UCI Molecular Modeling Facility

HIYOUNG YOO

Ph.D., 1997,UCLA
M.S., 1993, UCLA
B.S., 1991, Drexel University, Philadelphia

Postdoctoral Appointments

1997-1999, NRC Postdoctoral Research Associate, Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards AFB, CA

Publications

Yoo, H. Y.; Boatz, J. A; Helms, V.; Weber, W.; McCammon, J. A.; Langhoff, P. W. "Ab Initio Theoretical Studies of the Structure and Infra-Red Spectra of Green Fluorescent Protein Chromophores," manuscript in preparation.

Hrovat, D. A.; Beno, B. R.; Lange, H.; Yoo, H. Y.; Houk, K. N.; Borden, W. T. "A Becke3LYP/6-31G* Study of the Cope Rearrangements of Substituted 1,5-Hexadienes Provides Computational Evidence for a Chameleonic Cope Transition State," J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1999, 121, 10529-10537.

Yoo, H. Y.; Houk, K. N; Lee, J. K.; Scialdone, M.; Meyers, A. I. "New Paradigm for Anionic Heteroatom Cope Rearrangements," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1998, 120, 205-206.

Aviyente, V.; Yoo, H. Y.; Houk, K. N. "Analysis of Substituent Effects on the Claisen Rearrangement with ab initio Theory," J. Org. Chem. 1997, 62, 6121-6128.

Houk, K. N.; Beno, B. R.; Nendel, M.; Black, K.; Yoo, H. Y.; Wilsey, S.; Lee, J. K. "Exploration of Pericyclic Reaction Transition Structures with Quantum Mechanical Methods: Competing Concerted and Stepwise Mechanisms," J. Mol. Struct. (Theochem.), 1997, 398-399, 169.

Yoo, H. Y.; Houk, K. N. "Theory of Substituent Effects on Pericyclic Reaction Rates: Alkoxy Substituents in the Claisen Rearrangement," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1997, 119, 2877.

Olson, L. P.; Niwayama, S.; Yoo, H.-Y.; Houk, K. N.; Harris, N. J.; Gajewski, J. J. "Secondary Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects in the Rotations of Alkenes and Allyl Radicals: Theory and Experiment," J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1996, 118, 886.