HII King Kuok Mimi

HII King Kuok Mimi

Adjunct Professor

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Research

ORCID: 0000-0002-1163-0505
ResearcherID: I-7990-2018

 

Recognition and Achievements

• ‘Asian Rising Star’, awarded by the Federation of Asian Chemical Societies, 2013.
• Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), 2013
• Shortlisted Asian Women of Achievement Award (Professions), 2019
• Associate Editor, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, The American Chemical Society, from 2019.
• Expert Panelist, National Centre of Excellence in Catalysis, The Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Switzerland, from 2020.

 

Research Interests

• Homogeneous catalysis, including asymmetric catalysis.
• Development of sustainable and scalable processes in continuous flow, including multiphasic reactions and heterogeneous catalysis.
• Digital Chemistry Champion: Developing data-efficient kinetic tools for synthetic chemistry, including automated hardware and software.

 

Representative Publications   

• Takle, M. J.; Schrecker, L.; Deadman, B. J.; Dickhaut, J.; Wieja, A.; Hellgardt, K.; Hii, K. K., Flash Thermal Racemization of Chiral Amine in Continuous Flow: An Exploration of Reaction Space using DoE and Transient Flow. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2025, 29, 545–554.
• Dalland, D.; Schrecker,L.; Hii, K. K., Auto-VTNA: An Automatic VTNA platform for Determination of Global Rate Equations. Digit. Discov. 2024, 3, 2118-2129.
• Newton, O.J.; Takle, M. J.; Richardson, J.; Hellgardt, K.; Hii, K. K., Deconvoluting substrates, support and temperature effects on leaching and deactivation of Pd catalysts: an in-situ study in flow. ACS Catal. 2024, 14, 9678-9686.
• Horvath-Gerber, F.; Ohlig, D.; Hii, K. K.; Deadman, B. J.; Attrill, R. P.; Hellgardt, K., Liquizald−Thermally Stable N-Nitrosamine Precursor for Diazomethane. Org. Process Res. Dev. 2024, 28, 597–608.
• de Carvalho Servia, M. A.; Sandoval, I. O.; Hii, K. K.; Hellgardt, K.; Zhang, D.; del Rio Chanona, E. A., The Automated Discovery of Kinetic Rate Models – Methodological Frameworks. Digit. Discov. 2024, 3, 954-968.
• Schrecker, L.; Dickhaut, J.; Holtze, C.; Staehle, P.; Vranceanu, M.; Wieja, A.; Hellgardt, K.; Hii, K. K., A Comparative Study of Transient Flow Rate Steps and Ramps for the Efficient Collection of Kinetic Data. React. Chem. Eng. 2024, 9, 1077-1086.
• L. Schrecker; J. Dickhaut; C. Holtze; P. Staehle; A. Wieja; K. Hellgardt; K. K. Hii, Efficient multiparameter method for the collection of chemical reaction data via ‘one-pot’ transient flow. React. Chem. Eng, 2023, 8, 3196-3202.
• Takle, M. J.; Deadman, B. J.; Hellgardt, K.; Dickhaut, J.; Weija, A.; Hii, K. K., A Flash Thermal Racemization Protocol for the Chemoenzymatic Dynamic Kinetic Resolution and Stereoinversion of Chiral Amines. ACS Catal. 2023, 13, 10541-6.
• Newton, O. J.; Richardson, J.; Hellgardt, K.; Hii, K. K., Homeopathic Palladium Catalysis? The observation of distinct kinetic regimes in a ‘ligandless’ Heck reaction at (ultra-)low catalyst loading. J. Catal. 2023, 424, 29-38.
• Stark, R. T.; Pye, D. R.; Chen, W.; Newton, O. J.; Deadman, B. J.; Miller, P. W.; Panayides, J-L.; Riley, D. L.; Hellgardt, K.; Hii, K. K., Assessing a Sustainable Manufacturing Route to Lapatinib. React. Chem. Eng. 2022, 7, 2420-2426.