Born: Dhontula, Assam, India
Education: DR College (BSc), Tezpur University (MSc), Assam, India
PhD: IISER Bhopal, India, (2012-2018, with Prof. Jeyaraman Sankar)
Postdoc: JSPS postdoctoral Fellow, Japan, Kyushu University (Nov, 2018-Nov, 2020 with Prof. Hiroyuki Furuta)
Postdoc: Specially Appointed Assistant Professor, Japan Kyushu University (Dec, 2020-Oct, 2021 with Prof. Hiroyuki Furuta)
Postdoc: Marie Curie Individual Fellow, UK, University of St-Andrews (Nov, 2021-July, 2023 with Prof. Eli Zysman Colman)
Assistant Professor: IIT Delhi, Department of Chemistry, July 2023
Awards and Fellowships:
(1) 01/2021, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions-Individual Fellowships (MSCA-IF) funded by European Commission, Horizon 2020. University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK.
(2) 08/2018, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) postdoctoral fellowship, Kyushu University, Japan.
(3) 05/2018, BOYA postdoctoral fellowship, Peking University, China (declined).
(4) 12/2011, Qualified Council of Scientific and Industrial Research for Junior Research Fellowship (NET-CSIR/JRF), All India Rank-47, out of 748 selected candidates Chemical Sciences.
(5) 06/2011, Qualified University Grant Commission for Junior Research Fellowship (NET-UGC/JRF), All India Rank-112, out of 1065 selected candidates in Chemical Sciences.
(6) 06/2010, Qualified National Eligibility Test for Lectureship (NET-LS), All India Rank-270, out of 597 selected candidates in Chemical Sciences.
Research Interest:
We are interested in creating new porphyrinoid and polyaromatic hydrocarbon-based macrocyclic architectures with distinct (anti)aromatic and radicaloid character. We study their structure and electronic properties using various modern analytical methods and theoretical calculations. Newly synthesized macrocycles are designed to exhibit novel properties suitable for various applications, such as bioimaging, organic solar cells, OLEDs, OFETs, photodynamic and photothermal conversion therapy. We are also interested in stabilizing unusually high oxidation of transition metal ions with N-confused porphyrionid ligand systems.
Keyword: Porphyrinoids, N-Confused Porphyrinoids, Core-modified Porphyrinoids, Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon, Aromaticity, Radical.
B. Basumatary, I, Hashiguchi, S. Mori, S. Shimizu, M. Ishida and H. Furuta, Copper 1,19-Diaza-21,24-Dicarbacorrole: A Corrole Analog with an N-N Linkage Stabilizes Ground-State Singlet Organocopper, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2020, 59, 15897–15901
B. Basumatary, K. Mitsuno, M. Ishida and H. Furuta, Bis-Palladium(II) Complex of Doubly N-Confused Octaphyrin(1.1.1.1.1.1.1.1): Mobius Aromaticity and Chiroptical Properties. J. Porphyrins Phthalocyanines, 2020, 24, 416–423
B. Basumatary, R. V. R. Reddy, Rahul and J Sankar, The Curious Case of a Parasitic Twin of the Corroles, Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2018, 57, 5052–5056.
B. Basumatary, J. Rai, R. V. R. Reddy and J. Sankar, Evidence for A [17] π-Electronic Full-Fledged Non-Innocent Ga(III)-Corrole Radical, Chemistry-A European Journal, 2017, 23, 17458–1746.
B. Basumatary, R. V. R. Reddy, S. Bhandary and J. Sankar, Gallium(III)corrole-BODIPY Hybrid: Novel Photophysical Properties and First Observation of B–F…F Interactions, Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 20817–20821.
B. Basumatary, A. R. Sekhar, R. V. R. Reddy and J. Sankar, Corrole-BODIPY Dyads: Synthesis, Structure, and Electrochemical and Photophysical Properties, Inorg. Chem., 2015, 54, 4257–4267.
B. Basumatary, M. A. Kaloo, V. K, Singh, R. Mishra, M. Murugavel and J. Sankar, Selective Iodide Chemosensing Through a Redox-Active Cu-Corrole, RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 28417–28420.