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124.  Quantification of narrow-band UVB radiation doses in phototherapy using diacetylene based film dosimeters, Apoorva Mittal, Manoj Kumar, N. Gopishankar, Pratik Kumar & Akhilesh K. Verma, Scientific Reports 2021, 2021), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-80115-5
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123.  Base-Mediated Anti-Markovnikov Hydroamidation of Vinyl Arenes with Arylamides; Ayushee, Monika Patel, Priyanka Meena, Kousar Jahan, Prasad V. Bharatam, and Akhilesh K. Verma*, Org. Lett. 2021, XXXX, DOi: doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c04084
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122.  2-Alkynylarylnitrile: An Emerging Precursor for the Generation of Carbo- and Heterocycles, Pawan K. Mishra, Satyaki Chatterjee, and Akhilesh K. Verma, ACS Omega 2020, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX, DOI https://doi.org/10.1021/acsomega.0c04242
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121.  Well-Defined Palladium N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes: Direct C–H Bond Arylation of Heteroarenes, Anuj Kumar, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2020, doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.0c02024
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120.  Exploring the behavior of the NFSI reagent as a nitrogen source, Sushmita, Trapti Aggarwal, Sonu Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, Advance Article DOi: doi.org/10.1039/D0OB01429J
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119.  "NOVEL HIGH YIELDING, ECONOMICAL, ECO-FRIENDLY AND SELECTIVE METHOD FOR THE PREPARATION OF DEUTERATED ALKYL ARENES". Akhilesh K Verma, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Patent Number IN201711013462
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118.  Synthesis of Cyclopentaquinolinone and Cyclopentapyridinone from ortho-alkynyl-N-arylaldehyde via Superbase-promoted C-N, C-O, and C-C Bonds Formation, Kapil Mohan Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Sushmita and Akhilesh K. Verma Org. Biomol. Chem., 2020, Accepted Manuscript, doi.org/10.1039/D0OB01281E
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117.  Ru(II)-Catalyzed Oxidative Olefination of Benzamides: Switchable Aza-Michael and Aza-Wacker Reaction for Synthesis of Isoindolinones; Manoj Kumar, Shalini Verma, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2020, XXXX, XXX, XXX-XXX; doi.org/10.1021/acs.orglett.0c01237
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116.  BF3-Etherate-Catalyzed Tandem Reaction of 2-Formylarylketones with Electron-rich Arenes/Heteroarenes: An Assembly of Isobenzofurans, Pawan K. Mishra, Ankit Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma, Chem. Commun., 2020, Accepted Manuscript (doi.org/10.1039/D0CC02760J)
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115.  Olefin-Oriented Selective Synthesis of Linear and Branched N-Alkylated Heterocycles via Hydroamination, Sushmita, Trapti Aggarwal, Kapil Mohan Saini and Akhilesh K. Verma* European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000373
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114.  Aza-Henry Reaction: Synthesis of Nitronaphthylamines from 2-(Alkynyl)benzonitriles, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett. 2020, 22, 1, 130-134
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113.  Transition-Metal-Free Reverse Reactivity of (2-alkynyl)-Arylaldimines: Assembly of Functionalized Amino-Indinones, Kapil Mohan Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Sushmita, and Akhilesh K. Verma, Chem. Eur. J. 2020, 26, 1017–1021
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112.  Triple bond Directed Csp2-N Bond Formation through N-Fluorobenzenesulfonimide as Aminating Source: One-Step Transformation of Aldehyde into Amine; Sushmita,† Trapti Aggarwal,† Norio Shibata, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Eur. J. 2019, 25, 16063–16067
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111.  Rh(III)-Catalyzed Alkynylation: Synthesis of Functionalized Quinolines from Aminohydrazones, Pradeep Kumar,# Vineeta Garg,# Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Chem. Commun., 2019, 55, 12168-12171
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110.  Recent advances in the synthesis of carbazoles from indoles, Trapti Aggarwal, Sushmita, and Akhilesh K. Verma, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 8330-8342
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109.  Dual Function of Cabon Tetrachloride: Synthesis of Chlorinated Heterocycles, Shiv Kumar, Rakesh K Saunthwal, Kapil Mohan Saini and Akhilesh K. Verma, Chem. Commun.,2019,55,10721-10724
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108.  Mechanistic insights of Cu(II)-mediated ortho-C-H amination of arenes by capturing fleeting intermediates and theoretical calculations, Manoj Kumar, Shalini Verma, Anubhav Kumar, Pawan K. Mishra, Raghunath Ozhapakkam Ramabhadran, Shibdas Banerjee and Akhilesh K. Verma, Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 9359-9362
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107.  Human disorders associated with inflammation and the evolving role of natural products to overcome, Navneet Kishore, Pradeep Kumara, Karuna Shanker, Akhilesh Kumar Verma, Eur. J. Med. Chem. 179 (2019) 272-309
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106.  Harnessing the Reactivity of ortho-Formyl-arylketones: Base-Promoted Regiospecific Synthesis of Functionalized Isoquinolines, Pawan K. Mishra, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, Ankit Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma, Chem. Commun., 2019,55, 8278-8281
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105.  Metal-Free Carbonyl-Assisted Regioselective Hydration of Alkynes: An Access to Dicarbonyls, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, Pawan K. Mishra and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett.201921135059-5063
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104.  Azidation vs [3+2]-cycloaddition: Chemoselective reaction of sodium azide towards o-alkynylaldehydes for the synthesis of N-heterocycles, Pradeep Kumar, Vineeta Garg, Akhilesh K. Verma, Tetrahedron Letters 60 (2019) 1854–1859
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103.  Cu (II)–Mediated ortho–C-H Amination of Arenes with Free Amines, Manoj Kumar Shalini Verma, Pawan K. Mishra, and Akhilesh K. Verma, J. Org. Chem.201984128067-8079
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102.  On Water: Iodine-Mediated Direct Construction of 1, 3- Benzothiazines from ortho-Alkynylanilines by Regioselective 6- Exo-dig Cyclization, Kapil Mohan Saini, Rakesh K Saunthwal, Shiv Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2019,17, 2657-2662
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101.  On Water: Metal-free Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Benzothiazolylidene from ortho-Haloanilines, Kapil Mohan Saini, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Shiv Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma, J. Org. Chem., 2019, 84 (5), pp 2689–26987
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100.  Base-Promoted Stereoselective Hydroalkoxylation of Alkynes, Monika Patel, Sushmita, Akhilesh Kumar Verma*Indian Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, Vol. 28 - Issue 01 (Jan-Mar 2018): 154-160
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99.  Base-Mediated Direct Transformation of N-Propargylamines into 2,3,5-Trisubstituted 1H-Pyrroles, Pawan K. Mishra, Shalini Verma, Manoj Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett., 2018, 20 (22), pp 7182–7185
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98.  Substrate Controlled Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of (Z) and (E) N–Styrylated Carbazoles, Aza–Carbazoles and gamma–Carbolines via Hydroamination of Alkynes, Vineeta Garg, Pradeep Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma, J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83, 11686–11702
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97.  Base-Mediated Deuteration of Organic Molecules: A Mechanistic Insight, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, and Akhilesh K. Verma, ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (9), pp 10612–10623
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96.  Copper-catalyzed stereo- and chemoselective synthesis of enaminones via Michael type addition, Monika Patel, Susmita and Akhilesh K. Verma, J. Chem. Sci. (2018) 130:70
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95.  Transition-Metal-Free Access to Pyridocarbazoles from 2-Alkynylindole-3-carbaldehydes via Azomethine Ylide, Shalini Verma, Pawan K. Mishra, Manoj Kumar, Souvik Sur and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83 (12), pp 6650–6663
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94.  Comprehensive Organic Transformations: A Guide to Functional Group Preparations, Hardback, Edited by Richard C. Larock, Authors Akhilesh K. Verma, Anton V. Dubrovskiy, Tanay Kesharwani, Nataliya A. Markina, Alexandre A. Pletnev, Cristiano Raminelli, Tuanli Yao Gilson Zeni, Li Zhang Author Xiaoxian Zhang, ISBN-139780470927953, Publishers: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Wiley-Blackwell Publication date 2 Mar 2018, 3rd Edition
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93.  Regio- and Stereoselective Synthesis of Isoindolin-1-ones through BuLi-Mediated Iodoaminocyclization of 2-(1-Alkynyl)benzamides, Dhirendra Brahmchari† Akhilesh K. Verma‡, and Saurabh Mehta* J. Org. Chem., 2018, 83 (6), pp 3339–3347
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92.  "Pd-Catalyzed One-Pot Sequential Cross-Coupling Reactions of Tetrabromothiophene"Kapil Mohan Saini,‡ Rakesh K. Saunthwal‡ and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Biomol. Chem.,2017, 15, 10289-10298
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91.  Chemoselective Oxidative Esterification and Iodocyclization of Hydroxyalkynyl Aldehydes, Shiv Kumar, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Akhilesh K. Verma, Asian J. Org. Chem. 2017, 6, 1893–1902
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90.  Chemo-, Regio- and Stereoselective N-alkenylation of Pyrazoles/Benzpyrazoles using Activated and Unactivated Alkynes, J. Org. Chem.,2017, 82, 10247–10262
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89.  Ag(I)-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization Reactions: Synthesis of Substituted Phenanthrenes and Naphthothiophenes, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Abhinandan K. Danodia, Kapil Mohan Saini and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Biomol. Chem.,2017, 15, 6934-6942
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88.  "Chemoselective Azidation of o-Alkynylaldehydes over [3+2] Cycloaddition and Subsequent Staudinger Reaction: An Access to Benzonaphthyridines/Naphthyridines" Pradeep Kumar, Trapti Aggarwal, and Akhilesh K. Verma, J. Org. Chem., 2017, 82, 6388–6397
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87.  "TFA-Mediated One-Pot Synthesis of Furo-Fused Quinoxalines/ Pyrazines" Kapil Mohan Saini, Sonu Kumar, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Akhilesh Kumar Verma, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 3707–3715
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86.  Regioselective 6-endo-dig Iodocyclization: An accessible approach for Iodo-benzo[a]phenazines, Sonu Kumar, Mohammad Mujahid and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2017,15, 4686-4696
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85.  “Regioselective Preferential C-H Activation of Sterically Hindered 1,3-Dienes over [4+2] cycloaddition” Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Kapil Mohan Saini, Monika Patel and Akhilesh K. Verma,*, Tetrahedron 2017,73,2415–2431
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84.  “Base-Mediated Hydroamination of Alkynes” Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, and Akhilesh K. Verma,*, Acc. Chem. Res 2017, 50, 240-254
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83.  “Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Fujiwara-Hydroarylation: Synthesis of Benzo[a]phenazines Derivatives”Sonu Kumar, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Mohammad Mujahid, Trapti Aggarwal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 9912–9923
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82.  “Regioselective 5-endo-dig Electrophilic Iodocyclization of Enediynes: A Convenient Route to Iodo-substituted Indenes and Cyclopenta Fused Arenes” Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Abhinandan K. Danodia, Monika Patel, Sushil Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Chem. Asian J. 2016, 11, 3001–3007
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81.  “Regio- and Stereoselective Tandem Synthesis of Oxazolo fused Pyridoindoles and Benzofurooxazolo Pyridines from ortho-Alkynylaldehydes” Shilpi Pal, Deepak Choudhary, Mohit Jainth, Sonu Kumar, Rakesh K. Tiwari, and Akhilesh K. Verma,* J. Org. Chem., 2016, 81, 9356–9371
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80.  “Metal-free regioselective tandem synthesis of diversely substituted benzimidazo-fused polyheterocycles in aqueous medium” Pawan K. Mishra and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Green Chem., 2016, 18, 6367-6372
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79.  Palladium meets copper: one-pot tandem synthesis of pyrido fused heterocycles viaSonogashira conjoined electrophilic cyclization ” Sonu Kumar, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Trapti Aggarwal, Siva K. Reddy Kotla and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 9063-9071
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78.  “Regioselective Synthesis of C-3 Functionalized Quinolines via Hetero Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Azadienes with Terminal Alkynes” Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel and Akhilesh K. Verma,* J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6563-6572
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77.  "Iodine-Mediated Synthesis of Heterocycles via Electrophilic Cyclization of Alkynes ” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Trapti Aggarwal and Sonu Kumar Org. Biomol. Chem., 2016, 14, 7639-7653
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76.  Pd-Catalyzed One-Pot Sequential Unsymmetrical Cross-Coupling Reactions of Aryl / Heteroaryl 1,2-Dihalides” Abhinandan K. Danodia,a Rakesh K. Saunthwal,a Monika Patel,a Rakesh K. Tiwarib and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2016, 14, 6487-6496
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75.  “A General and Efficient Pd-Catalyzed Rapid 2-Fluoroethoxylation of Bromo-Chalcones” T.M. Rangarajan;* Kavita Devi, Akhilesh K. Verma, Rishi Pal Singh and Raj Pal Singh* J. Fuorine Chem. 2016, 186, 101-110
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74.  "Metal and Protection-Free [4+2] Cycloadditions of Alkynes with azadienes: An Efficient Assembly of Functionalized Quinolines". Verma,* Rakesh K. Saunthwal Monika Patel,and Akhilesh K Org. Lett. 2016, 18, 2200–2203
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73.  “Metal-free Intermolecular Hydrophenoxylation of Aryl Alkynes” Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Devendra K. Dhaked, Prasad V. Bharatamand Akhilesh K. Verma,* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2016, 5, 213-221
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72.  Pd (II)-Catalyzed C-H activation of styrylindoles: short, efficient and regioselective synthesis of functionalized carbazoles Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Sonu Kumar, Abhinandan K. Danodia and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Chem. Eur. J. 2015, 21, 18601–18605
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71.  "Tandem Approach to Benzothieno, and Benzofuropyridines from o-Alkynyl Aldehydes via Silver-Catalyzed 6-endo-dig Ring Closure" 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
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70.  “(1H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazol-1-yl)methanol: An Efficient Bidentate Ligand for Copper Catalyzed S-Arylation of Thiols” Rajeev Ranjan Jha, Deepak Choudhary and Akhilesh K. Verma* Ind. J. Het. Chem. 2015, 24, 451-458 (Invited R. S. Verma)
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69.  Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of 1,2-Dihydroisoquinolines as HIV-1 Integrase Inhibitors Vibha Tandon; Urvashi; Pooja Yadav; Souvik Sur; Sheenu Abbat; Vinod Tiwari; Raymond Hewer; Maria Papathanasopoulos; Rameez Raja; Akhil Banerjea; Akhilesh K. Verma, Shrikant Kukreti; Prasad V. Bharatam ACS Medicinal Chem. Lett. 2015, 6, 1065–1070
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68.  “Palladium-Catalyzed Triple Successive C-H Functionalization: Direct Synthesis of Functionalized Carbazoles from Indoles” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Abhinandan K. Danodia, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, and Deepak Choudhary Org. Lett. 2015, 17, 3658-3661 (Most Read Article)
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67.  “Nu-Addition vs SNAr study: Chemo-, regio- and stereoselective preferential hydrothiolation of haloarylalkynes over S-arylation of aryl halides“ Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Devendra K. Dhaked, Prasad V. Bharatam and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Asian J. Org. Chem. 2015, 4,894 –898
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66.  "Rhodium(III)-catalyzed double C-H activation: A straightforward approach to fused imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines from internal alkynes" Siva K. Reddy Kotlaa, Deepak Choudharya, Rakesh K. Tiwarib and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 4706–4710
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65.  “Mild and efficient palladium/BrettPhos-catalyzed methoxylation and deuteriomethoxylation of activated aryl bromides” T.M. Rangarajan, Raju Brahma, Ayushee, Ashok K. Prasad, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rishi Pal Singh Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 2234-2237
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64.  On Water: Catalyst-free chemoselective synthesis of highly functionalized tetrahydroquinazolines from 2-aminophenylacrylate Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Keykavous Parang and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Green Chem. 2015, 17, 1434-1441
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63.  Cu(II)-catalyzed tandem synthesis of 2-imino[1,3]benzothiazines from 2-aminoaryl acrylates via thioamidation and concomitant chemoselective thia-Michael addition Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Sushil Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2015, 56, 677–681
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62.  Pd-catalyzed Heck-conjoined amidation and concomitant chemoselective Michael-addition: An efficient tandem approach to highly functionalized tetrahydroquinazolines from o-haloanilines Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Monika Patel, Abhinandan K. Danodia, and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Org. & Biomol. Chem. 2015,13, 1521-1530
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61.  Synthesis of fused heterocycles via preferential hydroamination over N-arylation and concomitant intramolecular C-C bond formation Rajeev Ranjan Jha, Abhinandan Kumar Danodia and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 4724-4730
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60.  An Expedient Approach to Pyrrolo[3,2-c]quinolines via Regioselective Formation of Pyrrole Nucleus over Indoles Manjusha V. Karkhelikar, Rajeev R. Jha, B. Sridhar, Pravin R. Likhar* and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Chem. Commun. 2014, 50, 8526-8528
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59.  Stereoselective tandem synthesis of oxazolo-fused pyrroloquinolines from o-alkynylaldehydes via Ag(I)-catalyzed regioselective 5-exo-dig ring closure Rajeev Ranjan Jha, Trapti Aggarwal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 2603-2608
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58.  “Base-Mediated Chemo- and Stereoselective Addition of 5-Aminoindole/Tryptamine and Histamines onto Alkynes” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Monika Patel, Megha Joshi, Pravin R. Likhar, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Keykavous Parang J. Org. Chem. 2014, 79, 172–186
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57.  “Au (III)-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective tandem synthesis of oxazolo fused naphthyridines and isoquinolines from o-alkynylaldehydes” Rajeev Ranjan Jha, Abhinandan Kumar Danodia, Sushil Kumar and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 610-615
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56.  “Base-catalysed stereoselective intermolecular addition of imidazoles onto alkynes: An easy access to imidazolyl enamines” Monika Patel, Rakesh K. Saunthawal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tetrahedron Lett. 2014, 55, 1310-1315
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55.  “Stereoselective tandem synthesis of thiazolo fused naphthyridines and thienopyridines from o-alkynylaldehydes via Au(III)-catalyzed regioselective 6-endo-dig ring closure” Rajeev R. Jha, Rakesh K. Saunthwal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Org. Biomol. Chem 2014, 12, 552-556
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54.  “Selective synthesis of 4,5-dihydroimidazo- and imidazo[1,5-a]quinoxalines via modified Pictet-Spengler reaction” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rajeev Ranjan Jha, V. Kasi Sankar, Raj Pal Singh Tetrahedron Lett. 2013, 54, 5984-5990
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53.  “Biomedical importance of indoles” Kaushik, N. K., Kaushik, N., Attri, P., Kumar, N., Kim, C.H., Verma, A. K., Choi, E. H., Molecules 2013, 18, 6620-6662
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52.  “Antibacterial and cytotoxic activities of diterpenoids isolated from Indian Plectranthus coesta” Waldia, S., Kaushik, N., Akhilesh K. Verma,* Joshi, B. C., Pathak, U., Joshi, M. C., Records of Natural Products 2013, 7, 355-358
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51.  “On Water: Silver-Catalyzed Domino Approach for the Synthesis of Benzoxazine/Oxazine Fused Isoquinolines and Naphthyridines from ortho-Alkynylaldehydes” Akhilesh K. Verma, Deepak Choudhary, Rakesh K. Saunthwal, Vineeta Rustagi, Monika Patel and Rakesh K. Tiwari J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 6657–6669.
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50.  “Tandem Synthesis of Pyrroloacridones via [3 + 2] Alkyne Annulation/Ring-Opening with Concomitant Intramolecular Aldol Condensation” Akhilesh K. Verma, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Trapti Aggarwal, Sonu Kumar, Hemlata Nimesh, and Rakesh K. Tiwari J. Org. Chem. 2013, 78, 5372–5384
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49.  “Silver-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Naphthyridines and Thienopyridines via Three-Component Reaction” Akhilesh K. Verma, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Deepak Choudhary, Monika Patel, and Rakesh K. Tiwari, J. Org. Chem., 2013, 78 (9), 4386–4401.
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48.  "Benzotriazol-1-ylmethanol: An excellent bidentate ligand for the copper/palladium-catalyzed C-N and C-C coupling reaction" Rajeev R. Jha, Jaspal Singh, Rakesh K. Tiwari and Akhilesh K. Verma* ARKIVOC, 2013, (ii) 228-248
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47.  "2-(1-Benzotriazolyl)pyridine: A Robust Bidentate Ligand for the Palladium-Catalyzed C–C, (Suzuki, Heck, Oxidative-Heck, Sonogashira), C–N and C–S Coupling Reactions" Akhilesh K. Verma*, Rajeev R. Jha, Ritu Chaudhary, Rakesh K. Tiwari and Abhinandan Danodia Adv. Syn. and Catal., 2013, 355, 421-438.
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46.  "Palladium-Catalyzed Sonogashira-Coupling Conjoined C-H Activation: A Regioselective Tandem Strategy to Access Indolo-, and Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines" Satya Prakash Shukla, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K Verma* J. Org. Chem. 2012, 77, 10382-10392
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45.  "Site-Selective Electrophilic Cyclization and Subsequent Ring Opening: A Synthetic Route to Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines and Indolizines" Trapti Aggarwal, Sonu Kumar, Devendra Kumar Dhaked, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Prasad V. Bharatam, and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77, 8562-85734.
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44.  "Copper-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Indolo-, Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines, Naphthyridines and Bisindolo/ Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines via Hydroamination of ortho-Haloarylalkynes Followed by C-2 Arylation" 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
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43.  “Synthesis, characterization, and antibacterial and anticancer screening of {M 2+-Co 3+-M 2+} and {Co 3+-M 2+} (M is Zn, Cd, Hg) heterometallic complexes” NK Kaushik, A Mishra, A Ali, JS Adhikari, Akhilesh K. Verma, R Gupta Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2012, 17, 1217–1230
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42.  "Palladium-Catalyzed Regioselective [3+2] Annulation of Internal Alkynes and Iodopyranoquinolines with Concomitant Ring Opening" Trapti Aggarwal, Rajeev R. Jha, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Sonu Kumar, Siva K. Reddy Kotla, Sushil Kumar, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (20), 5184–5187
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41.  "Silver-catalyzed regioselective synthesis of acridines, quinolines, and naphthalenes from 3-(2-alkynyl)aryl-b-ketoesters" Satya Prakash Shukla, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K. Verma* Tetrahedron, 2012, 68, 9035-9044
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40.  "AgI-Catalyzed Cascade Strategy: Regioselective Access to Diversely Substituted Fused Benzimidazo[2,1-a]isoquinolines, Naphthyridines, Thienopyridines, and Quinoxalines in Water" Vineeta Rustagi, Rakesh Tiwari, and Akhilesh K. Verma* Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2012, 4590–4602.
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39.  “Benzotriazole and its derivatives as ligands in coupling reaction” Akhilesh K. Verma* Advances in Heterocyclic Chemistry 2012, 107, 103-132
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38.  "Base-Mediated Selective Synthesis of Diversely Substituted N-Heterocyclic Enamines and Enaminones by the Hydroamination of Alkynes" Megha Joshi, Monika Patel, Rakesh Tiwari, and Akhilesh K. Verma*, J. Org. Chem., 2012, 77 (13), 5633–5645
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37.  "Regioselective Preferential Nucleophilic Addition of N-Heterocycles onto Haloarylalkynes over N-Arylation of Aryl Halides" Megha Joshi, Rakesh Tiwari, Akhilesh K. Verma, *Org. Lett., 2012, 14 (4), 1106–1109
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36.  Benzotriazole: An efficient, inexpensive and phosphine-free ligand for the palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyura reaction. Rajeev Ranjan Jha, Ritu Chaudhary, Ramesh Chandra and Akhilesh K. Verma* J. Ind. Chem. Soc. 2011, 88, 1187 (Invited Paper)
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35.  "Fabrication and growth mechanism of ZnO nanostructures and their cytotoxic effect on human brain tumor U87, cervical cancer HeLa, and normal HEK cells" Rizwan Wahab, Nagendra K. Kaushik, Akhilesh K. Verma, Anurag Mishra, I. H. Hwang, You-Bing Yang, Hyung-Shik Shin, Young-Soon Kim, J. Biol. Inorg. Chem., 2011, 16, 431–442
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34.  "Lewis Acid-Catalyzed Selective Synthesis of Diversely Substituted Indolo- and Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinoxalines and Quinoxalinones by Modified Pictet—Spengler Reaction" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rajeev R. Jha, V. Kasi Sankar, Trapti Aggarwal, Rajendra P. Singh, Ramesh Chandra, Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2011, 6998–7010.
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33.  "Base-Mediated Regio- and Stereoselective Intermolecular Addition of Alkynes to NHeterocycles" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Megha Joshi, and Ved Prakash Singh Org. Lett., 2011, 13(7), 1630.
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32.  "Synthesis of 5-Iodopyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines and Indolo[1,2-a]quinolines via Iodine-Mediated Electrophilic and Regioselective 6-endo-dig Ring Closure" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Satya Prakash Shukla, Jaspal Singh, and Vineeta Rustagi J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 5670–5684.
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31.  .“Synthesis of 5-Iodo-Indolo- and Pyrrolo[1,2-a]quinolines via Iodine-Induced Electrophilic and Regioselective 6-endo-dig Ring Closure” Akhilesh K. Verma* Satya Prakash Shukla and Jaspal Singh, SYNFACTS 2011, 9, 0951-0951 (Highlight of J. Org. Chem. 2011, 76, 5670-5684)
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30.  "Highly efficient Ag(I)-catalyzed regioselective tandem synthesis of diversely substituted quinoxalines and benzimidazoles in water" Vineeta Rustagi, Trapti Aggarwal and Akhilesh K. Verma,* Green Chem., 2011, 13, 1640–1643
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29.  “Di(1H-benzo[d][1,2,3]triazol-1-yl)methane: A Efficient Ligand for Copper- and Amine-free Palladium-Catalyzed Sonogashira Coupling Reaction Akhilesh K. Verma,* and Jaspal Singh J. Chem. Sci. 2011, 123, 937-942
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28.  “Comparative Immunogenicities of Full-Length Plasmodium falciparum Merozoite Surface Protein 3 and a 24-Kilodalton N-Terminal Fragment” Maryam Imam, Yengkhom Sangeeta Devi, Akhilesh K. Verma,* and Virander Singh Chauhan* Clin. Vaccine Immunol, 2011, 18, 1221–1228
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27.  "Pyrano[4,3-b]quinolines Library Generation via Iodocyclization and Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions" Trapti Aggarwal, Maryam Imam, Naveen K. Kaushik, Virander S. Chauhan, and Akhilesh K. Verma* ACS Comb. Sci. 2011, 13, 530–536
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26.  "Iodine-Mediated Solvent-Controlled Selective Electrophilic Cyclization and Oxidative Esterification of o-Alkynyl Aldehydes: An Easy Access to Pyranoquinolines, Pyranoquinolinones, and Isocumarins" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Vineeta Rustagi, Trapti Aggarwal, and Amit P. Singh J. Org. Chem., 2010, 75; 7691-7703
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25.  Synthesis, structure and anticancer activity of copper(II) complexes of N-benzyl-2-(diethylamino)acetamide and 2-(diethylamino)-N-phenylethylacetamide” Amit P.Singh, Nagendra Kaushik, Akhilesh K. Verma* and Rajeev Gupta. Indian Journal of Chemistry 2011, 50A, 474-483
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24.  "Iodine-catalyzed and solvent-controlled selective electrophilic cyclization and oxidative esterification of ortho-alkynyl aldehydes” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Trapti Aggarwal, Vineeta Rustagi, and Richard C. Larock* Chemm. Comm, 2010, 46, 4064-4066.
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23.  "Copper -Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of N-Fused Isoquinolines" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tanay Kesharwani, Jaspal Singh, Vibha Tandon and Richard C. Larock* SYNFACTS, 2009, 4, 0434-0434.
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22.  “Studies in Acyl C-H Activation via Aryl to Acyl Through Space Migration of Palladium” Tanay Kesharwani, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Daniel Emrich, Richard C. Larock* Org. Lett. 2009, 11(12), 2591-2593
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21.  “Benzotriazole: An Excellent Ligand for the Copper-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles” Akhilesh K. Verma* Jaspal Singh, and Richard C. Larock Tetrahedron 2009, 65, 8434-8439.
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20.  A Copper-Catalyzed Tandem Synthesis of Indolo- and Pyrrolo[2,1-a]isoquinolines” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Tanay Kesharwani, Jaspal Singh, Vibha Tandon and Richard C. Larock* Angew. Chem Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 1138-1143
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19.  “Synthesis, structure and biological activity of copper(II) complexes of 4-(2-pyridylmethyl)-1,7-dimethyl-1,4,7-triazonane-2,6-dione and 4-(2-pyridylethyl)-1,7-dimethyl-1,4,7-triazonane-2,6-dione” Amit P. Singh, Nagendra K. Kaushik, Akhilesh K. Verma,*, Gita Hundal and Rajeev Gupta. Euro. J. Med Chem., 2009, 44, 1607-1614.
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18.  "Studies on Structural and Functional Aspects of Human Telomeric RNA proteins". Piyush Bihari Lal, Naresh Kumar, Tasleem Arif, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Sharma GL, Rajesh Dabur. African. J. Microbiology Res. 2008, 2, 126-130.
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17.  “Triethylammonium acetate (TEAA): a recyclable inexpensive ionic liquid promotes the chemoselective aza- and thia Michael reactions” Akhilesh K. Verma, Pankaj Attri, Varun Chopra, Rakesh K. Tiwari, Ramesh Chandra, Monatsh Chem., 2008, 139, 1041–1047.
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16.  “Synthesis, characterization and antibacterial activity of cobalt(III) complexes with pyridine–amide ligands” Anurag Mishra, Nagendra K. Kaushik, Akhilesh K. Verma and Rajeev Gupta. Euro. J. Med. Chem., 2008, 43, 2189-2196.
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15.  “A general and efficient CuI/BtH catalyzed coupling of aryl halides with thio” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Jaspal Singh and Ritu Chaudhary. Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 7199-7202.
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14.  “Benzotriazole: an excellent ligand for Cu-catalyzed N-arylation of imidazoles with aryl and heteroaryl halides” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Jaspal Singh, V. Kasi Sankar, Ritu Chaudhary and Ramesh Chandra. Tetrahedron Lett., 2007, 48, 4207-4210.
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13.  “Synthesis, characterization and in vitro biological studies of novel cyano derivatives of N-alkyl and N-aryl piperazine” Preeti Chaudhary, Surendra Nimesh, Veena Yadav, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rupesh Kumar. Euro. J. Med. Chem., 2007, 42, 471-476.
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12.  “Synthesis and In-vitro Cytotoxicity of Haloderivatives of Noscapine” Akhilesh K. Verma,* Sandhya Bansal, Jaspal Singh, Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, V. Kasi Sankar, Vibha Tandon and Ramesh Chandra. Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2006, 14, 6733-6736.
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11.  “Synthesis of microtubule-interfering halogenated noscapine analogs that perturb mitosis in cancer cells followed by cell death” Ritu Aneja, Surya N. Vangapandu, Manu Lopus, Vijaya G. Viswesarappa, Neerupma Dhiman, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Ramesh Chandra, Dulal Panda, Harish C. Joshi. Biochem. Pharmacology, 2006, 72, 415-426.
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10.  “Synthesis, antibacterial activity and QSAR studies of 1, 2-disubstituted-6,7-dimethoxy-1, 2, 3, 4-tetrahydroisoquinolines” Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Akhilesh K. Verma,* Jaspal Singh, Devender Singh, Anil Chhiller, and Ramesh Chandra. Euro. J. Med. Chem., 2006, 41, 40-49.
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9.  “Synthesis and antibacterial activity of substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazino [1,2-a]indoles” Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Devender Singh, Jaspal Singh, Vibha Yadav, Ajay K.Pathak, Rajesh Dabur, Anil K.Chhillar, Rambir Singh, G.L.Sharma, Ramesh Chandra and Akhilesh K. Verma* Bioorg. & Med. Chem. Lett., 2006, 16, 413-416.
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8.  “Synthesis and antimicrobial activity of N-alkyl and N-aryl piperazine derivatives” Preeti Chaudhary, Rupesh Kumar, Devender Singh,Vibha Yadav, Anil Chhiller, G. L. Sharma, Akhilesh K. Verma,* and Ramesh Chandra. Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2006, 14, 1819-1826
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7.  “Synthesis and antifungal activity of substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazino[1,2-a] indoles” Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Devender Singh, Jaspal Singh, Vibha yadav, Anil Chhiller, G. L. Sharma, Akhilesh K. Verma* and Ramesh Chandra. Bioorg. & Med. Chem., 2006, 14, 2747-2752.
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6.  “An efficient synthesis of 1,5-benzadiazepine derivatives catalyzed by silver nitrate” Rupesh Kumar, Preeti Chaudhary, Surendra Nimesh, Akhilesh K. Verma and Ramesh Chandra. Green Chem., 2006, 8, 519–521
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5.  "Cu-nanoparticles: a chemoselective catalyst for the aza-Michael reactions of N-alkyl- and N-arylpiperazines with acrylonitrile" Akhilesh K. Verma,* Rupesh Kumar, Preeti Chaudhary, Amit Saxena, Ravi Shankar, Subho Mozumdar and Ramesh Chandra, Tetrahedron Lett. 2005, 46, 5229–5232.
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4.  “Highly efficient one pot synthesis of 1-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazino [1,2-a] indoles” Rakesh Kumar Tiwari, Jaspal Singh, Devender Singh, Akhilesh K. Verma,* and Ramesh Chandra. Tetrahedron, 2005, 61, 9513-9518.
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3.  “Low-temperature 1H and 13C NMR spectra of N-substituted 1,2,3,4-tetrahydropyrazino[1,2-a]indoles” Alan R. Katritzky, Akhmedov NG, Myshakin EM, Akhilesh K. Verma, Dennis Hall C. Magnetic Resonance in Chem., 2005, 43, 351-358.
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2.  "Novel Synthesis of 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydropyrazino[1,2-a]indoles” Alan R. Katritzky, Akhilesh K. Verma, Hai-Ying He and Ramesh Chandra. J. Org. Chem., 2003; 68; 4938-4940
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1.  Stereoselective syntheses of chiral (3S,9bS)-1,2,3,9b-tetrahydro-5H-imidazo[2,1-a]isoindol-5-ones” Alan R. Katritzky, Hai-Ying He and Akhilesh K. Verma Tetrahedron Asymmetry, 2002, 13, 933-938
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