About PHYC

Paul Ha-Yeon Cheong

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Contact Information

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Mailing Address

Department of Chemistry

Oregon State University

153 Gilbert Hall

Room 303

Corvallis, OR 97331

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Telephone

541-737-6760

e-Mail

paulhcheong(at)gmail.com

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Education

2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral Associate, University of California, Los Angeles: Principal Investigator: K. N. Houk

2002 - Nov. 2007 Ph. D. in Organic Chemistry, University of California, Los Angeles: Thesis advisor: K. N. Houk

1997 - 2001 AB, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME: Independent Research Advisor: Faraj Hasanayn

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Experience

2009 Assistant Professor: Oregon State University

2007 - 2009 Postdoctoral Associate: University of California, Los Angeles

2002 - 2007 Research Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles

2003 - 2006 Graduate Teaching Assistant Consultant: University of California, Los Angeles

2002 - 2005 Graduate Teaching Assistant: University of California, Los Angeles

2001 - 2002 Assistant Academic Curricula Developer: Bowdoin College

1998 - 2001 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant: Bowdoin College

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Awards & Fellowships

2009 Vicki and Patrick F. Stone Scholar

2009 MBI Amgen Postdoctoral Award

2007 Thomas L. and Ruth F. Jacobs Award

2006 John Stauffer Fellowship

2006 - 2007 UCLA Graduate Division Dissertation Year Fellowship

2002 - 2007 UCLA Graduate Fellowship

2001 Hypercube scholar award (Hyperchem 6.0)

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Conference Oral Presentations

Aug., 2008 Computational Investigations of Ni and Rh Catalyzed CC Bond-Formation, Houk, K. N.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Liu, P.; McCarren, P. 236th ACS National Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sept., 2006 The mechanism and the origins of stereoselectivity in the Rh(I)-Josiphos-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of unprotected enamines: A computational study, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Zhao, Y.-L.; Houk, K. N.; Rosner, T. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California

Sept., 2006 Mechanism of the Au(I)-catalyzed enyne cycloisomerization reaction, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Toste, F. D. 232nd ACS National Meeting, San Francisco, California

Aug., 2005 Rational design of organocatalysts using quantum mechanical calculations: Towards new catalytic proline derivatives for the diastereoselective intermolecular aldol and Mannich reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Zhang, H.; Thayumanavan, F.; Tanaka, F; Barbas, C. F., III, 230th ACS National Meeting. San Diego, California

Conference Poster Presentations

Aug., 2008 Synthetic Scope and Mechanistic Origin of a New Series of Exo-Selective Intermolecular Diels-Alder Reactions, Lam, C.; Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Blasco Mata, J. M.; Stanway, S. J.; Gouverneur, V.; Houk, K. N. Tetrahedron Symposium, Berkeley, California

Jun., 2008 Quantum Mechanical Investigations of Mechanisms and Selectivities of Organometallic Reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Legault, C. Y.; Liu, P.; Iafe, R.; Cheong, M.; McCarren, P.; Houk, K. N. Houk65 Symposium - Organo, Bio, Nano, University of California, Los Angeles, California

Jun., 2007 Theory and Modeling of Stereoselective Organic Reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Legault, C. Y.; Lin, L.; Luft, J. A. R.; Um, J. M.; Houk, K. N. 232nd UCLA Graduate Symposium

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Lectures

Jun., 2008 The Origins of Catalytic Efficiencies of Various Monomeric Rh(I)-Catalyzed (5+2) Cycloaddition Reaction, Houk 65 Symposium, University of California Los Angeles

Mar., 2008 Computational Investigation of the Mechanism and Selectivities of Planar Chiral Bronsted Acid Catalysis, Gregory C. Fu group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Feb., 2008 Mechanisms and Selectivities of the Jamison Nickel Chemistry, Tim Jamison group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jan., 2008 Computational Investigations of Synthetic Organic Reactions, Stephen L. Buchwald group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mar., 2007 Rh(I)-catalyzed (5+2) Cycloaddition Reactions: A Computational Study into the Mechanism, Substrate Selectivities, Regioselectivity, and Catalyst Efficacy, Paul A. Wender group, Stanford University

Aug., 2006 Au(I)-catalysis and the enyne cycloisomerization reaction, F. Dean Toste group, University of California, Berkeley

Jan., 2006 Computational design of organocatalysts for the asymmetric mannich reactions: origins of diastereoselectivity and design principles for new diastereoselective reactions, Cheong, P. H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Barbas, C. F., III. 40th ACS Western Regional Meeting, Anaheim, California (oral)

Dec., 2005 Mechanisms and origins of stereoselectivity of organocatalysts, Donna Blackmond group, Imperial College, London, UK