Areas of Research:

• Docking,
• MD simulations of drug molecules,
• Inorganic synthesis,
• small molecule XRD and
• magnetic studies of inorganic complexes.

• M. K. Chattopadhyay, Y. V. R. K. Sharma, G. Raghu, S. Shivaji, A. R. Biju, M.V. Rajasekharan, Abstract presented at Proceedings of biological chemist (India) 73 rd annual meeting, (2004).
• Presented a poster entitled Higher valent manganese complexes; structure and properties. A. R. Biju and M. V. Rajasekharan at 11th National Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XI), IIT Delhi, December 8-10, (2005).
• CSD user training for APEXII or SMART APEXII at Bruker AXS CCD Single Crystal X-ray Diffractometer Workshop 2006. May 31-June 1. NCL Pune.
• Presented a poster entitled high field-high frequency EPR & optical studies of new manganese(III) complexes A. R. Biju and M. V. Rajasekharan at International Conference on Materials for the Millennium, CUSAT, Cochin, March 1-3, (2007).
• Presented a poster entitled concomitant polymorphs of [Mn(acac) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ]NO 3 .H 2 O A. R. Biju and M. V. Rajasekharan at 12th National Symposium on Modern Trends in Inorganic Chemistry (MTIC-XII), IIT Madras. December 6-8, (2007).
• Given an invited lecture on Computational chemistry at UGC sponsored National seminar at St. Marys College, Sulthan Bathery, Wayanad, 17-19, 2011.
• Given an invited lecture on Polymorphism at Academic enrichment programme at Pazhassi Raja N SS College on 24-02-2011
• Given an invited lecture on Molecular Magnetism at UGC sponsored National seminar at Krishna Menon Memorial Govt. Womens College, Kannur on 09-09-2015.
• Given an invited lecture on Molecular Magnetism of Mn 12 complexes at UGC sponsored National seminar at Nirmalagiri College, Nirmalagiri on 10-09-2015
• Given an invited lecture on Recent advances in science at Government College Kasaragod, on 10-12-2015.
• Given an invited lecture on Single molecular magnets of Mn 4 Complexes at Pazhassi Raja NSS College, Mattanur, 18-09-2015
• Given an invited lecture on Molecular magnets at SES College, Sreekandapuram, 8-10-2015
• Given invited lecture on Advances on Sciences at a national seminar titled environmental issues a chemical perspective at Govt, Brennan College, Dharmadam, Thalassery on 9 th January 2018.

(1) Fluoromanganese(III) complex of phenanthroline. Distortion isomers of

Mn(phen)F 3 (H 2 O) stabilised by intermolecular interactions – Crystal structures, electronic spectra and DFT calculations. A. R Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan. J. Mol. Struct. (2007) 875, 456-461.

(2) Unusual coordination geometries of silver(I) 4,5-diazafluoren-9-one complexes. A. R. Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan, Polyhedron (2008) 27, 2065-2068.

(3) [Mn(acac) 2 (HOCH 3 ) 2 ] 3 [Ce(NO 3 ) 6 ] – Icosahedral anion builds a cubic network .A. R. Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan. Cryst. Growth Des. 2010, 426-429.

(4) Polymorphism in nitrate salt of [Mn(acetylacetonate) 2 (H 2 O) 2 ] +

A. R. Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan. Acta Cryst. B. 66(3) 2010, 373-379.

(5) Increase in oxidative Stress at low temperature in an Antarctic Bacterium M. K. Chattopadhyay , G. Raghu , Y. V. R. K. Sharma, A. R. Biju , M. V. Rajasekharan and S. Shivaji Curr Microbiol. 62(2), 2011, 544-546.

(6) Structure, magnetic property, catalytic activity and DFT studies of [Mn 2 (μ-RCOO) 2 (μ- OR) 2 ] 2+ type dinuclear manganese(III,III) complexes A. R. Biju, M. V. Rajasekharan. Inorganica. Chim. Acta. 372, 2011, 275-280

(7) Hydrogen bonded triple helical structure of 3-hydroxyquinoxaline-2-carboxalidine-4- aminoantipyrine. V. Arun , G.P. Preetha, S. Manju, A.R. Biju , and K.K.M. Yusuff J. Chem. Crystallogr. 41, 2011, 1013-1017.

(8) Tetranuclear Copper Azido Complex of 4,5-Diazafluoren-9-one B. Kishore Babu, A. R. Biju, Sailaja Sunkari, M. V. Rajasekharan,and J. -P. Tuchagues Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 1444–1450.

(9) Synthesis, crystal structure and cytotoxicity studies of cis-dichloro(4,5-diazaflupren-9-one)platinum(II) A. R. Biju, M. V Rajasekharan, Satish S. Bhat. Ayesha A Khan, Avinash S. Kumber Inorg. Chim. Acta, 2014, 421, 93-97

(10) Studies on Methanolic Extract of Lepidagathis keralensis as Green Corrosion Inhibitor for Mild Steel in 1M HCl Palakkal Leena, N. H. Zeinul Hukuman, A. R. Biju, Mullapally Jisha J. Electrochem. Sci. Technol. 2019;10(2):231-243.

(11) Evaluation of antiproliferative potential of manganese (II)-dafone complex Reena, Bonige Kishore Babu , Megha P Nambiar Biju AR,

Indian J Biochem Biophys, 58, 2021, 62-70

(12) Detonation properties and impact sensitivities of trinitromethane derivatives of three-membered heterocyclic ring compounds, Rahana Ameen, Fasila P. M, Anakuthil Anoop, Biju A. R, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, 105, 2021, 107863-107873

(13) Theoretical studies of azete based high energy density materials with trinitromethane functional group Rahana Ameen, P.M. Fasila, A.R. Biju

Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1203, 2021,113346-113353.

(14) Theoretical investigation of energetic performance and impact sensitivities of nitro and trinitromethyl substituted ozonides of ethylene and cyclopentene. P.M. Fasila, Ameen Rahana, A.R. Biju, Computational and Theoretical Chemistry, 1205, 2021,113425-123433.

(15) Computational studies on the structural variations of MAO-A and MAO-B inhibitors - An in silico docking approach. Megha P Nambiar, Sarayu Jayadevana, Bonige Kishore Babu , Biju AR,

Indian J Biochem Biophys, 59, 2022,276-295.

(16) Binding energy analysis and molecular dynamic simulation studies of the designed

orally active, non-toxic GABARAP modulators.

Megha P Nambiar, N Ashwani Kumar, Anakuthil Anoop, Biju A. R,

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 41, 2023, 6394-6412