Dirk Leifert

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Dirk Leifert is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Dirk Leifert has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Organic Chemistry, 6 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 5 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Dirk Leifert's work include Radical Photochemical Reactions (15 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (6 papers). Dirk Leifert is often cited by papers focused on Radical Photochemical Reactions (15 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (11 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (6 papers). Dirk Leifert collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Singapore. Dirk Leifert's co-authors include Armido Studer, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Sebastian Wertz, Guillermo C. Bazan, David Xi Cao, Brett Yurash, Thuc‐Quyen Nguyen, Viktor V. Brus, Norbert Koch and Yude Su and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Dirk Leifert

24 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

The Persistent Radical Effect in Organic Synthesis 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 200 400 600
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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.

  1. The Persistent Radical Effect in Organic Synthesis
    2019 648 citations Dirk Leifert, Armido Studer Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Dirk Leifert Germany 19 1.5k 375 285 202 174 27 2.0k
Giuseppe Romanazzi Italy 26 1.1k 0.8× 472 1.3× 281 1.0× 95 0.5× 431 2.5× 71 1.9k
Wen‐Hua Zheng China 27 1.8k 1.2× 275 0.7× 162 0.6× 95 0.5× 609 3.5× 72 2.4k
Nadeem S. Sheikh Saudi Arabia 26 2.8k 1.9× 152 0.4× 80 0.3× 474 2.3× 285 1.6× 88 3.3k
Meiming Luo China 26 1.6k 1.1× 209 0.6× 133 0.5× 104 0.5× 310 1.8× 87 2.1k
Jordi Marquet Spain 24 1.2k 0.8× 92 0.2× 359 1.3× 104 0.5× 244 1.4× 120 1.8k
Trevor J. Seguin United States 17 529 0.4× 358 1.0× 121 0.4× 52 0.3× 231 1.3× 21 1.2k
Éric Labbé France 23 767 0.5× 330 0.9× 198 0.7× 39 0.2× 142 0.8× 76 1.4k
Haiqing Luo China 20 897 0.6× 109 0.3× 61 0.2× 282 1.4× 212 1.2× 70 1.3k
Xiangqian Liu China 25 1.8k 1.2× 137 0.4× 81 0.3× 434 2.1× 84 0.5× 38 2.1k
Toshiaki Shimasaki Japan 21 2.0k 1.3× 69 0.2× 221 0.8× 173 0.9× 270 1.6× 59 2.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bergander, Klaus, Constantin G. Daniliuc, Dirk Leifert, et al.. (2025). Cycloparaazine, a full-azine carbon nanoring. Nature Communications. 16(1). 4643–4643.
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Yang, Hua, Philipp Alexander Held, Dirk Leifert, et al.. (2025). Site Selectivity of the σ-Bond Metathesis on a Persilylated Decaethynyldiphenyl. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 129(13). 6283–6291.
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Daniliuc, Constantin G., et al.. (2025). Radical Addition to 2-Allenylaryl Isocyanides for the Preparation of 2,3-Difunctionalized Quinolines. Organic Letters. 27(22). 5675–5680.
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Banjare, Shyam Kumar, et al.. (2024). Thermal and Photoinduced Radical Cascade Annulation using Aryl Isonitriles: An Approach to Quinoline‐Derived Benzophosphole Oxides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(30). e202404275–e202404275. 12 indexed citations
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Banjare, Shyam Kumar, et al.. (2023). Access to Polyheterocyclic Compounds through Iron(II)-Mediated Radical Cascade Cyclization Utilizing 2-Ethynylbenzaldehydes and Aryl Isonitriles. Organic Letters. 25(34). 6424–6428. 9 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk & Armido Studer. (2023). Organic Synthesis Using Nitroxides. Chemical Reviews. 123(16). 10302–10380. 85 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk, et al.. (2023). Enantioselective Copper-Catalyzed Fukuyama Indole Synthesis from 2-Vinylphenyl Isocyanides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(15). 8665–8676. 36 indexed citations
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Liu, Kun, Dirk Leifert, & Armido Studer. (2022). Cooperative triple catalysis enables regioirregular formal Mizoroki–Heck reactions. Nature Synthesis. 1(7). 565–575. 19 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk, et al.. (2021). 2,3-Difunctionalized Indoles via Radical Acylation or Trifluoromethylation of ortho-Alkynylphenyl Isonitriles. Organic Letters. 24(1). 284–288. 25 indexed citations
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Lill, Alexander T., David Xi Cao, Max Schrock, et al.. (2020). Organic Electrochemical Transistors Based on the Conjugated Polyelectrolyte PCPDTBT‐SO3K (CPE‐K). Advanced Materials. 32(33). e1908120–e1908120. 58 indexed citations
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McCuskey, Samantha R., et al.. (2020). Living Bioelectrochemical Composites. Advanced Materials. 32(24). e1908178–e1908178. 64 indexed citations
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Yurash, Brett, Dirk Leifert, G. N. Manjunatha Reddy, et al.. (2019). Atomic-Level Insight into the Postsynthesis Band Gap Engineering of a Lewis Base Polymer Using Lewis Acid Tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane. Chemistry of Materials. 31(17). 6715–6725. 42 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk & Armido Studer. (2019). Der “Persistent Radical Effect” in der organischen Chemie. Angewandte Chemie. 132(1). 74–110. 95 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk & Armido Studer. (2019). The Persistent Radical Effect in Organic Synthesis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(1). 74–108. 648 indexed citations breakdown →
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Yurash, Brett, David Xi Cao, Viktor V. Brus, et al.. (2019). Towards understanding the doping mechanism of organic semiconductors by Lewis acids. Nature Materials. 18(12). 1327–1334. 187 indexed citations
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Lübbesmeyer, Maximilian, Dirk Leifert, H. Schäfer, & Armido Studer. (2018). Electrochemical initiation of electron-catalyzed phenanthridine synthesis by trifluoromethylation of isonitriles. Chemical Communications. 54(18). 2240–2243. 55 indexed citations
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Gorbanev, Yury, Dirk Leifert, Armido Studer, Deborah O’Connell, & Victor Chechik. (2017). Initiating radical reactions with non-thermal plasmas. Chemical Communications. 53(26). 3685–3688. 46 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk & Armido Studer. (2016). Iodierte (Perfluor)alkylchinoxaline über radikalische Atom‐Transfer‐Additionsreaktionen mit ortho‐Diisocyanarenen als Radikalakzeptoren. Angewandte Chemie. 128(38). 11832–11835. 12 indexed citations
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Leifert, Dirk & Armido Studer. (2016). Iodinated (Perfluoro)alkyl Quinoxalines by Atom Transfer Radical Addition Using ortho‐Diisocyanoarenes as Radical Acceptors. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 55(38). 11660–11663. 66 indexed citations
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Wertz, Sebastian, Dirk Leifert, & Armido Studer. (2013). Cross Dehydrogenative Coupling via Base-Promoted Homolytic Aromatic Substitution (BHAS): Synthesis of Fluorenones and Xanthones. Organic Letters. 15(4). 928–931. 164 indexed citations

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