E-mail Address: jinylee@skku.edu
Homepage: http://chem.skku.ac.kr/~jinylee/
Telephone: +82-31-299-4560/Fax: +82-31-290-7075

• 1970.10. 15. Born in Koryung, Kyungbook, Korea
• 1988. 3.- 1992. 2. B.S., Chemistry, POSTECH
• 1994. 3. - 1997. 8. Ph.D., Chemistry, POSTECH
  • Advicer: Prof. Kwang S. Kim
  • Thesis: Nonlinear Optical Properties and Molecular Vibrations of Polyene Derivatives
• 1997. 10. - 1998. 10. Postdoc Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (Prof. David Chandler)
• 2001. 9. – 2002. 1. Research Associate, University of Rochester (Prof. Shaul Mukamel)
• 1998. 11 – 2002. 9. Senior Research Scientist, CBM, POSTECH
• 2002. 9 – 2005. 8. Assistant Professor, Chonnam National University
• 2005. 6. - 2005. 8. Visiting Professor, Institute for Molecular Science, Japan
• 2005. 9. – present Assistant Professor, Sungkyunkwan University
  
  

2005 FACS Distinguished Young Chemist Award, Aug 25 2005 at 11th ACC (by Fedration of Asian Chemical Societies)

I have been working on various types of intermolecular interactions. I elucidated the origin of cation-pi interactions, aromatic pi-hydrogen interactions, pi-pi interactions, pi-pz interactions, etc. These intermolecular interactions are essential for the design of new functional materials and nanosciences in general. As a matter of fact, we synthesized a functional organic nanotube based on short strong hydrogen bonding and pi-pi stacking interactions, which in turn was used to make a thin and long silver nanowires. Intermolecular interaction is also critical in the enzymatic catalysis. My research interests include "finding a new intermolecular interactions", "designing of functional materials using intermolecular interactions", etc.

Another my research interest is focused on "Understanding of molecular functions". With an aid of dramatic evolution of accurate quantum computational chemistry, the size of molecular systems, which can be studied accurately using molecular theory, is increasing very rapidly. Theoretical chemistry has opened up a world of new possibilities. It can treat real systems with predictable accuracy. Computational chemistry is becoming an integral part of theoretical and experimental research in chemical science. Recent advances in synthetic methods and experimental techniques produced a number of interesting chemical phenomena. However, many of those phenomena are waiting for the detailed understanding for their function at the molecular level. To this end, both theoreticians and experimentalists need to be cooperative. We have applied computational approaches to understand molecular functions observed experimentally in several subjects such as fluorescent fluoride sensor, “on-off” molecular switch, electron transport through pi-stacking, and molecular electronic device.

In addition, I am also interested in the interactions between carbon-nanotube and organic molecules, diffusion properties of organic molecule on carbon-nanotube, semiconductors, etc. Classical reaction dynamics, electron transfer, vibrational spectra, NMR chemical shifts, conformational studies, reaction kinetics are also interesting. Armed with transition path sampling which has been developed by Prof. Chandler in Department of Chemistry at UC Berkeley and successfully applied to many chemical reactions, we could obtain a lot of informations such as transition states and rate constants for rare events.

Chemical reactions involve the bond breakings and bond formations. At the beginning stage of chemical reactions, the vibrational energy of a certain molecular vibration can be redistributed within the molecule and/or can be transferred to the surrounding solvent molecules after excitation by external energy sources. There are several groups (Prof. Marcus, Prof. Hynes, and Prof. Hase) to understand such vibrational relaxation of chemical species by a proper model, what is called, “tier model”. However, until now, all the theoretical models are for the gas phase, and not realistic! I am interested in this phenomenon in solution phase, a real situation. We are at the beginning stage of this study.

1. A fluoride-selective PCT chemosensor based on formation of a static pyrene excimer, Org. Lett. 7, in press. (2005)
2. Complexation of Ferrocene Derivatives by the Cucurbit[7]uril Host: A Comparative Study of the Cucurbituril and Cyclodextrin Host Families, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 127, 12984-12989. (2005)
3. Role of molecular orbitals of the benzene in electronic nano-devices, J. Chem. Phys. 122, 094760. (2005)
4. Stacking Effect of Polyfluorene on the Chemical Shift and Electron Transport, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 2686-2692. (2005)
5. An Excimer-based, Binuclear, On-off Switchable Calix[4]crown Chemosensor, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 126, 16499-16506 (2004)
6. Experimental and Theoretical Study on the Olefin Metathesis of Alkenyl Baylis-Hillman Adducts Using Second Generation Grubbs Catalyst, Org. Lett. 6, 3313-3316 (2004)
7. Diastereoselective Decarboxylation of Cyclopentene Dicarboxylic Acid Derivatives, J. Phys. Chem. A 108, 5678-5683 (2004)
8. Hydrogen Bonding Patterns of Calix[4]arenes with Thiourea Functionalities in Solution and in the Solid State, Org. Lett. 6, 1963-1966 (2004)
9. Transition path sampling: Rearrangement of cage water hexamer, Chem. Phys. 299, 123 (2004)
10. A new fluoride selective fluorescent and chromogenic chemosensor containing naphthalene urea derivative, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 125, 12376 (2003)
11. Assembing Phenomena of Calix[4]hydroquinone Nanotube Bundles by One-dimensional Short Hydrogen Bonding and Displaced π-π Stacking, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 124, 14268 (2002)
12. Self-Assembled Organic Nanotube Arrays with Infinitely Long One-Dimensional H-Bonds, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 123, 10748-10749 (2001)