Rong‐Zhen Liao

6.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
193 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Rong‐Zhen Liao is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry and Organic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Rong‐Zhen Liao has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 71 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 62 papers in Organic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Rong‐Zhen Liao's work include Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (51 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (42 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (29 papers). Rong‐Zhen Liao is often cited by papers focused on Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (51 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (42 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (29 papers). Rong‐Zhen Liao collaborates with scholars based in China, Sweden and United States. Rong‐Zhen Liao's co-authors include Per E. M. Siegbahn, Fahmi Himo, Jianguo Yu, Walter Thiel, Tomasz Borowski, Margareta R. A. Blomberg, Ming‐Tian Zhang, Chen‐Ho Tung, Jiayi Chen and Xiaojun Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Rong‐Zhen Liao

183 papers receiving 5.0k 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.

Quantum Chemical Studies of Mechanisms for Metalloenzymes

2014 502 citations Fahmi Himo, Rong‐Zhen Liao et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Rong‐Zhen Liao China	38	2.1k	1.5k	1.5k	1.3k	1.3k	193	5.1k
Jeffrey J. Warren Canada	29	1.6k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	655 0.5×	74	4.0k
Wenzhen Lai China	36	2.6k 1.2×	833 0.5×	1.7k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	610 0.5×	80	5.2k
Zhuofeng Ke China	47	2.0k 1.0×	3.9k 2.5×	2.4k 1.6×	1.6k 1.2×	784 0.6×	217	7.6k
Markus D. Kärkäs Sweden	31	2.6k 1.3×	3.2k 2.1×	927 0.6×	1.4k 1.1×	432 0.3×	83	6.4k
Seiji Ogo Japan	39	1.9k 0.9×	2.1k 1.4×	2.4k 1.6×	1.4k 1.1×	598 0.5×	170	5.4k
Ivari Kaljurand Estonia	27	702 0.3×	2.4k 1.6×	946 0.6×	604 0.5×	500 0.4×	48	4.2k
Оleg G. Sinyashin Russia	38	730 0.4×	4.8k 3.2×	2.5k 1.7×	1.3k 1.0×	771 0.6×	566	7.0k
Binju Wang China	41	654 0.3×	1.4k 0.9×	1.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	1.7k 1.3×	182	5.2k
Christopher J. Gagliardi United States	10	1.3k 0.6×	689 0.5×	720 0.5×	825 0.6×	399 0.3×	11	2.8k
Agnes Kütt Estonia	24	629 0.3×	2.1k 1.4×	839 0.6×	530 0.4×	429 0.3×	42	3.6k

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Wang, Chunyan, Hui Jiang, Ruifeng Du, et al.. (2025). A Dicobalt Diammine Complex as an Efficient Ammonia Oxidation Electrocatalyst. CCS Chemistry. 1–14.

Kong, Wei‐Jun, Haibo Wu, Jiayi Chen, et al.. (2025). Palladium-Catalyzed Site-Selective Regiodivergent Carbocyclization of Di- and Trienallenes: A Switch between Substituted Cyclohexene and Cyclobutene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(11). 9909–9918. 3 indexed citations

Li, Xialiang, Xiaotong Jin, Yuchen Cao, et al.. (2025). Promoted O ₂ Activation at a Co ^III Center for Significantly Improved Electrocatalytic Oxygen Reduction Reaction. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(47). 43199–43205.

Zhang, Rong, Yong Zhu, Hua Gao, et al.. (2025). Electrochemical and photoelectrochemical CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons by a copper-based molecular catalyst. Chemical Engineering Journal. 524. 168965–168965.

Wu, Tian, et al.. (2025). Theoretical Study on Photocatalytic CO₂ Reduction to Formate by a Ruthenium CNC Pincer Complex. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 129(36). 8357–8369. 1 indexed citations

Liao, Rong‐Zhen, et al.. (2024). Exploring the Cooperation of the Redox Non‐Innocent Ligand and Di‐Cobalt Center for the Water Oxidation Reaction Catalyzed by a Binuclear Complex. ChemSusChem. 17(19). e202400123–e202400123. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Hai‐Xu, Yaqiong Zhang, Shu‐Lin Meng, et al.. (2024). Manipulating Iron(II) Carbonyl Intermediate for Efficient Carbon Dioxide Reduction. CCS Chemistry. 6(12). 2971–2981. 6 indexed citations

Li, Jiang, Lin Huang, Junwei An, et al.. (2024). Glycyl Radical Enzymes Catalyzing the Dehydration of Two Isomers of N-Methyl-4-hydroxyproline. ACS Catalysis. 14(7). 4407–4422. 4 indexed citations

Huang, Jianjian, Tai‐Ping Zhou, Ningning Sun, et al.. (2024). Accessing ladder-shape azetidine-fused indoline pentacycles through intermolecular regiodivergent aza-Paternò–Büchi reactions. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1431–1431. 25 indexed citations

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Wei, Wenjie & Rong‐Zhen Liao. (2024). Mechanistic Insights into the electron‐transfer driven substrate activation by [4Fe‐4S]‐dependent Enzymes. ChemCatChem. 16(14). 4 indexed citations

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Wu, Can, Bien Tan, Rong‐Zhen Liao, et al.. (2024). Highly Efficient Photocatalytic CO₂‐to‐CO on Ni‐Based Cationic Polymer with TiO₂‐Assisted Exfoliation and Stabilization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(13). e202423200–e202423200. 14 indexed citations

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Guo, Huan, Ningning Sun, Juan Guo, et al.. (2023). Expanding the Promiscuity of a Copper‐Dependent Oxidase for Enantioselective Cross‐Coupling of Indoles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(16). e202219034–e202219034. 8 indexed citations

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Liu, Hongmei, Qing Huang, Rong‐Zhen Liao, Man Li, & Youwei Xie. (2023). Ring-closing C–O/C–O metathesis of ethers with primary aliphatic alcohols. Nature Communications. 14(1). 17 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tai‐Ping, et al.. (2022). Catalytic Atroposelective Electrophilic Amination of Indoles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(31). e202205159–e202205159. 37 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tai‐Ping, et al.. (2022). Catalytic Atroposelective Electrophilic Amination of Indoles. Angewandte Chemie. 134(31). 9 indexed citations

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Sun, Ningning, Jianjian Huang, Tai‐Ping Zhou, et al.. (2022). Enantioselective [2+2]-cycloadditions with triplet photoenzymes. Nature. 611(7937). 715–720. 165 indexed citations

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Ni, Yang, et al.. (2021). Iron-catalyzed cross-dehydrogenative C–H amidation of benzofurans and benzothiophenes with anilines. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(7). 1490–1495. 3 indexed citations

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Liu, Jiale, Rong‐Zhen Liao, Frank W. Heinemann, et al.. (2021). Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Cobalt Complexes with a Redox Non-Innocent Polypyridine Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(23). 17976–17985. 22 indexed citations

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Zhou, Tai‐Ping, Fangrui Zhong, Yuzhou Wu, & Rong‐Zhen Liao. (2021). Regioselectivity and stereoselectivity of intramolecular [2 + 2] photocycloaddition catalyzed by chiral thioxanthone: a quantum chemical study. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 19(7). 1532–1540. 8 indexed citations

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Yang, Ni, et al.. (2018). Iron-Catalyzed Regiospecific Intermolecular Radical Cyclization of Anilines: Strategy for Assembly of 2,2-Disubstituted Indolines. Organic Letters. 20(5). 1404–1408. 32 indexed citations

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