Research Team Led by Prof. Lee Sang-gi Publishes Paper in Chemical Reviews
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The research team led by Professor Lee Sang-gi from the Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience in the Ewha College of Natural Sciences published a paper in the top-rated international science journal Chemical Reviews (Impact factor=52.76) under the title of “Synergistic Dual Transition Metal Catalysis” on Wednesday, December 23.
Catalysis, the process of using small amounts of catalysts to synthesize large amounts of products, is the most atom economic reaction. As such, different kinds of catalytic reactions have been developed over the past few decades, especially those using transition metal catalysts, which play a vital role in the synthesis of natural products, medicines and functional materials. In particular, recent years have seen the rapid growth of research in the field of "synergistic dual catalysis," which selectively activates two types of substrates using two different types of catalysts.
As the selection of catalysts is critical for the success of synergistic dual catalysis, many researchers have been studying reactions that take place through dual catalysis using two organic catalysts or the combination of an organic catalyst and a transition metal catalyst, which ensures very little or no redox reaction between catalysts.
Professor Lee became the first in Korea to research synergistic dual catalysis in 2014 with the support of the Samsung Future Technology Incubation Program, and secured research funding from various projects such as a support program for mid-career researchers under the National Research Foundation of Korea, eventually publishing his research findings and leading the field of organic synthesis and catalysis.
The paper presented the findings published up to June 2020 by research teams at Ewha as well as other global researchers on synergistic dual catalysis between two transition metal catalysts. It is expected that the paper will contribute to the understanding of synergistic dual catalysis using transition metal catalysts and to building the foundation for related research.
The paper was published with support from the BK21 PLUS Project under the names of Professor Lee Sang-gi as a corresponding author; post-doctoral researcher Kim U-bin as the first author; Dr. Jung Da-jung and Dr. Jeon Hyun-ji who are graduates of the Department of Chemistry & Nanoscience; and post-doctoral researcher Dr. Kris Rathwell.