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Assistant Professor HUANG Kuo-Wei
B. S., National Taiwan University, Taiwan; Ph.D. in Chemistry, Stanford University, U.S.A.; Postdoctoral Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, U.S.A.
Contact Information:
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Department of Chemistry, NUS
3 Science Drive 3
Singapore 117543
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Office: S5-05-07
Tel: (65) 6516-7761
Fax: (65) 6779-1691
E-mail: chmhkw@nus.edu.sg |
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Research Interests
Research efforts of our group are centred on catalysis. We are interested in the physical organometallic chemistry of small molecule activations and functionalisations, synthetic and mechanistic organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, and DFT studies and modelling of transition metal catalysis. Initial intended research directions include 1) development of new strategies for carbon dioxide reduction, 2) catalytic photogeneration of hydrogen from water, 3) mechanistic studies and design of novel catalysts for olefin polymerisations, and 4) exploiting organometallic chemistry on surfaces for unprecedented reactivities. We provide co-workers with opportunities in a wide variety of disciplines, specifically, organometallic synthesis and characterisation, polymer chemistry, transient spectroscopy, and DFT calculations.
Publications
 Huang, K.-W.; Han, J. H.; Musgrave, C. B.; Fujita, E. "Carbon Dioxide Reduction by Pincer Rhodium h2-Dihydrogen Complexes: Hydrogen Binding Modes and Mechanistic Studies by Density Functional Theory Calculations" Organometallics 2007, 26, 508-513.
Huang, K.-W.; Han, J. H.; Musgrave, C. B.; Waymouth, R. M. "Density Functional Calculations on Ti-TEMPO complexes 2: Influence of Ancillary Ligation on the Strength of the Ti-O bond" Organometallics 2006, 25, 3317-3323.
Zhang, J.; Grills, D. C.; Huang, K.-W.; Fujita, E.; Bullock, R. M. "Carbon-to-Metal Hydrogen Atom Transfer: Direct Observation Using Time-Resolved Infrared Spectroscopy" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 15684-15685. Editors’ Choice in Science 2005, 310, 748S.
Huang, K.-W.; Han, J. H.; Cole, A. P.; Musgrave, C. B.; Waymouth, R. M. "Homolysis of Weak Ti-O Bonds: Experimental and Theoretical Studies of Titanium Oxygen Bonds Derived from Stable Nitroxyl Radicals" J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2005, 127, 3807-3816.
Huang, K.-W.; Waymouth, R. M. "Coordination Chemistry of Stable Radicals: Homolysis of a Titanium-Oxygen Bond." J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2002, 124, 8200-8201.
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