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National Ranking
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Overview

King Kuok (Mimi) Hii is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of chemistry and engineering, with a particular focus on subfields such as organic chemistry, environmental chemistry, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and control and systems engineering.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
  • Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation
  • Machine Learning in Materials Science
  • Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
  • Process Optimization and Integration

King Kuok Hii has published frequently in several academic venues, notably:

  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
  • Organic Process Research & Development
  • ACS Catalysis
  • ACS Sustainable Resource Management

Recent papers authored or co-authored by King Kuok Hii include:

  • "Expectations for Manuscripts on Catalysis in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering" (2020) published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • "Shaping Effective Practices for Incorporating Sustainability Assessment in Manuscripts Submitted to ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering: Catalysis and Catalytic Processes" (2021) published in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
  • "Discovery of unexpectedly complex reaction pathways for the Knorr pyrazole synthesis via transient flow" (2022) published in Reaction Chemistry & Engineering
  • "Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Sustainable Resource Management and Chemical Processes" (2024) published both in ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering and ACS Sustainable Resource Management

Frequent co-authors collaborating with King Kuok Hii include:

  • Klaus Hellgardt
  • Audrey Moores
  • Bala Subramaniam
  • Danielle Julie Carrier
  • Peter Licence

Best Publications

  • Advances in the Heck chemistry of aryl bromides and chlorides

    Nicole J. Whitcombe;King Kuok (Mimi) Hii;Susan E. Gibson

  • Transition metal catalyzed enantioselective α-heterofunctionalization of carbonyl compounds.

    Alexander M R Smith;King Kuok Mimi Hii

  • Profound Steric Control of Reactivity in Aryl Halide Addition to Bisphosphane Palladium(0) Complexes

    Erwan Galardon;Shailesh Ramdeehul;John M. Brown;Andrew Cowley

  • Aerobic oxidations in flow: opportunities for the fine chemicals and pharmaceuticals industries

    Asterios Gavriilidis;Achilleas Constantinou;Klaus Hellgardt;King Kuok (Mimi) Hii

  • Copper-Catalyzed Intermolecular Hydroamination of Alkenes

    Jason G Taylor;Neil Whittall;King Kuok Mimi Hii

  • Characterization of Reactive Intermediates in Palladium‐Catalyzed Arylation of Methyl Acrylate (Heck Reaction)

    John M. Brown;King Kuok Hii

  • Air- and moisture-stable cationic (diphosphine)palladium(II) complexes as hydroamination catalysts: X-ray crystal structures of two [(diphosphine)Pd(NCMe)(OH2)]2+[OTf]−2 complexes

    Kelin Li;Peter N. Horton;Michael B. Hursthouse;King Kuok (Mimi) Hii

  • Multigram synthesis of well-defined extended bifunctional polyethylene glycol (PEG) chains.

    Francois A. Loiseau;King Kuok Mimi Hii;Alison M. Hill

  • Palladium-catalysed enantioselective α-hydroxylation of β-ketoesters

    Alexander M R Smith;Denis Billen;King Kuok Mimi Hii

  • Delineating Origins of Stereocontrol in Asymmetric Pd-Catalyzed α-Hydroxylation of 1,3-Ketoesters

    Alexander M R Smith;Henry S Rzepa;Andrew J P White;Denis Billen

  • Applications of phosphine-functionalised polymers in organic synthesis.

    Meritxell Guinó;King Kuok Mimi Hii

  • Conformation Analyses, Dynamic Behavior and Amide Bond Distortions of Medium-sized Heterocycles. 1. Partially and Fully Reduced 1-Benzazepines

    Maryiam Qadir;Jonathan Cobb;Peter W Sheldrake;Neil Whittall

  • Hydroamination reactions by metal triflates: Brønsted acid vs. metal catalysis?

    Jason G Taylor;Luis A Adrio;King Kuok Mimi Hii

  • A practical and general synthesis of unsymmetrical terphenyls.

    Jose M Antelo Miguez;Luis Angel Adrio;Antonio Sousa-Pedrares;Jose M Vila

  • Speciation of Pd(OAc)2 in ligandless Suzuki–Miyaura reactions

    Luis A. Adrio;Bao N. Nguyen;Gemma Guilera;Andrew G. Livingston

  • Dicationic [(BINAP)Pd(solvent)2]2+[TfO-]2: enantioselective hydroamination catalyst for alkenoyl-N-oxazolidinones.

    Kelin Li;King Kuok (Mimi) Hii

  • Catalysis in flow: the practical and selective aerobic oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes and ketones

    Natalia Zotova;Klaus Hellgardt;Geoffrey H. Kelsall;Alan S. Jessiman

  • The Heck olefination reaction; A DFT study of the elimination pathway

    Robert J. Deeth;Andrew Smith;King Kuok (Mimi) Hii;John M. Brown

  • Practical synthesis of chiral vinylphosphine oxides by direct nucleophilic substitution. Stereodivergent synthesis of aminophosphine ligands

    Marco Oliana;Frank King;Peter N Horton;M B Hursthouse

  • Intermediates in the Intermolecular, Asymmetric Heck Arylation of Dihydrofurans

    King Kuok Hii;Timothy D. W. Claridge;John M. Brown

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrew J. P. White
Andrew J. P. White Imperial College London
Klaus Hellgardt
Klaus Hellgardt Imperial College London
Wiktor Szymanski
Wiktor Szymanski University of Groningen
John M. Brown
John M. Brown University of Oxford
Michael B. Hursthouse
Michael B. Hursthouse University of Southampton
Dick B. Janssen
Dick B. Janssen University of Groningen
Peter N. Horton
Peter N. Horton University of Southampton
Luigi Cavallo
Luigi Cavallo King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Bala Subramaniam
Bala Subramaniam University of Kansas
David T. Allen
David T. Allen The University of Texas at Austin

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