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Catalytic Alkyne Reactions

Catalytic Alkyne Reactions is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1960. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the use of gold as a catalyst in organic synthesis, particularly in the context of homogeneous catalysis and transition metal-catalyzed reactions. The topics covered include gold-catalyzed reactions, cycloisomerization of alkynes, synthesis of heterocycles, enantioselective synthesis, carbene complexes, hydroamination, and C-C bond formation.

  • Gold-Catalyzed Reactions
  • Homogeneous Catalysis
  • Transition Metal Catalysis
  • Cycloisomerization
  • Alkynes
  • Heterocycles
  • Enantioselective Synthesis
  • Carbene Complexes
  • Hydroamination
  • C-C Bond Formation
Research works
17k
fractional, since 1960
In the world top 10%
1.6k
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.8%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-13%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
China
49% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Catalytic Alkyne Reactions

Which countries lead Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research?

By volume, China and India publish the most (826 and 262 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 China 826 works
  2. 2 India 262 works
  3. 3 United States 146 works
  4. 4 Japan 107 works
  5. 5 France 81 works
  6. 6 Spain 79 works
  7. 7 Germany 75 works
  8. 8 Russia 59 works
  9. 9 Italy 32 works
  10. 10 South Korea 30 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

China: 48.7%India: 15.4%United States: 8.6%Japan: 6.3%6 others listed: 21.0%49%largest
China826 · 48.7%India262 · 15.4%United States146 · 8.6%Japan107 · 6.3%6 others listed356 · 21.0%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the most Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 69 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 48 works
  3. 3 Council of Scientific and Industrial ResearchIndia 30 works
  4. 4 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 28 works
  5. 5 Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 23 works
  6. 6 Zhengzhou UniversityChina 18 works
  7. 7 University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 16 works
  8. 8 Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, BhopalIndia 15 works
  9. 9 University of HyderabadIndia 14 works
  10. 10 Lanzhou UniversityChina 14 works

Who are the leading researchers in Catalytic Alkyne Reactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Catalytic Alkyne Reactions include George M. Whitesides, Ben Zhong Tang and Kai You Wang.

  1. 1 George M. Whitesides United States 267k citations
  2. 2 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  3. 3 Kai You Wang China 224k citations
  4. 4 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  5. 5 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  6. 6 William A. Goddard United States 182k citations
  7. 7 Avelino Corma Spain 176k citations
  8. 8 Weitao Yang United States 163k citations
  9. 9 Xinliang Feng Germany 141k citations
  10. 10 Abdullah Mohamed Asiri Saudi Arabia 140k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Catalytic Alkyne Reactions?

The most cited paper in Catalytic Alkyne Reactions is "Cu-Catalyzed Azide−Alkyne Cycloaddition" (Morten Meldal, Christian Wenzel Tornøe, 2008), with 4,612 citations. Next come "Gold-Catalyzed Organic Reactions" (3,265) and "Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Direct Arylation of (Hetero)Arenes by CH Bond Cleavage" (2,751).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 Cu-Catalyzed Azide−Alkyne Cycloaddition Morten Meldal, Christian Wenzel Tornøe · Chemical Reviews Review Aug 2008 4,612
2 Gold-Catalyzed Organic Reactions A. Stephen K. Hashmi · Chemical Reviews Review 20 Jun 2007 3,265
3 Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Direct Arylation of (Hetero)Arenes by CH Bond Cleavage Lutz Ackermann, R. Vicente, Anant Ramakant Kapdi · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 8 Dec 2009 2,751
4 C–H bond activation enables the rapid construction and late-stage diversification of functional molecules Joanna Wencel‐Delord, Frank Glorius · Nature Chemistry 23 Apr 2013 2,406
5 Catalytic Carbophilic Activation: Catalysis by Platinum and Gold π Acids Alois Fürstner, Paul Davies · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 11 Apr 2007 2,323
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Where is Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research done?

The largest centres of Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Shanghai (China), Guangzhou (China) and Nanjing (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Ghaziabad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 BeijingChina 112 works
  2. 2 ShanghaiChina 82 works
  3. 3 GuangzhouChina 43 works
  4. 4 NanjingChina 38 works
  5. 5 TokyoJapan 35 works
  6. 6 HangzhouChina 32 works
  7. 7 HyderabadIndia 32 works
  8. 8 ParisFrance 31 works
  9. 9 ZhengzhouChina 26 works
  10. 10 ChengduChina 24 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. GhaziabadIN · 23.4 works25×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Catalytic Alkyne Reactions than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Catalytic Alkyne Reactions?

Among universities, judged by research, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, Zhengzhou University and Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged
40%
Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share
10%
Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale
30%
Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%
10%
Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad
10%
Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, BhopalIndia 79.027.9%117.5×15 +154.9%
2Zhengzhou UniversityChina 60.913.5%9.0×18 +57.2%
3Academy of Scientific and Innovative ResearchIndia 59.34.8%44.7×23 +32.0%
4Henan Normal UniversityChina 56.316.9%38.0×13 +20.7%
5Indian Institute of Technology BombayIndia 54.216.0%16.0×12 +22.6%
6Xiamen UniversityChina 53.023.8%7.4×11 +12.9%
7University of Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 51.013.8%5.9×16 -17.0%
8Nanjing UniversityChina 49.021.6%5.7×9 +21.1%
9Nankai UniversityChina 48.926.7%9.0×10 -41.5%
10University of Science and Technology of ChinaChina 47.912.1%5.4×11 +53.1%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Catalytic Alkyne Reactions, country by country

Is Catalytic Alkyne Reactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 13% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2015.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Catalytic Alkyne Reactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0080% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Catalytic Alkyne Reactions0.0073% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Catalytic Alkyne Reactions over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

still counting5%10%15%Catalytic Alkyne Reactions9.6% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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