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Long-Wu Ye is affiliated with Xiamen University in China and has a significant research footprint in the field of chemistry, particularly focusing on organic chemistry. Their work spans various subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, spectroscopy, inorganic chemistry, and pharmacology. The majority of their publications concentrate on organic chemistry, with 348 out of 367 total publications related to this area.

The scientist's main research topics reflect a detailed focus on catalytic and synthetic methods. These include catalytic alkyne reactions, catalytic C-H functionalization methods, cyclopropane reaction mechanisms, axial and atropisomeric chirality synthesis, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, synthetic organic chemistry methods, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Long-Wu Ye has published research in several prominent venues, with multiple contributions to journals such as The Cambridge Structural Database, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Organic Letters, Angewandte Chemie, and Organic Chemistry Frontiers. Among these, The Cambridge Structural Database features the highest number of their publications (17).

Their recent papers include:

  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Tandem Reactions of Ynamides for Divergent N-Heterocycle Synthesis (2020) - Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Nitrene Transfer and Carbene Transfer in Gold Catalysis (2020) - Chemical Reviews
  • Brønsted acid-mediated reactions of ynamides (2020) - Chemical Society Reviews
  • Ynamide Smiles Rearrangement Triggered by Visible-Light-Mediated Regioselective Ketyl-Ynamide Coupling: Rapid Access to Functionalized Indoles and Isoquinolines (2020) - Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Asymmetric dearomatization catalysed by chiral Brønsted acids via activation of ynamides (2021) - Nature Chemistry

The scientist frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Bo Zhou, Xin-Qi Zhu, Peng-Cheng Qian, Xin Lü, and Chong-Yang Shi. These collaborations are evidenced by numerous joint publications, reflecting a recurring partnership in their research endeavors.

Best Publications

  • Phosphine-triggered synthesis of functionalized cyclic compounds

    Long-Wu Ye;Jian Zhou;Yong Tang

  • Transition Metal-Catalyzed Tandem Reactions of Ynamides for Divergent N-Heterocycle Synthesis.

    Feng-Lin Hong;Long-Wu Ye;Long-Wu Ye

  • Alkynes as Equivalents of α-Diazo Ketones in Generating α-Oxo Metal Carbenes: A Gold-Catalyzed Expedient Synthesis of Dihydrofuran-3-ones

    Longwu Ye;Li Cui;Guozhu Zhang;Liming Zhang

  • Nitrene Transfer and Carbene Transfer in Gold Catalysis.

    Long-Wu Ye;Long-Wu Ye;Xin-Qi Zhu;Rajkumar Lalji Sahani;Yin Xu

  • Experimental and computational evidence for gold vinylidenes: generation from terminal alkynes via a bifurcation pathway and facile C-H insertions.

    Longwu Ye;Yanzhao Wang;Donald H. Aue;Liming Zhang

  • Gold-Catalyzed One-Step Practical Synthesis of Oxetan-3-ones from Readily Available Propargylic Alcohols

    Longwu Ye;Weimin He;Liming Zhang

  • Reversal of Regioselectivity in Ynamide Chemistry

    Bo Zhou;Tong-De Tan;Xin-Qi Zhu;Mingzhou Shang

  • A Flexible and Stereoselective Synthesis of Azetidin‐3‐ones through Gold‐Catalyzed Intermolecular Oxidation of Alkynes

    Longwu Ye;Weimin He;Liming Zhang

  • Generation of α-Imino Gold Carbenes through Gold-Catalyzed Intermolecular Reaction of Azides with Ynamides

    Chao Shu;Yong-Heng Wang;Bo Zhou;Xin-Ling Li

  • Recent progress towards gold-catalyzed synthesis of N-containing tricyclic compounds based on ynamides

    Fei Pan;Chao Shu;Long-Wu Ye

  • Atom-economic generation of gold carbenes: gold-catalyzed formal [3+2] cycloaddition between ynamides and isoxazoles

    Ai-Hua Zhou;Qiao He;Chao Shu;Yong-Fei Yu

  • Brønsted acid-mediated reactions of ynamides.

    Yang-Bo Chen;Peng-Cheng Qian;Long-Wu Ye;Long-Wu Ye

  • Umpolung Reactivity of Indole through Gold Catalysis

    Biao Lu;Yingdong Luo;Lianzhu Liu;Longwu Ye

  • Zinc‐Catalyzed Alkyne Oxidation/C ? H Functionalization: Highly Site‐Selective Synthesis of Versatile Isoquinolones and β‐Carbolines

    Long Li;Bo Zhou;Yong-Heng Wang;Chao Shu

  • Ynamide Smiles Rearrangement Triggered by Visible-Light-Mediated Regioselective Ketyl-Ynamide Coupling: Rapid Access to Functionalized Indoles and Isoquinolines.

    Ze-Shu Wang;Yang-Bo Chen;Hao-Wen Zhang;Zhou Sun

  • Highly Site Selective Formal [5+2] and [4+2] Annulations of Isoxazoles with Heterosubstituted Alkynes by Platinum Catalysis: Rapid Access to Functionalized 1,3-Oxazepines and 2,5-Dihydropyridines.

    Wen-Bo Shen;Xin-Yu Xiao;Qing Sun;Bo Zhou

  • Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed reactions of alkynes with isoxazoles

    Long Li;Tong-De Tan;Ying-Qi Zhang;Xin Liu

  • Phosphine-catalyzed intramolecular formal [3+2] cycloaddition for highly diastereoselective synthesis of bicyclo[n.3.0] compounds.

    Long-Wu Ye;Xiu-Li Sun;Qing-Gang Wang;Yong Tang

  • Practical Synthesis of Linear α-Iodo/Bromo-α,β-unsaturated Aldehydes/Ketones from Propargylic Alcohols via Au/Mo Bimetallic Catalysis

    Longwu Ye;Liming Zhang

  • Recent progress towards transition metal-catalyzed synthesis of γ-lactams

    Long-Wu Ye;Chao Shu;Fabien Gagosz

Frequent Co-Authors

Yong Tang
Yong Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Xiu-Li Sun
Xiu-Li Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences
Liming Zhang
Liming Zhang University of California, Santa Barbara
Rai-Shung Liu
Rai-Shung Liu National Tsing Hua University
Shengming Ma
Shengming Ma Chinese Academy of Sciences
Ning Jiao
Ning Jiao Peking University
Wei Zhang
Wei Zhang Central South University
Qi-Lin Zhou
Qi-Lin Zhou Nankai University
Shou-Fei Zhu
Shou-Fei Zhu Nankai University
Yong-Gui Zhou
Yong-Gui Zhou Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics

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