Yichen Tan

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Yichen Tan is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yichen Tan has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Organic Chemistry, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yichen Tan's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (6 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (4 papers). Yichen Tan is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (6 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (4 papers). Yichen Tan collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. Yichen Tan's co-authors include John F. Hartwig, Jonas C. Peters, Gregory C. Fu, Christopher Uyeda, Fabiola Barrios‐Landeros, Paramita Mukherjee, Ruja Shrestha, Mark J. Bartlett, Hua Huang and José María Muñoz‐Molina and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Yichen Tan

24 papers receiving 1.9k 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.

Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aromatic C−H Bonds with Oxime Esters

2010 509 citations Yichen Tan, John F. Hartwig Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Yichen Tan	1.7k	274	187	180	119	25	1.9k
Liangxian Liu	1.2k 0.7×	218 0.8×	178 1.0×	221 1.2×	63 0.5×	77	1.5k
Rosaura Padilla‐Salinas	1.3k 0.8×	337 1.2×	142 0.8×	255 1.4×	64 0.5×	8	1.6k
Haifeng Zheng	1.5k 0.9×	306 1.1×	136 0.7×	234 1.3×	53 0.4×	49	1.9k
Manas K. Ghorai	2.2k 1.3×	249 0.9×	375 2.0×	139 0.8×	82 0.7×	96	2.5k
Holly J. Davis	1.4k 0.9×	387 1.4×	233 1.2×	96 0.5×	81 0.7×	14	1.6k
Venkitasamy Kesavan	1.0k 0.6×	188 0.7×	259 1.4×	172 1.0×	50 0.4×	60	1.3k
Julio Piera	1.5k 0.9×	431 1.6×	307 1.6×	252 1.4×	104 0.9×	23	1.8k
Cian Kingston	1.1k 0.7×	237 0.9×	241 1.3×	97 0.5×	178 1.5×	13	1.5k
Andrei Gavryushin	1.5k 0.9×	399 1.5×	201 1.1×	294 1.6×	48 0.4×	28	1.9k

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McKenna, Shane, David T. George, & Yichen Tan. (2025). Rapid Development of a Scalable Reduction of R-Carvone Utilizing Commercially Available Biocatalysts. Organic Process Research & Development. 29(6). 1571–1576.

Hay, Michael, et al.. (2023). Development of a Chromane-Forming Heck Reaction: Bisphosphine Mono-Oxide Mediated Regioselectivity Perturbed by Solvent-Based Peroxide Formation. Organic Process Research & Development. 27(6). 1129–1135. 3 indexed citations

Stevens, Jason M., Eric M. Simmons, Yichen Tan, et al.. (2022). Leveraging High-Throughput Experimentation to Drive Pharmaceutical Route Invention: A Four-Step Commercial Synthesis of Branebrutinib (BMS-986195). Organic Process Research & Development. 26(4). 1174–1183. 10 indexed citations

Tan, Yichen, Steven R. Wisniewski, Carolyn S. Higman, et al.. (2020). Development of a telescoped synthesis of 4-(1H)-cyanoimidazole core accelerated by orthogonal reaction monitoring. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering. 5(8). 1421–1428. 2 indexed citations

Ravetz, Benjamin D., Nicholas E. S. Tay, Candice L. Joe, et al.. (2020). Development of a Platform for Near-Infrared Photoredox Catalysis. ACS Central Science. 6(11). 2053–2059. 165 indexed citations

Wu, Shengjun, et al.. (2019). A Biochemiluminescent Sialidase Assay for Diagnosis of Bacterial Vaginosis. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 20024–20024. 20 indexed citations

Wisniewski, Steven R., Scott Savage, Evan O. Romero, et al.. (2019). Utilizing Native Directing Groups: Mechanistic Understanding of a Direct Arylation Leads to Formation of Tetracyclic Heterocycles via Tandem Intermolecular, Intramolecular C–H Activation. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(12). 7961–7970. 6 indexed citations

Tan, Yichen, Kanokwan Sansanaphongpricha, Mark E. Prince, et al.. (2018). Engineering Vaccines to Reprogram Immunity against Head and Neck Cancer. Journal of Dental Research. 97(6). 627–634. 33 indexed citations

Teng, Qiaoqiao, Yichen Tan, Chun‐Bao Miao, Xiaoqiang Sun, & Hai‐Tao Yang. (2018). Tunable Copper-Catalyzed Reaction of C₆₀ with 2-Ethoxycarbonylacetamides and Subsequent BF₃·Et₂O-Mediated Isomerization of the Generated Dihydrofuran-Fused Fullerenes to Fulleropyrrolidinones. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(24). 15268–15276. 5 indexed citations

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Ortiz, Adrian, Maxime Soumeillant, Scott Savage, et al.. (2017). Synthesis of HIV-Maturation Inhibitor BMS-955176 from Betulin by an Enabling Oxidation Strategy. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 82(9). 4958–4963. 23 indexed citations

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Yang, Hai‐Tao, Yichen Tan, Jiaxing Li, et al.. (2016). Reaction of C₆₀ with Inactive Secondary Amines and Aldehydes and the Cu(OAc)₂-Promoted Regioselective Intramolecular C–H Functionalization of the Generated Fulleropyrrolidines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 81(22). 11201–11209. 20 indexed citations

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Johnson, Miles W., et al.. (2016). A mechanistic investigation of the photoinduced, copper-mediated cross-coupling of an aryl thiol with an aryl halide. Chemical Science. 7(7). 4091–4100. 85 indexed citations

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Ayers, Sloan, et al.. (2016). Autoxidation Products of Betulonaldehyde. Journal of Natural Products. 79(10). 2758–2761. 6 indexed citations

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Yang, Hai‐Tao, Yichen Tan, Yang Yang, Xiaoqiang Sun, & Chun‐Bao Miao. (2016). Cu(OAc)₂-Mediated Reaction of C₆₀ with Ureas for the Preparation of Fulleroimidazolidinones. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 81(3). 1157–1163. 18 indexed citations

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Tan, Yichen, José María Muñoz‐Molina, Gregory C. Fu, & Jonas C. Peters. (2014). Oxygen nucleophiles as reaction partners in photoinduced, copper-catalyzed cross-couplings: O-arylations of phenols at room temperature. Chemical Science. 5(7). 2831–2835. 93 indexed citations

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Uyeda, Christopher, Yichen Tan, Gregory C. Fu, & Jonas C. Peters. (2013). A New Family of Nucleophiles for Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Cross-Couplings via Single-Electron Transfer: Reactions of Thiols with Aryl Halides Under Mild Conditions (O °C). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(25). 9548–9552. 319 indexed citations

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Denard, Carl A., Hua Huang, Mark J. Bartlett, et al.. (2013). Cooperative Tandem Catalysis by an Organometallic Complex and a Metalloenzyme. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(2). 465–469. 125 indexed citations

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Denard, Carl A., Hua Huang, Mark J. Bartlett, et al.. (2013). Cooperative Tandem Catalysis by an Organometallic Complex and a Metalloenzyme. Angewandte Chemie. 126(2). 475–479. 38 indexed citations

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Tan, Yichen & John F. Hartwig. (2011). Assessment of the Intermediacy of Arylpalladium Carboxylate Complexes in the Direct Arylation of Benzene: Evidence for C−H Bond Cleavage by “Ligandless” Species. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(10). 3308–3311. 120 indexed citations

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Tan, Yichen, et al.. (2011). Reversible solubilisation through hydrogen-bond-mediated assembly. Supramolecular chemistry. 23(11). 753–758. 2 indexed citations

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