2023

1.                  Regulating the assembly and expansion of the silver cluster from the Ag37 to Ag46 nanowheel driven by heteroanions

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Li Li, Zhi Wang, Baoliang Han, Lei Feng, Zhiyong Gao, Chen-Ho Tung and Di Sun*

Chemical Science, 2023, 14, 1138-1144, 14, 1138-1144 (Times cited: 00, Impact factor: 9.97).

2022

2.                  Recent advances in the asymmetrical templation effect of polyoxometalate in silver clusters

Jia-Yang Shi,^† Rakesh Kumar Gupta,^† Yong-Kai Deng, Di Sun, Zhi Wang* (†Co-first author

Polyoxometalates 2022, 1, 9140010 (Times cited: 01, Impact factor: Awaited).

3.                  Adenine-incorporated metal-organic frameworks

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Muhammad Riaz, Mo Ashafaq, Zhi-Yong Gao, Rajender S. Varma, Da-Cheng Li, Ping Cui, Chen-Ho Tung, Di Sun,*

Coord. Chem. Rev. 2022, 464, 214558 (Times cited: 03, Impact factor: 24.83).

4.                  Facile One-pot Synthesis of a Novel All-carbon Stair Containing Dimerized Pentalene Core from Alkyne

Hui Zhao,^† Rakesh-Kumar Gupta,^† Wei Zhang, Jiong Jia, Qun Yu, Zhi-Yong Gao, Gui-Lin Zhuang, Da-Cheng Li,d Xing-Po Wang, Chen-Ho Tung, Di Sun* (^†Co-first author)

Chinese Chem. Lett. 2021, 33, 2047-2051 (Times cited: 02, Impact factor: 8.45).

2021

5.                  Precise Implantation of an Archimedean Ag@Cu₁₂ Cuboctahedron into a Platonic Cu₄Bis(diphenylphosphino)hexane₆ Tetrahedron

Bao-Liang Han, Zhi Wang, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Lei Feng, Su-Na Wang, Mohamedally Kurmoo, Zhi-Yong Gao, Chen-Ho Tung, and Di Sun,*

ACS Nano, 2021, 15, 8733-8741. (Times cited: 20, Impact factor: 18.03)

6.                  Arylazopyrazole Functionalized Photoswitchable Octanuclear Zn(II) Silsesquioxane Nanocage

Kai Sheng, Ya-Nan Liu, Rakesh Kumar Gupta,* Mohamedally Kurmoo and Di Sun*

Sci. China Chem., 2021, 64, 419-425. (Times cited: 22, Impact factor: 10.14)

2020

7.                  Recent developments in metal dipyrrin complexes: Design, synthesis, and applications

Roop Shikha Singh, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Daya Shankar Pandey

Coord. Chem. Rev. 2020, 414, 213269. (Times cited: 27, Impact factor: 24.83)

8.                  Molecular Orientation and Anisotropic Charge Transport in the Large Area Thin Films of Regioregular Poly(3-alkylthiopnes) Fabricated by Ribbon-Shaped FTM

Atul S. M. Tripathi, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Shubham Sharma, Shuichi Nagamatsu, and Shyam S. Pandey^*

Org. Electronics 2020, 81, 105687. (Times cited: 07, Impact factor: 3.87)

9.                  Recent Progress in Inorganic Anions Templated Silver Nanoclusters: Synthesis, Structures and Properties

Zhi Wang, Rakesh Kumar Gupta,^* Geng-Geng Luo,^* and Di Sun^*

Chem. Rec., 2020, 20, 389-402. (Times cited: 32, Impact factor: 6.94)              

10.              An Octanuclear Cobalt Cluster Protected by Macrocyclic Ligand: In Situ Ligand-Transformation-Assisted Assembly and Single-Molecule Magnet Behavior

Ya-Nan Liu, Jin-Le Hou, Zhi Wang, Rakesh Kumar Gupta*, Zvonko Jagličić, Marko Jagodič*, Wen-Guang Wang, Chen-Ho Tung, and Di Sun*

Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 5683-5693. (Times cited: 24, Impact factor: 5.44)

11.              Polymorphism in Atomically Precise Cu₂₃ Nanocluster Incorporating Tetrahedral [Cu₄]⁰ Kernel

Bao-Liang Han, Zhen Liu, Lei Feng, Zhi Wang, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Christine M. Aikens,* Chen-Ho Tung, and Di Sun*

J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142, 5834−5841. (Times cited: 49, Impact factor: 16.38)

12.              Structural Diversity of Copper(I) Cluster-Based Coordination Polymers with Pyrazine-2-thiol Ligand

Xiao-Qian Liang,^† Rakesh Kumar Gupta,^† Yun-Wu Li,^* Hui-Yan Ma, Lin-Na Gao, Chen-Ho Tung, Di Sun^* (^†Co-first author)

Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 2680-2688. (Times cited: 31, Impact factor: 5.44)

13.              Temperature-induced Sn(II) supramolecular isomeric frameworks as promising heterogeneous catalysts for cyanosilylation of aldehydes

Kai Sheng Kai, Li-Ming Fan Li-Ming, Tian Feixue, Rakesh Kumar Gupta,^* Gao Lina, Tong Zhenghe, and Di Sun*

Sci. China Chem., 2020, 63, 182-186. (Times cited: 32, Impact factor: 10.14)

14.              A novel 58-nuclei silver nanowheel encapsulating a subvalent Ag₆⁴⁺ kernel

Zhi Wang, Qing-Ping Qu, Hai-Feng Su, Peng Huang, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Qing-Yun Liu, Chen-Ho Tung, Di Sun*, Lan-Sun Zheng

Sci. China Chem., 2020, 63, 16-20. (Times cited: 21, Impact factor: 10.14)

2019

15.              Hexadecanuclear Mn^II₂Mn^III₁₄ Molecular Torus Built from in Situ Tandem Ligand Transformations

Muhammad Riaz, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Hai-Feng Su, Zvonko Jagličić, Mohamedally Kurmoo, Chen-Ho Tung, Di Sun,^* and Lan-Sun Zheng

Inorg. Chem. 2019, 58, 14331-14337. (Times cited: 16, Impact factor: 5.44)

16.              Implication of Molecular Weight on Optical and Charge Transport Anisotropy in PQT C12 Films Fabricated by Dynamic FTM

Atul S. M. Tripathi,^* Shifumi Sadakata, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Shuichi Nagamatsu,

Yoshito Ando, and Shyam S. Pandey^*

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2019, 11, 28088-28095. (Times cited: 16, Impact factor: 10.38)

2018

17.              Hybridizing semiconductor nanocrystals with metal-organic frameworks for visible and near-infrared photon upconversion

Shogo Amemori, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Marcus Leo Böhm, James Xiao, Uyen Huynh, Akshay Rao, Nobuhiro Yanai,^* and Nobuo Kimizuka^*

Dalton Trans. 2018, 47, 8590-8594. (Times cited: 27, Impact factor: 4.57)

2016

18.            Dipyrrin complex assisted in situ synthesis of ultra-small gold nanoparticles decorated on a partially reduced graphene oxide nanocomposite for efficient catalytic reduction of Cr(VI) to Cr(III)

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Vinod Kumar, Anchal Srivastava, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

RSC Adv., 2016, 6, 40911-40915. (Times cited: 08, Impact factor: 4.04)

19.              Heteroleptic arene Ru(II) dipyrrinato complexes: DNA, protein binding and anticancer activity against the ACHN cancer cell line

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Amit Kumar, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Roop Shikha Singh, Sujay Mukhopadhyay, Shiv Prakash Verma, Parimal Das, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*  

Dalton Trans., 2016, 45, 7163-7177. (Times cited: 34, Impact factor: 4.57)

20.              Cationic Ru(II), Rh(III) and Ir(III) complexes containing cyclic π-perimeter and 2-aminophenyl benzimidazole ligands: Synthesis, molecular structure, DNA and protein binding, cytotoxicity and anticancer activity

Amit Kumar, Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Krishna

Beer Singh, Surendra Kumar Trigun, Maninder Singh Hundal, Daya Shankar Pandey^*

J. Organomet. Chem. 2016, 801, 68-79. (Times cited: 64, Impact factor: 2.34)

2015

21.              Synthesis, Structure, DNA/Protein Binding, and Anticancer Activity of Some Half-Sandwich Cyclometalated Rh(III) and  Ir(III) Complexes

Sujay Mukhopadhyay, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Nishant Kumar Rana, Gunjan Sharma, Biplob Koch, RanManinder Singh Hundal, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Organometallics, 2015, 34, 4491-4506. (Times cited: 103, Impact factor: 3.84)

22.              Self-assembled copper(II) metallacycles derived from asymmetric Schiff base ligands: efficient hosts for ADP/ATP in phosphate buffer

Amit Kumar, Rampal Pandey, Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mrigendra Dubey, Akbar Mohammed, Shaikh M. Mobin, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans., 2015, 44, 17152-17165. (Times cited: 14, Impact factor: 4.57)

23.              Morphological tuning via structural modulations in AIE luminogens with least possible variables and their use in live cell imaging

Roop Shikha Singh, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Mrigendra Dubey, Gunjan Sharma, Biplob Koch, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Chem. Commun. 2015, 51, 9125-9128. (Times cited: 44, Impact factor: 6.06)

24.              A dual-responsive "turn-on" bifunctional receptor: chemosensor for Fe³⁺ and chemodosimeter for Hg²⁺

Sujay Mukhopadhyay, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Arnab Biswas, Amit Kumar, Mrigendra Dubey, Maninder Singh Hundal, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans. 2015, 44, 7118-7122. (Times cited: 19, Impact factor: 4.57)

25.              Size Controlled Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles Functionalized by Heteroleptic Dipyrrinato Complexes having meso-Pyridyl Substituents and Their Catalytic Applications

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mrigendra Dubey, Pei Zhou Li, Qiang Xu, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 2500-2511. (Times cited: 24, Impact factor: 5.44)

26.              Triazole appended BODIPY-piperazine conjugates and their efficacy toward mercury sensing

Roop Shikha Singh, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Arvind Misra, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

New J. Chem. 2015, 39, 2233-2239. (Times cited: 21, Impact factor: 3.93)

2014

27.              Interaction of ferrocene-appended Ru(II), Rh(III) and Ir(III) dipyrrinato complexes with DNA/protein, molecular docking and antitumor activity

Rajendra Prasad Paitandi, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Roopshikha Singh, Gunjan Sharma, Biplob Koch, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2014, 84, 17-29. (Times cited: 89, Impact factor: 7.09)

28.              A Schiff base and its Cu(II) complex as highly selective chemodosimeter for Hg(II) involving preferential hydrolysis of aldimine over ester group

Ashish Kumar, Mrigendra Dubey, Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Amit Kumar, Alok Ch. Kalita, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 4944-4955. (Times cited: 37, Impact factor: 5.44)

29.              A Highly Selective and Femto-Molar Sensitive Fluorescence 'Turn-On’ Chemodosimeter for Hg²⁺

Sujay Mukhopadhyay, Arnab Biswas, Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Tet. Lett. 2014, 55, 1437-1440. (Times cited: 12, Impact factor: 2.03)

30.              Half-Sandwich Ruthenium Arene Complexes: Synthetic Strategies and Relevance in Catalysis

Prashant Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Chem. Soc. Rev. 2014, 43, 707-733. (Times cited: 186, Impact factor: 60.61)

31.              Structural diversity in heteroleptic dipyrrinato copper(II) complexes

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rampal Pandey, Amit Kumar, K.V. Ramanujachary, Samuel E Lofland, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chim. Acta 2014, 409, 518-527.  (Times cited: 08, Impact factor: 2.545)

32.              Structural and mechanistic insights into an Fe³⁺-triggered quinazoline based molecular rotor

Rampal Pandey, Gábor Méhes, Amit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Chihaya Adachi, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8032-8035. (Times cited: 05, Impact factor: 6.06)

33.              Potential apoptosis inducing agents based on a new benzimidazole schiff base ligand and its dicopper(II) complex

Anup Paul, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mrigendra Dubey, Gunjan Sharma, Biplob Koch, Geeta Hundal, Maninderjeet Singh Hundal, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

RSC Adv. 2014, 4, 41228-41236. (Times cited: 41, Impact factor: 4.04)

34.              Swift photoswitching in a binuclear Zn(II) metallacycle relative to Salen-type ligand

Amit Kumar, Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Veenu Mishra, Saikh M. Mobin, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 6365-6376. (Times cited: 20, Impact factor: 4.57)

35.              Novel tetranuclear copper |2 + 4| cubanes resulting from unprecedented C–O bond formation cum dearomatization

Amit Kumar, Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mrigendra Dubey, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans. 2014, 43, 13169-13173. (Times cited: 11, Impact factor: 4.57)

36.              Li⁺-induced selective gelation of discrete homochiral structural isomers derived from L-tartaric acid

Mrigendra Dubey, Ashish Kumar, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8144-8147. (Times cited: 34, Impact factor: 6.06)

2013

37.              Fluorescent azophenol-quinazoline dyad as multichannel reversible pH indicator in aqueous media: an innovative concept on diazo based dyads

Amit Kumar, Rampal pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Tet. Lett. 2013, 54, 6164-6467. (Times cited: 11, Impact factor: 2.03)

38.              DNA/Protein Binding, Molecular Docking and in vitro Anticancer Activity of some    Thioether-Dipyrrinato Complexes

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Gunjan Sharma, Rampal Pandey, Amit Kumar, Biplob Koch, Pei-Zhou Li, Qiang Xu, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 13984-13996. (Times cited: 148, Impact factor: 5.44)

39.              DNA Binding and Anti-Cancer Activity of Redox-Active Heteroleptic Piano-Stool Ru(II), Rh(III) and Ir(III) Complexes containing 4-(2-methoxypyridyl)phenyldipyrro-methene

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rampal Pandey, Gunjan Sharma, Ritika Prasad, Biplob Koch, Saripella Srikrishna, Pei-zhou Li, Qiang Xu, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chem. 2013, 52, 3687-3698. (Times cited: 144, Impact factor: 5.44)

40.              Synthesis, characterization and photochemical properties of some ruthenium nitrosyl complexes

Amit Kumar, Rampal Panday, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Kaushik Ghosh, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Polyhedron 2013, (Werner Special Issue) 52, 337-343. (Times cited: 16, Impact factor: 2.97)

41.              Luminescent N,O-Chelated Chroman-BF₂ Complexes: Structural Variants of BODIPY

Roop Shikha Singh, Mahendra Yadav, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rampal Pandey, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans. 2013, 42, 1696-1707. (Times cited: 35, Impact factor: 4.57)

2012

42.              Heteroleptic Dipyrrinato Complexes Containing 5-Ferrocenyldipyrromethene and Dithiocarbamates as Coligands: Selective Chromogenic and Redox Probes

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rampal Pandey, Roopshikha Singh, Nitin Srivastava, Satyen Saha, Biswajit Maiti, Peizhou Li, Qiang  Xu, and Daya Shankar Pandey*

Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 8916-8930. (Times cited: 48, Impact factor: 5.44)

43.              Photoassisted ‘Gate-Lock’ Fluorescence ‘Turn-on’ in A New Schiff Base and Coordination Ability of E-Z Isomers

Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Pei-Zhou Li, Qiang Xu, Arvind Misra, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 592-595. (Times cited: 16, Impact factor: 6.07)

44.              Synthesis and Characterization of Electroactive Ferrocene Derivatives: Ferrocenyl-imidazoquinazoline as multichannel chemosensor selectively for Hg²⁺ and Pb²⁺ ions in aqueous environment

Rampal Pandey, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mohammad Shahid, Biswajit Maiti, Arvind Misra, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Inorg. Chem. 2012, 51, 298-311. (Times cited: 85, Impact factor: 5.44)

45.              Synthesis of Electroactive Multinuclear Dipyrrinato Complexes and Fe(III) Assisted Formation of a-Alkoxy Substituted 5-Ferrocenyldipyrromethenes

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Rampal Pandey, Sanjeev Sharma, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

Dalton Trans. 2012, 41, 8556-8566. (Top ten most accessed articles in June 2012).

(Times cited: 16, Impact factor: 4.57)

2011

46.              Synthesis and characterization of some heteroleptic copper(II) complexes based on meso-substituted dipyrrins

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Mahendra Yadav, Rampal Pandey, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

J. Chem Sci. 2011, (IYC Special Issue), 123, 819-826. (Times cited: 09, Impact factor: 2.15)

2010

47.              Synthesis and characterization of some Ru(IV) and Rh(I) complexes containing phenylimidazole ligands

Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Ashish K Singh, Mahendra Yadav, Prashant Kumar, Sanjay K Singh, Peizhou Li, Qiang Xu, and Daya Shankar Pandey^*

J. Organomet. Chem. 2010, 695, 1924-1931. (Times cited: 07, Impact factor: 2.34)