Delbert L. Herald

5.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
93 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Delbert L. Herald is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Delbert L. Herald has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Organic Chemistry, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Delbert L. Herald's work include Marine Sponges and Natural Products (27 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (17 papers). Delbert L. Herald is often cited by papers focused on Marine Sponges and Natural Products (27 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (26 papers) and Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (17 papers). Delbert L. Herald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Japan. Delbert L. Herald's co-authors include George R. Pettit, Dennis L. Doubek, Robin K. Pettit, Jean M. Schmidt, Cherry L. Herald, Ernest Hamel, Michael R. Boyd, Eddy Arnold, Gordon M. Cragg and Jon Clardy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and The Journal of Organic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Delbert L. Herald

93 papers receiving 4.1k 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.

Isolation and structure of bryostatin 1

1982 540 citations George R. Pettit, Cherry L. Herald et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Delbert L. Herald United States	36	2.4k	1.6k	1.1k	933	534	93	4.3k
Jean M. Schmidt United States	39	2.2k 0.9×	2.4k 1.5×	1.3k 1.1×	1.5k 1.6×	370 0.7×	110	5.3k
Frank E. Koehn United States	32	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	810 0.9×	294 0.6×	62	4.6k
Shunji Aoki Japan	38	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.6×	858 0.7×	1.2k 1.3×	320 0.6×	93	3.5k
Dennis L. Doubek United States	34	1.2k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	953 0.8×	1.1k 1.2×	227 0.4×	60	3.1k
Sarath P. Gunasekera United States	39	1.8k 0.8×	1.6k 1.0×	1.4k 1.2×	1.7k 1.8×	184 0.3×	108	4.6k
Maria Valeria D’Auria Italy	35	1.4k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.9×	199 0.4×	132	3.8k
Kuniaki Tatsuta Japan	35	3.8k 1.6×	2.7k 1.7×	1.2k 1.0×	683 0.7×	160 0.3×	222	5.4k
Sachiko Tsukamoto Japan	43	2.0k 0.9×	2.0k 1.2×	2.3k 2.0×	1.9k 2.1×	655 1.2×	209	5.6k
Cherry L. Herald United States	38	1.8k 0.7×	2.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	1.8k 1.9×	186 0.3×	77	4.6k
Yoichi Hayakawa Japan	33	1.6k 0.7×	2.2k 1.4×	1.6k 1.4×	768 0.8×	226 0.4×	158	4.0k

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Pettit, George R., et al.. (2009). Antineoplastic Agents. 565. Synthesis of Combretastatin D-2 Phosphate and Dihydro-combretastatin D-2. Journal of Natural Products. 72(5). 876–883. 20 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., Noeleen Melody, Delbert L. Herald, John Knight, & Jean‐Charles Chapuis. (2007). Antineoplastic Agents. 550. Synthesis of 10b(S)-Epipancratistatin from (+)-Narciclasine^,1. Journal of Natural Products. 70(3). 417–422. 23 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., et al.. (2005). Antineoplastic Agents. 445. Synthesis and Evaluation of Structural Modifications of (Z)- and (E)-Combretastatin A-4. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 48(12). 4087–4099. 161 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., Sylvie Ducki, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (2005). Antineoplastic Agents 470. Absolute Configuration of the Marine Sponge Bromopyrrole Agelastatin A¹. Oncology Research Featuring Preclinical and Clinical Cancer Therapeutics. 15(1). 11–20. 31 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., Collin R. Anderson, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (2003). Antineoplastic Agents. 487. Synthesis and Biological Evaluation of the Antineoplastic Agent 3,4-Methylenedioxy-5,4‘-dimethoxy-3‘-amino-Z-stilbene and Derived Amino Acid Amides. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 46(4). 525–531. 53 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., John Knight, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (2002). Isolation of Labradorins 1 and 2 from Pseudomonas syringae pv. coronafaciens. Journal of Natural Products. 65(12). 1793–1797. 74 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., Rui Tan, Noeleen Melody, et al.. (1998). Antineoplastic agents 397: Isolation and structure of sesterstatins 4 and 5 from hyrtios erecta (the republic of maldives). Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 8(16). 2093–2098. 32 indexed citations

Herald, Delbert L., G. Cascarano, George R. Pettit, & Jayaram K. Srirangam. (1997). Crystal Conformation of the Cyclic Decapeptide Phakellistatin 8: Comparison with Antamanide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(30). 6962–6973. 20 indexed citations

Pettit, George R., Sheo B. Singh, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (1994). The Dolastatins. 17. Synthesis of Dolaproine and Related Diastereoisomers. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 59(21). 6287–6295. 53 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Jeremiah C. Collins, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (1992). Isolation and structure of cribrostatins 1 and 2 from the blue marine sponge Cribrochalinasp. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 70(4). 1170–1175. 26 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Delbert L. Herald, Feng Gao, Dipanjan Sengupta, & Cherry L. Herald. (1991). Antineoplastic agents. 200. Absolute configuration of the bryostatins. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 56(3). 1337–1340. 14 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., et al.. (1991). Isolation and Structure of Cytostatic Steroidal Saponins from the African Medicinal Plant Balanites aegyptica. Journal of Natural Products. 54(6). 1491–1502. 52 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Feng Gao, Delbert L. Herald, et al.. (1991). Antineoplastic agents. 224. Isolation and structure of neristatin 1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 113(17). 6693–6695. 19 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Masuo Inoue, Yoshiaki Kamano, et al.. (1988). Isolation and structure of the hemichordate cell growth inhibitors cephalostatins 2, 3, and 4. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 865–865. 27 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Masuo Inoue, Yoshiaki Kamano, et al.. (1988). Antineoplastic agents. 147. Isolation and structure of the powerful cell growth inhibitor cephalostatin 1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 110(6). 2006–2007. 143 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., et al.. (1983). The structure of the benzene–maleimide photosynthetic product (mitindomide). Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 61(10). 2291–2294. 6 indexed citations

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Pelletier, S. W., Wilson H. De Camp, Delbert L. Herald, Samuel W Page, & M. G. Newton. (1977). The crystal structure and absolute configuration of condelphine hydroiodide. Acta Crystallographica Section B. 33(3). 716–722. 1 indexed citations

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Pettit, George R., Cherry L. Herald, & Delbert L. Herald. (1976). Antineoplastic Agents XLV: Sea Cucumber Cytotoxic Saponins. Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 65(10). 1558–1559. 10 indexed citations

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Pelletier, S. William & Delbert L. Herald. (1971). Inversion of the C-4 substituents in dehydroabietic acid: synthesis of (+)-callitrisic acid. Journal of the Chemical Society D Chemical Communications. 10b–10b. 10 indexed citations

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Munk, Morton E., et al.. (1968). The structure of actinobolin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 90(4). 1087–1089. 11 indexed citations

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