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Kallol Ray is a researcher affiliated with Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on the intersection of materials science and chemistry, with significant contributions to the fields of materials chemistry and inorganic chemistry. Their research spans various subfields including oncology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, as well as organic chemistry.

The main topics addressed in Kallol Ray's work include metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, crystallization and solubility studies, and the use of X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Additional areas of study encompass metal complexes synthesis and properties, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, and vanadium and halogenation chemistry.

Ray has authored numerous papers published in a range of scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond (2020), Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • Transition metal-mediated O-O bond formation and activation in chemistry and biology (2021), Chemical Society Reviews
  • O2 and H2O2 activations at dinuclear Mn and Fe active sites (2020), Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • Stoichiometric Formation of an Oxoiron(IV) Complex by a Soluble Methane Monooxygenase Type Activation of O2 at an Iron(II)-Cyclam Center (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • A Pseudotetrahedral Terminal Oxoiron(IV) Complex: Mechanistic Promiscuity in C−H Bond Oxidation Reactions (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Their frequent co-authors include Holger Dau, Peter Hildebrandt, Stefan Mebs, Beatrice Battistella, and Uwe Kuhlmann.

Ray's publications are often featured in specific scholarly venues. The most common publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie

Their research output reflects a strong emphasis on understanding catalytic processes involving metal complexes and the development of new materials through detailed crystallographic analysis. This body of work integrates experimental methods focused on X-ray diffraction and solubility with a chemical perspective on oxidative and oxygenation reactions.

Best Publications

  • The biology and chemistry of high-valent iron–oxo and iron–nitrido complexes

    Johannes Hohenberger;Kallol Ray;Karsten Meyer

  • Status of reactive non-heme metal-oxygen intermediates in chemical and enzymatic reactions.

    Kallol Ray;Florian Felix Pfaff;Bin Wang;Wonwoo Nam

  • Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction

    Chivukula V. Sastri;Jimin Lee;Kyungeun Oh;Yoon Jin Lee

  • Joint spectroscopic and theoretical investigations of transition metal complexes involving non-innocent ligands.

    Kallol Ray;Taras Petrenko;Karl Wieghardt;Frank Neese

  • Heme and Nonheme High-Valent Iron and Manganese Oxo Cores in Biological and Abiological Oxidation Reactions

    Mian Guo;Teresa Corona;Kallol Ray;Wonwoo Nam;Wonwoo Nam

  • Electronic structure of square planar bis(benzene-1,2-dithiolato)metal complexes [M(L)(2)](z) (z = 2-, 1-, 0; M = Ni, Pd, Pt, Cu, Au): an experimental, density functional, and correlated ab initio study.

    Kallol Ray;Thomas Weyhermüller;Frank Neese;Karl Wieghardt

  • Oxidation Reactions with Bioinspired Mononuclear Non-Heme Metal-Oxo Complexes.

    Xenia Engelmann;Inés Monte-Pérez;Kallol Ray

  • Molecular and electronic structure of four- and five-coordinate cobalt complexes containing two o-phenylenediamine- or two o-aminophenol-type ligands at various oxidation levels: an experimental, density functional, and correlated ab initio study.

    Eckhard Bill;Eberhard Bothe;Phalguni Chaudhuri;Krzysztof Chlopek

  • Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond

    Virginia A. Larson;Beatrice Battistella;Kallol Ray;Nicolai Lehnert

  • The Electronic Structure of the Isoelectronic, Square-Planar Complexes [FeII(L)2]2- and [CoIII(LBu)2]- (L2- and (LBu)2- = Benzene-1,2-dithiolates): An Experimental and Density Functional Theoretical Study

    Kallol Ray;Ameerunisha Begum;Thomas Weyhermüller;Stergios Piligkos

  • Description of the Ground‐State Covalencies of the Bis(dithiolato) Transition‐Metal Complexes from X‐ray Absorption Spectroscopy and Time‐Dependent Density‐Functional Calculations

    Kallol Ray;Serena DeBeer George;Edward I. Solomon;Karl Wieghardt

  • Characterization of Porphyrin-Co(III)-‘Nitrene Radical’ Species Relevant in Catalytic Nitrene Transfer Reactions

    Monalisa Goswami;Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Sérgio R. Domingos;Wybren Jan Buma

  • Transition metal-mediated O-O bond formation and activation in chemistry and biology

    Xue Peng Zhang;Anirban Chandra;Yong Min Lee;Rui Cao

  • Nonheme oxoiron(IV) complexes of pentadentate N5 ligands: spectroscopy, electrochemistry, and oxidative reactivity

    Dong Wang;Kallol Ray;Michael J. Collins;Michael J. Collins;Erik R. Farquhar

  • Synthesis and reactivity of a mononuclear non-haem cobalt(IV)-oxo complex.

    Bin Wang;Yong Min Lee;Woon Young Tcho;Samat Tussupbayev

  • Terminal Oxo and Imido Transition‐Metal Complexes of Groups 9–11

    Kallol Ray;Florian Heims;Florian Felix Pfaff

  • Spectroscopic Capture and Reactivity of a Low-Spin Cobalt(IV)-Oxo Complex Stabilized by Binding Redox-Inactive Metal Ions†

    Seungwoo Hong;Florian Felix Pfaff;Eunji Kwon;Yong Wang

  • An Oxocobalt(IV) Complex Stabilized by Lewis Acid Interactions with Scandium(III) Ions

    Florian Felix Pfaff;Subrata Kundu;Marcel Risch;Shanthi Pandian

  • Dioxygen activation chemistry by synthetic mononuclear nonheme iron, copper and chromium complexes

    Seungwoo Hong;Yong-Min Lee;Kallol Ray;Wonwoo Nam

  • Redox-Noninnocence of the S,S‘-Coordinated Ligands in Bis(benzene-1,2-dithiolato)iron Complexes

    Kallol Ray;Eckhard Bill;Thomas Weyhermüller;Karl Wieghardt

  • Vibrational markers for the open-shell character of transition metal bis-dithiolenes: an infrared, resonance raman, and quantum chemical study.

    Taras Petrenko;Kallol Ray;Karl E. Wieghardt;Frank Neese

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Dau
Holger Dau Freie Universität Berlin
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
Peter Hildebrandt
Peter Hildebrandt Technical University of Berlin
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt Max Planck Society
Frank Neese
Frank Neese Max Planck Society
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Matthias Driess
Matthias Driess Technical University of Berlin
Shenglai Yao
Shenglai Yao Technical University of Berlin
Yong-Min Lee
Yong-Min Lee Yonsei University

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