LATEST NEWS:
2022.11.18: Prof. Cho received “Young Scientist Award” from Korean Society of Organic Synthesis. Congratulations!
2022.08.31: Prof. Cho received “Toray Research Grant for Young Investigator” from Toray Research Foundation. <link> Congratulations!
2022.08.23: Seungcheol’s paper entitled “Stereoselective Access to Tetra- and Tri-substituted Fluoro- and Chloro-borylalkenes via Boron-Wittig Reaction” has been accepted in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Congratulations!
2022.07.18: Chiwon and Yeosan’s paper entitled “Diborylmethyl Group as a Transformable Building Block for the Diversification of Nitrogen-Containg Molecules” has been accepted in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Congratulations!
2021.07.04: Prof. Cho won “Hanseong Science award” from Hanseong Sonjaehan Foundation. <link> Congratulations!
2022.04.05: Haeun and Yujin’s paper entitled “Defluorinative C–C Bond-Forming Reaction of Trifluoromethyl Alkenes with gem-(Diborylalkyl)lithiums” has been accepted in Org. Lett. Congratulations!
2021.10.06: Yeosan’s review paper entitled “Catalytic Chemo- and Enantioselective Transformations of gem-Diborylalkanes and (Diborylmethyl)metallic Species” has been accepted in Acc. Chem. Res. Congratulations!
2021.03.19: Woohyun’s review paper entitled “Advances in transition metal-free deborylative transformations of gem-diborylalkanes” has been accepted in Chem. Commun. Congratulations!
2020.12.22: Minjae’s paper entitled “Copper-catalyzed Enantiotopic-Group-Selective Allylation of gem-Diborylalkanes” has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!
2020.12.10: Woohyun and Jeongho successfully defended their Ph.D. dissertation. Congratulations!
2020.09.21: Junghoon won “the best PhD thesis award” from the Korean Chemical Society (KCS). Congratulations!
2020.09.21: Prof. Cho won “KCS-Wiley young chemist award” from the Korean Chemical Society (KCS)/Wiley. Congratulations!
2020.07.01: Woohyun’s paper entitled “ZnMe2-Mediated, Direct Alkylation of Electron Deficient N-Heteroarenes with 1,1-Diborylalkanes: Scope and Mechanism” has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc. Congratulations!
2020.03.03: Minkyeong’s paper entitled “Facile Synthesis of a-Boryl-Substituted Allylboronate Esters Using Stable Bis[(pinacolabo)boryl]methylzinc Halides” has been accepted in Org. Lett. Congratulations!
2019.08.15: Jeongho’s paper entitled “Copper-Catalyzed Diastereoselective and Enantioselective 1,2-Addition of 1,1-Diborylalkanes to Cyclic Ketimines and alpha-Iminoesters” has been accepted in ACS Catal. Congratulations!
2019.07.18: Hyojae’s paper entitled “Palladium-Catalyzed Chemoselective Negishi Cross-Coupling of Bis[(pinacolato)boryl]methylzinc Halides with Aryl (Pseudo)Halides” has been accepted in Org. Lett. Congratulations!
2019.07.10: Junghoon’s paper entitled “Chemoselective Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling of (Diborylmethyl)silanes with Alkenyl Bromides” has been accepted in Asian J. Org. Chem. Congratulations!
2019.06.24: Jeongho & Chiwon’s paper entitled “Improved Synthesis of β-Aminoboronate Esters via Copper-Catalyzed Diastereo- and Enantioselective Addition of 1,1-Diborylalkanes to Acyclic Arylaldimines” has been accepted in Org. Process Res. Dev. Congratulations!
2018.12.07: Junghoon’s paper entitled “Access to Enantioenriched Benzylic 1,1-Silylboronate Esters by Palladium-Catalyzed Enantiotopic-Group Selective Suzuki-Miyaura Coupling of (Diborylmethyl)silanes with Aryl Iodides” has been accepted in ACS Catal. Congratulations!
2018.09.30 : Junghoon won the best poster award from 10th Asian-European Symposium on Metal-Mediated Organic Synthesis. Congratulations!
2018.09.21 : Jinyoung won the best poster award from 22nd IUPAC International Conference on Organic Synthesis (22-ICOS). Congratulations!
2018.06.27 : Yeosan’s paper entitled “Generation and Application of (Diborylmethyl)zinc(II) Species: Access to Enantioenriched gem-Diborylalkanes by an Asymmetric Allylic Substitution” has been accepted in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Congratulations!
2018.02.26 : Prof. Cho was selected as one of the young members of Korean Academy of Science and Technology (Y-KAST). Congratulations! <link>
2017.09.20 : Jinyoung won the best poster award from “120th Korean Chemical Society Meeting“. Congratulations!
2017.07.13 : Jeongho’s paper entitled “Diastereo- and Enantioselective Synthesis of b-Aminoboronate Esters by Copper(I)-Catalyzed 1,2-Addition of 1,1-Bis[(pinacolato)boryl]alkanes to Imines” has been accepted in Angew. Chem., Int. Ed. Congratulations!
2017.07.11 : Jinyoung and Seoyoung’s paper entitled “Chemo- and Stereoselective Crotylation of Aldehydes and Cyclic Aldimines with Allylic-gem-diboronate Ester” has been accepted in Org. Lett. Congratulations!
2017.06.13 : Chiwon’s undergraduate research paper entitled “Base-promoted, Deborylative Secondary Alkylation of N-Heteroaromatic N-Oxides with gem-Bis[(pinacolato)boryl]alkanes: A Facile Derivatization of 2,2′-Bipyridyl Analogues” has been accepted in Chem. Commun. Congratulations!
2017.05.26 : Yeosan won “the best undergraduate research thesis award” from Department of Chemistry, POSTECH. Congratulations!
2017.04.20 : Woohyun won “the best research paper award” from Dow Chemical Korea. Congratulations! <link>
2016.12.15 : Yeosan’s paper entitled “Chemoselective Coupling of 1,1-Bis[(pinacolato)boryl]alkanes for the Transition-Metal-Free Borylation of Aryl and Vinyl Halides: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Invesitigation” has been accepted in J. Am. Chem. Soc.
2016.12.01 : Prof. Cho was selected as an award recipient of Thieme Chemistry Journal Award 2017. Congratulation!
2016.11.24 : Prof. Cho was named one of ‘The 30 Young Scientists to Brighten Korea‘. Congratulation! <link>
2016.09.23 : Prof. Cho was selected as “POSCO Cheongam Science Fellow for Young Investigator“. Congratulation! <link1> <link2>