2011–2016, Ph.D. in Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
2009–2011, M.S. in Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University (Pharmaceutical Chemistry)
2005–2009, B.S. in Pharmacy, College of Pharmacy, Chungbuk National University
2026–Present, Associate Professor, College of Pharmacy, Seoul National University
2021–2026, Assistant/Associate Professor, School of Pharmacy, Sungkyunkwan University
2019–2021, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Sogang University
2016–2019, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Chemistry, Yale University
Development and application of novel asymmetric catalytic methods
Discovery of novel therapeutic targets and medicinal chemistry
Synthesis of bioactive natural products and their derivatives
- Moon, J.; Shin, E.; Kwon. Y.* “Enantioselective Desymmetrization of Biaryls via Cooperative Photoredox/Brønsted Acid Catalysis and Its Application to the Total Synthesis of Ancistrobrevolines” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2025, 147, 12800−12810.
- Kim, S.; Kim, S.; Kim, S.; Kim, N.; Lee, S. W.; Yi, H.; Lee, S.; Sim, T.*; Kwon, Y.*; Lee, H. S.* “Affinity-Directed Site-Specific Protein Labeling and Its Application to Antibody-Drug Conjugates” Adv. Sci. 2024, 11, 2306401.
- Kim, A.; Lee, C.; Song, J.; Lee, S. K.; Kwon, Y.* “All-round catalytic and atroposelective strategy via dynamic kinetic resolution for N-/2-/3-arylindoles” Nat. Commun. 2023, 14, 5502.
- Kim, A.; Kim, A.; Park, S.; Kim, S.; Jo, H.; Ok, K. M.; Lee, S. K.; Song, J.; Kwon, Y.* “Catalytic and Enantioselective Control of the C−N Stereogenic Axis via the Pictet-Spengler Reaction” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2021, 60, 12279‒12283.
- Featherston, A. L.+; Kwon, Y.+; Pompeo, M. M.+; Engl, O. D.; Leahy, D. K.*; Miller, S. J.* “Catalytic Asymmetric and Stereodivergent Oligonucleotide Synthesis” Science 2021, 371, 702‒707. (ﾆequally contributed first authors)
- Kwon, Y.; Li, J.; Reid, J. P.; Crawford, J. M.; Jacob, R.; Sigman, M. S.*; Toste, F. D.*; Miller, S. J.* “Disparate Catalytic Scaffolds for Atroposelective Cyclodehydration” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2019, 141, 6698‒6705.
- Kwon, Y.; Chinn, A. J.; Kim, B.; Miller, S. J.* “Divergent Control of Point and Axial Stereogenicity: Catalytic Enantioselective C−N Bond-Forming Cross-Coupling and Catalyst-Controlled Atroposelective Cyclodehydration” Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2018, 57, 6251‒6255.
