Jonathan Kuo

Professional Appointments and Affiliations

Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Education

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., Columbia University, 2017
B.S., University of California, Los Angeles, 2012

Selected Honors and Awards

NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018–2021
Arun Guthikonda Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 2017
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, 2013-2016

Selected Publications

• Kuo, J. L.; Goldberg, K. I.; “Metal/Ligand Proton Tautomerism Facilitates Dinuclear H2 Reductive Elimination.” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2020, 142 (51), 21439.
• Kuo, J. L.; Gunasekara, T.G.; Hansen, A.; Vibbert, H. B.; Bohle, F.; Norton, J. R.; Grimme, S.; Quinlivan, P. J., Thermodynamic and Kinetic Studies on the Reactions of [CpV(CO)3H–]: Comparisons to Isoelectronic CpCr(CO)3H. Organometallics, 2019, 38 (21), 4319.
• Kuo, J. L.; Lorenc, C.; Abuyuan, J. M.; Norton, J. R., Catalysis of Radical Cyclizations From Alkyl Iodides Under H2: Evidence for Electron Transfer from [CpV(CO)3H]–. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2018, 140 (13), 4512.
• Li, G.;† Kuo, J. L.;† Han, A.; Abuyuan, J. M., Young, L. C.; Norton, J. R.; Palmer, J. H., Radical Isomerization and Cycloisomerization Initiated by H• Transfer. J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2016, 138 (24), 7698.
• Kuo, J. L.; Hartung, J.; Han, A.; Norton, J. R., Direct Generation of Oxygen-Stabilized Radicals by H• Transfer from Transition Metal Hydrides” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2015, 137 (3), 1036.

†Denotes joint first authorship