David C. Leitch

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

David C. Leitch is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David C. Leitch has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Organic Chemistry, 28 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in David C. Leitch's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (28 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (20 papers). David C. Leitch is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (28 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (20 papers). David C. Leitch collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. David C. Leitch's co-authors include Laurel L. Schafer, Charles S. Yeung, Jennifer A. Kozak, Jason A. Bexrud, Philippa R. Payne, Joseph Becica, M. C. Wood, James D. Beard, Mary A. Wood and Christine R. Dunbar and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

David C. Leitch

67 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

Beyond Bioisosteres: Divergent Synthesis of Azabicyclohexanes and Cyclobutenyl Amines from Bicyclobutanes**

2022 194 citations Joseph Becica, David C. Leitch et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David C. Leitch Canada	25	2.1k	1.1k	282	217	178	70	2.4k
Chae S. Yi United States	34	2.8k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	250 0.9×	258 1.2×	132 0.7×	73	3.0k
Luis C. Misal Castro France	20	2.4k 1.2×	916 0.9×	411 1.5×	146 0.7×	125 0.7×	24	2.8k
Denis Chusov Russia	24	1.8k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	469 1.7×	276 1.3×	160 0.9×	92	2.2k
Fady Nahra Belgium	31	2.3k 1.1×	713 0.7×	197 0.7×	206 0.9×	192 1.1×	84	2.6k
Dmitry L. Usanov Russia	19	1.5k 0.7×	801 0.7×	572 2.0×	167 0.8×	142 0.8×	30	1.9k
Tuan Thanh Dang Germany	26	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 1.0×	696 2.5×	347 1.6×	261 1.5×	82	2.6k
Benudhar Punji India	28	2.3k 1.1×	1.1k 1.0×	105 0.4×	244 1.1×	118 0.7×	77	2.5k
Renhua Qiu China	31	2.4k 1.2×	652 0.6×	284 1.0×	206 0.9×	201 1.1×	132	2.9k
Christophe Crévisy France	27	1.8k 0.9×	818 0.8×	331 1.2×	98 0.5×	78 0.4×	72	1.9k
Jérôme Hannedouche France	25	2.4k 1.1×	1.6k 1.5×	371 1.3×	266 1.2×	83 0.5×	50	2.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Leitch, David C., et al.. (2025). Easily Accessible and Solution‐Stable Ni(0) Precatalysts for High‐Throughput Experimentation. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(12). e202403960–e202403960.

Miller, Douglas L., et al.. (2025). Base-free palladium-catalyzed borylation of enol carboxylates and further reactivity toward deboronation and cross-coupling. Tetrahedron. 182. 134682–134682. 1 indexed citations

Paci, Irina, et al.. (2024). Interrogating Explicit Solvent Effects on the Mechanism and Site‐Selectivity of Aryl Halide Oxidative Addition to L ₂ Pd(0). Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(62). e202402283–e202402283. 1 indexed citations

Paci, Irina, et al.. (2024). Quantitative Reactivity Models for Oxidative Addition to L ₂ Pd(0): Additional Substrate Classes, Solvents, and Mechanistic Insights. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(62). e202402282–e202402282. 5 indexed citations

Schley, Nathan D., et al.. (2024). Mechanisms and Site Selectivity of (Het)Ar–X Oxidative Addition to Pd(0) Are Controlled by Frontier Molecular Orbital Symmetry. Organometallics. 43(24). 3192–3203. 7 indexed citations

Leitch, David C., et al.. (2024). A “neat” synthesis of substituted 2-hydroxy-pyrido[1,2-a]pyrimidin-4-ones. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 102(4). 206–213.

Schley, Nathan D., et al.. (2023). Enolate addition to bicyclobutanes enables expedient access to 2-oxo-bicyclohexane scaffolds. Chemical Communications. 59(93). 13847–13850. 43 indexed citations

Paci, Irina, et al.. (2022). A broadly applicable quantitative relative reactivity model for nucleophilic aromatic substitution (S _N Ar) using simple descriptors. Chemical Science. 13(43). 12681–12695. 28 indexed citations

Gangadharan, Deepak Thrithamarassery, Vishal Yeddu, Dongyang Zhang, et al.. (2022). Inhibition of Amine–Water Proton Exchange Stabilizes Perovskite Ink for Scalable Solar Cell Fabrication. Chemistry of Materials. 34(10). 4394–4402. 14 indexed citations

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Kundu, Soumya, Deepak Thrithamarassery Gangadharan, V. M. Burlakov, et al.. (2021). High length-to-width aspect ratio lead bromide microwires via perovskite-induced local concentration gradient for X-ray detection. CrystEngComm. 23(11). 2215–2221. 3 indexed citations

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Becica, Joseph, et al.. (2021). ^DMP DAB–Pd–MAH: A Versatile Pd(0) Source for Precatalyst Formation, Reaction Screening, and Preparative-Scale Synthesis. ACS Catalysis. 11(9). 5636–5646. 30 indexed citations

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Leitch, David C., et al.. (2020). Playing with Fire? A Safe and Effective Deactivation of Raney Cobalt using Aqueous Sodium Nitrate. Organic Process Research & Development. 24(6). 1180–1184. 2 indexed citations

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Becica, Joseph, et al.. (2019). High-Throughput Discovery and Evaluation of a General Catalytic Method for N -Arylation of Weakly Nucleophilic Sulfonamides. Organic Letters. 21(22). 8981–8986. 25 indexed citations

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Arrington, Kenneth L., David C. Leitch, I.J. Andrews, et al.. (2019). A Flow Process Built upon a Batch Foundation—Preparation of a Key Amino Alcohol Intermediate via Multistage Continuous Synthesis. Organic Process Research & Development. 24(10). 1927–1937. 6 indexed citations

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Egbert, Jonathan D., Edwin C. Thomsen, Douglas M. Mans, et al.. (2019). Development and Scale-up of Continuous Electrocatalytic Hydrogenation of Functionalized Nitro Arenes, Nitriles, and Unsaturated Aldehydes. Organic Process Research & Development. 23(9). 1803–1812. 30 indexed citations

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Vantourout, Julien C., Ling Li, Sonia Chabbra, et al.. (2018). Mechanistic Insight Enables Practical, Scalable, Room Temperature Chan–Lam N-Arylation of N-Aryl Sulfonamides. ACS Catalysis. 8(10). 9560–9566. 62 indexed citations

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Leitch, David C.. (2011). Group 4 ureate complexes : synthesis, reactivity, and catalytic carbon-element bond formation. Open Collections. 1 indexed citations

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Wood, M. C., David C. Leitch, Charles S. Yeung, Jennifer A. Kozak, & Laurel L. Schafer. (2009). Chiral Neutral Zirconium Amidate Complexes for the Asymmetric Hydroamination of Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(38). 6937–6937. 7 indexed citations

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Wood, Mary A., David C. Leitch, Charles S. Yeung, Jennifer A. Kozak, & Laurel L. Schafer. (2006). Chiral Neutral Zirconium Amidate Complexes for the Asymmetric Hydroamination of Alkenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46(3). 354–358. 247 indexed citations

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Zhang, Zhe, et al.. (2006). An Easy‐To‐Use, Regioselective, and Robust Bis(amidate) Titanium Hydroamination Precatalyst: Mechanistic and Synthetic Investigations toward the Preparation of Tetrahydroisoquinolines and Benzoquinolizine Alkaloids. Chemistry - A European Journal. 13(7). 2012–2022. 97 indexed citations

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