HOJAE CHOI, Ph.D.

    Ph.D. (Chemistry)              09/1996-10/2002

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ

    Research Advisor: Professor John B. Sheridan.

    Thesis Title: 

    “ Higher-Order Transition-Metal-Mediated [6+2] Cycloaddition Polymerizations”

    B.S.           03/1989 – 02/1995                        

    Sogang University, Seoul, Korea

·        Syntheses of Polyols via Transition Metal-Catalyzed Intramolecular Silylformylation.

·        Asymmetric Conjugated Addition.

·        Asymmetric Hydrogenation.

·       Synthesis of Huperzine A, a potent acetylcholinesterase inhibitor for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease

1.    New Biphenol-based Fine-tunable Monodentate Phosphoramidite Ligands for Catalytic Asymmetric Transformations. Zihao Hua, Victor C. Vassar, Hojae Choi, and Iwao Ojima. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA, 2004, 101, 5411-5416.

2.  Highly Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Diethylzinc to Nitroalkenes, Hojae Choi, Zihao Hua and Iwao Ojima.  Org. Lett. 2004, 6, 2689-2691 .

 3.  Higher-Order Metal-Mediated [6+2] Cycloaddition of Enynes. Hojae Choi, Donpeng Wan and John B. Sheridan. Submitted.

1.    Hojae Choi, Bruno D. Chapsal, Greta Varchi, and Iwao Ojima*A New Approach to the Stereoselective Synthesis of Polyhydroxy Compounds, , 226th ACS National Meeting, 2003

2.    Hua, Zihao; Vassar, Victor C.; Choi, Hojae; Ojima, Iwao.  Synthesis, application and mechanistic study of transition metal complexes with tunable chiral monodentate phosphorous ligands in catalytic asymmetric reactions.    Abstracts of Papers, 226th ACS National Meeting, New York, NY, United States, 2003 

3. Hua, Zihao; Vassar, Victor C.; Choi, Hojae; Ojima, Iwao. Applications of new biphenol-based fine-tunable monodentate phosphoramidite ligands for catalytic asymmetric transformations. Abstracts of Papers, 227th ACS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, United States, 2004

4.    Choi, Hojae; Hua, Zihao; Ojima, Iwao. Highly Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Conjugate Addition of Diethylzinc to Nitroalkenes. Abstracts of Papers, 228th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, United States, 2004