Wangqing Kong

7.1k total citations · 4 hit papers
89 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

Wangqing Kong is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Wangqing Kong has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 87 papers in Organic Chemistry, 28 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 15 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Wangqing Kong's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (76 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (25 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (24 papers). Wangqing Kong is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (76 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (25 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (24 papers). Wangqing Kong collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and United States. Wangqing Kong's co-authors include Cristina Nevado, Estı́baliz Merino, Jieping Zhu, Yuanyuan Ping, Kuai Wang, Noelia Fuentes, Maria Helena Casimiro, Qian Wang, Yuxiu Li and Wenfeng Liu 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

Wangqing Kong

87 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Copper-Catalyzed One-Pot Trifluoromethylation/Aryl Migration/Desulfonylation and C(sp²)–N Bond Formation of Conjugated Tosyl Amides

2013 412 citations Wangqing Kong, Maria Helena Casimiro et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Cyclization Cascades viaN-Amidyl Radicals toward Highly Functionalized Heterocyclic Scaffolds

2015 382 citations Noelia Fuentes, Wangqing Kong et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Construction of Quaternary Stereocenters by Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbopalladation‐Initiated Cascade Reactions

2018 354 citations Yuanyuan Ping, Jieping Zhu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Nickel-catalysed enantioselective alkene dicarbofunctionalization enabled by photochemical aliphatic C–H bond activation

2024 60 citations Iván Cheng‐Sánchez, Wangqing Kong et al. Nature Catalysis profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wangqing Kong China	43	5.9k	1.3k	1.3k	339	174	89	6.2k
Chaozhong Li China	41	5.3k 0.9×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.6×	438 1.3×	168 1.0×	130	6.1k
Yun‐Lin Liu China	35	4.6k 0.8×	1.0k 0.8×	964 0.8×	602 1.8×	176 1.0×	81	4.9k
Masayuki Wasa United States	34	9.2k 1.6×	2.3k 1.8×	776 0.6×	445 1.3×	198 1.1×	45	9.5k
Xiaolong Wan China	32	3.3k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	868 0.7×	223 0.7×	74 0.4×	65	3.6k
Guoyin Yin China	32	4.1k 0.7×	1.3k 1.0×	772 0.6×	295 0.9×	182 1.0×	77	4.4k
Kami L. Hull United States	23	4.6k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	488 0.4×	279 0.8×	129 0.7×	51	4.8k
Shaolin Zhu China	43	5.6k 0.9×	2.6k 2.1×	467 0.4×	630 1.9×	181 1.0×	88	5.9k
Ming‐Yu Ngai United States	34	3.5k 0.6×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 0.8×	434 1.3×	131 0.8×	57	3.9k
Tatiana Besset France	37	6.3k 1.1×	1.9k 1.5×	2.6k 2.1×	323 1.0×	192 1.1×	110	7.0k
Thomas Knauber United States	21	3.7k 0.6×	792 0.6×	491 0.4×	251 0.7×	127 0.7×	26	4.1k

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Zhou, Zhijun, et al.. (2026). Direct and Enantioselective Acylation of Diverse C(sp ³ )–H Bonds with Aldehydes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 148(7). 7113–7123.

Xu, Sheng, et al.. (2025). A modular approach to catalytic stereoselective synthesis of chiral 1,2-diols and 1,3-diols. Nature Communications. 16(1). 364–364. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Yongli, Yuanyuan Ping, & Wangqing Kong. (2025). Nickel-catalyzed ligand-controlled switchable skeletal rearrangements: divergent synthesis of isoquinoline-1,3-diones, cyclohexenols, cycloheptenols, and 2-benzazepin-5-ones. Science China Chemistry. 68(6). 2541–2551. 1 indexed citations

Wang, Xiaoqin, Sheng Xu, Yuanyuan Ping, & Wangqing Kong. (2025). Selective Functionalization of C(sp³)—H Bonds via Photoredox/ Nickel Dual Catalysis. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 45(2). 383–383. 2 indexed citations

Cheng‐Sánchez, Iván, et al.. (2024). Nickel-catalysed enantioselective alkene dicarbofunctionalization enabled by photochemical aliphatic C–H bond activation. Nature Catalysis. 7(6). 655–665. 60 indexed citations breakdown →

Liu, Wenfeng, et al.. (2024). Nickel-catalyzed switchable arylative/endo-cyclization of 1,6-enynes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 2914–2914. 16 indexed citations

Liu, Wenfeng, et al.. (2024). Nickel-catalyzed electrophiles-controlled enantioselective reductive arylative cyclization and enantiospecific reductive alkylative cyclization of 1,6-enynes. Nature Communications. 15(1). 1787–1787. 8 indexed citations

Ke, Yang, Wei Li, Wenfeng Liu, & Wangqing Kong. (2023). Ni-catalyzed ligand-controlled divergent and selective synthesis. Science China Chemistry. 66(11). 2951–2976. 43 indexed citations

Xu, Sheng, et al.. (2023). Enantioselective C(sp³)–H Functionalization of Oxacycles via Photo-HAT/Nickel Dual Catalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(9). 5231–5241. 52 indexed citations

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Wang, Yifan, Yuanyuan Ping, & Wangqing Kong. (2023). Synergistic Pd/Cu-catalyzed regio- and stereoselective cascade Heck cyclization/borylation/cross-coupling. Chinese Chemical Letters. 34(12). 108453–108453. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiao‐Wang, Jun‐Ping Yue, Kuai Wang, et al.. (2021). Nickel‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Carbo‐Carboxylation of Alkenes with CO ₂. Angewandte Chemie. 133(25). 14187–14194. 12 indexed citations

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Chen, Xiao‐Wang, Jun‐Ping Yue, Kuai Wang, et al.. (2021). Nickel‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Reductive Carbo‐Carboxylation of Alkenes with CO ₂. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(25). 14068–14075. 113 indexed citations

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Chen, Jiachang, Yiming Wang, Zhengtian Ding, & Wangqing Kong. (2020). Synthesis of bridged tricyclo[5.2.1.01,5]decanes via nickel-catalyzed asymmetric domino cyclization of enynones. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1882–1882. 52 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, Qian Wang, & Jieping Zhu. (2017). Water as a Hydride Source in Palladium‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Reductive Heck Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 129(14). 4045–4049. 128 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, Noelia Fuentes, Andrés García‐Domínguez, Estı́baliz Merino, & Cristina Nevado. (2015). Stereoselective Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Indanes and Dibenzocycloheptadienes through Complex Radical Cascade Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(8). 2487–2491. 163 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, Estı́baliz Merino, & Cristina Nevado. (2014). Arylphosphonylation and Arylazidation of Activated Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(20). 5078–5082. 274 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, Estı́baliz Merino, & Cristina Nevado. (2014). Divergent Reaction Mechanisms in the Aminofluorination of Alkenes. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 68(6). 430–430. 33 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, et al.. (2013). Regio‐ and Enantioselective Aminofluorination of Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(9). 2469–2473. 233 indexed citations

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Kong, Wangqing, Maria Helena Casimiro, Noelia Fuentes, Estı́baliz Merino, & Cristina Nevado. (2013). Metal‐Free Aryltrifluoromethylation of Activated Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(49). 13086–13090. 297 indexed citations

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Jiang, Xuefeng, Wangqing Kong, Jie Chen, & Shengming Ma. (2008). Intermolecular sequential [4 + 2]-cycloaddition–aromatization reaction of aryl-substituted allenes with DMAD affording phenanthrene and naphthalene derivatives. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 6(19). 3606–3606. 23 indexed citations

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