David L. Van Vranken

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
85 papers, 6.2k citations indexed

About

David L. Van Vranken is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, David L. Van Vranken has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 6.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Organic Chemistry, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 9 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in David L. Van Vranken's work include Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (21 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (13 papers). David L. Van Vranken is often cited by papers focused on Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (21 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (16 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (13 papers). David L. Van Vranken collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Switzerland. David L. Van Vranken's co-authors include Barry M. Trost, Carsten Bingel, Kevin L. Greenman, David S. Carter, Eugene S. Gutman, Romas Kudirka, Vanessa Arredondo, John D. Chisholm, Shawn J. Stachel and Eric J. Gilbert and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

David L. Van Vranken

84 papers receiving 6.0k 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.

Asymmetric Transition Metal-Catalyzed Allylic Alkylations

1996 2.9k citations Barry M. Trost, David L. Van Vranken profile →
A modular approach for ligand design for asymmetric allylic alkylations via enantioselective palladium-catalyzed ionizations

1992 457 citations Barry M. Trost, David L. Van Vranken et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
David L. Van Vranken United States	31	5.4k	1.8k	1.3k	269	222	85	6.2k
Scott E. Schaus United States	41	5.1k 0.9×	1.3k 0.7×	1.8k 1.3×	246 0.9×	302 1.4×	102	6.4k
Peter O’Brien United Kingdom	41	5.2k 1.0×	1.3k 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	154 0.6×	137 0.6×	171	5.7k
Stephen P. Marsden United Kingdom	36	5.6k 1.0×	1.6k 0.9×	1.6k 1.2×	336 1.2×	364 1.6×	113	6.5k
Stefan F. Kirsch Germany	40	4.5k 0.8×	767 0.4×	726 0.5×	156 0.6×	202 0.9×	150	5.1k
Mitsuru Shoji Japan	38	6.3k 1.2×	1.4k 0.8×	2.1k 1.6×	237 0.9×	441 2.0×	149	7.4k
Jeffrey N. Johnston United States	40	4.0k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.6k 1.2×	97 0.4×	304 1.4×	122	4.8k
Edward J. J. Grabowski United States	43	4.8k 0.9×	1.4k 0.7×	2.0k 1.5×	259 1.0×	289 1.3×	121	6.0k
Elizabeth H. Krenske Australia	33	2.4k 0.4×	610 0.3×	704 0.5×	328 1.2×	258 1.2×	138	3.3k
Scott C. Virgil United States	37	3.5k 0.6×	837 0.5×	908 0.7×	153 0.6×	270 1.2×	88	4.2k
David J. Mathre United States	25	2.5k 0.5×	736 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	216 0.8×	230 1.0×	51	3.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Baldi, Pierre, et al.. (2023). RMechDB: A Public Database of Elementary Radical Reaction Steps. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 63(4). 1114–1123. 13 indexed citations

Carter, David S., et al.. (2023). Rhodium(II)-Catalyzed Hinsberg Dearomatization Using Trimethylsilyldiazomethane. Organic Letters. 25(45). 8083–8088.

Gutman, Eugene S., et al.. (2020). Methyl Anion Affinities of the Canonical Organic Functional Groups. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(6). 4096–4102. 23 indexed citations

Arredondo, Vanessa, et al.. (2019). Total Synthesis of (±)-Pestalachloride C and (±)-Pestalachloride D through a Biomimetic Knoevenagel/Hetero-Diels–Alder Cascade. Organic Letters. 21(6). 1755–1759. 16 indexed citations

Arredondo, Vanessa, et al.. (2017). Enantioselective Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbene Insertion into the N−H Bonds of Aromatic Heterocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(15). 4156–4159. 147 indexed citations

Fooshee, David, Eugene S. Gutman, Gregor Urban, et al.. (2017). Deep learning for chemical reaction prediction. Molecular Systems Design & Engineering. 3(3). 442–452. 148 indexed citations

Arredondo, Vanessa, et al.. (2017). Enantioselective Palladium‐Catalyzed Carbene Insertion into the N−H Bonds of Aromatic Heterocycles. Angewandte Chemie. 129(15). 4220–4223. 79 indexed citations

Vranken, David L. Van, et al.. (2013). Palladium-Catalyzed Catellani Aminocyclopropanation Reactions with Vinyl Halides. Organic Letters. 15(12). 3158–3161. 22 indexed citations

Greaves, John, et al.. (2008). Synthesis, Screening, and Sequencing of Cysteine-Rich One-Bead One-Compound Peptide Libraries. Journal of Combinatorial Chemistry. 10(5). 726–731. 4 indexed citations

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Zhang, Changsheng, Christoph Albermann, Xun Fu, et al.. (2006). RebG‐ and RebM‐Catalyzed Indolocarbazole Diversification. ChemBioChem. 7(5). 795–804. 60 indexed citations

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Vranken, David L. Van. (2004). Polychlorinated Biphenyls Inhibit Amyloid Fibril Formation. Chemistry & Biology. 11(12). 1604–1606. 1 indexed citations

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Facompré, Michaël, Carolina Carrasco, Hervé Vezin, et al.. (2003). Indolocarbazole Glycosides in Inactive Conformations. ChemBioChem. 4(5). 386–395. 9 indexed citations

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Facompré, Michaël, Carolina Carrasco, Pierre Colson, et al.. (2002). DNA Binding and Topoisomerase I Poisoning Activities of Novel Disaccharide Indolocarbazoles. Molecular Pharmacology. 62(5). 1215–1227. 29 indexed citations

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Vranken, David L. Van, et al.. (2002). Convergent Stereocontrol in Peterson Olefinations. Application to the Synthesis of (±)-3-Hydroxybakuchiol and Corylifolin. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 67(19). 6711–6717. 20 indexed citations

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Vranken, David L. Van, et al.. (2001). Intramolecular ditryptophan crosslinks enforce two types of antiparallel β structures. Chemistry & Biology. 8(11). 1071–1079. 8 indexed citations

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Vranken, David L. Van, et al.. (1999). Control of ditryptophan cross‐linking: dihydrotryptophan as a tryptophan precursor in peptide synthesis. Journal of Peptide Research. 53(4). 465–474. 8 indexed citations

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Vranken, David L. Van, et al.. (1998). The retro-mannich cleavage of δ1,δ1′-tryptophan dimers. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 6(7). 975–981. 2 indexed citations

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Stachel, Shawn J., Haitao Hu, Que N. Van, A.J. Shaka, & David L. Van Vranken. (1998). Stabilization of a C7 equatorial gamma turn in DMSO-d6 by a ditryptophan crosslink. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 6(9). 1439–1446. 10 indexed citations

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McComas, Casey C., Eric J. Gilbert, & David L. Van Vranken. (1997). Stereochemistry of 3-Alkylindole Dimerization: Acyclic δ₁,δ₁‘-Tryptophan Dimers. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 62(24). 8600–8603. 9 indexed citations

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Trost, Barry M. & David L. Van Vranken. (1990). Template-directed synthesis of (.+-.)-allosamizoline and its 3,4-epimers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 112(3). 1261–1263. 53 indexed citations

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