Youwei Xie

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Youwei Xie is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Youwei Xie has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Organic Chemistry, 12 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 5 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Youwei Xie's work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (12 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (10 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (10 papers). Youwei Xie is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (12 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (10 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (10 papers). Youwei Xie collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Germany. Youwei Xie's co-authors include Benjamin List, Paul E. Floreancig, Tewodros Asefa, Philip S. J. Kaib, Denis Höfler, Markus Leutzsch, Manuel van Gemmeren, Abhishek Anan, Gui‐Juan Cheng and Sunggi Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Youwei Xie

27 papers receiving 1.0k citations

Hit Papers

Reactive Oxygen Species-Responsive Gel-Based Microneedle ... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75 100
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. Reactive Oxygen Species-Responsive Gel-Based Microneedle Patches for Prolonged and Intelligent Psoriasis Management
    2023 117 citations Youwei Xie et al. profile →

Peers

Youwei Xie
Maria Annunziata M. Capozzi Italy
Jin Kyoon Park South Korea
Lokesh Kumar Gupta India
Reinhold Zimmer Germany
Jun Hee Lee South Korea
Manas K. Ghorai India
Andrew D. Campbell United Kingdom
Pablo Mauleón Spain
Maria Annunziata M. Capozzi Italy
Youwei Xie
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Countries citing papers authored by Youwei Xie

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Fields of papers citing papers by Youwei Xie

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Youwei Xie

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Youwei Xie. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Youwei Xie 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 Youwei Xie. Youwei Xie is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Huang, Qing, et al.. (2025). Re2O7-Catalyzed Intermolecular Dehydrative Friedel–Crafts Reaction of Aliphatic Alcohols. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(27). 9468–9478.
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Huang, Qing, et al.. (2025). Late-Stage C–H Deuteration of (Hetero)Arenes via Deuterium-Bonding Enhanced Rhenium Catalysis. ACS Catalysis. 15(6). 4711–4718.
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Liu, Zongyi, et al.. (2025). Ipso-Nitration of Boronic Esters Enabled by Ferric Nitrate Nonahydrate (Fe(NO3)3·9H2O) in HFIP. Organic Letters. 27(12). 2997–3002. 5 indexed citations
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Huang, Qing, et al.. (2025). Methylations with methanol via bioinspired catalytic C–O bond cleavage. Nature Communications. 16(1). 5896–5896.
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Lan, Xiao‐Bing, et al.. (2024). An Intermolecular Hydroarylation of Unactivated Arylcyclopropane via Re2O7/HFIP-Mediated Ring Opening. Organic Letters. 26(10). 2085–2090. 3 indexed citations
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Huang, Qing, et al.. (2024). Late-Stage C–H Nitration of Unactivated Arenes by Fe(NO3)3·9H2O in Hexafluoroisopropanol. Organic Letters. 26(15). 3316–3320. 14 indexed citations
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Huang, Qing, et al.. (2024). Route to Functionalized Tetrahydrobenzo[d]azepines via Re2O7-Mediated Intramolecular Friedel–Crafts Reaction. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 89(3). 2001–2008.
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Liu, Hongmei, Qing Huang, Rong‐Zhen Liao, Man Li, & Youwei Xie. (2023). Ring-closing C–O/C–O metathesis of ethers with primary aliphatic alcohols. Nature Communications. 14(1). 17 indexed citations
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Turberg, Mathias, Diana Yepes, Youwei Xie, et al.. (2018). Scalable and Highly Diastereo- and Enantioselective Catalytic Diels–Alder Reaction of α,β-Unsaturated Methyl Esters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(40). 12671–12676. 56 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei, et al.. (2018). Diarylmethane synthesis through Re2O7-catalyzed bimolecular dehydrative Friedel–Crafts reactions. Chemical Science. 9(45). 8528–8534. 42 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Benjamin List. (2017). Katalytisch‐asymmetrische intramolekulare [4+2]‐Cycloaddition von in situ generierten ortho‐Chinonmethiden. Angewandte Chemie. 129(18). 5018–5022. 33 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Benjamin List. (2017). Catalytic Asymmetric Intramolecular [4+2] Cycloaddition of In Situ Generated ortho‐Quinone Methides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(18). 4936–4940. 119 indexed citations
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Liu, Luping, Hyejin Kim, Youwei Xie, et al.. (2017). Catalytic Asymmetric [4+2]-Cycloaddition of Dienes with Aldehydes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(39). 13656–13659. 82 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Paul E. Floreancig. (2014). Heterocycle Synthesis Based on Allylic Alcohol Transposition Using Traceless Trapping Groups. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(19). 4926–4929. 33 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Paul E. Floreancig. (2014). Heterocycle Synthesis Based on Allylic Alcohol Transposition Using Traceless Trapping Groups. Angewandte Chemie. 126(19). 5026–5029. 9 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Paul E. Floreancig. (2012). Cascade Approach to Stereoselective Polycyclic Ether Formation: Epoxides as Trapping Agents in the Transposition of Allylic Alcohols. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(2). 625–628. 40 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei & Paul E. Floreancig. (2011). Stereoselective heterocycle synthesis through a reversible allylic alcohol transposition and nucleophilic addition sequence. Chemical Science. 2(12). 2423–2423. 34 indexed citations
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Xie, Youwei, et al.. (2008). Tuning Metal Nanostructures in Mesoporous Silica by a Simple Change of Metal Complexes and by Reduction with Grafted Imines and Hemiaminals. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 112(27). 9996–10003. 49 indexed citations

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