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Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Richard J. Conk
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
2
Alexander J. Boddy
Roche (Switzerland)
3
Matteo Andrea Lucherelli
Parc Científic de la Universitat de València
4
Maximilian Baur
University of Konstanz
5
Ru Jiang
Chinese Academy of Sciences
6
Devavrat Sathe
University of Akron
7
Florian Cuminet
École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
8
Dimitri Berne
École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier
9
John D. Feist
Stanford University
10
Alejandra Arroyave
Argonne National Laboratory

Rising Stars Papers

1
Polyolefin waste to light olefins with ethylene and base-metal heterogeneous catalysts
Science|2024
128 cit.
2
How to Characterize Covalent Adaptable Networks: A User Guide
ACS Polymers Au|2025
24 cit.
3
Enantioselective Phase-Transfer-Catalyzed Synthesis of Spirocyclic Azetidine Oxindoles
Organic Letters|2024
17 cit.
4
Phosphorus acid: an asset for flame-retardant sustainable vitrimers
Polymer Chemistry|2024
10 cit.
5
Aqueous Keto-Polyethylene Dispersions from Catalytic Copolymerization of Ethylene and Carbon Monoxide in Water
ACS Macro Letters|2024
10 cit.
6
Premature Damage in Bearing Steel in Relation with Residual Stresses and Hydrogen Trapping
Lubricants|2024
3 cit.
7
Microbial cell factories for cycloalkene synthesis
Nature Synthesis|2024
2 cit.
8
How should reproducibility be approached in plastic recycling?
Chem Circularity|2026
0 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Shengyu Dai
Anhui Normal University
2
Zhongbao Jian
University of Science and Technology of China
3
Will R. Gutekunst
Georgia Institute of Technology
4
Damien Guironnet
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
5
Xinqiang Fang
Shantou University
6
Jin Song
Anhui University
7
Zhenghai Tang
South China University of Technology
8
Anna Kajetanowicz
University of Warsaw
9
Dawen Niu
Sichuan University
10
Justin G. Kennemur
Florida State University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Chemical Recycling of Polyethylene by Tandem Catalytic Conversion to Propylene
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2022
243 cit.
2
Halogen-bond-assisted radical activation of glycosyl donors enables mild and stereoconvergent 1,2-cis-glycosylation
Nature Chemistry|2022
152 cit.
3
Advances on Controlled Chain Walking and Suppression of Chain Transfer in Catalytic Olefin Polymerization
ACS Catalysis|2022
139 cit.
4
Direct synthesis of unprotected aryl C-glycosides by photoredox Ni-catalysed cross-coupling
Nature Synthesis|2023
123 cit.
5
Radical Pathway Glycosylation Empowered by Bench-Stable Glycosyl Donors
Accounts of Chemical Research|2023
115 cit.
6
Modulating Polymerization Thermodynamics of Thiolactones Through Substituent and Heteroatom Incorporation
ACS Macro Letters|2022
78 cit.
7
Alkyl/Glycosyl Sulfoxides as Radical Precursors and Their Use in the Synthesis of Pyridine Derivatives**
Angewandte Chemie International Edition|2022
73 cit.
8
Selective branch formation in ethylene polymerization to access precise ethylene-propylene copolymers
Nature Communications|2022
72 cit.
9
Palladium catalysis enables cross-coupling–like S <sub>N</sub> 2-glycosylation of phenols
Science|2023
68 cit.
10
Chemically Recyclable Polymer System Based on Nucleophilic Aromatic Ring-Opening Polymerization
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2023
62 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
Robert H. Grubbs
Stony Brook University
2
Steven P. Nolan
Ghent University
3
Amir H. Hoveyda
Boston College
4
Masakatsu Shibasaki
Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation
5
Erick M. Carreira
Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology
6
Eric N. Jacobsen
Harvard University Press
7
Maurice Brookhart
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
8
Karl Anker Jørgensen
Aarhus University
9
Richard R. Schrock
University of California System
10
F. Dean Toste
University of California System

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
The Development of L<sub>2</sub>X<sub>2</sub>RuCHR Olefin Metathesis Catalysts:  An Organometallic Success Story
Accounts of Chemical Research|2000
3.5k cit.
2
Synthesis and Activity of a New Generation of Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Coordinated with 1,3-Dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene Ligands
Organic Letters|1999
3.4k cit.
3
New Pd(II)- and Ni(II)-Based Catalysts for Polymerization of Ethylene and .alpha.-Olefins
Journal of the American Chemical Society|1995
2.7k cit.
4
Recent advances in olefin metathesis and its application in organic synthesis
Tetrahedron|1998
2.1k cit.
5
Efficient and Recyclable Monomeric and Dendritic Ru-Based Metathesis Catalysts
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2000
2k cit.
6
Enantioselective epoxidation of unfunctionalized olefins catalyzed by salen manganese complexes
Journal of the American Chemical Society|1990
1.6k cit.
7
A General Model for Selectivity in Olefin Cross Metathesis
Journal of the American Chemical Society|2003
1.5k cit.
8
Living ring-opening metathesis polymerization
Progress in Polymer Science|2006
1.5k cit.
9
A Series of Well‐Defined Metathesis Catalysts–Synthesis of [RuCl<sub>2</sub>(CHR′)(PR<sub>3</sub>)<sub>2</sub>] and Its Reactions
Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English|1995
1.5k cit.
10
Privileged Chiral Catalysts
Science|2003
1.4k cit.

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