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2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
108
Citations
37654
World Ranking
885
National Ranking
15

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Wonwoo Nam is affiliated with Ewha Womans University in South Korea. Their research is situated primarily within the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a notable emphasis on Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry as subfields.

Their work covers various specialized topics including:

  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies

They have published extensively in several venues, most frequently in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society
  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • ACS Catalysis

Among recent notable publications are:

  • "Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond" (2020), Nature Reviews Chemistry
  • "Transition metal-mediated O-O bond formation and activation in chemistry and biology" (2021), Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Identifying Intermediates in Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation with a Manganese Corrole Complex" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Artificial nonheme iron and manganese oxygenases for enantioselective olefin epoxidation and alkane hydroxylation reactions" (2020), Coordination Chemistry Reviews
  • "Recent progress in production and usage of hydrogen peroxide" (2021), CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)

They have collaborated frequently with a select group of co-authors including Yong-Min Lee, Shunichi Fukuzumi, Mi Sook Seo, Xiao-Xi Li, and Young Hyun Hong.

Best Publications

  • High-valent iron(IV)-oxo complexes of heme and non-heme ligands in oxygenation reactions.

    Wonwoo Nam

  • A highly selective fluorescent chemosensor for Pb2

    Ji Young Kwon;Yun Jung Jang;Yoon Ju Lee;Kwan Mook Kim

  • Crystallographic and spectroscopic characterization of a nonheme Fe(IV)-O complex.

    Jan Uwe Rohde;Jun Hee In;Jun Hee In;Mi Hee Lim;Mi Hee Lim;William W. Brennessel

  • Nonheme FeIVO complexes that can oxidize the C-H bonds of cyclohexane at room temperature.

    József Kaizer;Eric J. Klinker;Na Young Oh;Jan Uwe Rohde

  • Photofunctional triplet excited states of cyclometalated Ir(III) complexes: beyond electroluminescence

    Youngmin You;Wonwoo Nam

  • A highly active zinc catalyst for the controlled polymerization of lactide.

    Charlotte K. Williams;Laurie E. Breyfogle;Sun Kyung Choi;Wonwoo Nam

  • Tuning Reactivity and Mechanism in Oxidation Reactions by Mononuclear Nonheme Iron(IV)-Oxo Complexes

    Wonwoo Nam;Yong Min Lee;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Shunichi Fukuzumi

  • Status of reactive non-heme metal-oxygen intermediates in chemical and enzymatic reactions.

    Kallol Ray;Florian Felix Pfaff;Bin Wang;Wonwoo Nam

  • Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction

    Chivukula V. Sastri;Jimin Lee;Kyungeun Oh;Yoon Jin Lee

  • Heme and Nonheme High-Valent Iron and Manganese Oxo Cores in Biological and Abiological Oxidation Reactions

    Mian Guo;Teresa Corona;Kallol Ray;Wonwoo Nam;Wonwoo Nam

  • An FeIV=O complex of a tetradentate tripodal nonheme ligand.

    Mi Hee Lim;Mi Hee Lim;Jan Uwe Rohde;Audria Stubna;Michael R. Bukowski

  • Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear non-haem iron( III )–peroxo complex

    Jaeheung Cho;Sujin Jeon;Samuel A. Wilson;Lei V. Liu

  • Dioxygen Activation by Metalloenzymes and Models

    Wonwoo Nam

  • Synthetic Mononuclear Nonheme Iron–Oxygen Intermediates

    Wonwoo Nam

  • A thiolate-ligated nonheme oxoiron(IV) complex relevant to cytochrome P450.

    Michael R. Bukowski;Michael R. Bukowski;Kevin D. Koehntop;Kevin D. Koehntop;Audria Stubna;Emile L. Bominaar

  • New Insights into the Mechanisms of O−O Bond Cleavage of Hydrogen Peroxide and tert-Alkyl Hydroperoxides by Iron(III) Porphyrin Complexes

    Wonwoo Nam;Hui Jung Han;So Young Oh;Yoon Jung Lee

  • Phosphorescent sensor for robust quantification of copper(II) ion.

    Youngmin You;Yejee Han;Yong Min Lee;Soo Young Park

  • A two-state reactivity rationale for counterintuitive axial ligand effects on the C-H activation reactivity of nonheme FeIV=O oxidants.

    Hajime Hirao;Lawrence Que;Wonwoo Nam;Sason Shaik

  • Reactivities of mononuclear non-heme iron intermediates including evidence that iron(III)-hydroperoxo species is a sluggish oxidant.

    Mi Joo Park;Jimin Lee;Yumi Suh;Jinheung Kim

  • Iron and manganese oxo complexes, oxo wall and beyond

    Virginia A. Larson;Beatrice Battistella;Kallol Ray;Nicolai Lehnert

  • Highly active zinc catalyst for the controlled polymerization of lactide.

    LE Breyfogle;CK Williams;SK Choi;WW Nam

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Yong-Min Lee
Yong-Min Lee Yonsei University
Mi Hee Lim
Mi Hee Lim Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sam P. de Visser
Sam P. de Visser University of Manchester
Ritimukta Sarangi
Ritimukta Sarangi SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Sason Shaik
Sason Shaik Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kei Ohkubo
Kei Ohkubo Osaka University
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Lawrence Que
Lawrence Que University of Minnesota
Joan Selverstone Valentine
Joan Selverstone Valentine University of California, Los Angeles

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