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Fuk Yee Kwong is affiliated with the Chinese University of Hong Kong in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. With a research focus primarily in Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, Kwong has a substantial publication record that spans several key topics within these domains.

Their research encompasses multiple subfields including Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, and Pharmacology. The main topics addressed in their work include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, catalytic cross-coupling reactions, synthesis of indole derivatives, radical photochemical reactions, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Frequent publication venues for Kwong's research include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Kwong frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Pui Ying Choy
  • Xinwei He
  • Yongjia Shang
  • Rong-Lin Zhong
  • Man Pan Leung

Some of their recent papers are:

  • Atropisomeric Phosphine Ligands Bearing C-N Axial Chirality: Applications in Enantioselective Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Towards the Assembly of Tetra-ortho-Substituted Biaryls, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Recent Expedition inPd-CatalyzedSonogashira Coupling and Related Processes, 2022, Chinese Journal of Chemistry
  • Organocatalytic Approach for Assembling Flavanones via a Cascade 1,4-Conjugate Addition/oxa-Michael Addition between Propargylamines with Water, 2020, Organic Letters
  • DMAP-Catalyzed Annulation Approach for Modular Assembly of Furan-Fused Chromenes, 2020, Organic Letters
  • Facile Assembly of Modular-Type Phosphines for Tackling Modern Arylation Processes, 2022, Accounts of Chemical Research

Kwong's expertise lies in catalytic methods, particularly catalytic cross-coupling reactions and C-H functionalization, with an emphasis on organic synthesis and materials chemistry applications. Their research integrates crystallographic techniques such as X-ray diffraction to study structures important in chemical synthesis and catalysis processes.

Best Publications

  • Copper-catalyzed coupling of alkylamines and aryl iodides: an efficient system even in an air atmosphere.

    Fuk Yee Kwong;and Artis Klapars;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • A General, Efficient, and Inexpensive Catalyst System for the Coupling of Aryl Iodides and Thiols

    Fuk Yee Kwong;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Organocatalysis in Cross-Coupling: DMEDA-Catalyzed Direct C−H Arylation of Unactivated Benzene

    Wei Liu;Hao Cao;Hua Zhang;Heng Zhang

  • Mild and efficient copper-catalyzed amination of aryl bromides with primary alkylamines.

    Fuk Yee Kwong;Stephen L. Buchwald

  • Palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of aryl mesylates

    Chau Ming So;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • A new class of versatile chiral-bridged atropisomeric diphosphine ligands: remarkably efficient ligand syntheses and their applications in highly enantioselective hydrogenation reactions.

    Liqin Qiu;Fuk Yee Kwong;Jing Wu;Wai Har Lam

  • Palladium-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative functionalization of C(sp(2))-H Bonds.

    Yinuo Wu;Jun Wang;Fei Mao;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • A decade advancement of transition metal-catalyzed borylation of aryl halides and sulfonates

    Wing Kin Chow;On Ying Yuen;Pui Ying Choy;Chau Ming So

  • Recent advances in developing new axially chiral phosphine ligands for asymmetric catalysis

    Yue Ming Li;Fuk Yee Kwong;Wing Yiu Yu;Albert S.C. Chan

  • Palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl mesylates.

    Chau Ming So;Zhongyuan Zhou;Chak Po Lau;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • A Decade of Advancements in Pauson–Khand-Type Reactions

    Hang‐Wai Lee;Fuk‐Yee Kwong

  • Palladium-catalyzed oxidative C-H bond coupling of steered acetanilides and aldehydes: a facile access to ortho-acylacetanilides.

    Yinuo Wu;Baozhu Li;Fei Mao;Xingshu Li

  • A General Palladium‐Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling of Aryl Mesylates

    Chau Ming So;Chak Po Lau;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • Advances and Applications in Organocatalytic Asymmetric aza‐Michael Addition

    Jun Wang;Jun Wang;Pengfei Li;Pui Ying Choy;Albert S. C. Chan

  • Room-Temperature Copper-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Malonates

    Sau Fan Yip;Hong Yee Cheung;Zhongyuan Zhou;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • Toluene derivatives as simple coupling precursors for cascade palladium-catalyzed oxidative C–H bond acylation of acetanilides

    Yinuo Wu;Pui Ying Choy;Fei Mao;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • A mild and efficient palladium-catalyzed cyanation of aryl chlorides with K4[Fe(CN)6].

    Pui Yee Yeung;Chau Ming So;Chak Po Lau;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl tosylates catalyzed by an array of indolyl phosphine-palladium catalysts.

    Chau Ming So;Chak Po Lau;Albert S. C. Chan;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • Intramolecular direct C-H bond arylation from aryl chlorides: a transition-metal-free approach for facile access of phenanthridines

    Yinuo Wu;Shun Man Wong;Fei Mao;Tek Long Chan

  • A mild and efficient palladium-catalyzed cyanation of aryl mesylates in water or tBuOH/water.

    Pui Yee Yeung;Chau Ming So;Chak Po Lau;Fuk Yee Kwong

  • Easily accessible and highly tunable indolyl phosphine ligands for Suzuki-Miyaura coupling of aryl chlorides.

    Chau Ming So;and Chak Po Lau;Fuk Yee Kwong

Frequent Co-Authors

Albert S. C. Chan
Albert S. C. Chan Sun Yat-sen University
Wing-Tak Wong
Wing-Tak Wong Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wing-Yiu Yu
Wing-Yiu Yu Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Aiwen Lei
Aiwen Lei Wuhan University
Chuan He
Chuan He University of Chicago
Ryo Shintani
Ryo Shintani Osaka University
Johannes G. de Vries
Johannes G. de Vries Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Wei Sun
Wei Sun Drexel University
Wei Liu
Wei Liu Wuhan University

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