Research Interests
Organic synthesis methodology, Medicinal and Radiopharmaceutical probes synthesis
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Research
- Mohammed Waheed, Naseem Ahmed and Mohammed Issa Alahmdi, K2S2O8 -Mediated Efficient Oxidative Deoximation of Flavonoid Oximes under Mild Reaction Conditions Chemistry Select, 2019, 4, 7572-7576.
- Danish Khan, Meshari A Alsharif, Naseem Ahmed, SeO2 Mediated Synthesis of Selected Heterocycles by Oxidative C-C Bond Cleavage of Acetophenone Derivatives Chemistry Select, 2019, 4, 7585-7590.
- Mohammed Waheed, Naseem Ahmed and Mohammed Issa Alahmdi, PhI(OAc)2-Mediated One-Pot Synthesis and their Antibacterial Activity of Flavone and Coumarin Based Isoxazoles Under Mild Reaction Condition Chemistry Select, 2019, 4, 1872-1878.
- Meshari A Alsharif, Danish Khan, Naseem Ahmed, Pharmacological activities of novel chromene derivatives as calcium/calmodulin dependent protein kinase IV(CAMKIV) inhibitors, Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry 2019 (Submitted).
- Muzey Bahta, Naseem Ahmed, A novel 1,8-naphthalimide as highly selective naked-eye and ratiometric fluorescent sensor for detection of Hg2+ ions Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology, A: Chemistry 2019, 373, 154-161.
- Iram Parveen, Danish Khan and Naseem Ahmed, Regioselective Hydrodehalogenation of Aromatic α- and β-Halo carbonyl Compounds by CuI in Isopropanol European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2019, 759-764.
- Iram Parveen, Naseem Ahmed, Danish Idrees, Parvez Khan, Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan, A Route to Highly Functionalized stereospecific trans-Aminated Aurones from 3-bromoflavones with aniline and N-phenyl urea via a Domino Aza Michael ring opening and cyclization reactions, Synthesis, 2019, 51 (4), 960-970.
- Iram Parveen, Naseem Ahmed, Sher Ali, Parvez Khan, Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan, Synthesis, Molecular docking and Inhibition studies of novel 3-N-aryl substituted-2-heteroarylchromones targeting Microtubule Affinity Regulating Kinase 4 Inhibitors, Eur. J. Med. Chem. 2018, 159, 166-177.
- Mohammed Waheed, Mohammed Issa Alahmdi and Naseem Ahmed, One-Pot Synthesis of 1,5-Diketones from 3-acetyl-4-Hydroxycoumarin and Effective Cyclization to Unexpected 3, 4-dihydropyridines, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, 2018, 16(18), 3428-3437.
- Danish Khan, Mohammed Issa Alahmdi and Naseem Ahmed, KOtBu-Mediated Aza-Michael Addition of Aromatic Amines or N-phenyl urea to 3-nitro-2-phenyl-2H-chromenes and Sequel aerobic dehydrogenation, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2018, 3454–3463.
- Shaily; Kumar, A.; Parveen, I.; Ahmed, N., “Highly selective and sensitive Coumarin-triazole based fluorometric turn-on sensor for detection of Pb2+ ion” Luminescence 2018, 33(4), 713-721.
- Muzey Bahta, Naseem Ahmed, Design and synthesis of 1,4-benzothiazine hydrazide as selective and sensitive colorimetric and turn-on fluorometric sensor for Hg2+ detection in aqueous medium, Journal of Photochemistry & Photobiology, A: Chemistry 2018, 357, 41-48.
13. Sumit Kumar, and Naseem Ahmed, "Microwave assisted highly efficient one-pot multi-component synthesis of novel 2-(tetrasubstituted-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-4H-chroman-4-ones catalyzed by heterogeneous reusable silica gel supported polyphosphoric acid (PPA/SiO2) J. Saudi Chemical Society 2018, 22(2), 136-145.
14. Shaily, Ajay Kumar and Naseem Ahmed, Coumarin-chalcone hybrid as selective and sensitive colorimetric and turn-on fluorometric sensor for Cd2+ detection, New Journal of Chemistry, 2017, 41(23), 14746-14753.
15. Mohammed Waheed, Mohammed Issa Alahmdi and Naseem Ahmed, An Efficient Synthesis of 2,4,5-Trisubstituted and 1,2,4,5-Tetrasubstituted Imidazoles Using Dihydroquinolines as Novel Organocatalyst, Chemistry Select, 2017, 2(26), 7946-7950.
16. Iram Parveen, Naseem Ahmed, Danish Idrees, Parvez Khan, Md. Imtaiyaz Hassan, Synthesis, estrogen receptor binding affinity and molecular docking of pyrimidine-piperazine-chromene and -quinoline conjugates Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2017, 27(18), 4493-4499.
17. Danish Khan, Mohammed Issa Alahmdi and Naseem Ahmed, PhI(OAc)2 mediated an efficient Knoevenagel reaction and their synthetic application for coumarin derivatives, Tetrahedron Letters 2017, 58(32), 3183-3187.
18. Mohammed Waheed and Naseem Ahmed, Pd/Indanone based ligands: an efficient catalyst system for Ullmann-type, Suzuki-Miyaura, and Mizoroki-Heck cross-coupling reactions with aryl tosylates and aryl halides, Synthesis, 2017, 49, 4372-4382.
19. Shaily, Ajay Kumar and Naseem Ahmed, An indirect approach for CN- detection: Development of "Naked-Eye" Hg2+ induced turn-off fluorescence and turn-on cyanide sensing via Hg2+ displacement approach. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2017, 56 (22), 6358-6368.
20. Iram Parveen, Naseem Ahmed, CuI mediated synthesis of heterocyclic flavone-benzofuran fused derivatives Tetrahedron Letters 2017, 58(23), 2302-2305.
21. Nishant Verma, Sumit Kumar, Naseem Ahmed, LiBr/β-CD/IBX/ H2O-DMSO: A new approach for one pot biomimetic regioselective ring opening of chalcone epoxides to bromohydrins and conversion to 1,2,3-triketones Synth. Comm. 2017, 47(11), 1110-1120.
22. Kumar, Sumit; Verma, Nishant; Zubair, Swaleha; Faisal, Syed Mohd.; Kazmi, Shadab; Chakraborty, Sudipta; Owais, M.; Naseem Ahmed Design and Synthesis of Novel Nonsteroidal Phytoestrogen-based Probes as Potential Biomarker: Evaluation of Anticancer Activity and Docking Studies J. Heterocyclic Chemistry 2017, 54(4), 2242-2257.
23. Shaily, Ajay Kumar and Naseem Ahmed, Imidazo[1,2-a]pyridine substituted coumarin as a selective ratiometric sensor for Cu2+ ion, Supramolecular Chemistry, 2017, 29(2), 146-152.
24. Shaily; Kumar, Ajay; Kumar, Sumit; Ahmed, Naseem 'Naked-eye' colorimetric/fluorimetric detection of F- ions by biologically active 3-((1H-indol-3-yl)methyl)-4-hydroxy-2H-chromen-2-one derivatives RSC Advances 2016, 6 (109), 108105-108112.
25. Naseem Ahmed, Chapter: Synthetic Advances in the Indane Natural Product Scaffolds as Drug Candidates Studies in Natural Products Chemistry 12/2016; 51. DOI:10.1016/B978-0-444-63932-5.00008-5. 383-434.
26. Sumit Kumar, Nishant Verma, Iram Parveen and Naseem Ahmed, A green, solvent-free, microwave assisted, high yielding YbCl3catalysed deprotection of THP/MOM/Ac/Ts ethers of chalcone epoxide and 2’-aminochalcone and their sequel cyclization J. Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2016, 53(6), 2111-2122.
27. Mohammed Waheed and Naseem Ahmed, Coumarin Based Novel Ligands in the Suzuki-Miyaura and Mizoroki-Heck Cross-Couplings under Aqueous Medium Tetrahedron Letters 2016, 57(33), 3785-3789.
15. Nishant Verma, Sumit Kumar, Naseem Ahmed, Asymmetric Organocatalytic Synthesis of 3-Benzofuranones through 5-Exo-trig cyclization of 4-Nitroaryl olefins, Tetrahedron Letters 2016, 57(31), 3547-3550.
28. Sumit Kumar and Naseem Ahmed, β-Cyclodextrin/IBX in water: Highly facile biomimetic one pot deprotection of THP/MOM/Ac/Ts ethers and concomitant oxidative cleavage of chalcone epoxides and oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols, Green Chemistry, 2016, 18(3), 648-656.
29. Ali, Muntjeer; Gani, Khalid M.; Kazmi, Absar A.; Naseem Ahmed, Degradation of aldrin and endosulfan in rotary drum and windrow composting, Journal of Environmental Science and Health, Part B: Pesticides, Food Contaminants, and Agricultural Wastes 2016, 51(5), 278-286.
30. Nishant Verma, Sumit Kumar, and Naseem Ahmed, A facile access to novel heterocyclic analogues of chalcone from newly synthesized ketone containing isoxazole and benzoxazinone ring, RSC Advances, 2016, 6(56), 51183-51191.
31. Sumit Kumar, and Naseem Ahmed, "Microwave assisted highly efficient one-pot multi-component synthesis of novel 2-(tetrasubstituted-1H-pyrrol-3-yl)-4H-chroman-4-ones catalyzed by heterogeneous reusable silica gel supported polyphosphoric acid (PPA/SiO2) J. Saudi Chemical Society 2016, accepted.
32. Sumit Kumar, Nishant Verma, Nikhil Kumar, Alok Patel, Partha Roy, Vikas Pruthi, Naseem Ahmed Design, Synthesis, Molecular docking and Biological studies of Novel Phytoestrogen-Tanaproget hybrids, Synthetic Communication 2016, 46(5), 460-474.
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