2020                                     Member of Early Career Advisory Board in Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry. [Link]                   

107. Photocatalytic Unsymmetrical Coupling of 2-Substituted Quinolines: Synthesis and Evaluation of Antiplasmodial Potential of β-norbenzomorphan Framework.

                                                                 Inder Kumar, Shiv S. Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, Rohit Kumar, P. Agarwal, D. Sahal, and Upendra Sharma*

                                                                  ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2020, 8, 12902-12910. [Link]                                

 106. Cp*Rh(III)-Catalysed Regioselective C(sp3)-H Methylation of 8-Methylquinolines with Organoborons.

                                                                Rakesh Kumar, Ritika Sharma, Rohit Kumar  and Upendra Sharma*

                                                                Organic Letters, 2020, 22, 305-309. [Link]             

105. Cp*Rh(III)-Catalyzed Sterically Controlled C(sp3)-H Selective Mono- and Di-arylation of 8-Methylquinolines with Organoborons. 

                                                                 Rakesh Kumar, Diksha Parmar, Shiv Shankar Gupta, Devesh Chandra, Ankit K. Dhiman, and Upendra Sharma* 

                                                                 Chemistry-A European Journal, 2020, 26, 4396-4402. [Link]

                                                                 [Published as Hot Paper] 

104. Ru(II)-Catalyzed Chemoselective C(sp3)-H Monoarylation of 8-Methyl Quinolines with Arylboronic Acids.  (Most Read Article) 

Diksha Parmar, Rohit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar and Upendra Sharma*

The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 85, 11844-11855. [Link]

103.  Co(III)-Catalyzed C-H Amidation of Nitrogen Containing Heterocycles with Dioxazolones under Mild Condition. 

                                                                 Ankit Kumar Dhiman, Ankita Thakur, Inder Kumar, Rakesh Kumar and Upendra Sharma*

                                                                The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 85, 9244-9254. [Link]

102. Ru(II)/ Rh(III)-Catalyzed C(sp3)-C(sp3) Bond Formation through C(sp3)-H Activation: Selective Linear Alkylation of 8-Methylquinolines and Ketoximes with Olefins. 

                                                                  Rohit Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Diksha Parmar, Shiv Shankar Gupta and Upendra Sharma* 

                                                                 The Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 85, 1181-1192. [Link]

101. Regioselective Arylation of Quinoline N-Oxides (C8), Indolines (C7) and N-tert-Butylbenzamide with Arylboronic Acids.                 

                                                                  Shiv Shankar Gupta, Rakesh Kumar and Upendra Sharma* 

                                                                  ACS Omega, 2020, 5, 904-913. [Link]                               

100. Recent Advances in Rhodium-Catalyzed   Selective C-H Bond Functionalization of Quinolines. (Invited Article) 

                                                                 Ankit Kumar Dhiman, Ankita Thakur, Rakesh Kumar and Upendra Sharma*

                                                                 Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 9, 1502-1518. [Link]

                                                                [This article also appears in-(Hot Topic: C-H Activation)] [Link]

99. Eco-friendly and Sustainable Synthetic Approaches for Biologically Significant Fused N-Heterocycles. (Invited Article)                        

Shiv Shankar Gupta, Surekha Kumari, Inder Kumar and Upendra Sharma*                                                           

Chemistry of Heterocyclic Compounds, 2020, 56, 433-444. [Link]                          

98. Narciclasine-4-O-β-D-xylopyranoside, a New Narciclasine glycoside from Zephyranthes minuta.

Deepali Katoch,* Dharmesh Kumar, Yogendra S Padwad, Bikram Singh* and Upendra Sharma*                             

Natural Product Research, 2020, 34, 233-240. [Link]

97. Pseudolycorine N-oxide, a New N-Oxide from Narcissus tazetta.                                                                                     

Deepali Katoch,* Dharmesh Kumar, Yogendra S Padwad, Bikram Singh* and Upendra Sharma*                         

Natural Product Research, 2020, 34, 2051-2058. [Link]                       

96. Chemical profiling and quantification of potential active constituents responsible for the antiplasmodial activity of Cissampelos pareira.   

Vinod Bhatt, Surekha Kumari, Pooja Upadhyay, Prakhar Agrawal, Anmol, Dinkar Sahal* and Upendra Sharma*    

Journal of  Ethnopharmacology, 2020, 262, 113185. [Link]      

95. Qualitative and quantitative determination of steroidal saponins in Trillium govanianum by UHPLC-QTOF-MS/MS and UHPLC-ELSD.                                                                            

Prithvi Pal Singh,a Prateek Singh Bora,a Patil Shivprasad Suresh,a  Vinod Bhatt,a and Upendra Sharma* 

Phytochemical Analysis, 2020, 31, 861-873. [Link]   (aequal contribution)                   

94.  Cissampelos pareira’s tale from the benevolent world of medicinal plants. (Expert Commentary)

Dinkar Sahal* and Upendra Sharma, Research Journal of Plant Pathology, 2020, 3, 1-2. DOI: 10.36648/plant-pathology.3.2.2

93.  Antioxidant, Antiproliferative and Apoptosis-Inducing Efficacy of Fractions from Cassia fistula L. Leaves.

S. Kaur , A. Kumar , S. Thakur, K. Kumar, R. Sharma, A. Sharma, P. Singh, U. Sharma,  S. Kumar, M. Landi*, M. Brestič  and S. Kaur,* Antioxidants, 2020, 9, 173. [Link]