Xiaoyu Yang

4.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
100 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Xiaoyu Yang is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Xiaoyu Yang has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 86 papers in Organic Chemistry, 25 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 18 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Xiaoyu Yang's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (54 papers), Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (34 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (30 papers). Xiaoyu Yang is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (54 papers), Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (34 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (30 papers). Xiaoyu Yang collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Xiaoyu Yang's co-authors include F. Dean Toste, Robert J. Phipps, Tao Wu, Biao Yu, Mengyao Tang, Subramani Rajkumar, Yunrong Chen, Qian Jiang, Wei Liu and Jiansong Sun and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Xiaoyu Yang

96 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Advances in Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination, Mono... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 400 800 1.2k
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. Advances in Catalytic Enantioselective Fluorination, Mono-, Di-, and Trifluoromethylation, and Trifluoromethylthiolation Reactions
    2014 1.2k citations Xiaoyu Yang, F. Dean Toste et al. profile →
  2. Redox-based reagents for chemoselective methionine bioconjugation
    2017 382 citations Shixian Lin, Xiaoyu Yang et al. Science profile →

Peers

Xiaoyu Yang
Benoı̂t Crousse France
María Sánchez‐Roselló Spain
Oleksandr O. Grygorenko Ukraine
Pavel K. Mykhailiuk Ukraine
Géraldine Masson France
Kyle J. Eastman United States
Pedro Merino Spain
Qiuling Song China
Takuya Hashimoto Japan
René Grée France
Benoı̂t Crousse France
Xiaoyu Yang
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Countries citing papers authored by Xiaoyu Yang

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Fields of papers citing papers by Xiaoyu Yang

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Xiaoyu Yang

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Xiaoyu Yang. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Xiaoyu Yang 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 Xiaoyu Yang. Xiaoyu Yang 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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Tang, Mengyao, et al.. (2025). Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes by organocatalyzed desymmetrization. Chem. 12(1). 102694–102694. 4 indexed citations
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Wan, Bao-Fei, Wei Liu, Xuan Li, et al.. (2025). Discovery of novel benzo[b][1,4]oxazine derivatives as ferroptosis inhibitors. Bioorganic Chemistry. 156. 108201–108201. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Jie, Li You, Wenle He, et al.. (2025). Atomic-Scale Strain Field Mapping Methods for HR-TEM and HR-STEM Images. Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica. 38(2). 275–289. 2 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaoyu, Bin Luo, Jianhui Tian, et al.. (2025). Biomarkers and ImmuneScores in lung cancer: predictive insights for immunotherapy and combination treatment strategies. Biological Procedures Online. 27(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Deming, et al.. (2025). Research on ZnO/WSTe van der Waals heterojunction with broad light absorption for photocatalytic water splitting. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 196. 152570–152570.
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Liu, Tong, et al.. (2025). Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of inherently chiral calix[4]arenes via organocatalyzed aromatic amination enabled desymmetrization. Nature Communications. 16(1). 3943–3943. 9 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei & Xiaoyu Yang. (2025). Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric synthesis of helically chiral, planarly chiral and inherently chiral molecules. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 21. 1864–1889. 2 indexed citations
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Xu, Fan, Xiaoyu Yang, Tianyu Huang, et al.. (2024). The emergence of top-incident perovskite solar cells. Nano Energy. 130. 110171–110171. 3 indexed citations
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Yang, Xiaoyu, et al.. (2024). Divergent asymmetric reactions of α-alkenyl ketones with β,γ-alkynyl-α-imino esters enabled by chiral phosphoric acids. Green Synthesis and Catalysis. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, et al.. (2024). Divergent asymmetric synthesis of heterohelicenes via sequential organocatalyzed Povarov reaction and aromatization. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(6). 101993–101993. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Wei, et al.. (2024). Diverse enantioselective synthesis of hetero[7]helicenes via an organocatalyzed double annulation strategy. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(5). 1417–1424. 6 indexed citations
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Jiang, Qian, Dekun Zhang, Mengyao Tang, Hua Liu, & Xiaoyu Yang. (2023). (Parallel) kinetic resolution of 3,3-disubstituted indolines via organocatalyzed reactions with azodicarboxylates. Science China Chemistry. 67(3). 973–980. 11 indexed citations
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Ma, Deming, Huan Li, Jiahao Wang, et al.. (2023). Direct Z-scheme MoSTe/g-GeC heterostructure for photocatalytic water splitting: A first-principles study. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy. 51. 1216–1224. 25 indexed citations
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Chen, Yunrong, et al.. (2023). Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Axially Chiral Diaryl Ethers through Enantioselective Desymmetrization. Angewandte Chemie. 135(14). 4 indexed citations
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Zhang, Dekun, et al.. (2023). Kinetic resolution of substituted amido[2.2]paracyclophanes via asymmetric electrophilic amination. Nature Communications. 14(1). 5239–5239. 37 indexed citations
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Guo, Zheng, et al.. (2022). Kinetic Resolution of 1,2‐Diaminesvia Organocatalyzed Asymmetric Electrophilic Aminations of Anilines. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 40(14). 1674–1680. 18 indexed citations
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Wang, Donglei, Wei Liu, Mengyao Tang, Na Yu, & Xiaoyu Yang. (2019). Atroposelective Synthesis of Biaryl Diamines and Amino Alcohols via Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed para-Aminations of Anilines and Phenols. iScience. 22. 195–205. 43 indexed citations
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Lin, Shixian, Xiaoyu Yang, Shang Jia, et al.. (2017). Redox-based reagents for chemoselective methionine bioconjugation. Science. 355(6325). 597–602. 382 indexed citations breakdown →
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