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Overview

Xin Cui is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research spans several subfields, including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and electrical and electronic engineering.

The primary focus of Xin Cui's work revolves around catalytic C-H functionalization methods, synthesis and catalytic reactions, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, crystallization and solubility studies, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, catalytic processes in materials science, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Xin Cui has a record of published papers in diverse scientific venues. Frequently publishing in The Cambridge Structural Database with six papers, the scientist has also appeared multiple times in the Chinese Journal of Organic Chemistry (three papers), Angewandte Chemie International Edition (two papers), and Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety (two papers). They have also contributed to Molecular Medicine.

Recent important papers include the following:

  • Liraglutide attenuates type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by activating AMPK/ACC signaling and inhibiting ferroptosis (2023, Molecular Medicine)
  • Metalloradical activation of carbonyl azides for enantioselective radical aziridination (2021, Chem)
  • Dual-Functional Injectable Hydrogel for Osteoarthritis Treatments (2023, Advanced Healthcare Materials)
  • Early-life risk factors for food allergy: Dietary and environmental factors revisited (2023, Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety)
  • Mechanism for catalytic cracking of coal tar over fresh and reduced LaNi1-xFexO3 perovskite (2020, Fuel)

Xin Cui has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, including Wei-Min He, Xiaolin Qian, Xue Xu, Tingli Guo, and Wenhui Yan, each contributing to multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Novel Small Organic Molecules for a Highly Enantioselective Direct Aldol Reaction

    Zhuo Tang;Fan Jiang;Luo-Ting Yu;Xin Cui

  • Enantioselective direct aldol reactions catalyzed by L-prolinamide derivatives.

    Zhuo Tang;Fan Jiang;Xin Cui;Liu-Zhu Gong

  • Copper-catalyzed synthesis of aryl azides and 1 -aryl -1,2,3 -triazoles from boronic acids

    Chuan-Zhou Tao;Xin Cui;Juan Li;Ai-Xiang Liu

  • Formation of silver nanowires by a novel solid-liquid phase arc discharge method

    Y. Zhou;S. H. Yu;X. P. Cui;C. Y. Wang

  • A Luminescent Zinc(II) Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) with Conjugated π-Electron Ligand for High Iodine Capture and Nitro-Explosive Detection.

    Ru-Xin Yao;Xin Cui;Xiao-Xia Jia;Fu-Qiang Zhang

  • Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Prochiral Ketones in Aqueous Media with New Water-Soluble Chiral Vicinal Diamine as Ligand

    Yaping Ma;Hui Liu;Li Chen;Xin Cui

  • Asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of imines and iminiums catalyzed by a water-soluble catalyst in water

    Jiashou Wu;Fei Wang;Yaping Ma;Xin Cui

  • Novel achiral biphenol-derived diastereomeric oxovanadium(IV) complexes for highly enantioselective oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols.

    Zhibin Luo;Quanzhong Liu;Liuzhu Gong;Xin Cui

  • Highly Asymmetric Intramolecular Cyclopropanation of Acceptor-Substituted Diazoacetates by Co(II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis: Iterative Approach for Development of New-Generation Catalysts

    Xue Xu;Hongjian Lu;Joshua V. Ruppel;Xin Cui

  • Characterization of Porphyrin-Co(III)-‘Nitrene Radical’ Species Relevant in Catalytic Nitrene Transfer Reactions

    Monalisa Goswami;Volodymyr Lyaskovskyy;Sérgio R. Domingos;Wybren Jan Buma

  • Palladium-catalyzed allylic alkylation of tert-butyl(diphenylmethylene)-glycinate with simple allyl esters under chiral phase transfer conditions

    Guoshu Chen;Yijian Deng;Liuzhu Gong;Aiqiao Mi

  • Transfer hydrogenation of activated C=C bonds catalyzed by ruthenium amido complexes: reaction scope, limitation, and enantioselectivity.

    Dong Xue;Ying-Chun Chen;Xin Cui;Qi-Wei Wang

  • Regioselective Synthesis of Multisubstituted Furans via Metalloradical Cyclization of Alkynes with α-Diazocarbonyls: Construction of Functionalized α-Oligofurans

    Xin Cui;Xue Xu;Lukasz Wojtas;Martin M. Kim

  • Asymmetric Radical Cyclopropanation of Alkenes with In Situ-Generated Donor-Substituted Diazo Reagents via Co(II)-Based Metalloradical Catalysis

    Yong Wang;Xin Wen;Xin Cui;Lukasz Wojtas

  • Enantioselective cyclopropenation of alkynes with acceptor/acceptor-substituted diazo reagents via Co(II)-based metalloradical catalysis.

    Xin Cui;Xue Xu;Hongjian Lu;Shifa Zhu

  • Effective Synthesis of Chiral N‐Fluoroaryl Aziridines through Enantioselective Aziridination of Alkenes with Fluoroaryl Azides

    Li-Mei Jin;Xue Xu;Hongjian Lu;Xin Cui

  • The rational design of novel chiral oxovanadium(IV) complexes for highly enantioselective oxidative coupling of 2-naphthols.

    Zhibin Luo;Quanzhong Liu;Liuzhu Gong;Xin Cui

  • Metalloradical Approach to 2H-Chromenes

    Nanda D. Paul;Sutanuva Mandal;Matthias Otte;Xin Cui

  • Enantioselective Radical Cyclization for Construction of 5-Membered Ring Structures by Metalloradical C-H Alkylation.

    Yong Wang;Xin Wen;Xin Cui;X. Peter Zhang

  • N,N-dimethyl-beta-alanine as an inexpensive and efficient ligand for palladium-catalyzed Heck reaction.

    Xin Cui;Zhe Li;Chuan-Zhou Tao;Yu Xu

  • Design of highly enantioselective organocatalysts based on molecular recognition.

    Zhuo Tang;Lin-Feng Cun;Xin Cui;Ai-Qiao Mi

Frequent Co-Authors

X. Peter Zhang
X. Peter Zhang Boston College
Liu-Zhu Gong
Liu-Zhu Gong University of Science and Technology of China
Lukasz Wojtas
Lukasz Wojtas University of South Florida
Jingen Deng
Jingen Deng Sichuan University
Xiaoming Feng
Xiaoming Feng Sichuan University
Yun-Dong Wu
Yun-Dong Wu Peking University
Albert S. C. Chan
Albert S. C. Chan Sun Yat-sen University
Bas de Bruin
Bas de Bruin University of Amsterdam
Wei-Cheng Yuan
Wei-Cheng Yuan Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jun Jiang
Jun Jiang University of Science and Technology of China

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