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Yongxin Li is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research spans primarily the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a substantial focus on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. Additional research activities include Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their scholarly output covers several key topics, including:

  • Perovskite Materials and Applications
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Covalent Organic Framework Applications
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by Yongxin Li are:

  • Metastable 1T'-phase group VIB transition metal dichalcogenide crystals, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Ferroelastic-switching-driven large shear strain and piezoelectricity in a hybrid ferroelectric, 2021, Nature Materials
  • Ultrastable Thorium Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Iodine Adsorption, 2020, Inorganic Chemistry
  • Modulated synthesis and isoreticular expansion of Th-MOFs with record high pore volume and surface area for iodine adsorption, 2020, Chemical Communications
  • Boosting the Iodine Adsorption and Radioresistance of Th-UiO-66 MOFs via Aromatic Substitution, 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Yongxin Li include:

  • Sumod A. Pullarkat
  • Pak-Hing Leung
  • Benny Febriansyah
  • Shingo Ito
  • Nripan Mathews

Publication venues that frequently feature their work include:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Organometallics

Best Publications

  • Controlling Supramolecular Chirality of Two-Component Hydrogels by J- and H-Aggregation of Building Blocks.

    Guofeng Liu;Jianhui Sheng;Jianhui Sheng;Hongwei Wu;Chaolong Yang

  • Metastable 1T'-phase group VIB transition metal dichalcogenide crystals.

    Zhuangchai Lai;Zhuangchai Lai;Qiyuan He;Thu Ha Tran;D. V. Maheswar Repaka

  • Well-Defined N-Heterocyclic Carbene Based Ruthenium Catalysts for Direct Amide Synthesis from Alcohols and Amines

    Yao Zhang;Cheng Chen;Subhash Chandra Ghosh;Yongxin Li

  • A Rationally Designed Nitrogen-Rich Metal-Organic Framework and Its Exceptionally High CO 2 and H 2 Uptake Capability

    Xiao-Jun Wang;Pei-Zhou Li;Yifei Chen;Quan Zhang

  • Halogen-Assisted Piezochromic Supramolecular Assemblies for Versatile Haptic Memory.

    Linyi Bai;Purnandhu Bose;Qiang Gao;Yongxin Li

  • Ferroelastic-switching-driven colossal shear strain and piezoelectricity in a hybrid ferroelectric

    Yuzhong Hu;Lu You;Bin Xu;Tao Li

  • Organocatalytic asymmetric tandem Michael-Henry reactions: a highly stereoselective synthesis of multifunctionalized cyclohexanes with two quaternary stereocenters.

    Bin Tan;Pei Juan Chua;Yongxin Li;Guofu Zhong

  • Palladium(II)-catalyzed asymmetric hydrophosphination of enones: efficient access to chiral tertiary phosphines

    Yinhua Huang;Sumod A. Pullarkat;Yongxin Li;Pak-Hing Leung

  • Isolation of a Bis(oxazol-2-ylidene)–Phenylborylene Adduct and its Reactivity as a Boron-Centered Nucleophile†

    Ling Bing Kong;Yongxin Li;Rakesh Ganguly;Dragoslav Vidović

  • Highly Effective Carbon Fixation via Catalytic Conversion of CO2 by an Acylamide-Containing Metal–Organic Framework

    Pei-Zhou Li;Xiao-Jun Wang;Jia Liu;Hui Shi Phang

  • Ultrastable Thorium Metal-Organic Frameworks for Efficient Iodine Adsorption.

    Zi-Jian Li;Zenghui Yue;Yu Ju;Xiaoling Wu

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of P-Stereogenic Diarylphosphinites by Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Addition of Diarylphosphines to Benzoquinones

    Yinhua Huang;Yongxin Li;Pak-Hing Leung;Tamio Hayashi;Tamio Hayashi

  • Isolation of 1,2,4,3-Triazaborol-3-yl-metal (Li, Mg, Al, Au, Zn, Sb, Bi) Derivatives and Reactivity toward CO and Isonitriles

    Wei Lu;Haitao Hu;Yongxin Li;Rakesh Ganguly

  • Control on Dimensions and Supramolecular Chirality of Self-Assemblies through Light and Metal Ions

    Guofeng Liu;Jianhui Sheng;Wei Liang Teo;Guangbao Yang

  • Direct Synthesis of Chiral Tertiary Diphosphines via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrophosphination of Dienones

    Yinhua Huang;Renta Jonathan Chew;Yongxin Li;Sumod A. Pullarkat

  • Intermolecular Mizoroki-Heck reaction of aliphatic olefins with high selectivity for substitution at the internal position.

    Liena Qin;Xinfeng Ren;Yunpeng Lu;Yongxin Li

  • A surfactant-thermal method to prepare four new three-dimensional heterometal-organic frameworks.

    Junkuo Gao;Mi He;Zhi Yi Lee;Wenfang Cao

  • A large pyrene-fused N-heteroacene: fifteen aromatic six-membered rings annulated in one row

    Zilong Wang;Peiyang Gu;Guangfeng Liu;Huiying Yao

  • Significant gas uptake enhancement by post-exchange of zinc(II) with copper(II) within a metal–organic framework

    Xiao-Jun Wang;Pei-Zhou Li;Lei Liu;Quan Zhang

  • Modulated synthesis and isoreticular expansion of Th-MOFs with record high pore volume and surface area for iodine adsorption

    Zi-Jian Li;Yu Ju;Bowen Yu;Xiaoling Wu

  • Palladacycle-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrophosphination of Enones for Synthesis of C*- and P*-Chiral Tertiary Phosphines

    Yinhua Huang;Sumod A. Pullarkat;Yongxin Li;Pak-Hing Leung

  • Palladium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Intermolecular Cyclization

    Jian Hu;Hajime Hirao;Yongxin Li;Jianrong Steve Zhou

Frequent Co-Authors

Rakesh Ganguly
Rakesh Ganguly Nanyang Technological University
Qichun Zhang
Qichun Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Hajime Hirao
Hajime Hirao City University of Hong Kong
Denis Fichou
Denis Fichou Sorbonne University
Yanli Zhao
Yanli Zhao Nanyang Technological University
Yi Ding
Yi Ding Zhejiang University
Nguan Soon Tan
Nguan Soon Tan Nanyang Technological University
Ling Bing Kong
Ling Bing Kong Nanyang Technological University
Wenping Hu
Wenping Hu Tianjin University
Christian Kloc
Christian Kloc Nanyang Technological University

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