Yidong Liu

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Yidong Liu is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Yidong Liu has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Organic Chemistry, 7 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 6 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Yidong Liu's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (20 papers), Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (14 papers) and Synthesis of Indole Derivatives (6 papers). Yidong Liu is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (20 papers), Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (14 papers) and Synthesis of Indole Derivatives (6 papers). Yidong Liu collaborates with scholars based in China, South Korea and Denmark. Yidong Liu's co-authors include Hailong Yan, Wenling Qin, Shiqi Jia, Yu Tan, Nan Zhang, Dongmei Li, Choong Eui Song, Lei Peng, Xiaoyan Wu and Zhili Chen 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

Yidong Liu

33 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers via Vinylidene... 2022 2026 2023 2024 2022 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers via Vinylidene ortho-Quinone Methides (VQMs)
    2022 155 citations Wenling Qin, Yidong Liu et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yidong Liu China 21 1.5k 601 241 201 143 35 1.6k
Bei‐Bei Zhan China 20 1.9k 1.3× 437 0.7× 199 0.8× 284 1.4× 320 2.2× 32 2.0k
Sheng‐Cai Zheng China 24 2.0k 1.3× 513 0.9× 177 0.7× 259 1.3× 349 2.4× 45 2.1k
Tian‐Zhen Li China 12 953 0.6× 377 0.6× 122 0.5× 121 0.6× 74 0.5× 17 978
Feng‐Tao Sheng China 10 1.0k 0.7× 319 0.5× 154 0.6× 112 0.6× 87 0.6× 12 1.0k
Elizabeth C. Linton United States 6 1.1k 0.7× 317 0.5× 144 0.6× 103 0.5× 106 0.7× 6 1.1k
Si‐Jia Liu China 9 849 0.6× 336 0.6× 137 0.6× 109 0.5× 62 0.4× 11 874
Daniel Lim United States 11 774 0.5× 265 0.4× 86 0.4× 177 0.9× 106 0.7× 23 858
Vikram Bhat United States 13 904 0.6× 194 0.3× 153 0.6× 163 0.8× 225 1.6× 19 1.0k
Zhong‐Jian Cai China 19 1.2k 0.8× 103 0.2× 81 0.3× 165 0.8× 149 1.0× 41 1.3k
Changgui Zhao China 24 1.4k 0.9× 126 0.2× 93 0.4× 189 0.9× 152 1.1× 53 1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yidong Liu

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All Works

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Luo, Yong, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric N‐alkylation of Carbazoles by Cooperative Potassium‐Hydrogen‐Bond‐Aryloxide Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(52). e13667–e13667.
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Li, Zhigang, Dandan Wang, Mingyue Wang, et al.. (2025). Synthesis of covalent organic frameworks with homopore and heteropore in betaine–HFIP based deep eutectic solvents: Application in intelligent colorimetric sensor. Chemical Engineering Journal. 507. 160541–160541. 3 indexed citations
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CHUNG, C.‐S., Jingru Wang, Lang Liu, et al.. (2025). β-Thioamide Sulfone Enabled Copper-Catalyzed Ring-Opening/Sulfonylation of Cyclopropenes: Access to Alkyl Aryl Sulfones. Organic Letters. 27(3). 740–746. 1 indexed citations
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Xu, Da, Guo‐Ding Zhou, Shiqi Jia, et al.. (2024). Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Inherently Chiral Eight‐Membered O‐Heterocycles through Cross‐[4+4] Cycloaddition of Quinone Methides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(4). e202416873–e202416873. 14 indexed citations
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Liu, Tian‐Yu, Yong Luo, & Yidong Liu. (2024). Construction of fused heterocycles by visible-light induced dearomatization of nonactivated arenes. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 22(47). 9179–9183. 1 indexed citations
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Peng, Lei, et al.. (2023). Regiodivergent catalytic asymmetric dearomative cycloaddition of bicyclic heteroaromatics. Science Advances. 9(13). eadg1645–eadg1645. 10 indexed citations
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Xu, Da, Yu Chang, Yidong Liu, Wenling Qin, & Hailong Yan. (2023). Mechanistic Features of Asymmetric Vinylideneortho-Quinone Methide Construction and Subsequent Transformations. ACS Catalysis. 13(5). 2957–2967. 15 indexed citations
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Qin, Wenling, Yidong Liu, & Hailong Yan. (2022). Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers via Vinylidene ortho-Quinone Methides (VQMs). Accounts of Chemical Research. 55(19). 2780–2795. 155 indexed citations breakdown →
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Corti, Vasco, et al.. (2021). Enantioselective α‐Etherification of Branched Aldehydes via an Oxidative Umpolung Strategy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(34). 18728–18733. 19 indexed citations
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Corti, Vasco, et al.. (2021). Enantioselective α‐Etherification of Branched Aldehydes via an Oxidative Umpolung Strategy. Angewandte Chemie. 133(34). 18876–18881. 3 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2018). Organocatalytic Atroposelective Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition: Synthesis of Axially Chiral Heterobiaryls. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(22). 6491–6495. 125 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2018). Organocatalytic Atroposelective Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition: Synthesis of Axially Chiral Heterobiaryls. Angewandte Chemie. 130(22). 6601–6605. 48 indexed citations
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Li, Dongmei, Yu Tan, Lei Peng, et al.. (2018). Asymmetric Mannich Reaction and Construction of Axially Chiral Sulfone-Containing Styrenes in One Pot from α-Amido Sulfones Based on the Waste–Reuse Strategy. Organic Letters. 20(16). 4959–4963. 62 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2017). Cooperative Cation‐Binding Catalysis as an Efficient Approach for Enantioselective Friedel–Crafts Reaction of Indoles and Pyrrole. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 359(5). 811–823. 29 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2016). Direct Access to Chiral β‐Fluoroamines with Quaternary Stereogenic Center through Cooperative Cation‐Binding Catalysis. Chemistry - A European Journal. 23(6). 1268–1272. 36 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2015). Kinetic Resolution of β‐Sulfonyl Ketones through Enantioselective β‐Elimination using a Cation‐Binding Polyether Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(1). 331–335. 54 indexed citations
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Liu, Yidong, et al.. (2015). Kinetic Resolution of β‐Sulfonyl Ketones through Enantioselective β‐Elimination using a Cation‐Binding Polyether Catalyst. Angewandte Chemie. 128(1). 339–343. 17 indexed citations
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Xie, Yuli, Gangli Gong, Yidong Liu, et al.. (2008). Convenient preparation of N-8-quinolinyl benzenesultams as novel NF-κB inhibitors. Tetrahedron Letters. 49(14). 2320–2323. 26 indexed citations

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