Pengchen Ma

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 859 citations indexed

About

Pengchen Ma is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Pengchen Ma has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 859 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Organic Chemistry, 7 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Pengchen Ma's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers). Pengchen Ma is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers), Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (6 papers) and Photoreceptor and optogenetics research (5 papers). Pengchen Ma collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Israel. Pengchen Ma's co-authors include Hui Chen, K. N. Houk, Bingwei Zhou, Congyang Wang, Shaohong Wang, Xuefeng Cong, Xiaoming Zeng, Longxing Cao, David Baker and Hsien‐Wei Yeh and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Pengchen Ma

22 papers receiving 847 citations

Hit Papers

De novo design of luciferases using deep learning 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 50 100 150 200
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.

  1. De novo design of luciferases using deep learning
    2023 241 citations Hsien‐Wei Yeh, Christoffer Norn et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Pengchen Ma China 15 511 266 171 111 96 25 859
Stéphane Streiff France 15 463 0.9× 146 0.5× 265 1.5× 113 1.0× 97 1.0× 33 684
Tianzhang Qiao United States 12 675 1.3× 192 0.7× 173 1.0× 54 0.5× 71 0.7× 18 867
Jan Pawlas United States 14 540 1.1× 299 1.1× 123 0.7× 49 0.4× 107 1.1× 31 870
Helena M. Lovick United States 8 405 0.8× 664 2.5× 111 0.6× 113 1.0× 164 1.7× 10 1.0k
Valérie Bénéteau France 16 808 1.6× 254 1.0× 72 0.4× 58 0.5× 89 0.9× 40 967
Rung‐Yi Lai Thailand 16 240 0.5× 275 1.0× 95 0.6× 245 2.2× 234 2.4× 45 744
René Tannert Germany 10 447 0.9× 147 0.6× 168 1.0× 59 0.5× 101 1.1× 17 681
Ivana Drienovská Netherlands 13 349 0.7× 601 2.3× 97 0.6× 54 0.5× 88 0.9× 23 818
Jean‐Noël Volle France 19 761 1.5× 303 1.1× 214 1.3× 57 0.5× 51 0.5× 48 1.0k
Myriem Skander Switzerland 10 665 1.3× 275 1.0× 246 1.4× 53 0.5× 59 0.6× 13 852

Countries citing papers authored by Pengchen Ma

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Fields of papers citing papers by Pengchen Ma

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pengchen Ma

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

All Works

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Li, Yuanhang, Shaohong Wang, Silong Xu, et al.. (2025). Light‐Dependent Amide or Thioamide Formation of Acylsilanes with Amines using Elemental Sulfur. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(12). e202404555–e202404555. 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaohong, et al.. (2025). C─H Amination of Polypropylene with Sodium N ‐Chloro‐Amides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(49). e202516324–e202516324.
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Wheeler, Steven E., et al.. (2025). Ketenimines as Aza-Dienophiles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(7). 6087–6094. 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Jinhua, Hong-Jie Miao, Jiayi Li, et al.. (2024). Metal-free, photoredox-catalyzed aromatization-driven deconstructive functionalization of spiro-dihydroquinazolinones with α-CF3 alkenes. Chemical Communications. 60(62). 8095–8098. 17 indexed citations
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Shelef, Omri, Sara Gutkin, Qingyang Zhou, et al.. (2024). Chemiexcitation Acceleration of 1,2‐Dioxetanes by Spiro‐Fused Six‐Member Rings with Electron‐Withdrawing Motifs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(46). e202410057–e202410057. 15 indexed citations
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Shelef, Omri, Sara Gutkin, Qingyang Zhou, et al.. (2024). Chemiexcitation Acceleration of 1,2‐Dioxetanes by Spiro‐Fused Six‐Member Rings with Electron‐Withdrawing Motifs. Angewandte Chemie. 136(46).
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Gutkin, Sara, Omri Shelef, Qingyang Zhou, et al.. (2024). Boosting Chemiexcitation of Phenoxy-1,2-dioxetanes through 7-Norbornyl and Homocubanyl Spirofusion. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 4(9). 3558–3566. 7 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengchen, Dennis Svatunek, Zixi Zhu, et al.. (2024). Computational Studies of Reactions of 1,2,4,5-Tetrazines with Enamines in MeOH and HFIP. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(27). 18706–18713. 7 indexed citations
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Shelef, Omri, Sara Gutkin, Qais Z. Jaber, et al.. (2023). Spirostrain-Accelerated Chemiexcitation of Dioxetanes Yields Unprecedented Detection Sensitivity in Chemiluminescence Bioassays. ACS Central Science. 10(1). 28–42. 37 indexed citations
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Roy, Satyajit, David A. Vargas, Pengchen Ma, et al.. (2023). Stereoselective construction of β-, γ- and δ-lactam rings via enzymatic C–H amidation. Nature Catalysis. 7(1). 65–76. 43 indexed citations
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Yeh, Hsien‐Wei, Christoffer Norn, Yakov Kipnis, et al.. (2023). De novo design of luciferases using deep learning. Nature. 614(7949). 774–780. 241 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liu, Shuai, Pengchen Ma, Lu Zhang, et al.. (2023). A cheap metal catalyzed ring expansion/cross-coupling cascade: a new route to functionalized medium-sized and macrolactones. Chemical Science. 14(19). 5220–5225. 21 indexed citations
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Wang, Shaohong, Pengchen Ma, Sason Shaik, & Hui Chen. (2022). Valence-Inverted States of Nickel(II) Complexes Perform Facile C–H Bond Activation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(32). 14607–14613. 22 indexed citations
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He, Xin, Pengchen Ma, Yuhai Tang, et al.. (2022). Phosphine-catalyzed activation of cyclopropenones: a versatile C3 synthon for (3+2) annulations with unsaturated electrophiles. Chemical Science. 13(43). 12769–12775. 30 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengchen, Yingjie Ma, Xuebing Leng, et al.. (2021). Synthesis, structure, and C–H bond activation reaction of an iron(IV) terminal imido complex bearing trifluoromethyl groups. Cell Reports Physical Science. 2(6). 100454–100454. 17 indexed citations
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Ma, Pengchen & Hui Chen. (2019). Ligand-Dependent Multi-State Reactivity in Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activations. ACS Catalysis. 9(3). 1962–1972. 30 indexed citations
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Han, Bo, Pengchen Ma, Xuefeng Cong, Hui Chen, & Xiaoming Zeng. (2019). Chromium- and Cobalt-Catalyzed, Regiocontrolled Hydrogenation of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(22). 9018–9026. 54 indexed citations
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Cong, Xuefeng, Fan Fei, Pengchen Ma, et al.. (2017). Low-Valent, High-Spin Chromium-Catalyzed Cleavage of Aromatic Carbon–Nitrogen Bonds at Room Temperature: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical Study. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(42). 15182–15190. 65 indexed citations
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Zhou, Bingwei, Pengchen Ma, Hui Chen, & Congyang Wang. (2014). Amine-accelerated manganese-catalyzed aromatic C–H conjugate addition to α,β-unsaturated carbonyls. Chemical Communications. 50(93). 14558–14561. 149 indexed citations

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