Abstract
Prof. Priyadaranjan Rây’s contribution to inorganic chemistry and related disciplines is enormous. His work on the elucidation of valency and structure of coordination compounds through magnetic measurements, proposition of Rây-Dutt twist mechanism and the discovery of inner metallic complexes of higher than second-order made him internationally famous. He first reported the two ligand isomers of thiosulphate ion and designed several organic reagents for the detection and estimation of metal ions. Stabilization of unusual oxidation state of metal ions through coordination with suitable ligand was also his important work. Besides science, he was interested in its history. Scientific activities as well as a brief life-sketch of this Indian stalwart of science is summarized in this present endeavour.
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Rajarshi Ghosh is associated with post graduation teaching and research in the Department of Chemistry, The University of Burdwan. His research interest covers synthetic coordination chemistry, bio inspired catalysis, biological inorganic chemistry, etc. Besides these, he is also interested in science popularization.
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Ghosh, R. Priyadaranjan Rây. Reson 26, 73–87 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12045-020-1106-8
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