Yan‐Biao Kang

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
90 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Yan‐Biao Kang is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yan‐Biao Kang has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Organic Chemistry, 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 9 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yan‐Biao Kang's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (46 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (28 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (25 papers). Yan‐Biao Kang is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (46 papers), Radical Photochemical Reactions (28 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (25 papers). Yan‐Biao Kang collaborates with scholars based in China, Russia and Germany. Yan‐Biao Kang's co-authors include Jian‐Ping Qu, Yong Tang, Xiu‐Li Sun, Xiao‐Shan Ning, Chuan‐Zhi Yao, Hongxing Zheng, Lutz H. Gade, Zufeng Xiao, Meimei Wang and Xiang‐Huan Shan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yan‐Biao Kang

83 papers receiving 2.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Photocatalytic low-temperature defluorination of PFASs

2024 55 citations Hao Zhang, Jinxiang Chen et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yan‐Biao Kang China	33	2.6k	598	251	173	151	90	2.9k
Yang Gao China	28	2.4k 0.9×	451 0.8×	233 0.9×	195 1.1×	85 0.6×	121	2.7k
Jian‐Ping Qu China	28	2.4k 0.9×	752 1.3×	239 1.0×	179 1.0×	106 0.7×	70	2.6k
Yu‐Feng Liang China	36	3.9k 1.5×	732 1.2×	261 1.0×	204 1.2×	192 1.3×	69	4.2k
Xinyao Li China	27	2.7k 1.0×	451 0.8×	251 1.0×	179 1.0×	157 1.0×	84	2.9k
Julian C. Lo United States	5	2.2k 0.9×	474 0.8×	241 1.0×	218 1.3×	95 0.6×	5	2.5k
Sharon R. Neufeldt United States	21	2.9k 1.1×	517 0.9×	121 0.5×	140 0.8×	149 1.0×	34	3.1k
Jamie A. Leitch United Kingdom	26	2.4k 0.9×	629 1.1×	337 1.3×	234 1.4×	162 1.1×	43	2.8k
Xing‐Zhong Shu China	43	4.5k 1.8×	856 1.4×	205 0.8×	244 1.4×	184 1.2×	99	4.8k
Yuki Yabe Japan	17	1.7k 0.7×	664 1.1×	241 1.0×	293 1.7×	161 1.1×	21	2.1k

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Wang, Yiping, Zhenzhen Guo, Jian‐Ping Qu, & Yan‐Biao Kang. (2025). Photocatalytic One-Step Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Azines. Organic Letters. 27(7). 1626–1630. 2 indexed citations

Chen, Yiming, et al.. (2025). The photocatalytic synthesis and closed-loop recycling of poly(semi-aromatic 1,2-ethanediol)s. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 13(2). 402–407.

Chen, Yi‐Ming, et al.. (2025). Twist to Activate: Structural Distortion–Enhanced Photocatalysis in Indenophenanthrenes. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 44(5). 693–700.

Liu, Yu, et al.. (2025). Electrophotocatalysis for Reductive Defluorination of PTFE and PFASs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(21). e202422043–e202422043. 2 indexed citations

Qu, Jian‐Ping, et al.. (2024). TBN as Organic Redox Cocatalyst for Oxidative Tiffeneau–Demjanov-Type Rearrangement Using O₂ as Sole Oxidant. Organic Letters. 26(30). 6454–6458. 4 indexed citations

Qu, Jian‐Ping, et al.. (2024). Synthesis Enabled by E-to-Z Isomerization Using CBZ6 as Energy Transfer Photocatalyst. Organic Letters. 26(24). 5177–5181. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Hao, Jinxiang Chen, Jian‐Ping Qu, & Yan‐Biao Kang. (2024). Photocatalytic low-temperature defluorination of PFASs. Nature. 635(8039). 610–617. 55 indexed citations breakdown →

Shan, Xiang‐Huan, et al.. (2021). α-Trideuteration of methylarenes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 8(12). 2981–2984. 23 indexed citations

Zhong, Ya, et al.. (2021). Direct Synthesis of β-Amino Aldehydes from Linear Allylic Esters Using O₂ as the Sole Oxidant. Organic Letters. 23(23). 9273–9276. 3 indexed citations

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Li, Yawei, Hongxing Zheng, Bo Yang, et al.. (2020). ^tBuOK-Promoted Cyclization of Imines with Aryl Halides. Organic Letters. 22(11). 4553–4556. 10 indexed citations

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Shan, Xiang‐Huan, et al.. (2019). CuSO₄-Catalyzed Tandem C(sp³)–H Insertion Cyclization of Toluenes with Isonitriles to Form Indoles. Organic Letters. 22(2). 357–360. 16 indexed citations

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Ning, Xiao‐Shan, Meimei Wang, Jian‐Ping Qu, & Yan‐Biao Kang. (2018). Synthesis of Functionalized Indoles via Palladium-Catalyzed Aerobic Cycloisomerization of o-Allylanilines Using Organic Redox Cocatalyst. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(21). 13523–13529. 19 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hongxing, Jian‐Ping Qu, & Yan‐Biao Kang. (2018). One-pot one-base conditions for two shots: organocatalyzed tandem isomerization–olefination of allylic alcohols. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 5(15). 2349–2352. 8 indexed citations

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Wang, Meimei, Xiao‐Shan Ning, Jian‐Ping Qu, & Yan‐Biao Kang. (2017). Dehydrogenative Synthesis of Linear α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes with Oxygen at Room Temperature Enabled by ^tBuONO. ACS Catalysis. 7(6). 4000–4003. 52 indexed citations

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Kang, Yan‐Biao, Xianmin Chen, Chuan‐Zhi Yao, & Xiao‐Shan Ning. (2016). Direct oxidative lactonization of alkenoic acids mediated solely by NaIO₄: beyond a simple oxidant. Chemical Communications. 52(36). 6193–6196. 19 indexed citations

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Ge, Jingjie, Chuan‐Zhi Yao, Meimei Wang, et al.. (2015). Transition-Metal-Free Deacylative Cleavage of Unstrained C(sp³)–C(sp²) Bonds: Cyanide-Free Access to Aryl and Aliphatic Nitriles from Ketones and Aldehydes. Organic Letters. 18(2). 228–231. 65 indexed citations

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Zheng, Hongxing, Zufeng Xiao, Chuan‐Zhi Yao, et al.. (2015). Transition-Metal-Free Self-Hydrogen-Transferring Allylic Isomerization. Organic Letters. 17(24). 6102–6105. 61 indexed citations

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Yuan, Yue, Di Li, Jia Zhang, et al.. (2015). Bridging cells of three colors with two bio-orthogonal click reactions. Chemical Science. 6(11). 6425–6431. 17 indexed citations

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Kang, Yan‐Biao & Lutz H. Gade. (2012). Triflic Acid Catalyzed Oxidative Lactonization and Diacetoxylation of Alkenes Using Peroxyacids as Oxidants. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 77(3). 1610–1615. 34 indexed citations

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Kang, Yan‐Biao, Yong Tang, & Xiu‐Li Sun. (2005). Scandium triflate catalyzed cycloaddition of imines with 1,1-cyclopropanediesters: efficient and diastereoselective synthesis of multisubstituted pyrrolidines. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 4(2). 299–301. 104 indexed citations

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