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Ohyun Kwon is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a significant focus on Organic Chemistry and Molecular Biology subfields. Additional areas of specialization include Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine.

The scientist's work covers key topics such as Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Mitochondrial Function and Pathology, Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis, and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions.

Ohyun Kwon has published extensively in several prominent scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Synthesis
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Organic Letters

Collaborative efforts are evident in frequent co-authorship with researchers such as Manisha Swain, Johann Schredelseker, Jose Antonio Moreno, Gusein Sadykhov, and Jeremy H. Dworkin.

Among recent publications are:

  • Phosphorus-Based Catalysis, 2021, ACS Central Science
  • Unified Approach to Furan Natural Products via Phosphine-Palladium Catalysis, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Cardiac-specific deletion of voltage dependent anion channel 2 leads to dilated cardiomyopathy by altering calcium homeostasis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Nucleophilic Phosphine Catalysis: The Untold Story, 2021, Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Aminodealkenylation: Ozonolysis and copper catalysis convert C(sp 3)-C(sp 2) bonds to C(sp 3)-N bonds, 2023, Science

Best Publications

  • Phosphine Organocatalysis

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  • Phosphine catalysis of allenes with electrophiles

    Zhiming Wang;Xingzhu Xu;Ohyun Kwon

  • An Expedient Phosphine-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Annulation: Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Tetrahydropyridines

    Xue-Feng Zhu;Jie Lan;Ohyun Kwon

  • Phosphine-catalyzed [4 + 2] annulation: synthesis of cyclohexenes.

    Yang S. Tran;Ohyun Kwon

  • Advances in nucleophilic phosphine catalysis of alkenes, allenes, alkynes, and MBHADs

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  • Phosphine-Catalyzed Annulations of Azomethine Imines: Allene-Dependent [3 + 2], [3 + 3], [4 + 3], and [3 + 2 + 3] Pathways

    Risong Na;Chengfeng Jing;Qihai Xu;Hui Jiang

  • Chiral phosphines in nucleophilic organocatalysis

    Yumei Xiao;Zhanhu Sun;Hongchao Guo;Ohyun Kwon

  • Phosphorus-Based Catalysis.

    Changmin Xie;Andrew J. Smaligo;Xian Rong Song;Ohyun Kwon

  • An Application of the Phosphine-Catalyzed [4 + 2] Annulation in Indole Alkaloid Synthesis: Formal Syntheses of (±)-Alstonerine and (±)-Macroline

    Yang S Tran;Ohyun Kwon

  • Phosphine triggered [3+2] allenoate–acrylate annulation: a mechanistic enlightenment

    Evan Mercier;Branden Fonovic;Chris Henry;Chris Henry;Ohyun Kwon

  • Small-molecule inhibitors of protein geranylgeranyltransferase type I.

    Sabrina Castellano;Hannah D. G. Fiji;Sape S. Kinderman;Masaru Watanabe

  • Phosphine-catalyzed synthesis of highly functionalized coumarins.

    Christopher E. Henry and;Ohyun Kwon

  • Phosphine-Catalyzed Synthesis of 6-Substituted 2-Pyrones: Manifestation of E/Z-Isomerism in the Zwitterionic Intermediate

    Xue-Feng Zhu;Arnaud-Pierre Schaffner;and Ronald C. Li;Ohyun Kwon

  • Phosphine-Promoted [3 + 3] Annulations of Aziridines With Allenoates: Facile Entry Into Highly Functionalized Tetrahydropyridines

    Hongchao Guo;Qihai Xu;Ohyun Kwon

  • Bisphosphine-catalyzed mixed double-Michael reactions: asymmetric synthesis of oxazolidines, thiazolidines, and pyrrolidines.

    Vardhineedi Sriramurthy;Gregg A. Barcan;Ohyun Kwon

  • Theoretical rationale for regioselection in phosphine-catalyzed allenoate additions to acrylates, imines, and aldehydes.

    Travis Dudding;Ohyun Kwon;Evan Mercier

  • Phosphine-Catalyzed Synthesis of 1,3-Dioxan-4-ylidenes

    Xue-Feng Zhu;Christopher E. Henry;Jay Wang;Travis Dudding

  • Stable tetravalent phosphonium enolate zwitterions.

    Xue-Feng Zhu;Christopher E. Henry;Ohyun Kwon

  • Hydroxyproline-Derived Pseudoenantiomeric [2.2.1] Bicyclic Phosphines: Asymmetric Synthesis of (+)- and (−)-Pyrrolines

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  • A highly diastereoselective synthesis of 3-carbethoxy-2,5-disubstituted-3-pyrrolines by phosphine catalysis

    Xue-Feng Zhu;Christopher E. Henry;Ohyun Kwon

  • Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-ibophyllidine via an asymmetric phosphine-catalyzed [3 + 2] annulation

    Ian P. Andrews;Ohyun Kwon

  • Two-photon fluorescent probes for intracellular free zinc ions in living tissue.

    Hwan Myung Kim;Mun Sik Seo;Myoung Jin An;Jin Hee Hong

  • Alcohol-assisted phosphine catalysis: one-step syntheses of dihydropyrones from aldehydes and allenoates.

    Gardner S. Creech;Ohyun Kwon

Frequent Co-Authors

Fuyuhiko Tamanoi
Fuyuhiko Tamanoi Kyoto University
Hongchao Guo
Hongchao Guo China Agricultural University
Thomas Gudermann
Thomas Gudermann Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Samuel J. Danishefsky
Samuel J. Danishefsky Columbia University
Joshua I. Goldhaber
Joshua I. Goldhaber Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Robert L. Modlin
Robert L. Modlin University of California, Los Angeles
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Catherine F. Clarke
Catherine F. Clarke University of California, Los Angeles
Min Wang
Min Wang Qingdao University
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University

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