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Medicinal Chemistry/Drug Development/Organic Synthesis expert with 10+ years of experience in chemical R&D

Profile Summary
Subject Matter Expertise
Services
Writing Technical Writing
Research Scientific and Technical Research, Systematic Literature Review
Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting, Manufacturing Consulting
Data & AI Data Cleaning
Product Development Stability/Shelf Life Testing, Product Evaluation, Material Sourcing, Product Validation, Manufacturing, Concept Development
Work Experience

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Los Alamos National Laboratory

October 2017 - Present

Senior Research and Development Chemist

OPKO Health / Finetech Pharmaceutical

August 2022 - October 2025

Postdoctoral Research Associate

Los Alamos National Laboratory

October 2017 - June 2022

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of Utah

December 2014 - December 2016

Education

Ph.D. (Schulich Faculty of Chemistry)

Technion Israel Institute of Technology

October 2007 - August 2014

M.Sc. (Chemistry)

N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

September 2004 - July 2007

B.Sc. (Chemistry)

N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny Novgorod

September 2001 - June 2004

Certifications
Publications
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Yury Minko, Taylor V. Fetrow, Shikha Sharma, Brenna K. Cashman, Aaron M. Tondreau (2024). Flexible interactions of the rare-earth elements Y, La, and Lu with phosphorus in metallacyclohexane rings . Chemical Science.
Pavel A. Dub and Rami J. Batrice and John C. Gordon and Brian L. Scott and Yury Minko and Jurgen G. Schmidt and Robert F. Williams(2020). Engineering Catalysts for Selective Ester Hydrogenation . Organic Process Research & Development. 24. (3). p. 415--442. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Yury Minko, Jing-Yao Guo, Celine B. Santiago, Matthew S. Sigman(2017). Developing Comprehensive Computational Parameter Sets To Describe the Performance of Pyridine-Oxazoline and Related Ligands . ACS Catalysis. 7. (6). p. 4144--4151. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Guo, J.-Y., Minko, Y., Santiago, C.B., Sigman, M.S.(2017). Developing Comprehensive Computational Parameter Sets to Describe the Performance of Pyridine-Oxazoline and Related Ligands . ACS Catalysis. 7. (6). p. 4144-4151.
Yury Minko, Zackaria Nairoukh, Gunda G. K. S. Narayana Kumar, Ilan Marek(2017). Enantioselective allylic alkylation of stereodefined polysubstituted copper enolates as an entry to acyclic quaternary carbon stereocentres . Chemical Science. 8. (1). p. 627--630. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})
Nairoukh, Z., Kumar, G.G.K.S.N., Minko, Y., Marek, I.(2016). Enantioselective allylic alkylation of stereodefined polysubstituted copper enolates as an entry to acyclic quaternary carbon stereocentres . Chemical Science. 8. (1). p. 627-630.
Yury Minko, Ilan Marek, Morgane Pasco, Tom Mejuch, Noga Gilboa, Helena Chechik, Jaya P. Das(2014). All-Carbon Quaternary Stereogenic Centers in Acyclic Systems through the Creation of Several C–C Bonds per Chemical Step . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136. (7). p. 2682--2694. American Chemical Society ({ACS})
Marek, I., Minko, Y., Pasco, M., Mejuch, T., Gilboa, N., Chechik, H., Das, J.P.(2014). All-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers in acyclic systems through the creation of several C-C bonds per chemical step . Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136. (7). p. 2682-2694.
Yury Minko, Ilan Marek(2014). Oxenoids in organic synthesis . Org. Biomol. Chem. 12. (10). p. 1535--1546. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})
Minko, Y., Marek, I.(2014). Oxenoids in organic synthesis . Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry. 12. (10). p. 1535-1546.
Yury Minko, Ilan Marek(2014). Stereodefined acyclic trisubstituted metal enolates towards the asymmetric formation of quaternary carbon stereocentres . Chem. Commun. 50. (84). p. 12597--12611. Royal Society of Chemistry ({RSC})
Minko, Y., Marek, I.(2014). Stereodefined acyclic trisubstituted metal enolates towards the asymmetric formation of quaternary carbon stereocentres . Chemical Communications. 50. (84). p. 12597-12611.
Yury Minko, Morgane Pasco, Helena Chechik, Ilan Marek(2013). Regio- and stereoselective carbometallation reactions ofN-alkynylamides and sulfonamides . Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 9. p. 526--532. Beilstein Institut
Yury Minko, Morgane Pasco, Lukas Lercher, Ilan Marek(2013). Stereodefined trisubstituted enolates as a unique entry to all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers in acyclic systems . Nature Protocols. 8. (4). p. 749--754. Springer Nature
Minko, Y., Pasco, M., Lercher, L., Marek, I.(2013). Stereodefined trisubstituted enolates as a unique entry to all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centers in acyclic systems . Nature Protocols. 8. (4). p. 749-754.
Minko, Y., Pasco, M., Chechik, H., Marek, I.(2013). Regio- and stereoselective carbometallation reactions of N-alkynylamides and sulfonamides . Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 9. p. 526-532.
Yury Minko, Morgane Pasco, Lukas Lercher, Mark Botoshansky, Ilan Marek(2012). Forming all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centres in acyclic systems from alkynes . Nature. 490. (7421). p. 522--526. Springer Nature
Minko, Y., Pasco, M., Lercher, L., Botoshansky, M., Marek, I.(2012). Forming all-carbon quaternary stereogenic centres in acyclic systems from alkynes . Nature. 490. (7421). p. 522-526.
PREPRINT
Yury Minko, Shounak Banerjee, Elizabeth S Anaya, Zachary J Sasiene, Jurgen G Schmidt, Charlie E M Strauss, Geoffrey S Waldo (2022). Configurational entropy-based screening and selection of hydrophilic polymers using the tripartite split green fluorescent protein .
OTHER
Yury Minko, Ilan Marek(2014). Advances in Carbolithiation . Lithium Compounds in Organic Synthesis. p. 329--350. Wiley-{VCH} Verlag {GmbH} {\&} Co. {KGaA}
Yury Minko, Ilan Marek(2013). Carbometallation Reactions . Metal-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and More. p. 763--874. Wiley-{VCH} Verlag {GmbH} {\&} Co. {KGaA}
BOOK CHAPTER
Minko, Y., Marek, I.(2014). Advances in Carbolithiation . Lithium Compounds in Organic Synthesis: From Fundamentals to Applications. 9783527333431. p. 329-350.
Marek, I., Minko, Y.(2013). Carbometallation Reactions . Metal Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions and More. 3. p. 763-874.