Benke Hong

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Benke Hong is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Benke Hong has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Molecular Biology, 18 papers in Organic Chemistry and 15 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Benke Hong's work include Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (11 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (9 papers) and Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae (9 papers). Benke Hong is often cited by papers focused on Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (11 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (9 papers) and Traditional and Medicinal Uses of Annonaceae (9 papers). Benke Hong collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and United Kingdom. Benke Hong's co-authors include Xiaoguang Lei, Tuoping Luo, Houhua Li, Jinbao Wu, Sarah E. O’Connor, Yuichiro Kadonaga, Xiaoming Wang, Lorenzo Caputi, Prashant D. Sonawane and Dagny Grzech and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Benke Hong

39 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Late-Stage Diversification of Natural Products

2020 266 citations Benke Hong, Tuoping Luo et al. ACS Central Science profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Benke Hong China	17	658	484	294	195	163	39	1.1k
Daniel P. Furkert New Zealand	23	1.0k 1.6×	408 0.8×	316 1.1×	65 0.3×	229 1.4×	103	1.5k
Liao‐Bin Dong China	22	326 0.5×	783 1.6×	627 2.1×	127 0.7×	150 0.9×	64	1.2k
Tatsuya Shirahata Japan	19	618 0.9×	331 0.7×	218 0.7×	150 0.8×	102 0.6×	48	925
Sean A. Newmister United States	21	310 0.5×	570 1.2×	344 1.2×	146 0.7×	102 0.6×	34	1.0k
Boonsong Kongkathip Thailand	19	625 0.9×	436 0.9×	119 0.4×	70 0.4×	83 0.5×	59	1.2k
Zixin Deng China	24	343 0.5×	1.0k 2.1×	807 2.7×	139 0.7×	235 1.4×	84	1.5k
Zhengren Xu China	25	1.4k 2.1×	594 1.2×	295 1.0×	493 2.5×	165 1.0×	66	2.0k
Wolfgang Hüttel Germany	19	306 0.5×	390 0.8×	433 1.5×	151 0.8×	71 0.4×	34	886
Yoganathan Kanagasundaram Singapore	23	537 0.8×	523 1.1×	302 1.0×	640 3.3×	94 0.6×	68	1.3k
Shanteri Singh United States	22	490 0.7×	1.2k 2.5×	492 1.7×	84 0.4×	161 1.0×	58	1.6k

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Kamileen, Mohamed O., Benke Hong, Klaus Gase, et al.. (2025). Oxidative Rearrangements of the Alkaloid Intermediate Geissoschizine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(24). e202501323–e202501323. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Cong, et al.. (2025). Elucidation and de novo reconstitution of glyceollin biosynthesis. Molecular Plant. 18(5). 820–832. 3 indexed citations

Colinas, Maite, Yoko Nakamura, Delia Ayled Serna Guerrero, et al.. (2025). Ipecac alkaloid biosynthesis in two evolutionarily distant plants. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(11). 1794–1805. 3 indexed citations

Hong, Benke, et al.. (2024). Chemoenzymatic total synthesis of alchivemycin A. Nature Synthesis. 3(9). 1124–1133. 7 indexed citations

Grzech, Dagny, Yoko Nakamura, Benke Hong, et al.. (2024). Incorporation of nitrogen in antinutritional Solanum alkaloid biosynthesis. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(1). 131–142. 15 indexed citations

Kamileen, Mohamed O., Yoko Nakamura, Katrin Luck, et al.. (2024). Streamlined screening platforms lead to the discovery of pachysiphine synthase from Tabernanthe iboga. New Phytologist. 244(4). 1437–1449. 1 indexed citations

Luck, Katrin, et al.. (2023). Reinventing metabolic pathways: Independent evolution of benzoxazinoids in flowering plants. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 120(42). e2307981120–e2307981120. 19 indexed citations

Hong, Benke, et al.. (2023). Total Synthesis of Diverse Tetramic Acid Bearing cis‐Decalin Natural Products. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(20). e202301872–e202301872. 10 indexed citations

Hong, Benke, et al.. (2023). Metabolism of plant-derived toxins from its insect host increases the success of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana. The ISME Journal. 17(10). 1693–1704. 12 indexed citations

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Hong, Benke, Dagny Grzech, Lorenzo Caputi, et al.. (2022). Biosynthesis of strychnine. Nature. 607(7919). 617–622. 99 indexed citations

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Lozada, Néstor J. Hernández, Benke Hong, Joshua C. Wood, et al.. (2022). Biocatalytic routes to stereo-divergent iridoids. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4718–4718. 15 indexed citations

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Tatsis, Evangelos C., Benke Hong, Yoko Nakamura, et al.. (2022). Expansion of the Catalytic Repertoire of Alcohol Dehydrogenases in Plant Metabolism**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(48). e202210934–e202210934. 10 indexed citations

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Kamileen, Mohamed O., Matthew D. DeMars, Benke Hong, et al.. (2022). Recycling Upstream Redox Enzymes Expands the Regioselectivity of Cycloaddition in Pseudo-Aspidosperma Alkaloid Biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(43). 19673–19679. 18 indexed citations

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López, Carlos E. Rodríguez, Yindi Jiang, Mohamed O. Kamileen, et al.. (2022). Phylogeny-Aware Chemoinformatic Analysis of Chemical Diversity in Lamiaceae Enables Iridoid Pathway Assembly and Discovery of Aucubin Synthase. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39(4). 13 indexed citations

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López, Carlos E. Rodríguez, Benke Hong, Christian Paetz, et al.. (2020). Two bi‐functional cytochrome P450 CYP72 enzymes from olive ( Olea europaea ) catalyze the oxidative C‐C bond cleavage in the biosynthesis of secoxy‐iridoids – flavor and quality determinants in olive oil. New Phytologist. 229(4). 2288–2301. 19 indexed citations

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Wang, Jin, et al.. (2020). Protecting-Group-Free Syntheses of ent-Kaurane Diterpenoids: [3+2+1] Cycloaddition/Cycloalkenylation Approach. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(5). 2238–2243. 41 indexed citations

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Hong, Benke, Tuoping Luo, & Xiaoguang Lei. (2020). Late-Stage Diversification of Natural Products. ACS Central Science. 6(5). 622–635. 266 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Weilong, Benke Hong, Jin Wang, & Xiaoguang Lei. (2020). New Strategies in the Efficient Total Syntheses of Polycyclic Natural Products. Accounts of Chemical Research. 53(11). 2569–2586. 37 indexed citations

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Hong, Benke, Houhua Li, Jinbao Wu, Jing Zhang, & Xiaoguang Lei. (2014). Total Syntheses of (−)‐Huperzine Q and (+)‐Lycopladines B and C. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(3). 1011–1015. 53 indexed citations

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Zhang, Jing, Jinbao Wu, Benke Hong, et al.. (2014). Diversity-oriented synthesis of Lycopodium alkaloids inspired by the hidden functional group pairing pattern. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4614–4614. 52 indexed citations

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