Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid - Hazara University Mansehra

Professional Experience:
Obaid­ur­Rahman Abid
Assistant Professor (Hazara University Mansehra)
Address: House # D-141,Ghazi kot-Township, Mansehra.
Email: obaid_chem@yahoo.com
Phone: 0092-333-5503410
Date of Birth: August 7, 1977
Academics:
2008-2010
Ph.D. Organic Synthesis, University of Rostock, Germany.
Thesis Title: Synthesis of Functionalized 4-Chlorophthalates, 2-Naphthoates,
2-Fluorobiaryls, and Arylpyridines by Cyclocondensation Reactions of 1,3-
Bis(silyloxy)-1,3-butadienes and Related Dienes and by Palladium(0)-
Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions.
2004-2006 M.Phill, Organic Chemistry, Quaid-I-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan.
Thesis Title: “A Partial Synthesis of Thunberginol C of Hydrangea macrophylla
and Unnatural 3-(2’’/3’’/4’’-Chlorobenzyl)isocoumarins and (dl)-3-
(2’’/3’’/4’’-Chlorobenzyl)-3,4-dihydroisocoumarins”
1998-2001 M.Sc.Chemistry (Specialization: Organic Chemistry), Punjab University Lahore,
Pakistan.
1995-1997 B.Sc. Punjab University, Pakistan Major Subjects: Chemistry, Zoology, Botany
Till 1995 Higher secondary School (H.Sc.)
• Served as “Q.C Analyst” in the Q.C labs of Shaigan Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.
Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from August 2002 to August 2004.
• Serving in Hazara University Mansehra as Assistant Professor in Department of
Chemistry from 26-01-2011 till now.
Research Interests:
� Synthetic Organic Chemistry
� Homogeneous Catalysis

Research Impact Factor:
� Almost 30 excluding ACS.Med.Chem.Lett. publication.
References:
Prof. Dr. Peter Langer,
Institute of Chemistry,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
Albert-Einstein St. 3a,
18059 Rostock, Germany
Tel./Fax: +49 (0)381 498 64 10 /12
Email: peter.langer@uni-rostock.de
Dr. Dirk Michalik,
Leibniz-Institute Fur Katalyse e.V
An der Universitat Rostock
Albert-Einstein St. 29a,
D-18059 Rostock, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)381 498 6353
Email: dirk.michalik@catalysis.de
Dr. Martin Hein
Institute of Chemistry,
Department of Organic Chemistry,
Albert-Einstein St. 3a,
18059 Rostock, Germany
Tel./Fax: +49 (0)381 498 64 28 /29
Email: martin.hein@uni-rostock.de
List of Publications
1. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Khalid, Muhammad T. Hussain, Muhammad Hanif,
Ghulam Qadeer, Nasim H. Rama, Alexander Kornienko, Khalid M. Khan. “Synthesis and anticancer,
anti-metastatic evaluation of some new fluorinated isocoumarins and 3,4-dihydroisocoumarins”
J. Fluorine Chem., 2012, 135, 240-245.
2. Muhammad Nawaz, Ihsan Ullah, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Alexander Villinger, Peter
Langer*.“Synthesis of 2,4-Diarylbenzophenonesthrough Site SelectiveSuzuki-Miyaura
Reactions of Bis(Triflates) of 2,4-Dihydrobenzophenones”, Eur. J. Org. Chem. 2011, 33, 6670.
3. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Rasheed Ahmad
Khera,Viktor Iaroshenkoa and Peter Langer*, “Synthesis of Functionalized Arylpyridines and -
pyrimidines by Domino [4+2] / Retro [4+2] Cycloadditions of Electron-Rich Dienes with
Alkynylpyridines and –pyrimidines”, Org. Biomol. Chem., 2011, 9, 2185–2191.
4. Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Adeel, Muhammad Nawaz,
Verena Wolf, Alexander Villinger, Peter Langer*, “Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Biaryls

y Condensation of 2-Fluoro-1,3-bis(silyloxy)-1,3-dienes with 3-Cyanochromones and
Subsequent Domino ′Retro-Michael / Aldol / Fragmentation′”, J. Org. Chem., 2010, 75, 8315–
8318.
5. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Adeel, Naseem
Hasan Rama, Alexander Villinger, Peter Langer*. “Synthesis of 3,5-Diaryl-4-Chlorophthalates by 4+2
Cycloadition of 1-Ethoxy-2-Chloro-1,3-bis(trimethylsiloxy)-1,3-Diene with Dimethyl
Acetylenedicarboxylate and Subsequent Site-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions”, Tetrahedron Letters,
2010, 51, 657-660.
6. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Muhammad Nawaz,Asad Ali, Nasim
Hasan Rama, Alexander Villinger and Peter Langer*. “Synthesis of 1,4-Diaryl-2-naphthoates
based on Site-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions”, Tetrahedron Letters, 2010, 51, 1541-1544.
7. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Tariq Mahmood Babar, Farukh Iftakhar Ali, Shahzad Ahmed,
Abdul Wadood, Nasim Hasan Rama*, Reaz Uddin, Zaheer -ul-Haq, Ajmal Khan, and M. Iqbal
Choudhary. “Identification of Novel Urease Inhibitors by High-Throughput Virtual and in Vitro
Screening”, ACS Med. Chem. Lett., 2010, 1, 145–149.
8. Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Muhammad Nawaz,Muhammad Adeel,
Alexander Villinger, Peter Langer*. “Synthesis of 3,5-Diaryl-4-fluorophthalates by 4+2
Cycloaddition and Subsequent Site-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions”, Synlett, 2010, 2, 0195-
0198.
9. Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Munawar Hussain, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Asad Ali, Ihsan
Ullah, Dhafer Saber Zinad, Peter Langer*. “One-Pot Synthesis of Unsymmetrical 2,3-
Diarylindoles by Site-Selective Suzuki–Miyaura Reactions of N-Methyl-2,3-dibromoindole”,
Synlett, 2010, 3, 411-414.
10. Muhammad Nawaz, Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Obaid-ur-Rehman Abid, Rasheed Ahmad
Khera, Alexander Villinger, Peter Langer*. “Synthesis of functionalized p-terphenyls based on

Side Selective Suzuki Cross Coupling Reactions of bis (triflates) of 2,5-Dihydroxybenzoate”,
Synlett, 2010, 1, 150-152.
11. Rasheed Ahmad Khera, Rasheed Ahmad, Ihsan Ullah, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Olumide
Fatunsin, Muhammad Sher, Alexander Villinger, and Peter Langer*. “Cyclization versus
Elimination Reactions of 5-Aryl-5-hydroxy-1,3-diones. One-pot Synthesis of 6-Aryl-2,3dihydro-4H-pyran-4-ones”
Helv. Chim. Acta., 2010, 93, 1705-1715.
12. Muhammad Nawaz, Rasheed Ahmad Khera, Imran Malik, Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Obaidur-Rahman
Abid, Alexander Villinger, Peter Langer*. “Synthesis of 3,4-Diarylbenzophenones
by Site-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions of 3,4-Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy)benzophenone”.
Synlett, 2010, 6, 979-981.
13. Muhammad Farooq Ibad, Nadi Eleya, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Ahmed Mahal, Munawar
Hussain, Alexander Villinger and Peter Langer*. “Site-Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Reactions of
1,4 and 3,5- Bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyloxy)-2-naphthoates”, Synthesis, 2011, 13, 2101-2116.
14. Obaid-Ur-Rehman Abid, Ghulam Qadeer, Nasim Hasan Rama*, AlesRuzicka and Zdenka
Padelkova,“3-(3-Chlorobenzyl)-1H-isochromen-1-one”,Acta Cryst. E64, 2008, 2018.
15. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Ghulam Qadeer, Nasim Hasan Rama* and Ales Ruzicka,“2-[(4-
Chlorobenzyl)carbonylmethyl]benzoic acid”,Acta Cryst., E64, 2008, 2205.
16. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Ghulam Qadeer, Nasim Hasan Rama* and Ales Ruzicka,“1-(3-
Chlorobenzyl)-5-iodoindoline-2,3-dione”,Acta Cryst., E64, 2008, 2223.
17. Tariq Mahmood Babar, Ghulam Qadeer, Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Nasim Hassan Rama and
Ales Ruzicka. “3-(3-Fluorobenzyl)-1H-isochromen-1-one” , Acta Cryst. E64, 2008, o2266
18. Obaid-ur-Rahman Abid, Ghulam Qadeer, Nasim Hasan Rama* and Wai-YeungWong,
“5-Methoxyindan-1-one”,Acta Cryst., E63, 2007, 165–166.

19. Obaid-Ur-Rehman Abid, Nasim Hasan Rama*, Ghulam Qadeer, Gul Shahzada Khan and
Xiao-Ming Lu,“3-(2-Chlorobenzyl)isocoumarin”,Acta Cryst., E62, 2006, 2895–2896.
20. S. Hamid, Obaid-Ur-Rehman, A.B. Jasra and A.A. Mughal. “Studies on Fatty Acid
composition of fixed oil extracted from canola and rapeseeds for Erucic Acid content”
Jour.Chem.Soc.Pak. 2002, Vol. 24, No. 4, 298-301.
Projects Approved
Have an approved project of Rs. 0.5 million under progress funded by HEC having title
“Synthesis and biological evaluation of some new 1,3,4-thiadiazole, 1,3,4-oxadiazole and 1,2,4triazole
derivatives”