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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in India Leader Award

Overview

Goutam Kumar Lahiri is affiliated with the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in India. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry. Additional areas of study include organic chemistry, oncology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and inorganic chemistry.

The scientist's recent published papers demonstrate a diverse engagement across various subfields and applications. Notable publications include:

  • Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)-C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation, 2024, Nature Catalysis
  • Double Perovskite Oxides Bringing a Revelation in Oxygen Evolution Reaction Electrocatalyst Design, 2023, ChemElectroChem
  • Metal-coordinated azoaromatics: Strategies for sequential azo-reduction, isomerization and application potential, 2022, Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Metal-to-Ligand Charge Transfer Induced Valence Tautomeric Forms of Non-Innocent 2,2'-Azobis(benzothiazole) in Ruthenium Frameworks, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Bond Activations Assisted by Redox Active Ligand Scaffolds, 2020, European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Sanjib Panda
  • Sanchaita Dey
  • Sudip Kumar Bera
  • Suman Dhara
  • Aditi Singh

Publication venues where Goutam Kumar Lahiri has contributed multiple papers encompass:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Dalton Transactions
  • King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Repository (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

The main fields of study addressed in their research consist of:

  • Materials Science

Among the subfields targeted are:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Oncology
  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Key research topics covered include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts

Best Publications

  • Unconventional mixed-valent complexes of ruthenium and osmium

    Wolfgang Kaim;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

  • Biomimetic sensor for certain catecholamines employing copper(II) complex and silver nanoparticle modified glassy carbon paste electrode

    Bankim J. Sanghavi;Shaikh M. Mobin;Shaikh M. Mobin;Pradeep Mathur;Goutam K. Lahiri

  • Separating innocence and non-innocence of ligands and metals in complexes [(L)Ru(acac)2](n) (n = -1, 0, +1; L = o-iminoquinone or o-iminothioquinone).

    Srikanta Patra;Biprajit Sarkar;Shaikh M. Mobin;Wolfgang Kaim

  • Ruthenium and osmium complexes of N,O chelators: syntheses, oxidation levels, and distortion parameters

    Goutam Kumar Lahiri;Samaresh Bhattacharya;Barindra Kumar Ghosh;Animesh Chakravorty

  • Chemistry of the ruthenium [Ru(RQ)(tap)2]z family: authentic catecholates, reduction potentials, and spectra (RQ = quinone/semiquinone/catecholate; tap = 2-(m-tolylazo)pyridine; z = 0, .+-., .+-.2)

    Nilkamal Bag;Amitava Pramanik;Goutam Kumar Lahiri;Animesh Chakravorty

  • Mixed-Valent Metals Bridged by a Radical Ligand: Fact or Fiction Based on Structure-Oxidation State Correlations

    Biprajit Sarkar;Srikanta Patra;Jan Fiedler;Raghavan B Sunoj

  • Theoretical and experimental evidence for a new kind of spin-coupled singlet species: isomeric mixed-valent complexes bridged by a radical anion ligand.

    Biprajit Sarkar;Srikanta Patra;Jan Fiedler;Raghavan B. Sunoj

  • Intramolecular Valence and Spin Interaction in meso and rac Diastereomers of a p-Quinonoid-Bridged Diruthenium Complex

    Doyel Kumbhakar;Biprajit Sarkar;Somnath Maji;Shaikh M. Mobin

  • 2,5-dioxido-1,4-benzoquinonediimine (H2L2 ), A hydrogen-bonding noninnocent bridging ligand related to aminated topaquinone: Different oxidation state distributions in complexes [{(bpy)2Ru} 2(μ-H2L)]n (n = 0, + ,2 + ,3 + ,4+) and [{(acac)2Ru}2(μ-H2L)]m (m = 2-, -,0, + ,2 + )

    Sanjib Kar;Biprajit Sarkar;Sandeep Ghumaan;Deepa Janardanan

  • Valence‐State Analysis through Spectroelectrochemistry in a Series of Quinonoid‐Bridged Diruthenium Complexes [(acac)2Ru(μ‐L)Ru(acac)2]n (n=+2, +1, 0, −1, −2)

    Sandeep Ghumaan;Biprajit Sarkar;Somnath Maji;Vedavati G. Puranik

  • Unkonventionelle gemischtvalente Komplexe des Rutheniums und Osmiums

    Wolfgang Kaim;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

  • A Novel Example of Metal-Mediated Aromatic Thiolation in a Ruthenium Complex. Crystal Structure of RuII(SC6H4NNC6H4N)2†

    Bidyut Kumar Santra;Ganesh A. Thakur;Prasanta Ghosh;Amitava Pramanik

  • Directed metal oxidation levels in azoruthenium cyclometalates. Synthesis and structure of a trivalent family

    Goutam Kumar Lahiri;Samaresh Bhattacharya;Monika Mukherjee;Alok Kumar Mukherjee

  • Complex series [Ru(tpy)(dpk)(X)]n+ (tpy = 2,2':6',2''-terpyridine; dpk = 2,2'-dipyridyl ketone; X = Cl-, CH3CN, NO2(-), NO+, NO*, NO-): substitution and electron transfer, structure, and spectroscopy.

    Sounak Sarkar;Biprajit Sarkar;Nripen Chanda;Sanjib Kar

  • Biomimetic sensor for certain phenols employing a copper(II) complex.

    Shaikh M. Mobin;Bankim J. Sanghavi;Ashwini K. Srivastava;Pradeep Mathur

  • Dinuclear ruthenium(II) complexes [{(L)ClRuII}2(μ-tppz)]2+ (L = an arylazopyridine ligand) incorporating tetrakis(2-pyridyl)pyrazine (tppz) bridging ligand: synthesis, structure and spectroelectrochemical properties

    Nripen Chanda;Rebecca H. Laye;Soma Chakraborty;Rowena L. Paul

  • Stabilizing the Elusive ortho-Quinone/Copper(I) Oxidation State Combination through π/π Interaction in an Isolated Complex

    Sayak Roy;Biprajit Sarkar;Denis Bubrin;Mark Niemeyer

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Deamidative Step-Down Reduction of Amides to Aromatic Hydrocarbons

    Aniruddha Dey;Sheuli Sasmal;Kapileswar Seth;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

  • Applications of a high performance platinum nanocatalyst for the oxidation of alcohols in water

    Prasenjit Maity;Chinnakonda S. Gopinath;Sumit Bhaduri;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

  • Ruthenium mononitro and mononitroso terpyridine complexes incorporating azoimine based ancillary ligands. Synthesis, crystal structure, spectroelectrochemical properties and kinetic aspects

    Biplab Mondal;Himadri Paul;Vedavati G. Puranik;Goutam Kumar Lahiri

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Kaim
Wolfgang Kaim University of Stuttgart
Shaikh M. Mobin
Shaikh M. Mobin Indian Institute of Technology Indore
Biprajit Sarkar
Biprajit Sarkar University of Stuttgart
Jan Fiedler
Jan Fiedler Czech Academy of Sciences
Animesh Chakravorty
Animesh Chakravorty Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science
Debabrata Maiti
Debabrata Maiti Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Sanjib Kumar Panda
Sanjib Kumar Panda National University of Singapore
Stanislav Záliš
Stanislav Záliš Czech Academy of Sciences
Chinnakonda S. Gopinath
Chinnakonda S. Gopinath Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
Raghavan B. Sunoj
Raghavan B. Sunoj Indian Institute of Technology Bombay

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