Department of Chemistry
Office Number: S-144

Brief Profile
Dr. Athar Yaseen Khan is a Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Chemistry at the Forman Christian College (A Chartered University). He has over 50 years of teaching and research experience in a variety of fields of physical chemistry which included Material Science, Electrochemistry, and Molecular Spectroscopy. Dr. Khan’s current interests in research are electron transfer reactions, drug – DNA interactions, green solvents (deep eutectic solvents) and their physicochemical properties and charge transfer complexes. Dr. Athar Y. Khan has published 86 research papers in journals of repute which included Journal of American Chemical Society, Journal of Royal Chemical Society, Journal of Molecular Liquids, Spectrochimica Acta Part A (Molecular and Bimolecular Spectroscopy, ACS Omega, Electrochimica Acta etc.

Education

•  Postdoctoral Work: High Resolution Molecular Electronic Spectroscopy. State University of New York, Binghamton USA
• Ph.D. Physical Chemistry University of Southampton U.K.
• Also spent 6 weeks at the International Center Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy. 10 weeks at the University of Erlangen, Germany as DAAD scholar.

Research & Publications

1.  Fozia Iram, Abida Yasmeen, Shazma Massey, Mohammad S. Iqbal, Sumreen Asim, Misbah Irshad, Hina Zahid, Athar Y. Khan, Syed G.T. Kazimi, Synthesis of gold and silver nanoparticles by use of arabinoglucan from Lallemantia royleana, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules 191 (2021) 1137–1150.
2. Aafia Sheikh, Iqra Saleem, Safeer Ahmed, Muhammad Abbas, Athar Yaseen Khan, Investigation of physicochemical properties of NADES based on choline chloride and ascorbic acid and its binary solutions with DMSO from (298.15 to 353.15) K, J. Mol. Liquids, 364, 2022, 120038.
3. Iqra Arif, Bushra Naseem, Ather Yaseen Khan, Shahida Shujaat Thermo-acoustic approach for pesticide-plasma protein binding in colloidal system: An impact of membrane mimic structures on molecular interactions in biological systems. J. Mol. Liquids, 385, 2023, 122344.
4. Aafia Sheikh, Athar Yaseen Khan, and Safeer Ahmed, Physicochemical Properties of Choline Chloride/ Acetic Acid as a Deep Eutectic Solvent and Its Binary Solutions with DMSO at 298.15 to 353.15 K, ACS Omega, (2023)
5. Iram Nadeem, Farhat Yasmeen, Muhammad Sohail, Athar Yaseen Khan, Muhammad Nadeem Asghar, Thymoquinone-Micellar Interactions: A physico-chemical investigation at molecular level, J. Chemical Physics 580 (2024) 112198.
6. Iqra Saleem, Aafia Sheikh, Athar Yaseen Khan, Safeer Ahmed, Muhammad Abbas Physicochemical properties of ammonium acetate / propionic acid as a novel deep eutectic solvent and its binary mixtures with water in (298.15–353.15) K range, Spectrochimica Acta Part A (Molecular and Bimolecular, 313 (2024) 124144.