Shibdas Banerjee

Today, Abhijit Nandy successfully defended his PhD thesis, becoming the third PhD graduate from my research group at IISER Tirupati. Congratulations, Dr. Abhijit Nandy, on this well-deserved achievement! I wish you continued success in the next chapter of your journey.

Happy to see GKToday and Chemistry World highlighting our recent work on skeletal editing using microdroplet chemistry. 🔗 gktoday.in/microdroplet-chem… 🔗chemistryworld.com/news/micr… Looking forward to seeing how this exciting area of chemistry continues to evolve. #ANRF #ScienceNews #GK

Water Microdroplets Induce Heterocyclic Transmutation: Skeletal Editing of Aniline into Pyridine at the Air–Water Interface | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Hello world! Argon isn’t absolutely inert after all. It reacts around us. We report the first-ever ambient argon compound found on Earth —stable, observable, and sustained. #NobleGas #MicrodropletChemistry #ChemicalDiscovery #FundamentalScience doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpclett.…

Water microdroplets drive extreme sugar dehydration at the air–water interface, yielding HMF, a key biofuel precursor. A glimpse of prebiotic chemistry inspiring greener futures. #JACS #MicrodropletChemistry #PrebioticChemistry #GreenChemistry #Biofuels pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac…

Nature’s chemistry lab is in the air! We uncover a unique alchemy of aqueous microdroplets that drives the in-flight metamorphosis of indole into quinazolinone pharmacophores. @ACSPublications #MicrodropletChemistry #MedicinalChemistry doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c15754

Seeing the unseen: spatio-temporal visualization of reactive carbocation intermediates in electrolytic cells pubs.rsc.org/en/content/arti…

Droplet Squad celebrating Teacher’s Day

A long-silent element breaks the rules of its own identity, changing how we understand the chemical reactivity of this inert gas. Argon hydroxide species can form at room temperature. Argon reacts with water under ambient conditions | ChemRxiv - go.shr.lc/4nOq2p9

Breaking the Strongest Organic Bonds by Water: Defluorosubstitutions at the Air–Water Interface of Microdroplets pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jac… #GreenChemistry #MicrodropletChemistry #JACS @ACSPublications

🚀 Just published in Chemical Science: We have achieved real-time capture of fleeting intermediates in a P450-catalyzed oxidation using mass spectrometry and microfluidics. This approach offers deep insights into enzyme mechanisms. pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/Arti…

May 2025 JPR Front Cover: Using mass spectrometry and machine learning, we decode sex-specific lipid signatures from dried blood spots, offering a powerful tool for forensic identification. #MassSpec #Forensics #MyACSCover @ACSPublications

Just spray it, and boom – polyoxometalate assembled! No fuss, no reagent, no corrosive chemicals, just fast formation on the go. Chemistry made simpler, smarter – It is the magic of ‘microdroplet chemistry’. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…

On IISER admission test linkedin.com/posts/iiser-adm…

Excited to share that the microlightning phenomenon identified by our group (doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem…) last year provides new insights into the early origins of life on Earth. A fascinating by Zare group here: (10.1126/sciadv.adt8979)

Did you know that, like sex hormones, our blood also contains sex-specific lipids? We have developed a rapid, reagent-free forensic test for analyzing unknown dried blood spots to uncover this personal information. pubs-acs-org.stanford.idm.oc…

This discovery is sure to astonish chemists—a crystal composed of hydroxyl radicals, highlighting the intriguing phenomenon of radical-pi interactions. doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.4c011…

Revisiting the Enhanced Chemical Reactivity in Water Microdroplets: The Case of a Diels–Alder Reaction | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs-acs-org.stanford.idm.oc…