Bill Morandi

8.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
150 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Bill Morandi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Bill Morandi has authored 150 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Organic Chemistry, 43 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 25 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Bill Morandi's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (76 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (42 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (41 papers). Bill Morandi is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (76 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (42 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (41 papers). Bill Morandi collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Bill Morandi's co-authors include Erick M. Carreira, Benjamin N. Bhawal, Peng Yu, Luca Legnani, Robert H. Grubbs, Zachary K. Wickens, Yong Ho Lee, Xianjie Fang, Tristan Delcaillau and Szabolcs Makai and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Bill Morandi

144 papers receiving 6.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Late-stage diversification of indole skeletons through nitrogen atom insertion
    2022 249 citations Julia C. Reisenbauer, Ori Green et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bill Morandi Switzerland 48 5.9k 1.5k 1.2k 718 274 150 6.5k
Chengjian Zhu China 51 7.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 1.3k 1.0× 612 0.9× 361 1.3× 160 7.9k
Daniele Leonori United Kingdom 47 7.9k 1.3× 924 0.6× 1.0k 0.8× 621 0.9× 277 1.0× 113 8.4k
Zhuangzhi Shi China 60 11.5k 2.0× 2.6k 1.7× 1.5k 1.2× 795 1.1× 381 1.4× 194 12.1k
Donald A. Watson United States 32 3.8k 0.6× 1.2k 0.8× 768 0.6× 584 0.8× 187 0.7× 61 4.4k
Marc Taillefer France 40 7.7k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 546 0.4× 852 1.2× 540 2.0× 133 8.3k
Mamoru Tobisu Japan 57 10.6k 1.8× 2.2k 1.4× 777 0.6× 614 0.9× 313 1.1× 191 11.1k
Xiaotian Qi China 45 5.5k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 487 0.4× 550 0.8× 295 1.1× 161 6.3k
Daniel J. Weix United States 48 8.3k 1.4× 1.9k 1.3× 810 0.7× 707 1.0× 407 1.5× 95 9.1k
Qiuling Song China 51 7.7k 1.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 992 1.4× 351 1.3× 289 8.4k
Feng Zhou China 41 6.0k 1.0× 1.6k 1.0× 694 0.6× 781 1.1× 175 0.6× 105 6.6k

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All Works

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Moon, Sooyeon, et al.. (2025). Efficient optimization and synthesis of diverse azaarenes via nitrogen atom insertion under continuous flow conditions. Chemical Communications. 61(87). 16993–16996.
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Morandi, Bill, et al.. (2025). Oxidative amination by nitrogen atom insertion into carbon-carbon double bonds. Science. 387(6738). 1108–1114. 12 indexed citations
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Green, Ori, et al.. (2025). Carbon-to-nitrogen atom swap enables direct access to benzimidazoles from drug-like indoles. Nature Chemistry. 17(11). 1750–1756. 2 indexed citations
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Finkelstein, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Streamlining the Synthesis of Pyridones through Oxidative Amination of Cyclopentenones. Angewandte Chemie. 136(38). 2 indexed citations
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Zhong, Hongyu, et al.. (2024). One‐Step Process for the Regiodivergent Double Hydrocyanation of 1,3‐Butadiene. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(12). e202422337–e202422337. 2 indexed citations
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Morandi, Bill, et al.. (2024). The Divergent Reactivity of Acid Chlorides Under Transition Metal Catalysis. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(67). e202401852–e202401852. 3 indexed citations
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Finkelstein, Patrick, et al.. (2024). Streamlining the Synthesis of Pyridones through Oxidative Amination of Cyclopentenones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(38). e202408230–e202408230. 17 indexed citations
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Zhong, Hongyu, et al.. (2023). Synthesis and Reversible H2 Activation by Coordinatively Unsaturated Rhodium NHC Complexes. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 106(4). 3 indexed citations
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Sirvinskaite, Giedre, et al.. (2023). Direct Synthesis of Unprotected Indolines Through Intramolecular sp3 C−H Amination Using Nitroarenes as Aryl Nitrene Precursors. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(54). e202301978–e202301978. 4 indexed citations
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Zhong, Hongyu, et al.. (2023). Skeletal metalation of lactams through a carbonyl-to-nickel-exchange logic. Nature Communications. 14(1). 35 indexed citations
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Morandi, Bill, et al.. (2023). Ni-catalyzed mild hydrogenolysis and oxidations of C–O bonds via carbonate redox tags. Nature Communications. 14(1). 2604–2604. 5 indexed citations
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Yu, Rongrong, Can Li, Hongyu Zhong, et al.. (2023). Nickel-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrothiocarbonylation of Cyclopropenes. Organic Letters. 25(48). 8683–8687. 11 indexed citations
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Chatterjee, Sayanti, Giovanni Bistoni, Rebeca G. Castillo, et al.. (2022). A Combined Spectroscopic and Computational Study on the Mechanism of Iron-Catalyzed Aminofunctionalization of Olefins Using Hydroxylamine Derived N–O Reagent as the “Amino” Source and “Oxidant”. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(6). 2637–2656. 52 indexed citations
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Zhong, Hongyu & Bill Morandi. (2022). Carbon–carbon bond formation in reverse. Nature Synthesis. 1(4). 264–266. 1 indexed citations
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Dong, Xichang, Martin Klein, Siegfried R. Waldvogel, & Bill Morandi. (2022). Controlling Selectivity in Shuttle Hetero‐difunctionalization Reactions: Electrochemical Transfer Halo‐thiolation of Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(2). e202213630–e202213630. 16 indexed citations
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Rivero‐Crespo, Miguel A., et al.. (2021). Preparation of Recyclable and Versatile Porous Poly(aryl thioether)s by Reversible Pd-Catalyzed C–S/C–S Metathesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(50). 21331–21339. 27 indexed citations
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Huang, Lin, et al.. (2021). Ruthenium‐Catalyzed Dehydrogenation Through an Intermolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanism. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(13). 7290–7296. 45 indexed citations
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Huang, Lin, et al.. (2021). Ruthenium‐Catalyzed Dehydrogenation Through an Intermolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mechanism. Angewandte Chemie. 133(13). 7366–7372. 5 indexed citations
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Morandi, Bill, et al.. (2020). Metal-Catalyzed Carbon–Carbon Bond Cleavage of Unstrained Alcohols. Chemical Reviews. 121(1). 300–326. 162 indexed citations
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Lee, Yong Ho & Bill Morandi. (2018). In situ acyl triflates ace it. Nature Chemistry. 10(2). 116–117. 7 indexed citations

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