Weijun Yao

3.9k total citations
96 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Weijun Yao is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weijun Yao has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Organic Chemistry, 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Weijun Yao's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (45 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (21 papers). Weijun Yao is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (45 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (21 papers). Weijun Yao collaborates with scholars based in China, Singapore and France. Weijun Yao's co-authors include Yixin Lü, Fangrui Zhong, Xiaoyu Han, Tianli Wang, Xiaowei Dou, Cheng Ma, Huanzhen Ni, Nisar Ullah, Yiping Zhang and Jacek Kwiatkowski 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

Weijun Yao

90 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weijun Yao China 32 3.3k 723 425 219 102 96 3.5k
Pankaj Chauhan India 27 3.7k 1.1× 511 0.7× 397 0.9× 217 1.0× 73 0.7× 70 3.8k
Matthias R. M. Hüttl Germany 8 3.4k 1.0× 649 0.9× 749 1.8× 182 0.8× 71 0.7× 11 3.5k
Zhuo Chai China 33 3.0k 0.9× 719 1.0× 454 1.1× 353 1.6× 63 0.6× 89 3.1k
Chandra M. R. Volla India 33 3.6k 1.1× 507 0.7× 258 0.6× 155 0.7× 43 0.4× 94 3.7k
Hirokazu Urabe Japan 34 3.4k 1.0× 583 0.8× 378 0.9× 152 0.7× 88 0.9× 126 3.5k
Fangrui Zhong China 33 3.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.5× 818 1.9× 262 1.2× 83 0.8× 92 4.2k
Mariafrancesca Fochi Italy 28 2.8k 0.8× 508 0.7× 451 1.1× 126 0.6× 68 0.7× 100 2.9k
H. Lebel Canada 34 4.7k 1.4× 908 1.3× 444 1.0× 211 1.0× 91 0.9× 91 5.0k
Francisco J. Fañanás Spain 33 3.5k 1.1× 565 0.8× 402 0.9× 92 0.4× 109 1.1× 157 3.7k
Efraím Reyes Spain 35 3.5k 1.1× 748 1.0× 821 1.9× 169 0.8× 68 0.7× 119 3.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Weijun Yao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Weijun Yao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weijun Yao

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Yao, Weijun, et al.. (2025). A near-infrared fluorescent probe based on purine for glyphosate detection in real sample, living cells and zebrafish. Talanta. 292. 127996–127996. 3 indexed citations
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Peng, Sha, Haoping Peng, Weijun Yao, et al.. (2025). Ball-milling promoted ring-opening selenocyanation of cyclic sulfonium salts with KSeCN. Tetrahedron. 185. 134816–134816. 2 indexed citations
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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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Wang, Wenhui, et al.. (2024). The Asymmetric Synthesis of Polycyclic Tetrahydroxanthone via the Cascade Reaction of Alkene‐Substituted 1,3‐diketones and Alkenyloxindoles. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 366(8). 1888–1892. 1 indexed citations
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Zhou, Yuqiao, et al.. (2024). Chemo‐ and Enantioselective Intermolecular Allylation of Quinolin‐2‐ones. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 367(4).
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Liu, Yu, et al.. (2023). Visible-Light-Induced Radical gem-Iodoallylation of 2,2,2-Trifluorodiazoethane. Organic Letters. 25(11). 1958–1962. 11 indexed citations
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Zhang, Juan, Hao Wei, Ying Chen, et al.. (2023). Phosphine-catalyzed Rauhut–Currier reaction of γ-alkyl allenoate and subsequent trapping using the Diels–Alder reaction. Chemical Communications. 59(78). 11720–11723. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Longjie, et al.. (2022). Formal dual C(sp2)–H cross-dehydrogenative C–O bond formation to construct highly functionalized diaryl ethers with O2. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 9(8). 2249–2255. 5 indexed citations
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Guo, Huan, Jin Liu, Guojiao Wu, Weijun Yao, & Fangrui Zhong. (2022). Synthesis of isochromanonesvialaccase-mediated oxidative [4 + 2] cyclization of pyrocatechuic acid with styrenes. Green Chemistry. 24(14). 5598–5603. 8 indexed citations
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Zhu, Huilong, et al.. (2022). Rhodium-Catalyzed Chemodivergent Pyridylation of Alkynes with Pyridylboronic Acids. Organic Letters. 24(27). 4896–4901. 10 indexed citations
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Wang, Xin, Qin Su, Minghui Zhou, et al.. (2019). Phosphine‐Catalyzed [4+2] Cycloadditions of Allenic Ketones: Enantioselective Synthesis of Functionalized Tetrahydropyridines. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 14(19). 3409–3413. 19 indexed citations
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Wan, Jie‐Ping, et al.. (2018). A copper-catalyzed three component reaction of aryl acetylene, sulfonyl azide and enaminone to form iminolactone via 6π electrocyclization. Chemical Communications. 54(99). 13953–13956. 19 indexed citations
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Yao, Weijun, Zhaoyuan Yu, Huanzhen Ni, et al.. (2017). Chiral phosphine-mediated intramolecular [3 + 2] annulation: enhanced enantioselectivity by achiral Brønsted acid. Chemical Science. 8(7). 5196–5200. 47 indexed citations
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Ni, Huanzhen, Xiaodong Tang, Wenrui Zheng, et al.. (2017). Enantioselective Phosphine‐Catalyzed Formal [4+4] Annulation of α,β‐Unsaturated Imines and Allene Ketones: Construction of Eight‐Membered Rings. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(45). 14222–14226. 195 indexed citations
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Ni, Huanzhen, Xiaodong Tang, Wenrui Zheng, et al.. (2017). Enantioselective Phosphine‐Catalyzed Formal [4+4] Annulation of α,β‐Unsaturated Imines and Allene Ketones: Construction of Eight‐Membered Rings. Angewandte Chemie. 129(45). 14410–14414. 56 indexed citations
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Wang, Zhen, Tianli Wang, Weijun Yao, & Yixin Lü. (2017). Phosphine-Catalyzed Enantioselective [4 + 2] Annulation of o-Quinone Methides with Allene Ketones. Organic Letters. 19(15). 4126–4129. 93 indexed citations
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Ni, Huanzhen, Zhaoyuan Yu, Weijun Yao, et al.. (2017). Catalyst-controlled regioselectivity in phosphine catalysis: the synthesis of spirocyclic benzofuranones via regiodivergent [3 + 2] annulations of aurones and an allenoate. Chemical Science. 8(8). 5699–5704. 78 indexed citations
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Zhong, Fangrui, Xiaowei Dou, Xiaoyu Han, et al.. (2012). Chiral Phosphine Catalyzed Asymmetric Michael Addition of Oxindoles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(3). 943–947. 151 indexed citations

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