Yu‐hong Lam

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Yu‐hong Lam is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Yu‐hong Lam has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Organic Chemistry, 21 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Yu‐hong Lam's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (21 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (13 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers). Yu‐hong Lam is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (21 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (13 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (12 papers). Yu‐hong Lam collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Yu‐hong Lam's co-authors include K. N. Houk, Daniel A. DiRocco, Edward C. Sherer, Adam Simon, Dan Lehnherr, Patrick Sarver, David W. C. MacMillan, Danielle M. Schultz, Vlad Bacauanu and Véronique Gouverneur and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Yu‐hong Lam

65 papers receiving 2.1k citations

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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.

The merger of decatungstate and copper catalysis to enable aliphatic C(sp3)–H trifluoromethylation

2020 274 citations Patrick Sarver, Vlad Bacauanu et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yu‐hong Lam United States	26	1.6k	413	377	328	262	68	2.2k
Neal W. Sach United States	22	2.0k 1.2×	437 1.1×	413 1.1×	635 1.9×	247 0.9×	52	2.8k
Kaid C. Harper United States	18	1.4k 0.8×	456 1.1×	417 1.1×	81 0.2×	323 1.2×	29	2.0k
Matthew N. Grayson United Kingdom	23	1.3k 0.8×	400 1.0×	307 0.8×	81 0.2×	223 0.9×	61	1.8k
Yining Ji United States	21	1.4k 0.8×	527 1.3×	275 0.7×	535 1.6×	154 0.6×	48	1.9k
Gui‐Juan Cheng China	24	1.9k 1.2×	596 1.4×	181 0.5×	186 0.6×	158 0.6×	62	2.3k
Jordi Burés United Kingdom	24	2.0k 1.2×	780 1.9×	452 1.2×	108 0.3×	237 0.9×	49	2.5k
Theresa Sperger Germany	22	1.9k 1.1×	721 1.7×	142 0.4×	295 0.9×	246 0.9×	37	2.3k
Anat Milo Israel	15	799 0.5×	464 1.1×	223 0.6×	73 0.2×	387 1.5×	31	1.3k
Ángel Álvarez‐Larena Spain	28	2.0k 1.2×	697 1.7×	555 1.5×	130 0.4×	228 0.9×	123	2.6k
Markus Leutzsch Germany	35	2.7k 1.7×	1.3k 3.1×	382 1.0×	243 0.7×	291 1.1×	131	3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yu‐hong Lam

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20 of 20 papers shown

Burgess, Samantha A., Xiao Wang, Dirk Stueber, et al.. (2025). Characterization of the tautomeric equilibrium of molnupiravir, an antiviral for the treatment of COVID-19. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis. 265. 117025–117025.

Ha, Seung Kyun, Dipannita Kalyani, Michael S. West, et al.. (2025). Developing Pharmaceutically Relevant Pd-Catalyzed C–N Coupling Reactivity Models Leveraging High-Throughput Experimentation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(23). 19602–19613. 4 indexed citations

Fine, Jonathan, et al.. (2025). Dedenser: A Python Package for Clustering and Downsampling Chemical Libraries. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 65(3). 1053–1060.

Lux, Michaelyn C., Justin Jurczyk, Donovon A. Adpressa, et al.. (2025). General Synthesis and Properties of Bridged, Fused, and Spirocyclic Azacycles via Intramolecular C–H Bond Amination. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 16(10). 2049–2056.

Lehnherr, Dan, et al.. (2024). Electrosynthesis of iminophosphoranes and applications in nickel catalysis. Chemical Science. 15(16). 5980–5992. 7 indexed citations

Fu, Jiantao, Rajdip Chowdhury, Yu‐hong Lam, et al.. (2023). Nickel-Catalyzed Electroreductive Coupling of Alkylpyridinium Salts and Aryl Halides. ACS Catalysis. 13(14). 9336–9345. 21 indexed citations

Cohen, Ryan D., Yu‐hong Lam, Alexei V. Buevich, et al.. (2023). DELTA50: A Highly Accurate Database of Experimental 1H and 13C NMR Chemical Shifts Applied to DFT Benchmarking. Molecules. 28(6). 2449–2449. 16 indexed citations

Bottecchia, Cecilia, Dan Lehnherr, François Lévesque, et al.. (2022). Kilo-Scale Electrochemical Oxidation of a Thioether to a Sulfone: A Workflow for Scaling up Electrosynthesis. Organic Process Research & Development. 26(8). 2423–2437. 46 indexed citations

Jurczyk, Justin, Michaelyn C. Lux, Donovon A. Adpressa, et al.. (2021). Photomediated ring contraction of saturated heterocycles. Science. 373(6558). 1004–1012. 166 indexed citations

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Maddess, Matthew L., Ed Cleator, Mariko Morimoto, et al.. (2021). Development of a Stereoselective Synthesis of (1R,4R)- and (1S,4S)-2-Oxa-5-azabicyclo[2.2.2]octane. Organic Process Research & Development. 26(3). 640–647. 6 indexed citations

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Ndukwe, Ikenna E., Yu‐hong Lam, Sunil K. Pandey, et al.. (2020). Unequivocal structure confirmation of a breitfussin analog by anisotropic NMR measurements. Chemical Science. 11(44). 12081–12088. 12 indexed citations

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Sarver, Patrick, Vlad Bacauanu, Danielle M. Schultz, et al.. (2020). The merger of decatungstate and copper catalysis to enable aliphatic C(sp3)–H trifluoromethylation. Nature Chemistry. 12(5). 459–467. 274 indexed citations breakdown →

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Li, Wenfei, et al.. (2020). Mechanisms and Conformational Control of (4 + 2) and (2 + 2) Cycloadditions of Dienes to Keteniminium Cations. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(4). 2597–2606. 6 indexed citations

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Martinot, Theodore A., Michael J. Ardolino, Lu Chen, et al.. (2019). Process Safety Considerations for the Supply of a High-Energy Oxadiazole IDO1-Selective Inhibitor. Organic Process Research & Development. 23(6). 1178–1190. 3 indexed citations

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Chung, John Y. L., Dong‐Fang Meng, Michael Shevlin, et al.. (2019). Diastereoselective FeCl₃·6H₂O/NaBH₄ Reduction of Oxime Ether for the Synthesis of β-Lactamase Inhibitor Relebactam. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(2). 994–1000. 12 indexed citations

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He, Cyndi Qixin, Peiyuan Yu, Zhihui Song, et al.. (2019). Catalytic Effects of Ammonium and Sulfonium Salts and External Electric Fields on Aza-Diels–Alder Reactions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(4). 2618–2625. 22 indexed citations

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Engkvist, Ola, Per‐Ola Norrby, Nidhal Selmi, et al.. (2018). Computational prediction of chemical reactions: current status and outlook. Drug Discovery Today. 23(6). 1203–1218. 121 indexed citations

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Whitehead, A., Yong Zhang, Jamie M. McCabe Dunn, et al.. (2017). Selective Formation of Functionalized α-Quaternary Malononitriles toward 5,5-Disubstituted Pyrrolopyrimidinones. Organic Letters. 19(17). 4448–4451. 5 indexed citations

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He, Cyndi Qixin, Adam Simon, Yu‐hong Lam, et al.. (2017). Model for the Enantioselectivity of Asymmetric Intramolecular Alkylations by Bis-Quaternized Cinchona Alkaloid-Derived Catalysts. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 82(16). 8645–8650. 28 indexed citations

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Yu, Peiyuan, Tiffany Q. Chen, Zhongyue Yang, et al.. (2017). Mechanisms and Origins of Periselectivity of the Ambimodal [6 + 4] Cycloadditions of Tropone to Dimethylfulvene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(24). 8251–8258. 93 indexed citations

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