Prof. Verma received M.Sc. degree in Organic Chemistry in the year 1992 from Bipin Bihari P.G. College, Bundelkhand University, Jhansi (U.P.) and obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi. He joined Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Center for Biomedical Research, University of Delhi, as a Lecturer on 2nd Feb 1998. He joined the Department of Chemistry as a Reader on 23rd Jan 2009; he was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010 and Professor in 2013. He also served School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly one year (2015). He did his postdoctoral research work from 2001 to 2002 (two years) with Prof. Alan R. Katritzky at University of Florida USA, and also worked as visiting Scientist from 28th June 2007 to 31st August 2008 at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA in the Laboratory of Prof. Richard C. Larock. Prof. Verma has guided 32 Ph.D. students and published more than 132 research papers in international journals. His research interests include copper/palladium-catalyzed coupling reactions; synthetic methodologies; heterocyclic synthesis using alkynes chemistry. Professor Verma is elected as a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy (2021), awarded CRSI Bronze Medal (2021), and became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC, London).
Over the years, Prof. Verma has established a productive research group exploring diverse areas of organic synthesis, and the design of new molecular entities. Professor Verma has carried out extensive basic and applied research in the field of organic synthesis and has developed a range of new synthetic methods using alkynes and transition metal reagents
Selected Publications:
- Kapil M. Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Ankit Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma * Org. Lett. 2021, 23, 7586−7591 (IF: 6.09)
- Sushmita, Trapti Aggarwal, Kapil Mohan Saini, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 4555-4560 (IF: 5.85)
- Ankit Kumar, Pawan K. Mishra, Kapil Mohan Saini, and Akhilesh K. Verma*Adv. Synth. Catal. 2021, 363, 2546-2551 (IF: 5.85)
- 4. Ayushee, Monika Patel, Priyanka Meena, Kousar Jahan, Prasad V. Bharatam and Akhilesh K. Verma* Lett. 2021, 23, 565-570(IF: 6.09)
- Manoj Kumar, Shalini Verma, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 4620–4626(IF: 6.09)
- Anuj Kumar, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma*J. Org. Chem.2020,85, 13983-13996 (IF: 4.33)
- Pawan K. Mishra, Ankit Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 6122-6125 (IF: 6.22)
- Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 130-134 (IF: 6.09)
- Kapil M. Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Sushmita, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 1017-1021 (IF: 5.23)
- Sushmita, Trapti Aggarwal, Norio Shibata, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 16063-16067 (IF: 5.23)
- Pradeep Kumar, Vineeta Garg, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 12168-12171 (IF: 6.22)
- Shiv Kumar, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Kapil M. Saini, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 10721-10724 (IF: 6.22)
- Manoj Kumar, Shalini Verma, Anubhav Kumar, Pawan K. Mishra, Raghunath O. Ramabhadran, Shibdas Banerjee, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 9359-9362 (IF: 6.22)
- Pawan K. Mishra, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, Ankit Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 8278-8281 (IF: 6.22)
- Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, Pawan K. Mishra, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2019, 21, 35059-5063 (IF: 6.09)
- Manoj Kumar Shalini Verma, Pawan K. Mishra, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 8067-8079 (IF: 4.33)
- Kapil M. Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Shiv Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84, 2689–26987 (IF: 4.33)
- Pawan K. Mishra, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2018, 20, 7182–7185(IF: 6.09)
- Vineeta Garg, Pradeep Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2018, 83, 11686–11702 (IF: 4.33)
- Verma, Shalini; Mishra, Pawan; Kumar, Manoj; Sur, Souvik; Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83, 6650−6663 (IF: 4.33)
- Vineeta Garg, Pradeep Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 10247–10262 (IF: 4.33)
- Pradeep Kumar, Trapti Aggarwal, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem, 2017, 82, 6388–6397 (IF: 4.33)
- “Base-Mediated Hydroamination of Alkynes” Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Akhilesh K. Verma* Acc. Chem. Res. 2017, 50, 240–254 (IF: 22.38)
- Sonu Kumar, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, M. Mujahid, Trapti Aggarwal, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 9912–9923 (IF: 4.33)
- Shilpi Pal, Deepak Choudhary, Mohit Jainth, Sonu Kumar, Rakesh K. Tiwari, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 9356–9371 (IF: 4.33)
- Pawan K. Mishra and Akhilesh. K. Verma* Green Chem., 2016, 18, 6367-6372 (IF: 10.18)
- Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6563-6572 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma* Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Monika Patel. Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 2200–2203 (IF: 6.09)
- Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Sonu Kumar, Abhinandan K. Danodia, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18601–18605 (IF: 5.19)
- Sonu Kumar, Carlos Cruz, Shilpi Pal, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Eusebio Juaristi, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2015, 80, 10548–10560 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,*Abhinandan K. Danodia, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, and Deepak Choudhary. Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3658-3661 (IF: 6.09)
- Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Keykavous Parang, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Green Chem. 2015, 17, 1434-1441 (IF: 10.19)
- Manjusha V. Karkhelikar, Rajeev R. Jha, B. Sridhar, Pravin R. Likhar* and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8526-8528 (IF: 6.22)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Monika Patel, Megha Joshi, Pravin R. Likhar, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Keykavous Parang. J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 172–186 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Deepak Choudhary, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, VineetaRustagi, Monika Patel, and Rakesh K. Tiwari J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 6657–6669 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,,* Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Trapti Aggarwal, Sonu Kumar, and R. K. Tiwari. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 5372–5384 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Deepak Choudhary, Monika Patel, and Rakesh K. Tiwari. J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 4386–4401 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rajeev R. Jha, Ritu Chaudhary, Rakesh K. Tiwari, and Abhinandan Danodia. Adv. Syn. Cat. 2013, 355, 421-436 (IF: 5.80)
- Satya P. Shukla, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K Verma*J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 10382-10392 (IF: 4.33)
- Trapti Aggarwal, Rajeev R. Jha, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Sonu Kumar, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Sushil Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma*Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 5184–5187 (IF: 6.02)
- Trapti Aggarwal, Sonu Kumar, Devendra K. Dhaked, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Prasad V. Bharatam and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 8562–8573 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rajeev R. Jha, Ritu Chaudhary, Rakesh K. Tiwari Kotla Siva K. Reddy, and Abhinandan Danodia. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 8191–8205 (IF: 4.33)
- Megha Joshi, Monika Patel, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 5633-5645 (IF: 4.33)
- “Megha Joshi, Rakesh K. Tiwari, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2012, 14, 1106-1109 (IF: 6.02)
- Vineeta Rustagi, Trapti Aggarwal and Akhilesh K. Verma* Green Chem. 2011, 13, 1640-1643 (IF: 10.12)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Satya Prakash Shukla and Jaspal Singh J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 5670-5684 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh K. Verma* Megha Joshi and Ved Prakash Singh. Org. Lett. 2011, 13, 1630-1633 (IF: 6.09)
- Akhilesh K. Verma,* Trapti Aggarwal, and VineetaRustagi. J. Org. Chem. 2010, 75, 7691-7703 (IF: 4.33)
- Akhilesh Kumar Verma,* TanayKesharwani, Jaspal Singh, Vibha Tandon, and Richard C. Larock* Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 1138-1143 (IF: 15.34)