Zhan Lu

12.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
166 papers, 11.1k citations indexed

About

Zhan Lu is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, Zhan Lu has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 11.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Organic Chemistry, 48 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 13 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in Zhan Lu's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (85 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (46 papers) and Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (43 papers). Zhan Lu is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (85 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (46 papers) and Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (43 papers). Zhan Lu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Hong Kong. Zhan Lu's co-authors include Shengming Ma, Jun Guo, Tehshik P. Yoon, Jianhui Chen, Xuzhong Shen, Zhaoyang Cheng, Xiang Ren, Xu Chen, Jianniao Tian and Yanchun Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Zhan Lu

158 papers receiving 10.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Metal‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Allylation in Asymmetric Synthesis

2007 1.3k citations Zhan Lu et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Recent Advances in Hydrometallation of Alkenes and Alkynes via the First Row Transition Metal Catalysis

2018 428 citations Jun Guo, Zhan Lu et al. Chinese Journal of Chemistry profile →
Iron- and Cobalt-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrofunctionalization of Alkenes and Alkynes

2021 237 citations Jun Guo, Zhaoyang Cheng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zhan Lu China	52	9.4k	3.4k	1.1k	910	694	166	11.1k
X. Peter Zhang United States	64	9.1k 1.0×	3.1k 0.9×	768 0.7×	645 0.7×	2.0k 2.9×	150	11.1k
Jin Xie China	56	9.1k 1.0×	1.9k 0.6×	572 0.5×	605 0.7×	864 1.2×	202	10.8k
Xu Cheng China	41	4.4k 0.5×	985 0.3×	528 0.5×	553 0.6×	704 1.0×	136	5.5k
Jin‐Heng Li China	77	17.4k 1.9×	1.9k 0.5×	543 0.5×	1.3k 1.5×	1.1k 1.6×	507	19.5k
Pierre H. Dixneuf France	71	18.7k 2.0×	6.5k 1.9×	744 0.7×	1.7k 1.9×	1.1k 1.6×	454	20.7k
Hai‐Chao Xu China	56	8.6k 0.9×	894 0.3×	1.4k 1.3×	364 0.4×	345 0.5×	145	9.6k
Tristan H. Lambert United States	44	4.6k 0.5×	705 0.2×	588 0.5×	737 0.8×	339 0.5×	108	5.5k
Guangbin Dong United States	71	15.1k 1.6×	3.6k 1.0×	231 0.2×	1.1k 1.2×	641 0.9×	261	16.3k
Guo‐Jun Deng China	61	11.9k 1.3×	2.1k 0.6×	560 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	956 1.4×	374	13.4k
Louis Fensterbank France	66	12.8k 1.4×	2.3k 0.7×	465 0.4×	596 0.7×	709 1.0×	286	13.5k

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Wang, Lingtao, et al.. (2025). Iron‐Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrosilylation of α ‐Substituted Vinylsilanes ^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 43(24). 3496–3500.

Wang, Jingyi, Jin Yang, Jian He, & Zhan Lu. (2025). Asymmetric Cobalt Catalysis for the Construction of Quaternary Stereogenic Centers with Fluorine Atoms. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14065–14070. 2 indexed citations

Wang, Yongtao, et al.. (2025). The structural parameter of spin states of C ₁ -symmetric four-coordinate cobalt complexes: D ₄. Chemical Science. 17(1). 492–499.

Lu, Zhan, Jijie Zhang, Yuting Wang, Yifu Yu, & Lingjun Kong. (2025). Recent advances in metal single-atom catalysts for ammonia electrosynthesis. Materials Horizons. 12(10). 3286–3300. 3 indexed citations

Lu, Zhan, Yunmei Du, Mengmeng Wang, et al.. (2024). The interstitial Ru dopant induces abundant Ni(Fe) Ru cooperative sites to promote ampere-level current density for overall water splitting. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 679(Pt B). 769–779. 1 indexed citations

Sun, Yufeng, et al.. (2024). Ligand Relay Cobalt Catalysis for Vicinal Si,O-Alkanes from Terminal Alkynes. ACS Catalysis. 14(11). 8405–8413. 6 indexed citations

Shen, Xuzhong, et al.. (2023). Recent Advances in Enantioselective Reactions of Terminal Unactivated Alkenes. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(7). 760–776. 22 indexed citations

Cheng, Zhaoyang, et al.. (2022). Cobalt‐Catalyzed Regiodivergent Double Hydrosilylation of Arylacetylenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(1). e202215029–e202215029. 28 indexed citations

Chen, Jieping, et al.. (2022). Cobalt-catalyzed branched selective hydroallylation of terminal alkynes. Nature Communications. 13(1). 4518–4518. 27 indexed citations

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Lu, Peng, et al.. (2022). Cobalt-Catalyzed Enantioconvergent Hydrogenation of Minimally Functionalized Isomeric Olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(38). 17359–17364. 45 indexed citations

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Zhang, Heyi & Zhan Lu. (2018). Nickel-catalyzed enantioselective sequential Nazarov cyclization/decarboxylation. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 5(11). 1763–1767. 16 indexed citations

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Zhang, Heyi, Biao Cheng, & Zhan Lu. (2018). Enantioselective Cobalt-Catalyzed Sequential Nazarov Cyclization/Electrophilic Fluorination: Access to Chiral α-Fluorocyclopentenones. Organic Letters. 20(13). 4028–4031. 31 indexed citations

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Zhang, Heyi & Zhan Lu. (2018). Nickel/Copper Dual Catalysis for Sequential Nazarov Cyclization/Decarboxylative Aldol Reaction. Organic Letters. 20(18). 5709–5713. 9 indexed citations

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Cheng, Biao, Wen‐Bo Liu, & Zhan Lu. (2018). Iron-Catalyzed Highly Enantioselective Hydrosilylation of Unactivated Terminal Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(15). 5014–5017. 145 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianhui & Zhan Lu. (2017). Asymmetric hydrofunctionalization of minimally functionalized alkenesviaearth abundant transition metal catalysis. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 5(2). 260–272. 228 indexed citations

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Yang, Bo & Zhan Lu. (2017). Visible-Light-Promoted Metal-Free Aerobic Hydroxyazidation of Alkenes. ACS Catalysis. 7(12). 8362–8365. 77 indexed citations

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Guo, Jun, Biao Cheng, Xuzhong Shen, & Zhan Lu. (2017). Cobalt-Catalyzed Asymmetric Sequential Hydroboration/Hydrogenation of Internal Alkynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(43). 15316–15319. 157 indexed citations

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Guo, Jun, Xuzhong Shen, & Zhan Lu. (2016). Regio‐ and Enantioselective Cobalt‐Catalyzed Sequential Hydrosilylation/Hydrogenation of Terminal Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(2). 615–618. 176 indexed citations

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Xi, Tuo & Zhan Lu. (2016). Cobalt-Catalyzed Ligand-Controlled Regioselective Hydroboration/Cyclization of 1,6-Enynes. ACS Catalysis. 7(2). 1181–1185. 94 indexed citations

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Guo, Jun & Zhan Lu. (2016). Highly Chemo‐, Regio‐, and Stereoselective Cobalt‐Catalyzed Markovnikov Hydrosilylation of Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(36). 10835–10838. 179 indexed citations

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