Dr Khalid Zaheer

# Highly-motivated and fast-learning person with more than 8 years of work experience in organic synthesis with desire to take on new challenges. Strong worth ethic, adaptability and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

• Qualified CSIR/UGC (JRF - NET) June 2014 | All India Rank - 83
• Qualified GATE, 2014 | All India Rank - 759
• UGC Junior Research Fellowship, India. 2015
• UGC Senior Research Fellowship, India 2017

• Research Scientist, Jubilant Biosys Limited, 03/2021, 06/2023, Noida, Uttar Pradesh
• Research Scientist, PI Industries Limited, 07/2023, Present, Udaipur, India

• Dr. Kishor Mohanan, Principal Scientist, Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division, CSIR - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, kishor.mohanan@cdri.res.in
• Dr. Koneni Venkata Sashidhara, Principal Scientist, Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division, CSIR - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, kv_sashidhara@cdri.res.in
• Dr. Prem Prakash Yadav, Principal Scientist, Medicinal & Process Chemistry Division, CSIR - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 226031, pp_yadav@cdri.res.in

Managing a team of 4-6 FTEs in multiple FTE project/FFS for drug discovery projects. 

Hands on experience in synthesis projects of heterocycles, nucleoside functionalization, carbohydrate, long chain lipids synthesis (MW>1500) as well as expertise in purification techniques for milligram to gram scale by using chromatographic techniques, Combi flash chromatography, trituration, distillation, etc. 

Expertise in doing projects comprising multistep synthesis (>12 steps) in small to large quantities of chemical entities for drug discovery. 

Literature survey in the field and identification of synthetic routes. Expertise in characterization of products through interpretation of various analytical data 1H, 13C, 19F-NMR, 2D-NMR (HMBC, HSQC), MS, GCMS, UV, FTIR Elemental analysis. Good exposure in carrying out various named reactions, including air and moisture sensitive as well as metal-catalyzed in both mg-gram scale. 

Well experienced in carrying out high pressure reactions in Parr shaker and other high pressure autoclave reactors.

Experienced in vapour phase fluorination via flow chemistry reactor operation employing heterogeneous catalysis in production of fluorinated compounds (process development of pharma API and fine chemicals) using HF gas.

• Participated and presented a poster in "7th International Current Trends in Drug Discovery Research (CTDDR 2019)'' Symposium at CDRI, Lucknow in 2019.
• Participated and presented a poster in "XV J-NOST'' Conference at Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, in 2019.
• Participated and presented a poster in "24th ISCBC-2018'' Conference at Manipal University, Jaipur, in 2018.

Ph.D. (Organic & Medicinal Chemistry), 01/2015, 09/2020, Novel Carbon-Carbon Bond-forming Reactions Employing Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for the Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of Arylfluoroamides as Antifilarial Agents.

Advisor-Dr. Kishor Mohanan

CSIR - Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh India.

Date of Birth: 06/20/1991

• Base-mediated Intramolecular Cyclization of α-Nitroethylallenic Esters as a New Synthetic Route to 5-Hydroxy-3-pyrrolin-2-ones, Vaishanv, N. K.; Zaheer, M. K.; Kumar, S.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., J. Org. Chem., 2021, doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c00109
• Utilization of Unsymmetric Diaryliodonium Salts in α-Arylation of α-Fluoroacetoacetamides, Zaheer, M. K.; Vaishanv, N. K.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., Chem. Asian J., 2020, 15, 4297
• Metal-free α-arylation of α-fluoro-α-nitroacetamides employing diaryliodonium salts, Zaheer, M. K.; Gupta, E.; Kant, R; and Mohanan, K., Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 153
• Substrate-controlled, PBu3-catalyzed annulation of phenacylmalononitriles with allenoates enables tunable access to cyclopentenes, Vaishanv, N. K.; Chandrasekharan, S. P.; Zaheer, M. K.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., Chem. Commun., 2020, 56, 10.1039/d0cc04688d
• Phosphine-Catalyzed β-Selective Conjugate Addition of α-Fluoro-β-ketoamides to Allenic Esters, Vaishanv, N. K.; Zaheer, M. K.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., Eur. J. Org. Chem., 2019, 6138-6142
• Additive-free regio- and diastereoselective construction of fully-substituted isoxazolidines employing diazo compounds, Gupta, E.; Zaheer, M. K.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., Org. Chem. Front., 2019, 6, 1109
• Efficient α-Arylation of α-Fluoro-α-nitrosulfonylmethanes Employing Diaryliodonium Salts, Zaheer, M. K.; Vaishanv, N. K.; Kumar, A.; Mishra, S.; Kant, R.; Mohanan, K., Synthesis, 2023, 55, 20, 3382

• Chemistry of Hypervalent iodine reagent/Diazo compounds/Allenic esters
• Medicinal Chemistry

I hereby declare that the information given above is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief. Place - Udaipur, India Date - 03/20/2024 Mohd Khalid Zaheer

• Playing cricket, Listening music and books reading.