Biography:Abhik Ghosh

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Short description: Indian chemist
Abhik Ghosh
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Born
Abhik Ghosh

(1964-06-12)June 12, 1964
Kolkata, West Bengal, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Minnesota
Jadavpur University
Occupation
  • Professor of chemistry at University of Tromsø
  • inorganic and materials chemist)
  • science communicator
Known for

Early life and education

Abhik Ghosh was born in Kolkata, West Bengal, India , in 1964. His father, Subir Kumar Ghosh, was a professor of geology at Jadavpur University and his mother, Sheila Ghosh (née Sen), is a homemaker. He attended St. Lawrence High School (1971–1981) and South Point High School (1981–1983). As a child, he learned Sanskrit from his grandmother Ila Ghosh (née Roy), a language he still speaks and reads fluently. Abhik's son, Avroneel Ghosh, is a young medical doctor in Auckland, New Zealand.

Abhik obtained a B. Sc. (Honours) in chemistry from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India , in 1987, winning the University Medal of the Faculty of Science. The same year, he moved to the University of Minnesota, where he completed a PhD under the supervision of Regents' Professor Paul G. Gassman (while also collaborating with Jan Almlöf) in 1992 and subsequently also postdoctoral research with Lawrence Que Jr. During this period, Abhik reported some of the first high-quality ab initio and density functional theory calculations on bioinorganic systems, helping lay the foundation of the now thriving field of computational bioinorganic chemistry. He did a brief, second postdoc with David Bocian at the University of California Riverside, in the course of which he derived major new insight into the problem diatomic ligand discrimination by heme proteins.[1]

Career

Cover of Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry; design by the authors.

After postdoctoral stints in Minnesota and California, he moved to UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in 1996, where he has remained ever since. He has had several secondary positions/affiliations: Senior Fellow of the San Diego Supercomputer Center[2] at the University of California San Diego (1997–2004), Outstanding Younger Researcher awardee of the Research Council of Norway (2004–2010), a co-principal investigator at the national center of excellence Centre for Theoretical and Computational Chemistry (2007–2017), and a Visiting Professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, on many occasions (2006–2016). He edited two books, The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins (Elsevier, 2008),[3] a monograph on the subject, and Letters to a Young Chemist (Wiley, 2011), a popular science book on careers in chemistry research.[4][5][6][7] In 2014, he coauthored Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main Group Elements (Wiley) with Steffen Berg,[8] which won the 2015 Prose Award for 'best textbook in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics'.[9][10] He has served on the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry (1999–2001, 2005–2007) and currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (2000–) and Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry (2007–present). As of 2021, he has authored/coauthored over 250 scientific papers, which have been cited over 10,000 times with an h-index of approximately 58.[11][12]

Research

Selected routes to 4d and 5d metallocorroles (ref 19).
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Magazine frontispiece depicting the hydrogen-bonded core of a porphyrin cis tautomer; design by authors (free access).

Ghosh has contributed to many areas of porphyrin-related research. His early contributions include the use of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to study short-strong hydrogen bonds in porphyrin-type molecules[13] and also some of the first large-scale ab initio calculations applied to porphyrins[14] and other bioinorganic systems.[15] He has had an abiding interest in the phenomenon of ligand noninnocence[16] and has contributed substantially to studying the phenomenon in transition metal nitrosyl[17] and corrole[18][19] derivatives. In recent years, he has developed the field of heavy element corrole derivatives, which are unusual size-mismatched metal-ligand assemblies that incorporate a large 4d or 5d transition metal ion within the sterically compressed central cavity of a corrole.[20] In this area he has reported some of the first examples of 99Tc,[21] rhenium,[22][23] osmium,[24][25] platinum,[26][27] and gold[28][29] corroles. Despite their size-mismatched character, many of these complexes have proved rugged and found applications as near-IR phosphorescent photosensitizers in oxygen sensing[30][31] and photodynamic therapy as well as in dye-sensitized solar cells.[32][33] Ghosh's work on 4d and 5d elements has also led to new insights into metal-metal bonds[34] (quadruple bonds) and relativistic effects.[35]

In 2017, Ghosh and coworkers reported the first example of a stable cis tautomer of a free-base porphyrin in the form of a termolecular hydrogen-bonded complex.[36] Subsequently, they found additional examples of porphyrin cis tautomers, proving that they can be reliably obtained from virtually any strongly porphyrin co-crystallized with two molecules of a hydrogen donor (typically water or an alcohol). [[File:Amscicover.jpg|thumb|American Scientist, Nov-Dec 2019.[1]

Science communication

In collaboration with linguist Paul Kiparsky, Ghosh has written about the possible influence of Pāṇini's Sanskrit grammar, in particular the periodic Sanskrit alphabet (the Shiva sutras), on Mendeleev's conception of the periodic table, a potentially important, new insight into the history of the periodic table.[37]


References

  1. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik; Bocian, David F. (January 1996). "Carbonyl Tilting and Bending Potential Energy Surface of Carbon Monoxyhemes" (in en). The Journal of Physical Chemistry 100 (16): 6363–6367. doi:10.1021/jp953543h. ISSN 0022-3654. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jp953543h. 
  2. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik (1998). "Understanding the Colors of Life: A Norway-California Collaboration". https://www.sdsc.edu/pub/envision/v15.1/porphyrins.html#Anchor-29853. 
  3. ↑ "The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins – 1st Edition". https://www.elsevier.com/books/the-smallest-biomolecules-diatomics-and-their-interactions-with-heme-proteins/ghosh/978-0-444-52839-1. 
  4. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik, ed (2011-03-21) (in en). Letters to a Young Chemist. doi:10.1002/9781118007099. ISBN 9781118007099. 
  5. ↑ "What's it like to be a chemist?". Royal Society of Chemistry Website. review by Simon Cotton
  6. ↑ Haxton, Katherine (2011). "Chemical counselling". Nature Chemistry 3 (12): 905. doi:10.1038/nchem.1211. Bibcode: 2011NatCh...3..905H. 
  7. ↑ Flynn, Sarai; Harris, Markel; Montes, Luis D. (August 2012). "Review of Letters to a Young Chemist". Journal of Chemical Education (American Chemical Society) 89 (8): 973–974. doi:10.1021/ed3003397. Bibcode: 2012JChEd..89..973F. 
  8. ↑ "Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main-Group Elements | Wiley" (in en-us). https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Arrow+Pushing+in+Inorganic+Chemistry%3A+A+Logical+Approach+to+the+Chemistry+of+the+Main+Group+Elements-p-9781118173985. 
  9. ↑ "2015 Award Winners" (in en-US). https://proseawards.com/winners/2015-award-winners/. 
  10. ↑ Vibeke, Os. "Award to UiT chemists | UiT" (in nb). https://uit.no/nyheter/artikkel?p_document_id=415113. 
  11. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :0
  12. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named :1
  13. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik; Moulder, John; Bröring, Martin; Vogel, Emanuel (2001). "X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy of Porphycenes: Charge Asymmetry Across Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 40 (2): 431–434. doi:10.1002/1521-3773(20010119)40:2<431::aid-anie431>3.0.co;2-a. ISSN 1521-3773. 
  14. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik (1998-04-01). "First-Principles Quantum Chemical Studies of Porphyrins". Accounts of Chemical Research 31 (4): 189–198. doi:10.1021/ar950033x. ISSN 0001-4842. 
  15. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik (2006-09-01). "Transition metal spin state energetics and noninnocent systems: challenges for DFT in the bioinorganic arena" (in en). JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry 11 (6): 712–724. doi:10.1007/s00775-006-0135-4. ISSN 1432-1327. PMID 16841211. 
  16. ↑ Ganguly, Sumit; Ghosh, Abhik (2019-06-21). "Seven Clues to Ligand Noninnocence: The Metallocorrole Paradigm". Accounts of Chemical Research 52 (7): 2003–2014. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.9b00115. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 31243969. 
  17. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik (2005-12-01). "Metalloporphyrin−NO Bonding: Building Bridges with Organometallic Chemistry". Accounts of Chemical Research 38 (12): 943–954. doi:10.1021/ar050121+. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 16359166. 
  18. ↑ Thomas, Kolle E.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Conradie, Jeanet; Beavers, Christine M.; Ghosh, Abhik (2012-08-21). "The Structural Chemistry of Metallocorroles: Combined X-ray Crystallography and Quantum Chemistry Studies Afford Unique Insights". Accounts of Chemical Research 45 (8): 1203–1214. doi:10.1021/ar200292d. ISSN 0001-4842. PMID 22444488. 
  19. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik (2017-02-22). "Electronic Structure of Corrole Derivatives: Insights from Molecular Structures, Spectroscopy, Electrochemistry, and Quantum Chemical Calculations". Chemical Reviews 117 (4): 3798–3881. doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.6b00590. ISSN 0009-2665. PMID 28191934. 
  20. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Thomas, Kolle E.; Einrem, Rune F.; Ghosh, Abhik (2021-07-23). "The Story of 5d Metallocorroles: From Metal–Ligand Misfits to New Building Blocks for Cancer Phototherapeutics" (in en). Accounts of Chemical Research: acs.accounts.1c00290. doi:10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00290. ISSN 0001-4842. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.accounts.1c00290. 
  21. ↑ Einrem, Rune F.; Braband, Henrik; Fox, Thomas; Vazquez‐Lima, Hugo; Alberto, Roger; Ghosh, Abhik (2016). "Synthesis and Molecular Structure of 99Tc Corroles" (in en). Chemistry – A European Journal 22 (52): 18747–18751. doi:10.1002/chem.201605015. ISSN 1521-3765. PMID 27802367. 
  22. ↑ Einrem, Rune F.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Ghosh, Abhik (2016). "Metal–Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium–Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation" (in en). Chemistry – A European Journal 22 (2): 517–520. doi:10.1002/chem.201504307. ISSN 1521-3765. PMID 26639951. 
  23. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Teat, Simon J.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik (2020-04-10). "Rhenium-Imido Corroles" (in en). Inorganic Chemistry 59 (9): 6382–6389. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00477. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 32275406. 
  24. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Terner, James; Ghosh, Abhik (2014). "Oxidative Metalation as a Route to Size-Mismatched Macrocyclic Complexes: Osmium Corroles" (in en). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53 (52): 14411–14414. doi:10.1002/anie.201405890. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 25346094. 
  25. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; McCormick, Laura J.; Vazquez-Lima, Hugo; Ghosh, Abhik (2019-02-18). "Relativistic Effects on a Metal–Metal Bond: Osmium Corrole Dimers". Inorganic Chemistry 58 (4): 2798–2806. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03391. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 30730723. 
  26. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik; Bendix, Jesper; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Beavers, Christine M.; Vazquez-Lima, Hugo; Alemayehu, Abraham B. (2014-08-26). "Platinum corroles" (in en). Chemical Communications 50 (76): 11093–11096. doi:10.1039/C4CC02548B. ISSN 1364-548X. PMID 24911328. 
  27. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; McCormick, Laura J.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik (2018-08-31). "Stable Platinum(IV) Corroles: Synthesis, Molecular Structure, and Room-Temperature Near-IR Phosphorescence". ACS Omega 3 (8): 9360–9368. doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b01149. ISSN 2470-1343. PMID 31459069. PMC 6645213. https://escholarship.org/content/qt9n05q3k2/qt9n05q3k2.pdf?t=pm1cc2. 
  28. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Ghosh, Abhik (2011-02-01). "Gold corroles". Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines 15 (2): 106–110. doi:10.1142/S1088424611003045. ISSN 1088-4246. 
  29. ↑ Thomas, Kolle E.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Conradie, Jeanet; Beavers, Christine; Ghosh, Abhik (2011-12-19). "Synthesis and Molecular Structure of Gold Triarylcorroles". Inorganic Chemistry 50 (24): 12844–12851. doi:10.1021/ic202023r. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 22111600. https://figshare.com/articles/Synthesis_and_Molecular_Structure_of_Gold_Triarylcorroles/2570239. 
  30. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik; Alemayehu, Abraham; Borisov, Sergey M. (2016-06-16). "Osmium-nitrido corroles as NIR indicators for oxygen sensors and triplet sensitizers for organic upconversion and singlet oxygen generation" (in en). Journal of Materials Chemistry C 4 (24): 5822–5828. doi:10.1039/C6TC01126H. ISSN 2050-7534. 
  31. ↑ Ghosh, Abhik; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Einrem, Rune F.; Borisov, Sergey M. (2019-05-15). "Ambient-temperature near-IR phosphorescence and potential applications of rhenium-oxo corroles" (in en). Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences 18 (5): 1166–1170. doi:10.1039/C8PP00473K. ISSN 1474-9092. PMID 30801581. 
  32. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Day, Nicholas U.; Mani, Tomoyasu; Rudine, Alexander B.; Thomas, Kolle E.; Gederaas, Odrun A.; Vinogradov, Sergei A.; Wamser, Carl C. et al. (2016-07-27). "Gold Tris(carboxyphenyl)corroles as Multifunctional Materials: Room Temperature Near-IR Phosphorescence and Applications to Photodynamic Therapy and Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells". ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8 (29): 18935–18942. doi:10.1021/acsami.6b04269. ISSN 1944-8244. PMID 27414087. 
  33. ↑ Einrem, Rune F.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik; Gederaas, Odrun A. (2020-04-27). "Amphiphilic Rhenium-Oxo Corroles as a New Class of Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy" (in en). ACS Omega 5 (18): 10596–10601. doi:10.1021/acsomega.0c01090. ISSN 2470-1343. PMID 32426618. 
  34. ↑ Alemayehu, Abraham B.; MCormick-MPherson, Laura J.; Conradie, Jeanet; Ghosh, Abhik (2021-06-07). "Rhenium Corrole Dimers: Electrochemical Insights into the Nature of the Metal–Metal Quadruple Bond" (in en). Inorganic Chemistry 60 (11): 8315–8321. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00986. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 33998801. PMC 8278387. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00986. 
  35. ↑ Braband, Henrik; Benz, Michael; Spingler, Bernhard; Conradie, Jeanet; Alberto, Roger; Ghosh, Abhik (2021-07-13). "Relativity as a Synthesis Design Principle: A Comparative Study of [3 + 2 Cycloaddition of Technetium(VII) and Rhenium(VII) Trioxo Complexes with Olefins"] (in en). Inorganic Chemistry: acs.inorgchem.1c00995. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00995. ISSN 0020-1669. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.inorgchem.1c00995. 
  36. ↑ Thomas, Kolle E.; McCormick, Laura J.; Vazquez-Lima, Hugo; Ghosh, Abhik (2017-08-14). "Stabilization and Structure of the cis Tautomer of a Free-Base Porphyrin" (in en). Angewandte Chemie International Edition 56 (34): 10088–10092. doi:10.1002/anie.201701965. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.201701965. 
  37. ↑ "The Grammar of the Elements" (in en). 2019-10-04. https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-grammar-of-the-elements. 

Further reading

  • Buntrock, R. E. (January 2012). "Review: Letters to a Young Chemist". Choice: 913. 

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