Dr. Ghayoor Abbas obtained his M.Sc. in Chemistry from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. After serving as lecturer in chemistry in the Punjab Education Department/GCU Lahore for couple of years, he went to the Michigan State University, USA for his PhD studies. At MSU, he worked on the applications of iridium catalyzed aromatic C-H borylation in organic synthesis, and completed his PhD in Chemistry in 2008. He later worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, before joining SSE LUMS in fall 2009.

Dr. Ghayoor Abbas has presented his research work in various international conferences including the meetings of the American Chemical Society, the US National Organic Symposium, and the Gordon Organometallic Conference. He has a number of research publications in peer reviewed international journals as well as several patents to his credit. His current research interests include synthesis and study of new ligands for transition metal catalyzed cross coupling reactions, development of new synthetic methodologies and their applications in the synthesis of medicinally active small organic molecules, design and synthesis of new aromatic building blocks for applications in material science.

Title Publication Author Year
Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of SSE1806, a Microtubule Destabilizer That Overcomes Multidrug Resistance ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2023
Imidazolium and benzimidazolium sulfonyl salts: Versatile functional group transfer reagents Tetrahedron Letters 2023
Photocatalytic degradation of imidacloprid using Ag<inf>2</inf>O/CuO composites RSC Advances 2023
Use of 1D [Pr(BTC)(H<inf>2</inf>O)<inf>6</inf>] MOF as a Filler for Fabrication of Matrimid?? based MMMs Journal of the Chemical Society of Pakistan 2023
Amides as modifiable directing groups in electrophilic borylation Chemical Science 2023
Chemical Synthesis of Selenium-containing Peptides Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 2023
Centrosome Clustering &amp; Chemotherapy Mini-Reviews in Medicinal Chemistry 2023
Selenium-containing Peptides and their Biological Applications Current Medicinal Chemistry 2022
Synthesis and Characterization of Griseofulvin Derivatives as Microtubule-Stabilizing Agents ChemistrySelect 2022
Selenium Nanoneedles Deposited on a Pencil Graphite Electrode for Hydrazine Sensing ACS Applied Nano Materials 2022
Crystalline and porous CoSe dendrimeric architectures for efficient oxygen evolution reaction Fuel 2022
Synthesis, photophysical, electrochemical and computational studies of novel 2-aminoimidazolones with D-??-A framework Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry 2022
Iridium-Catalyzed C-H Borylation of CF<inf>3</inf>-Substituted Pyridines ACS Omega 2022
Photocatalytic degradation of paraquat dichloride in the presence of ZnO.WO<inf>3</inf> composite International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology 2022
Bacillus altitudinis MT422188: a potential agent for zinc bioremediation Bioremediation Journal 2022
Phytochemical profiling, In vitro antioxidant and identification of urease inhibitory metabolites from Erythrina suberosa flowers by GC-MS analysis and docking studies South African Journal of Botany 2021
Structure Dependent Differential Modulation of A?? Fibrillization by Selenadiazole-Based Inhibitors ACS Chemical Neuroscience 2021
Evaluation of the potential role of bacillus altitudinis mt422188 in nickel bioremediation from contaminated industrial effluents Sustainability (Switzerland) 2021
Selective CO<inf>2</inf> capture through microporous Tb(BTC)(H<inf>2</inf>O).(DMF)<inf>1.1</inf> MOF as an additive in novel MMMs fabricated from Matrimid?? 5218 Arabian Journal of Chemistry 2020
Facile synthesis of hetaryl-modified MCM-41 and targeted removal of Pb(II) ions for water purification Journal of Porous Materials 2020
Facile synthesis of NH-free 5-(hetero)aryl-pyrrole-2-carboxylates by catalytic C-H borylation and suzuki coupling Molecules 2020
One-pot iridium catalyzed c-h borylation/sonogashira cross-coupling: Access to borylated aryl alkynes Molecules 2020
C-H Borylation Catalysts that Distinguish between Similarly Sized Substituents like Fluorine and Hydrogen Organic Letters 2019
Synthesis and evaluation of novel ??-substituted chalcones with potent anti-cancer activities and ability to overcome multidrug resistance Bioorganic Chemistry 2019
Synthesis and identification of novel pyridazinylpyrazolone based diazo compounds as inhibitors of human islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation Bioorganic Chemistry 2019