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Organic and Inorganic Chemical Reactions

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Yannick Kraemer
University of California, Davis
2
Long Chen
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
3
Pengwei Xu
University of Münster
4
Shanqing Tao
Tianjin University
5
Howard M. Lazarus
Athira Pharma (United States)
6
Tao He
China Pharmaceutical University
7
Zhongzhen Yang
Sichuan University
8
Clément Ghiazza
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
9
Johanna Schlögl
Freie Universität Berlin
10
Maxime Artault
University of Jyväskylä

Rising Stars Papers

1
Dearomatization of Pyridines: Photochemical Skeletal Enlargement for the Synthesis of 1,2-Diazepines
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2024
100 cit.
2
Skeletal Editing through Cycloaddition and Subsequent Cycloreversion Reactions
Accounts of Chemical Research|2025
61 cit.
3
Overcoming a Radical Polarity Mismatch in Strain‐Release Pentafluorosulfanylation of [1.1.0]Bicyclobutanes: An Entryway to Sulfone‐ and Carbonyl‐Containing SF<sub>5</sub>‐Cyclobutanes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2024
52 cit.
4
Introduction of the difluoromethyl group at the meta- or para-position of pyridines through regioselectivity switch
Nature Communications|2024
46 cit.
5
Direct <i>N</i> –SF <sub>5</sub> and <i>N</i> –SF <sub>4</sub> CF <sub>3</sub> Bond Formation through Strain-Release Functionalization of 3-Substituted [1.1.0]Azabicyclobutanes
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2025
24 cit.
6
Strain-release trifluoromethoxylation and pentafluorosulfanoxylation of [1.1.0]bicyclobutanes: expanded access to fluorinated cyclobutane hybrid bioisosteres
Chemical Communications|2024
18 cit.
7
Synthesis of Chiral Polycyclic Indoles via Pd(II)-Catalyzed Sequential Cyclization and Carbonylation
ACS Catalysis|2024
17 cit.
8
Azoniafluorenones: A New Family of Two‐Electron Storage Electrolytes for Sustainable Near‐Neutral pH Aqueous Organic Flow Battery
Advanced Energy Materials|2024
17 cit.
9
Improving the Photochemical Skeletal Enlargement of Pyridines to 1,2‐Diazepines with Isocyanates
Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis|2024
9 cit.
10
Halogenated Trityl Cations as Easy‐to‐Access Super Electrophiles
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2025
9 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Shuichi Sawada
Asahi Kasei (Germany)
2
Eytan Gershonov
Israel Institute for Biological Research
3
Sigal Saphier
Israel Institute for Biological Research
4
David M. H. Ascough
Mansfield University
5
Francesco Ibba
University of Oxford
6
Suniti Malakar
Visva-Bharati University
7
Serhii Zhersh
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
8
Jingwen Yuan
Tianjin Chengjian University
9
Mangfei Yu
Chinese Academy of Sciences
10
Xiao‐Song Xue
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Nitrite reductases of lactic acid bacteria: Regulation of enzyme synthesis and activity, and different applications
Food Bioscience|2024
31 cit.
2
Catalyst-Substrate Helical Character Matching Determines the Enantioselectivity in the Ishihara-Type Iodoarenes Catalyzed Asymmetric Kita-Dearomative Spirolactonization
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2023
25 cit.
3
Placing CF<sub>2</sub> in the Center: Major Physicochemical Changes Upon a Minor Structural Alteration in Gem‐Difunctional Compounds
Chemistry - A European Journal|2022
24 cit.
4
CF <sub>2</sub> H: a fascinating group for application in drug development enabling modulation of many molecular properties
Future Medicinal Chemistry|2024
17 cit.
5
Prediction of 19F NMR chemical shift by machine learning
Artificial Intelligence Chemistry|2024
16 cit.
6
A Machine Learning Model for Predicting Enantioselectivity in Hypervalent Iodine(III) Catalyzed Asymmetric Phenolic Dearomatizations
CCS Chemistry|2024
13 cit.
7
Computational analysis of modular diazotransfer reactions for the development of predictive reactivity models and diazotransfer reagents
Nature Synthesis|2024
13 cit.
8
The Ecological Design of Marine Urban Green Space Plant Landscaping Based on the Concept of Sustainability
Plants|2024
10 cit.
9
Identification of Critical Links in Urban Road Network Based on GIS
Sustainability|2023
9 cit.
10
Unraveling Alcohol Additive Effects on Hypervalent Iodine(III)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Phenolic Dearomatization: Ligand Substitution and Low-Barrier Hydrogen Bonds
ACS Catalysis|2024
8 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Herbert Mayr
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
2
Douglas A. Klumpp
Virginia Commonwealth University
3
Hiroaki Takayama
Kanazawa University
4
Mitsuru Shoji
Yokohama University of Pharmacy
5
G. K. Surya Prakash
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
6
David Whittaker
AstraZeneca (United Kingdom)
7
Yasuyuki Kita
Ritsumeikan University
8
Per Ahlberg
Uppsala University
9
Georges Wipff
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
10
Paul R. Hanson
University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Chemical Recycling of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol and Dimethyl Ether: From Greenhouse Gas to Renewable, Environmentally Carbon Neutral Fuels and Synthetic Hydrocarbons
The Journal of Organic Chemistry|2008
1.6k cit.
2
Diphenylprolinol Silyl Ethers as Efficient Organocatalysts for the Asymmetric Michael Reaction of Aldehydes and Nitroalkenes
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2005
1.3k cit.
3
Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy
ECS Meeting Abstracts|2011
1k cit.
4
π-Nucleophilicity in Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions
Accounts of Chemical Research|2002
1k cit.
5
Stereochemistry of reaction paths at carbonyl centres
Tetrahedron|1974
756 cit.
6
Hypervalent iodine reagents as a new entrance to organocatalysts
Chemical Communications|2009
741 cit.
7
Scales of Nucleophilicity and Electrophilicity: A System for Ordering Polar Organic and Organometallic Reactions
Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|1994
734 cit.
8
Reference Scales for the Characterization of Cationic Electrophiles and Neutral Nucleophiles<sup>,</sup>
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2001
688 cit.
9
Conversion of CO<sub>2</sub> from Air into Methanol Using a Polyamine and a Homogeneous Ruthenium Catalyst
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2015
570 cit.
10
Synthetic methods and reactions. 141. Fluoride-induced trifluoromethylation of carbonyl compounds with trifluoromethyltrimethylsilane (TMS-CF3). A trifluoromethide equivalent
Journal of the American Chemical Society|1989
529 cit.

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