Faculty
4700 King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Thuwal 23955-6900
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Kuo-Wei Huang
Assistant Professor, Chemical Science
Catalysis Research Center
Ph.D. Stanford University, United States, 2004
B.S. National Taiwan University, Taiwan, 1997
Research Interests
The research interests of Professor Huang's group center on catalysis, including renewable energy (water splitting), carbon dioxide utilization, carbonylation and decarbonylation, fluorination, kinetic and DFT studies of transition metal and organocatalysis.
Selected Publications
- Lee, R.; Yang, Y.; Tan, C.-H.; Huang, K.-W. "A novel heteroleptic paddlewheel diruthenium bicyclic guanidinate complex: Synthesis, structure, and scope" Dalton Trans, 39, 723-725, 2010.
- Han, X.; Kwiatkowski, J.; Xue, F.; Huang, K.-W.; Lu, Y. "Asymmetric mannich reaction of fluorinated ketoesters mediated by a tryptophan-derived bifunctional thiourea catalyst: Creation of chiral fluorine-containing quaternary centers" Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. , 48, 7604-7607, 2009.
- Liu, H.; Leow, D.; Huang, K.-W.; Tan, C.-H. "Enantioselective synthesis of chiral allenoate by guanidine-catalyzed isomerization of 3-alkynoates" J. Am. Chem. Soc., 131, 7212-7213, 2009.
- Zhang, J.; Krause, J. A.; Huang, K.-W.; Guan, H. "Ancillary ligand and ketone substituent effects on the rate of ketone insertion into Zr-C bonds of ziconocene-1-aza-1,3-diene complexes" Organometallics, 28, 2938-2946, 2009.
- Lee, R.; Lim, X.; Chen, T.; Tan, G. K.; Tan, C.-H.; Huang, K.-W. "Crystal structures of bicyclic guanidinium chloride: Implication of the bifunctionality of guanidines" Tet. Lett. , 50, 1560-1562, 2009.