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Overview

Jia-Rong Chen is affiliated with Central China Normal University in China. The main field of study for this researcher is Chemistry, with a substantial number of publications totaling 201. Their work is especially concentrated in Organic Chemistry, which accounts for 194 publications. Additional subfields of study include Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The research topics covered by Jia-Rong Chen demonstrate a strong focus on specific areas within organic chemistry and associated disciplines. These topics include:

  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Jia-Rong Chen has published extensively in a variety of scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Organic Letters
  • Angewandte Chemie

Among the recent papers authored by Jia-Rong Chen or in which they have contributed are the following:

  • Visible Light-Driven Radical-Mediated C-C Bond Cleavage/Functionalization in Organic Synthesis, 2020, Chemical Reviews
  • When Light Meets Nitrogen-Centered Radicals: From Reagents to Catalysts, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Recent advances in visible-light photoredox-catalyzed nitrogen radical cyclization, 2020, Green Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-O Cross-Coupling, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Recent advances in transition-metal-catalysed asymmetric coupling reactions with light intervention, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews

Collaborations form a significant part of Jia-Rong Chen's research activity. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Wen-Jing Xiao, with 69 co-authored works
  • Peng-Zi Wang, with 18 co-authored works
  • Zhihan Zhang, with 13 co-authored works
  • Min Jiang, with 10 co-authored works
  • Zi-Wei He, with 10 co-authored works

Best Publications

  • Visible light photoredox-controlled reactions of N-radicals and radical ions

    Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Qiang Hu;Liang-Qiu Lu;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Visible Light-Driven Radical-Mediated C-C Bond Cleavage/Functionalization in Organic Synthesis

    Xiao-Ye Yu;Jia-Rong Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Exploration of Visible-Light Photocatalysis in Heterocycle Synthesis and Functionalization: Reaction Design and Beyond.

    Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Qiang Hu;Liang-Qiu Lu;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Development of cascade reactions for the concise construction of diverse heterocyclic architectures.

    Liang-Qiu Lu;Jia-Rong Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Highly Efficient Aerobic Oxidative Hydroxylation of Arylboronic Acids: Photoredox Catalysis Using Visible Light

    You-Quan Zou;Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Peng Liu;Liang-Qiu Lu

  • Formal [4+1] Annulation Reactions in the Synthesis of Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Systems

    Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Qiang Hu;Liang-Qiu Lu;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • When Light Meets Nitrogen-Centered Radicals: From Reagents to Catalysts.

    Xiao-Ye Yu;Quan-Qing Zhao;Jun Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Visible‐Light‐Induced Oxidation/[3+2] Cycloaddition/Oxidative Aromatization Sequence: A Photocatalytic Strategy To Construct Pyrrolo[2,1‐a]isoquinolines

    You-Quan Zou;Liang-Qiu Lu;Liang Fu;Ning-Jie Chang

  • A Visible-Light-Driven Iminyl Radical-Mediated C-C Single Bond Cleavage/Radical Addition Cascade of Oxime Esters.

    Xiao-Ye Yu;Jia-Rong Chen;Peng-Zi Wang;Meng-Nan Yang

  • Visible‐Light‐Induced Formal [3+2] Cycloaddition for Pyrrole Synthesis under Metal‐Free Conditions

    Jun Xuan;Xu-Dong Xia;Ting-Ting Zeng;Zhu-Jia Feng

  • Photocatalytic Generation of N-Centered Hydrazonyl Radicals: A Strategy for Hydroamination of β,γ-Unsaturated Hydrazones†

    Xiao-Qiang Hu;Jia-Rong Chen;Qiang Wei;Feng-Lei Liu

  • Hantzsch esters: an emerging versatile class of reagents in photoredox catalyzed organic synthesis

    Peng-Zi Wang;Jia-Rong Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Redox‐Neutral α‐Allylation of Amines by Combining Palladium Catalysis and Visible‐Light Photoredox Catalysis

    Jun Xuan;Ting-Ting Zeng;Zhu-Jia Feng;Qiao-Hui Deng

  • Controllable Remote C-H Bond Functionalization by Visible-Light Photocatalysis.

    Xiao-Qiang Hu;Jia-Rong Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Enantioselective synthesis of dihydropyrazoles by formal [4+1] cycloaddition of in situ-derived azoalkenes and sulfur ylides.

    Jia-Rong Chen;Wan-Rong Dong;Mathieu Candy;Fang-Fang Pan

  • Copper-Catalyzed Radical Cross-Coupling of Redox-Active Oxime Esters, Styrenes, and Boronic Acids.

    Xiao-Ye Yu;Quan-Qing Zhao;Jun Chen;Jia-Rong Chen

  • Tandem Radical Cyclization of N-Arylacrylamides: An Emerging Platform for the Construction of 3,3-Disubstituted Oxindoles

    Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Ye Yu;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Photocatalytic Radical Trifluoromethylation/Cyclization Cascade: Synthesis of CF3-Containing Pyrazolines and Isoxazolines.

    Qiang Wei;Jia-Rong Chen;Xiao-Qiang Hu;Xiao-Chen Yang

  • Readily tunable and bifunctional L-prolinamide derivatives: design and application in the direct enantioselective Aldol reactions.

    Jia-Rong Chen;Hai-Hua Lu;Xin-Yong Li;Lin Cheng

  • Room temperature C-P bond formation enabled by merging nickel catalysis and visible-light-induced photoredox catalysis.

    Jun Xuan;Ting-Ting Zeng;Jia-Rong Chen;Liang-Qiu Lu

  • Visible-Light-Driven Photoredox Catalysis in the Construction of Carbocyclic and Heterocyclic Ring Systems

    Jun Xuan;Liang-Qiu Lu;Jia-Rong Chen;Wen-Jing Xiao

Frequent Co-Authors

Wen-Jing Xiao
Wen-Jing Xiao Central China Normal University
Liang-Qiu Lu
Liang-Qiu Lu Central China Normal University

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