Cunyuan Zhao

5.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
165 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Cunyuan Zhao is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Cunyuan Zhao has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 98 papers in Organic Chemistry, 56 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 35 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Cunyuan Zhao's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (33 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (21 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (21 papers). Cunyuan Zhao is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (33 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (21 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (21 papers). Cunyuan Zhao collaborates with scholars based in China, Hong Kong and United States. Cunyuan Zhao's co-authors include Zhuofeng Ke, David Lee Phillips, Xuepeng Zhang, Cheng Hou, Huiying Xu, Yexiang Tong, Zhenguo Chi, Siwei Liu, Jiarui Xu and Yinwu Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Cunyuan Zhao

163 papers receiving 4.9k 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.

Intermolecular Electronic Coupling of Organic Units for Efficient Persistent Room‐Temperature Phosphorescence

2016 614 citations Xuepeng Zhang, Cunyuan Zhao et al. profile →
Nitrogen‐Doped Co₃O₄ Mesoporous Nanowire Arrays as an Additive‐Free Air‐Cathode for Flexible Solid‐State Zinc–Air Batteries

2017 455 citations Cheng Hou, Cunyuan Zhao et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Cunyuan Zhao China	36	2.0k	1.8k	1.5k	1.2k	642	165	5.0k
Janusz Lewiński Poland	43	2.4k 1.2×	2.8k 1.5×	2.0k 1.4×	1.4k 1.1×	744 1.2×	199	5.6k
Alexander Katz United States	39	1.7k 0.8×	3.0k 1.6×	1.7k 1.2×	413 0.3×	723 1.1×	131	5.7k
Cristiano Zuccaccia Italy	41	3.1k 1.6×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.2×	406 0.3×	703 1.1×	140	5.4k
Simon M. Humphrey United States	41	1.6k 0.8×	2.4k 1.3×	2.4k 1.7×	647 0.5×	1.1k 1.8×	120	5.1k
Jörg Sundermeyer Germany	41	3.9k 1.9×	1.6k 0.9×	3.0k 2.0×	687 0.6×	713 1.1×	241	6.3k
Sergey A. Katsyuba Russia	31	1.4k 0.7×	948 0.5×	869 0.6×	409 0.3×	516 0.8×	157	3.4k
Majid Motevalli United Kingdom	39	3.0k 1.5×	2.1k 1.1×	2.2k 1.5×	772 0.6×	921 1.4×	252	5.3k
Mark A. Iron Israel	38	2.4k 1.2×	995 0.5×	1.9k 1.3×	379 0.3×	278 0.4×	84	4.3k
Jason B. Love United Kingdom	45	2.7k 1.3×	3.1k 1.7×	4.1k 2.8×	348 0.3×	775 1.2×	173	7.2k
Lucia Maini Italy	38	2.1k 1.0×	3.3k 1.8×	2.5k 1.7×	613 0.5×	974 1.5×	128	7.1k

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Zhao, Cunyuan, et al.. (2025). Chemical Tagging of N -Alkylamine-Containing Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals through C( sp ³ )–H Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(47). 43424–43437.

Zhou, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2023). Group 13 metal catalysts for hydrogen activation and hydrogenation. Journal of Catalysis. 423. 81–93. 2 indexed citations

Huang, Ming, Yinwu Li, Xiao‐Bing Lan, et al.. (2021). Ruthenium(ii) complexes with N-heterocyclic carbene–phosphine ligands for the N-alkylation of amines with alcohols. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 19(15). 3451–3461. 46 indexed citations

Huang, Ming, Jiahao Liu, Yong‐Liang Huang, et al.. (2021). Enhanced Hydride Donation Achieved Molybdenum Catalyzed Direct N-Alkylation of Anilines or Nitroarenes with Alcohols: From Computational Design to Experiment. ACS Catalysis. 11(16). 10377–10382. 56 indexed citations

Huang, Hai‐Hua, Miao Dai, Jiahao Liu, et al.. (2020). Dual roles of the electronic effect on selectivity: pincer nickel-electrocatalyzed CO₂ reduction. Catalysis Science & Technology. 11(3). 874–885. 9 indexed citations

Ye, Zongren, Xiao Huang, Youxiang Shao, et al.. (2019). One catalyst, multiple processes: ligand effects on chemoselective control in Ru-catalyzed anti-Markovnikov reductive hydration of terminal alkynes. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(9). 2315–2327. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Ming, Yinwu Li, Jiahao Liu, et al.. (2018). A bifunctional strategy for N-heterocyclic carbene-stabilized iridium complex-catalyzed N-alkylation of amines with alcohols in aqueous media. Green Chemistry. 21(2). 219–224. 81 indexed citations

Hou, Cheng, Yinwu Li, Cunyuan Zhao, & Zhuofeng Ke. (2018). A DFT study of Co(i) and Ni(ii) pincer complex-catalyzed hydrogenation of ketones: intriguing mechanism dichotomy by ligand field variation. Catalysis Science & Technology. 9(1). 125–135. 18 indexed citations

Gao, Yanpeng, Taicheng An, Yuemeng Ji, Guiying Li, & Cunyuan Zhao. (2015). Eco-toxicity and human estrogenic exposure risks from OH-initiated photochemical transformation of four phthalates in water: A computational study. Environmental Pollution. 206. 510–517. 73 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuepeng, Huiying Xu, & Cunyuan Zhao. (2014). Mechanistic Investigation of Dirhodium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Allylic C–H Amination versus Alkene Aziridination. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 79(20). 9799–9811. 43 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xuepeng, Hui Gao, Huiying Xu, et al.. (2012). A density functional theory study of the hydrolysis mechanism of phosphodiester catalyzed by a mononuclear Zn(II) complex. Journal of Molecular Catalysis A Chemical. 368-369. 53–60. 6 indexed citations

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Cao, Fenglei, Wei Ren, Xianfang Xu, Yexiang Tong, & Cunyuan Zhao. (2011). The structural, energetic and electronic properties of doped carbon nanotubes by encapsulation of MCp2 (M = Fe, Co, Ni): A theoretical investigation. Chemical Physics Letters. 512(1-3). 81–86. 16 indexed citations

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Xu, Zhen‐Jiang, Ran Fang, Cunyuan Zhao, et al.. (2009). cis-β-Bis(carbonyl) Ruthenium−Salen Complexes: X-ray Crystal Structures and Remarkable Catalytic Properties toward Asymmetric Intramolecular Alkene Cyclopropanation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(12). 4405–4417. 85 indexed citations

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Li, Zhiwei, Cunyuan Zhao, & Liuping Chen. (2008). Structure and aromaticity of Bi5-, Bi5M (M = Li, Na, K) and Bi5M+ (M = Be, Mg, Ca) clusters. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 854(1-3). 46–53. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Cunyuan & K. Balasubramanian. (2002). Geometries and spectroscopic properties of silicon clusters (Si5, Si5+, Si5−, Si6, Si6+, and Si6−). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 116(9). 3690–3699. 36 indexed citations

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Tian, Yupeng, et al.. (2002). Structural characterization and second-order nonlinear optical properties of zinc halide thiosemicarbazone complexes. Polyhedron. 21(12-13). 1217–1222. 51 indexed citations

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Zhang, Yong, Cunyuan Zhao, Wei‐Hai Fang, & Zuhong Lu. (1998). High accuracy studies on the ground state and transition state of SiC2. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 454(1). 31–40. 11 indexed citations

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Duan, Chunying, et al.. (1997). Synthesis, Crystal Structure, and Second-Order Optical Nonlinearity of Bis(2-chlorobenzaldehyde thiosemicarbazone)cadmium Halides (CdL₂X₂; X = Br, I). Inorganic Chemistry. 36(6). 1247–1252. 181 indexed citations

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Zhao, Cunyuan, Yong Zhang, Wei‐Hai Fang, & Xiao‐Zeng You. (1996). A theoretical study on the hyperpolarizabilities of dicyanovinyl and tricyanovinyl substituted benzenes, stilbenes, styrenes and azobenzenes. Journal of Molecular Structure THEOCHEM. 367. 73–82. 13 indexed citations

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Zhao, Cunyuan, Yiyuan Peng, & Yurui Qu. (1992). EPR studies on electron transfer reactions between O-benzoyl-N-alkylhydroxylamines and perfluoroacyl peroxides. Generation of n- and sec-alkyl perfluoroacyl nitroxides and sec- and tert-alkyl perfluoroalkyl nitroxides. Research on Chemical Intermediates. 18(1). 1–17. 4 indexed citations

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