Saihu Liao

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Saihu Liao is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Saihu Liao has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Organic Chemistry, 26 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 13 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Saihu Liao's work include Radical Photochemical Reactions (43 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (35 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (26 papers). Saihu Liao is often cited by papers focused on Radical Photochemical Reactions (43 papers), Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (35 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (26 papers). Saihu Liao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and Germany. Saihu Liao's co-authors include Yong Tang, Benjamin List, Xiu‐Li Sun, Hao Xu, Xiong Hu, Tianxiao Xu, Xingliang Nie, Xun Zhang, Lijia Wang and Ma Qiang and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Saihu Liao

110 papers receiving 3.9k 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.

Activation of H₂O₂ by Chiral Confined Brønsted Acids: A Highly Enantioselective Catalytic Sulfoxidation

2012 194 citations Saihu Liao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Saihu Liao China	34	3.6k	624	534	385	261	113	4.0k
Wujiong Xia China	42	5.2k 1.4×	806 1.3×	693 1.3×	443 1.2×	320 1.2×	174	6.0k
Hongli Bao China	35	3.4k 0.9×	446 0.7×	523 1.0×	474 1.2×	258 1.0×	133	3.9k
Donald A. Watson United States	32	3.8k 1.0×	768 1.2×	1.2k 2.2×	187 0.5×	584 2.2×	61	4.4k
Estı́baliz Merino Spain	30	4.6k 1.3×	1.4k 2.3×	1.1k 2.1×	1.0k 2.7×	470 1.8×	68	5.7k
Jean‐Marc Vincent France	25	1.2k 0.3×	330 0.5×	418 0.8×	417 1.1×	378 1.4×	75	1.8k
Mark D. Levin United States	22	2.5k 0.7×	290 0.5×	602 1.1×	331 0.9×	569 2.2×	40	3.1k
Tristan H. Lambert United States	44	4.6k 1.3×	334 0.5×	705 1.3×	339 0.9×	737 2.8×	108	5.5k
Dongbing Zhao China	50	6.1k 1.7×	244 0.4×	1.3k 2.5×	676 1.8×	300 1.1×	125	7.7k
Motoi Kawatsura Japan	35	4.5k 1.2×	458 0.7×	1.7k 3.2×	232 0.6×	899 3.4×	124	5.2k
Ruimao Hua China	39	3.5k 1.0×	158 0.3×	828 1.6×	485 1.3×	385 1.5×	162	4.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Saihu Liao

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20 of 20 papers shown

Yi, Mengmeng, Yu Jiang, & Saihu Liao. (2025). Photocontrolled Solution [2+2] Polymerization of p-Phenylenediacrylate and Depolymerization. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 43(11). 1973–1980.

Yang, Zan, et al.. (2024). Organic Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed Stereoselective Cationic RAFT Polymerization: The Effect of RAFT Agents. Chinese Journal of Polymer Science. 42(6). 711–717. 2 indexed citations

Liao, Saihu, et al.. (2024). Accessing SuFExable Cyclobutane‐Fused Indolines via Photocatalytic Intermolecular [2+2] Cycloaddition of Indoles. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 366(14). 3117–3122. 8 indexed citations

Shao, Hui, Shaojie Li, Jinshuai Song, et al.. (2024). Sulfur-doped anthanthrenes as effective organic photocatalysts for metal-free ATRP and PET-RAFT polymerization under blue and green light. Polymer Chemistry. 15(40). 4134–4140. 4 indexed citations

Cao, Zhong‐Yan, et al.. (2024). Recent Advances in Developing Radical Methods for the Synthesis of Aliphatic Sulfonyl Fluorides. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 27(23). 19 indexed citations

Liao, Saihu, et al.. (2024). Application of transition metal fluorides in catalysis. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 519. 216114–216114. 4 indexed citations

Jiang, Yu, et al.. (2023). Organocatalytic stereoselective cationic polymerization of alkenyl vinyl ethers and post-functionalization via click chemistry. Giant. 14. 100151–100151. 5 indexed citations

Shi, Shuai, Xueyan Zhao, Dengfeng Chen, et al.. (2023). C(sp³)–H fluorosulfonylvinylation/aza-Michael addition approach to FSO₂-functionalized tetrahydropyridines. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(15). 3805–3810. 14 indexed citations

Zhou, Jie, Lingyun Zhu, Xinyu Chen, et al.. (2023). Synthesis, properties, and application of phenanthrenone: an undeveloped building block and a photocatalyst. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 10(15). 3830–3836. 8 indexed citations

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Feng, Qingyuan, et al.. (2023). Electroreductive hydroxy fluorosulfonylation of alkenes. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8278–8278. 23 indexed citations

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Zhang, Honghai, et al.. (2023). FSO₂ Radical-Initiated Tandem Addition Reaction of Two Different Olefins: A Facile Access to Multifunctional Aliphatic Sulfonyl Fluorides. Organic Letters. 25(24). 4478–4482. 21 indexed citations

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Jiang, Yu, Ma Qiang, Xun Zhang, Junfang Li, & Saihu Liao. (2022). Solution [2 + 2] photopolymerization of biomass-derived nonrigid biscinnamate monomers enabled by energy transfer catalysis. Polymer Chemistry. 13(17). 2538–2544. 11 indexed citations

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Zhang, Honghai, Shaojie Li, Hanliang Zheng, et al.. (2022). Photocatalytic fluorosulfonylation of aliphatic carboxylic acid NHPI esters. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 9(18). 4854–4860. 18 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xun, Siping Hu, Ma Qiang, & Saihu Liao. (2020). Visible light-mediated ring-opening polymerization of lactones based on the excited state acidity of ESPT molecules. Polymer Chemistry. 11(22). 3709–3715. 16 indexed citations

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Li, Ji, Xiaoyan Wang, Junfang Li, et al.. (2019). An efficient and mild route to highly fluorinated polyolefinsviacopolymerization of ethylene and 5-perfluoroalkylnorbornenes. Polymer Chemistry. 10(26). 3604–3609. 15 indexed citations

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Xu, Hao, et al.. (2015). Asymmetric Annulation of Donor–Acceptor Cyclopropanes with Dienes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 137(25). 8006–8009. 191 indexed citations

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Liao, Saihu, Xiu‐Li Sun, & Yong Tang. (2014). Side Arm Strategy for Catalyst Design: Modifying Bisoxazolines for Remote Control of Enantioselection and Related. Accounts of Chemical Research. 47(8). 2260–2272. 249 indexed citations

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Zhu, Jian‐Bo, Peng Wang, Saihu Liao, & Yong Tang. (2013). PPh3-mediated intramolecular conjugation of alkyl halides with electron-deficient olefins: facile synthesis of chromans and relevant analogues. Chemical Communications. 49(40). 4570–4570. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianghua, Saihu Liao, Xiu‐Li Sun, Qi Shen, & Yong Tang. (2012). Tris(oxazoline)/copper-catalyzed coupling of alkynes with nitrones: a highly enantioselective access to β-lactams. Tetrahedron. 68(25). 5042–5045. 33 indexed citations

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Kuai, Letian, Changyin Wu, J. Zhang, et al.. (2000). Plasminogen activator inhibitor‐1 fused with erythropoietin (EPO) mimetic peptide (EMP) enhances the EPO activity of EMP. Journal of Peptide Research. 56(2). 59–62. 7 indexed citations

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