Akhilesh Kumar Verma obtained his PhD degree in 2000 from the Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, India. He was a postdoctoral Fellow with Professor Alan R Katritzky at the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, from 2001 to 2002, and with Prof. Richard C Larock at Iowa State University of Science and Technology, Ames, Iowa, USA, from June 28, 2007 to August 31, 2008.