Zilei Xia

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Zilei Xia is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Infectious Diseases and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, Zilei Xia has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Organic Chemistry, 4 papers in Infectious Diseases and 3 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in Zilei Xia's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (10 papers), Synthesis of Indole Derivatives (6 papers) and Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (5 papers). Zilei Xia is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (10 papers), Synthesis of Indole Derivatives (6 papers) and Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis (5 papers). Zilei Xia collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Japan. Zilei Xia's co-authors include Shu‐Li You, Chao Zheng, Qing‐Feng Xu‐Xu, Ren‐Qi Xu, Weiqing Xie, Jiadong Hu, Fushun Zhang, M. Sacco, Yu Chen and Chunlong Ma 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

Zilei Xia

20 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric dearomatization reactions

2019 330 citations Zilei Xia, Qing‐Feng Xu‐Xu et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Zilei Xia China	16	923	212	210	199	167	20	1.2k
Mark Turlington United States	17	470 0.5×	180 0.8×	195 0.9×	261 1.3×	115 0.7×	40	824
Renu Tripathi India	20	700 0.8×	102 0.5×	156 0.7×	357 1.8×	37 0.2×	65	1.3k
İlkay Küçükgüzel Türkiye	22	1.2k 1.3×	111 0.5×	135 0.6×	360 1.8×	73 0.4×	57	1.7k
José N. Domínguez Venezuela	19	1.1k 1.2×	75 0.4×	174 0.8×	541 2.7×	69 0.4×	40	1.7k
Bogdan A. Šolaja Serbia	22	798 0.9×	156 0.7×	244 1.2×	383 1.9×	49 0.3×	77	1.4k
Kondapalli Venkata Gowri Chandra Sekhar India	24	1.1k 1.2×	184 0.9×	192 0.9×	587 2.9×	56 0.3×	86	1.7k
Kalapala Venkateswara Rao United States	16	668 0.7×	311 1.5×	112 0.5×	370 1.9×	133 0.8×	35	1.2k
Weiqing Xie China	23	1.7k 1.8×	379 1.8×	329 1.6×	395 2.0×	370 2.2×	61	2.3k
Florenci V. González Spain	21	728 0.8×	69 0.3×	146 0.7×	397 2.0×	67 0.4×	65	1.1k
Conrad Fischer Germany	18	335 0.4×	334 1.6×	315 1.5×	293 1.5×	96 0.6×	48	1.1k

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Ma, Chunlong, Zilei Xia, M. Sacco, et al.. (2021). Discovery of Di- and Trihaloacetamides as Covalent SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors with High Target Specificity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(49). 20697–20709. 106 indexed citations

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Ma, Chunlong, M. Sacco, Zilei Xia, et al.. (2021). Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Papain-like Protease Inhibitors through a Combination of High-Throughput Screening and a FlipGFP-Based Reporter Assay. ACS Central Science. 7(7). 1245–1260. 143 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, M. Sacco, Yanmei Hu, et al.. (2021). Rational Design of Hybrid SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors Guided by the Superimposed Cocrystal Structures with the Peptidomimetic Inhibitors GC-376, Telaprevir, and Boceprevir. ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science. 4(4). 1408–1421. 63 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Chao Zheng, Ren‐Qi Xu, & Shu‐Li You. (2019). Chiral phosphoric acid catalyzed aminative dearomatization of α-naphthols/Michael addition sequence. Nature Communications. 10(1). 3150–3150. 62 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Qing‐Feng Xu‐Xu, Chao Zheng, & Shu‐Li You. (2019). Chiral phosphoric acid-catalyzed asymmetric dearomatization reactions. Chemical Society Reviews. 49(1). 286–300. 330 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ghosh, Arun K., Zilei Xia, William L. Robinson, et al.. (2019). Potent HIV‐1 Protease Inhibitors Containing Carboxylic and Boronic Acids: Effect on Enzyme Inhibition and Antiviral Activity and Protein‐Ligand X‐ray Structural Studies. ChemMedChem. 14(21). 1863–1872. 18 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Chao Zheng, Xiao‐Wei Liang, Yue Cai, & Shu‐Li You. (2018). Manipulation of Spiroindolenine Intermediates for Enantioselective Synthesis of 3‐(Indol‐3‐yl)‐Pyrrolidines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(4). 1158–1162. 11 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Chao Zheng, Xiao‐Wei Liang, Yue Cai, & Shu‐Li You. (2018). Manipulation of Spiroindolenine Intermediates for Enantioselective Synthesis of 3‐(Indol‐3‐yl)‐Pyrrolidines. Angewandte Chemie. 131(4). 1170–1174. 1 indexed citations

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Zheng, Chao, Zilei Xia, & Shu‐Li You. (2018). Unified Mechanistic Understandings of Pictet-Spengler Reactions. Chem. 4(8). 1952–1966. 72 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Chao Zheng, Shouguo Wang, & Shu‐Li You. (2018). Catalytic Asymmetric Dearomatization of Indolyl Dihydropyridines through an Enamine Isomerization/Spirocyclization/Transfer Hydrogenation Sequence. Angewandte Chemie. 130(10). 2683–2686. 11 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Chao Zheng, Shouguo Wang, & Shu‐Li You. (2018). Catalytic Asymmetric Dearomatization of Indolyl Dihydropyridines through an Enamine Isomerization/Spirocyclization/Transfer Hydrogenation Sequence. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(10). 2653–2656. 60 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Jiadong Hu, Yu-Qi Gao, Qizheng Yao, & Weiqing Xie. (2017). Facile access to 2,2-disubstituted indolin-3-ones via a cascade Fischer indolization/Claisen rearrangement reaction. Chemical Communications. 53(54). 7485–7488. 40 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, et al.. (2017). Chiral Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Intramolecular Dearomative Michael Addition of Indoles to Enones. Organic Letters. 19(4). 762–765. 51 indexed citations

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Wang, Shouguo, Zilei Xia, Ren‐Qi Xu, et al.. (2017). Construction of Chiral Tetrahydro‐β‐Carbolines: Asymmetric Pictet–Spengler Reaction of Indolyl Dihydropyridines. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(26). 7440–7443. 86 indexed citations

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Wang, Shouguo, Zilei Xia, Ren‐Qi Xu, et al.. (2017). Construction of Chiral Tetrahydro‐β‐Carbolines: Asymmetric Pictet–Spengler Reaction of Indolyl Dihydropyridines. Angewandte Chemie. 129(26). 7548–7551. 31 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Jiadong Hu, Zhigao Shen, Qizheng Yao, & Weiqing Xie. (2015). Re₂O₇catalyzed dienone-phenol rearrangement. RSC Advances. 5(48). 38499–38502. 16 indexed citations

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Xia, Zilei, Jiadong Hu, Zhigao Shen, et al.. (2015). Enantioselective Bromo-oxycyclization of Silanol. Organic Letters. 18(1). 80–83. 33 indexed citations

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Shen, Zhigao, Zilei Xia, Huijun Zhao, et al.. (2015). Synthesis of naked amino-pyrroloindoline via direct aminocyclization of tryptamine. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 13(19). 5381–5384. 25 indexed citations

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Jiang, Guangde, Zilei Xia, Jiadong Hu, et al.. (2015). Total Synthesis of (−)-Conolutinine. Organic Letters. 17(18). 4428–4431. 37 indexed citations

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Yu, Xin, Zheng Liu, Zilei Xia, et al.. (2014). Oxidative rearrangement of malondialdehyde: substrate scope and mechanistic insights. RSC Advances. 4(96). 53397–53401. 7 indexed citations

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