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Dr. Rima Thakur

(Associate Professor)

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Dr. Rima Thakur joined the University of Delhi in May, 2025 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry. Prior to this, she served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Science and Technology (formerly Chemistry) at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna.  Earlier, she received her B.Sc. degree from Presidency College, University of Calcutta in 2005 and M.Sc. degree from IIT Kanpur in 2007. She completed her Ph. D. from IIT Kanpur in 2013 where her doctoral work involved synthesis of N-containing sugar mimics from carbohydrate pool – starting materials. She began her independent academic career at NIT Patna in 2014 as an Assistant Professor.

Dr. Thakur’s research interests include development of sustainable synthetic methods for stereoselective glycosylation, synthesis of C-2 modified glycosides through one-pot glycal difunctionalization, development of catalyzed methods and synthesis of oligosaccharides using the newly developed methodologies. The research work in RT lab has been funded by SERB-ECR and SERB-POWER grant projects. Her research work has been published in several well-reputed peer reviewed journals by ACS, Wiley-VCH and RSC publications. Owing to her expertise in glycochemistry she has been inducted in the editorial board of Journal of Carbohydrate Chemistry (Taylor & Francis) and Carbohydrate Research (Elsevier). Under her able guidance 2 students have been awarded Ph.D. degree from NIT Patna and a third student has recently submitted his thesis. The graduated students are well-placed as Research Scientists in R&D labs of industry and academia. Several post-graduate students from institutions like NIT Patna, IISER Behrampore, IIT Kharagpur and MGCUB Motihari have been trained in her lab through M.Sc. dissertation and summer projects.

As a student of chemical sciences, she has secured high AIRs in national level entrance examinations like JAM 2005 (AIR 12), GATE 2007 (AIR 10) and CSIR-NET 2006 (Ranked in Top 20). She is the recipient of Durga Devi Memorial Scholarship in 2006 at IIT Kanpur and during her Ph.D. she visited Japan as a research scholar for an exchange program under JENESYS 2010 and represented India as a SAARC nation. As a research scholar, she was selected as young organic chemist from JNOST 2011 and invited for oral presentation at the prestigious NOST-OCC 2012 conference.

Selected Publications:

  1. Sharma, V. K.; Thakur, R.* Carbohydr. Res. 2025, 558, 109668 – 109679.
  2. Das, P.; Bhattacharya, N.; Thakur, R.* J. Org. Chem. 2025, 90, 9365−9379.
  3. Sharma, V. K.; Thakur, R.* Adv. Synth. Catal. 2025, 367, e202401450.
  4. Das, P.; Thakur, R.* Carbohydr. Res., 2024, 536, 109032.
  5. Das, P.; Thakur, R.* Org. Lett. 2023, 25, 6046−6051.
  6. Molla, M. R.; Thakur, R.*;Aghi, A.; Kumar, A. Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2023, 26, e202300079.
  7. Molla, M. R.; Thakur, R.* Org. Biomol. Chem. 2022, 20, 4030-4037.
  8. Das, P.; Molla, M. R.; Kumar, A.; Thakur, R.* Chem. Asian J. 2022, 17, e202101156.
  9. Molla, M. R.; Thakur, R.* Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2021, 5732-5745.
  10. Thakur, R.; Jaiswal, Y.; Kumar, A. Tetrahedron 2021, 93, 132313.
  11. Molla, M. R.; Das, P.; Guleria, K.; Subramanian, R.; Kumar, A.; Thakur, R.* J. Org. Chem.  2020, 85, 9955-9968.
  12. Thakur, R.; Jaiswal, Y.; Kumar, A. Org. Biomol. Chem. 2019, 17, 9829-9843.
  13. Shaw, M.; Thakur, R.*; Kumar, A. J. Org. Chem. 2019, 84, 589-605.
  14. Kumar, Y.; Jaiswal, Y.; Thakur, R.; Kumar, A. ChemistrySelect 2018, 3, 5614-5619.
  15. Shaw, M.; Kumar, Y.; Thakur, R.; Kumar, A. Beil. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2385-2395.
  16. Thakur, R.; Rawal, G. K.; Vankar, Y. D.  Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2017, 4235-4241.
  17. Thakur, R.*; Shaw, M.; Kumar A. Trends Carbohydr. Res. 2017, 9, 1-28.
  18. Jaiswal, Y.; Kumar, Y.; Thakur, R.; Pal, J.; Subramanium, R.; Kumar A. J. Org. Chem.  2016, 81, 12499-12505.
  19. Kumar, Y.; Shaw, M.; Thakur, R.; Kumar, A. J. Org. Chem. 2016, 81, 6617-6625.