Jin Kun

6.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
181 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Jin Kun is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jin Kun has authored 181 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 152 papers in Organic Chemistry, 24 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Jin Kun's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (45 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (44 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (43 papers). Jin Kun is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (45 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (44 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (43 papers). Jin Kun collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Sweden. Jin Kun's co-authors include Jinhwa Lee, Yoshito Kishi, Yaming Li, Chunying Duan, Jae Chol Lee, Rong Zhang, Licheng Sun, Heejin Kim, Mei Wang and Jae Du Ha and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Jin Kun

176 papers receiving 5.2k 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.

Highly stereoselective approaches to .alpha.- and .beta.-C-glycopyranosides

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jin Kun United States	40	4.4k	769	721	530	409	181	5.4k
Andreas Gansäuer Germany	51	6.2k 1.4×	622 0.8×	1.5k 2.1×	589 1.1×	416 1.0×	156	6.8k
Igor Larrosa United Kingdom	44	6.0k 1.4×	405 0.5×	1.4k 1.9×	346 0.7×	432 1.1×	104	6.8k
David J. Procter United Kingdom	63	10.8k 2.5×	1.4k 1.8×	1.6k 2.2×	423 0.8×	971 2.4×	230	12.1k
Bernd Plietker Germany	46	4.7k 1.1×	686 0.9×	1.9k 2.6×	211 0.4×	172 0.4×	144	5.7k
Miwako Mori Japan	52	7.8k 1.8×	1.7k 2.3×	1.7k 2.3×	505 1.0×	177 0.4×	272	8.7k
Yannick Landais France	36	4.3k 1.0×	637 0.8×	592 0.8×	86 0.2×	379 0.9×	168	4.8k
Michael F. Greaney United Kingdom	53	6.8k 1.5×	1.0k 1.3×	750 1.0×	146 0.3×	658 1.6×	127	7.4k
Timothy J. Donohoe United Kingdom	48	7.2k 1.6×	2.1k 2.7×	2.1k 2.9×	155 0.3×	366 0.9×	256	8.4k
Zhiwei Zuo China	27	6.2k 1.4×	328 0.4×	676 0.9×	679 1.3×	585 1.4×	55	6.9k
M. Christina White United States	52	9.6k 2.2×	900 1.2×	3.5k 4.8×	325 0.6×	332 0.8×	79	10.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Jin Kun

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jin Kun

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yan, Kezhou, Yuan Guo, Meihua Bao, et al.. (2025). Comparative study on pollution characteristics of heavy metals and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in coking solid wastes. Environmental Progress & Sustainable Energy.

Kun, Jin, et al.. (2022). Acyclic Remote 1,6-Stereoselection. Organic Letters. 24(34). 6252–6255.

Li, Yaming, et al.. (2018). A green and transition-metal-free light-mediated trifluoromethylation reaction of coumarins. Journal of Fluorine Chemistry. 214. 42–47. 10 indexed citations

Li, Yingjun, Nan Zhang, Jihong Liu, Jin Kun, & Siyuan Wang. (2018). Detection of HSO₄^- Ion with a Colorimetric and Fluorescent Probe Based on Hydrolysis Reaction of Carbazole-Derived Schiff Base in Aqueous Medium. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 38(11). 3026–3026. 3 indexed citations

Li, Yaming, Chunying Duan, Jun Yin, Rong Zhang, & Jin Kun. (2013). Copper/Silver-Mediated Decarboxylative Trifluoromethylation of α,β-Unsaturated Carboxylic Acids with CF3SO2Na. Synthesis. 46(5). 607–612. 26 indexed citations

Kim, Hyeon-Jeong, et al.. (2010). Total Synthesis of Pareitropone via Radical Anion Coupling. Organic Letters. 12(17). 3954–3956. 13 indexed citations

Feng, Yang, Huifeng Wang, Fangfang Sun, et al.. (2009). A highly efficient and widely functional-group-tolerant catalyst system for copper(I)-catalyzed S-arylation of thiols with aryl halides. Tetrahedron. 65(47). 9737–9741. 70 indexed citations

Wang, Huifeng, Yaming Li, Fangfang Sun, et al.. (2008). 1,2,3,4-Tetrahydro-8-hydroxyquinoline-Promoted Copper-Catalyzed Coupling of Nitrogen Nucleophiles and Aryl Bromides. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73(21). 8639–8642. 58 indexed citations

Kim, Keunho, et al.. (2008). Olefin exchange-mediated cyclopropanation of nitriles with homoallylic alcohols. Tetrahedron Letters. 49(26). 4089–4091. 7 indexed citations

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Kun, Jin, et al.. (2006). Characterization of Phthalazinone Moiety Containing Methoxyl Side Group by NMR Spectroscopy. 1 indexed citations

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Epstein, Oleg L., Se‐Jin Lee, & Jin Kun. (2006). Formation of Seven‐Membered Carbocycles by the Use of Cyclopropyl Silyl Ethers as Homoenols. Angewandte Chemie. 118(30). 5110–5113. 12 indexed citations

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Dong, Weibing, Mei Wang, Xiaoyang Liu, et al.. (2005). An insight into the protonation property of a diiron azadithiolate complex pertinent to the active site of Fe-only hydrogenases. Chemical Communications. 305–307. 69 indexed citations

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Liang, Qiaoli, et al.. (2004). Compound 800 , a Natural Product Isolated from Genetically Engineered Pseudomonas : Proposed Structure, Reactivity, and Putative Relation to Heme d ₁. Biochemistry. 43(33). 10730–10738. 1 indexed citations

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Epstein, Oleg L. & Jin Kun. (2004). Rapid Access to the “in,out”‐Tetracyclic Core of Ingenol. Angewandte Chemie. 117(1). 123–125. 9 indexed citations

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Epstein, Oleg L. & Jin Kun. (2004). Rapid Access to the “in,out”‐Tetracyclic Core of Ingenol. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(1). 121–123. 39 indexed citations

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Wang, Mei, et al.. (2003). Ethylene oligomerization by salen-type zirconium complexes to low-carbon linear α-olefins. Journal of Catalysis. 220(2). 392–398. 52 indexed citations

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Kun, Jin, et al.. (2003). Radical cyclization–fragmentation of ω-haloalkyl cyclobutanones: a modular approach to medium-sized carbocycles. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 14(19). 2911–2917. 17 indexed citations

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Lee, Kwangho & Jin Kun. (2001). Convenient annulation of bicyclo[6.3.0]undecanes. Tetrahedron Letters. 42(35). 6019–6021. 6 indexed citations

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Lee, Jinhwa, et al.. (1997). Facile Ring Opening of Tertiary Aminocyclopropanes by Photooxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(42). 10241–10242. 30 indexed citations

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Baldwin, Jack E., Alistair G. Swanson, Jin Kun, & John A. Murphy. (1986). Preparation and pyrolysis of substituted ethanoanthracenes - a general synthesis of 2,3-disubstituted anthracenes. Tetrahedron. 42(14). 3943–3956. 6 indexed citations

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