January 2026 – Naomi Collis (UMSL undergraduate student) joined the research group. Welcome!
December 2025 – Dr. Sharma delivered an invited Zoom seminar hosted by the Department of Chemistry, RUDN University, Moscow, Russia, on December 15 and 18, 2025.
November 2025 – Dr. Sharma attended the API Innovation Center’s 3rd Annual Plenary Event, “Resilience in Action: Partnerships, Policy, and Progress Driving U.S. National Health Security”, at UMSL, November 5, 2025.
October 2025 – Dr. Sharma delivered an invited talk at the ACS Midwest Regional Meeting (MWRM-2025), October 12-14, 2025, Columbia, MO.
September 2025 – Dr. Sharma presented an invited lecture at Flow Chemistry India 2025, September 18-19, 2025, Ahmedabad, India.
September 2025 – Vinay presented his research on “Photoredox Ni-Catalysed Cross-Coupling Chemistry” at the departmental graduate seminar, September 19, 2025. Nice job!
September 2025 – Our collaborative work with ESAT and LOMAC, KU Leuven “Scalable Frequency Selective Microwave-assisted Reactor Setup for Organic Synthesis” is now published in Sensors and Actuators A: Physical.
August 2025 – Our work on boron-selective Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling was highlighted by Vapourtec as an application note.
July 2025 – Dr. Sharma was selected to participate in course development for the Advanced Workforce Center (AWC) at UMSL on the topic Enabling Technologies in Organic Synthesis.
July 2025 – Dr. Sharma was invited to deliver a lecture at the 12th Annual Flow Chemistry Society (FCS) Conference – Flow Chemistry India 2025, Ahmedabad, India.
June 2025 – An invited review article from our group “Hybrid Enabling Technologies for Organic Synthesis” was published in CHIMIA.
May 2025 – Congratulations to Dr. Laura Yesenia Vazquez Amaya on the successful defense of her PhD thesis at KU Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Sharma co-supervised her doctoral research.
April 2025 – Dr. Sharma was invited to speak at the 2025 ACS Midwest Regional Meeting (MWRM), Columbia, MO.
April 2025 – The UKS Research Group attended the 37th Annual Organic Chemistry Day Symposium at the University of Missouri – Columbia, where Vinay and Satish presented posters. Well done, team!
April 2025 – Vinay, Satish, and Treza showcased their research at the Graduate Research Fair, UMSL (April 18, 2025).
April 2025 – Dr. Rajesh Kumar joined the research group as a postdoctoral fellow. Welcome!
March 2025 – Dr. Sharma was invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the Belgian Organic Synthesis Symposium (BOSS-XIX-2026) in Leuven, Belgium.
January 2025 – Dr. Sharma received a UMSL award to participate in the NCFDD Faculty Success Program 2025.
January 2025 – Dr. Sharma gave a departmental seminar titled “Enabling Technologies in Organic Synthesis” at the Department of Chemistry, Saint Louis University (SLU), January 17, 2025.
January 2025 – Ignatius Treza Gatla (UMSL MS student) joined the research group. Welcome!
December 2024 – The UKS Research Group webpage became fully operational.
November 2024 – Dr. Sharma attended the API Innovation Center’s 2nd Annual Plenary Event, focused on reshoring small-molecule API manufacturing to the United States.
November 2024 – Satish Babu Nakka and Vinay Thatikonda joined the UKS Research Group as PhD students. Welcome to the team!
October 2024 – Our invited mini-review, “Recent Developments in Photoredox-Catalyzed Minisci-Type Reactions under Continuous Flow,” was published in Chemical Communications as part of the themed collection “Chemistry for a Sustainable World – Celebrating Our Community Tackling Global Challenges.”
September 2024 – Our collaborative work with LOMAC (KU Leuven), “Bromine Radical Release from a Nickel Complex Facilitates the Activation of Alkyl Boronic Acids: A Boron-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling,” was published in Chemical Science.
September 2024 – Dr. Sharma delivered a departmental seminar titled “Enabling Technologies in Organic Synthesis” at UMSL.
August 2024 – Dr. Sharma attended the API Innovation Center’s Advanced Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Technology Conference, held on August 28, 2024, in St. Louis.
August 2024 – The UKS Research Group officially launched its research program on Next-Generation Enabling Synthetic Technologies (NEST) at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
