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Most cited papers in Click Chemistry and Applications

What are the most cited papers in Click Chemistry and Applications?

The most cited paper in Click Chemistry and Applications is "Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions" (Hartmuth Christian Kolb, M. G. Finn, Karl Barry Sharpless, 2001), with 13,223 citations. Next come "A Stepwise Huisgen Cycloaddition Process: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective “Ligation” of Azides and Terminal Alkynes" (11,614) and "Automated docking using a Lamarckian genetic algorithm and an empirical binding free energy function" (10,945).

Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 1,290 citations is listed.

Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
#Paper
1 Click Chemistry: Diverse Chemical Function from a Few Good Reactions Hartmuth Christian Kolb, M. G. Finn, Karl Barry Sharpless · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Jun 2001 13,223
2 A Stepwise Huisgen Cycloaddition Process: Copper(I)-Catalyzed Regioselective “Ligation” of Azides and Terminal Alkynes Vsevolod V. Rostovtsev, Luke G. Green, Valery V. Fokin et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 15 Jul 2002 11,614
3 Automated docking using a Lamarckian genetic algorithm and an empirical binding free energy function Garrett M. Morris, David S. Goodsell, Robert S. Halliday et al. · Journal of Computational Chemistry 15 Nov 1998 10,945
4 Glide: A New Approach for Rapid, Accurate Docking and Scoring. 1. Method and Assessment of Docking Accuracy Richard A. Friesner, Jay L. Banks, Robert B. Murphy et al. · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 27 Feb 2004 10,177
5 Peptidotriazoles on Solid Phase: [1,2,3]-Triazoles by Regiospecific Copper(I)-Catalyzed 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Terminal Alkynes to Azides Christian Wenzel Tornøe, Caspar Elo Christensen, Morten Meldal · The Journal of Organic Chemistry 2 Apr 2002 8,627
6 In situ click chemistry generation of cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors Atul Bhardwaj, Jatinder Paul Kaur, Melinda Wuest et al. · Nature Communications Open access 9 Feb 2017 7,563
7 Fluorine in Pharmaceuticals: Looking Beyond Intuition Klaus Müller, Christoph Faeh, François Diederich · Science 27 Sep 2007 6,622
8 pkCSM: Predicting Small-Molecule Pharmacokinetic and Toxicity Properties Using Graph-Based Signatures Douglas E. V. Pires, Tom L. Blundell, David Benjamin Ascher · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Open access 10 Apr 2015 5,730
9 Improved monomeric red, orange and yellow fluorescent proteins derived from Discosoma sp. red fluorescent protein Nathan C. Shaner, Robert E. Campbell, Paul A. Steinbach et al. · Nature Biotechnology 21 Nov 2004 4,783
10 Cu-Catalyzed Azide−Alkyne Cycloaddition Morten Meldal, Christian Wenzel Tornøe · Chemical Reviews Review Aug 2008 4,612
11 Thiol–Ene Click Chemistry Charles E. Hoyle, Christopher N. Bowman · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 17 Feb 2010 4,186
12 Synthesis of Proteins by Native Chemical Ligation Philip E. Dawson, Tom W. Muir, Ian Clark‐Lewis et al. · Science 4 Nov 1994 4,169
13 The Use of Diethyl Azodicarboxylate and Triphenylphosphine in Synthesis and Transformation of Natural Products Oyo Mitsunobu · Synthesis 1981 4,109
14 Polyvalent Interactions in Biological Systems: Implications for Design and Use of Multivalent Ligands and Inhibitors Mathai Mammen, Seok Ki Choi, George M. Whitesides · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 2 Nov 1998 4,018
15 Platinum Compounds: a New Class of Potent Antitumour Agents Barnett Rosenberg, Loretta Vancamp, James Edward Trosko et al. · Nature Apr 1969 3,961
16 Applications of Fluorine in Medicinal Chemistry Eric P. Gillis, Kyle J. Eastman, Matthew Davenport Hill et al. · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Open access 22 Jul 2015 3,653
17 How many drug targets are there? John P. Overington, Bissan Al‐Lazikani, Andrew L. Hopkins · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Review Dec 2006 3,554
18 The dawning era of polymer therapeutics Ruth Duncan · Nature Reviews Drug Discovery Review May 2003 3,264
19 Bioorthogonal Chemistry: Fishing for Selectivity in a Sea of Functionality Ellen M. Sletten, Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi · Angewandte Chemie International Edition Open access 27 Aug 2009 3,183
20 The growing impact of click chemistry on drug discovery Hartmuth Christian Kolb, Karl Barry Sharpless · Drug Discovery Today Dec 2003 3,149
21 A Strain-Promoted [3 + 2] Azide−Alkyne Cycloaddition for Covalent Modification of Biomolecules in Living Systems Nicholas J. Agard, Jennifer A. Prescher, Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi · Journal of the American Chemical Society Nov 2004 3,025
22 The Combinatorial Synthesis of Bicyclic Privileged Structures or Privileged Substructures Douglas A. Horton, Gregory T. Bourne, Mark L. Smythe · Chemical Reviews Review 22 Feb 2003 3,010
23 Synopsis of Some Recent Tactical Application of Bioisosteres in Drug Design Nicholas A. Meanwell · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Open access 17 Mar 2011 2,856
24 A Fast Flexible Docking Method using an Incremental Construction Algorithm Matthias Rarey, BERND J. KRÄMER, Thomas Lengauer et al. · Journal of Molecular Biology Aug 1996 2,848
25 Next Generation of Fluorine-Containing Pharmaceuticals, Compounds Currently in Phase II–III Clinical Trials of Major Pharmaceutical Companies: New Structural Trends and Therapeutic Areas Yu Chang Zhou, Jiang Wang, Zhanni Gu et al. · Chemical Reviews Review 12 Jan 2016 2,807
26 The Medicinal Chemist’s Toolbox: An Analysis of Reactions Used in the Pursuit of Drug Candidates Stephen D. Roughley, Allan Michael Jordan · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 19 Apr 2011 2,771
27 FLUORESCENCE OF CATECHOL AMINES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS CONDENSED WITH FORMALDEHYDE BENGT FALCK, N.‐Å. Hillarp, Georg Thieme et al. · Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry May 1962 2,708
28 HaloTag: A Novel Protein Labeling Technology for Cell Imaging and Protein Analysis Georgyi V. Los, Lance P. Encell, Mark G. McDougall et al. · ACS Chemical Biology Jun 2008 2,688
29 Fluorine and Fluorinated Motifs in the Design and Application of Bioisosteres for Drug Design Nicholas A. Meanwell · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry Open access 5 Feb 2018 2,663
30 Fluorescamine: A Reagent for Assay of Amino Acids, Peptides, Proteins, and Primary Amines in the Picomole Range Sidney Udenfriend, Stanley J. Stein, Peter Böhlen et al. · Science 24 Nov 1972 2,660
31 Target-Oriented and Diversity-Oriented Organic Synthesis in Drug Discovery Stuart L. Schreiber · Science 17 Mar 2000 2,579
32 Molecular Docking and Structure-Based Drug Design Strategies Leonardo L. G. Ferreira, Ricardo Nascimento dos Santos, Glaucius Oliva et al. · Molecules Open access 22 Jul 2015 2,578
33 Chemistry and Biology Of Multicomponent Reactions Alexander S. S. Dömling, Wei Wang, Kan Wang · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 22 Mar 2012 2,557
34 Cell Sensitivity Assays: The MTT Assay Johan van Meerloo, Gertjan J.L. Kaspers, Jacqueline J Cloos · Methods in molecular biology Book chapterOpen access 2011 2,549
35 Rings in Drugs Richard D. Taylor, Malcolm MacCoss, Alastair D. G. Lawson · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 28 Jan 2014 2,540
36 Cell Surface Engineering by a Modified Staudinger Reaction Eliana Saxon, Carolyn Ruth Bertozzi · Science 17 Mar 2000 2,469
37 Molecular Docking: Shifting Paradigms in Drug Discovery Luca Pinzi, Giulio Rastelli · International Journal of Molecular Sciences Open access 4 Sep 2019 2,376
38 The growing applications of click chemistry John E. Moses, Adam D. Moorhouse · Chemical Society Reviews Review 2007 2,376
39 Efficient proximity labeling in living cells and organisms with TurboID Tess Caroline Branon, Justin A. Bosch, Ariana D. Sanchez et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 20 Aug 2018 2,338
40 Rules for ring closure Jack Edward Baldwin · Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications 1976 2,256
41 Computational Methods in Drug Discovery Gregory R. Sliwoski, Sandeepkumar Kothiwale, Jens Meiler et al. · Pharmacological Reviews Open access 31 Dec 2013 2,236
42 Organic Azides: An Exploding Diversity of a Unique Class of Compounds Stefan Bräse, Carmen Gil, Kerstin Knepper et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 15 Aug 2005 2,226
43 Copper-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) and beyond: new reactivity of copper(i) acetylides Jason E. Hein, Valery V. Fokin · Chemical Society Reviews ReviewOpen access 2010 2,195
44 Novel Procedure for Modeling Ligand/Receptor Induced Fit Effects Woody Sherman, Tyler Day, Matthew P. Jacobson et al. · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry 23 Dec 2005 2,083
45 A general method for the covalent labeling of fusion proteins with small molecules in vivo Antje Keppler, Susanne Gendreizig, Thomas Gronemeyer et al. · Nature Biotechnology Open access 9 Dec 2002 2,042
46 The Future of Peptide‐based Drugs David J. Craik, David P. Fairlie, Spiros Liras et al. · Chemical Biology & Drug Design 17 Dec 2012 2,015
47 Creating new fluorescent probes for cell biology Jin Zhang, Robert E. Campbell, Alice Y. Ting et al. · Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology Review Dec 2002 1,988
48 Subdiffraction‐Resolution Fluorescence Imaging with Conventional Fluorescent Probes Mike Heilemann, Sebastian van de Linde, Mark Schüttpelz et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition 22 Jul 2008 1,967
49 A chemical method for fast and sensitive detection of DNA synthesis in vivo Adrian N. Salic, Timothy John Mitchison · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 12 Feb 2008 1,914
50 Click Chemistry for Drug Development and Diverse Chemical–Biology Applications Thirumurugan Prakasam, Dariusz Matosiuk, Krzysztof Jóźwiak · Chemical Reviews Review 27 Mar 2013 1,898

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