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Overview

Yanlong Gu is affiliated with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China. Their research focuses primarily on the field of Chemistry, with particular expertise in Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. The subfields of Biomedical Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology also feature in their scholarly work.

The scientist's work spans several key topics within chemistry, including:

  • Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
  • Multicomponent Synthesis of Heterocycles
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Catalysis for Biomass Conversion

Yanlong Gu has published extensively, with significant contributions appearing in notable venues such as Green Chemistry, RSC Advances, Molecular Catalysis, ChemSusChem, and The Cambridge Structural Database.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Minghao Li, Luigi Vaccaro, Rongxian Bai, Tianjian Zhang, and Ping Liu, indicating active collaboration with other researchers in the field.

Selected recent papers from Yanlong Gu and their associated details are as follows:

  • Low-Cost Hypercrosslinked Polymers by Direct Knitting Strategy for Catalytic Applications, 2020, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Replacement strategies for non-green dipolar aprotic solvents, 2020, Green Chemistry
  • Polymer engineering in phase change thermal storage materials, 2023, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews
  • Formaldehyde in multicomponent reactions, 2021, Green Chemistry
  • Glycerol in energy transportation: a state-of-the-art review, 2021, Green Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Glycerol as a sustainable solvent for green chemistry

    Yanlong Gu;François Jérôme

  • Bio-based solvents: an emerging generation of fluids for the design of eco-efficient processes in catalysis and organic chemistry

    Yanlong Gu;François Jérôme

  • Multicomponent reactions in unconventional solvents: state of the art

    Yanlong Gu

  • Ionic Liquids-Based Catalysis with Solids: State of the Art

    Yanlong Gu;Guangxing Li

  • Alternatives to Phosgene and Carbon Monoxide: Synthesis of Symmetric Urea Derivatives with Carbon Dioxide in Ionic Liquids

    Feng Shi;Youquan Deng;Tianlong SiMa;Jiajian Peng

  • Formic acid, a biomass-derived source of energy and hydrogen for biomass upgrading

    Federica Valentini;Vadym Kozell;Chiara Petrucci;Assunta Marrocchi

  • Electrochemical activation of carbon dioxide in ionic liquid: synthesis of cyclic carbonates at mild reaction conditions

    Hongzhou Yang;Yanlong Gu;Youquan Deng;Feng Shi

  • Dynamically coating the capillary with 1-alkyl-3-methylimidazolium-based ionic liquids for separation of basic proteins by capillary electrophoresis

    Ting-Fu Jiang;Yan-Long Gu;Bing Liang;Ju-Bai Li

  • Esterification of aliphatic acids with olefin promoted by Brønsted acidic ionic liquids

    Yanlong Gu;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Pechmann Reaction in Non-Chloroaluminate Acidic Ionic Liquids under Solvent-Free Conditions

    Yanlong Gu;Yanlong Gu;Juan Zhang;Zhiying Duan;Youquan Deng

  • Sulfamic acid as a cost-effective and recyclable catalyst for liquid Beckmann rearrangement, a green process to produce amides from ketoximes without waste

    Bo Wang;Yanlong Gu;Cheng Luo;Tao Yang

  • Ionic Liquid as an Efficient Promoting Medium for Fixation of CO2: Clean Synthesis of α-Methylene Cyclic Carbonates from CO2 and Propargyl Alcohols Catalyzed by Metal Salts under Mild Conditions

    Yanlong Gu;Feng Shi;Youquan Deng

  • Replacement strategies for non-green dipolar aprotic solvents

    Feng Gao;Rongxian Bai;Francesco Ferlin;Luigi Vaccaro

  • Low-Cost Hypercrosslinked Polymers by Direct Knitting Strategy for Catalytic Applications

    Yanlong Gu;Yanlong Gu;Seung Uk Son;Tao Li;Bien Tan

  • A Heterogeneous Silica‐Supported Scandium/Ionic Liquid Catalyst System for Organic Reactions in Water

    Yanlong Gu;Chikako Ogawa;Juta Kobayashi;Yuichiro Mori

  • Heterogeneously catalyzed etherification of glycerol: new pathways for transformation of glycerol to more valuable chemicals

    Yanlong Gu;Ahmed Azzouzi;Yannick Pouilloux;François Jérôme

  • Oxidative carbonylation of glycerol to glycerol carbonate catalyzed by PdCl2(phen)/KI

    Jianglin Hu;Jinjin Li;Yanlong Gu;Zhenhong Guan

  • Effect of ionic liquids as mobile phase additives on retention of catecholamines in reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography

    Wenzhu Zhang;Lijun He;Yanlong Gu;Xia Liu

  • Glycerol as An Efficient Promoting Medium for Organic Reactions

    Yanlong Gu;Joël Barrault;François Jérôme

  • Glycerol as a promoting medium for electrophilic activation of aldehydes: catalyst-free synthesis of di(indolyl)methanes, xanthene-1,8(2H)-diones and 1-oxo-hexahydroxanthenes

    Fei He;Peng Li;Yanlong Gu;Guangxing Li

  • Protic pyridinium ionic liquids: Synthesis, acidity determination and their performances for acid catalysis

    Zhiying Duan;Yanlong Gu;Juan Zhang;Laiying Zhu

  • Green and moisture-stable Lewis acidic ionic liquids (choline chloride · xZnCl2) catalyzed protection of carbonyls at room temperature under solvent-free conditions

    Zhiying Duan;Yanlong Gu;Youquan Deng

Frequent Co-Authors

Youquan Deng
Youquan Deng Chinese Academy of Sciences
François Jérôme
François Jérôme University of Poitiers
Feng Shi
Feng Shi Chinese Academy of Sciences
Luigi Vaccaro
Luigi Vaccaro University of Perugia
Qinghua Zhang
Qinghua Zhang Southwest Jiaotong University
Shu Kobayashi
Shu Kobayashi University of Tokyo
Bien Tan
Bien Tan Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Jing Xu
Jing Xu Zhejiang University
Mohammad Ali Zolfigol
Mohammad Ali Zolfigol Bu-Ali Sina University

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