Gencheng Li

2.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
18 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Gencheng Li is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Gencheng Li has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Organic Chemistry, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Gencheng Li's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (8 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (8 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (6 papers). Gencheng Li is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (8 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (8 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (6 papers). Gencheng Li collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Australia. Gencheng Li's co-authors include Jin‐Quan Yu, K. Barry Sharpless, Suhua Li, Marcus E. Farmer, Peng Wang, Peng Wu, Jian He, Xinna Ma, Rui Zhu and Zhenhua Gu and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Gencheng Li

18 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

SuFEx Click Chemistry Enabled Late-Stage Drug Functionalization

2018 252 citations Zilei Liu, Jie Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
SuFEx-enabled, agnostic discovery of covalent inhibitors of human neutrophil elastase

2019 157 citations Qinheng Zheng, Jordan L. Woehl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
SuFExable polymers with helical structures derived from thionyl tetrafluoride

2021 122 citations Suhua Li, Gencheng Li et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gencheng Li United States	15	1.6k	427	383	227	70	18	1.7k
Mélanie M. Lorion Germany	21	1.8k 1.1×	390 0.9×	133 0.3×	345 1.5×	27 0.4×	33	1.9k
Arjun Narayanan United States	13	765 0.5×	497 1.2×	323 0.8×	70 0.3×	84 1.2×	22	1.1k
John R. Cappiello United States	15	1.3k 0.8×	316 0.7×	134 0.3×	334 1.5×	21 0.3×	18	1.4k
Paul T. Nyffeler United States	7	799 0.5×	280 0.7×	443 1.2×	178 0.8×	34 0.5×	8	987
Justine N. deGruyter United States	8	781 0.5×	667 1.6×	128 0.3×	87 0.4×	77 1.1×	11	1.1k
Shuhei Kawamura Japan	15	1.3k 0.8×	397 0.9×	144 0.4×	150 0.7×	12 0.2×	21	1.7k
Stepan Chuprakov United States	15	2.5k 1.6×	207 0.5×	102 0.3×	128 0.6×	46 0.7×	20	2.6k
Peter E. Maligres United States	25	1.7k 1.1×	419 1.0×	92 0.2×	385 1.7×	27 0.4×	44	2.0k
Paul M. Scola United States	17	1.0k 0.6×	417 1.0×	72 0.2×	123 0.5×	35 0.5×	33	1.4k
Peter Thuy-Boun United States	12	653 0.4×	165 0.4×	162 0.4×	271 1.2×	15 0.2×	18	933

Countries citing papers authored by Gencheng Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gencheng Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gencheng Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gencheng Li 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 Gencheng Li. Gencheng Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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18 of 18 papers shown

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Casey, Mary C., Grant A. L. Bare, Karen A. Kirby, et al.. (2024). Identification of clickable HIV-1 capsid-targeting probes for viral replication inhibition. Cell chemical biology. 31(3). 477–486.e7. 7 indexed citations

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Yang, Baiyuan, Gencheng Li, Grant A. L. Bare, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and structure–activity relationships of aryl fluorosulfate-based inhibitors as novel antitubercular agents. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 98. 129596–129596. 3 indexed citations

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Cheng, Yunfei, Gencheng Li, Christopher J. Smedley, et al.. (2022). Diversity oriented clicking delivers β-substituted alkenyl sulfonyl fluorides as covalent human neutrophil elastase inhibitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(37). e2208540119–e2208540119. 31 indexed citations

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Li, Suhua, Gencheng Li, Bing Gao, et al.. (2021). SuFExable polymers with helical structures derived from thionyl tetrafluoride. Nature Chemistry. 13(9). 858–867. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Botham, Rachel C., Suhua Li, D.E. Mortenson, et al.. (2020). Using sulfuramidimidoyl fluorides that undergo sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange for inverse drug discovery. Nature Chemistry. 12(10). 906–913. 110 indexed citations

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Smedley, Christopher J., Gencheng Li, Andrew S. Barrow, et al.. (2020). Diversity Oriented Clicking (DOC): Divergent Synthesis of SuFExable Pharmacophores from 2‐Substituted‐Alkynyl‐1‐Sulfonyl Fluoride (SASF) Hubs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(30). 12460–12469. 104 indexed citations

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Smedley, Christopher J., Gencheng Li, Andrew S. Barrow, et al.. (2020). Diversity Oriented Clicking (DOC): Divergent Synthesis of SuFExable Pharmacophores from 2‐Substituted‐Alkynyl‐1‐Sulfonyl Fluoride (SASF) Hubs. Angewandte Chemie. 132(30). 12560–12569. 30 indexed citations

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Zheng, Qinheng, Jordan L. Woehl, Seiya Kitamura, et al.. (2019). SuFEx-enabled, agnostic discovery of covalent inhibitors of human neutrophil elastase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(38). 18808–18814. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

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Liu, Zilei, Jie Li, Suhua Li, et al.. (2018). SuFEx Click Chemistry Enabled Late-Stage Drug Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(8). 2919–2925. 252 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Gencheng, Peng Wang, Marcus E. Farmer, & Jin‐Quan Yu. (2017). Ligand‐Enabled Auxiliary‐Free meta‐C−H Arylation of Phenylacetic Acids. Angewandte Chemie. 129(24). 6978–6981. 21 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Zhe Zhuang, Gencheng Li, et al.. (2017). Ligand‐Enabled β‐C–H Arylation of α‐Amino Acids Without Installing Exogenous Directing Groups. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(6). 1506–1509. 130 indexed citations

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Chen, Gang, Zhe Zhuang, Gencheng Li, et al.. (2017). Ligand‐Enabled β‐C–H Arylation of α‐Amino Acids Without Installing Exogenous Directing Groups. Angewandte Chemie. 129(6). 1528–1531. 32 indexed citations

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Li, Gencheng, Peng Wang, Marcus E. Farmer, & Jin‐Quan Yu. (2017). Ligand‐Enabled Auxiliary‐Free meta‐C−H Arylation of Phenylacetic Acids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(24). 6874–6877. 73 indexed citations

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Wang, Peng, Gencheng Li, Pankaj Jain, et al.. (2016). Ligand-Promoted meta-C–H Amination and Alkynylation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(42). 14092–14099. 190 indexed citations

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Li, Gencheng. (2016). The Application and Innovation of Crowdsourcing in the Internet Age. Open Journal of Social Sciences. 4(3). 199–204. 3 indexed citations

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Zhu, Ru‐Yi, Keita Tanaka, Gencheng Li, et al.. (2015). Ligand-Enabled Stereoselective β-C(sp³)–H Fluorination: Synthesis of Unnatural Enantiopure anti-β-Fluoro-α-amino Acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(22). 7067–7070. 138 indexed citations

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Deng, Ruixian, Yunze Huang, Xinna Ma, et al.. (2014). Palladium-Catalyzed Intramolecular Asymmetric C–H Functionalization/Cyclization Reaction of Metallocenes: An Efficient Approach toward the Synthesis of Planar Chiral Metallocene Compounds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(12). 4472–4475. 191 indexed citations

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Sui, Xianwei, Rui Zhu, Gencheng Li, Xinna Ma, & Zhenhua Gu. (2013). Pd-Catalyzed Chemoselective Catellani Ortho-Arylation of Iodopyrroles: Rapid Total Synthesis of Rhazinal. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(25). 9318–9321. 118 indexed citations

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