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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
15157
World Ranking
5965
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Korea Leader Award
  • 2007 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Mu-Hyun Baik is affiliated with the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with extensive work in related subfields such as Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The topics addressed in their research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry

Mu-Hyun Baik has contributed to a number of recent scientific papers, including:

  • Ligand-Controlled Product Selectivity in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Using Manganese Bipyridine Catalysts, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Designing a Planar Chiral Rhodium Indenyl Catalyst for Regio- and Enantioselective Allylic C-H Amidation, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Gigantic Porphyrinic Cages, 2020, Chem
  • Electro-inductive effect: Electrodes as functional groups with tunable electronic properties, 2020, Science
  • Synergistic Activation of Amides and Hydrocarbons for Direct C(sp3)-H Acylation Enabled by Metallaphotoredox Catalysis, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The primary venues where Mu-Hyun Baik frequently publishes are:

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

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Mu-Hyun Baik include:

  • Daniel J. Mindiola
  • Michael R. Gau
  • Bohyun Park
  • Mina Son
  • Bimal Pudasaini

Mu-Hyun Baik was awarded the title of Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2007.

Best Publications

  • Mechanistic studies on the hydroxylation of methane by methane monooxygenase.

    Mu-Hyun Baik;Martin Newcomb;Richard A. Friesner;Stephen J. Lippard

  • Computing Redox Potentials in Solution: Density Functional Theory as A Tool for Rational Design of Redox Agents

    Mu-Hyun Baik;Richard A. Friesner

  • Selective formation of γ-lactams via C–H amidation enabled by tailored iridium catalysts

    Seung Youn Hong;Yoonsu Park;Yeongyu Hwang;Yeong Bum Kim

  • Theoretical study of cisplatin binding to purine bases: why does cisplatin prefer guanine over adenine?

    Mu-Hyun Baik;Richard A Friesner;Stephen J Lippard

  • Direct nitric oxide detection in aqueous solution by copper(II) fluorescein complexes

    Mi Hee Lim;Brian A. Wong;William H. Pitcock;Deepa Mokshagundam

  • cis,cis-[(bpy)2RuVO]2O4+ catalyzes water oxidation formally via in situ generation of radicaloid RuIV-O*.

    Xiaofan Yang;Mu-Hyun Baik

  • Design and Optimization of Catalysts Based on Mechanistic Insights Derived from Quantum Chemical Reaction Modeling.

    Seihwan Ahn;Mannkyu Hong;Mahesh Sundararajan;Daniel H. Ess

  • Pitfalls in Computational Modeling of Chemical Reactions and How To Avoid Them

    Ho Ryu;Jiyong Park;Hong Ki Kim;Ji Young Park

  • Enantioselective [2+2] Cycloadditions of Cinnamate Esters: Generalizing Lewis Acid Catalysis of Triplet Energy Transfer.

    Mary Elisabeth Daub;Hoimin Jung;Byung Joo Lee;Joonghee Won

  • Enantioselective Excited-State Photoreactions Controlled by a Chiral Hydrogen-Bonding Iridium Sensitizer

    Kazimer L. Skubi;Jesse B. Kidd;Hoimin Jung;Ilia A. Guzei

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Dearomatization by Visible-Light-Activated [2+2] Photocycloaddition.

    Naifu Hu;Hoimin Jung;Yu Zheng;Juhyeong Lee

  • Visible light induced alkene aminopyridylation using N-aminopyridinium salts as bifunctional reagents.

    Yonghoon Moon;Bohyun Park;Inwon Kim;Gyumin Kang

  • Catalytic borylation of methane.

    Kyle T. Smith;Simon Berritt;Mariano González-Moreiras;Seihwan Ahn

  • Peripheral heme substituents control the hydrogen-atom abstraction chemistry in cytochromes P450

    Victor Guallar;Mu-Hyun Baik;Stephen J. Lippard;Richard A. Friesner

  • Synthesis and reactivity of a mononuclear non-haem cobalt(IV)-oxo complex.

    Bin Wang;Yong Min Lee;Woon Young Tcho;Samat Tussupbayev

  • Ligand-Controlled Product Selectivity in Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction Using Manganese Bipyridine Catalysts.

    Magnus H Rønne;Dasol Cho;Monica R Madsen;Joakim B Jakobsen

  • Visible‐Light‐Induced Pyridylation of Remote C(sp3)−H Bonds by Radical Translocation of N‐Alkoxypyridinium Salts

    Inwon Kim;Bohyun Park;Gyumin Kang;Jiyun Kim

  • Why is the Ir(III)-Mediated Amido Transfer Much Faster Than the Rh(III)-Mediated Reaction? A Combined Experimental and Computational Study

    Yoonsu Park;Joon Heo;Mu-Hyun Baik;Sukbok Chang

  • Dioxygen activation in methane monooxygenase: a theoretical study.

    Benjamin F. Gherman;Mu-Hyun Baik;Stephen J. Lippard;Richard A. Friesner

  • Iridium-catalysed arylation of C-H bonds enabled by oxidatively induced reductive elimination.

    Kwangmin Shin;Yoonsu Park;Mu-Hyun Baik;Sukbok Chang

  • Intermolecular C-H bond activation promoted by a titanium alkylidyne.

    Brad C. Bailey;Hongjun Fan;Erich W. Baum;John C. Huffman

  • Complete Switch of Selectivity in the C–H Alkenylation and Hydroarylation Catalyzed by Iridium: The Role of Directing Groups

    Jiyu Kim;Sung-Woo Park;Mu-Hyun Baik;Sukbok Chang

Frequent Co-Authors

Daniel J. Mindiola
Daniel J. Mindiola University of Pennsylvania
Richard A. Friesner
Richard A. Friesner Columbia University
Sukbok Chang
Sukbok Chang Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
John C. Huffman
John C. Huffman Indiana University
Maren Pink
Maren Pink Indiana University
P. Andrew Evans
P. Andrew Evans Queen's University
Patrick J. Carroll
Patrick J. Carroll University of Pennsylvania
Gérard Jaouen
Gérard Jaouen Chimie ParisTech
Tehshik P. Yoon
Tehshik P. Yoon University of Wisconsin–Madison

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