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Yun-Dong Wu

Yun-Dong Wu

Peking University
China

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
78
Citations
19585
World Ranking
3856
National Ranking
718

Yun-Dong Wu publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yun-Dong Wu sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 337 publications — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Yun-Dong Wu D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Yun-Dong Wu sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Yun-Dong Wu is affiliated with Peking University in China and has made contributions primarily in the field of chemistry, with a focus on organic chemistry. Their research spans several subfields including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and spectroscopy.

The scientist's work frequently appears in notable publication venues. These include:

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

Key research topics covered by Yun-Dong Wu include:

  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms

Yun-Dong Wu has collaborated extensively with several coauthors, with frequent partnerships including:

  • Maoping Pu
  • Xinhao Zhang
  • Tian-Yu Sun
  • Xiaoming Feng
  • Xiaohua Liu

The scientist has authored multiple papers recently, highlighting diverse experimental and computational approaches in catalysis and organic synthesis. Selected recent publications are:

  • "Iron-Catalyzed Enantioselective Radical Carboazidation and Diazidation of α,β-Unsaturated Carbonyl Compounds," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "A Combined Computational and Experimental Study of Rh-Catalyzed C-H Silylation with Silacyclobutanes: Insights Leading to a More Efficient Catalyst System," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Ru-Catalyzed Geminal Hydroboration of Silyl Alkynes via a Newgem-Addition Mechanism," 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Catalytic Asymmetric Homologation of Ketones with α-Alkyl α-Diazo Esters," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Enantioselective Formal Vinylogous N-H Insertion of Secondary Aliphatic Amines Catalyzed by a High-Spin Cobalt(II) Complex," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society

Best Publications

  • Conformations of cycloheptadecane. A comparison of methods for conformational searching

    Martin Saunders;K. N. Houk;Yun Dong Wu;W. Clark Still

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

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

  • Theory and Modeling of Stereoselective Organic Reactions

    Kendall N. Houk;Michael N. Paddon-Row;Nelson G. Rondan;Yun-Dong Wu

  • Stereoselective nitrile oxide cycloadditions to chiral allyl ethers and alcohols. The inside alkoxy effect

    K. N. Houk;Susan R. Moses;Yun Dong Wu;Nelson G. Rondan

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

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

  • Palladium-catalyzed meta-selective C-H bond activation with a nitrile-containing template: computational study on mechanism and origins of selectivity.

    Yun-Fang Yang;Gui-Juan Cheng;Peng Liu;Dasheng Leow

  • Computational Organic Chemistry: Bridging Theory and Experiment in Establishing the Mechanisms of Chemical Reactions

    Gui-Juan Cheng;Xinhao Zhang;Lung Wa Chung;Liping Xu

  • A Highly Enantio‐ and Diastereoselective Cu‐Catalyzed 1,3‐Dipolar Cycloaddition of Azomethine Ylides with Nitroalkenes

    Xiao-Xia Yan;Qian Peng;Yan Zhang;Kai Zhang

  • Role of N-Acyl Amino Acid Ligands in Pd(II)-Catalyzed Remote C–H Activation of Tethered Arenes

    Gui-Juan Cheng;Yun-Fang Yang;Yun-Fang Yang;Peng Liu;Ping Chen

  • Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction transition structures: reactivity, stereoselectivity, catalysis, solvent effects, and the exo-lone-pair effect

    Margaret A. McCarrick;Yun Dong Wu;K. N. Houk

  • Enantioselective synthesis of vinylcyclopropanes and vinylepoxides mediated by camphor-derived sulfur ylides: rationale of enantioselectivity, scope, and limitation.

    Xian-Ming Deng;Ping Cai;Song Ye;Xiu-Li Sun

  • Mechanistic understanding of the unexpected meta selectivity in copper-catalyzed anilide C-H bond arylation.

    Bo Chen;Xue Long Hou;Yu Xue Li;Yun Dong Wu

  • Mechanism, Reactivity, and Selectivity in Palladium-Catalyzed Redox-Relay Heck Arylations of Alkenyl Alcohols

    Liping Xu;Margaret J. Hilton;Xinhao Zhang;Per Ola Norrby;Per Ola Norrby

  • A Theoretical Study on the Mechanism, Regiochemistry, and Stereochemistry of Hydrosilylation Catalyzed by Cationic Ruthenium Complexes

    Lung Wa Chung;Yun-Dong Wu;Barry M. Trost;Zachary T. Ball

  • Stereoselectivities of nucleophilic additions to cyclohexanones substituted by polar groups. Experimental investigation of reductions of trans-decalones and theoretical studies of cyclohexanone reductions. The influence of remote electrostatic effects

    Yun Dong Wu;John A. Tucker;K. N. Houk

  • From Porphyrin Isomers to Octapyrrolic “Figure Eight” Macrocycles

    Emanuel Vogel;Martin Bröring;Jürgen Fink;Daniel Rosen

  • Steric Models for Stereoselectivity of Nitrile Oxide Cycloadditions to Chiral Alkenes

    K. N. Houk;How Yunn. Duh;Yun Dong. Wu;Susan R. Moses

  • A theoretical study on the origin of cooperativity in the formation of 3(10)- and alpha-helices.

    Yun-Dong Wu;Yi-Lei Zhao

  • α-Aminoxy Acids: New Possibilities from Foldamers to Anion Receptors and Channels

    Xiang Li;Yun-Dong Wu;Dan Yang

  • Ab Initio Mechanisms for the Addition of CH3Li, HLi, and Their Dimers to Formaldehyde

    Elmar Kaufmann;Paul v. R. Schleyer;Kendall N. Houk;Yun Dong Wu

  • Revealing a Second Transmetalation Step in the Negishi Coupling and Its Competition with Reductive Elimination: Improvement in the Interpretation of the Mechanism of Biaryl Syntheses

    Qiang Liu;Yu Lan;Jing Liu;Gang Li

Frequent Co-Authors

Xinhao Zhang
Xinhao Zhang Peking University
Lung Wa Chung
Lung Wa Chung Southern University of Science and Technology
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Zi-Ling Xue
Zi-Ling Xue University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Dan Yang
Dan Yang University of Hong Kong
Olaf Wiest
Olaf Wiest University of Notre Dame
Qian Peng
Qian Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Emanuel Vogel
Emanuel Vogel University of Cologne
Zhenyang Lin
Zhenyang Lin Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jianwei Sun
Jianwei Sun Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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