Suraj Kannath

Research Interests:

  • isotope effects prediction
  • hydrogen kinetic isotope effects
  • nuclear quantum effects
  • hydrogen transfer

Professional Experience:

2021: Ph.D. in Chemistry: Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology, Poland: Study of hydrogen atom transfer reactions: role of microsolvation and nuclear quantum effects in hydrogen kinetic isotope effects, Supervisor: Dr. Agnieszka Dybala-Defratyka, Co-supervisor: Dr. Paweł Adamczyk

2016-2021: Graduate Student, Faculty of Chemistry, Lodz University of Technology

Selected Publications:

S. Kannath, P. Adamczyk, D. Ferro-Costas, D.T. Major, A. Fernandez-Ramos, A. Dybala-Defratyka, Role of Microsolvation and Quantum Effects in the Accurate Prediction of Kinetic Isotope Effects: The Case of Hydrogen Atom Abstraction in Ethanol by Atomic Hydrogen in Aqueous Solution, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 16 (2020) 847, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.9b00774

S. Kannath, P. Adamczyk, L. Wu, H.H. Richnow, A. Dybala-Defratyka, Can Alkaline Hydrolysis of γ-HCH Serve as a Model Reaction to Study Its Aerobic Enzymatic Dehydrochlorination by LinA?, Int. J. Mol. Sci. 20 (2019) 5955, DOI: 10.3390/ijms20235955