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Daesung Lee is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of chemistry, with a particular emphasis on organic chemistry. Within this domain, their work spans multiple subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, hematology, and biomaterials.

Their main research topics include catalytic alkyne reactions, synthetic organic chemistry methods, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Other highlighted areas are cyclization and aryne chemistry, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, and chemical synthesis related to alkaloids.

Recent publications by Daesung Lee include:

  • "Modern Palladium-Catalyzed Transformations Involving C-H Activation and Subsequent Annulation" (2022, ACS Catalysis)
  • "Ruthenabenzene: A Robust Precatalyst" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Aryne-Based Multicomponent Coupling Reactions" (2020, Synlett)
  • "Photostable and Orthogonal Solvatochromic Fluorophores for Simultaneous In Situ Quantification of Multiple Cellular Signaling Molecules" (2020, ACS Chemical Biology)
  • "Alkyne Metathesis" (2020, Organic Reactions)

Daesung Lee has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Siyuan Su, Donald J. Wink, Yuanzhi Xia, Yongjia Lin, and Erandi Liyanage Perera.

Their work appears regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Pairwise use of complexity-generating reactions in diversity-oriented organic synthesis.

    Daesung Lee;Jason K. Sello;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • The Pinene Path to Taxanes. 6. A Concise Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Taxol

    Paul A. Wender;Neil F. Badham;Simon P. Conway;Paul E. Floreancig

  • The Pinene Path to Taxanes. 5. Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Versatile Taxane Precursor

    Paul A. Wender;Neil F. Badham;Simon P. Conway;Paul E. Floreancig

  • Orthogonal lipid sensors identify transbilayer asymmetry of plasma membrane cholesterol.

    Shu Lin Liu;Ren Sheng;Jae Hun Jung;Li Wang

  • Silver-mediated fluorination, trifluoromethylation, and trifluoromethylthiolation of arynes

    Kung Pern Wang;Sang Young Yun;Phani Mamidipalli;Daesung Lee

  • Alkane C–H Insertion by Aryne Intermediates with a Silver Catalyst

    Sang Young Yun;Kung Pern Wang;Nam Kyu Lee;Phani Mamidipalli

  • Reactions of arynes promoted by silver ions

    Rajdip Karmakar;Daesung Lee

  • Search for solutions to the reactivity and selectivity problems in enyne metathesis.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • A Strategy for Macrocyclic Ring Closure and Functionalization Aimed toward Split-Pool Syntheses

    Daesung Lee;Jason K. Sello;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Stereochemical Control of Skeletal Diversity

    Jason K. Sello;Peter R. Andreana;Daesung Lee;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Hydrosilylation of alkynes catalyzed by ruthenium carbene complexes

    Sarah V. Maifeld;Michael N. Tran;Daesung Lee

  • Alder-ene reactions of arynes.

    Rajdip Karmakar;Phani Mamidipalli;Sang Young Yun;Daesung Lee

  • Efficient and Z-selective cross-metathesis of conjugated enynes.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Ring closing enyne metathesis: control over mode selectivity and stereoselectivity.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Gold-catalyzed intramolecular allylation of silyl alkynes induced by silane alcoholysis.

    Sangho Park;Daesung Lee

  • Stereoelectronic Effect for the Selectivity in C−H Insertion of Alkylidene Carbenes and Its Application to the Synthesis of Platensimycin

    Sang Young Yun;Jun-Cheng Zheng;Daesung Lee

  • Group-selective ring-closing enyne metathesis.

    Sarah V. Maifeld;Daesung Lee

  • Regioselectivity in the nucleophile trapping of arynes: the electronic and steric effects of nucleophiles and substituents.

    Rajdip Karmakar;Sang Young Yun;Kung Pern Wang;Daesung Lee

  • Concise Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Platencin

    Sang Young Yun;Jun Cheng Zheng;Daesung Lee

  • Enyne metathesis for the formation of macrocyclic 1,3-dienes.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Enyne‐Metathesis‐Based Tandem Processes

    Jingwei Li;Daesung Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Wender
Paul A. Wender Stanford University
Pradeep K. Dudeja
Pradeep K. Dudeja University of Illinois at Chicago
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wonhwa Cho
Wonhwa Cho University of Illinois at Chicago
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University
Susan Band Horwitz
Susan Band Horwitz Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kwang Pyo Kim
Kwang Pyo Kim Kyung Hee University
Kazumitsu Ueda
Kazumitsu Ueda Kyoto University
Chenliang Su
Chenliang Su Shenzhen University
Insung S. Choi
Insung S. Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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