Education

1. B.Sc. in Chemistry (1999) from R. K. Mission Vidyamandira Belurmath, Howrah
2. M.Sc. in Inorganic Chemistry (2001), from University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
3. Ph.D. in Chemistry (2008) from IIT Kanpur, India

Professional Experience

1. 2016 to Till date: Assistant Professor in Chemistry at University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India \
2. 2015 to 2016: DS Kothari Post doctoral fellow at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
3. 2013 to 2015: Marie-Curie Experienced researcher at University of Manchester, UK
4. 2012 to 2013: Post-doctoral fellow at T. U. of Kaiserslautern, Germany
5. 2012 to 2012: FCT Post-doctoral fellow at Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
6. 2011 to 2012: Post-doctoral fellow at Indiana University Bloomington, USA 7. 2008 to 2010: JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow at Osaka University, Japan

Research Interest:

Bioinorganic Chemistry: Artificial enzyme like functional modelling for metalloenzyme such as Nitric oxide reductase, Nitrous oxide reductase, nitrile hydratase

Inorganic, Organometallic and Catalysis: Synthetic functional models for Low temperature water gas shift reaction, CO2 reduction.

Computational Chemistry: Computational modelling of transition metal catalysed small molecule activation

Publication

1. "A quinoxaline–diaminomaleonitrile conjugate system for colorimetric detection of Cu2+ in 100% aqueous medium: observation of aldehyde to acid transformation" R. Bag, Y. Sikdar, S. Sahu, P. Saha, J. Bag, K. Pal* and S. Goswami*, Dalton Trans., 2019, 48, Accepted
2. "The Knoevenagel condensation using quinine as an organocatalyst under solvent-free conditions " K. Jain, S. Chaudhuri, K. Pal and K. Das, New J. Chem., 2019,43, 1299-1304.
3. “Electron and Oxygen Atom Transfer Chemistry of Co(II) in a Proton Responsive, Redox Active Ligand Environment” B. J. Cook, M. Pink, K. Pal, and K. G. Caulton, Inorg. Chem., 2018, 57 (10), pp 6176–6185, 3
4. "A three-coordinate iron-silylene complex stabilized by ligand-ligand dispersion forces" M. M. Hänninen, K. Pal, B. M. Day,. T. Pugh,. R. A. Layfield, Dalton Trans., 2016, In Press
5. “Iron- and Cobalt-Catalysed Synthesis of Carbene-Phosphinidenes” K. Pal, O. B. Hemming, B. M. Day, T. Pugh, D. J. Evans, R. A. Layfield, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2016, 55, 1690-1693.
6. “One Electron Reduced Square Planar Bis(benzene-1,2-dithiolato) Copper Dianionic Complex and Redox Switch by O2/HO-“ Maiti, B. K., Pal, K.; Maia, L. B. ; Avilés, T.; Moura, I.; Pauleta, S. R. , Nuñez, J. L.; Rizzi, A. C.; Brondino, C. D.; Sarkar, S.; Moura, J. J. G., Inorg.Chem., 2014, 53, 12799−12808.