Sehoon Park received his Ph.D. in chemistry from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2008 under the co-supervision of Prof. Kohtaro Osakada and Prof. Daisuke Takeuchi. After postdoctoral research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in USA with Prof. Maurice Brookhart (2009-2012), at the beginning of 2013 he joined the Chang research group at the Institute for Basic Science (Korea) as a research fellow and recently was promoted to a tenure-track research fellow (2017). He was also an adjunct professor at the Korea University of Science and Technology (2016) until he became an associate professor of chemistry in GTIIT in the spring of 2019. 

• Organometallic Catalysis
• Cascade Reduction
• Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Pd Complex-Promoted Cyclopolymerization of Functionalized a,w-Dienes and Copolymerization with Ethylene to Afford Polymers with Cyclic Repeating Units. S. Park, D. Takeuchi, and K. Osakada* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2006, 128, 3510-3511.

Development and Mechanistic Investigation of a Highly Efficient Ir(V) Silyl Complex for the Reduction of Tertiary Amides to Amines. S. Park, and M. Brookhart* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 640-653.

An Efficient Iridium Catalyst for Reduction of Carbon Dioxide to Methane with Trialkylsilanes. S. Park, D, Bezier, and M. Brookhart* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2012, 134, 11404-11407.

Boron-Catalyzed Silylative Reduction of Quinolines: Selective sp³ C-Si Bond Formation. N. Gandhamsetty,^‡ S. Joung,^‡ S.-W. Park, S. Park,* and S. Chang* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 16780-16783 (Highlighted in JACS Spotlights).

Selective Silylative Reduction of Pyridines Leading to Structurally Diverse Azacyclic Compounds with the Formation of sp³ C-Si Bonds. N. Gandhamsetty, S. Park,* and S. Chang* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137, 15176-15184.

Catalytic Dearomatization of N-Heteroarenes with Silicon and Boron Compounds. S. Park* and S. Chang* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 7720-7738

Selective C-O Bond Cleavage of Sugars with Hydrosilanes Catalyzed by Piers’ Borane Generated In Situ. J. Zhang, S. Park,* and S. Chang* Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2017, 56, 13757-13761

Catalytic Access to Bridged Sila-N-Heterocycles from Piperidines via Cascade sp³ and sp² C-Si Bond Formation. J. Zhang, S. Park,* and S. Chang* J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140, 13209-13213

Rhodium-Catalyzed Double Hydroboration of Quinolines. R. Wang, S. Park* ACS Catalysis, 2023, 13, 7067-7078.

Selective Cascading Hydroboration of N-Heteroarenes via Cobalt Catalysis. R. Wang, D. Kim, S. Park* ACS Catalysis, 2024, 14, 3582-3595.