Sabyasachi Sarkar

Professor Sabyasachi Sarkar
Born (1947-05-17) 17 May 1947
West Bengal, India
Residence India
Nationality Indian
Fields Chemistry
Institutions IIEST,Shibpur
IIT Kanpur
Alma mater University of Calcutta
Gorakhpur University
Dortmund University
Bielefeld University
Known for Bioinorganic Chemistry
Chemical Darwinism
Giant molybdenum-oxide based molecular spheres
Carbon based Nano Science
Website
http://home.iitk.ac.in/~abya/

Professor Sabyasachi Sarkar[1] ( born in 17 May 1947) is an Indian Chemist. He has explored chemistry passionately as a prospector to observe closely the clandestine activities of nature. He has worked and continued working in the diverse branches of chemistry closely related to natural set up and as such his research embraces functional models related to hyperthermophilic to mesophilic metalloproteins enriching bioinorganic chemistry.[2][3][4][5][6][7] A Replica of a Fishy Enzyme[8] and the reduced xanthine oxidase[9] also have been made.Inhibition patterns[10] in the Michaelis complex of low molecular weight hepatic sulfite oxidase model complex have been exhibited.[11] He demonstrated that carbon dioxide molecule does bind to magnesium in chlorophyll [12] in photosynthesis as proposed by R. M. Willstätter hundred years ago and modeled hydrogenase captioned as better than nature.[13] The rare reaction of a Cu(II) complex with aerial oxygen to generate superoxide anion and Cu(III) has been shown addressing the native SOD reaction.[14] Similarly the aspect of copper-molybdenum antagonism in ruminant animals have been investigated.[15] His research has shown the architectural marvel in silk cocoon with the natural thermostatic and humidity control with preferential oxygen gating inside cocoon as green house architecture.[16] He proposed a new magneto reception mechanism for nocturnal moth in sensing the Earth's magnetic field to navigate with a stable pool of carbon-centric free radicals along with ferromagnetic components.[17] He extended the work on nano carbon[18] and developed cheap sources of water soluble nano carbon including naturally formed graphene oxide from low grade coal.[19] These are used in the growth of young plants as promoters to slowly release micro nutrients and adsorbed water.[20][21][22][23] He explored these to explore bio-imaging[24] and demonstrating that non-toxic carbon nano onion[25][26] can cross blood brain barrier [27] to carry drug as cargo and can be effectively be excreted from the body.The utility of such nano carbon to control mosquito breeding in preventing mosquito vectors of infectious dieseaes[28] and the use of reduced graphene oxide to prevent hospital pathogens have been demonstrated.[29] On the environment aspect the presence of damaged floating carbon nano tubes in aerosols is shown to contribute global warming, winter smog and elevating breathing problem.[30] He demonstrated the adverse effect of soap and detergent discharge near tube well in releasing arsenic and fluoride contaminated water.[31] He also mapped the degradation of Heritage monument, Taj Mahal.[32]

Early life and education

Prof. Sabysachi Sarkar hailing from the family of legal advisor of the local king was born in Birbhum (meaning forest land) district, West Bengal in the Zaminder house of his maternal grand parent . His early education came from St. Xavier’s College and Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira, Belurmath. He did M. Sc from Science College ,University of Calcutta at the age of 19.[33] He is the lone living grand student of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Ray as practicing chemist even today .He started his research under Professor Pulin Behari Sarkar in the Rajabazar Science College. After learning Analytical-Inorganic chemistry he learnt Thermodynamics from Professor R.P Rastogi of Gorakhpur University. He pursued aggregates of metal oxides and sulfides of diverse interest from the school of Professor Achim Mueller, Germany. He practiced research in diversified field of interest including environment , healthcare science, and conservation.

Professional life

Fellowship

State, National, CSIR, Indian Chemical Society, INSA Research, Academy of Science, Humboldt, DAAD, Raja Ramanna, Royal Society of Chemistry.

Honours

Professor R.K. Barua Memorial Lecture; Professor R. D. Desai Medal and Prize; Professor Priyadaranjan Ray Memorial Award; Honorary Professor ,Faculty of Science –BHU; Annual Professor Sabyasachi Sarkar endowment lecture at RKM Vidyamandira. Belurmath instituted by former PhD student. Honorary Professor Emeritus, IIEST-Shibpur.

Literary work

He writes satire on Indian science and other science based articles in Bengali magazines. His full list of writing are available in his website.

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Sabyasachi Sarkar". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  2. ↑ Das, Samar, Sarkar, Sabyasachi (August 1992). "CO2 fixation by [WIVO(S2C2(CN)2)2]2−: functional model for the tungsten-formate dehydrogenase ofClostridium thermoaceticum". Journal of Chemical Sciences. doi:10.1007/BF02840500. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Das, Samar K.; Chaudhury, Pradeep K.; Biswas, Dulali; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2002-05-01). "Modeling for the Active Site of Sulfite Oxidase: Synthesis, Characterization, and Reactivity of [MoVIO2(mnt)2]2- (mnt2- = 1,2-Dicyanoethylenedithiolate)". Journal of the American Chemical Society 116 (20): 9061–9070. doi:10.1021/ja00099a024.
  4. ↑ Das, Samar K.; Biswas, Dulali; Maiti, Rabindranath; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (1996-02-14). "Modeling the Tungsten Sites of Inactive and Active Forms of Hyperthermophilic Pyrococcus furiosus Aldehyde Ferredoxin Oxidoreductase". Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (6): 1387–1397. doi:10.1021/ja9511580.
  5. ↑ Yadav, Jyoti; Das, Samar K.; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (1997-05-07). "A Functional Mimic of the New Class of Tungstoenzyme, Acetylene Hydratase". Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (18): 4315–4316. doi:10.1021/ja970134l.
  6. ↑ Prasad, Rishitosh; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (November 1997). "Evolutionary extremophilic Archaeal domain of life" (PDF). Current Science 73 (10): 842–854. Retrieved 26 March 2016.
  7. ↑ Majumdar, Amit; Pal, Kuntal; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2006-03-11). "Chemistry of [Et 4 N][Mo IV (SPh)(PPh 3 )(mnt) 2 ] as an Analogue of Dissimilatory Nitrate Reductase with Its Inactivation on Substitution of Thiolate by Chloride". Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (13): 4196–4197. doi:10.1021/ja0586135.
  8. ↑ Moula, Golam; Bose, Moumita; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2013-04-17). "Replica of a Fishy Enzyme: Structure–Function Analogue of Trimethylamine-N-Oxide Reductase". Inorganic Chemistry 52 (9): 5316–5327. doi:10.1021/ic4002576.
  9. ↑ Mitra, Joyee; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Modelling the reduced xanthine oxidase in active sulfo and inactive desulfo forms". Dalton Transactions 42 (9). doi:10.1039/c2dt32309e.
  10. ↑ Chaudhury, P K; Das, S K; Sarkar, S (1996-11-01). "Inhibition patterns of a model complex mimicking the reductive half-reaction of sulphite oxidase.". Biochemical Journal 319 (Pt 3): 953–959. ISSN 0264-6021. PMC 1217881. PMID 8921005.
  11. ↑ Pal, Kuntal; Chaudhury, Pradeep K.; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2007-08-03). "Structure of the Michaelis Complex and Function of the Catalytic Center in the Reductive Half-Reaction of Computational and Synthetic Models of Sulfite Oxidase". Chemistry – An Asian Journal 2 (8): 956–964. doi:10.1002/asia.200700020. ISSN 1861-471X.
  12. ↑ Bhuyan, Jagannath; Sarkar, Rudra; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2011-11-04). "A Magnesium Porphyrin Bicarbonate Complex with CO2-Modulated Photosystem I Action". Angewandte Chemie International Edition 50 (45): 10603–10607. doi:10.1002/anie.201103876. ISSN 1521-3773.
  13. ↑ Begum, Ameerunisha; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2012-01-01). "An Iron(III) Dithiolene Complex as a Functional Model of Iron Hydrogenase". European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry 2012 (1): 40–43. doi:10.1002/ejic.201100879. ISSN 1099-0682.
  14. ↑ Bhattacharya, Dibyendu; Maji, Suman; Pal, Kuntal; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2008-05-01). "Formation of Superoxide Anion on Aerial Oxidation of Cu(II)–Porphyrinogen in the Synthesis of Tetrakis(cyclohexyl)porphyrinogenCu(III) Anion". Inorganic Chemistry 47 (12): 5036–5038. doi:10.1021/ic800282j.
  15. ↑ Sarkar, S.; Mishra, S. B. S. (1984-09-01). "Synthetic aspects of CuMos systems and their possible relevance to copper—molybdenum antagonism". Coordination Chemistry Reviews 59: 239–264. doi:10.1016/0010-8545(84)85056-0.
  16. ↑ Roy, Manas; Meena, Sunil Kumar; Kusurkar, Tejas Sanjeev; Singh, Sushil Kumar; Sethy, Niroj Kumar; Bhargava, Kalpana; Sarkar, Sabyasachi; Das, Mainak (2012-12-01). "Carbondioxide Gating in Silk Cocoon". Biointerphases 7 (1): 45. doi:10.1007/s13758-012-0045-7. ISSN 1934-8630.
  17. ↑ Roy, Manas; Kusurkar, Tejas Sanjeev; Maurya, Sandeep Kumar; Meena, Sunil Kumar; Singh, Sushil Kumar; Sethy, Niroj; Bhargava, Kalpana; Sharma, Raj Kishore; Goswami, Debabrata (2013-03-24). "Graphene oxide from silk cocoon: a novel magnetic fluorophore for multi-photon imaging". 3 Biotech 4 (1): 67–75. doi:10.1007/s13205-013-0128-2. ISSN 2190-572X. PMC 3909567.
  18. ↑ Dubey, Prashant; Muthukumaran, Devarajan; Dash, Subhashis; Mukhopadhyay, Rupa; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2005-10-01). "Synthesis and characterization of water-soluble carbon nanotubes from mustard soot". Pramana 65 (4): 681–697. doi:10.1007/BF03010456. ISSN 0304-4289.
  19. ↑ Pakhira, Bholanath; Ghosh, Subrata; Maity, Sheli; Sangeetha, D. N.; Laha, Ankita; Allam, Afreen; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Extraction of preformed graphene oxide from coal: its clenched fist form entrapping large molecules". RSC Adv. 5 (108): 89076–89082. doi:10.1039/c5ra15699h.
  20. ↑ Tripathi, Shweta; Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Growth stimulation of gram (Cicer arietinum) plant by water soluble carbon nanotubes". Nanoscale 3 (3). doi:10.1039/c0nr00722f.
  21. ↑ Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Roy, Manas; Babar, Dipak Gorakh; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Water soluble carbon nano-onions from wood wool as growth promoters for gram plants". Nanoscale 4 (24). doi:10.1039/c2nr32408c.
  22. ↑ Saxena, Manav; Maity, Sheli; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Carbon nanoparticles in ‘biochar’ boost wheat (Triticum aestivum) plant growth". RSC Adv. 4 (75). doi:10.1039/c4ra06535b.
  23. ↑ Tripathi, Shweta; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2014-09-09). "Influence of water soluble carbon dots on the growth of wheat plant". Applied Nanoscience 5 (5): 609–616. doi:10.1007/s13204-014-0355-9. ISSN 2190-5509.
  24. ↑ Ghosh, Mitrajit; Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Saxena, Manav; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2011-11-18). "Carbon Nano-onions for Imaging the Life Cycle of Drosophila Melanogaster". Small 7 (22): 3170–3177. doi:10.1002/smll.201101158. ISSN 1613-6829.
  25. ↑ Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Roy, Manas; Babar, Dipak Gorakh; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Water soluble carbon nano-onions from wood wool as growth promoters for gram plants". Nanoscale 4 (24). doi:10.1039/c2nr32408c.
  26. ↑ Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Ghosh, Mitrajit; Roy, Manas; Begum, Ameerunisha; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2012-06-01). "Carbon Nano-Onions as Nontoxic and High-Fluorescence Bioimaging Agent in Food Chain—An In Vivo Study from Unicellular E. coli to Multicellular C. elegans". Materials Express 2 (2): 105–114. doi:10.1166/mex.2012.1064.
  27. ↑ Pakhira, Bholanath; Ghosh, Mitrajit; Allam, Afreen; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Carbon nano onions cross the blood brain barrier". RSC Adv. 6 (35): 29779–29782. doi:10.1039/c5ra23534k.
  28. ↑ Saxena, Manav; Sonkar, Sumit Kumar; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "Water soluble nanocarbons arrest the growth of mosquitoes". RSC Advances 3 (44). doi:10.1039/c3ra44100h.
  29. ↑ Dutta, Taposhree; Sarkar, Rudra; Pakhira, Bholanath; Ghosh, Subrata; Sarkar, Ripon; Barui, Ananya; Sarkar, Sabyasachi. "ROS generation by reduced graphene oxide (rGO) induced by visible light showing antibacterial activity: comparison with graphene oxide (GO)". RSC Adv. 5 (98): 80192–80195. doi:10.1039/c5ra14061g.
  30. ↑ Banerjee, Saumyabrata; Tripathi, Sachchida N.; Das, Utpal; Ranjan, Raju; Jadhav, Nilesh; Singh, Vivek P.; Jariwala, Chinmay; Sonkar, Sumit; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2012-07-15). "Enhanced persistence of fog under illumination for carbon nanotube fog condensation nuclei". Journal of Applied Physics 112 (2): 024901. doi:10.1063/1.4736557. ISSN 0021-8979.
  31. ↑ Dey, Soumen; Chatterjee, Shahana; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (10 December 2005). "Direct and indirect arsenic release from soaps by unhygienic use in tubewells" (PDF). CURRENT SCIENCE.
  32. ↑ Samadhiya, N.K.; Banerjee, Deepankar; Sarkar, Sabyasachi (2009). Jain, K.K., ed. Characterization of the dust in the ambience of the Taj Mahal, Agra. Agam Kala Prakashan. pp. 25–30.
  33. ↑ "Reminiscence:Santhal Parganas to Chemistry".
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