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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 1d

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Reversible Interfacial Hydride Transfer as a Complementary Tool To Measure Molecular Hydricity

Hydride transfer is an essential elementary reaction across the chemical value chain, but there are limited methods available for quantifying thermodynamic hydricity (ΔGH–), particularly among main gr...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 1d

Congratulations to Hye Won Chung and Dr. Hai-Xu Wang!

Using hydrogen reduction reaction (HRR), where H2 interconverts w/ hydrides, they developed a potentiometric method to quantify molecular hydricity, applied it to substrates including formate & borohydrides, and investigated solvent-dependence.

Reversible Interfacial Hydride Transfer as a Complementary Tool To Measure Molecular Hydricity

Hydride transfer is an essential elementary reaction across the chemical value chain, but there are limited methods available for quantifying thermodynamic hydricity (ΔGH–), particularly among main gr...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 1d

Congrats Kunal!

MIT Department of Chemistry @mitchemistry.bsky.social · 29d

Congratulations to Dr. Santosh Singh, Naike Ye, Kaelyn McFarlane-Connelly, Robert Raclea, and
Kunal Lodaya, who were each recently honored with the inaugural Department of Chemistry Research Excellence Award.
@interphases.org @drennanlab.bsky.social

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · 1d

Congrats Dr. Deiaa Harraz!

MIT Department of Chemistry @mitchemistry.bsky.social · 7d

Congratulations to Deiaa Harraz, a PhD candidate in the Surendranath Group (@interphases.org), who has been chosen as the 2025 recipient of the Davison Prize, which is given in honor of the best PhD thesis in Inorganic Chemistry.

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Aug 15

13/ Come on SpongeBob! You know: I wungsten, you wungsten, he/she/me wungsten...

doi.org/10.1128/jb.1...

⚗️🧪 #chemsky

paper: Molybdenum and Vanadium Do Not Replace Tungsten in the Catalytically Active Forms of the Three Tungstoenzymes in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

Hmmm...you know what the problem is?

M

You got it set to 'M' for Molybdenum

W

when it should be set to..

W for Wungsten

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · May 3

Omnipath H2 aims to revolutionize the midstream hydrogen industry based on a technology developed in the Surendrath group. We congratulate the team for winning 2nd place at this year’s MIT Climate & Energy Prize.

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Dec 9

59/ kemistry ⚗️🧪👍

reddit /r/chemistry post: Can isotopes of the same element bind together? For example, can an O2 compound be composed of an oxygen-14 atom and an oxygen-16 atom?

Top reply from /u/Tortenn: Yes, but one half weighs more so it will tip over

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Helvetica Chimica Acta @helvchimacta.bsky.social · Apr 24

Yogesh Surendranath @ChemistryMIT @interphases.org opens the Spring Meeting #sm25 of @swisschemistry.bsky.social with ‚Using Electrochemistry to Understand and Control Thermochemical Catalysis‘ @unibe.ch

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Apr 7

they did oxygen evolution on a hazelnut

[to prove the point that it's meaningless it is to interpret electrocatalytic data from poorly defined complex electrode materials]

#chemsky ⚗️🧪

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Electrocatalysis Goes Nuts

While searching for new nanoelectrocatalysts with outstanding performance, researchers often disregard the complexity and true usability of such materials. Here, it is argued that the chemical and str...

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Apr 7

112/ #chemsky ⚗️🧪

Organic chemists when they see a coloured solution in the lab:

:0

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 4

Check out this MIT News page about our recent paper:

news.mit.edu/2025/surpris...

Surprise discovery could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions

Upending a long-held supposition, MIT researchers discovered that a common catalyst works by cycling between two different forms. The finding could lead to improved catalysts for industrial reactions.

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Apr 3

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Apr 3

Great Perspective from Cathy Tway & Sorin Filip here too www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

#chemsky #echemsky #electrochemistry #chemistry

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

@science.org

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

Thank you!

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Jake Yeston @jakeyeston.bsky.social · Apr 3

Fascinating chemsky paper in @science.org today from @interphases.org meticulously revealing that vinyl acetate synthesis operates through tandem homogeneous and heterogeneous palladium catalysis 🧪

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Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis

Presently, mechanistic paradigms in catalysis generally posit that the active species remains either homogeneous or heterogeneous throughout the reaction. In this work, we show that a prominent indust...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

Congratulations our very own Deiaa Harraz, Kunal Lodaya, Bryan Tang for their new paper in Science!

Check out our new paper titled Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis

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Homogeneous-heterogeneous bifunctionality in Pd-catalyzed vinyl acetate synthesis

Presently, mechanistic paradigms in catalysis generally posit that the active species remains either homogeneous or heterogeneous throughout the reaction. In this work, we show that a prominent indust...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 3

We have a new LinkedIn page! Check it out here www.linkedin.com/company/sure...

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Apr 3

[1/2] aromaticity question for #chemsky:

consider this annular carbon allotrope C18. let's define p orbitals sigma-bonding tangential to the ring as p_z, those pi-bonding in the plane of the ring to be p_y, and those pi-bonding perpendicular to the plane of the ring to be p_x.

molecular C18 ring with alternating C-C single and triple bonds

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 2

Using low concentrations of redox active molecules, they established a wireless connection to metals like Pt on different supports, and used this new tool to uncover the elusive role of electrochemical polarization on dispersed catalysts and its impact on thermochemical catalysis!

Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis - Nature Catalysis

Interfacial polarization influences catalytic reactions occurring at solid–liquid interfaces, but its measurement was previously limited to conductive materials. Now redox-active molecules enable elec...

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The Surendranath Group 🥭 @interphases.org · Apr 2

Take a look at our new paper by Neil Razdan and Karl Westendorff as they develop an exciting new method to measure the potential of thermochemical catalysts supported on electrically insulating supports!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#chemsky #echem #echemsky

Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis - Nature Catalysis

Interfacial polarization influences catalytic reactions occurring at solid–liquid interfaces, but its measurement was previously limited to conductive materials. Now redox-active molecules enable elec...

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Mar 17

The Mango Industrial Complex, up to their usual tactics I see

Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · Mar 17

Every time I find one of these, I laugh harder.

Today's find - headlines saying that mangoes can improve diabetes. The study was funded by BIG MANGO.

Wonderful stuff. Better than fiction.

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jo melville @jmelville.science · Mar 11

85/ is it a literature procedure? #chemsky

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