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Zhengkun Yu is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in China. Their research spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with a particular focus on Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. Their work also touches on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Inorganic Chemistry, and Molecular Biology.

Their research topics include:

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

Zhengkun Yu has contributed to various publication venues. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers

They have collaborated often with several researchers, including:

  • Yong-Gui Zhou
  • Zilong Huang
  • Juan Ma
  • Liandi Wang
  • Jie Lin

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Zhengkun Yu include:

  • "One-pot hydrothermal preparation of rich-oxygen vacant Bi2SiO5/CuBi2O4 Z-Scheme heterojunction for visible light-driven photocatalytic removal of antibiotic-resistant bacteria," 2023, Chemical Engineering Journal
  • "Transition-metal mediated carbon-sulfur bond activation and transformations: an update," 2020, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C-H bonds," 2022, Chemical Society Reviews
  • "Photoinduced, Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Annulation of gem-Dialkylthio Enynes," 2020, Organic Letters
  • "Palladium-Catalyzed Fluoroalkylation via C(sp3)-S Bond Cleavage of Vinylsulfonium Salts," 2021, Organic Letters

Best Publications

  • Substitution of alcohols by N-nucleophiles via transition metal-catalyzed dehydrogenation

    Qin Yang;Qingfu Wang;Zhengkun Yu

  • Transition-metal mediated carbon–sulfur bond activation and transformations

    Liandi Wang;Wei He;Zhengkun Yu

  • C-Alkylation of Ketones and Related Compounds by Alcohols: Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Dehydrogenation.

    Fei Huang;Zhuqing Liu;Zhengkun Yu

  • Transition-metal mediated carbon-sulfur bond activation and transformations: an update.

    Jiang Lou;Jiang Lou;Quannan Wang;Quannan Wang;Ping Wu;Ping Wu;Hongmei Wang

  • Recent advances in transition-metal-catalyzed carbene insertion to C-H bonds.

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  • Brønsted acid activation strategy in transition-metal catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of N-unprotected imines, enamines, and N-heteroaromatic compounds.

    Zhengkun Yu;Weiwei Jin;Quanbin Jiang

  • Rhodium-Catalyzed Regioselective C−H Functionalization via Decarbonylation of Acid Chlorides and C−H Bond Activation under Phosphine-Free Conditions

    Xiaodan Zhao;Zhengkun Yu

  • Lewis Acid-Catalyzed, Copper(II)-Mediated Synthesis of Heteroaryl Thioethers under Base-Free Conditions

    Chao Dai;Chao Dai;Zhaoqing Xu;Fei Huang;Zhengkun Yu

  • Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling of Internal Alkenes with Terminal Alkenes to Functionalized 1,3-Butadienes Using C-H Bond Activation: Efficient Synthesis of Bicyclic Pyridones

    Haifeng Yu;Haifeng Yu;Weiwei Jin;Chenglin Sun;Jiping Chen

  • Indole synthesis through transition metal-catalyzed C–H activation

    Tenglong Guo;Fei Huang;Likun Yu;Zhengkun Yu

  • Pt-Sn/γ-Al2O3-catalyzed highly efficient direct synthesis of secondary and tertiary amines and imines.

    Wei He;Liandi Wang;Chenglin Sun;Kaikai Wu

  • Manganese-Catalyzed β-Alkylation of Secondary Alcohols with Primary Alcohols under Phosphine-Free Conditions

    Tingting Liu;Tingting Liu;Liandi Wang;Kaikai Wu;Zhengkun Yu;Zhengkun Yu

  • Lewis Acid Assisted Ring-Closing Metathesis of Chiral Diallylamines: An Efficient Approach to Enantiopure Pyrrolidine Derivatives

    Qian Yang;Wen-Jing Xiao;Zhengkun Yu

  • Efficient Rh(I)-catalyzed direct arylation and alkenylation of arene C-H bonds via decarbonylation of benzoic and cinnamic anhydrides.

    Weiwei Jin;Zhengkun Yu;Wei He;Wenjing Ye

  • Direct Alkenylation of Indoles with α‐Oxo Ketene Dithioacetals: Efficient Synthesis of Indole Alkaloids Meridianin Derivatives

    Haifeng Yu;Zhengkun Yu;Zhengkun Yu

  • Effects of short-chain chlorinated paraffins exposure on the viability and metabolism of human hepatoma HepG2 cells

    Ningbo Geng;Haijun Zhang;Baoqin Zhang;Ping Wu

  • Ruthenium(II) Complexes Bearing a Pyridyl-Supported Pyrazolyl−N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NNC) Ligand and Their Catalytic Activity in the Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

    Fanlong Zeng;Zhengkun Yu

  • Copper(II)-mediated dehydrogenative cross-coupling of heteroarenes.

    Zhifeng Mao;Zhe Wang;Zhaoqing Xu;Fei Huang

  • Exceptionally Efficient Unsymmetrical Ruthenium(II) NNN Complex Catalysts Bearing a Pyridyl-Based Pyrazolyl−Imidazolyl Ligand for Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

    Fanlong Zeng;Zhengkun Yu

  • Highly Active Ruthenium(II) Complex Catalysts Bearing an Unsymmetrical NNN Ligand in the (Asymmetric) Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones

    Wenjing Ye;Miao Zhao;Wangming Du;Quanbin Jiang

  • Pyridyl-supported pyrazolyl-N-heterocyclic carbene ligands and the catalytic activity of their palladium complexes in Suzuki-Miyaura reactions.

    Fanlong Zeng;Zhengkun Yu

Frequent Co-Authors

Jiping Chen
Jiping Chen Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
John G. Verkade
John G. Verkade Iowa State University
Yong-Gui Zhou
Yong-Gui Zhou Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Charles H. Winter
Charles H. Winter Wayne State University
Mary Jane Heeg
Mary Jane Heeg Wayne State University
Rui Wang
Rui Wang Lanzhou University
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
John P. Giesy
John P. Giesy University of Saskatchewan
H. Bernhard Schlegel
H. Bernhard Schlegel Wayne State University
Suojiang Zhang
Suojiang Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences

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