Yun Lü

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
60 papers, 997 citations indexed

About

Yun Lü is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Yun Lü has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 997 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Organic Chemistry, 20 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 15 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Yun Lü's work include Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (23 papers), Chemical Reactions and Isotopes (19 papers) and Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (9 papers). Yun Lü is often cited by papers focused on Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (23 papers), Chemical Reactions and Isotopes (19 papers) and Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (9 papers). Yun Lü collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and United Kingdom. Yun Lü's co-authors include Vernon D. Parker, Jin‐Pei Cheng, Steve Scheiner, Meng‐Sheng Liao, Xiao‐Qing Zhu, Yi×ing Zhao, Linjing Mu, Kishan L. Handoo, Gi Xue and William Kuester and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Biochemistry and Macromolecules.

In The Last Decade

Yun Lü

57 papers receiving 987 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.

Self-generating hierarchical lubricious phase for superior high-temperature tribological performance in multi-principal element alloys

2025 28 citations Zhichao Jiao, Haoxiang Liu et al. Scripta Materialia profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yun Lü United States	18	561	252	179	178	156	60	997
John Masnovi United States	18	646 1.2×	356 1.4×	282 1.6×	90 0.5×	120 0.8×	71	1.1k
Alexander V. Vashchenko Russia	19	788 1.4×	286 1.1×	156 0.9×	158 0.9×	119 0.8×	112	1.1k
Shizheng Zhu China	15	758 1.4×	166 0.7×	229 1.3×	214 1.2×	238 1.5×	47	1.1k
V. M. Vlasov Russia	14	729 1.3×	127 0.5×	111 0.6×	143 0.8×	175 1.1×	66	1.0k
Freija De Vleeschouwer Belgium	17	747 1.3×	237 0.9×	252 1.4×	60 0.3×	134 0.9×	46	1.1k
Hélène Gérard France	23	941 1.7×	134 0.5×	247 1.4×	87 0.5×	481 3.1×	77	1.5k
Joseph L. Howard United Kingdom	12	936 1.7×	340 1.3×	318 1.8×	139 0.8×	192 1.2×	15	1.5k
Pascal Vermeeren Netherlands	21	981 1.7×	211 0.8×	158 0.9×	57 0.3×	293 1.9×	48	1.4k
Götz Bucher Germany	24	875 1.6×	345 1.4×	254 1.4×	36 0.2×	140 0.9×	83	1.3k
Le Liu China	20	928 1.7×	128 0.5×	191 1.1×	116 0.7×	163 1.0×	69	1.2k

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Jiao, Zhichao, Haoxiang Liu, Qing Zhou, et al.. (2025). Self-generating hierarchical lubricious phase for superior high-temperature tribological performance in multi-principal element alloys. Scripta Materialia. 268. 116843–116843. 28 indexed citations breakdown →

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2025). Advances in crystallization chaperones based on a host-guest system for structural determination of difficult-to-crystallize molecules. Coordination Chemistry Reviews. 538. 216712–216712. 1 indexed citations

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2025). Structural Effects on the Hydride-Tunneling Kinetic Isotope Effects of NADH/NAD⁺ Model Reactions: Relating to the Donor–Acceptor Distances. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(8). 3110–3115.

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2025). Rigidity Analysis of Hydride Tunneling‐Ready States From Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects and Hammett Correlations: Relating to the Temperature Dependence of Kinetic Isotope Effects. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 38(3). 1 indexed citations

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2024). Study of the Effects of Remote Heavy Group Vibrations on the Temperature Dependence of Hydride Kinetic Isotope Effects of the NADH/NAD⁺ Model Reactions. ACS Omega. 9(18). 20593–20600. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Qian, Dan Cheng, Yun Lü, Lin Yuan, & Xiaobing Zhang. (2020). Monitoring of Peroxynitrite Variation During Liver Injury Adopting a Far Red to Near-infrared Fluorescent Probe with Large Stokes Shift. Gaodeng xuexiao huaxue xuebao. 41(11). 2426. 4 indexed citations

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2020). Substituent Effects on Temperature Dependence of Kinetic Isotope Effects in Hydride-Transfer Reactions of NADH/NAD⁺ Analogues in Solution: Reaction Center Rigidity Is the Key. Organic Letters. 22(15). 5963–5967. 9 indexed citations

Peng, Bo, Chunrong Liu, Zhen Li, et al.. (2016). Slow generation of hydrogen sulfide from sulfane sulfurs and NADH models. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 27(3). 542–545. 12 indexed citations

Kashefolgheta, Sadra, et al.. (2016). Computational Replication of the Primary Isotope Dependence of Secondary Kinetic Isotope Effects in Solution Hydride-Transfer Reactions: Supporting the Isotopically Different Tunneling Ready State Conformations. The Journal of Physical Chemistry A. 120(25). 4277–4284. 10 indexed citations

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Kashefolgheta, Sadra, et al.. (2012). Imbalanced tunneling ready states in alcohol dehydrogenase model reactions: rehybridization lags behind H-tunneling. Chemical Communications. 48(92). 11337–11337. 16 indexed citations

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Liao, Meng‐Sheng, Yun Lü, & Steve Scheiner. (2003). Performance assessment of density‐functional methods for study of charge‐transfer complexes. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 24(5). 623–631. 84 indexed citations

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Lü, Yun, Yi×ing Zhao, Kishan L. Handoo, & Vernon D. Parker. (2002). Hydride-exchange reactions between NADH and NAD+ model compounds under non-steady-state conditions. Apparent and real kinetic isotope effects. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 1(1). 173–181. 30 indexed citations

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Lü, Yun, Kishan L. Handoo, & Vernon D. Parker. (2002). Non-steady-state kinetic study of the SN2 reaction between p-nitrophenoxide ion and methyl iodide in aprotic solvents containing water. Evidence for a 2-step mechanism. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 1(1). 36–38. 6 indexed citations

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Newcomb, Martin, Runnan Shen, Yun Lü, et al.. (2002). Evaluation of Norcarane as a Probe for Radicals in Cytochome P450- and Soluble Methane Monooxygenase-Catalyzed Hydroxylation Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124(24). 6879–6886. 62 indexed citations

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Handoo, Kishan L., Yun Lü, Yi×ing Zhao, & Vernon D. Parker. (2002). Resolution of the non-steady-state kinetics of the elimination of HBr from 2-(p-nitrophenyl)ethyl bromide in alcohol/alkoxide media. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 1(1). 24–26. 9 indexed citations

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Lü, Yun, Yi×ing Zhao, & Vernon D. Parker. (2001). Proton Transfer Reactions of Methylanthracene Radical Cations with Pyridine Bases under Non-Steady-State Conditions. Real Kinetic Isotope Effect Evidence for Extensive Tunneling. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123(25). 5900–5907. 24 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yi×ing, Yun Lü, & Vernon D. Parker. (2001). Non-steady-state kinetic studies of the real kinetic isotope effects and Arrhenius activation parameters for the proton transfer reactions of 9,10-dimethylanthracene radical cation with pyridine bases†. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2. 1481–1488. 10 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yi×ing, Yun Lü, & Vernon D. Parker. (2001). Proton-Transfer Reactions between Nitroalkanes and Hydroxide Ion under Non-Steady-State Conditions. Apparent and Real Kinetic Isotope Effects. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 123(8). 1579–1586. 17 indexed citations

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Cheng, Jin‐Pei, et al.. (1998). NO affinity. The driving force of nitric oxide (NO) transfer in biomimetic N-nitrosoacetanilide and N-nitrososulfoanilide systems. Tetrahedron Letters. 39(43). 7925–7928. 12 indexed citations

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Purnell, J. H. & Yun Lü. (1993). Ionic migration and charge reduction in Ni2+-, Co2+- and Zn2+-exchanged Texas montmorillonite. Catalysis Letters. 18(3). 235–241. 8 indexed citations

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