Sustainable Catalysis & Synthesis Lab

lectures in Taiwan successfully done: Thanks to the hosts (CYCU: Gary Chuang; NYCU: Yen-Ku Wu, NSYSU: Hsung-Hung Liao)

ECSTATsyn-8000 sponsored by EC-frontier & Yokohama U. has arrived! Thanks to Prof. Atobe (& Shida) and NeoScience!

Congrats to Doyeon & Seonyoung for winning oral & poster presentation awards!

Ahhyeon, Doyeon & Arun's paper has now been accepted to JACS! Congrats!!

Welcome Seojin! & special thanks to Prof. Yangsoo Ahn for generous wine gift!

2025 Teacher's day - Thanks everyone

Seonyoung successfully presented her difluoromethylation work in KCS spring meeting in Suwon!

Hyunwoo gave lectures in Singapore (NUS & NTU)! Thanks to Profs. Jie Wu & Shunsuke Chiba.

Electroorganic Synthesis Symposium hosted by our BRL!

Group photo in spring 2025 with cherry blossoms

HW got CSJ (The Chemical Society of Japan) distinguished lectureship award for our work on organic electrosynthesis!

Hyeonseo has successfully graduated and is now joining us as a first-year graduate student!

2025 winter lab retreat as our first group activity of this year!

Reuniting with Tristan in 5 years in Singapore SICC-12

Our BRL kick-off symposium was a great success with excellent presentations of both Seonyoung and Ahhyeon! Can't wait for BRL-SRC joint symposium coming Feburary.

Prof. Tian-Sheng Mei (SIOC) gave a special lecture in POSTECH as a part of his ACP (Asian Core Program) Lectureship award!
Host: Hyunwoo Kim

Invited lecture at the 48th 헤테로고리 화합물의 화학 symposium

Seonyoung successfully finished her poster presentation in ORCHEM2024, Regensburg, Germany!

유기분과 하계 워크샵

Seonyoung's difluoromethylation has been accepted in JACS! Congrats!!

Our team has been selected to receive research funding from the Samsung Science & Technology Foundation!

Group party at 해맞이한마당 (POSTECH spring festival)

We extend a warm welcome to Dr. Euijae Lee & Minseok (grad student), who recently joined our group!

2024 Spring Group Dinner

We extend a warm welcome to Eunji (new grad student) & Hyeonseo (Undergrad), who recently joined our group!

Invited lecture at NAS-KAST joint symposium at Irvine

We extend a warm welcome to Doyeon, who joins our group as the newest graduate student!

Having Prof. MJ (Ming Joo) Koh (NUS) in POSTECH as a part of his ACP lecture tour!
nice lecture & nice sashimi to enjoy

Host: Hyunwoo Kim

HW received Toray Research Grant for Young Investigator ! link: https://www.koreatoraysf.org/ko/fellowship/fellowshipLaureatesList.do

HW gave an invited talk in the 244th ECS meeting in Sweden!

Session Organizers & Invitation: Robert Francke, Kevin Moeller, Shelley Minteer, Dan Little

Ahhyeon presenting her work in Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) Summer School!!

Ahhyeon presenting our azetidine work in 유기분과 하계워크샵 (KCS meeting)

Zach Wickens (Wisconsin-Madison) and Josh Barham (U Regensburg) gave a back-to-back lectures in POSTECH!
Host: Hyunwoo Kim

Sehwa's electroreductive aminoalcohol synthesis paper has now been up in Org. Lett.! Congrats!

The azetidine paper by Steve, Ahhyeon, and Suyeon has officially been accepted for publication in JACS!

Prof. Armido Studer's lecture at POSTECH with UNESCO heritage tour

Host: Hyunwoo Kim

Our Group bids farewell to postmasters fellow Steve Park, who is off to a phD position at ETH (The Carriera group) in Switzerland! His presence will be dearly missed!

HW had an invited lecture at University of Münster

Host: Prof. Armido Studer

HW was invited as a guest professor in University of Regensburg for winter semester of 2023.

(https://www.uni-regensburg.de/chemie-pharmazie/fakultaet/infrastruktur-organisation/index.html)

Thanks to Profs. Joshua Barham, Oliver Reiser and Burkhard König for the invitation!

HW gave an invited research lecture at University of Göttingen, where the university is known for its rich history in chemistry!

Host: Prof. Lutz Ackermann (https://www.ackermann.chemie.uni-goettingen.de/)

HW gave an invited research lecture at LIKAT(Leibniz-Institute for Catalysis) in Rostock, Germany!

Host: Prof. Robert Francke (https://www.francke.chemie.uni-rostock.de/)

HW gave an invited lecture at SICC-11 (Singapore International Chemistry Conference)

HW gave an invited lecture at ISIRCE (International Symposium of Innovative Reactions by Controlling Electrons)

HW gave an invited lecture tour in Kyoto Univ (Dept. Chem. & Pharm.) and Osaka Univ. (Dept. Chem.)

Steve gave a research talk at 한국유기합성학회 (Korean Society of Organic Synthesis)!

First group activity at POSTECH (KCS @경주)

Steve's RPC hydroetherification has now been accepted to ACS Catalysis (IF = 13.7) !

Seonyoung's difluoromethylation paper has been accepted to Communications Chemistry (@Natureportfolio, IF = 7.11) !

Our group bids a farewell to exchange student Ewan Conway, who is off back to Edinburgh Univ. to complete his masters program!

Our invited highlight article about alternating current electrolysis (ACE) has published in Green Synthesis and Catalysis ! https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666554922000035

HW is appointed an editorial board member of Green Synthesis and Catalysis ! (link) https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/green-synthesis-and-catalysis/about/editorial-board

Our new 16-channel potentiostat !

Seonyoung's first poster presentation in 대한화학회 (KCS, Korean Chemical Society)!

HW has selected as a 포스코청암재단 신진교수 Fellow (한국경제 기사 (Link)) https://n.news.naver.com/article/015/0004609056

Our brand-new glovebox-linked solvent purification system !

Full group picture in Fall 2021

Dr. Chung's graduation ceremony

Our first BRL symposium!

Steve's Chem. Sci. paper has been accepted for publication in Chemical Science!