Mimi Hii
Born
King Kuok Hii

(1969-12-23) 23 December 1969 (age 54)
Alma materUniversity of Leeds
Known forStudy of Catalysis and Rapid Analysis
Scientific career
FieldsChemistry
InstitutionsImperial College London
Doctoral advisorBernard L. Shaw

King Kuok "Mimi" Hii (born 23 December 1969) is a chemist whose fields of research include application of catalysis to organic synthesis. She is the Director of Imperial College London's Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR).[1]

Academic career

Hii studied for both her BSc and PhD at The University of Leeds investigating multidentate ligand metal complexes under the supervision of Bernard L. Shaw.[2] Postdoctoral studies at Oxford University in John M. Brown's group were followed by independent research at University of Leeds, King's College London and in Imperial College London.[3] In 2016 she was awarded a Professorship in Catalysis and in 2018 became the Director of the Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions.[4]

Research interests

Hii has investigated catalysis during her research career. In Oxford, she characterised intermediates of the Heck reaction.[5] Hii also studied this reaction at King's College London.[6] Hii has continued with this field of study producing over a hundred articles, reviews, book chapters and patents. These include articles, reviews and books on sustainable chemistry methods.[7][8][9][10] In 2010 Hii joined the Steering Group of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Dial-a-Molecule Grand Challenge network and became a Co-Investigator on phase III of the project in 2016.[11] Hii has been awarded many grants, most notably a multi-million award from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council in 2017 which, together with money from Imperial College London and industrial partners funded the set up of Imperial College London's Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR).[12][4]

Awards and honours

In 2013, the Federation of Asian Chemistry Societies recognised Hii as an Asian Rising Star. Hii was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.[13] In 2016 Hii became co-editor in chief of the open access Chemistry Central Journal.[14] In 2019 Mimi Hii was shortlisted for an Asian Women of Achievement Award.[15]

References

  1. ^ "Centre for Rapid Online Analysis of Reactions (ROAR)". Imperial College London. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  2. ^ Shaw, Bernard L.; Perera, Sarath D.; Hii, King Kuok (1994-01-01). "Terdentate (P–N–O) complexes formed from Z,E-PPh2CH2C-(But)N–NCH(C6H4OH-2) or Z,E-PPh2CH2C(But)N–NCH-[C6H2(OH-2)(OMe)2-4,6] and nickel, palladium, platinum, rhodium or iridium". Journal of the Chemical Society, Dalton Transactions (24): 3589–3596. doi:10.1039/DT9940003589. ISSN 1364-5447.
  3. ^ "Chemistry Tree - King Kuok (Mimi) Hii Family Tree". academictree.org. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  4. ^ a b "First-of-its-kind automatic chemistry facility opens at Imperial | Imperial News | Imperial College London". Imperial News. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  5. ^ Brown, John M.; Hii, King Kuok (Mimi) (1996). "Characterization of Reactive Intermediates in Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation of Methyl Acrylate (Heck Reaction)". Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 35 (6): 657–659. doi:10.1002/anie.199606571. ISSN 1521-3773.
  6. ^ Qadir, Maryiam; Möchel, Tobias; (Mimi) Hii, King Kuok (2000-09-29). "Examination of Ligand Effects in the Heck Arylation Reaction". Tetrahedron. 56 (40): 7975–7979. doi:10.1016/S0040-4020(00)00703-1.
  7. ^ Dunn, Peter J.; Hii, K. K. Mimi; Krische, Michael J.; Williams, Michael T., eds. (2013-04-08). Sustainable Catalysis. doi:10.1002/9781118354520. ISBN 9781118354520.
  8. ^ Leung, Andrew Yuk Keung; Hellgardt, Klaus; Hii, King Kuok “Mimi” (2018-04-02). "Catalysis in Flow: Nickel-Catalyzed Synthesis of Primary Amines from Alcohols and NH3". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 6 (4): 5479–5484. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b00338. hdl:10044/1/57850.
  9. ^ Hii, King Kuok (Mimi); Hellgardt, Klaus; Mulligan, Christopher J.; Adrio, Luis A.; Emmerich, Herman; Parry, Stephen; Barreiro, Elena M.; Brazier, John B.; Newton, Mark A. (2016-01-18). "Operando XAFS of supported Pd nanoparticles in flowing ethanol/water mixtures: implications for catalysis". Green Chemistry. 18 (2): 406–411. doi:10.1039/C5GC01600B. hdl:10044/1/25721. ISSN 1463-9270.
  10. ^ Mulligan, Christopher J.; Bagale, Sharanappa M.; Newton, Oliver J.; Parker, Jeremy S.; Hii, King Kuok Mimi (2019-01-07). "Peracetic Acid: An Atom-Economical Reagent for Pd-Catalyzed Acetoxylation of C–H Bonds". ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 7 (1): 1611–1615. doi:10.1021/acssuschemeng.8b05370. hdl:10044/1/66751. S2CID 104432879.
  11. ^ "People – Phase III". Dial-a-Molecule EPSRC Grand Challenge Network Website. 2017-01-10. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  12. ^ author, EPSRC. "Grants on the web". gow.epsrc.ukri.org. Retrieved 2019-05-06. ((cite web)): |last= has generic name (help)
  13. ^ "Dr. King Kuok (Mimi) Hii". King Kuok Hii Lab, Imperial College London. Retrieved 6 May 2019.
  14. ^ Hollingworth, Charlotte (2016-02-03). "New Co-Editor-in-Chief for Chemistry Central Journal". SpringerOpen blog. Retrieved 2019-05-06.
  15. ^ "2019". Asian Women of Achievement Awards. Retrieved 2019-05-06.

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