Arjan W. Kleij

19.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
263 papers, 16.4k citations indexed

About

Arjan W. Kleij is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Arjan W. Kleij has authored 263 papers receiving a total of 16.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 159 papers in Organic Chemistry, 142 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology and 97 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Arjan W. Kleij's work include Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (142 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (76 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (49 papers). Arjan W. Kleij is often cited by papers focused on Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis (142 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (76 papers) and CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (49 papers). Arjan W. Kleij collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Netherlands and China. Arjan W. Kleij's co-authors include Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán, Giulia Fiorani, Christopher J. Whiteoak, Wusheng Guo, Eddy Martín, Carmen Martín, A. Decortes, Jordi Benet‐Buchholz, Sander J. Wezenberg and Ana M. Castilla and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Arjan W. Kleij

256 papers receiving 16.3k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Recent Advances in the Catalytic Preparation of Cyclic Organic Carbonates

2015 917 citations Carmen Martín, Arjan W. Kleij et al. profile →
Salen‐Complex‐Mediated Formation of Cyclic Carbonates by Cycloaddition of CO₂ to Epoxides

2010 740 citations Arjan W. Kleij et al. profile →
Sustainable conversion of carbon dioxide: the advent of organocatalysis

2014 582 citations Wusheng Guo, Arjan W. Kleij et al. profile →
Advances in the use of CO₂as a renewable feedstock for the synthesis of polymers

2019 574 citations Arjan W. Kleij et al. profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Arjan W. Kleij Spain	70	9.9k	7.6k	5.8k	4.6k	3.1k	263	16.4k
Kyoko Nozaki Japan	82	7.1k 0.7×	17.9k 2.4×	7.6k 1.3×	1.9k 0.4×	2.4k 0.8×	409	22.2k
Liang‐Nian He China	69	10.4k 1.1×	5.0k 0.7×	5.2k 0.9×	6.1k 1.3×	1.2k 0.4×	301	14.8k
Zhaomin Hou Japan	81	5.9k 0.6×	17.6k 2.3×	8.3k 1.4×	1.8k 0.4×	1.6k 0.5×	362	21.2k
Fritz E. Kühn Germany	64	4.6k 0.5×	11.9k 1.6×	7.0k 1.2×	3.0k 0.7×	749 0.2×	478	19.4k
Toshiyasu Sakakura Japan	35	6.0k 0.6×	3.7k 0.5×	3.1k 0.5×	2.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.3×	118	8.7k
Jun Okuda Germany	69	6.0k 0.6×	14.3k 1.9×	7.1k 1.2×	692 0.2×	3.3k 1.1×	480	17.6k
Huanfeng Jiang China	85	2.8k 0.3×	27.5k 3.6×	6.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.3×	697 0.2×	851	32.3k
Ralf Jackstell Germany	70	7.7k 0.8×	10.2k 1.3×	8.0k 1.4×	3.6k 0.8×	352 0.1×	228	16.5k
Jun‐Chul Choi Japan	32	4.7k 0.5×	2.3k 0.3×	2.3k 0.4×	2.5k 0.5×	714 0.2×	133	7.4k
Shohei Inoue Japan	53	4.9k 0.5×	5.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.2×	1.4k 0.3×	4.3k 1.4×	276	9.9k

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Senthamarai, Thirusangumurugan, et al.. (2025). Synthesis and depolymerization studies of biohybrid polycarbonates derived from terpenes. Polymer Chemistry. 16(23). 2784–2790.

Zeng, Qian, Wangyu Shi, & Arjan W. Kleij. (2025). Highly Functional Allyl-Bicyclo[1.1.1]pentane Synthesis by Radical-Initiated Three-Component Stereoselective Allylation. JACS Au. 5(2). 913–921.

Benet‐Buchholz, Jordi, et al.. (2025). Catalytic transformation of carbon dioxide into seven-membered heterocycles and their domino transformation into bicyclic oxazolidinones. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1372–1372. 3 indexed citations

Senthamarai, Thirusangumurugan, et al.. (2025). Enabling a Diversity‐Oriented Catalytic Atom Looping of a Biobased Polycarbonate. ChemSusChem. 18(22). e202501905–e202501905.

Senthamarai, Thirusangumurugan, et al.. (2025). Access to Highly Functional and Polymerizable Carbonate‐Drug Conjugates. ChemSusChem. 18(11). e202500031–e202500031. 1 indexed citations

Long, Cheng, et al.. (2024). Chemo‐, Regio‐ and Stereoselective Preparation of (Z)‐2‐Butene‐1,4‐Diol Monoesters via Pd‐Catalyzed Decarboxylative Acyloxylation. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(39). e202401377–e202401377.

Ghorai, Debasish, et al.. (2024). Pd‐Catalyzed Allylic Substitution Using Nucleophilic Amines: Access to Functionalized Mono‐ and Bis‐N‐Allyl Synthons. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 366(22). 4709–4714.

Brandolese, Arianna, et al.. (2024). Access to Functionalized Polycarbonates Derived from Fatty Acid Esters via Catalytic ROCOP and Their Potential in Gel Formulations. Macromolecules. 57(8). 3816–3823. 8 indexed citations

Li, Xuetong, Jordi Benet‐Buchholz, Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán, & Arjan W. Kleij. (2023). Silver‐Mediated Cascade Synthesis of Functionalized 1,4‐Dihydro‐2H‐benzo‐1,3‐oxazin‐2‐ones from Carbon Dioxide. Angewandte Chemie. 135(11). 1 indexed citations

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Lanzi, Matteo, et al.. (2023). Ring-opening polymerization of functionalized aliphatic bicyclic carbonates. Polymer Chemistry. 14(41). 4748–4753. 7 indexed citations

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Lanzi, Matteo & Arjan W. Kleij. (2023). Recent Advances in the Synthesis and Polymerization of New CO₂‐Based Cyclic^†. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 42(4). 430–443. 12 indexed citations

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Rintjema, Jeroen, Fernando Bravo, Arjan W. Kleij, et al.. (2022). Novel Biobased Epoxy Thermosets and Coatings from Poly(limonene carbonate) Oxide and Synthetic Hardeners. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 10(8). 2708–2719. 36 indexed citations

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Valle, Luís J. del, Lourdes Franco, Ibraheem Yousef, et al.. (2021). Biobased Terpene Derivatives: Stiff and Biocompatible Compounds to Tune Biodegradability and Properties of Poly(butylene succinate). Polymers. 14(1). 161–161. 8 indexed citations

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Martín, Carmen, et al.. (2018). Bifunctional Aminotriphenolate Complexes as One‐Component Catalysts for the Ring‐Opening Copolymerization of Cyclic Anhydrides and Epoxides. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 2018(18). 1921–1927. 21 indexed citations

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Martínez‐Rodríguez, Luis, Nuno A. G. Bandeira, Carles Bó, & Arjan W. Kleij. (2015). Highly Efficient Chirality Transfer from Diamines Encapsulated within a Self‐Assembled Calixarene–Salen Host. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(19). 7144–7150. 16 indexed citations

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Rintjema, Jeroen, Wusheng Guo, Eddy Martín, Eduardo C. Escudero‐Adán, & Arjan W. Kleij. (2015). Highly Chemoselective Catalytic Coupling of Substituted Oxetanes and Carbon Dioxide. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(30). 10754–10762. 78 indexed citations

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Belmonte, Marta Martı́nez, et al.. (2013). A Recyclable Trinuclear Bifunctional Catalyst Derived from a Tetraoxo Bis‐Zn(salphen) Metalloligand. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(8). 2641–2648. 73 indexed citations

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Belmonte, Marta Martı́nez, Sander J. Wezenberg, Robert M. Haak, et al.. (2010). Self-assembly of Zn(salphen) complexes: Steric regulation, stability studies and crystallographic analysis revealing an unexpected dimeric 3,3′-t-Bu-substituted Zn(salphen) complex. Dalton Transactions. 39(19). 4541–4541. 69 indexed citations

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Elemans, Johannes A. A. W., Sander J. Wezenberg, Michiel J. J. Coenen, et al.. (2010). Axial ligand control over monolayer and bilayer formation of metal-salophens at the liquid–solid interface. Chemical Communications. 46(15). 2548–2548. 42 indexed citations

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Kuil, Mark, P. Elsbeth Goudriaan, Arjan W. Kleij, et al.. (2007). Rigid bis-zinc(ii) salphen building blocks for the formation of template-assisted bidentate ligands and their application in catalysis. Dalton Transactions. 2311–2311. 77 indexed citations

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