This study reports a simple and facile route for the synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles (ZnOÀ NPs) decorated on reduced graphene oxide nanosheet (ZnOÀ NPs@r-GO) as a heterogeneous catalyst and tested over multicomponent one-pot A 3 -coupling reaction. The reduction of graphene oxide with the anchoring of ZnOÀ NPs on the r-GO nanosheet was observed through the Xray diffraction patterns, Raman, FTIR, and XPS results of the ZnOÀ NPs@r-GO sample. ZnOÀ NPs (average particle size of 3.4 � 1.5 nm) with uniform size distribution over r-GO nanosheet were substantiated through HRTEM analysis. Impressively, ZnOÀ NPs@r-GO significantly used for A 3 -coupling reaction with different aromatic aldehydes, active methylene compounds, and urea and under the optimized reaction conditions gave exceptional activity to produce synthetically valuable 3,4dihydropyrimidinones products (possessing diverse therapeutic and pharmacological properties) i. e. 97 % isolated yield of the product. In addition, excellent reusability up to 4 repeated cycles are the key advantages of the present catalyst used for this multicomponent A 3 -coupling reaction.