Prof. F. Nawaz Khan, FRSC (London)

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Biography

Prof. Nawaz Khan obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Madras (2003) under the guidance of Prof. C. Narayana Pillai, former Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT, Madras.

Dr. Khan served as a postdoctoral fellow (2003-2004) under the supervision of Prof. Yoshinori Yamamoto at Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan. He had served as well as a Research professor (2010, 2014) at Korea Basic Science Institute, Busan, South Korea (https://www.kbsi.re.kr/eng).

Prof. Khan’s research activity focuses on organic synthesis and methodologies employing environmentally benign homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts, metal nanocatalysts.

Dr Khan's group also focusses on C-H activation and functionalization studies and has authored more than 200 publications, graduated 19 Ph.D. students, 1 Ph.D. student submitted the thesis. And guiding more 5 Ph.D students now.

Education

2003 - Ph. D from University of Madras
1997 - M. Sc from University of Madras
1995- B. Sc from University of Madras

Experience

July 2022 to till dated, Professor Higher academic grade, Organic Chemistry, Vellore Institute of Technology.
July 2018 to June 2022 (4 years), Professor Grade 2, Organic Chemistry, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
Sept 201 2 to June 2018 (6 years) , Professor, Organic Chemistry, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
April 2014 to April 2015. Research Professor, KBSI, South Korea
Oct-2010- Oct-2011, Research Professor, KBSI, South Korea
Oct-2009- Aug 2012, (3 years), Associate Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
Sep-2009-October 2010, Division Leader Organic Chemistry Division, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
Jan 2009-Oct -2009 (3/4 year), Assistant Professor Senior, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
2005 -2008 (3½ Years), Senior Lecturer (Chemistry), Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT)
2004 -2005 (1/2 Year), Lecturer (Chemistry), The New College, Chennai, Madras University
2000-2004 (4 Years), Lecturer (Chemistry), IslamiahCollege, Vaniyambadi, Madras University
1997 - 1999 (2 Years), Junior Research Fellow (JRF) & Senior Research Fellow (SRF), CECRI, Chennai, under the supervision of Dr. C.N.Pillai former Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT.

Representative Publications

Top 10 Journals Published

Sl.No Journal Title No of Papers Imp Factor

1 Environmental Chemistry Letters 1 13.615

2 Food Chemistry 1 9.231

3 Chinese Chemical Letters 2 8.455

4 Environmental Technology and Innovation 1 7.758

5 Organic Letters 1 6.072

6 European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 1 5.112

7 Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical 1 5.062

8 Chemistry - An Asian Journal 1 4.839

9 Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 2 4.326

10 ACS Omega 1 4.132

Chemistry- an Asian journal , 15, 2020, 4153-4167
Asian Journal of Orgnanic Chemistry, 9, 2020, 1889-1900
Medicianal Chemistry Research, 2020
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 2020, 2888-2903
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 2020, 5394-5410
European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020, 2020, 7035-7050
Organic Letters, 22, 2020, 1726-1730
RSC Advances, 10, 2020, 12262-12271
ChemistrySelect, 5, 2020, 2610-2617
ChemistrySelect, 5, 2020, 6470-6474
ChemistrySelect, 5, 2020, 1658-1662
Silicon, 2020,
Silicon, 2020
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2021,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2021,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2021,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2020,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2020,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2020,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2020,
Polycyclic aromatic compounds, 2020,
ACS Omega 4 , 2019, (5), 8046-8055
Environmental technology & innovation 2019, 13, 197-210
Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, 2019
Chemistry Select 2019, 4 (33), 9573-9577
Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry, 2019
Catalysis Letters 2017,
Environmental Chemisty Letters 2017,
Chinese Chemical Letters 2017,
Molecular Biosystems 2016,
Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56, 4744–4748
Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56 (1), 187-191
Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56 (6), 784–788
Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56 (7), 941
RSC Advances 2015, 5 (5), 3781-3785
RSC Advances 2015, 5 (22), 17257-17268
RSC Advances 2015, 5 (46), 36902-36905
RSC Advances 2014, 4 (84), 44408-44417
RSC Advances 2014, 4 (101), 58011-58018
RSC Advances 2014, 4 (100), 57016-57025
RSC Advances 2014, 4 (40259-40268)
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2015, 25 (5), 1100–1103
Chinese Chemical Letters 2015, 26 (5), 567
Medicinal Chemistry Research 2014, 23 (11), 4749-4760
Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 2014, 53 (26), 10814
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2014, 53 (19), 7866–7870
Tetrahedron Letters 2014, 55 (41), 5656-5659
Tetrahedron Letters 2014, 55, 3717–3720
Med Chem Res 2013, 22, 4810–4817
European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences 2013, 49 (2), 227-232
Medicinal Chemistry Research 2013, 22, pp 5408-5417
Chemical biology & drug design 2013, 82 (6), 732-742
Monatshefte für Chemie-Chemical Monthly 2012, 143 (3), 485-489
Parasitology research 2012, 111 (5), 2189-2199
Journal of Applied Electrochemistry 2012, 42 (1), pp 41
Food chemistry 2012, 135 (2), 343–347
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (5), 743-746
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (3), 345-351
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (5), 707-713
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (6), 883-889
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (4), 495-503
Chemical Papers 2011, 65 (6), 863-872
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical 2011, 338 (1), 92-104
Tetrahedron Letters 2011, 52 (20), 2566-2570
Medicinal Chemistry Research 2011, 20 (6), 732-737
Journal of chemical sciences 2010, 122 (5), 677-685
Tetrahedron Letters 2010, 51 (33), 4340-4343
Tetrahedron Letters 2010, 51 (17), 2309-2311
Chemical Papers 2010, 64 (5), 678-682
Chemical Papers 2010, 64 (6), 812-817
CrystEngComm 2009, 11 (2), 284-291
Catalysis Communications 2009, 10 (5), 433-436
Tetrahedron 2009, 65 (46), 9575-9582
Arkivoc 2009, 13, 161-169
Canadian Journal of Chemistry 2008, 86 (11), 1019-1025
Synthetic Communications 2007, 37 (20), 3649-3656
Tetrahedron letters 2004, 45 (46), 8497-8499
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical 2003,195 (1), 139-145
Tetrahedron letters 2002, 43 (38), 6807-6809