V. A.  Kumar and Ganesh, K. N., ?Structure-editing of nucleic acids for selective targeting of RNA?, Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 715-726, 2007.

V.  Kotikam and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis and properties of 2 `-O-[R- and S-(2-amino-3-methoxy)propyl] (R-AMP and S-AMP) nucleic acids?, Tetrahedron, vol. 69, no. 31, pp. 6404-6408, 2013.

N. D.  Erande, Gunjal, A. D., Fernandes, M., Gonnade, R. G., and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis and structural studies of S-type/N-type-locked/frozen nucleoside analogues and their incorporation in RNA-selective, nuclease resistant 2 `-5 ` linked oligonucleotides?, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 746-757, 2013.

S.  Bagmare, Varada, M., Banerjee, A., and Kumar, V. A., ?Synthesis of all four nucleoside-based beta-amino acids as protected precursors for the synthesis of polyamide-DNA with alternating alpha-amino acid and nucleoside-beta-amino acids?, Tetrahedron, vol. 69, no. 3, pp. 1210-1216, 2013.

K. M.  Patil, Naik, R. J., Vij, M., Yadav, A. K., Kumar, V. A., Ganguli, M., and Fernandes, M., ?Second generation, arginine-rich (R-X `-R)(4)-type cell-penetrating alpha-omega-alpha-peptides with constrained, chiral omega-amino acids (X `) for enhanced cargo delivery into cells?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, vol. 24, no. 17, pp. 4198-4202, 2014.

T.  Bose and Kumar, V. A., ?Simple molecular engineering of glycol nucleic acid: progression from self-pairing to cross-pairing with cDNA and RNA?, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, vol. 22, no. 21, pp. 6227-6232, 2014.