Professor Bhowmick received BSc and MS degrees in Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of South Dakota. She continued at that institution and did postdoctoral research student mentoring. She also taught Physical and Organic chemistry for four years at Chhagalnaiya Government College in Bangladesh. She joined the UMSL faculty as an Assistant Teaching Professor in fall 2025.
Research Interest
Her research interest is studying electronic structures and bonding of metal complexes using Density Functional Theory and wavefunction based methods.
Selected publications
“Structural and Theoretical Assessment of Covalency in a Pu(III) Borohydride Complex” J. C. Zgrabik, D. J. Lussier, R. Bhowmick, N. Nguyen, P. A. Zacher, T. Elkin, A. J. Gaunt, G. S. Goff, H. E. Mason, J. Murillo, B. L. Scott, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. R. Daly, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2024,146, 25943.
“Comparative Study of Alkyl Substituent and Metal Size on the Structures of Trivalent f-Element Phosphinodiboranates” J. Zgrabik, F.D. Eckstrom, R Bhowmick, R. A. Harrison, T. Z. Fetrow, A. V. Blake, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. R. Daly, Inorg. Chem., 2024, 63, 9451.
“Molecular Geometry and Electronic Structure of Copper Corroles” R. Bhowmick, S. Chowdhury, and B. Vlaisavljevich, Inorg. Chem. 2023, 34, 13877.
“Quantifying the Influence of Covalent Metal-Ligand Bonding on Differing Reactivity of Trivalent Uranium and Lanthanide Complexes” ,T.V. Fetrow, J. Zgrabik, R. Bhowmick, F.D. Eckstrom, G. Crull, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. R. Daly, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed, 2022, 61, e202211145.
“Isolation of Uranium(III) Primary Phosphido Complexes” D. Perales, R. Bhowmick, M. Zeller, P. Miró, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. C. Bart, Chem. Commun. 2022, 58. 9630.
“Actinide Arene-Metalates: 2. A Neutral Uranium Bis(Anthracenide) Complex and Elucidation of its Electronic Structure” J. Murillo, R. Bhowmick, K. L. M. Harriman, A. Gomez-Torres, J. Wright, P. Miró, A. Metta-Magaña, M. Murugesu, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. Fortier, Chem. Comm. 2022, 58, 9112.
“Actinide Arene-Metalates: Ion Pairing Effects on the Electronic Structure of Unsupported Uranium-Arenide Sandwich Complexes” J. Murillo, R. Bhowmick, K. L. M. Harriman, A. Gomez-Torres, J. Wright, R. Meulenberg, P. Miró, A. Metta-Magaña, M. Murugesu, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. Fortier, Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 13360.
“Chelating Borohydrides for Lanthanides and Actinides: Structures, Mechanochemistry, and Case Studies with Phosphinodiboranates” T. V. Fetrow, R. Bhowmick, A. J. Achazi, A. V. Blake, F. D. Eckstrom, B. Vlaisavljevich, and S. R. Daly, Inorg. Chem. 2020, 59, 48. (Forum Article)
