Wai Lean Koay

555 total citations · 1 hit paper
7 papers, 468 citations indexed

About

Wai Lean Koay is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wai Lean Koay has authored 7 papers receiving a total of 468 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Organic Chemistry, 2 papers in Materials Chemistry and 1 paper in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wai Lean Koay's work include Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (3 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (2 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (2 papers). Wai Lean Koay is often cited by papers focused on Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (3 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (2 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (2 papers). Wai Lean Koay collaborates with scholars based in Singapore, China and India. Wai Lean Koay's co-authors include Yixin Lü, Guang‐Jian Mei, Chun-Yan Guan, Rui Li, Yu Lan, Yixin Luo, Vinh X. Truong, Xian Jun Loh, Minh T. N. Le and Huihui Lin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Biomacromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Wai Lean Koay

7 papers receiving 463 citations

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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.

Atropisomers beyond the C–C axial chirality: Advances in catalytic asymmetric synthesis

2022 303 citations Guang‐Jian Mei, Wai Lean Koay et al. Chem profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wai Lean Koay Singapore	6	443	208	50	41	30	7	468
John D. Jolliffe United Kingdom	6	376 0.8×	171 0.8×	42 0.8×	41 1.0×	23 0.8×	10	397
Craig Keene United States	5	452 1.0×	218 1.0×	65 1.3×	70 1.7×	30 1.0×	7	485
Gongming Yang China	11	382 0.9×	89 0.4×	56 1.1×	16 0.4×	30 1.0×	19	396
Regev Parnes Israel	7	424 1.0×	89 0.4×	47 0.9×	52 1.3×	59 2.0×	7	448
Shu‐Min Guo Germany	7	263 0.6×	72 0.3×	29 0.6×	48 1.2×	35 1.2×	11	297
Xiao Qian Ng Singapore	7	351 0.8×	100 0.5×	62 1.2×	28 0.7×	59 2.0×	7	365
Shibo Xu China	8	415 0.9×	132 0.6×	62 1.2×	64 1.6×	58 1.9×	10	447
Mauro Moliterno Italy	7	355 0.8×	117 0.6×	49 1.0×	42 1.0×	41 1.4×	8	369
Corinna Sundermann Germany	4	451 1.0×	116 0.6×	44 0.9×	43 1.0×	90 3.0×	5	461

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7 of 7 papers shown

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Koay, Wai Lean, Huihui Lin, N. D. Pradeep Singh, et al.. (2024). Light Switchable Bioorthogonal Reaction Manifold for Modulation of Hydrogel Properties. Biomacromolecules. 25(10). 6635–6644. 5 indexed citations

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Koay, Wai Lean, et al.. (2024). Wavelength-Selective Xanthene-Based Monochromophoric Photoremovable Protecting Groups for Tuning Soft Matter Material Properties. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(33). 23376–23386. 5 indexed citations

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Koay, Wai Lean, Enyi Ye, Ken Lee, et al.. (2023). Red light activatable photobase generator for rapid thiol-nucleophilic polymerization. Materials Today Chemistry. 35. 101872–101872. 7 indexed citations

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Mei, Guang‐Jian, Wai Lean Koay, Chun-Yan Guan, & Yixin Lü. (2022). Atropisomers beyond the C–C axial chirality: Advances in catalytic asymmetric synthesis. Chem. 8(7). 1855–1893. 303 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mei, Guang‐Jian, Yixin Luo, Wai Lean Koay, et al.. (2022). Chemo-, regio- and enantioselective dearomative (3+2) reaction of non-functionalized 1-naphthols. Chem Catalysis. 2(2). 386–399. 25 indexed citations

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Koay, Wai Lean, Guang‐Jian Mei, & Yixin Lü. (2021). Facile access to benzofuran-fused tetrahydropyridines via catalytic asymmetric [4 + 2] cycloaddition of aurone-derived 1-azadienes with 3-vinylindoles. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(5). 968–974. 32 indexed citations

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Mei, Guang‐Jian, et al.. (2021). Catalytic asymmetric preparation of pyrroloindolines: strategies and applications to total synthesis. Chemical Society Reviews. 50(10). 5985–6012. 91 indexed citations

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