T.P. Dasgupta Head of Department
tara@uwimona.edu.jm B.Sc.
Calcutta, India M.Sc. Bihar., D.Phil. Calcutta, India, C.Chem,.
FRSC. Professor of Inorganic Chemistry
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Research Interests
1) Inorganic Reaction Mechanisms. The Department has been
recognised internationally for its outstanding research work in Reaction
Mechanisms. Twenty-six students have received postgraduate degrees (M. Phil and
Ph. D) and eighty papers have been published in international journals in this
area. Currently three other staff members Dr. N. McKnight, Dr. P. Maragh and Dr.
D. Dixon are also involved in this area of research. Present activities are in
five major areas:
a) Synthesis and Reactivity of Novel Polynuclear Complexes,
b) Electron Transfer involving Biological Reductants,
c) Reactivity of Oxoanions
d) Transfer Chemical Potentials of complex cations and
anions.
e) Nitric Oxide releasing compounds and their biological
applications
Selected publications
- T.P Dasgupta, F A Beckford and G Stedman, "Reaction of
[Fe2(CN)10]4- with L-Ascorbic Acid",
Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 2561 (1995)
- T P Dasgupta, K Abdur-Rashid, J Burgess, "Kinetics of the Oxidation of
Ascorbate by Tetranuclear cobalt(III) Complexes ("Hexols") in Aqueous
Solution", Journal of the Chemical Society Dalton Transactions 1393,
1996.
- T P Dasgupta, K Abdur-Rashid and J Burgess, "Kinetics and Mechanism of
Oxidation of L-Ascorbic acid by cis-diaqua cobalt(III) Ammine Complexes,
Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions 1385, 1996
- T P Dasgupta, A Holder, "Synthesis, Acid Hydrolysis and Formation of the
[(NH3)5CoOMoO3]+ ion in Aqueous
Solution", Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 2637, 1996
- T P Dasgupta, N Sadler, D Dixon, "Mechanism of oxidation of L-Ascorbic
Acid by the Pentaamminechromatocobalt (III) Complex in Aqueous Solution",
Journal of Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions, 1903, 1997.
- T P Dasgupta, V Gooden, H Cai, N Gordon, L Huges, G Sadler, "The Synthesis
and Characterization of Monomeric Complexes of Ru(bpy)2 with
dihydroxyanthraquinous", Inorganic Chimica Acta 255, 105, 1997
- T P Dasgupta, A Holder, W McFarlane, N Rees, J Enemark, A Pacheco, K
Christeuren, "Synthesis Characterization, Infrared and 95Mo
NMR Spectroscopy of some coordinated oxo-molybedenum (VI) complexes",
Inorganic Chimica Acta 260, 225-228, 1997.
- T P Dasgupta, V Gooden, N Gordon, G Sadler, "Properties and Kinetics of
Dihydroxy-and Diaminoantraquinone Ruthenium Bipyridyl Dimers", Inorganic
Chimica Acta, 268, 31, 1997
- T P Dasgupta, D McGowden, D Ragoobirsingh, "The hyperglycaemic effect od
s-nitroso-glutathiane via the release of nitric oxide", West Indian Medical
Journal 46, Supplement 2:22, 1997
- T P Dasgupta, F Beckford, D Bennett, G Steadman, "Redox Chemistry of
[Fe2(CN)10]4- Part 4 Reaction with
L.Cysteine", Journal of Chemical Research, 98, 1998
- T P Dasgupta, D Dixon, N Sadler-McKnight, "Oxidation of Thiol-containing
substrates by the pentaamminechromatocobalt(III) complex ion", Inorganic
Reaction Mechanism 1, 41-56, 1998.
- T P Dasgupta, D Bennett, G Stedman, "Redox Chemistry of
[Fe2(CN) 10]4- . Part 5. Reaction with
Thiourea", Transition Metal Chemistry, 23, 749-753.
- Pesticides. Research in this area is in collaboration with the
Department of Life Sciences. During the past ten years, the Department has
become active in Pesticide Chemistry. One Ph.D. and three M. Phil students
have graduated, and three students are currently working for M.Phil degrees.
Selected Publications
- T P Dasgupta, E Roberts, N Singh, A Mansingh, "Persistence of Vamidothion
in Coconuts at Different Stages of Development", Jamaican Journal of
Science & Technology, 38, 7-8, 1997.
- T P Dasgupta, D Morrison, A Lewis, "Pesticide Residues in Water, Sediments
and Soil - The Jamaican Situation", Caraphin News No17, 12-13, 1998.
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