American Journal of Chemistry

American Journal of Chemistry is a peer-reviewed chemistry journal. It is aimed to publish all the latest and outstanding research articles, reviews and letters in all areas of Chemistry.


Tanmoy Dutta

Post-doctoral Fellow, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, California, USA

Research Areas

Organic Chemistry, Polymer Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry, Organic Electronics, Green Chemistry, Ionic Liquid, Biomass and Biofuel

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums/Journals/Books

[1]  Dutta, T.; Woody, K. B.; Watson, M. D. ‘Transition metal-free synthesis of poly(phenylene Ethynylene)s with alternating aryl-perfluoroaryl units’ Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2008, 130, 452. (Highlighted in Synfacts, 2008, 4, 0364)
[2]  Dutta, T.; Woody, K. B.; Parkin, S. R.; Watson, M. D.; Gierschner, J. ‘Conjugated polymers with large effective stokes shift: benzobisdioxole-based poly(phenylene ethynylene)s’ Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2009, 131, 17321. (Highlighted in Synfacts, 2010, 2, 0173)
[3]  Dutta, T.; Che, Y.; Zhong, H.; Laity, J. H.; Dusevich, V.; Murowchick, J. B.;  Zang, L.;  Peng, Z. ‘Synthesis and self-assembly of triphenylene-containing conjugated macrocycles’ RSC Advances, 2013, 3, 6008.
[4]  Dutta, T.; Li, Y.; Thornton, A. L.; Zhu D. –M.; Peng, Z. ‘Imide-functionalized naphthodithiophene-based donor-acceptor conjugated polymers for solar cells’ Journal of Polymer Science Part A: Polymer Chemistry, 2013, 51, 3818.
[5]  Dutta, T.; Li, Y.; Peng, Z. ‘Imide-functionalized naphthodithiophene containing donor-acceptor polymers for solar cell applications’ PMSE Preprints, 2013, 108.
[6]  Dutta, T.; Guo, X.; Wang, Y.; Woody, K. B.; Watson, M. D. ‘Synthesis and optical properties of conjugated fluorinated materials’ PMSE Preprints, 2008, 98, 129.
[7]  Dutta, T.; Watson, M. D. ‘Novel synthesis of poly(phenylene ethynylene) composed of alternating fluorinated and non-fluorinated units’ PMSE Preprints, 2007, 96, 495.
[8]  Li, Y.; Dutta, T.; Gerasimchuk, N.; Wu, S.; Shetye, K. C.; Jin, L.; Wang, R.; Zhu; D. M.; Peng, Z. ‘Conjugated foldamers with unusually high SCLC hole mobilities’ ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2015, 7, 9372-9384.
[9]  Bagui, M.; Dutta, T.; Chakraborty, S.; Melinger, J. S.; Keightley, A. J.; Peng, Z. ‘Synthesis and optical properties of triphenylene-based dendritic donor perylene diimide acceptor systems’ Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2011, 115, 1579.
[10]  Bagui, M.; Dutta, T.; Zhong, H.; Li, S.; Keightley, A. J.; Peng, Z. ’Synthesis and optical properties of perylene diimide derivatives with triphenylene-based dendrons linked at the bay positions through a conjugated ethynyl linkage’ Tetrahedron, 2012, 68, 2806.
[11]  Xia, T.; Otto, J. W.; Dutta, T.; Murowchick, J. B.; Caruso, A. N.; Peng, Z.; Chen, X. ‘Formation of TiO2 nanomaterials via titanium ethylene glycolide decomposition’ Journal of Materials Research, 2013, 28, 326.
[12]  Xu, F.; Sun, J.; Konda, N.; Shi, J.; Dutta, T.; Scown, C. D., Simmons, B. A.; Singh, S. ‘Transforming biomass conversion with ionic liquids: process intensification and the development of a high-gravity, one-pot process for the production of cellulosic ethanol’ Energy & Environmental Science, 2016, ASAP. DOI: 10.1039/C5EE0290F
[13]  Chakraborty, S.; Jin, L.; Li, Y.; Liu, Y.; Dutta, T.; Zhu, D. –M.; Yan, X.; Keightley, A.; Peng, Z. ‘Synthesis, characterizations, and morphological studies of polyoxometalate-containing rod-coil diblock copolymers’ European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2013, 10-11, 1799.
[14]  Wang, R.; Li, Y.; Shetye, K.; Dutta, T.; Lu, J.; Li, S.; Peng, Z. “Luminescent polythiophene-based Main-Chain polyoxometalate-containing conjugated polymers with improved solar-cell performance” European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, 2015, 4, 656.
[15]  Dutta, T.; Shi, J.; Sun, J.; Cheng, G.; Zhang, Z.; Simmons, B. A.; Singh, S. (2016) ‘Ionic liquid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuels and chemicals.’ In Ionic Liquids in the Biorefinery Concept: Challenges and Perspectives, Published by the Royal Society of Chemistry.