Dr. Arun Kumar, FRSC

Dr. Arun Kumar, FRSC, Associate Professor, Dean & HOD


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  • Education: M.Sc. (C. C. S. University, Meerut), Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
  • Email: akumar.ch@doonuniversity.ac.in
  • Phone: +919911001624
  • Area of Specialization/Interest: Organometallic Chemistry, Catalyst Development, Transition Metal Catalysis, Coupling Reactions, Material Science, Coordination Chemistry.
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Best Five publications in last five years:
  1. Appeared as Cover Article : Organoselenium ligands for heterogeneous and nanocatalytic systems: Development and applications. A. Arora, P. Oswal, G.K. Rao, S. Kumar, A. Kumar, Dalton Trans., 2021,50, 8628-8656. (Link : https://doi.org/10.1039/D1DT00082A )
  2. Appeared as Cover Article : Functionalization of graphene oxide with a hybrid P,N ligand for immobilizing and stabilizing economical and non-toxic nanosized CuO: An efficient, robust and reusable catalyst for the C-O coupling reaction in O-arylation of phenol, P. Oswal, A. Arora, S. Singh, D. Nautiyal, S. Kumar and A. Kumar, New J. Chem., 2022, 46, 3578 (Link : https://doi.org/10.1039/D1NJ05273J ).
  3. Complexes of metals with organotellurium compounds and nanosized metal tellurides for catalysis, electrocatalysis and photocatalysis, A. Arora, P. Oswal, A. Datta, A. Kumar, Coord. Chem. Rev., 2022, 459, 214406. (Link : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ccr.2022.214406 )
  4. 2021 Outstanding Student Paper Award Winning Article: Catalytically active nanosized Pd9Te4 (telluropalladinite) and PdTe (kotulskite) alloys: first precursor-architecture controlled synthesis using palladium complexes of organotellurium compounds as single source precursors. A. Arora, P. Oswal, G.K. Rao, S. Kumar, A. K. Singh, A. Kumar, RSC Adv., 2021, 11, 7214-7224. ( Link : https://blogs.rsc.org/ra/2022/07/15/rscadvancesoutstandingstudentpaperawards2021/ ; https://doi.org/10.1039/D2RA90082C )
  5. Single source precursor route for the first graphene oxide-Pd6P nanocomposite: Application in electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction, P. Oswal, K. Sood, S. Singh, A. Arora, A. Bahuguna, S. Purohit and A. Kumar, Dalton Trans., 2022, 51, 6537-6542. I. Factor: 4.569

Department of Chemistry