Nelson Y. S. Lam

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

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Nelson Y. S. Lam is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Nelson Y. S. Lam has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 27 papers in Organic Chemistry, 6 papers in Pharmacology and 6 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Nelson Y. S. Lam's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers), Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (8 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (8 papers). Nelson Y. S. Lam is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers), Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (8 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (8 papers). Nelson Y. S. Lam collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Nelson Y. S. Lam's co-authors include Jin‐Quan Yu, Kevin Wu, Erika L. Lucas, Ian Paterson, Nikita Chekshin, Tyler G. St. Denis, Pritha Verma, Guangrong Meng, Daniel A. Strassfeld and Zhoulong Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Nelson Y. S. Lam

30 papers receiving 1.4k citations

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Achieving Site-Selectivity for C–H Activation Processes Based on Distance and Geometry: A Carpenter’s Approach

2020 289 citations Nelson Y. S. Lam, Tyler G. St. Denis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nelson Y. S. Lam United States	17	1.3k	294	132	72	70	30	1.4k
C. Cordier United Kingdom	16	1.1k 0.8×	187 0.6×	307 2.3×	37 0.5×	83 1.2×	29	1.2k
Jean‐Marc Pons France	21	1.4k 1.1×	262 0.9×	349 2.6×	100 1.4×	89 1.3×	52	1.5k
Ai M. Fletcher United Kingdom	22	1.2k 1.0×	216 0.7×	430 3.3×	54 0.8×	75 1.1×	86	1.4k
Beeraiah Baire India	21	1.5k 1.2×	106 0.4×	131 1.0×	47 0.7×	81 1.2×	86	1.7k
Daniel Solé Spain	31	2.4k 1.9×	190 0.6×	250 1.9×	63 0.9×	49 0.7×	78	2.5k
C. Wade Downey United States	17	1.5k 1.2×	428 1.5×	396 3.0×	134 1.9×	58 0.8×	35	1.7k
Jennifer L. Roizen United States	22	2.4k 1.9×	489 1.7×	196 1.5×	48 0.7×	162 2.3×	39	2.6k
Björn C.G. Söderberg United States	24	1.4k 1.1×	302 1.0×	191 1.4×	22 0.3×	39 0.6×	70	1.5k
Di Zhu Singapore	19	944 0.7×	316 1.1×	183 1.4×	28 0.4×	42 0.6×	38	1.1k
Subhas Chandra Pan India	23	1.7k 1.3×	330 1.1×	256 1.9×	60 0.8×	60 0.9×	102	1.8k

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Lahdenperä, Antti S. K., et al.. (2024). A chiral hydrogen atom abstraction catalyst for the enantioselective epimerization of meso -diols. Science. 386(6717). 42–49. 22 indexed citations

Wu, Kevin, Nelson Y. S. Lam, Daniel A. Strassfeld, et al.. (2024). Palladium (II)‐Catalyzed C−H Activation with Bifunctional Ligands: From Curiosity to Industrialization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(19). e202400509–e202400509. 47 indexed citations

Lam, Nelson Y. S., et al.. (2024). Catalytic Enantioselective Hydrogen Atom Abstraction Enables the Asymmetric Oxidation of Meso Diols. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(49). 33302–33308. 8 indexed citations

Gillespie, James E., Nelson Y. S. Lam, & Robert J. Phipps. (2023). Ortho-Selective amination of arene carboxylic acids via rearrangement of acyl O-hydroxylamines. Chemical Science. 14(37). 10103–10111. 13 indexed citations

Fan, Zhoulong, Xiangyang Chen, Keita Tanaka, et al.. (2022). Molecular editing of aza-arene C–H bonds by distance, geometry and chirality. Nature. 610(7930). 87–93. 84 indexed citations

Lam, Nelson Y. S. & Ian Paterson. (2022). Deep‐Sea Discovery and Detective Work: Towards Solving the Hemicalide Structural Enigma through Computational NMR Analysis and Stereocontrolled Synthesis. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2022(25). 1 indexed citations

Chuentragool, Padon, et al.. (2022). An Enantioselective Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling To Form Axially Chiral Biphenols. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(33). 15026–15032. 44 indexed citations

Zhang, Tao, Yu‐Xin Luan, Nelson Y. S. Lam, et al.. (2021). A directive Ni catalyst overrides conventional site selectivity in pyridine C–H alkenylation. Nature Chemistry. 13(12). 1207–1213. 99 indexed citations

Lam, Nelson Y. S., et al.. (2021). Conquering peaks and illuminating depths: developing stereocontrolled organic reactions to unlock nature's macrolide treasure trove. Chemical Communications. 57(26). 3171–3189. 12 indexed citations

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Denis, Tyler G. St., Nelson Y. S. Lam, Nikita Chekshin, et al.. (2021). Mechanistic Study of Enantioselective Pd-Catalyzed C(sp³)–H Activation of Thioethers Involving Two Distinct Stereomodels. ACS Catalysis. 11(15). 9738–9753. 22 indexed citations

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Walsh, Stephen J., Nelson Y. S. Lam, Jason S. Carroll, et al.. (2020). Total synthesis and biological evaluation of simplified aplyronine analogues as synthetically tractable anticancer agents. Chemical Communications. 56(10). 1529–1532. 11 indexed citations

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Lam, Nelson Y. S., Kevin Wu, & Jin‐Quan Yu. (2020). Advancing the Logic of Chemical Synthesis: C−H Activation as Strategic and Tactical Disconnections for C−C Bond Construction. Angewandte Chemie. 133(29). 15901–15924. 58 indexed citations

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Lam, Nelson Y. S., et al.. (2019). A counterintuitive stereochemical outcome from a chelation-controlled vinylmetal aldehyde addition leads to the configurational reassignment of phormidolide A. Chemical Communications. 55(65). 9717–9720. 16 indexed citations

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Lam, Nelson Y. S. & Ian Paterson. (2019). Stereocontrolled Synthesis as an Enabling Tool for the Configurational Assignment of Marine Polyketide Natural Products. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2020(16). 2310–2320. 12 indexed citations

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Lam, Nelson Y. S., Maria V. Babak, Hannah U. Holtkamp, et al.. (2018). From Catalysis to Cancer: Toward Structure–Activity Relationships for Benzimidazol-2-ylidene-Derived N-Heterocyclic-Carbene Complexes as Anticancer Agents. Inorganic Chemistry. 57(22). 14427–14434. 58 indexed citations

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Lam, Nelson Y. S., et al.. (2018). A synthesis-enabled relative stereochemical assignment of the C1–C28 region of hemicalide. Chemical Communications. 54(26). 3247–3250. 19 indexed citations

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Kubanik, Mario, Nelson Y. S. Lam, Hannah U. Holtkamp, et al.. (2018). Quinoline-para-quinones and metals: coordination-assisted formation of quinoline-ortho-quinones. Chemical Communications. 54(8). 992–995. 11 indexed citations

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Phillips, Andrew W., et al.. (2018). Toward the total synthesis of patellazole B: synthesis of an advanced C1–C25 fragment corresponding to the macrocyclic skeleton. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(37). 8286–8291. 9 indexed citations

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Sullivan, Matthew P., Michél K. Nieuwoudt, Graham A. Bowmaker, et al.. (2018). Unexpected arene ligand exchange results in the oxidation of an organoruthenium anticancer agent: the first X-ray structure of a protein–Ru(carbene) adduct. Chemical Communications. 54(48). 6120–6123. 34 indexed citations

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Paterson, Ian & Nelson Y. S. Lam. (2017). Challenges and discoveries in the total synthesis of complex polyketide natural products. The Journal of Antibiotics. 71(2). 215–233. 34 indexed citations

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