Areas of Specialization

Ionic liquids

C-nucleosides

Carbohydrate based organogelator

Selected Publications

Newly designed pyridine and piperidine based Ionic Liquids: Aggregation behavior in ESI-MS and catalytic activity in C-C bond formation reactions,
Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2018,
ISSN 0167-7322,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.09.083.
(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167732218336821)

Synthesis and bio-molecular study of (+)-NAcetyl-α-amino acid dehydroabietylaminederivative for the selective therapy hepatocellular carcinoma, Muhammad Ayaz Mustufa, Cigdem Ozen,Imran Ali Hashmi, Afshan Aslam, Jameel Ahmed Baig, Gokhan Yildiz, Shoaib Muhammad, Imam Bakhsh Solangi, Naim ul Hasan Naqvi, Mehmet Ozturk and Firdous Imran Ali, BMC Cancer (2016) 16:883, DOI 10.1186/s12885-016-2942-5.

Synthesis of Thiosalicylate based Hydrophobic Ionic Liquids and their applications in Metal Extraction from aqueous solutions, Shoaib Muhammad, Firdous I. Ali, Afshan Asalam, Viqar Uddin Ahmad, Ahmad N. Khan and Imran A. Hashmi, J. of Chem. Soc. Pakistan, 2015, 37 (3), 535-540. 

Synthesis and characterization of Low Molecular Weight Organogelators derived from amide derivatives of N-acetylglycine, Firdous Imran Ali, Rabel Shaikh, Ahmed Bari, Shoaib Muhammad and Imran Ali Hashmi, J. of Chem. Soc. Pakistan, 2018, 40 (6), Accepted to be published in December 2018.