American Journal of Organic Chemistry

American Journal of Organic Chemistry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal describing the design of, synthetic approaches to, and characterization of new molecules with applications in organometallics, medicinal and heterocyclic chemistry, green chemistry, photochemistry, materials science, nanotechnology, and catalysis. Articles considered for publication include: original scientific research articles, review type articles and communications.


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.