Ph.D., Harvard University

Molecular recognition of enzymes, bioorganic chemistry, biological and physical organic chemistry of organic phosphate compounds and analogs, bioinorganic chemistry of vanadium (V) compounds, insulin mimetic compounds, NMR spectroscopy, enzyme catalyzed synthesis, development of methods for trace metal speciation, seed germination

"Switching off electron transfer Reactions in Confined Media: Reduction of [Co(dipic)2]- and [Co(edta)]- by Hexacyanoferrate(II)" Michael D. Johnson,Bret B. Lorenz, Patricia C. Wilkins, Brant G. Lemons, Bharat Baruah, Nathan Lamborn, Michelle Stahla, Pabitra B. Chatterjee, David T. Richens and Debbie C. Crans Inorg. Chem. 2012 51 (20), 2757-2765. "Electronic properties of non-innocent compounds probed by solid–state 51V NMR spectroscopy: o-dioxolene vanadium complexes" Pabitra B. Chatterjee, Olga Goncharov-Zapata2, Laurence L. Quinn, Guangjin Hou, Hiyam Hamaed, Robert W. Schurko, Tatyana Polenova, and Debbie C. Crans Inorg. Chem. 2011, 50, 9794-9803.