Topic · Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
Most cited papers in Chemical Synthesis and Reactions
What are the most cited papers in Chemical Synthesis and Reactions?
The most cited paper in Chemical Synthesis and Reactions is "Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis. 2" (Jason Patrick Hallett, Tom Welton, 2011), with 12,587 citations. Next come "Ionic Liquids—New “Solutions” for Transition Metal Catalysis" (5,721) and "A convenient synthesis of acetylenes: catalytic substitutions of acetylenic hydrogen with bromoalkenes, iodoarenes and bromopyridines" (5,175).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 817 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Room-Temperature Ionic Liquids: Solvents for Synthesis and Catalysis. 2 Jason Patrick Hallett, Tom Welton · Chemical Reviews | 6 Apr 2011 | 12,587 |
| 2 | Ionic Liquids—New “Solutions” for Transition Metal Catalysis Peter Wasserscheid, Wilhelm Keim · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 3 Nov 2000 | 5,721 |
| 3 | A convenient synthesis of acetylenes: catalytic substitutions of acetylenic hydrogen with bromoalkenes, iodoarenes and bromopyridines Kenkichi Sonogashira, Yasuo Tohda, Nobue Hagihara · Tetrahedron Letters | 1975 | 5,175 |
| 4 | Hydrogen Peroxide Synthesis: An Outlook beyond the Anthraquinone Process José M. Campos‐Martín, Gema Blanco‐Brieva, J.L.G. Fierro · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 13 Oct 2006 | 3,257 |
| 5 | Hydroxymethylfurfural, A Versatile Platform Chemical Made from Renewable Resources Robert‐Jan van Putten, Jan C. van der Waal, E. de Jong et al. · Chemical Reviews | 11 Feb 2013 | 2,873 |
| 6 | Ionic liquids. Green solvents for the future Martyn J. Earle, Kenneth Richard Seddon · Pure and Applied Chemistry | 2000 | 2,798 |
| 7 | Catalysis by Heteropoly Acids and Multicomponent Polyoxometalates in Liquid-Phase Reactions Ivan V. Kozhevnikov · Chemical Reviews | Feb 1998 | 2,765 |
| 8 | Microwave assisted organic synthesis—a review Pelle Lidström, Jason P. Tierney, Bernard Wathey et al. · Tetrahedron | Nov 2001 | 2,674 |
| 9 | In the Golden Age of Organocatalysis Peter I. Dalko, Lionel Moisan · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 29 Sep 2004 | 2,586 |
| 10 | Tetrahedron report number 163 James T. Lindley · Tetrahedron | 1984 | 2,249 |
| 11 | Origins, Current Status, and Future Challenges of Green Chemistry Paul T. Anastas, Mary M. Kirchhoff · Accounts of Chemical Research | 19 Jun 2002 | 2,215 |
| 12 | Recent Advances in Polyoxometalate-Catalyzed Reactions Sasa Wang, Guo‐Yu Yang · Chemical Reviews | 12 May 2015 | 2,167 |
| 13 | Iron-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis Carsten Bolm, Julien Legros, Jacques Le Paih et al. · Chemical Reviews | 19 Nov 2004 | 2,144 |
| 14 | Simple Method for the Esterification of Carboxylic Acids Bernhard Neises, Wölfgang Steglich · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English | Jul 1978 | 2,064 |
| 15 | Heterogeneous Catalysis Noritaka Mizuno, Makoto Misono · Chemical Reviews | 8 Jan 1998 | 2,059 |
| 16 | Sulfur Containing Scaffolds in Drugs: Synthesis and Application in Medicinal Chemistry Minghao Feng, Bingqing Tang, Steven H. Liang et al. · Current Topics in Medicinal Chemistry | 3 Mar 2016 | 2,023 |
| 17 | Postsynthetic modification of metal–organic frameworks Zhenqiang Wang, Seth M. Cohen · Chemical Society Reviews | 2009 | 1,971 |
| 18 | Polyoxometalates in Medicine Jeffrey T. Rhule, Craig L. Hill, Deborah A. Judd et al. · Chemical Reviews | Feb 1998 | 1,895 |
| 19 | Green Extraction of Natural Products: Concept and Principles Farid Chemat, Maryline Abert Vian, Giancarlo Cravotto · International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 11 Jul 2012 | 1,888 |
| 20 | Rational Development of Practical Catalysts for Aromatic Carbon−Nitrogen Bond Formation John P. Wolfe, Seble H. Wagaw, Jean-François Marcoux et al. · Accounts of Chemical Research | 21 Oct 1998 | 1,786 |
| 21 | Pyridinium chlorochromate. An efficient reagent for oxidation of primary and secondary alcohols to carbonyl compounds Elias James Corey, J. William Suggs · Tetrahedron Letters | 1975 | 1,776 |
| 22 | Green solvents for sustainable organic synthesis: state of the art Roger A. Sheldon · Green Chemistry | 2005 | 1,706 |
| 23 | Electrochemical Properties of Polyoxometalates as Electrocatalysts Masahiro Sadakane, Eberhard Steckhan · Chemical Reviews | Feb 1998 | 1,699 |
| 24 | Transition-Metal-Catalyzed C−S, C−Se, and C−Te Bond Formation via Cross-Coupling and Atom-Economic Addition Reactions I. P. Beletskaya, Valentine P. Ananikov · Chemical Reviews | 9 Mar 2011 | 1,679 |
| 25 | Asymmetric Multicomponent Reactions (AMCRs): The New Frontier Diego J. Ramón, Miguel Yus · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 18 Feb 2005 | 1,668 |
| 26 | 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) as a building block platform: Biological properties, synthesis and synthetic applications Andreia A. Rosatella, Svilen P. Simeonov, Raquel F. M. Frade et al. · Green Chemistry | 2011 | 1,647 |
| 27 | Catalytic Chemistry of Heteropoly Compounds Toshio Okuhara, Noritaka Mizuno, Makoto Misono · Advances in catalysis | 1996 | 1,644 |
| 28 | Stereoselective Organic Reactions in Water Ulf M. Lindström · Chemical Reviews | 19 Jun 2002 | 1,643 |
| 29 | Ionic liquids in catalysis Tom Welton · Coordination Chemistry Reviews | 6 Jul 2004 | 1,606 |
| 30 | A greatly improved procedure for ruthenium tetroxide catalyzed oxidations of organic compounds Per H. J. Carlsen, Tsutomu Katsuki, Victor S. Martı́n et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry | Sep 1981 | 1,593 |
| 31 | Applications of Acceptorless Dehydrogenation and Related Transformations in Chemical Synthesis Chidambaram Gunanathan, David Milstein · Science | 18 Jul 2013 | 1,550 |
| 32 | Reductive Amination of Aldehydes and Ketones with Sodium Triacetoxyborohydride. Studies on Direct and Indirect Reductive Amination Procedures 1 Ahmed F. Abdel‐Magid, Kenneth G. Carson, Bruce D. Harris et al. · The Journal of Organic Chemistry | 1996 | 1,504 |
| 33 | Metal–Organic Frameworks for Heterogeneous Basic Catalysis Zhu Li, Xiao‐Qin Liu, Hai‐Long Jiang et al. · Chemical Reviews | 25 May 2017 | 1,483 |
| 34 | Microwave assisted organic reactions Stephen Caddick · Tetrahedron | Sep 1995 | 1,434 |
| 35 | Metal-Catalyzed Carbon−Sulfur Bond Formation Teruyuki Kondo, Take‐aki Mitsudo · Chemical Reviews | 11 Jul 2000 | 1,425 |
| 36 | Metal–organic frameworks: versatile heterogeneous catalysts for efficient catalytic organic transformations Adeel Hussain Chughtai, Nazir Ahmad, Hussein A. Younus et al. · Chemical Society Reviews | 2015 | 1,392 |
| 37 | Transesterification of vegetable oils: a review Ulf Friedrich Schuchardt, Ricardo Sercheli, Rogério Matheus Vargas · Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society | May 1998 | 1,333 |
| 38 | Multicomponent reactions: advanced tools for sustainable organic synthesis Răzvan C. Cioc, Eelco Ruijter, Romano V. A. Orrù · Green Chemistry | 2014 | 1,332 |
| 39 | Organic chemistry in water Chao‐Jun Li, Liang Chen · Chemical Society Reviews | 21 Nov 2005 | 1,329 |
| 40 | Organocatalysis—after the gold rush Søren Bertelsen, Karl Anker Jørgensen · Chemical Society Reviews | 2009 | 1,289 |
| 41 | Diphenylprolinol Silyl Ethers as Efficient Organocatalysts for the Asymmetric Michael Reaction of Aldehydes and Nitroalkenes Yujiro Hayashi, Hiroaki Gotoh, Takaaki Hayashi et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | Jun 2005 | 1,263 |
| 42 | Lewis Base Catalysis in Organic Synthesis Scott E. Denmark, Gregory L. Beutner · Angewandte Chemie International Edition | 31 Jan 2008 | 1,258 |
| 43 | Asymmetric Catalysis of Epoxide Ring-Opening Reactions Eric N. Jacobsen · Accounts of Chemical Research | 16 May 2000 | 1,256 |
| 44 | A Survey of Applications of Polyoxometalates Dimitris E. Katsoulis · Chemical Reviews | 17 Jan 1998 | 1,249 |
| 45 | Metal–Organic Framework-Based Catalysts with Single Metal Sites Yong‐Sheng Wei, Mei Zhang, Ruqiang Zou et al. · Chemical Reviews | May 2020 | 1,246 |
| 46 | Tetrapropylammonium Perruthenate, Pr4N+RuO4 -, TPAP: A Catalytic Oxidant for Organic Synthesis Steven V. Ley, Joanne Norman, William P. Griffith et al. · Synthesis | 1994 | 1,237 |
| 47 | Oxidation of alcohols by “activated” dimethyl sulfoxide. a preparative, steric and mechanistic study Kanji Omura, Daniel Swern · Tetrahedron | 1978 | 1,227 |
| 48 | 4‐Dialkylaminopyridines as Highly Active Acylation Catalysts. [New synthetic method (25)] Gerhard Höfle, Wölfgang Steglich, Helmut Vorbrüggen · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English | Aug 1978 | 1,202 |
| 49 | Novel Brønsted Acidic Ionic Liquids and Their Use as Dual Solvent−Catalysts Amanda C. Cole, Jessica L. Jensen, Ioanna Ntai et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society | May 2002 | 1,199 |
| 50 | Recent Developments in the Synthesis and Utilization of Chiral Sulfoxides Inmaculada Fernández, Noureddine Khiar · Chemical Reviews | Aug 2003 | 1,185 |
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