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D-Index
45
Citations
6691
World Ranking
16533
National Ranking
4109

Daesung Lee publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daesung Lee sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 167 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Daesung Lee D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daesung Lee sits on this spectrum.

40–41 D-Index: 289 scientists 42–43 D-Index: 612 scientists 44–45 D-Index: 808 scientists 46–47 D-Index: 776 scientists 48–49 D-Index: 835 scientists 50–51 D-Index: 861 scientists 52–53 D-Index: 872 scientists 54–55 D-Index: 933 scientists 56–57 D-Index: 1,051 scientists 58–59 D-Index: 930 scientists 60–61 D-Index: 882 scientists 62–63 D-Index: 834 scientists 64–65 D-Index: 731 scientists 66–67 D-Index: 775 scientists 68–69 D-Index: 683 scientists 70–71 D-Index: 646 scientists 72–73 D-Index: 561 scientists 74–75 D-Index: 501 scientists 76–77 D-Index: 437 scientists 78–79 D-Index: 388 scientists 80–81 D-Index: 354 scientists 82–83 D-Index: 292 scientists 84–85 D-Index: 275 scientists 86–87 D-Index: 254 scientists 88–89 D-Index: 235 scientists 90–91 D-Index: 185 scientists 92–93 D-Index: 192 scientists 94–95 D-Index: 155 scientists 96–97 D-Index: 163 scientists 98–99 D-Index: 125 scientists 100–101 D-Index: 105 scientists 102–103 D-Index: 105 scientists 104–105 D-Index: 112 scientists 106–107 D-Index: 88 scientists 108–109 D-Index: 68 scientists 110–111 D-Index: 69 scientists 112–113 D-Index: 65 scientists 114–115 D-Index: 79 scientists 116–117 D-Index: 61 scientists 118–119 D-Index: 44 scientists 120–121 D-Index: 37 scientists 122–123 D-Index: 40 scientists 124–125 D-Index: 33 scientists 126–127 D-Index: 26 scientists 128–129 D-Index: 34 scientists 130–131 D-Index: 35 scientists 132–133 D-Index: 25 scientists 134–135 D-Index: 27 scientists 136–137 D-Index: 17 scientists 138–139 D-Index: 16 scientists 140–141 D-Index: 20 scientists 142–143 D-Index: 20 scientists 144–145 D-Index: 15 scientists 146–147 D-Index: 9 scientists 148–149 D-Index: 9 scientists 150–151 D-Index: 16 scientists 152–153 D-Index: 11 scientists 154–155 D-Index: 9 scientists 156–157 D-Index: 3 scientists 158 D-Index: 3 scientists 159+ D-Index: 98 scientists
40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Daesung Lee is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of chemistry, with a particular emphasis on organic chemistry. Within this domain, their work spans multiple subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, hematology, and biomaterials.

Their main research topics include catalytic alkyne reactions, synthetic organic chemistry methods, crystallization and solubility studies, and X-ray diffraction in crystallography. Other highlighted areas are cyclization and aryne chemistry, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, and chemical synthesis related to alkaloids.

Recent publications by Daesung Lee include:

  • "Modern Palladium-Catalyzed Transformations Involving C-H Activation and Subsequent Annulation" (2022, ACS Catalysis)
  • "Ruthenabenzene: A Robust Precatalyst" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Aryne-Based Multicomponent Coupling Reactions" (2020, Synlett)
  • "Photostable and Orthogonal Solvatochromic Fluorophores for Simultaneous In Situ Quantification of Multiple Cellular Signaling Molecules" (2020, ACS Chemical Biology)
  • "Alkyne Metathesis" (2020, Organic Reactions)

Daesung Lee has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Siyuan Su, Donald J. Wink, Yuanzhi Xia, Yongjia Lin, and Erandi Liyanage Perera.

Their work appears regularly in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • Pairwise use of complexity-generating reactions in diversity-oriented organic synthesis.

    Daesung Lee;Jason K. Sello;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • The Pinene Path to Taxanes. 6. A Concise Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Taxol

    Paul A. Wender;Neil F. Badham;Simon P. Conway;Paul E. Floreancig

  • The Pinene Path to Taxanes. 5. Stereocontrolled Synthesis of a Versatile Taxane Precursor

    Paul A. Wender;Neil F. Badham;Simon P. Conway;Paul E. Floreancig

  • Orthogonal lipid sensors identify transbilayer asymmetry of plasma membrane cholesterol.

    Shu Lin Liu;Ren Sheng;Jae Hun Jung;Li Wang

  • Silver-mediated fluorination, trifluoromethylation, and trifluoromethylthiolation of arynes

    Kung Pern Wang;Sang Young Yun;Phani Mamidipalli;Daesung Lee

  • Alkane C–H Insertion by Aryne Intermediates with a Silver Catalyst

    Sang Young Yun;Kung Pern Wang;Nam Kyu Lee;Phani Mamidipalli

  • Reactions of arynes promoted by silver ions

    Rajdip Karmakar;Daesung Lee

  • Search for solutions to the reactivity and selectivity problems in enyne metathesis.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • A Strategy for Macrocyclic Ring Closure and Functionalization Aimed toward Split-Pool Syntheses

    Daesung Lee;Jason K. Sello;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Stereochemical Control of Skeletal Diversity

    Jason K. Sello;Peter R. Andreana;Daesung Lee;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Hydrosilylation of alkynes catalyzed by ruthenium carbene complexes

    Sarah V. Maifeld;Michael N. Tran;Daesung Lee

  • Alder-ene reactions of arynes.

    Rajdip Karmakar;Phani Mamidipalli;Sang Young Yun;Daesung Lee

  • Efficient and Z-selective cross-metathesis of conjugated enynes.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Ring closing enyne metathesis: control over mode selectivity and stereoselectivity.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Gold-catalyzed intramolecular allylation of silyl alkynes induced by silane alcoholysis.

    Sangho Park;Daesung Lee

  • Stereoelectronic Effect for the Selectivity in C−H Insertion of Alkylidene Carbenes and Its Application to the Synthesis of Platensimycin

    Sang Young Yun;Jun-Cheng Zheng;Daesung Lee

  • Group-selective ring-closing enyne metathesis.

    Sarah V. Maifeld;Daesung Lee

  • Regioselectivity in the nucleophile trapping of arynes: the electronic and steric effects of nucleophiles and substituents.

    Rajdip Karmakar;Sang Young Yun;Kung Pern Wang;Daesung Lee

  • Concise Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Platencin

    Sang Young Yun;Jun Cheng Zheng;Daesung Lee

  • Enyne metathesis for the formation of macrocyclic 1,3-dienes.

    Eric C. Hansen;Daesung Lee

  • Enyne‐Metathesis‐Based Tandem Processes

    Jingwei Li;Daesung Lee

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul A. Wender
Paul A. Wender Stanford University
Pradeep K. Dudeja
Pradeep K. Dudeja University of Illinois at Chicago
Ilia A. Guzei
Ilia A. Guzei University of Wisconsin–Madison
Wonhwa Cho
Wonhwa Cho University of Illinois at Chicago
Stuart L. Schreiber
Stuart L. Schreiber Harvard University
Susan Band Horwitz
Susan Band Horwitz Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Kwang Pyo Kim
Kwang Pyo Kim Kyung Hee University
Kazumitsu Ueda
Kazumitsu Ueda Kyoto University
Chenliang Su
Chenliang Su Shenzhen University
Insung S. Choi
Insung S. Choi Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

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