Shivnath Mazumder Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 Phone: 812-361-9996 Email: shivnath@chem.wayne.edu Education July 2013: PhD, Computational Chemistry Topic: Computational study of the mechanisms of transition metal-catalyzed C C bond formation reactions Advisor: Professor Mu-Hyun Baik Indiana University, Bloomington, IN Fall 2007-Spring 2008: Physical Chemistry Graduate Program Advisor: Professor Kirk A. Peterson Washington State University, Pullman, WA May 2007: M. Sc. Chemistry Advisor: Professor N. Sathyamurthy Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, UP, India June 2005: B.S. Chemistry (major), Mathematics (minor), and Physics (minor) Bidhannagar College (then affiliated with University of Calcutta), Kolkata, WB, India Present Position August 2013-present: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Supervisors: H. Bernhard Schlegel, Claudio N. Verani, and John F. Endicott Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202 Teaching Experience August 2008-July 2012: Associate Instructor at Indiana University Fall 2008: Associate Instructor, Principles of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lab (C117) Supervised laboratory experiments, met with students, and graded all written lab reports and exams. Spring 2009: Associate Instructor, Principles of Chemistry and Biochemistry Lab (C117) Supervised laboratory experiments, met with students, and graded all written lab reports and exams. Fall 2009: Associate Instructor, Introduction to Physical Chemistry (C360) Lead weekly discussion sessions, met with students, graded all homework assignments and quizzes, held extensive exam review sessions, and collaborated on exam development. Fall 2010: Associate Instructor, Introduction to Physical Chemistry (C360) Lead weekly discussion sessions, met with students, conducted lectures occasionally, primarily responsible for homework and exam development, graded all homework assignments and quizzes, held extensive exam review sessions, and made and graded the final exam. 1
Spring 2011: Associate Instructor, Structure and Bonding (C630) Met with graduate students, collaborated on homework and exam development, and graded all written work. Fall 2011: Associate Instructor, Introduction to Physical Chemistry (C360) Lead weekly discussion sessions, met with students, graded all homework assignments and quizzes, held extensive exam review sessions, and collaborated on exam development. Spring 2012: Associate Instructor, Introduction to Chemical Principles (C103) Lead weekly discussion sessions, met with students, graded all homework assignments and quizzes, held extensive exam review sessions, and collaborated on exam development. Summer 2012: Associate Instructor, Introduction to Chemical Principles (C103) Lead discussion sessions four times a week, met with students, primarily responsible for homework and exam development, made and graded all homework assignments and quizzes, and held extensive exam review sessions. August 2007-May 2008: Teaching Assistant at Washington State University Fall 2007: Teaching Assistant, Principles of Chemistry I (105) Met with students, collaborated on homework and exam development, and graded all written work. Spring 2008: Teaching Assistant, Principles of Chemistry I & II (105 & 106) Met with students, collaborated on homework and exam development, and graded all written work. Mentoring Experience Summers of 2010 and 2011: Undergraduate research mentor for high school students in scholars program sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company Foundation Worked with undergraduate students at Indiana University and graduate students at Wayne State University to train them in molecular modeling. Postdoctoral Research Experience at Wayne State University Computational study for the development of efficient photocatalytic water splitting complexes based on Earth-abundant transition metals Computational study of the mechanisms of current rectification by metallosurfactants in Au molecule Au devices Computational study of selective photodissociation of acetonitrile ligands in Ru polypyridine species Graduate Research Experience at Indiana University Computational study of the mechanisms of transition metal-catalyzed C C bond formation reactions 2
Conference Organizer from Indiana University Annual Purdue Indiana and Notre Dame University (PINDU) Inorganic Symposium, University of Notre Dame, 2012 Awards and Honors Merit cum Means (MCM) Fellowship, Fall 2006 and Spring 2007, Indian Institute of Technology, India Glenn A.Crosby Outstanding Graduate Seminar Award in the Physical and Materials Science seminar program, Spring 2008, Washington State University William H. Nebergall Memorial Award, 2012, Indiana University Raymond Siedle Inorganic Fellowship, 2012-13, Indiana University Wendell P. Metzner Memorial Award, 2013, Indiana University Presentations 1) Shivnath Mazumder, and Kirk A. Peterson, Explicitly Correlated Theory in Electronic Structure Calculation, Oral presentation at the First Northwestern Meeting of Physical and Materials Science, Washington State University, 2008. 2) Shivnath Mazumder, Richard L. Lord, and Mu-Hyun Baik, Catalytic Asymmetric [4+1] Cycloaddition of Vinylallenes with Carbon Monoxide: A Density Functional Study, PINDU Inorganic Symposium, University of Notre Dame, 2009 (Poster). 3) Shivnath Mazumder, Computational Study of Reaction Mechanisms that Enable C C Bond Formation, Oral presentation at the Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, 2010. 4) Shivnath Mazumder, and Mu-Hyun Baik, Rh-catalyzed Diastereoselective [3+2+1] Carbocyclization of Alkenylidenecyclopropane with CO: A Density Functional Study, PINDU Inorganic Symposium, Purdue University, 2010 (Poster). 5) Shivnath Mazumder, Deju Shang, Mu-Hyun Baik, and P. Andrew Evans, Computationally Designed and Experimentally Confirmed Rh-catalyzed Diastereoselective [3+2+1] Carbocyclization of Alkenylidenecyclopropane with CO, PINDU Inorganic Symposium, Indiana University, 2011 (Poster). 6) Shivnath Mazumder, Akshay A. Shah, David R. Williams, and Mu-Hyun Baik, Fe-mediated Highly Selective Pauson-Khand Reactions at Room Temperature, PINDU Inorganic Symposium, University of Notre Dame, 2012 (Poster). 7) Shivnath Mazumder, Debashis Basu, Marco Allard, Xuetao Shi, H. Bernhard Schlegel and Claudio N. Verani, Concerted Efforts toward New Cobalt-based Catalysts for Proton Reduction, Midwest Theoretical Chemistry Conference, Northwestern University, 2014 (poster). 3
8) Shivnath Mazumder, Ryan A. Thomas, Richard, L. Lord, H. Bernhard Schlegel, and John F. Endicott, Study of Intramolecular Quenching of Metal-to-ligand Charge-transfer Excited States in Ruthenium(II)-bipyridine Complexes, Oral presentation at the Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference, University of Michigan, 2014. 9) Shivnath Mazumder, Computational Studies of Excited States of Ru Complexes and Mechanism of H2 evolution by Co Catalysts Oral presentation at the Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University, 2015. 10) Shivnath Mazumder, Debashis Basu, Habib Baydoun, H. Bernhard Schlegel and Claudio N. Verani, Concerted Experimental and Theoretical Efforts towards the Design of New Cob altbased Catalysts for Proton/Water Reduction Ohio Inorganic Weekend conference, Bowling Green State University, 2015 (poster). Publications 1) Hill, J. G., Mazumder, S., Peterson, K. A. Correlation Consistent Basis Sets for Molecular Core- Valence Effects with Explicitly Correlated Wave Functions: The Atoms B Ne and Al Ar. J. Chem. Phys. 2010, 132, 054108. 2) Baik, M.H., Mazumder, S., Ricci, P., Sawyer, J. R., Song, Y.G., Wang, H., Evans, P. A. Computationally Designed and Experimentally Confirmed Diastereoselective Rhodium- Catalyzed Pauson Khand Reaction at Room Temperature. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2011, 133, 7621. (Highlighted in Nature Chemistry, 2011, 7, 498.) 3) Boerner, L. J. K., Mazumder, S., Pink, M., Baik, M.H., Zaleski, J. M. Conformational and Electronic Consequences in Crafting Extended π-conjugated Light-Harvesting Macrocycles. Chem. Eur. J. 2011, 17, 14539. 4) Mazumder, S., Shang, D., Negru, D. E., Evans, P. A., Baik, M.H. Stereoselective Rhodium- Catalyzed [3+2+1] Carbocyclization of Alkenylidenecyclopropanes with Carbon Monoxide: Theoretical Evidence for a Trimethylenemethane Metallacycle Intermediate. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2012, 134, 20569. (Highlighted in Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2013, 52, 5916.) 5) Andino, J. G., Mazumder, S., Pal, K., Caulton, K. G. New Approaches to Functionalizing Metalcoordinated N2. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 4726. 6) Williams, D. R., Shah, A. A., Mazumder, S., Baik, M.H. Studies of Iron-Mediated Pauson Khand Reactions of 1,1-Disubstituted-Allenylsilanes: Mechanistic Implications for a Reactive Three- Membered Iron Metallacycle. Chem. Sci., 2013, 4, 238. 7) Mazumder, S., Crandell, D. W., Lord, R. L., Baik, M.H. Switching the Enantioselectivity in Catalytic [4+1] Cycloadditions by Changing the Metal Center: Principles of Inverting the Stereochemical Preference of an Asymmetric Catalysis Revealed by DFT Calculations. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2014, 136, 9414. 4
8) Mazumder, S., Thomas, R. A., Lord, R. L., Schlegel, H. B., Endicott, J. F. A Density Functional Theory and Spectroscopic Study of Intramolecular Quenching of Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Excited States in Some mono-bipyridine Ruthenium(II) Complexes. Can. J. Chem., 2014, 92, 996. 9) Wickramasinghe, L. D., Mazumder, S., Gonawala, S., Perera, M. M., Baydoun, H., Thapa, B., Li, L., Xie, L., Mao, G., Zhou, Z., Schlegel, H. B., Verani C. N. Mechanisms of Rectification in Au molecule Au Devices Based on Langmuir -Blodgett Monolayers of Iron(III) and Copper(II) Surfactants. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2014, 53, 14462. 10) Basu D., Mazumder, S., Shi, X., Baydoun, H., Niklas, J., Poluektov, O., Schlegel, H. B., Verani, C. N. Ligand Transformations and Efficient Proton/Water Reduction with Cobalt Catalysts based on Pentadentate Pyridine-rich Environments. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 2105. 11) Thomas, R. A., Tsai, C. N., Mazumder, S., Lu, I. C., Lord, R. L., Schlegel, H. B., Chen, Y. J., Endicott, J. F. Metal-to-Ligand-Charge-Transfer Excited State Radiative Lifetime Energy Dependence for Ruthenium(II)-Bipyridine Chromophores: Effects of *(bipyridine) Mixing. J. Phys. Chem. B., 2015, 119, 7393. 12) Basu D., Mazumder, S., Shi, X., Staples, R. J., Schlegel, H. B., Verani, C. N. Distinct Proton and Water Reduction Behavior with a Cobalt(III) Electrocatalyst Based on Pentadentate Oximes. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2015, 54, 7139. 13) Yi-Jung, T., Mazumder, S., Endicott, J. F., Turro, C., Kodanko, J., Schlegel, H. B. Selective Photodissociation of Acetonitrile Ligands in Ruthenium Polypyridyl Complexes Studied by Density Functional Theory. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 8003. 14) Tsai, C. N., Mazumder, S., Zhang, X. Z., Schlegel, H. B., Chen, Y. J., Endicott, J. F. Metal-to-Ligand Charge-Transfer Emissions of Ruthenium(II) Pentaammine Complexes with Monodentate Aromatic Acceptor Ligands and Distortion Patterns of their Lowest Energy Triplet Excited States. Inorg. Chem. 2015, 54, 8495. 15) Crandell, D. W., Mazumder, S., Evans, P. A., Baik, M.H. The Origin of the Ligand-Controlled Regioselectivity in Rh-Catalyzed [(2+2)+2] Carbocyclizations: Steric vs. Stereoelectronic Effects. Chem. Sci. 2015, 6, 6896. 16) Basu, D., Mazumder, S., Niklas, J., Baydoun, H., Wanniarachchi, D., Shi, X., Staples, R. J., Poluektov, O., Schlegel, H. B., Verani, C. N. Evaluation of the Coordination Preferences and Catalytic Pathways of Heteroaxial Cobalt Oximes towards Hydrogen Generation. Chem. Sci. 2016, DOI: 10.1039/C5SC04214C. References 1) Mu-Hyun Baik, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Email: mbaik2805@kaist.ac.kr Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, August 2003 -July 2015 5
2) H. Bernhard Schlegel, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University Email: hbs@chem.wayne.edu 3) Caroline C. Jarrold, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Indiana University Email: cjarrold@indiana.edu 4) Claudio N. Verani, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University Email: cnverani@chem.wayne.edu 6