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Yong-Min Lee

Yong-Min Lee

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Chemistry
Korea
2025

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
75
Citations
15598
World Ranking
4563
National Ranking
63

Research.com Recognitions

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

Overview

Yong-Min Lee is affiliated with Ewha Womans University in South Korea and has an extensive research portfolio in the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science. Their work spans multiple subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Oncology.

Their research topics cover a diverse range of areas with significant publication output in:

  • 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

Yong-Min Lee has published notable recent papers including:

  • "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
  • "Recent progress in production and usage of hydrogen peroxide", 2021, CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION)
  • "Mechanistic dichotomies in redox reactions of mononuclear metal-oxygen intermediates", 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Highly Efficient Catalytic Two-Electron Two-Proton Reduction of Dioxygen to Hydrogen Peroxide with a Cobalt Corrole Complex", 2021, ACS Catalysis

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Wonwoo Nam
  • Shunichi Fukuzumi
  • Mi Sook Seo
  • Young Hyun Hong
  • Deesha D. Malik

Yong-Min Lee's research contributions have appeared predominantly in several key scientific venues such as:

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

Best Publications

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

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

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

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

  • Water-soluble mononuclear cobalt complexes with organic ligands acting as precatalysts for efficient photocatalytic water oxidation

    Dachao Hong;Jieun Jung;Jiyun Park;Yusuke Yamada

  • Crystal structure of a metal ion-bound oxoiron( IV ) complex and implications for biological electron transfer

    Shunichi Fukuzumi;Shunichi Fukuzumi;Yuma Morimoto;Hiroaki Kotani;Panće Naumov

  • Lanthanide-Induced Pseudocontact Shifts for Solution Structure Refinements of Macromolecules in Shells up to 40 Å from the Metal Ion

    Marco Allegrozzi;Ivano Bertini;Matthias B. L. Janik;† Yong-Min Lee

  • Metal ion effect on the switch of mechanism from direct oxygen transfer to metal ion-coupled electron transfer in the sulfoxidation of thioanisoles by a non-heme iron(IV)-oxo complex.

    Jiyun Park;Yuma Morimoto;Yong Min Lee;Wonwoo Nam

  • A highly reactive mononuclear non-heme manganese(IV)-oxo complex that can activate the strong C-H bonds of alkanes

    Xiujuan Wu;Mi Sook Seo;Katherine M. Davis;Yong Min Lee

  • Magnetic susceptibility tensor anisotropies for a lanthanide ion series in a fixed protein matrix.

    Ivano Bertini;Matthias B. L. Janik;Yong-Min Lee;Claudio Luchinat

  • Intrinsic properties and reactivities of mononuclear nonheme iron-oxygen complexes bearing the tetramethylcyclam ligand

    Sam P. de Visser;Jan Uwe Rohde;Yong Min Lee;Jaeheung Cho

  • Protonless NMR experiments for sequence-specific assignment of backbone nuclei in unfolded proteins.

    Wolfgang Bermel;Ivano Bertini;Isabella C. Felli;‡ Yong-Min Lee

  • Water Oxidation Catalysis with Nonheme Iron Complexes under Acidic and Basic Conditions: Homogeneous or Heterogeneous?

    Dachao Hong;Sukanta Mandal;Yusuke Yamada;Yong-Min Lee

  • A Mononuclear Non-Heme Manganese(IV)−Oxo Complex Binding Redox-Inactive Metal Ions

    Junying Chen;Yong Min Lee;Katherine M. Davis;Xiujuan Wu

  • Metal ion-coupled electron transfer of a nonheme oxoiron(IV) complex: remarkable enhancement of electron-transfer rates by Sc3+

    Yuma Morimoto;Hiroaki Kotani;Jiyun Park;Yong Min Lee

  • Transition metal-mediated O-O bond formation and activation in chemistry and biology

    Xue Peng Zhang;Anirban Chandra;Yong Min Lee;Rui Cao

  • Fundamental electron-transfer properties of non-heme oxoiron(IV) complexes.

    Yong Min Lee;Hiroaki Kotani;Tomoyoshi Suenobu;Wonwoo Nam

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

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

  • Lewis Acid Coupled Electron Transfer of Metal–Oxygen Intermediates

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

  • Thermal and photocatalytic production of hydrogen with earth-abundant metal complexes

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

  • Dioxygen Activation by a Non-Heme Iron(II) Complex: Formation of an Iron(IV)−Oxo Complex via C−H Activation by a Putative Iron(III)−Superoxo Species

    Yong Min Lee;Seungwoo Hong;Yuma Morimoto;Woonsup Shin

  • Conformational variability of matrix metalloproteinases: beyond a single 3D structure.

    Ivano Bertini;Vito Calderone;Marta Cosenza;Marco Fragai

  • Hydrogen atom abstraction and hydride transfer reactions by iron(IV)-oxo porphyrins

    Yu Jin Jeong;Yaeun Kang;Ah Rim Han;Yong Min Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Shunichi Fukuzumi
Shunichi Fukuzumi Osaka University
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
Kei Ohkubo
Kei Ohkubo Osaka University
Ritimukta Sarangi
Ritimukta Sarangi SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Claudio Luchinat
Claudio Luchinat University of Florence
Ivano Bertini
Ivano Bertini University of Florence
Takashi Ogura
Takashi Ogura University of Hyogo
Sason Shaik
Sason Shaik Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jean-Marc Latour
Jean-Marc Latour Grenoble Alpes University
Wei Sun
Wei Sun Drexel University

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