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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
112
Citations
52477
World Ranking
727
National Ranking
11

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award

Overview

Kimoon Kim is affiliated with Pohang University of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily spans the fields of Materials Science and Chemistry, with a focus on several specialized subfields including Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Animal Science and Zoology, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of subjects, notably:

  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Animal Nutrition and Physiology
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Supramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications

Kimoon Kim has been involved in publishing research papers in multiple well-known venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of Animal Science
  • Chem
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Recent published papers include:

  • "Supramolecular Tuning Enables Selective Oxygen Reduction Catalyzed by Cobalt Porphyrins for Direct Electrosynthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Gigantic Porphyrinic Cages," 2020, Chem
  • "Audible sound-controlled spatiotemporal patterns in out-of-equilibrium systems," 2020, Nature Chemistry
  • "Solution-Processable, Crystalline π-Conjugated Two-Dimensional Polymers with High Charge Carrier Mobility," 2020, Chem
  • "Supramolecular Fullerene Tetramers Concocted with Porphyrin Boxes Enable Efficient Charge Separation and Delocalization," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society

The scientist collaborates regularly with multiple co-authors, including:

  • In-Chul Hwang
  • Young Ho Ko
  • Rahul Dev Mukhopadhyay
  • Avinash Dhamija
  • Hyunjin Kyoung

Best Publications

  • A homochiral metal-organic porous material for enantioselective separation and catalysis

    Jung Soo Seo;Dongmok Whang;Hyoyoung Lee;Sung Im Jun

  • Homochiral Metal–Organic Frameworks for Asymmetric Heterogeneous Catalysis

    Minyoung Yoon;Renganathan Srirambalaji;Kimoon Kim

  • Cucurbituril homologues and derivatives: new opportunities in supramolecular chemistry.

    Jae Wook Lee;S. Samal;N. Selvapalam;Hee-Joon Kim

  • New Cucurbituril Homologues: Syntheses, Isolation, Characterization, and X-ray Crystal Structures of Cucurbit[n]uril (n = 5, 7, and 8)

    Jaheon Kim;† In-Sun Jung;† Soo-Young Kim;Eunsung Lee

  • Rigid and Flexible: A Highly Porous Metal–Organic Framework with Unusual Guest-Dependent Dynamic Behavior†

    Danil N. Dybtsev;Hyungphil Chun;Kimoon Kim

  • Mechanically interlocked molecules incorporating cucurbituril and their supramolecular assemblies

    Kimoon Kim

  • Microporous manganese formate: a simple metal-organic porous material with high framework stability and highly selective gas sorption properties.

    Danil N. Dybtsev;Hyungphil Chun;Sun Hong Yoon;Dongwoo Kim

  • Functionalized cucurbiturils and their applications.

    Kimoon Kim;Narayanan Selvapalam;Young Ho Ko;Kyeng Min Park

  • Synthesis, X-ray Crystal Structures, and Gas Sorption Properties of Pillared Square Grid Nets Based on Paddle-Wheel Motifs: Implications for Hydrogen Storage in Porous Materials

    Hyungphil Chun;Danil N. Dybtsev;Hyunuk Kim;Kimoon Kim

  • A homochiral metal-organic material with permanent porosity, enantioselective sorption properties, and catalytic activity.

    Danil N. Dybtsev;Alexey L. Nuzhdin;Hyungphil Chun;Konstantin P. Bryliakov

  • Proton conduction in metal-organic frameworks and related modularly built porous solids.

    Minyoung Yoon;Kyungwon Suh;Srinivasan Natarajan;Srinivasan Natarajan;Kimoon Kim

  • A synthetic host-guest system achieves avidin-biotin affinity by overcoming enthalpy-entropy compensation.

    Mikhail V. Rekharsky;Tadashi Mori;Cheng Yang;Young Ho Ko

  • The aqueous supramolecular chemistry of cucurbit[n]urils, pillar[n]arenes and deep-cavity cavitands

    James Murray;Kimoon Kim;Tomoki Ogoshi;Tomoki Ogoshi;Wei Yao

  • Complexation of ferrocene derivatives by the cucurbit[7]uril host: A comparative study of the cucurbituril and cyclodextrin host families

    Woo Sung Jeon;Kwangyul Moon;Sang Hyun Park;Hyungpil Chun

  • Selective Inclusion of a Hetero-Guest Pair in a Molecular Host: Formation of Stable Charge-Transfer Complexes in Cucurbit[8]uril

    Hee-Joon Kim;Jungseok Heo;Woo Sung Jeon;Eunsung Lee

  • Facile synthesis of cucurbit[n]uril derivatives via direct functionalization: expanding utilization of cucurbit[n]uril

    Sang Yong Jon;Narayanan Selvapalam;Dong Hyun Oh;Jin-Koo Kang

  • Postsynthetic modification switches an achiral framework to catalytically active homochiral metal-organic porous materials.

    Mainak Banerjee;Sunirban Das;Minyoung Yoon;Hee Jung Choi

  • Supramolecular assemblies built with host-stabilized charge-transfer interactions

    Young Ho Ko;Eunju Kim;Ilha Hwang;Kimoon Kim

  • New Ultrahigh Affinity Host−Guest Complexes of Cucurbit[7]uril with Bicyclo[2.2.2]octane and Adamantane Guests: Thermodynamic Analysis and Evaluation of M2 Affinity Calculations

    Sarvin Moghaddam;Cheng Yang;Mikhail Rekharsky;Young Ho Ko

  • Can we beat the biotin–avidin pair?: cucurbit[7]uril-based ultrahigh affinity host–guest complexes and their applications

    Dinesh Shetty;Jayshree K. Khedkar;Kyeng Min Park;Kimoon Kim

  • Molecular Container Assembly Capable of Controlling Binding and Release of Its Guest Molecules: Reversible Encapsulation of Organic Molecules in Sodium Ion Complexed Cucurbituril

    You-Moon Jeon;Jaheon Kim;and Dongmok Whang;Kimoon Kim

Frequent Co-Authors

Soo Young Kim
Soo Young Kim Korea University
Sangyong Jon
Sangyong Jon Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yoshihisa Inoue
Yoshihisa Inoue Osaka University
Kentaro Yamaguchi
Kentaro Yamaguchi Tokushima Bunri University
Shigeru Sakamoto
Shigeru Sakamoto Chiba University
James P. Collman
James P. Collman Stanford University
Sei Kwang Hahn
Sei Kwang Hahn Pohang University of Science and Technology
Christopher J. Chang
Christopher J. Chang Princeton University
Lyle Isaacs
Lyle Isaacs University of Maryland, College Park
Sungjee Kim
Sungjee Kim Pohang University of Science and Technology

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