David W. Old

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
9 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

David W. Old is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, David W. Old has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Organic Chemistry, 4 papers in Pharmacology and 2 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in David W. Old's work include Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (5 papers), Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology (4 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (3 papers). David W. Old is often cited by papers focused on Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (5 papers), Alkaloids: synthesis and pharmacology (4 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (3 papers). David W. Old collaborates with scholars based in United States. David W. Old's co-authors include Stephen L. Buchwald, John P. Wolfe, Attila Aranyos, Joseph P. Sadighi, Ayumu Kiyomori, Michele C. Harris, Andrew Madin, Larry E. Overman, Taeboem Oh and Matthew J. Sharp and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

David W. Old

9 papers receiving 1.6k citations

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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.

A Highly Active Catalyst for Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: Room-Temperature Suzuki Couplings and Amination of Unactivated Aryl Chlorides

1998 712 citations David W. Old, John P. Wolfe et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Novel Electron-Rich Bulky Phosphine Ligands Facilitate the Palladium-Catalyzed Preparation of Diaryl Ethers

1999 459 citations Attila Aranyos, David W. Old et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David W. Old United States	9	1.6k	266	207	85	77	9	1.7k
Björn C.G. Söderberg United States	24	1.4k 0.9×	302 1.1×	191 0.9×	42 0.5×	92 1.2×	70	1.5k
Martine Bonin France	23	1.4k 0.9×	197 0.7×	427 2.1×	41 0.5×	65 0.8×	55	1.5k
Avinash N. Thadani Canada	20	1.7k 1.1×	365 1.4×	337 1.6×	53 0.6×	45 0.6×	29	1.8k
Christopher Koradin Germany	12	1.7k 1.1×	339 1.3×	283 1.4×	38 0.4×	34 0.4×	19	1.7k
Maurice Santelli France	30	2.3k 1.5×	345 1.3×	285 1.4×	92 1.1×	25 0.3×	85	2.4k
Alfonso Melloni Italy	14	1.9k 1.2×	517 1.9×	228 1.1×	95 1.1×	55 0.7×	19	2.0k
Subhajit Bhunia India	17	1.4k 0.9×	216 0.8×	120 0.6×	49 0.6×	76 1.0×	19	1.5k
Bruce Z. Lu United States	23	1.5k 1.0×	523 2.0×	275 1.3×	47 0.6×	53 0.7×	34	1.6k
Giorgio Abbiati Italy	28	2.0k 1.3×	241 0.9×	220 1.1×	103 1.2×	31 0.4×	102	2.1k
Meike Niggemann Germany	24	1.7k 1.1×	422 1.6×	245 1.2×	86 1.0×	22 0.3×	46	1.8k

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9 of 9 papers shown

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Earley, William G., Andrew Madin, G. Patrick Meier, et al.. (2005). Aza-Cope Rearrangement−Mannich Cyclizations for the Formation of Complex Tricyclic Amines: Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (±)-Gelsemine. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(51). 18046–18053. 57 indexed citations

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Madin, Andrew, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Taeboem Oh, et al.. (2005). Use of the Intramolecular Heck Reaction for Forming Congested Quaternary Carbon Stereocenters. Stereocontrolled Total Synthesis of (±)-Gelsemine. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(51). 18054–18065. 101 indexed citations

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Old, David W., Michele C. Harris, & Stephen L. Buchwald. (2000). Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed N-Arylation of Indoles. Organic Letters. 2(10). 1403–1406. 171 indexed citations

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Aranyos, Attila, David W. Old, Ayumu Kiyomori, et al.. (1999). Novel Electron-Rich Bulky Phosphine Ligands Facilitate the Palladium-Catalyzed Preparation of Diaryl Ethers. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 121(18). 4369–4378. 459 indexed citations breakdown →

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Madin, Andrew, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Taeboem Oh, et al.. (1999). Totalsynthese von (±)-Gelsemin. Angewandte Chemie. 111(19). 3110–3112. 19 indexed citations

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Madin, Andrew, Christopher J. O’Donnell, Taeboem Oh, et al.. (1999). Total Synthesis of (±)-Gelsemine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 38(19). 2934–2936. 59 indexed citations

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Old, David W., John P. Wolfe, & Stephen L. Buchwald. (1998). A Highly Active Catalyst for Palladium-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: Room-Temperature Suzuki Couplings and Amination of Unactivated Aryl Chlorides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 120(37). 9722–9723. 712 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ennis, Michael D., et al.. (1996). Asymmetric Synthesis of Cis-Fused Bicyclic Pyrrolidines and Pyrrolidinones via Chiral Polycyclic Lactams. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 61(17). 5813–5817. 60 indexed citations

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Ennis, Michael D. & David W. Old. (1992). Enzymatic resolution of 2-Hydroxymethyl-1,4-benzodioxanes. Tetrahedron Letters. 33(42). 6283–6286. 13 indexed citations

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