Information

Designation: Professor
Specialization: Organic Chemistry
Field of Interest:
Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products, Heterocyclic Chemistry, Fluorescent probes and dyes 
Email
: aamersaeed@yahoo.com | asaeed@qau.edu.pk 
Phone: [Office] +92-51-9064-2128 | [Res.] +92-51-4430479 | [Cell] +92-321-5333026
Social Links: ResearchGate | ORCID

Post-doc.:  AvH Germany
Ph.D.:  AvH Germany

Research Interest

  • Synthetic Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry; Natural Products, Heterocyclic Chemistry
  • Stereoselective/ total synthesis of bioactive Natural Products; Antitumor Polyketides: Callystatin, Ratjadone; Isocoumarins, Dihydroisocoumarins, and their nitrogen, sulfur analogues.
  • Acyl thioureas: Synthesis, biological evaluation, heterocyclization, QSAR, vibrational, DFT studies of diverse
  • Design, Synthesis bioevaluation, chemo-informatics, binding analysis, Molecular docking, pharmacokinetics of Novel Nitrogen Sulphur heterocycles, bisheterocycles; Isochromanyl and coumarinyl heterocycles using hybrid pharmacophore approach.
  • Carbazole, Fluorene, and Perylene Based Materials for Organic Electronic Applications OLEDs
  • Synthesis and absorption, emission, and electrochemical studies of Flourescent and other dyes: new Rylene and Rylene azo-hybrid, Porphyrin, Xanthene, Anthocyanin, Triarylmethane; Aggregate Induced Emission
  • One-pot Multi Component Reactions, Microwave Assisted Synthesis, Aqueous Synthesis, and Mechanochemical Synthesis as a part of environment-friendly Green Chemistry.
  • Discovered several small & hybrid molecules as Enzyme Inhibitors many folds more potent than the standard drugs.
  • Development of novel drugs against MDR Gram-negative pathogens and investigation of structure-transport relationships
  • In vivo Cancer probes for bioimaging, Ions sensors, AIE materials, DSSC materials


  • Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry FRSC (UK) (2022)
  • Gold Medal PAS 2003), Dr. M. Razziuddin Siddiqi Prize in Chemistry
  • Gold Medal, Idara-e-Farough Taleem, Punjab Lahore) (2015)
  • World's Top 2% Scientists list (2020) by Stanford University https://tribune.com.pk/story/2273198/81-pakistanis-among-worlds-top-2-scientists
  • Highly cited scientists of Pakistani Universities (Ranking list published by Elsevier, 2021) Elsevier BV - August 2021 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators" (digitalcommonsdata.com) https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3
  • World's Top 2% Scientists (2022 Stanford University & Elsevier) "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators)."https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4
  • RPA awardees from 2004-2017 in category: A by PCST.
  • Alexander von Humboldt Post-Doctoral Fellow Germany (2001, 2019)
  • Fellow Royal Society of Chemistry (2022)
  • Fellow of the Chemical Society of Pakistan
  • Fellow Pakistan Academy of Sciences (2020),
  • Highest Impact Factor Award 2018, Chemical Society of Pakistan.
  • TWAS Visiting Expert Award
  • Certificate of Outstanding Research University Hannover 2019.
  • Ranked 2nd in Chemistry in Pakistan (RPA List, PCST, 2009; RPA award: Category A-1).
  • Ranked 3rd in Chemistry in Pakistan (RPA List, PCST, 2015; RPA award: Category A-1).
  • Ranked 4th in Chemistry in Pakistan (RPA List, PCST, 2016; RPA award: Category A-1).
  • Ranked 3rd in Chemistry in Pakistan (RPA List, PCST, 2017; RPA award: Category A-1).
  • Associate Editor: Frontiers in Chemistry (Impact factor 5.221, Q2): Chemical Insights into the Synthetic Chemistry of Quinazolines and Quinazolinones: Recent Advances (2019, 2021).
  • Associate Editor: Journal Exploration of Drug Science Open Exploration Publishing Inc.
  • Edited book: “Recent Advances in Industrial Biochemistry” Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  • Top cited article award 2020-2021 (Wiley Publisher)
  • Publications: 620 Impact Factor: 3500
  • Total citations: >11000 H-index 45 (Google Scholar).
  • Total citations: >9000 H-index 41 (Scopus).

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