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Zhenfeng Xi

Zhenfeng Xi

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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
11935
World Ranking
9337
National Ranking
1579

Overview

Zhenfeng Xi is affiliated with Peking University in China and focuses primarily on chemistry, with significant contributions to materials science. Their extensive research portfolio includes 137 publications in chemistry and 56 in materials science. Within these broad areas, Xi has delved into subfields such as organic chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, catalysis, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Xi's work covers a range of topics, notably:

  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis

Their recent papers include:

  • "Direct transformation of dinitrogen: synthesis of N-containing organic compounds via N−C bond formation" (2020, National Science Review)
  • "Carbodiimide-based synthesis of N-heterocycles: moving from two classical reactive sites to chemical bond breaking/forming reaction" (2020, Chemical Society Reviews)
  • "Metalla-aromatics: Planar, Nonplanar, and Spiro" (2021, Accounts of Chemical Research)
  • "A tris-spiro metalla-aromatic system featuring Craig-Möbius aromaticity" (2021, Nature Communications)
  • "Direct conversion of N2 and O2: status, challenge and perspective" (2022, National Science Review)

Xi has collaborated frequently with several researchers including Junnian Wei, Wen-Xiong Zhang, Gao-Xiang Wang, Botao Wu, and Shengfa Ye. These collaborations reflect a networked research approach that spans diverse topics within their scientific focus.

Publication venues that frequently feature Xi's work include The Cambridge Structural Database, where 16 publications have appeared, Angewandte Chemie with 8 publications, Journal of the American Chemical Society with 7, Angewandte Chemie International Edition also with 7, and Dalton Transactions with 5 publications. This distribution indicates engagement with both structural databases and leading chemistry journals.

Best Publications

  • Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Cleavage of C-N Single Bonds.

    Kunbing Ouyang;Kunbing Ouyang;Wei Hao;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Cycloaddition Reaction of Zirconacyclopentadienes to Alkynes: Highly Selective Formation of Benzene Derivatives from Three Different Alkynes

    Tamotsu Takahashi;Zhenfeng Xi;Akiko Yamazaki;Yuanhong Liu

  • Recent development of synthetic preparation methods for guanidines via transition metal catalysis

    Wen-Xiong Zhang;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Ling Xu;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Direct transformation of dinitrogen: synthesis of N-containing organic compounds via N-C bond formation.

    Ze-Jie Lv;Junnian Wei;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Ping Chen

  • Co-operative effect of Lewis acids with transition metals for organic synthesis

    Congyang Wang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Metallacyclopentadienes: synthesis, structure and reactivity.

    Wangyang Ma;Chao Yu;Tianyang Chen;Ling Xu

  • Palladium-catalyzed synthesis of benzosilolo[2,3-b]indoles via cleavage of a C(sp3)-Si bond and consequent intramolecular C(sp2)-Si coupling.

    Yun Liang;Yun Liang;Shaoguang Zhang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • 1,4-Dilithio-1,3-dienes: reaction and synthetic applications.

    Zhenfeng Xi

  • Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage and Selective Transformation of Zirconacycles

    Tamotsu Takahashi;Martin Kotora;Ryuichiro Hara;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Highly Selective and Practical Alkyne-Alkyne Cross-Coupling Using Cp2ZrBu2 and Ethylene

    Zhenfeng Xi;Ryuichiro Hara;Tamotsu Takahashi

  • Cyclopentadiene–Phosphine/Palladium-Catalyzed Cleavage of C–N Bonds in Secondary Amines: Synthesis of Pyrrole and Indole Derivatives from Secondary Amines and Alkenyl or Aryl Dibromides

    Weizhi Geng;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Wei Hao;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Palladium-catalyzed intermolecular coupling of 2-silylaryl bromides with alkynes: synthesis of benzosiloles and heteroarene-fused siloles by catalytic cleavage of the C(sp3)–Si bond

    Y. Liang;W. Geng;J. Wei;Z. Xi

  • Unprecedented double C-C bond cleavage of a cyclopentadienyl ligand.

    Zhenfeng Xi;Kimihiko Sato;Ye Gao;Jianming Lu

  • Alkyl Aluminum-Catalyzed Addition of Amines to Carbodiimides: A Highly Efficient Route to Substituted Guanidines

    Wen-Xiong Zhang;Dongzhen Li;Zitao Wang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Carbodiimide-based synthesis of N-heterocycles: moving from two classical reactive sites to chemical bond breaking/forming reaction

    Yang Wang;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Selective Intermolecular Coupling of Alkynes with Nitriles and Ketones via beta,beta' Carbon-Carbon Bond Cleavage of Zirconacyclopentenes.

    Tamotsu Takahashi;Chanjuan Xi;Zhenfeng Xi;Motohiro Kageyama

  • Intramolecular Coupling of Alkynyl Groups of Bis(alkynyl)silane Mediated by Zirconocene Compounds: Formation of Silacyclobutene Derivatives

    Tamotsu Takahashi;Zhenfeng Xi;Yasushi Obora;Noriyuki Suzuki

  • ZIRCONOCENE-MEDIATED INTRAMOLECULAR CARBON-CARBON BOND FORMATION OF TWO ALKYNYL GROUPS OF BIS(ALKYNYL)SILANES

    Zhenfeng Xi;Reinald Fischer;Ryuichiro Hara;Wen-Hua Sun

  • Scandium-Promoted Direct Conversion of Dinitrogen into Hydrazine Derivatives via N-C Bond Formation.

    Ze-Jie Lv;Zhe Huang;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Dinitrogen Functionalization Affording Chromium Hydrazido Complex.

    Jianhao Yin;Jiapeng Li;Gao-Xiang Wang;Zhu-Bao Yin

  • Ln4(CH2)4 Cubane-Type Rare-Earth Methylidene Complexes Consisting of “(C5Me4SiMe3)LnCH2” Units (Ln = Tm, Lu)

    Wen-Xiong Zhang;Zitao Wang;Masayoshi Nishiura;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Cycloaddition of zirconacyclopentadienes to alkynes using copper salts: formation of benzene derivatives

    Tamotsu Takahashi;Martin Kotora;Zhenfeng Xi

  • The aromatic dianion metalloles

    Junnian Wei;Wen-Xiong Zhang;Zhenfeng Xi

  • Reaction of 3-zircona-1-cyclopentenes and zirconacyclopentanes with aldehydes. A selective and convenient synthesis of 4-penten-1-ols, (Z)-5-iodo-4-penten-1-ols, and related alkanols

    Christophe Copéret;Ei-ichi Negishi;Zhenfeng Xi;Tamotsu Takahashi

Frequent Co-Authors

Wen-Xiong Zhang
Wen-Xiong Zhang Peking University
Tamotsu Takahashi
Tamotsu Takahashi Hokkaido University
Shengfa Ye
Shengfa Ye Sun Yat-sen University
Heng Li
Heng Li Harvard University
Christian Bruneau
Christian Bruneau University of Rennes
Qiuling Song
Qiuling Song Huaqiao University
Patrick J. Walsh
Patrick J. Walsh University of Pennsylvania
Kiyohiko Nakajima
Kiyohiko Nakajima Aichi University of Education

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