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Overview

Abhik Ghosh is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with significant contributions in materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, and organic chemistry. Their expertise extends into specialized subfields including statistics and probability, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist's body of work encompasses a variety of main topics in chemical and materials research. Key areas include:

  • Porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry
  • Crystallization and solubility studies
  • X-ray diffraction in crystallography
  • Metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Surface chemistry and catalysis
  • Advanced statistical methods and models

Abhik Ghosh has published extensively in well-known scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • ACS Omega
  • ACS Organic & Inorganic Au

Collaborations play a significant role in Ghosh's work. Common co-authors involved in multiple projects are:

  • Jeanet Conradie
  • Abraham B. Alemayehu
  • Kolle E. Thomas
  • Simon J. Teat
  • Rune F. Einrem

Representative recent papers highlight a range of topics across physical chemistry, photodynamic therapy, and chemical sensing. These include:

  • Relativity or aromaticity? A first-principles perspective of chemical shifts in osmabenzene and osmapentalene derivatives, 2020, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
  • The Story of 5d Metallocorroles: From Metal-Ligand Misfits to New Building Blocks for Cancer Phototherapeutics, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • The Hyperporphyrin Concept: A Contemporary Perspective, 2022, JACS Au
  • Amphiphilic Rhenium-Oxo Corroles as a New Class of Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy, 2020, ACS Omega
  • Iridium Corroles Exhibit Weak Near-Infrared Phosphorescence but Efficiently Sensitize Singlet Oxygen Formation, 2020, Scientific Reports

Besides articles, Ghosh has contributed to book publications with Berghahn Books, including works titled The Riddle of Intelligence scheduled for publication in 2025.

Best Publications

  • Cholesky Decomposition-Based Multiconfiguration Second-Order Perturbation Theory (CD-CASPT2): Application to the Spin-State Energetics of Co(III)(diiminato)(NPh).

    Francesco Aquilante;Per-Åke Malmqvist;Thomas Bondo Pedersen;Abhik Ghosh

  • Electronic Structure of Corrole Derivatives: Insights from Molecular Structures, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, and Quantum Chemical Calculations.

    Abhik Ghosh

  • Improved upper limits on the 21 cm signal power spectrum of neutral hydrogen at z ≈ 9.1 from LOFAR

    F. G. Mertens;F. G. Mertens;M. Mevius;L. V. E. Koopmans;A. R. Offringa

  • Electronic absorption, resonance Raman, and electrochemical studies of planar and saddled copper(III) meso-triarylcorroles. Highly substituent-sensitive Soret bands as a distinctive feature of high-valent transition metal corroles.

    Ingar H. Wasbotten;Tebikie Wondimagegn;Abhik Ghosh

  • Catalytic generation of N2O3 by the concerted nitrite reductase and anhydrase activity of hemoglobin.

    Swati Basu;Rozalina Grubina;Rozalina Grubina;Jinming Huang;Jeanet Conradie;Jeanet Conradie

  • High-level ab initio calculations on the energetics of low-lying spin states of biologically relevant transition metal complexes: a first progress report.

    Abhik Ghosh;Peter R Taylor;Peter R Taylor

  • Electronic Structure of Gallium, Copper, and Nickel Complexes of Corrole. High-Valent Transition Metal Centers versus Noninnocent Ligands

    Abhik Ghosh;and Tebikie Wondimagegn;Andreas B. J. Parusel

  • First-Principles Quantum Chemical Studies of Porphyrins

    Abhik Ghosh

  • DFT calculations on the spin-crossover complex Fe(salen)(NO): a quest for the best functional.

    Jeanet Conradie;Abhik Ghosh

  • Transition metal spin state energetics and noninnocent systems: challenges for DFT in the bioinorganic arena

    Abhik Ghosh

  • Electron correlation in tetrapyrroles: ab initio calculations on porphyrin and the tautomers of chlorin

    Jan Almlof;Thomas H. Fischer;Paul G. Gassman;Abhik Ghosh

  • Electrochemical and Electronic Absorption Spectroscopic Studies of Substituent Effects in Iron(IV) and Manganese(IV) Corroles. Do the Compounds Feature High-Valent Metal Centers or Noninnocent Corrole Ligands? Implications for Peroxidase Compound I and II Intermediates

    Erik Steene;and Tebikie Wondimagegn;Abhik Ghosh

  • Do Nonplanar Porphyrins Have Red-Shifted Electronic Spectra? A DFT/SCI Study and Reinvestigation of a Recent Proposal

    Andreas B. J. Parusel;and Tebikie Wondimagegn;Abhik Ghosh

  • The structural chemistry of metallocorroles: combined X-ray crystallography and quantum chemistry studies afford unique insights.

    Kolle E. Thomas;Abraham B. Alemayehu;Jeanet Conradie;Jeanet Conradie;Christine M. Beavers

  • A Perspective of One‐Pot Pyrrole–Aldehyde Condensations as Versatile Self‐Assembly Processes

    Abhik Ghosh

  • Substituent Effects on Valence Ionization Potentials of Free Base Porphyrins: A Local Density Functional Study

    Abhik Ghosh

  • Do nonplanar distortions of porphyrins bring about strongly red-shifted electronic spectra? Controversy, consensus, new developments, and relevance to chelatases.

    Hege Ryeng;Abhik Ghosh

  • Electronic effects of peripheral substituents in porphyrins: x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and ab initio self-consistent field calculations

    Paul G. Gassman;Abhik Ghosh;Jan Almlof

  • Metalloporphyrin-NO bonding: building bridges with organometallic chemistry.

    Abhik Ghosh

  • Substituent Effects in Porphyrazines and Phthalocyanines

    Abhik Ghosh;P. G. Gassman;J. Almlöf

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeanet Conradie
Jeanet Conradie University of the Free State
Jan Almlöf
Jan Almlöf University of Minnesota
Ritimukta Sarangi
Ritimukta Sarangi SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Karl M. Kadish
Karl M. Kadish University of Houston
Peter R. Taylor
Peter R. Taylor Tianjin University
Sergey M. Borisov
Sergey M. Borisov Graz University of Technology
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Paul G. Gassman
Paul G. Gassman University of Minnesota
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay
Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute
Joshua Telser
Joshua Telser Roosevelt University

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