Academic Background
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MSc (Chemistry), Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
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PhD (Chemistry), University of Calcutta (IACS)
Professional Experience
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Post Doc at College de France, Paris (with Prof. Marc Fontecave) 2018-2019
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Post doc at DCHAB, ETH Zurich (with Prof. Victor Mougel) 2019-2021
Awards and Memberships
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Prof. Asima Chatterjee Silver Medal, University of Kalyani, 2007 (Topper in Chem Hons.)
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Qualified National Eligibility Test (NET) in Chemistry (2009)
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Qualified Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE): 2009
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Recipient of Merit-cum-Means (MCM) scholarship (2007-2009), IIT Kanpur
Research Interests
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Electrocatalysis and reaction mechanism
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Chemical Energy Conversion
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Thermochemistry of Catalytic reactions
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Electro-organometallic Catalysis
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Bioinspired Chemistry
Research Group
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Sk. Mostakim, Postdoc
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Ms. Lilian Qin, Langstang, Master student
About me
Dr. Dey is a synthetic inorganic chemist. He is interested to address inherent challenges involved in small molecule activation related to energy conversions (e.g. carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, water, nitrate, dinitrogen, ammonia) by suitable bioinspired molecular and material catalyst design and synthesis. Electrochemistry and coupled spectroscopy will be employed to explore the kinetic and thermodynamic bottleneck of these processes.
Biography
Dr. Dey was born in a small village in Nadia district, West Bengal. He completed his bachelor and master in chemistry from University of Kalyani and IIT Kanpur respectively. He obtained PhD from University of Calcutta (IACS, Kolkata), working with Prof. Abhishek Dey on bioinspired catalyst design, synthesis and emulating their electrocatalytic activity for small molecule activation related to H2 production and O2 reduction. Soon after, he joined the lab of Prof. Marc Fontecave at College-de-France, Paris to develop metal-thiolate catalysts for CO2 reduction. Then he extended his scientific journey to Prof. Victor Mougel’s lab at ETH, Zurich and developed a thermodynamically and kinetically advantageous method to generate transition metal hydrides at benign condition. He joined in the department in Dec. 2023. His prime area of research is development of electrocatalysts for translating biophysical phenomena in non-biological reactions with prime focus of inert chemical activation, fine chemical synthesis and mechanism.
Research Projects
Synthesis of ligands and bioinspired transition metal complexes.
Electrocatalytic interconversion small molecules
Proton coupled electron transfer in nonbiological catalysis
Thermochemistry and kinetics of reaction
Intermediate characterization and their reactivity
In situ spectroscopy (e.g. UVSEC, IRSEC etc.)
Key Publications
Subal Dey, Fabio Masero, Enzo Brack, Marc Fontecave, Victor Mougel; Electrocatalytic metal hydride generation using CPET mediators, Nature 2022, 607, 499-506 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04874-z
Subal Dey, Atanu Rana, Danielle Crouthers, Biswajit Mondal, Pradip K Das, Marcetta Y Darensbourg, Abhishek Dey; Electrocatalytic O2 Reduction by [Fe-Fe]-Hydrogenase Active Site Models; J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 8847-8850 https://doi.org/10.1021/ja5021684
Subal Dey, Atanu Rana, Somdatta Ghosh Dey, Abhishek Dey; Electrochemical hydrogen production in acidic water by an azadithiolate bridged synthetic hydrogenese mimic: Role of aqueous solvation in lowering overpotential, ACS Catalysis 2013, 3, 429-436 https://doi.org/10.1021/cs300835a
Abhijit Nayek,# Subal Dey,# Suman Patra, Atanu Rana, Paulina N. Serrano, Simon. J. George, Stephen P. Cramer, Somdatta Ghosh Dey, Abhishek Dey; Facile electrocatalytic proton reduction by a [Fe–Fe]-hydrogenase bio-inspired synthetic model bearing a terminal CN− ligand, Chem Sci 2024, 15, 2167-2180 https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05397K #Contributed equally
Contact Details
Full Name
Subal Dey
subal@iiserbpr.ac.in
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