Honours

• Received an honorarium from the American Chemical Society for being an author of Chemical Reviews in 2018.
• Best Poster Award at the 5th International Conference on Modelling of Chemical and Biological Reactivity (MCBR-5), 2017, CSIR-CLRI, Chennai.
• Best Poster Award at the Indo-US Conference on Molecular Modelling and Informatics in Drug Design (M2ID2), 2014, NIPER S.A.S. Nagar.
• Selected to work on DBT-Piramal funded Mega Project “Screening of Biomolecules from microbial diversity collected from different ecological niches – Part II Chemical Characterization”.
• Awarded research funding from Florida Atlantic University during Ph.D. program.
• Recipient of Gold Medal in Chemistry and Silver Medal in Mathematics during B.Sc. (University Topper in Chemistry and Mathematics).
• Member of Mycological Society of India (Life Member).
• Member of Advisory Panel for Natural Products in Zydus Wellness.

Publications

• Dinitrogen Activation with Low-Valent Strontium
  M. Morasch, T. Vilpas, N. Patel, J. Maurer, S. Thum, M.A. Schmidt, J. Langer, S. Harder
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2025, 64, e202506989 (10.1002/anie.202506989) IF = 16.9
• Reduction of CO₂ and Related Compounds with a Low-Valent CaI Synthon
  S. Thum, J. Mai, N. Patel, J. Langer, S. Harder
  ChemistryEurope, 2025, 3, e202500080 (10.1002/ceur.202500080) IF = Not available
• On the existence of low-valent magnesium–calcium complexes
  J. Mai, B. Rösch, N. Patel, J. Langer, S. Harder
  Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 4724-4734 (10.1039/D3SC00909B) IF = 9.97
• Access to a Labile Monomeric Magnesium Radical by Ball-Milling
  D. Jędrzkiewicz, J. Mai, J. Langer, Z. Mathe, N. Patel, S. DeBeer, S. Harder
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 2022, 61, e202200511 (10.1002/anie.202200511) IF = 16.9
• Formation and Reactivity of Non-Stabilized Monomeric Alumoxane Intermediates.
  S. Grams, J. Maurer, N. Patel, J. Langer, S. Harder
  Z. Anorg. Allg. Chem., 2022, 648, e202200035. IF = 1.36
• Low-Level Quantification of tert-Butyl Nitrite in a Pharmaceutical Intermediate.
  N. Patel, T. Chokkalingam, S. Das, S. Saha, K. Jayaraman, H. Bhutani
  Org. Process Res. Dev. 2021, 25, 2415-2424 (10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00158) IF = 3.86
• J. Comput. Chem. 2020, 41, 2624-2633 (10.1002/jcc.26417) IF = 3.67
• Electronic and Ligating Properties of Carbocyclic Carbenes: A Theoretical Investigation.
  S. Bhagat, M. Arfeen, G. Das, N. Patel, P.V. Bharatam
  J. Comput. Chem. 2019, 40, 726-733 (10.1002/jcc.25756) IF = 3.67
• NL + Systems as New Generation Phase-Transfer Catalysts.
• Divalent NI Compounds: Identifying new Carbocyclic Carbenes to Design Nitreones using Quantum Chemical Methods.
  N. Patel, M. Arfeen, T. Singh, S. Bhagat, A. Sakhare, P.V. Bharatam
• N. Patel, R. Sood, P.V. Bharatam
  Chem. Rev. 2018, 118, 8770-8785 (10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00169) IF = 72.08
• Can Remote N-Heterocyclic Carbenes Coordinate with Main Group Elements? Synthesis, Structure and Quantum Chemical Analysis of N+ centre complexes.
  N. Patel, M. Arfeen, R. Sood, S. Khullar, A.K. Chakraborti, S.K. Mandal, P.V. Bharatam
  Chem. Eur. J., 2018, 24, 6418-6425 (10.1002/chem.201705999) IF = 5.02
• C-N Coordination Bonds in (CCC)-N+-(L) Complexes.
  N. Patel, B. Falke, P.V. Bharatam
  Theor. Chem. Acc. 2018, 137, 34 (10.1007/s00214-18-2208-1) IF = 2.15
• Additive Controlled Switchable Selectivity from Cyanobenzenes to 2-Alkynylpyridines: Ruthenium (II) Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloadditions of Diynes and Alkynylnitriles.
  D. Bhatt, N. Patel, H. Chowdhury, P.V. Bharatam, A. Goswami
  Adv. Synth. Catal. 2018, 360, 1876-1882 (10.1002/adsc.201800228) IF = 5.98
• Design, Synthesis, and Structural Analysis of Divalent NI Compounds and Identification of a New Electron Donating Ligand.
  P.V. Bharatam, M. Arfeen, N. Patel, P. Jain, S. Bhatia, A.K. Chakraborti, S. Khullar, V. Gupta, S.K. Mandal
  Chem. Euro. J. 2016, 22, 1088 (10.1002/chem.201503618) IF = 5.02
• Metal-free Oxidative Cyclization of Acetophenones with Diamines: A Facile Access to Phenylpyridines.
  R. Sharma, N. Patel, R.A. Vishwakarma, P.V. Bharatam, S.B. Bharate
  Chem. Comm., 2016, 52, 1009-1012 (10.1039/C5CC08498A) IF = 6.07
• Characterization of Forced Degradation Products of Torasemide through MS Tools and Explanation of Unusual Losses observed during Mass Fragmentation of Drug and Degradation Products through Density Functional Theory.
  M. Kurmi, N. Patel, S. Jhajra, P.V. Bharatam, S. Singh
  J. Pharm. Biomed. Anal. 2016, 145, 209-218 (10.1016/j.jpba.2017.06.015) IF = 3.57
• Solvent-Free Peptide Synthesis Assisted by Microwave Irradiation: Environmentally Benign Synthesis of Bioactive Peptides.
  A. Mahindra, N. Patel, N. Bagra, R. Jain
  RSC Adv., 2014, 4, 3065-3069 (10.1039/C3RA46643D) IF = 4.04

Book Chapter

• Role of microbiome-gut-brain axis in autism spectrum disorder
  J. Chand, N. Patel, P. Khare, Editor(s): Neeraj Mishra, Anoop Kumar, Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and CNS Disorders, Academic Press, 2025, 145-160

Expertise

Analytical Chemistry

• Method development and pre-validation for qualitative/quantitative analysis of impurities in drugs and drug substances using various techniques such as HPLC, UPLC, LCMS, IC and HS/GC-FID as per ICH guidelines.
• Genotoxic impurities – trace level detection and quantification of GTIs (e.g. Alkyl nitrites) in DS and DP.
• Committed to maintaining high-quality standards by adhering to GLP, ALCOA+ principles and regulatory guidelines.

Synthetic Organic Chemistry and Computational Chemistry

• Experience of synthesis of low oxidation state compounds possessing antileishmanial and antimalarial activity.
• Experience of handling organic synthesis including air and moisture sensitive reactions and complexation reaction with metals using Schlenk line and glove box.
• Proficient in computational software such as Gaussian09, AIM, ADF, multiWFN etc. used to study chemical and physical properties of molecules.
• Experience in handling software packages for computer aided drug design (CADD) like Schrödinger Maestro; GLIDE, PyMol.

Achievements

• Presented an invited talk at IIT Delhi – October 2024.
• Received Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship (MSCA-PF), 2022.
• Received Department of Science and Technology – International Travel Grant (DST–ITS), 2016.
• Received Senior Research Fellowship (SRF-2015) from Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), Government of India.
• Secured All India Rank–03 in NIPER-JEE, 2013 for Ph.D. admission and All India Rank–213 in NIPER-JEE, 2011 for M.S. (Pharm).
• Secured All India Rank–73 (Percentile: 99.8; Total applicants appeared: 40,048) in Graduate Pharmacy Aptitude Test (GPAT), 2011.