Weiwei Zi

4.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
67 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Weiwei Zi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Weiwei Zi has authored 67 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Organic Chemistry, 16 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 9 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Weiwei Zi's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (35 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (24 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (16 papers). Weiwei Zi is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (35 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (24 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (16 papers). Weiwei Zi collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Weiwei Zi's co-authors include F. Dean Toste, Dawei Ma, Qinglong Zhang, Zhiwei Zuo, Yin Zheng, Minghui Zhu, Weiqing Xie, Hongmiao Wu, Mingxing Teng and Huimin Yu and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Weiwei Zi

65 papers receiving 3.4k citations

Hit Papers

Recent advances in enantioselective gold catalysis 2015 2026 2018 2022 2016 2015 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Recent advances in enantioselective gold catalysis
    2016 453 citations Weiwei Zi, F. Dean Toste profile →
  2. Intramolecular Dearomative Oxidative Coupling of Indoles: A Unified Strategy for the Total Synthesis of Indoline Alkaloids
    2015 367 citations Weiwei Zi, Dawei Ma et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Weiwei Zi China 30 3.2k 957 331 265 206 67 3.4k
Carla Obradors Spain 14 2.5k 0.8× 609 0.6× 71 0.2× 219 0.8× 126 0.6× 17 2.7k
Teresa Martínez del Campo Spain 25 1.7k 0.5× 359 0.4× 63 0.2× 136 0.5× 208 1.0× 62 2.0k
Shaomin Fu China 18 1.1k 0.3× 668 0.7× 75 0.2× 326 1.2× 48 0.2× 55 1.5k
Helga Krause Germany 21 3.3k 1.0× 836 0.9× 33 0.1× 270 1.0× 91 0.4× 33 3.4k
Mathieu Toumi France 11 2.3k 0.7× 295 0.3× 62 0.2× 352 1.3× 75 0.4× 17 2.4k
Xiaojian Jiang China 19 1.0k 0.3× 662 0.7× 84 0.3× 82 0.3× 222 1.1× 50 1.4k
Ze Tan China 34 3.0k 0.9× 579 0.6× 24 0.1× 253 1.0× 293 1.4× 110 3.3k
Tejas P. Pathak United States 10 2.9k 0.9× 450 0.5× 30 0.1× 268 1.0× 131 0.6× 14 3.0k
Quanrui Wang China 24 1.4k 0.4× 327 0.3× 51 0.2× 261 1.0× 77 0.4× 131 1.8k
Jianyou Mao China 24 1.6k 0.5× 384 0.4× 24 0.1× 203 0.8× 127 0.6× 73 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Weiwei Zi

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Weiwei Zi's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Weiwei Zi with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Weiwei Zi more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Weiwei Zi

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Weiwei Zi. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Weiwei Zi. The network helps show where Weiwei Zi may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Weiwei Zi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Weiwei Zi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Weiwei Zi 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 Weiwei Zi. Weiwei Zi 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
1.
Li, Panpan, et al.. (2025). Stereodivergent Synthesis of Multistereocentric Compounds by Synergistic Dual Catalysis. CCS Chemistry. 8(1). 81–114.
2.
Zi, Weiwei, et al.. (2025). Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective [2σ + 2π] cycloadditions of vinyl-carbonyl-bicyclo[1.1.0]butanes with arylidenemalononitriles. Chinese Chemical Letters. 37(1). 111072–111072. 14 indexed citations
3.
Sun, Shengnan, et al.. (2025). Palladium-catalyzed enantioselective β-hydride elimination for the construction of remote stereocenters. Nature Communications. 16(1). 2227–2227. 2 indexed citations
4.
Yu, Ying, et al.. (2024). Design, Preparation, and Implementation of Axially Chiral Benzotetramisoles as Lewis Base Catalysts for Asymmetric Cycloadditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(30). e202401181–e202401181. 3 indexed citations
5.
Zhang, Qinglong, et al.. (2023). Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrohydrazonation of 1,3-Dienes. Organic Letters. 25(47). 8397–8401. 5 indexed citations
6.
Zi, Weiwei, et al.. (2023). Palladium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrofunctionalization of 1,3-Dienes for Construction of C—O Bonds. Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry. 43(4). 1596–1596. 1 indexed citations
7.
Liu, Rixin, et al.. (2022). Stereodivergent Construction of Csp3−Csp3Bonds Bearing Vicinal Stereocenters by Synergistic Palladium and Phase‐Transfer Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(2). e202215714–e202215714. 47 indexed citations
8.
Zhang, Qinglong, et al.. (2022). Cooperative Pd/Cu-catalyzed diastereodivergent coupling of allenamides and aldimine esters to access the Mannich-type motifs. Chem Catalysis. 2(6). 1428–1439. 28 indexed citations
9.
Zhang, Qinglong, Minghui Zhu, & Weiwei Zi. (2022). Synergizing palladium with Lewis base catalysis for stereodivergent coupling of 1,3-dienes with pentafluorophenyl acetates. Chem. 8(10). 2784–2796. 72 indexed citations
10.
Zhu, Minghui, Peixin Wang, Qinglong Zhang, Wenjun Tang, & Weiwei Zi. (2022). Diastereodivergent Aldol‐Type Coupling of Alkoxyallenes with Pentafluorophenyl Esters Enabled by Synergistic Palladium/Chiral Lewis Base Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 134(33). 13 indexed citations
11.
Yu, Huimin, Qinglong Zhang, & Weiwei Zi. (2022). Synergistic Pd/Cu-catalyzed enantioselective Csp2–F bond alkylation of fluoro-1,3-dienes with aldimine esters. Nature Communications. 13(1). 2470–2470. 25 indexed citations
12.
Zhang, Qinglong, et al.. (2020). Palladium-Catalyzed Regio- and Enantioselective Hydrosulfonylation of 1,3-Dienes with Sulfinic Acids: Scope, Mechanism, and Origin of Selectivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(37). 15860–15869. 127 indexed citations
13.
14.
Zheng, Yin & Weiwei Zi. (2018). Transition-metal catalyzed enantioselective hydrofunctionalization of alkynes. Tetrahedron Letters. 59(23). 2205–2213. 36 indexed citations
15.
Zheng, Yin & Weiwei Zi. (2018). An Artificial Catalyst System for Asymmetric Dearomative Prenylation. Chem. 4(12). 2745–2747. 3 indexed citations
16.
Wu, Hongmiao, Weiwei Zi, Guigen Li, Hongjian Lu, & F. Dean Toste. (2015). Gold(I)‐Catalyzed Desymmetrization of 1,4‐Dienes by an Enantioselective Tandem Alkoxylation/Claisen Rearrangement. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(29). 8529–8532. 61 indexed citations
17.
Zi, Weiwei & F. Dean Toste. (2015). Gold(I)‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Desymmetrization of 1,3‐Diols through Intramolecular Hydroalkoxylation of Allenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(48). 14447–14451. 67 indexed citations
18.
Teng, Mingxing, Weiwei Zi, & Dawei Ma. (2014). ChemInform Abstract: Total Synthesis of the Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloid (.+‐.)‐Aspidophylline A.. ChemInform. 45(32). 1 indexed citations
19.
Zi, Weiwei, et al.. (2012). Potentially Biomimetic Total Synthesis and Relative Stereochemical Assignment of (±)‐Gracilamine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(40). 10141–10144. 39 indexed citations
20.
Xie, Weiqing, et al.. (2008). Total Synthesis and Structure Assignment of Papuamide B, A Potent Marine Cyclodepsipeptide with Anti‐HIV Properties. Angewandte Chemie. 120(15). 2886–2890. 6 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Carla Obradors Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Teresa Martínez del Campo Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Shaomin Fu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Helga Krause Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Mathieu Toumi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Xiaojian Jiang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ze Tan Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Tejas P. Pathak Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Quanrui Wang Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Jianyou Mao
Rankless by CCL
2026