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Xin Hong is a researcher affiliated with Zhejiang University in China, specializing in the field of Chemistry with a strong focus on Organic Chemistry. Their publication record comprises over 400 works, with significant contributions to subfields such as Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Molecular Biology.

Their research concentrates on specific topics including Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods, Radical Photochemical Reactions, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions, Axial and Atropisomeric Chirality Synthesis, Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques, and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Xin Hong include the following:

  • Isolated boron in zeolite for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (2021, Science)
  • Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Styrenes via an Asymmetric C-H Functionalization Strategy (2020, Chem)
  • Pillararene Host-Guest Complexation Induced Chirality Amplification: A New Way to Detect Cryptochiral Compounds (2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomeric Anilides via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric C-H Olefination (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • Mechanism-based ligand design for copper-catalysed enantioconvergent C(sp3)-C(sp) cross-coupling of tertiary electrophiles with alkynes (2022, Nature Chemistry)

Xin Hong frequently publishes in several prominent scientific venues, with multiple contributions in:

  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Organic Letters

Collaboration is a notable aspect of their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Shuo-Qing Zhang
  • Pei-Pei Xie
  • Xin-Hua Duan
  • Li-Na Guo
  • Ji-Ren Liu

Best Publications

  • Understanding trends in electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction rates.

    Xinyan Liu;Jianping Xiao;Jianping Xiao;Hongjie Peng;Xin Hong;Xin Hong

  • Conversion of amides to esters by the nickel-catalysed activation of amide C-N bonds

    Liana Hie;Noah F. Fine Nathel;Tejas K. Shah;Emma L. Baker

  • How Doped MoS2 Breaks Transition-Metal Scaling Relations for CO2 Electrochemical Reduction

    Xin Hong;Karen Chan;Charlie Tsai;Jens K. Nørskov;Jens K. Nørskov

  • Ligand-accelerated enantioselective methylene C(sp3)–H bond activation

    Gang Chen;Wei Gong;Zhe Zhuang;Michal S. Andrä

  • Isolated boron in zeolite for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane.

    Hang Zhou;Xianfeng Yi;Yu Hui;Liang Wang

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Coupling of Aryl Esters

    Taoufik Ben Halima;Wanying Zhang;Imane Yalaoui;Xin Hong

  • Mechanisms and Origins of Switchable Chemoselectivity of Ni-Catalyzed C(aryl)–O and C(acyl)–O Activation of Aryl Esters with Phosphine Ligands

    Xin Hong;Yong Liang;K. N. Houk

  • Highly Chemoselective, Transition-Metal-Free Transamidation of Unactivated Amides and Direct Amidation of Alkyl Esters by N-C/O-C Cleavage.

    Guangchen Li;Chong-Lei Ji;Xin Hong;Michal Szostak;Michal Szostak

  • Experimental–Computational Synergy for Selective Pd(II)-Catalyzed C–H Activation of Aryl and Alkyl Groups

    Yun-Fang Yang;Xin Hong;Jin-Quan Yu;K. N. Houk

  • Enantioselective Synthesis of Atropisomers Featuring Pentatomic Heteroaromatics by Pd-Catalyzed C–H Alkynylation

    Shuo Zhang;Qi-Jun Yao;Gang Liao;Xin Li

  • Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Styrenes via an Asymmetric C–H Functionalization Strategy

    Liang Jin;Qi-Jun Yao;Pei-Pei Xie;Ya Li

  • Tuning the LUMO Energy of an Organic Interphase to Stabilize Lithium Metal Batteries

    Weidong Zhang;Shuoqing Zhang;Lei Fan;Lina Gao

  • Nickel-Catalyzed Activation of Acyl C-O Bonds of Methyl Esters.

    Liana Hie;Noah F. Fine Nathel;Xin Hong;Yun‐Fang Yang

  • Cu/Chiral Phosphoric Acid-Catalyzed Asymmetric Three-Component Radical-Initiated 1,2-Dicarbofunctionalization of Alkenes.

    Jin-Shun Lin;Tao-Tao Li;Ji-Ren Liu;Guan-Yuan Jiao

  • Pillararene Host-Guest Complexation Induced Chirality Amplification: A New Way to Detect Cryptochiral Compounds.

    Huangtianzhi Zhu;Qi Li;Zongchun Gao;Hongliang Wang

  • PhSO2SCF2H: A Shelf‐Stable, Easily Scalable Reagent for Radical Difluoromethylthiolation

    Dianhu Zhu;Xinxin Shao;Xin Hong;Long Lu

  • Nickel-catalyzed amination of aryl carbamates and sequential site-selective cross-couplings

    Tehetena Mesganaw;Amanda L. Silberstein;Stephen D. Ramgren;Noah F. Fine Nathel

  • Mechanisms and Origins of Chemo- and Regioselectivities of Ru(II)-Catalyzed Decarboxylative C–H Alkenylation of Aryl Carboxylic Acids with Alkynes: A Computational Study

    Jing-Lu Yu;Shuo-Qing Zhang;Xin Hong

  • Copper-Catalyzed Enantioselective Markovnikov Protoboration of α-Olefins Enabled by a Buttressed N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligand.

    Yuan Cai;Xin-Tuo Yang;Shuo-Qing Zhang;Feng Li

  • Iodoarene-Catalyzed Stereospecific Intramolecular sp(3) C-H Amination: Reaction Development and Mechanistic Insights.

    Chendan Zhu;Yong Liang;Xin Hong;Heqing Sun

  • Conversion of Amides to Esters by the Nickel‐Catalyzed Activation of Amide C—N Bonds.

    Liana Hie;Noah F. Fine Nathel;Tejas K. Shah;Emma L. Baker

Frequent Co-Authors

Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Michal Szostak
Michal Szostak Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Bing-Feng Shi
Bing-Feng Shi Zhejiang University
Yong Liang
Yong Liang Jianghan University
Neil K. Garg
Neil K. Garg University of California, Los Angeles
Feihe Huang
Feihe Huang Zhejiang University
Jens K. Nørskov
Jens K. Nørskov Technical University of Denmark
Peng Liu
Peng Liu University of Pittsburgh
Xiangju Meng
Xiangju Meng Zhejiang University
Hao Li
Hao Li Zhejiang University

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