Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja
Associate Professors
Chemistry
Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences
India
Biography
Dr. Rajeev Sakhuja has joined as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani in March 2012. He holds PhD in Organic Chemistry from University of Delhi, Delhi and his research interest lies in the areas of synthetic Organic Chemistry, Natural product and Medicinal Chemistry. Dr. Sakhuja was working as Postdoctoral Fellow with Dr. Raymond G. Booth at Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, before joining BITS Pilani. Prior to that, he was a Post Doc. Assistant in the group of Alan R. Katritzky at Department of Chemistry, University of Florida. Dr. Sakhuja has about 4 years of research experience. He wanted to establish a research group at BITS-Pilani for which, the JRF/CSIR and JRF/UGC scholars can contact
Research Interest
Synthetic Organic Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Material Chemistry
Publications
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Bajaj K, Sakhuja R. Aziridineâ€Mediated Ligation at Phenylalanine and Tryptophan Sites. Chemistry–An Asian Journal. 2017 May 23.
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Joshi S, Kumari S, Sarmah A, Pant DD, Sakhuja R. Detection of Hg2+ ions in aqueous medium using an indole-based fluorescent probe: Experimental and theoretical investigations. Journal of Molecular Liquids. 2017 Dec 1;248:668-77.
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Shakoor SM, Agarwal DS, Khullar S, Mandal SK, Sakhuja R. Solventâ€Driven Iodineâ€Mediated Oxidative Strategies for the Synthesis of Bis (imidazo [1, 2â€a] pyridinâ€3â€yl) sulfanes and Disulfanes. Chemistry–An Asian Journal. 2017 Dec 5;12(23):3061-8.