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Saeed I. Khan is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science, with significant contributions in Materials Chemistry and related subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Biomedical Engineering, and Pharmacology.

The research topics that Khan has extensively addressed include Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Alkaloids synthesis and pharmacology, Chemical synthesis of alkaloids, Boron Compounds in Chemistry, and Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications.

Among their frequent coauthors are K. N. Houk, Miguel A. García-Garibay, Ieva Liepuoniute, Jordan J. Dotson, and J. Logan Bachman. These collaborations underline a multidisciplinary approach spanning experimental and theoretical aspects of chemistry and materials science.

Khan has published in several specialized venues, notably contributing multiple works to The Cambridge Structural Database. Other publication venues include the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemistry of Materials, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, and Chemistry - A European Journal.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Taming Radical Pairs in the Crystalline Solid State: Discovery and Total Synthesis of Psychotriadine, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Sterically Invariant Carborane-Based Ligands for the Morphological and Electronic Control of Metal-Organic Chalcogenolate Assemblies, 2022, Chemistry of Materials
  • Enhanced Rotation by Ground State Destabilization in Amphidynamic Crystals of a Dipolar 2,3-Difluorophenylene Rotator as Established by Solid State 2H NMR and Dielectric Spectroscopy, 2020, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
  • Intramolecular N−H⋅⋅⋅F Hydrogen Bonding Interaction in a Series of 4-Anilino-5-Fluoroquinazolines: Experimental and Theoretical Characterization of Electronic and Conformational Effects, 2021, Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Dramatic Acceleration of the Hopf Cyclization on Gold(111): From Enediynes to Peri-Fused Diindenochrysene Graphene Nanoribbons, 2024, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Porphyrin sponges: conservative of host structure in over 200 porphyrin-based lattice clathrates

    Marianne P. Byrn;Carol J. Curtis;Yu Hsiou;Saeed I. Khan

  • Synthesis and X-ray structure of a Diels-Alder adduct of C60

    Yves Rubin;Saeed Khan;Daron I. Freedberg;Chahan Yeretzian

  • Redox Control of Group 4 Metal Ring-Opening Polymerization Activity toward l-Lactide and ε-Caprolactone

    Xinke Wang;Arnaud Thevenon;Jonathan L. Brosmer;Insun Yu

  • Porphyrin sponges: structural systematics of the host lattice

    Marianne P. Byrn;Carol J. Curtis;Israel Goldberg;Yu. Hsiou

  • Synthesis of a rigid "ball-and-chain" donor-acceptor system through Diels-Alder functionalization of buckminsterfullerene (C60)

    Saeed I. Khan;Anna M. Oliver;Michael N. Paddon-Row;Yves Rubin

  • Rationalization of enantioselectivities in dialkylzinc additions to benzaldehyde catalyzed by fenchone derivatives.

    Bernd Goldfuss;Melanie Steigelmann;Saeed I. Khan;K. N. Houk

  • Unusual Luminescence of Hexapyrrolidine Derivatives of C60 with Th and Novel D3-Symmetry

    Georg Schick;Marcia Levitus;Lance Kvetko;Brent A. Johnson

  • Luminescent metal complexes featuring photophysically innocent boron cluster ligands

    Kent O. Kirlikovali;Jonathan C. Axtell;Alejandra Gonzalez;Alice C. Phung

  • Multielectron atom transfer reactions of perchlorate and other substrates catalyzed by rhenium oxazoline and thiazoline complexes: reaction kinetics, mechanisms, and density functional theory calculations.

    Lee D. Mcpherson;Markus Drees;Saeed I. Khan;Thomas Strassner

  • Triple Scission of a Six-Membered Ring on the Surface of C60 via Consecutive Pericyclic Reactions and Oxidative Cobalt Insertion

    María-José Arce;Argimiro L. Viado;Yi-Zhong An;Saeed I. Khan

  • STRUCTURE AND ASSIGNMENT OF THE LUMINESCENCE OF A NEW MIXED-LIGAND COPPER(I) POLYMER

    Maher Henary;Jeffrey L. Wootton;Saeed I. Khan;Jeffrey I. Zink

  • Tetraarylporphyrin sponges. Composition, structural systematics, and applications of a large class of programmable lattice clathrates

    Marianne P. Byrn;Carol J. Curtis;Saeed I. Khan;Philip A. Sawin

  • Template-directed synthesis of multiply mechanically interlocked molecules under thermodynamic control.

    Fabio Aricó;Theresa Chang;Stuart J. Cantrill;Saeed I. Khan

  • Self-Assembling Fullerenes for Improved Bulk-Heterojunction Photovoltaic Devices

    Robert D. Kennedy;Alexander L. Ayzner;Darcy D. Wanger;Christopher T Day

  • Symmetry and dynamics of molecular rotors in amphidynamic molecular crystals

    Steven D. Karlen;Horacio Reyes;R. E. Taylor;Saeed I. Khan

  • Precursors to Endohedral Metal Fullerene Complexes: Synthesis and X-ray Structure of a Flexible Acetylenic Cyclophane C60H18

    Yves Rubin;Timothy C. Parker;Saeed I. Khan;Christopher L. Holliman

  • The photoarrangement of alpha-santonin is a single-crystal-to-single-crystal reaction: a long kept secret in solid-state organic chemistry revealed.

    Arunkumar Natarajan;C. K. Tsai;Saeed I. Khan;Patrick Mccarren

  • Utility of Arylamido Ligands in Yttrium and Lanthanide Chemistry(1).

    William J. Evans;Mohammad A. Ansari;Joseph W. Ziller;Saeed I. Khan

  • Synthesis of a Variety of Bichromophoric “Ball-and-Chain” Systems Based on Buckminsterfullerene (C60) for the Study of Intramolecular Electron and Energy Transfer Processes

    James M. Lawson;Anna M. Oliver;Daniel F. Rothenfluh;‡ Yi-Zhong An

  • Synthesis, characterization, and coordination chemistry of the 2-azaphenalenyl radical.

    Shijun Zheng;Jie Lan;Saeed I Khan;Yves Rubin

  • Synthesis of Stable Derivatives of C62: The First Nonclassical Fullerene Incorporating a Four-Membered Ring

    Wenyuan Qian;Shih-Ching Chuang;Roberto B. Amador;Thibaut Jarrosson

Frequent Co-Authors

Yves Rubin
Yves Rubin University of California, Los Angeles
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay
Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay University of California, Los Angeles
Paula L. Diaconescu
Paula L. Diaconescu University of California, Los Angeles
J. Fraser Stoddart
J. Fraser Stoddart Northwestern University
Christopher S. Foote
Christopher S. Foote University of California, Los Angeles
Carolyn B. Knobler
Carolyn B. Knobler University of California, Los Angeles
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
M. Frederick Hawthorne
M. Frederick Hawthorne University of Missouri
Michael E. Jung
Michael E. Jung University of California, Los Angeles
Robert Bau
Robert Bau University of Southern California

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