Dr. Bharti Khungar
Associate Professor
Chemical Engineering
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Bharti Khungar is currently a associate professor with a teaching interest to promote and explore ways to motivate students to learn topics like coordination chemistry, group theory, stereochemistry, spectroscopy, biological chemistry, green chemistry and giving hands on experience of the theory learnt with the aid of simple lab experiments. Her research interest lies in preparation of metal complexes and exploring their uses, specifically developming them as catalysts for carrying out simple organic transformation, and screening their biological applications such as antifungal, anti bacterial, antiviral activities.
Research Interest
Organic transformation, and screening their biological applications such as antifungal, anti bacterial, antiviral activities.
Publications
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Copper-catalyzed tandem azide-alkyne cycloaddition, Ullmann type C-N coupling and intramolecular direct arylation, K. Pericherla, A. Jha, B. Khungar and A. Kumar, Org. Lett., 15, 4304–4307, 2013.
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Copper catalyzed tandem oxidative C–H amination/cyclizations: Direct access to imidazo[1,2-a]pyridines, K. Pericherla, Pinku, P. Khedar, B. Khungar, K. Parang, A. Kumar, RSC Advances, 18923-18930, 2013.
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Imidazolium ionic liquid-tagged palladium complex: An efficient catalyst for the Heck and Suzuki reaction in aqueous medium, P. Nehra, B. Khungar, K. Pericherla, S. C. Sivasubramanian, A. Kumar, Green Chem. 2014, 16, 4266-4271.
