YOON LABORATORY

UW-Madison Department of Chemistry
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Research interests in the Yoon laboratory include: Organic synthesis, Asymmetric Catalysis, Photochemistry, Reaction mechanisms, and Organometallics

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One major theme of research in the Yoon laboratory is the use of photochemistry to assemble otherwise unaccessible structures with precise stereocontrol

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Yoon Group News

  • Privileged Chiral Photocatalysts

    Proud to present Riley’s design for a modular, synthetically flexible, and intuitively tunable chiral photocatalyst based on the canonical PyBox family of chiral Lewis acid catalysts. Thanks to Lea Hämmerling and Eli Zysman-Coleman for a …

    April 9, 2026

  • Transposed Paternò–Büchi reaction

    Tahoe, Omar, and Jesse report a new approach to oxetane synthesis that turns the classical mechanism of the Paternò–Büchi reaction on its head. Proud of our contribution to the 15th anniversary Chem Sci collection.

    November 26, 2025

  • Oxygen migration into C–C bonds

    How do you functionalize a C–C bond? Cade, Caitlin, Matthieu, and Felix have a compelling method for migrating an oxygen atom into an unstrained C(sp3)–C(sp3) bond. In cyclic contexts, this enables the editing of a …

    November 10, 2025
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