Chemistry of Natural Products

V.K. Ahluwalia has worked as professor of chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi for more than three decades and taught postgraduate and M.Phil students. He has guided about 80 students for M.Phil/Ph.D degrees and has published more than 250 research papers in National and International Journals. He has delivered a number of invited lectures in India and Abroad. Prof. Ahluwalia worked as post-doctoral fellow for two years (1960-1962) and worked with Prof. Harold Shechter at the Department of Chemistry Ohio State University, Ohio USA and for one year (1980-81) with Professor Herbert C. Brown, Nobel Laureate at the Department of Chemistry, Purdue University, USA. He has also been a visiting professor at Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Centre for Biomedical Research University of Delhi, Delhi. Prof. Ahluwalia has authored many books a few of which are, Reaction Mechanism, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Science, Environment Education, Environmental Pollution and Health and Organic Synthesis. His Book on Green Chemistry is the winner 2009 Choice award, being the outstanding academic title.

Lalita. S. Kumar did her PhD from University of Delhi in the year 1987 in the area of Synthetic Organic Chemistry. She has five publications to her credit. She is working as Reader at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. She has been associated with design, development and maintenance of distance teaching material for over sixteen years. Her areas of interest are biochemistry, organic reaction mechanism and environmental chemistry.

Sanjiv Kumar did his PhD from University of Delhi in the year 1990 in the area of biophysical chemistry for which he worked on interaction of peptides and proteins with nuclear acids. He is working as Reader at Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi, and has a teaching experience of over sixteen years. His areas of interest are biochemistry, spectroscopy and quantum chemistry.