Bo Su

3.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
77 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Bo Su is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Plant Science and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Bo Su has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Organic Chemistry, 22 papers in Plant Science and 19 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Bo Su's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (22 papers), Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (19 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (19 papers). Bo Su is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (22 papers), Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (19 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (19 papers). Bo Su collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Italy. Bo Su's co-authors include Zhang‐Jie Shi, Zhi‐Chao Cao, John F. Hartwig, Qingmin Wang, Meng Deng, Taigang Zhou, Peilin Xu, Jue Zhang, Jing Fang and Taegyo Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Bo Su

71 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Exploration of Earth-Abundant Transition Metals (Fe, Co, ... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 200 400 600
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Exploration of Earth-Abundant Transition Metals (Fe, Co, and Ni) as Catalysts in Unreactive Chemical Bond Activations
    2015 661 citations Bo Su, Zhi‐Chao Cao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bo Su China 24 1.9k 623 298 271 155 77 2.7k
Wen Wan China 24 889 0.5× 240 0.4× 274 0.9× 421 1.6× 72 0.5× 120 2.0k
L. Konstantinovski Israel 17 1.0k 0.5× 964 1.5× 297 1.0× 239 0.9× 67 0.4× 23 1.8k
Daria Giacomini Italy 28 1.5k 0.8× 252 0.4× 92 0.3× 758 2.8× 58 0.4× 115 2.4k
Silvia Cabrera Spain 30 2.9k 1.5× 909 1.5× 116 0.4× 639 2.4× 23 0.1× 75 3.5k
Chuanjun Song China 25 863 0.5× 168 0.3× 472 1.6× 846 3.1× 42 0.3× 115 2.2k
Yunmi Lee South Korea 23 2.1k 1.1× 549 0.9× 112 0.4× 1.5k 5.6× 36 0.2× 73 3.6k
Xiaojie Lu China 25 1.4k 0.7× 201 0.3× 64 0.2× 1.1k 4.2× 139 0.9× 90 2.1k
Panayiotis A. Procopiou United Kingdom 38 3.9k 2.0× 1.5k 2.4× 68 0.2× 1.3k 4.9× 57 0.4× 134 4.8k
Martin J. Weissenborn Germany 21 421 0.2× 212 0.3× 181 0.6× 585 2.2× 43 0.3× 44 1.1k
Antonio C. B. Burtoloso Brazil 27 2.1k 1.1× 198 0.3× 37 0.1× 426 1.6× 104 0.7× 88 2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bo Su

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Xue, Jingjing, et al.. (2025). Enantioselective Synthesis of H‐Phosphinamidates. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(3). e22534–e22534.
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Zhu, Yingying, et al.. (2025). Enantioselective 1,4-borylative amination. Trends in Chemistry. 7(2). 101–102. 1 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, et al.. (2024). Copper‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrophosphorylation of Unactivated Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie. 137(3). 2 indexed citations
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Lin, Yu, et al.. (2023). A general catalytic synthetic strategy for highly strained methylenecyclobutanes and spiromethylenecyclobutanes. Chemical Science. 14(29). 7897–7904. 8 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, et al.. (2023). Copper‐Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric P−C Coupling of Secondary Phosphine Oxides and Aryl Iodides. Angewandte Chemie. 135(25). 2 indexed citations
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Su, Bo & John F. Hartwig. (2021). Development of Chiral Ligands for the Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Silylation and Borylation of C−H Bonds. Angewandte Chemie. 134(9). 14 indexed citations
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Su, Bo & John F. Hartwig. (2021). Development of Chiral Ligands for the Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Silylation and Borylation of C−H Bonds. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(9). e202113343–e202113343. 88 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, et al.. (2020). Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation of β-C(sp3)–H Bonds of Primary Alkylamines through a Rare Four-Membered Palladacycle Intermediate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(17). 7912–7919. 46 indexed citations
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Xi, Yumeng, et al.. (2020). Application of Trimethylgermanyl-Substituted Bisphosphine Ligands with Enhanced Dispersion Interactions to Copper-Catalyzed Hydroboration of Disubstituted Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(42). 18213–18222. 94 indexed citations
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Oeschger, Raphael J., Bo Su, Isaac Furay Yu, et al.. (2020). Diverse functionalization of strong alkyl C–H bonds by undirected borylation. Science. 368(6492). 736–741. 167 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, Taegyo Lee, & John F. Hartwig. (2018). Iridium-Catalyzed, β-Selective C(sp3)–H Silylation of Aliphatic Amines To Form Silapyrrolidines and 1,2-Amino Alcohols. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(51). 18032–18038. 79 indexed citations
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Su, Bo & John F. Hartwig. (2018). Iridium‐Catalyzed, Silyl‐Directed, peri‐Borylation of C−H Bonds in Fused Polycyclic Arenes and Heteroarenes. Angewandte Chemie. 130(32). 10320–10324. 10 indexed citations
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Su, Bo & John F. Hartwig. (2018). Iridium‐Catalyzed, Silyl‐Directed, peri‐Borylation of C−H Bonds in Fused Polycyclic Arenes and Heteroarenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(32). 10163–10167. 39 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, Taigang Zhou, Peilin Xu, Zhang‐Jie Shi, & John F. Hartwig. (2017). Enantioselective Borylation of Aromatic C−H Bonds with Chiral Dinitrogen Ligands. Angewandte Chemie. 129(25). 7311–7314. 33 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, Taigang Zhou, Peilin Xu, Zhang‐Jie Shi, & John F. Hartwig. (2017). Enantioselective Borylation of Aromatic C−H Bonds with Chiral Dinitrogen Ligands. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(25). 7205–7208. 88 indexed citations
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Su, Bo & John F. Hartwig. (2017). Ir-Catalyzed Enantioselective, Intramolecular Silylation of Methyl C–H Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(35). 12137–12140. 77 indexed citations
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Yang, Mingyu, Bo Su, Yang Wang, et al.. (2014). Silver-catalysed direct amination of unactivated C–H bonds of functionalized molecules. Nature Communications. 5(1). 4707–4707. 148 indexed citations
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Qi, Wei, Jinsong Guo, Shan Wu, et al.. (2014). Synergistic effect of nanosecond pulsed electric field combined with low-dose of pingyangmycin on salivary adenoid cystic carcinoma. Oncology Reports. 31(5). 2220–2228. 15 indexed citations
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Wu, Meng, et al.. (2011). First total synthesis of Papilistatin. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 9(7). 2539–2539. 9 indexed citations
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Wu, Meng, Ling Li, Bo Su, Zhihui Liu, & Qingmin Wang. (2010). First total synthesis of (−)- and (+)-6-O-desmethylantofine. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 9(1). 141–145. 15 indexed citations

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