Selected Publications :

• Guest-Shape Directed Structural Switching Between Two Isomers of a Pd₆ Host and its Structural Adaptability for Selective Photodimerization.
  R. Banerjee, P. Bhandari, N. Hickey P. S. Mukherjee.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025
• Transformation of a Pd₆ trifacial barrel to a Pd₈ tetrafacial barrel by C₇₀ as guest and oxidative photolysis of alkenes using the C₇₀ encapsulated barrel under red light.
  R. Banerjee, M. Ray, M. Aggarwal, S. Maji, D. Adhikari, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Sci. 2025
• Formation of a Pd₁₆ Molecular Basket Architecture of Reduced Symmetry and Angular Deviation in a Fluorenone Scaffold to Govern the Host–Guest Chemistry of Pd₆ Trifacial Tubes.
  M. Agarwal, R. Banerjee, N. Hickey, P. S. Mukherjee.
  JACS-Au 2025
• Modulation of Photoluminescence of BODIHY Dye Using Water-Soluble Coordination Cages with Different Shapes
  V. A. Rinshad, P.K. Mitra, S. Pradhan, Y.A. Lakshmanna, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2025 ,64, e202505772.
  
• Host–Guest Interactions Induced Enhancement in Oxidase-Like Activity of a Benzothiadiazole Dye Inside an Aqueous Pd₈L₄ Barrel.
  D. Chakraborty, N.Kaur, J. Sahoo, N. Hickey, P. S. Mukherjee.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024 ,146, 24901-24910
  
• Stimuli-Mediated Structural Interchange Between Pd₆ and Pd₁₂ architectures: Selective recognition of E-Stilbene by Pd6 Architecture and its Photoprotection.
  M.Aggarwal, R.Banerjee, N. Hickey, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2024 , e202411513
  
• Harnessing a Pd₄ Water-Soluble Molecular Capsule as a Size Selective Catalyst for Targeted Oxidation of Alkyl Aromatics.
  V. A. Rinshad, M. Aggarwal, J. K. Clegg, P. S. Mukherjee.
  JACS Au 2024 ,4, 3238−3247
  
• Formation of a low-symmetry Pd₈ molecular barrel employing a hetero donor tetradentate ligand, and its use in the binding and extraction of C₇₀.
  D.Prajapati, J.K. Clegg, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Sci. 2024 ,15, 12502-12510
  
• Self-Assembly of a Water-Soluble Pd₁₆Square Bicupola Architecture and Its Use in Aerobic Oxidation in Aqueous Medium.
  P. K. Maitra, S. Bhattacharyya, N. Hickey,P. S. Mukherjee.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2024 , 146, 15301–15308
  
• Pt(II)/Pd(II)-Based Metallosupramolecular Architectures as Light Harvesting Systems and their Applications.
  D. Bokotial, Dr. K. Acharyya, A. Chowdhury,P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202401136.
  
• A water-soluble Pd₄ molecular tweezer for selective encapsulation of isomeric quinones and their recyclable extraction.
  D. Prajapati, P.Bhandari, E. Zangrando,P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Sci. 2024, 15, 3616.
  
• Cavity-Shape-Dependent Divergent Chemical Reaction inside Aqueous Pd₆L₄ Cages.
  D. Chakraborty, S. Ali, P. Choudhury, N. Hickey P. S. Mukherjee.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 26973.
  
• Self-Assembly of an [M₈L2₄]¹⁶⁺ Intertwined Cube and a Giant [M₁₂L1₆]²⁴⁺ Orthobicupola.
  B. S. Arppitha, M. Venkataswarulu, P. Bhandari, J. Clegg, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2024, 63, e202315572.
  
• Structural Switching of a Distorted Trigonal Metal Organic Cage to a Tetragonal Cage and Singlet Oxygen Mediated Oxidations.
  R. Banerjee, D. Chakraborty, W.T. Jhang, Y. T. Chan, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e202305338.
  
• Covalent Organic Cages in Catalysis.
  P. Bhandari, P. S. Mukherjee.
  ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 6126.
  
• Molecular Barrels as Potential Hosts: From Synthesis to Applications.
  R. Banerjee, D. Chakraborty, P. S. Mukherjee.
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2023, 145, 7692.
  
• Solvent Induced Conversion of a Self-Assembled Gyrobifastigium to a Barrel and Encapsulation of Zinc-Phthalocyanine within the Barrel for Enhanced Photodynamic Therapy.
  V. A. Rinshad, J. Sahoo, M. Venkateswarulu, N. Hickey, M. De, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2023, 62, e2022182.
  
• Tetraphenylethene-Based Emissive Pt(II) Coordination Polymer toward Artificial Light-Harvesting Systems with Sequential Energy Transfer.
  S. Ahmed, A. Kumar, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Mater. 2022, 34, 9656.
  
• Selective separation of planar and non-planar hydrocarbons using an aqueous Pd₆ interlocked cage.
  D. Chakraborty, R. Saha, J. Clegg, P. S. Mukherjee, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Sci. 2022, 13, 11764.
• An Adaptable Water-Soluble Molecular Boat for Selective Separation of Phenanthrene from Isomeric Anthracene .
  B. S. Arppitha, M. Venkataswarulu, P. Bhandari, K. S. A. Arachchige, J. Clegg, P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2022, 144, 7504.
• Recent Trends in Organic Cage Synthesis: Push Towards Water-Soluble Organic Cages.
  D. Chakraborty, P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Commun. 2022, 58, 5558.
• Molecular Cavity for Catalysis and Formation of Metal Nanoparticles for Use in Catalysis.
  R. Saha, B. Mondal, P. S. Mukherjee.
  Chem. Rev. 2022, 122, 12244.
• Emissive Platinum(II) Macrocycles as Tunable Cascade Energy Transfer Scaffolds.
  K. Acharyya, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Lu, Y. Sun, P. S. Mukherjee and P. J. Stang.
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2022, 61.
  DOI: 10.1002/anie.202200715
• Self-Assembly of Octanuclear Pt^II/Pd^II Coordination Barrels and Uncommon Structural Isomerization of a Photochromic Guest in Molecular Space.
  P. Bhandari, R. Modak, S. Bhattacharyya, E. Zangrando, P. S. Mukherjee
  JACS Au 2021, 1, 2242.
• A Self‐Assembled Pd(II) Barrel for Binding of Fullerenes and Photosensitization Ability of the Fullerene Encapsulated Barrel.
  P. Choudhury, M. Maity, S. Bhattacharyya, P. S. Mukherjee
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 14109.
• Self-assembled metallasupramolecular cages towards light harvesting systems for oxidative cyclization.
  A. Kumar, R. Saha , P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Sci. 2021, 12 , 5319.
• Guest-Induced Enantioselective Self-Assembly of a Pd₆ Homochiral Octahedral Cage with a C₃-Symmetric Pyridyl Donor.
  P. Howlader, S. Mondal, S. Ahmed, P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 , 20968.
• Self-Assembled Pd₁₂ Coordination Cage as Photoregulated Oxidase-Like Nanozyme.
  S. Bhattacharyya, S. R. Ali, M. Venkateswarulu, P. Howlader, E. Zangrando, M. De, P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 , 18981.
• Featured on JACS front cover
  Self-Assembly of Enantiopure Pd₁₂ Tetrahedral Homochiral Nano-Cages with Tetrazole Linkers and Chiral Recognition.
  P. Howlader, E. Zangrando and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020 , 142, 9070.
• Self-Assembled Fluorescent Pt(II) Metallacycles as Artificial Light-Harvesting Systems.
  K. Acharyya, S. Bhattacharyya, H. Sepehrpour, S. Chakraborty, S. Lu, B. Shi. X. Li, P. S. Mukherjee and P. J. Stang
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 14565.
• Unusual Behaviour of Donor-Acceptor Stenhouse Adducts (DASA) in Confined Space of a Water Soluble Pd^II₈ Molecular Vessel.
  R. Saha, A. Devaraj, S. Bhattacharyya, S. Das, E. Zangrando and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 8638.
• Organic Imine Cages: Molecular Marriage and Applications.
  K. Acharyya, and P. S. Mukherjee
  Angew Chem. Int. Ed. 2019, 58, 8640.
• Cage Encapsulated Gold Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Photocatalyst for Facile and SelectiveReduction of Nitroarenes to Azo compounds
  B. Mondal and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 12592.
• Self-assembled molecular barrels as containers for transient merocyanine and reverse photochromism
  P. Howlader, B. Mondal, P. P. Chowdhury, E. Zangrando and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 7952.
  
• A Discrete Self-Assembled Pd₁₂ Triangular Orthobicupola Cage and its Use for Intramolecular Cycloaddition.
  I. A. Bhat, A. Devaraj, and P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Eur. J. 2018, 10.1002/chem.201803039.
• Face and edge directed self-assembly of Pd₁₂ tetrahedral nanocages and their self-sorting
  P. Howlader and P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Sci. 2016, 7,5893.
• Urea functionalized self-assembled molecular prism for heterogeneous catalysis in water
  P. Howlader, P. Das, E. Zangrando and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1668.
• Molecular cage impregnated Pd nanoparticles: Efficient additive-free heterogeneous catalysts for cyanation of aryl halides
  B. Mondal, K. Acharyya, P. Howlader and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 1709.
• A Pd8 Tetrafacial Molecular Barrel as Carrier for Water Insoluble Fluorophore
  B. Roy, A. K. Ghosh, S. Srivastava, P. D’Silva and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 11916.
• A Pd₂₄ Pregnant Molecular Nanoball: Self-Templated Stellation by Precise Mapping of Coordination Sites
  I. A. Bhat, D. Samanta and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 9497.
  
• Sunlight induced molecular covalent marriage of two triply interlocked Pd₆cages and their facile thermal separation
  D. Samanta and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 17006.
• Template free multicomponent coordination-driven self-assembly of molecular cages
  S. Mukherjee and P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 2239.
• Molecular marriage through partner preferences in covalent cage formation and cage-to-cage transformation
  K. Acharyya, S. Mukherjee and P. S. Mukherjee
  J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 554
• Versatility of azide in serendipitous assembly of Cu(II) magnetic polyclusters
  S. Mukherjee and P. S. Mukherjee
  Acc. Chem. Res. 2013, 46, 2556.
• Supramolecular coordination: Self-assembly of finite 2D and 3D ensembles
  R. Chakrabarty, P. S. Mukherjee, P. J. Stang
  Chem. Rev. 2011, 111, 6810.
• Metal-organic framework for sensing of nitroaromatics
  B. Gole, A. K. Bar, P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 12137.
• Supramolecular polymer for explosives sensing: role of H-bonding in enhancement of sensitivity in solid state
  B. Gole, S. Shanmugaraju, A. K. Bar and P. S. Mukherjee
  Chem. Commun. 2011, 47, 10046.
• Self-assembly of a nanoscopic Fe₁₂Pt₁₂ open hexagonal barrel containing six porphyrin walls
  A. K. Bar, R. Chakrabarty, G. Mostafa and P. S. Mukherjee
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2008, 47, 8455.