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Phosphorus compounds and reactions

Phosphorus compounds and reactions is a research topic within Organic Chemistry. Science Explorer counts 10k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the mechanism, applications, and variations of the Wittig reaction, focusing on topics such as stabilized ylides, olefination, phosphorus ylides, natural product synthesis, selective and stereoselective synthesis, multicomponent reactions, and the use of green chemistry methods.

  • Wittig reaction
  • stabilized ylides
  • olefination
  • phosphorus ylides
  • natural product synthesis
  • selective synthesis
  • water media
  • stereoselective synthesis
  • multicomponent reactions
  • green chemistry
Research works
10k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
999
per year above
Top-10% rate
9.9%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+12%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
25% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Phosphorus compounds and reactions

Which countries lead Phosphorus compounds and reactions research?

By volume, Russia and China publish the most (65 and 62 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 65 works
  2. 2 China 62 works
  3. 3 India 30 works
  4. 4 United States 27 works
  5. 5 Germany 19 works
  6. 6 Japan 15 works
  7. 7 Iran 12 works
  8. 8 France 10 works
  9. 9 Poland 9 works
  10. 10 United Kingdom 9 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.

Russia: 25.2%China: 24.2%India: 11.5%United States: 10.7%6 others listed: 28.4%25%largest
Russia65 · 25.2%China62 · 24.2%India30 · 11.5%United States27 · 10.7%6 others listed73 · 28.4%

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

Which institutions lead Phosphorus compounds and reactions research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Phosphorus compounds and reactions research, followed by Kazan Federal University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 32 works
  2. 2 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 7 works
  3. 3 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 6 works
  4. 4 National Academy of Sciences of UkraineUkraine 3 works
  5. 5 Polish Academy of SciencesPoland 3 works
  6. 6 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 3 works
  7. 7 South Ural State UniversityRussia 3 works
  8. 8 Budapest University of Technology and EconomicsHungary 3 works
  9. 9 University of RegensburgGermany 2 works
  10. 10 Jilin Agricultural Science and Technology UniversityChina 2 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phosphorus compounds and reactions?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phosphorus compounds and reactions include Ben Zhong Tang, George M. Sheldrick and Qiang Zhang.

  1. 1 Ben Zhong Tang China 261k citations
  2. 2 George M. Sheldrick Germany 220k citations
  3. 3 Qiang Zhang China 184k citations
  4. 4 Krzysztof Matyjaszewski United States 165k citations
  5. 5 Stuart L. Schreiber United States 136k citations
  6. 6 Martin James O'Donnell Ireland 130k citations
  7. 7 Kendall N. Houk United States 123k 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 Phosphorus compounds and reactions?

The most cited paper in Phosphorus compounds and reactions is "The conversion of procyanidins and prodelphinidins to cyanidin and delphinidin" (Lawrence J. Porter, Liana Hrstich, Bock G. Chan, 1985), with 2,154 citations. Next come "Methods of Reactivity Umpolung" (1,249) and "Phosphine Organocatalysis" (1,139).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The conversion of procyanidins and prodelphinidins to cyanidin and delphinidin Lawrence J. Porter, Liana Hrstich, Bock G. Chan · Phytochemistry Dec 1985 2,154
2 Methods of Reactivity Umpolung Dieter Seebàch · Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English Apr 1979 1,249
3 Phosphine Organocatalysis Hongchao Guo, Yi Fan, Zhanhu Sun et al. · Chemical Reviews ReviewOpen access 27 Sep 2018 1,139
4 Direct synthesis of Z-unsaturated esters. A useful modification of the horner-emmons olefination. W. Clark Still, Cesare Gennari · Tetrahedron Letters 1983 1,053
5 Über Triphenyl‐phosphin‐methylene als olefinbildende Reagenzien (I. Mitteil. Georg Wittig, Ulrich Schöllkopf · Chemische Berichte Sep 1954 1,036
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Where is Phosphorus compounds and reactions research done?

The largest centres of Phosphorus compounds and reactions research in 2022-now are Kazan’ (Russia), Moscow (Russia), Beijing (China) and Budapest (Hungary). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kazan’.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 Kazan’Russia 21 works
  2. 2 MoscowRussia 14 works
  3. 3 BeijingChina 7 works
  4. 4 BudapestHungary 5 works
  5. 5 UfaRussia 5 works
  6. 6 IrkutskRussia 5 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 5 works
  8. 8 TehranIran 4 works
  9. 9 ShanghaiChina 4 works
  10. 10 KyivUkraine 4 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. Kazan’RU · 20.5 works87×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phosphorus compounds and reactions than the world average.

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Is Phosphorus compounds and reactions research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 12% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2014. The fastest-growing topics are Phosphorus compounds and reactions.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Phosphorus compounds and reactions as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.00098% in 2024.

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Fractional works of Phosphorus compounds and 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.

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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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