Richmond Lee

Richmond Lee

SUTD Faculty Fellow

Research Interests: Richmond has diverse interest in chemistry, but is focused on employing theoretical calculations to understand chemical reactions and also design and model molecules that enable catalysis and important organic transformations.

Pillar / Cluster: Science

    Selected Publications

    • Weng, Z., He, W., Chen, C., Lee, R., Tan, D., Lai, Z., ... & Huang, K. W. (2013). An Air‐Stable Copper Reagent for Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylthiolation of Aryl Halides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(5), 1548-1552.
    • Ranjit, S., Lee, R., Heryadi, D., Shen, C., Wu, J. E., Zhang, P., ... & Liu, X. (2011). Copper-mediated C–H activation/C–S cross-coupling of heterocycles with thiols. The Journal of organic chemistry, 76(21), 8999-9007.
    • Li, Y., Heng, W. K., Lee, B. S., Aratani, N., Zafra, J. L., Bao, N., ... & Webster, R. D. (2012). Kinetically blocked stable heptazethrene and octazethrene: Closed-shell or open-shell in the ground state?. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(36), 14913-14922.
    • Weng, Z., Lee, R., Jia, W., Yuan, Y., Wang, W., Feng, X., & Huang, K. W. (2011). Cooperative effect of silver in copper-catalyzed trifluoromethylation of aryl iodides using Me3SiCF3. Organometallics, 30(11), 3229-3232.
    • Jiang, Z., Pan, Y., Zhao, Y., Ma, T., Lee, R., Yang, Y., ... & Tan, C. H. (2009). Synthesis of a Chiral Quaternary Carbon Center Bearing a Fluorine Atom: Enantio‐and Diastereoselective Guanidine‐Catalyzed Addition of Fluorocarbon Nucleophiles. Angewandte Chemie, 121(20), 3681-3685.
    • Zeng, Z., Sung, Y. M., Bao, N., Tan, D., Lee, R., Zafra, J. L., ... & Li, Y. (2012). Stable Tetrabenzo-Chichibabin’s hydrocarbons: tunable ground state and unusual transition between their closed-shell and open-shell resonance forms. Journal of the American Chemical Society, 134(35), 14513-14525.
    • Shen, C., Xia, H., Yan, H., Chen, X., Ranjit, S., Xie, X., ... & Huang, K. W. (2012). A concise, efficient synthesis of sugar-based benzothiazoles through chemoselective intramolecular C–S coupling. Chemical Science, 3(7), 2388-2393.
    • Zhang, W., Tan, D., Lee, R., Tong, G., Chen, W., Qi, B., ... & Jiang, Z. (2012). Highly Enantio‐and Diastereoselective Reactions of γ‐Substituted Butenolides Through Direct Vinylogous Conjugate Additions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 51(40), 10069-10073.
    • Zhu, B., Zhang, W., Lee, R., Han, Z., Yang, W., Tan, D., ... & Jiang, Z. (2013). Direct Asymmetric Vinylogous Aldol Reaction of Allyl Ketones with Isatins: Divergent Synthesis of 3‐Hydroxy‐2‐Oxindole Derivatives. Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 52(26), 6666-6670.
    • Bloch, W. M., Burgun, A., Coghlan, C. J., Lee, R., Coote, M. L., Doonan, C. J., & Sumby, C. J. (2014). Capturing snapshots of post-synthetic metallation chemistry in metal–organic frameworks. Nature chemistry, 6(10), 906.
    • Zhang, Y., Kee, C. W., Lee, R., Fu, X., Soh, J. Y. T., Loh, E. M. F., ... & Tan, C. H. (2011). Guanidine-catalyzed enantioselective desymmetrization of meso-aziridines. Chemical Communications, 47(13), 3897-3899.
    • Zhu, B., Yan, L., Pan, Y., Lee, R., Liu, H., Han, Z., ... & Jiang, Z. (2011). Lewis Base Catalyzed Enantioselective Allylic Hydroxylation of Morita–Baylis–Hillman Carbonates with Water. The Journal of organic chemistry, 76(16), 6894-6900.
    • Lee, R., Zhong, F., Zheng, B., Meng, Y., Lu, Y., & Huang, K. W. (2013). The origin of enantioselectivity in the l-threonine-derived phosphine–sulfonamide catalyzed aza-Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction: effects of the intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Organic & biomolecular chemistry, 11(29), 4818-4824.