Faculty Profile
Dr. Muhammad Zaheer
Assistant Professor
Chemistry & Chemical Engineering
Dr. Muhammad Zaheer earned his M.Phil degree from Quaid-i-Azam University. In 2009, he was awarded with HEC Overseas Scholarship for PhD studies in Germany. He completed his degree under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rhett Kempe from the University of Bayrueth. During his PhD, he worked on the development of robust heterogeneous catalysts for sustainable chemistry applications including biomass tranformation into fuels and chemicals.
Dr. Zaheer has got published papers in the scientific journals of high impact like Chemical Society Reviews and Chemistry of Materials. He was a post doctoral fellow at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Bayreuth before joining LUMS as an assistant professor.
His research interests include the development of heterogeneous catalysts for the conversion of biomass to obtain fuels/chemicals, renewable energy generation/storage and green chemistry.
- Journal Articles
- Journal Articles
Zaheer, M. .(2016). Biological Evaluation of Newly Synthesized Schiff Bases: Crystal Structure Complemented by DFT Calculation . Journal of Chemical Society of Pakistan , Chemical Society of Pakistan , pp. 737-748
Zaheer, M. .(2016). Single-catalyst high weight-% hydrogen storage in an N-heterocycle synthesized from lignin hydrogenolysis products and ammonia . Nature Communications , Nature Publishing Group , pp. 13201
Zaheer, M. .(2016). Micro-/Mesoporous Platinum–SiCN Nanocomposite Catalysts (Pt@SiCN): From Design to Catalytic Applications . Chemistry – A European Journal , Wiley-VCH , pp. 15508-1551
Zaheer, M. .(2016). Robustly supported rhodium nanoclusters: Synthesis and applications in selective hydrogenation of lignin derived phenolic compounds . New Journal of Chemistry , Royal Society of Chemistry
Zaheer, M. .(2016). Mesoporous silica nanosphere supported platinum nanoparticles (Pt@MSN): one-pot synthesis and catalytic hydrogen generation . RSC Advances , Royal Society of Chemistry , pp. 10438-1041
Zaheer, M. .(2015). Catalytic Hydrogenolysis of Aryl Ethers: A Key Step in Lignin Valorization to Fuels and Chemicals . ACS Catalysis , American Chemical Society , pp. 1675
Zaheer, M. .(2014). Robust Heterogeneous Nickel Catalysts with Tailored Porosity for Hydrogenolysis of Aryl Ethers . ChemCatChem , Wiley , pp. 91
Zaheer, M. .(2012). Robust Microporous Monoliths with Integrated Catalytically Active Metal Sites Investigated by Hyperpolarized 129Xe NMR . Chemistry of Materials , American Chemical Society , pp. 3952
Zaheer, M. .(2012). Polymer Derived Non-oxide Ceramics Modified with Late Transition Metals . Chemical Society Reviews , Royal Society of Chemistry , pp. 5102
Zaheer, M. .(2011). The generation of palladium silicide nanoalloy particles in a SiCN matrix and their catalytic applications . Journal of Materials Chemistry , RSC , pp. 18825-1883
Zaheer, M. .(2010). Synthesis, characterization, electrochemistry and evaluation of biological activities of some ferrocenyl Schiff bases . Applied Organometallic Chemistry , John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. , pp. 61-69
Zaheer, M. .(2010). Voltammetric and spectroscopic investigations of 4-nitrophenylferrocene interacting with DNA . Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy , , pp. 1082-1087
Zaheer, M. .(2008). N-(3-Nitrobenzylidene) aniline . Acta Crystallographica section E , IUCr , pp. 2381-2382
- Journal Articles
| Title | Semester | Code |
|---|---|---|
| Analytical Chemistry I | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Molecular Symmetry I | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Chemical Problems & Reports | Fall Semester 2014-15 | 1401 |
| Inorganic Materials Chemistry | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Directed Research Project | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Chemistry Literature Seminar | Spring Semester 2014-15 | 1402 |
| Senior Project I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Analytical Chemistry I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Molecular Symmetry I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Inorganic Chemistry I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Advanced Inorganic Chemistry-I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Selected Topics in Inorganic Chemistry | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Master's Thesis I | Fall Semester 2015-16 | 1501 |
| Independent Study | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Senior Project II | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Chemical Problems & Reports | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Inorganic Materials Chemistry | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Master's Thesis II | Spring Semester 2015-16 | 1502 |
| Doctoral Thesis Research | Summer Semester 2015-16 | 1503 |
| Analytical Chemistry I | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Advanced Inorganic Chemistry-I | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Selected Topics in Inorganic Chemistry | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Doctoral Thesis Research | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Master's Thesis I | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Master's Project | Fall Semester 2016-17 | 1601 |
| Inorganic Materials Chemistry | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Doctoral Thesis Research | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Master's Thesis II | Spring Semester 2016-17 | 1602 |
| Doctoral Thesis Research | Summer Semester 2016-17 | 1603 |
| Analytical Chemistry I | Fall Semester 2017-18 | 1701 |
| Molecular Symmetry I | Fall Semester 2017-18 | 1701 |
- Past Courses
Title Semester Code Inorganic Materials Chemistry Spring Semester 2013-14 1302