Carsten Bolm

54.1k total citations · 8 hit papers
689 papers, 45.9k citations indexed

About

Carsten Bolm is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Bolm has authored 689 papers receiving a total of 45.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 593 papers in Organic Chemistry, 161 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 144 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Carsten Bolm's work include Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (274 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (252 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (150 papers). Carsten Bolm is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (274 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (252 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (150 papers). Carsten Bolm collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Finland. Carsten Bolm's co-authors include Arkaitz Correa, Julien Legros, José G. Hernández, Lorenzo Zani, Matthias Beller, Olga Garcı́a Mancheño, Jacques Le Paih, Marcus Frings, Gerhard Raabe and Jens P. Hildebrand and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Bolm

678 papers receiving 45.2k 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.

Mechanochemistry: opportunities for new and cleaner synthesis

2011 2.5k citations Stuart L. James, Carsten Bolm et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Iron-Catalyzed Reactions in Organic Synthesis

2004 1.9k citations Carsten Bolm et al. profile →
Transition Metals for Organic Synthesis

1998 1.2k citations Carsten Bolm et al. profile →
Iron-catalysed carbon–heteroatom and heteroatom–heteroatom bond forming processes

2008 929 citations Arkaitz Correa, Carsten Bolm et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
Altering Product Selectivity by Mechanochemistry

2017 586 citations José G. Hernández, Carsten Bolm The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
Ligand‐Accelerated Catalysis

1995 516 citations Carsten Bolm et al. profile →
Iron‐Catalyzed S‐Arylation of Thiols with Aryl Iodides

2008 501 citations Arkaitz Correa, Carsten Bolm et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Sulfoximines from a Medicinal Chemist's Perspective: Physicochemical and in vitro Parameters Relevant for Drug Discovery

2016 397 citations Carsten Bolm et al. profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Carsten Bolm	38.4k	11.3k	6.7k	4.5k	3.1k	689	45.9k
F. Dean Toste	40.7k 1.1×	13.1k 1.2×	4.7k 0.7×	5.1k 1.1×	3.7k 1.2×	400	48.4k
Eric N. Jacobsen	42.3k 1.1×	17.5k 1.5×	10.5k 1.6×	5.7k 1.3×	2.2k 0.7×	328	50.4k
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin	32.5k 0.8×	15.7k 1.4×	5.5k 0.8×	11.9k 2.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.5k	48.4k
Robert G. Bergman	45.1k 1.2×	20.7k 1.8×	4.0k 0.6×	6.1k 1.3×	1.6k 0.5×	689	52.4k
Shu̅ Kobayashi	38.5k 1.0×	12.3k 1.1×	10.0k 1.5×	5.5k 1.2×	4.4k 1.4×	880	44.7k
John F. Hartwig	72.5k 1.9×	25.7k 2.3×	8.3k 1.2×	4.3k 1.0×	2.3k 0.7×	602	80.8k
Alan J. Lough	18.1k 0.5×	13.6k 1.2×	2.3k 0.3×	5.7k 1.3×	2.3k 0.8×	810	27.1k
Herbert C. Brown	28.8k 0.7×	7.7k 0.7×	7.3k 1.1×	4.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.4×	1.1k	37.4k
Barry M. Trost	77.7k 2.0×	21.0k 1.9×	13.6k 2.0×	2.1k 0.5×	1.5k 0.5×	1.1k	83.7k
I. P. Beletskaya	23.6k 0.6×	5.6k 0.5×	2.8k 0.4×	3.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.4×	973	27.3k

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Nicolas, M., et al.. (2025). Enzymatic Asymmetric Synthesis of All Stereoisomers of Aliphatic, Vicinal Diols in Conventional and Non‐Conventional Media. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 367(8).

Silva, Igor d’Anciães Almeida, et al.. (2025). The influence of fluorine spin-diffusion on ¹³C solid-state NMR line shapes of CF₃ groups. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 27(12). 5995–6004.

Mulks, Florian F., et al.. (2025). π‐Electron Donation at the Sulfoximidoyl Nitrogen Atom. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202510744–e202510744. 1 indexed citations

Wu, Peng, Shulei Pan, Béatrice Tuccio, et al.. (2024). Cyclic Sulfoximines as Methyl and Perdeuteromethyl Transfer Agents and Their Applications in Photoredox Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(51). e202412418–e202412418. 3 indexed citations

Buschmann, Helmut, et al.. (2024). Prediction of Degradation Profiles for Various Sartans under Solvent-Free Mechanochemical Conditions. Analytical Chemistry. 96(32). 13166–13173. 1 indexed citations

Maier, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Sulfur-Based Building Blocks in BN- and BO-Doped Inorganic–Organic Hybrid Polymers. Macromolecules. 57(13). 6370–6378. 7 indexed citations

Silva, Igor d’Anciães Almeida, et al.. (2023). Opportunities and Challenges in Applying Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy in Organic Mechanochemistry. Advanced Materials. 35(52). e2304092–e2304092. 18 indexed citations

Wu, Peng, Jas S. Ward, Kari Rissanen, & Carsten Bolm. (2023). Cyclic Sulfoximine and Sulfonimidamide Derivatives by Copper‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions with Elemental Sulfur. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 365(4). 522–526. 11 indexed citations

Bolm, Carsten, et al.. (2023). Diversification of NH‐Aryl Sulfoximines through Iridium‐Catalyzed ortho‐ and meta‐Selective C−H Borylation. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 366(4). 725–732. 4 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian, Khai‐Nghi Truong, Jas S. Ward, et al.. (2023). Halogen bonding and mechanochemistry combined: synthesis, characterization, and application of N -iodosaccharin pyridine complexes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(3). 781–795. 6 indexed citations

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Demaerel, Joachim, et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Sulfonyl, Sulfonimidoyl, and Sulfoxyl Fluorides under Solvent-Free Mechanochemical Conditions in a Mixer Mill by Imidazole-to-Fluorine Exchange. ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering. 11(18). 6838–6843. 15 indexed citations

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Ward, Jas S., et al.. (2023). Synthesis of N‐Monosubstituted Sulfondiimines by Metal‐free Iminations of Sulfilimium Salts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(29). e202305703–e202305703. 18 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian, Igor d’Anciães Almeida Silva, Rıza Dervişoğlu, et al.. (2022). Disentangling the Effect of Pressure and Mixing on a Mechanochemical Bromination Reaction by Solid‐State NMR Spectroscopy**. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(12). e202203466–e202203466. 23 indexed citations

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Demaerel, Joachim, et al.. (2022). Acid-Mediated Imidazole-to-Fluorine Exchange for the Synthesis of Sulfonyl and Sulfonimidoyl Fluorides. Organic Letters. 24(48). 8802–8805. 15 indexed citations

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Bolm, Carsten, et al.. (2022). Sulfondiimines: synthesis, derivatisation and application. Chemical Society Reviews. 51(12). 4890–4901. 40 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian, et al.. (2021). Mechanochemical Syntheses of N-Containing Heterocycles with TosMIC. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(20). 14213–14222. 22 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian, et al.. (2020). N-(2,3,5,6-Tetrafluoropyridyl)sulfoximines: synthesis, X-ray crystallography, and halogen bonding. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 7(23). 3896–3906. 12 indexed citations

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Bolm, Carsten, et al.. (2019). Conversion and degradation pathways of sulfoximines. Chemical Society Reviews. 48(21). 5408–5423. 110 indexed citations

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Schumacher, Christian, Deborah E. Crawford, Robert Glaum, et al.. (2018). Mechanochemical dehydrocoupling of dimethylamine borane and hydrogenation reactions using Wilkinson's catalyst. Chemical Communications. 54(60). 8355–8358. 32 indexed citations

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Correa, Arkaitz & Carsten Bolm. (2007). Iron‐Catalyzed N‐Arylation of Nitrogen Nucleophiles. Angewandte Chemie. 119(46). 9018–9021. 86 indexed citations

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