Barry M. Trost

101.4k total citations · 20 hit papers
1.1k papers, 83.7k citations indexed

About

Barry M. Trost is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Barry M. Trost has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 83.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 1.0k papers in Organic Chemistry, 249 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 149 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Barry M. Trost's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (417 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (349 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (241 papers). Barry M. Trost is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (417 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (349 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (241 papers). Barry M. Trost collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Switzerland. Barry M. Trost's co-authors include David L. Van Vranken, Matthew L. Crawley, F. Dean Toste, Zachary T. Ball, Megan K. Brennan, Chao‐Jun Li, Chunhui Jiang, Jiayi Xu, Anthony B. Pinkerton and Michael T. Rudd and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Barry M. Trost

1.1k papers receiving 81.1k citations

Hit Papers

Asymmetric Transition Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alk... 1973 2026 1990 2008 1996 2003 1995 2002 2009 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Asymmetric Transition Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylations
    1996 2.9k citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  2. Asymmetric Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylations:  Applications in Total Synthesis
    2003 2.5k citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  3. Atom Economy—A Challenge for Organic Synthesis: Homogeneous Catalysis Leads the Way
    1995 2.3k citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  4. On Inventing Reactions for Atom Economy
    2002 1.2k citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  5. Asymmetric Syntheses of Oxindole and Indole Spirocyclic Alkaloid Natural Products
    2009 1.0k citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  6. Catalytic Enantioselective Construction of All-Carbon Quaternary Stereocenters
    2006 940 citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  7. Green chemistry for chemical synthesis
    2008 765 citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  8. Non-Metathesis Ruthenium-Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation
    2001 721 citations Barry M. Trost, Anthony B. Pinkerton et al. profile →
  9. The direct catalytic asymmetric aldol reaction
    2010 635 citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  10. Atomökonomische Synthesen – eine Herausforderung in der Organischen Chemie: die Homogenkatalyse als wegweisende Methode
    1995 602 citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  11. On the use of the O-methylmandelate ester for establishment of absolute configuration of secondary alcohols
    1986 536 citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  12. New rules of selectivity: allylic alkylations catalyzed by palladium
    1980 533 citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  13. Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective C-3 Allylation of 3-Substituted-1H-Indoles Using Trialkylboranes
    2006 488 citations Barry M. Trost et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  14. A modular approach for ligand design for asymmetric allylic alkylations via enantioselective palladium-catalyzed ionizations
    1992 457 citations Barry M. Trost et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. Palladium-catalyzed cycloisomerizations of enynes and related reactions
    1990 441 citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  16. New synthetic reactions. Sulfenylations and dehydrosulfenylations of esters and ketones
    1976 415 citations Barry M. Trost et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  17. [3+2] Cycloaddition Approaches to Five‐Membered Rings via Trimethylenemethane and Its Equivalents [New Synthetic Methods (55)]
    1986 388 citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  18. Chemoselective oxidation of sulfides to sulfones with potassium hydrogen persulfate
    1981 374 citations Barry M. Trost et al. profile →
  19. .alpha.-Sulfenylated carbonyl compounds in organic synthesis
    1978 348 citations Barry M. Trost profile →
  20. New synthetic reactions. Allylic alkylation
    1973 320 citations Barry M. Trost et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Barry M. Trost
Comparison fields: 5 of 166
  • Organic Chemistry 77.7k
  • Inorganic Chemistry 21.0k
  • Molecular Biology 13.6k
  • Pharmacology 3.4k
  • Pharmaceutical Science 3.1k
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Stephen L. Buchwald United States
Steven V. Ley United Kingdom
Alois Fürstner Germany
Dieter Seebàch Switzerland
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
1
ProPhenol Derived Ligands to Simultaneously Coordinate a Main‐Group Metal and a Transition Metal: Application to a Zn−Cu Catalyzed Reaction
2021 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Guoting Zhang, Minghao Xu, Xiaotian Qi
16
2
Total Synthesis of Kadcoccinic Acid A Trimethyl Ester
2021 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Barry M. Trost, Guoting Zhang, Hadi Gholami, Daniel Zell
13
3
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation of Isatins
2020 ·Organic Letters ·Barry M. Trost, Christopher A. Kalnmals, (unknown), Michael C. Ryan, Rebecca W. Smaha, Sean Parkin
18
4
Synthesis of Chiral, Densely Substituted Pyrrolidones via Phosphine-Catalyzed Cycloisomerization
2019 ·Organic Letters ·Barry M. Trost, Elumalai Gnanamani, Chao‐I Hung, Christopher A. Kalnmals
21
5
Direct Enantio- and Diastereoselective Vinylogous Addition of Butenolides to Chromones Catalyzed by Zn-ProPhenol
2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Barry M. Trost, Elumalai Gnanamani, Christopher A. Kalnmals, Chao‐I Hung, Jacob S. Tracy
84
6
Desymmetrization of Phosphinic Acids via Pd-Catalyzed Asymmetric Allylic Alkylation: Rapid Access to P-Chiral Phosphinates
2019 ·Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Barry M. Trost, (unknown), (unknown), Christopher A. Kalnmals
66
7
Sulfones as Chemical Chameleons: Versatile Synthetic Equivalents of Small‐Molecule Synthons
2019 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Christopher A. Kalnmals
152
8
Annulative Allylic Alkylation Reactions between Dual Electrophiles and Dual Nucleophiles: Applications in Complex Molecule Synthesis
2019 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Christopher A. Kalnmals
38
9
Sulfones as Synthetic Linchpins: Transition‐Metal‐Free sp3–sp2 and sp2–sp2 Cross‐Couplings Between Geminal Bis(sulfones) and Organolithium Compounds
2018 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Christopher A. Kalnmals
9
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Highly Chemoselective Deprotection of the 2,2,2-Trichloroethoxycarbonyl (Troc) Protecting Group
2018 ·Organic Letters ·Barry M. Trost, Christopher A. Kalnmals, Jacob S. Tracy, Wen‐Ju Bai
8
11
Catalytic palladium-oxyallyl cycloaddition
2018 ·Science ·Barry M. Trost, Zhongxing Huang, (unknown)
56
12
Palladium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Benzylation of Azlactones
2013 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Lara C. Czabaniuk
43
13
A Synthesis of Trisubstituted Alkenes by a Ru-Catalyzed Addition
2002 ·Chemistry - A European Journal ·Barry M. Trost, Hong C. Shen, Anthony B. Pinkerton
33
14
Crafting chiral space. The synthesis of C2-symmetric diphosphine ligands for an outer-sphere catalytic reaction
1997 ·Barry M. Trost, Christoph Marschner
0
15
Stereocontrolled organic synthesis
1994 ·Barry M. Trost
55
16
An asymmetric approach to 2-deoxynucleosides via organosulfur building blocks as chemical chameleons
1990 ·Carbohydrate Research ·Barry M. Trost, (unknown)
20
17
Transition metal templates as guides for cyclizations
1988 ·Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences ·Barry M. Trost
3
18
Selectivity, a goal for synthetic efficiency : proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop Conference Hoechst, Schloss Reisensburg, 18-22 September, 1983
1984 ·Wilhelm Bartmann, Barry M. Trost
4
19
Organic synthesis, today and tomorrow : proceedings of the 3rd IUPAC Symposium on Organic Synthesis, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, 15-20 June 1980
1981 ·Pergamon Press eBooks ·Barry M. Trost, C. Richard Hutchinson
2
20
Problems in spectroscopy : organic structure determination by NMR, IR, UV, and mass spectra
1967 ·Barry M. Trost
2

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