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Book chapters

Jawad Nasim, M.; Ali, W.; Dominguez-Alvarez, E.; da Silva Junior, E. N.; Saleem, R. S. Z.; Jacob, C., Chapter 10 Reactive Selenium Species: Redox Modulation, Antioxidant, Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activities. In Organoselenium Compounds in Biology and Medicine: Synthesis, Biological and Therapeutic Treatments, The Royal Society of Chemistry: 2018; pp 277-302. (doi: 10.1039/9781788011907-00277, ISBN: 978-1-78801-029-0)

A representative list of Publications

• Muhammad Furqan, Alishba Fayyaz, Farhat Firdous, Hadeeqa Raza, Aishah Bilal, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Syed Shahzad-ul-Hussan, Daijie Wang, Essam A Ali, Riaz Ullah*, Hidayat Hussain*, Amir Faisal* “Identification and Characterization of Quinones as Aurora Kinase Inhibitors” Journal of Natural Product Accepted (doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.1c01222)
• Umme Kalsoom, Meshari Alazmi, Syed Usama Bin Farrukh, Nawaf Alshammari, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Ibrahim Javed,* Thomas P. Davis,* Rahman S. Z. Saleem* “Structure Dependent Differential Modulation of Aβ Fibrillization by Selenadiazole-Based Inhibitors” ACS Chemical Neuroscience Article ASAP (doi: 10.1021/acschemneuro.1c00478)
• Humera Baig, Alvina Rasool, Syed Zajif Hussain, Javed Iqbal, Raja Shahid Ashraf, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Habib-ur-Rehman, Rahman S. Z. Saleem* “Synthesis, Photophysical, Electrochemical and Computational Studies of Novel 2-aminoimidazolones” Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry in press (doi: 10.1016/j.jphotochem.2022.113918)
• Usama Bin Farrukh, Aishah Bilal, Huda Zahid, Maheen Iqbal, Safia Manzoor, Farhat Firdous, Muhammad Furqan, Muhammad Azeem, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Meshari Alazmi, Xin Gao, Rahman S. Z. Saleem*, Amir Faisal* “Synthesis and evaluation of novel carboxamides capable of causing centrosome declustring and apoptosis in breast cancer cells” ChemistrySelect Accepted (doi: 10.1002/slct.202104218)
• Muhammad Usama Tariq, Hira Parveen, Muhammad Furqan, Rahim Ullah, Muhammad Muddassar, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Vassilios Bavetsias, Spiros Linardopoulos and Amir Faisal* “CCT245718, a Dual FLT3/Aurora A Inhibitor Overcomes D835Y-Mediated Resistance to FLT3 Inhibitors in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cells.” British Journal of Cancer 2021, 125 (7), 966-974 (doi: 10.1038/s41416-021-01527-2)
• M. Daniyal Ghauri, Syed Zajif Hussain, Ubaid Ullah,Rana M. Armaghan Ayaz, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Alper Kiraz M. Imran Cheema* “Detection of Aflatoxin M1 by Fiber Cavity Attenuated Phase Shift Spectroscopy” Optics Express  2021, 29(3), 3873-3881 (doi: 10.1364/OE.408975)

• Haleema Sadia Malik, Aishah Bilal, Rahim Ullah, Maheen Iqbal, Sardraz Khan, Ishtiaq Ahmed, Karsten Krohn, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Hidaya Hussain*, Amir Faisal* “Natural and Semisynthetic Chalcones as Dual FLT3 and Microtubule Polymerization Inhibitors” Journal of Natural Product 2020, 83, 10, 3111 (doi: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.0c00699)

• Rida Zahra, Muhammad Furqan, Rahim Ullah, Aziz Mithani, Rahman S. Z. Saleem and Amir Faisal* “A cell-based high-throughput screen identifies inhibitors that overcome P-glycoprotein (Pgp)-mediated multidrug resistance” PlosOne 2020, 15(6), e0233993 (doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0233993)
• Syed Usama Bin Farrukh, Ibrahim Javed, Abdul Qayyum Ather, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Meshari Alazmi, Xin Gao, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Thomas P. Davis, Pu Chun Ke, Rahman S. Z. Saleem* “Synthesis and identification of novel pryidazinylpyrazolone based diazo compounds as inhibitors of human islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation” Bioorganic Chemistry 2019, 84, 339-346 (doi: 10.1016/j.bioorg.2018.11.039)
• Sharon Riaz, Maheen Iqbal, Rahim Ullah, Rida Zahra, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Amir Faisal*, Rahman S. Z. Saleem*. “Synthesis and evaluation of novel α-substituted chalcones with potent anti-cancer activities and ability to overcome multidrug resistance” Bioorganic Chemistry 2019, 87, 123-135 (doi: 10.​1016/​j.​bioorg.​2019.​03.​014)
• Aansa Hanif, Aniqa Sardar, Meshari Alazmi, Haniya Tariq, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Xin Gao, Ghayoor A Chotana, Rahman S. Z. Saleem*,” A Novel One-Pot Three-Component Reaction for Rapid Access of Arylidene 2-aminoimidazolone Derivatives” ChemistrySelect 2019, 4, 1753-1756  (doi: 10.1002/slct.201803409)
• Safia Manzoor, Aishah Bilal, Sardraz Khan, Rahim Ullah, Sunniya Iftikhar, Abdul-Hamid Emwas, Meshari Alazmi, Xin Gao, Ali Jawaid, Rahman S. Z. Saleem*, Amir Faisal* “Identification and characterization of SSE15206, A microtubule depolymerizing agent that overcomes multidrug resistance” Scientific Reports 2018,  8, 3305 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-21642-0)
• Sunniya Iftikhar, Sardraz Khan, Aishah Bilal, Safia Manzoor, Muhammad Abdullah, Abdel-Hamid Emwas, Salim Sioud, Xin Gao, Ghayoor Abbas Chotana, Amir Faisal*, Rahman S. Z. Saleem* “Synthesis and evaluation of modified chalcone based p53 stabilizing agents” Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2017, 27, 4101 (doi: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.07.042)
• Samina Mehnaz, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Basit Yameen, Isabelle Pianet, Gregor Schnakenburg, Halina Pietraszkiewicz, Fred Valeriote, Michaele Josten, Hans-Georg Sahl, Scott G. Franzblau, Harald Gross* “Lahorenoic acids A-C, ortho-dialkyl-substituted aromatic acids from the biocontrol strain Pseudomonas aurantiaca PB-St2” Journal of Natural Product 2013, 76 (2), 135 (DOI: 10.1021/np3005166).

• Rahman S. Z. Saleem and Jetze J. Tepe* “A Concise Total Synthesis of Hymenialdisine” Tetrahedron Letters 2015, 56, 3011 (DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2014.10.022).
• Thu N.T. Nguyen, Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Micah J. Luderer, Stacy Hovde, R. Willian Henry, Jetze J. Tepe* “Radioprotection by hymenialdisine-derived checkpoint kinase 2 inhibitors” ACS Chemical Biology 2012, 7, 172 (DOI: 10.1021/cb200320c).
• Rahman S. Z. Saleem, Theresa A. Lansdell, Jetze J. Tepe* “Synthesis and evaluation of debromohymenialdisine-derived Chk2 inhibitors” Bioorganic Medicinal Chemistry 2012, 20, 1475 (DOI:10.1016/j.bmc.2011.12.054).
• Rahman S. Z. Saleem and Jetze J. Tepe* “Synthesis of 1,2,4-triazolines and triazoles utilizing oxazolones” Journal of Organic Chemistry 2010, 75, 4330-2 (DOI: 10.1021/jo100716m).