Suresh

Mummadi

Courses Taught

• College Chemistry - I
• Organic Chemistry – I
• Experimental Organic Chemistry – I
• Organic Chemistry – II
• Experimental Organic Chemistry – II
• Special Topics: Fundamentals and Applications of Boron Chemistry

Research Interests

I am interested in research challenges related to the current problems of environmental significance. My research interests focused on synthesis of novel main-group and early transition metal (vanadium) complexes for the small-molecule activation, catalytic hydrogenation and hydroboration of unsaturated organic compounds, and catalytic deoxygenation/deoxydehydration of alcohols, polyols, sugars, and biomass derivatives.

I. Synthesis of novel organo-vanadium/vanadium-Oxo compounds mimicking the trispentafluorophenyl borane, B(C₆F₅)₃ for small-molecule (H₂, CO₂, and CO) activation.

II. Catalytic hydroboration of carbon dioxide (CO2) using air and moisture stable boron and vanadium-complexes.

III. Synthesis of vanadium-oxo complexes for the deoxygenation (DO)/deoxydehydration (DODH) of alcohols, polyols, sugars, and biomass derivatives.

Publications

# - undergraduate researcher

• Mummadi, S.; Krempner, C.; Triphenyl Borane in Metal-Free Synthesis. Molecules 2023, 28, 1340.
• Richardson, C.^#; Rose, D.^#; Kenefake, D.^#; Krempner, C.; Mummadi, S.; Boronic Acid Mediated Hydroboration of Olefins. 2023 (in preparation).
• Garg, S.; Mummadi, S.; Kenefake, D. ^#; Diaz, R. ^#; Li, S.; Krempner, C.; “Inverse” Frustrated Lewis Pairs – For the Metal-Free Catalytic Hydrogenation of Imines. 2023 (in preparation).
• Mummadi, S.; Brar, A.; Unruh, D.; Krempner, C.; Verkade Base in FLP Chemistry- From Stochiometric C-H Bond Cleavage to the Catalytic Dimerization of Alkynes, Organometallics, 2020, 39, 4307-4311.
• Mummadi, S.; Brar, A.; Kenefake, D. ^#; Diaz, R. ^#; Li, S.; Krempner, C.; “Inverse” Frustrated Lewis Pairs – An Inverse Approach to the Catalytic Metal-Free Hydrogenation of Ketones, Chem. – Eur. J. 2018, 24, 16526 – 16531.
• Mummadi, S.; Kenefake, D. ^#; Krempner, C.; Interactions of Verkade’s Superbase with Strong Lewis Acids – From Mono- and Binuclear Complexes to Novel Phosphenium Cations. Inorg. Chem., 2017, 56, 10748-10759.
• Mummadi, S.; Unruh, D.; Zhao, J.; Li, S.; Krempner, C.; “Inverse” Frustrated Lewis Pairs – activation of Dihydrogen with Organosuperbases and Moderate to Weak Lewis Acids. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138, 3286−3289. 
• McNerney, B.; Mummadi, S.; Hung-Low, F.; Cordes, D.; Unruh, D.; Krempner, C.; Synthesis and Structure of Sterically Overloaded Tetra-coordinated Yttrium and Lanthanum Disiloxides. Inorg. Chem. Commun., 2016, 70, 103-106.

Presentations (selected)

• Richardson, C.; Rose, D.; Kenefake, D.; Krempner, C.; Mummadi, S.; Boronic Acid Mediated Hydroboration of Olefins, American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, San Francisco, August 13 - 17, 2023.
• Mummadi, S.; Sustainable Methods to Access Value-Added Chemicals and Fuels, Research Day – 2023, The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, VA. April 26, 2023.
• Mummadi, S.; Kenefake, D.; Diaz, R.; Li, S.; Krempner, C.; “Inverse” FLP approaches for metal-free catalytic hydrogenation of Imines, 1^st Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry Graduate Student Research Poster Competition, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, August 26, 2016.
• Mummadi, S.; Kenefake, D.; Diaz, R.; Li, S.; Krempner, C.; “Inverse” FLP approaches for metal-free catalytic hydrogenation of Imines, 252^nd American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exposition, Philadelphia, August 21-25, 2016.

Professional Memberships

• American Chemical Society
• Tri Alpha Honor Society
• Sigma-Xi