Abhik Ghosh

Dr. Abhik Ghosh is an Indian national and a professor of chemistry at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø, Norway.[1][2]

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.

He 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 in 1992 and subsequently also postdoctoral research with Professor Lawrence Que, Jr. During this period, he also collaborated extensively with Professor Jan Almlöf. He did a brief, second postdoc with Professor David Bocian at the University of California Riverside.

Career

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[3] 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),[4] a monograph on the subject, and Letters to a Young Chemist (Wiley, 2011), a popular science book on careers in chemistry research.[5][6][7][8] In 2014, he coauthored Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main Group Elements (Wiley) with Steffen Berg,[9] which won the 2015 Prose Award for 'best textbook in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics'.[10][11] 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 2020, he has authored/coauthored over 230 scientific papers, which have been cited nearly 10,000 times with an h-index of approximately 56.[1][2]

Research

Dr. 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[12] and also some of the first large-scale ab initio calculations applied to porphyrins[13] and other bioinorganic systems.[14] He has had an abiding interest in the phenomenon of ligand noninnocence[15] and has contributed substantially to studying the phenomenon in transition metal nitrosyl[16] and corrole[17][18] 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. In this area he has reported some of the first examples of 99Tc,[19] rhenium,[20][21] osmium,[22][23] platinum,[24][25] and gold[26][27] corroles. Despite their size-mismatched character, many of these complexes have proved rugged and found applications as near-IR phosphorescent photosensitizers in oxygen sensing[28][29] and photodynamic therapy as well as in dye-sensitized solar cells.[30][31]

In collaboration with linguist Paul Kiparsky, Ghosh has recently 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.

gollark: Equality is a binary relation too so this isn't generalised enough.
gollark: Bee this! What if I want binary relations on stuff without equality?!
gollark: Now, there's microG now, but also safetynet.
gollark: Which is a blob running with literally every permission and I believe self update capabilities.
gollark: But apps frequently demand Google Play Services.

References
  1. "Abhik Ghosh - Google Scholar Citations". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  2. ORCID. "Abhik Ghosh (0000-0003-1161-6364)". orcid.org. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  3. Ghosh, Abhik (1998). "Understanding the Colors of Life: A Norway-California Collaboration". www.sdsc.edu. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  4. "The Smallest Biomolecules: Diatomics and their Interactions with Heme Proteins - 1st Edition". www.elsevier.com. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. Ghosh, Abhik, ed. (21 March 2011). Letters to a Young Chemist. doi:10.1002/9781118007099. ISBN 9781118007099.
  6. "What's it like to be a chemist?". Royal Society of Chemistry Website. review by Simon Cotton
  7. Haxton, Katherine (2011). "Chemical counselling". Nature Chemistry. 3 (12): 905. doi:10.1038/nchem.1211.
  8. 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. Bibcode:2012JChEd..89..973F. doi:10.1021/ed3003397.
  9. "Arrow Pushing in Inorganic Chemistry: A Logical Approach to the Chemistry of the Main-Group Elements | Wiley". Wiley.com. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  10. "2015 Award Winners". PROSE Awards. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  11. Vibeke, Os. "Award to UiT chemists | UiT". uit.no (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  12. 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.
  13. Ghosh, Abhik (1 April 1998). "First-Principles Quantum Chemical Studies of Porphyrins". Accounts of Chemical Research. 31 (4): 189–198. doi:10.1021/ar950033x. ISSN 0001-4842.
  14. Ghosh, Abhik (1 September 2006). "Transition metal spin state energetics and noninnocent systems: challenges for DFT in the bioinorganic arena". JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 11 (6): 712–724. doi:10.1007/s00775-006-0135-4. ISSN 1432-1327. PMID 16841211.
  15. Ganguly, Sumit; Ghosh, Abhik (21 June 2019). "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.
  16. Ghosh, Abhik (1 December 2005). "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.
  17. Thomas, Kolle E.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Conradie, Jeanet; Beavers, Christine M.; Ghosh, Abhik (21 August 2012). "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.
  18. Ghosh, Abhik (22 February 2017). "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.
  19. Einrem, Rune F.; Braband, Henrik; Fox, Thomas; Vazquez‐Lima, Hugo; Alberto, Roger; Ghosh, Abhik (2016). "Synthesis and Molecular Structure of 99Tc Corroles". Chemistry – A European Journal. 22 (52): 18747–18751. doi:10.1002/chem.201605015. ISSN 1521-3765. PMID 27802367.
  20. Einrem, Rune F.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Ghosh, Abhik (2016). "Metal–Ligand Misfits: Facile Access to Rhenium–Oxo Corroles by Oxidative Metalation". Chemistry – A European Journal. 22 (2): 517–520. doi:10.1002/chem.201504307. ISSN 1521-3765. PMID 26639951.
  21. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Teat, Simon J.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik (10 April 2020). "Rhenium-Imido Corroles". Inorganic Chemistry. 59 (9): 6382–6389. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.0c00477. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 32275406.
  22. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Terner, James; Ghosh, Abhik (2014). "Oxidative Metalation as a Route to Size-Mismatched Macrocyclic Complexes: Osmium Corroles". Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53 (52): 14411–14414. doi:10.1002/anie.201405890. ISSN 1521-3773. PMID 25346094.
  23. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; McCormick, Laura J.; Vazquez-Lima, Hugo; Ghosh, Abhik (18 February 2019). "Relativistic Effects on a Metal–Metal Bond: Osmium Corrole Dimers". Inorganic Chemistry. 58 (4): 2798–2806. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.8b03391. hdl:10037/18144. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 30730723.
  24. Ghosh, Abhik; Bendix, Jesper; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Beavers, Christine M.; Vazquez-Lima, Hugo; Alemayehu, Abraham B. (26 August 2014). "Platinum corroles". Chemical Communications. 50 (76): 11093–11096. doi:10.1039/C4CC02548B. ISSN 1364-548X. PMID 24911328.
  25. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; McCormick, Laura J.; Gagnon, Kevin J.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik (31 August 2018). "Stable Platinum(IV) Corroles: Synthesis, Molecular Structure, and Room-Temperature Near-IR Phosphorescence" (PDF). ACS Omega. 3 (8): 9360–9368. doi:10.1021/acsomega.8b01149. ISSN 2470-1343. PMC 6645213. PMID 31459069.
  26. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Ghosh, Abhik (1 February 2011). "Gold corroles". Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines. 15 (2): 106–110. doi:10.1142/S1088424611003045. ISSN 1088-4246.
  27. Thomas, Kolle E.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Conradie, Jeanet; Beavers, Christine; Ghosh, Abhik (19 December 2011). "Synthesis and Molecular Structure of Gold Triarylcorroles". Inorganic Chemistry. 50 (24): 12844–12851. doi:10.1021/ic202023r. ISSN 0020-1669. PMID 22111600.
  28. Ghosh, Abhik; Alemayehu, Abraham; Borisov, Sergey M. (16 June 2016). "Osmium-nitrido corroles as NIR indicators for oxygen sensors and triplet sensitizers for organic upconversion and singlet oxygen generation". Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 4 (24): 5822–5828. doi:10.1039/C6TC01126H. ISSN 2050-7534.
  29. Ghosh, Abhik; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Einrem, Rune F.; Borisov, Sergey M. (15 May 2019). "Ambient-temperature near-IR phosphorescence and potential applications of rhenium-oxo corroles". Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences. 18 (5): 1166–1170. doi:10.1039/C8PP00473K. ISSN 1474-9092. PMID 30801581.
  30. Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Day, Nicholas U.; Mani, Tomoyasu; Rudine, Alexander B.; Thomas, Kolle E.; Gederaas, Odrun A.; Vinogradov, Sergei A.; Wamser, Carl C.; Ghosh, Abhik (27 July 2016). "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.
  31. Einrem, Rune F.; Alemayehu, Abraham B.; Borisov, Sergey M.; Ghosh, Abhik; Gederaas, Odrun A. (27 April 2020). "Amphiphilic Rhenium-Oxo Corroles as a New Class of Sensitizers for Photodynamic Therapy". ACS Omega. 5 (18): 10596–10601. doi:10.1021/acsomega.0c01090. ISSN 2470-1343. PMID 32426618.

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