Dr. Syed Khalid Yousuf

Scientist

Medicinal Chemistry Division

CSIR-IIIM-Br. Sanatnagar, Srinagar-190005
Email: s[dot]kyousuf[at]iiim[dot]res[dot]in

Profile

Bio Sketch

Dr. Khalid is currently working as Scientist at CSIR-IIIM-Br. Srinagar. He completed PhD in synthetic organic chemistry under the supervision of Dr. S.C.Taneja. After completion of PhD, Dr. Khalid was awarded the INSPIRE faculty fellowship for five year and National postdoctoral fellowship for two years by DST-India. Dr. Khalid is working in the area of natural product and medicinal chemistry towards drug development programme.

Education

Degree	Subjects	University	Qualifying Year
Ph.D	Chemistry	CSIR-IIIM-Jammu awarded by GNDU-Amritsar	2012
M.Sc	Applied Chemistry	Bundelkhand University Jhansi-UP	2007
B.Sc	Biological Sciences	University of Kashmir	2005

Position Held

Position Held	Period	Organization
Scientist	June-2020 -Present	CSIR-IIIM-Jammu
DST-NPDF	July 2017 – July 2019	CSIR-IIIM-Jammu
INSPIRE faculty	July 2012 – July 2017	CSIR-IIIM-Jammu
Senior Research fallow	2013 – 2014	Agricultural Research station (SKRAU), Bikaner, Rajasthan

Area of Expertise

Development of new synthetic strategies for total synthesis of natural products and their analogues
Isolation, characterisation and structural modifications of natural products for lead development
Exploration of glycals as chiral pool using C-C, C-S, C-N bond forming reactions

Project Involved / Ongoing Projects

Projects

Natural product chemistry of Withania somnifera and Artemisia annua

Publications and Patents

Publications

Authors	Title	Journal
Faheem Rasool, Aijaz Ahmad, Nazar hussain, Syed khalid Yousuf Debaraj Mukherjee	One pot regioselective and stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosyl amide from glycals using vinyl azides as glycosyl acceptors	*Org. letters*, 2018, 20, 4036-4039
Tatina Madhubabu, Anil Kumar Kusunuru, Syed khalid Yousuf and Debaraj Mukherjee	Tandem regio- and diastereo-selective synthesis of halogenated C-vinyl glycosides from unactivated arylacetylenes	*Chem. Commun*., 2013, 49, 11409-11411
Anil Kumar Kusunuru, Tatina Madhubabu, Syed khalid Yousuf and Debaraj Mukherjee	Copper mediated highly stereoselective synthesis of C-glycosides from unactivated alkynes	*Chem. Commun.*, 2013, 49, 10154-10156
Hafiz Ul Alah, Faheem Rasool, Syed Khalid Yousuf	Palladium catalyzed C(sp2)-C(sp2) bond formation. A highly regio- and chemoselective oxidative Heck C-3 alkenylation of pyrones and pyridines	*RSC advances*, 2015, 5, 78958-78961
Tatina Madhubabu, Anil Kumar Kusunuru, Syed khalid Yousuf* and Debaraj Mukherjee	Zinc mediated activation of terminal alkynes: stereoselective synthesis of alkynyl glycosides	*Org Biomol Chem*. 2014, 12, 7900-7903
Syed Khalid Yousuf, Debaraj Mukherjee, Baldev singh, Subhash Chandra Taneja.	Cu-Mn Bimetallic catalyst for Huisgen [3+2]-cycloaddition	*Green Chemistry*. 2010,12,1568-1572
Syed Khalid Yousuf, Subhash Chandra Taneja, Debaraj Mukherjee	Multi-component cascade transformation of D-glucal to furan appended triazole glycoconjugates	*Journal of Organic Chemistry*. 2010,75,3097-3100
Debaraj Mukherjee, Syed Khalid Yousuf, Subhash Chandra Taneja	Domino Transformation of D-Glucal to Racemic-a-Substituted-b-Hydroxymethyl Furfuryl Derivatives	*Organic Letters*. 2008,10, 4831-4834
MallikharjunaRao Lambu, Suresh Kumar, Syed Khalid Yousuf, Deepak Kumar Sharma, Altaf Hussain, Ajay Kumar, Fayaz Malik, Debaraj Mukherjee	Medicinal chemistry of dihydropyran based medium ring macrolides related to aspergillides: selective inhibition of PI3K-alpha	*Journal of medicinal Chemistry* 2013, 56, 6122–6135
Syed Khalid Yousuf, Rabiya Majeed, Mudassier Ahmad, Payare lal Sangwan, Basant Purnima, A. K. Saxsena, K. A. Suri, Debaraj Mukherjee, Subhash Chandra Taneja	Structural modifications of withaferin-A and evaluation of in-vitro cytotoxicity; a comprehensive SAR	*Steroids*. 2011, 10–11, 1213-1222

Awards / Honours

Awards and Honours

Awarded National Postdoctoral Fellowship (NPDF) by the Department of Science and Technology (DST-India) for two years (2017-2019)
Awarded INSPIRE faculty position, by the Department of Science and Technology (DST-India) for five years (2012-2017)
Awarded the opportunity to attend the Nobel laureate meeting at Lindau Germany-2013. Was among the 26 Indian researcgers selected for the meeting.
Awarded Senior research fellowship (SRF) of CSIR, Ministry of science and technology (April 2011- July 2012).
Awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) of by the Department of Science and Technology (DST-India) Ministry of science and technology (Dec. 2010- April 2011).
Awarded the best paper award at CSIR-foundation day celebrated at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Canal Road Jammu 2009.
Awarded the first and second best paper awards at CSIR-foundation day celebrated at Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine Canal Road Jammu 2010

Group

Students

Photo	Name	Area of Interest	Education
	Shabir Ahmad Mir	Natural product modifications