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Overview

Wen-Jing Xiao is affiliated with Central China Normal University in China and has extensively contributed to the field of chemistry, with a particular focus on organic chemistry. Their work spans several specialized topics including catalytic C-H functionalization methods, radical photochemical reactions, sulfur-based synthesis techniques, crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, synthesis and catalytic reactions, and cyclopropane reaction mechanisms.

The scientist's recent published papers highlight their engagement with visible light-driven and radical-mediated processes, as well as photoredox catalysis. Notable recent publications include:

  • 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
  • Visible light-promoted ring-opening functionalization of three-membered carbo- and heterocycles, 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • 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

Wen-Jing Xiao frequently collaborates with several coauthors who have appeared multiple times across publications. These coauthors include:

  • Jia-Rong Chen
  • Liang-Qiu Lu
  • Zhihan Zhang
  • Ying Cheng
  • Liang-Qiu Lu

Their research is regularly featured in prominent scientific journals and publication venues. Frequent venues where their work appears are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Organic Letters

Wen-Jing Xiao's publication record is concentrated in the overarching field of Chemistry, with a majority of works situated within Organic Chemistry. Other subfields include Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. The distribution of their work across these areas demonstrates a research profile with interdisciplinary reach, while maintaining a strong core focus on synthetic and mechanistic chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Visible-light photoredox catalysis.

    Jun Xuan;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • 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

  • Visible-Light-Induced Organic Photochemical Reactions through Energy-Transfer Pathways.

    Quan-Quan Zhou;You-Quan Zou;Liang-Qiu Lu;Wen-Jing Xiao

  • Visible-Light-Induced Decarboxylative Functionalization of Carboxylic Acids and Their Derivatives

    Jun Xuan;Zhao-Guo Zhang;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

  • Photoredoxkatalyse mit sichtbarem Licht

    Jun Xuan;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

  • Visible light-driven organic photochemical synthesis in China

    Yiyun Chen;Liang-Qiu Lu;Da-Gang Yu;Cheng-Jian Zhu

  • 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

  • Beyond sulfide-centric catalysis: recent advances in the catalytic cyclization reactions of sulfur ylides

    Liang-Qiu Lu;Tian-Ren Li;Qiang Wang;Wen-Jing Xiao

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

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

  • Efficient Visible Light-Driven Splitting of Alcohols into Hydrogen and Corresponding Carbonyl Compounds over a Ni-Modified CdS Photocatalyst.

    Zhigang Chai;Ting-Ting Zeng;Qi Li;Liang-Qiu Lu

  • 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

  • Decarboxylative Alkynylation and Carbonylative Alkynylation of Carboxylic Acids Enabled by Visible‐Light Photoredox Catalysis

    Quan-Quan Zhou;Wei Guo;Wei Ding;Xiong Wu

Frequent Co-Authors

Liang-Qiu Lu
Liang-Qiu Lu Central China Normal University
Jia‐Rong Chen
Jia‐Rong Chen Central China Normal University
Yu Lan
Yu Lan Zhengzhou University
Howard Alper
Howard Alper University of Ottawa
Li-Zhu Wu
Li-Zhu Wu Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guoqiang Feng
Guoqiang Feng Central China Normal University
Marco Bandini
Marco Bandini University of Bologna
Eugene A. Katz
Eugene A. Katz Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Karl Anker Jørgensen
Karl Anker Jørgensen Aarhus University
Yong Wang
Yong Wang Nanjing Tech University

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