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Dr. Dalip Kumar

Senior Professor, Department of Chemistry, BITS Pilani, Pilani Campus

Department of Chemistry, Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani- 333031, Rajasthan. India.

Teaching and Research Experience

 

February 2013 - Current
Professor
Department of Chemistry 
Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
 
August 2010 - January 2013
Associate Professor & Head
Chemistry Group,
Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
 

November 2004 - July 2010

Assistant Professor & Head
Chemistry Group,
Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani
 

December 2002 - October 2004

Research Associate,

Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
 

December 2000-November 2002

Lecturer

Department of Chemistry
Birla Institute of Science & Technology, Pilani, India
 

May 1999 - September 2000

Post-doctoral Fellow 

University of Texas
Austin, USA
 
August 1997 - April 1999
Post-doctoral Fellow 
Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, TX, USA


Education
 
April 1993-July 1997
Ph.D., Organic Chemistry
Kurukshetra University,  Kurukshetra
Haryana
 
June 1991-March 1993
M. Phil.,Organic Chemistry, Grade A
Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
Haryana
 

July 1989-May 1991

M. Sc., Organic Chemistry
Kurukshetra University Kurukshetra
Haryana

 


Courses Taught

 

  • General Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry II
  • Organic Chemistry III
  • Organic Chemistry IV
  • Organic Chemistry & Drug Design
  • Chemistry I, Chemistry II
  • Structure and Reactivity of Organic Compounds
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • Stereochemistry & Reaction Mechanism
  • Measurement Techniques I
  • Chemistry of Organic Compounds
  • Chemistry Project Lab
  • Chemical Experimentation
  • Instrumentation Methods of Analysis
  • Pericyclic Reactions .

 

Research


About Research: Our research interest focuses on design and synthesis of natural and synthetic bioactive nitrogen heterocycles as potent and selective anticancer agents. Recent research efforts aiming towards the use of organoiodines enabled us to discover several efficient protocols leading to easy access of drug-like bioactive heterocycles and natural products. Taking cue from indole-based natural products and synthetic drugs, identified various indolylazoles endowed with anticancer activities ranging from micro to nanomolar IC50 values. Efforts to develop potential photosensitizers resulted in the identification porphyrin macrocycle and boron dipyrromethenes with interesting absorption and emission properties. More recently efforts towards conjugate chemistry provided water soluble cationic porphyrins with remarkable (IC50 in nanomolar range) photocytotoxicity.

  • Design and Synthesis of Novel Indole-based Heterocycles as Anticancer Compounds
  • Design and Synthesis of Novel PDE4 Inhibitors
  • Formation of Carbon-Carbon & Carbon-Heteroatom Bond Leading to Bioactive Heterocycles
  • Design and Synthesis of BODIPY & Porphyrin Based Photosensitizers