Ohyun Kwon is an American chemist who is a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
[1] She moved to the United States for graduate studies, first joining Columbia University to work in the research group of Samuel J.
[2] Afterwards, Kwon moved to Harvard University as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Stuart Schreiber,[4] where she worked on a diversity oriented synthesis of macrocycles and multi-cyclic compounds.
She has shown that phosphine-catalysed alleviate annulations can be used to create natural products of medical significance.
[2] Kwon showed that chiral phosphines can be used for asymmetric catalysis, including DIPAMP, DIOP and BINAP.