingxing Fu, Lili Zhao, David Casanova, Gernot Frenking, Brigitte Schwederski, Wolfgang Kaim, Herbert W Roesky; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2019, 141, pp 1908-1912, 10.1021/jacs.8b13434
Isolation of Base Stabilized Fluoroborylene and its Radical Cation; Samir Kumar Sarkar, Mujahuddin M. Siddiqui, Subrata Kundu, Munmun Ghosh, Johannes Kretsch, Peter Stollberg, Regine Herbst-Irmer, Dietmar Stalke, A Claudia Stückl, Brigitte Schwederski, Wolfgang Kaim, Sagar Ghorai, Eluvathingal D. Jemmis, Herbert W. Roesky; Dalton Transaction, 2019, 48, 8551, 10.1039/c9dt01899a
Selective C–H Bond Oxidation Catalyzed by the Fe-bTAML Complex: Mechanistic Implications; Munmun Ghosh, Santanu Pattanayak, Basab B. Dhar, Kundan K. Singh, Chakadola Panda, and Sayam Sen Gupta; Inorganic Chemistry, 2017, 56 (18), pp 10852–10860, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.7b00453
Iron Complex Catalyzed Selective C–H Bond Oxidation with Broad Substrate Scope; Munmun Ghosh, Sandipan Jana, Mayur Ambule, and Sayam Sen Gupta; Organic Letter, 2017, 19 (4), pp 746–749, 10.1021/acs.orglett.6b03359
Formation of a Room Temperature Stable FeV(O) Complex: Reactivity Toward Unactivated C–H Bonds; Munmun Ghosh, Kundan K. Singh, Chakadola Panda, Andrew Weitz, Michael P. Hendrich, Terrence J. Collins, Basab B. Dhar, and Sayam Sen Gupta; J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136 (27), pp 9524–9527; 10.1021/ja412537m
(Selected as cover page in J.Am.Chem.Soc., 2014,136(27))
Mechanism of Alcohol Oxidation by FeV(O) at Room Temperature” Munmun Ghosh, Nikhil YLK, Basab B Dhar and Sayam Sen Gupta. Inorganic Chemistry, 2015, 54 (24), pp 11792–11798, 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b01937
Fe(III) complex of biuret-amide based macrocyclic ligand as peroxidase enzyme mimic; Chakadola Panda, Munmun Ghosh, Tamas Panda, Rahul Banerjee and Sayam Sen Gupta; Chem. Commun., 2011, 47, 8016. 10.1039/c1cc12686e
Investigation of C–C Bond Formation Mediated by Bombyx mori Silk Fibroin Materials: Dennis Kühbeck, Munmun Ghosh, Sayam Sen Gupta, and David Díaz Díaz; ACS Sustainable Chem. Eng., 2014, 2 (6), pp 1510–1517, 10.1021/sc500184r
Tuning the Reactivity of FeV(O) Towards C-H bonds at Room Temperature: Effect of Water: Kundan Singh, Mrityunjay Tiwari, Munmun Ghosh, Chakadola Panda, Andrew Weitz, Michael Hendrich, Basab Dhar, Kumar Vanka, Sayam Sen Gupta, Inorganic Chemistry 2015, 54(4), pp 1535-1542, 10.1021/ic502535f
Crystal structure of (2S,4R)-2-benzyl 1-tert-butyl 4-(tosyloxy) pyrrolidine- 1,2-dicarboxylate, C24H29NO7S; Munmun Ghosh, Arijit Mallick, David Díaz Díaz; Zeitschrift für Kristallographie – New Crystal Structures. Volume 227, Issue 3, Pages 361–362
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