Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Sciences
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Research Area
BioInoganic, Electrocatalysis
Research Interests
One of our research interests involves bio-mimetic synthetic structural and functional model study of metalloenzymes. In this context, we focus on understanding the role of microenvironment in enzymatic processes. Characterization of short-lived intermediates relevant to enzymatic processes is an important part of our research. With combined structural, spectroscopic, and kinetic studies we try to understand structure-function relationship for bio-mimetic processes.
We are also interested in exploring catalytic processes involving organic transformation, and small molecule activation like reduction of proton, carbon dioxide etc. Further, we pay attention in understanding reaction mechanism and thermodynamic driving force for catalytic processes. We also work on bioinspired water remediation process like nitrite reduction, toxic organic pollutant degradation, C-H activation.
2014 - 2015 : Post Doctoral Fellow, CEA-Grenoble, France
2016 : DST-NPDF, IISER Kolkata
2016 - 2020 : Post Doctoral Fellow, UC Irvine, USA
2008 - 2014 : PhD, IIT Kanpur
2006 - 2008 : MSc, IIT Guwahati
2003 - 2006 : BSc, Calcutta University
Mofijul Molla, Anannya Saha, Suman K Barman and Sukanta Mandal. Monomeric Fe (III)-Hydroxo and Fe (III)-Aqua Complexes Display Oxidative Asynchronous Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Reactivity. Chemistry–A European Journal, pages e202401163, 2024. Animesh Kundu, Suman K Barman and Sukanta Mandal. Dangling Carboxylic Group That Participates in O–O Bond Formation Reaction to Promote Water Oxidation Catalyzed by a Ruthenium Complex: Experimental Evidence of an Oxide Relay Pathway. Inorganic Chemistry 61(3):1426–1437, 2022. Suman K Barman, Meng-Yin Yang, Trenton H Parsell, Michael T Green and AS Borovik. Semiempirical method for examining asynchronicity in metal–oxido-mediated C–H bond activation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118(36):e2108648118, 2021. Suman K Barman, Joan Cano, Francesc Lloret and Rabindranath Mukherjee. Single-Molecule-Magnet FeII4FeIII2 and Antiferromagnetic FeIII4 Coordination Clusters. Inorganic Chemistry 58(12):8086–8099, 2019. Suman K Barman, Jason R Jones, Chen Sun, Ethan A Hill, Joseph W Ziller and AS Borovik. Regulating the Basicity of Metal–Oxido Complexes with a Single Hydrogen Bond and Its Effect on C–H Bond Cleavage. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141(28):11142–11150, 2019. Suman K Barman, Totan Mondal, Debasis Koley, Francesc Lloret and Rabindranath Mukherjee. A phenoxo-bridged dicopper (II) complex as a model for phosphatase activity: mechanistic insights from a combined experimental and computational study. Dalton Transactions 46(12):4038–4054, 2017. Suman K Barman, Francesc Lloret and Rabindranath Mukherjee. A Bioinspired Dinickel (II) Hydrolase: Solvent Vapor-Induced Hydrolysis of Carboxyesters under Ambient Conditions. Inorganic Chemistry 55(24):12696–12706, 2016. Akram Ali, Suman K Barman and Rabindranath Mukherjee. Palladium (II) complex of a redox-active amidophenolate-based O, N, S, N ligand: its monocation and dication and reactivity with PPh3. Inorganic Chemistry 54(11):5182–5194, 2015. Sudip K Chatterjee, Ram Chandra Maji, Suman Kumar Barman, Marilyn M Olmstead and Apurba K Patra. Hexacoordinate nickel (II)/(III) complexes that mimic the catalytic cycle of nickel superoxide dismutase. Angewandte Chemie 126(38):10348–10353, 2014. Himanshu Arora, Suman K Barman, Francesc Lloret and Rabindranath Mukherjee. Isostructural dinuclear phenoxo-/acetato-bridged manganese (II), cobalt (II), and zinc (II) complexes with labile sites: kinetics of transesterification of 2-hydroxypropyl-p-nitrophenylphosphate. Inorganic chemistry 51(10):5539–5553, 2012.