De‐Cai Fang

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
165 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

De‐Cai Fang is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, De‐Cai Fang has authored 165 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Organic Chemistry, 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 29 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in De‐Cai Fang's work include Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (33 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (32 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers). De‐Cai Fang is often cited by papers focused on Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (33 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (32 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers). De‐Cai Fang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. De‐Cai Fang's co-authors include Guofu Zi, Gregory A. Chass, Marc D. Walter, Wenshan Ren, Louzhen Fan, Xiao‐Yuan Fu, Lin‐Pei Jin, Xiang‐Jun Zheng, Shihe Yang and Lei Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

De‐Cai Fang

164 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

Facile synthesis of water-soluble, highly fluorescent gra... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Facile synthesis of water-soluble, highly fluorescent graphene quantum dots as a robust biological label for stem cells
    2012 648 citations De‐Cai Fang et al. profile →

Peers

De‐Cai Fang
Jerzy W. Wiench United States
Mark A. Iron Israel
Arie van der Lee France
Dong Yang China
Youssry Y. Botros United States
Dinesh Shetty United Arab Emirates
Hongjun Fan China
Cunyuan Zhao China
Vladimir I. Bakhmutov Russia
Hongyan Xiao China
Jerzy W. Wiench United States
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of De‐Cai Fang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of De‐Cai Fang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of De‐Cai Fang based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with De‐Cai Fang. De‐Cai Fang is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Han, Changbao, Zhen Ma, Lihong Chang, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen spillover effect enhanced Cu2O/Cu/Mn2O3 catalyst for dual-electrode electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution. Journal of Energy Chemistry. 106. 291–301. 7 indexed citations
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Yao, Lifeng, Lei Zhang, & De‐Cai Fang. (2024). Theoretical Exploration of Rh/Cu Cooperative Catalysis in C–H Allylation of Benzamide with 1,3-Diene. Organometallics. 43(4). 495–505. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xinrui & De‐Cai Fang. (2023). DFT studies on the reaction mechanism of Ru(II)-catalyzed the C H activation of aromatic amide and alkylation of non-active olefins. Computational and Theoretical Chemistry. 1229. 114339–114339. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Xinrui & De‐Cai Fang. (2023). DFT study on stereoselective Rh-catalyzed intramolecular [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of allene–ene–ynes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(11). 2624–2634. 2 indexed citations
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Fang, De‐Cai, et al.. (2023). The treatment of dispersion terms for solution systems. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 25(29). 19422–19426. 5 indexed citations
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Han, Chang Bao, et al.. (2023). Anion assisted completely reconfigured manganese oxides with optimal proton adsorption for boosting acidic hydrogen evolution reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal. 465. 143006–143006. 11 indexed citations
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Li, Shijun, Wei Fang, Jeremy O. Richardson, & De‐Cai Fang. (2021). Tunnelling assisted hydrogen elimination mechanisms of FeCl3/TEMPO. Chemical Communications. 58(4). 565–568. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Mengzhu, Justin Kai‐Chi Lau, Jonathan Martens, et al.. (2020). Dissociative electron transfer of copper(ii) complexes of glycyl(glycyl/alanyl)tryptophanin vacuo: IRMPD action spectroscopy provides evidence of transition from zwitterionic to non-zwitterionic peptide structures. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 22(23). 13084–13091. 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Rui, Bing Lian, De‐Cai Fang, et al.. (2019). Mechanistic Insights into the Ru(II)-Catalyzed Intramolecular Formal [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of (E)-1,6-Enynes. Organic Letters. 21(17). 6815–6820. 3 indexed citations
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Mu, Wei‐Hua, et al.. (2018). Computational Insights into the Diels-Alder-alike Reactions of 1-Iodo-2-Lithio-o-Carborane with Fulvenes. Acta Chimica Sinica. 76(1). 55–55. 6 indexed citations
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Wang, Dan, Jian‐Quan Zheng, Duanyang Kong, et al.. (2017). Coordination-Directed Stacking and Aggregation-Induced Emission Enhancement of the Zn(II) Schiff Base Complex. Inorganic Chemistry. 56(2). 984–990. 49 indexed citations
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Li, Yue & De‐Cai Fang. (2014). DFT calculations on kinetic data for some [4+2] reactions in solution. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(29). 15224–15224. 36 indexed citations
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Chen, Yanmei, Gregory A. Chass, & De‐Cai Fang. (2013). Between a reactant rock and a solvent hard place – molecular corrals guide aromatic substitutions. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 16(3). 1078–1083. 18 indexed citations
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Zou, Qianli, Yuxia Zhao, Nikolay S. Makarov, et al.. (2012). Effect of alicyclic ring size on the photophysical and photochemical properties of bis(arylidene)cycloalkanone compounds. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 14(33). 11743–11743. 42 indexed citations
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Lang, Lixin, Weihua Li, Hongmei Jia, et al.. (2011). New Methods for Labeling RGD Peptides with Bromine-76. Theranostics. 1. 341–353. 23 indexed citations
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Ren, Wenshan, Xue‐Bin Deng, Guofu Zi, & De‐Cai Fang. (2011). The ThC double bond: an experimental and computational study of thorium poly-carbene complexes. Dalton Transactions. 40(38). 9662–9662. 79 indexed citations
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Chass, Gregory A., Eric Assen B. Kantchev, & De‐Cai Fang. (2009). The fine balance between one cross-coupling and two β-hydride elimination pathways: a DFT mechanistic study of Ni(π-allyl)2-catalyzed cross-coupling of alkyl halides and alkyl Grignard reagents. Chemical Communications. 46(16). 2727–2729. 14 indexed citations
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Chass, Gregory A., Christopher J. O’Brien, Niloufar Hadei, et al.. (2009). Density Functional Theory Investigation of the Alkyl–Alkyl Negishi Cross‐Coupling Reaction Catalyzed by N‐Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC)–Pd Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 15(17). 4281–4288. 85 indexed citations
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Huang, Wenwei, De‐Cai Fang, Karen Temple, & Thomas T. Tidwell. (1997). Stabilized and Persistent Allenylketenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(12). 2832–2838. 22 indexed citations
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Zhou, Guomo, et al.. (1997). Biological Diversity Protection and Sustainable Development of Forests.. 14(2). 187–192. 1 indexed citations

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