Fahmi Himo

13.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
206 papers, 11.2k citations indexed

About

Fahmi Himo is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Fahmi Himo has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 11.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Organic Chemistry, 77 papers in Molecular Biology and 67 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Fahmi Himo's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (32 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (27 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (21 papers). Fahmi Himo is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (32 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (27 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (21 papers). Fahmi Himo collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, United States and China. Fahmi Himo's co-authors include Per E. M. Siegbahn, Louis Noodleman, K. Barry Sharpless, Rong‐Zhen Liao, Timothy Lovell, Leif A. Eriksson, Valery V. Fokin, Vsevolod V. Rostovtsev, Robert Hilgraf and Xiang Sheng and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Fahmi Himo

200 papers receiving 11.1k 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.

Copper(I)-Catalyzed Synthesis of Azoles. DFT Study Predicts Unprecedented Reactivity and Intermediates

2004 1.4k citations Fahmi Himo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Quantum Chemical Studies of Mechanisms for Metalloenzymes

2014 502 citations Fahmi Himo, Rong‐Zhen Liao et al. profile →
Why Is Tetrazole Formation by Addition of Azide to Organic Nitriles Catalyzed by Zinc(II) Salts?

2003 327 citations Fahmi Himo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Mechanisms of Tetrazole Formation by Addition of Azide to Nitriles

2002 295 citations Fahmi Himo et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fahmi Himo Sweden	54	5.6k	4.7k	2.7k	1.7k	1.1k	206	11.2k
Gillian Reid United Kingdom	48	4.1k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	4.5k 1.7×	2.5k 1.5×	584 0.5×	532	11.5k
Teodor Parella Spain	49	4.9k 0.9×	2.6k 0.6×	1.7k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	684 0.6×	335	10.1k
Jin‐Pei Cheng China	66	11.6k 2.1×	2.1k 0.4×	3.5k 1.3×	1.8k 1.1×	929 0.9×	347	15.0k
Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu Italy	53	6.9k 1.2×	4.1k 0.9×	905 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	299 0.3×	334	12.1k
Jonathan M. White Australia	45	4.0k 0.7×	1.6k 0.3×	2.2k 0.8×	2.3k 1.4×	393 0.4×	542	9.5k
Charles Mioskowski France	49	7.4k 1.3×	4.1k 0.9×	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 1.2×	214 0.2×	414	12.5k
David O’Hagan United Kingdom	56	10.6k 1.9×	5.3k 1.1×	3.5k 1.3×	1.4k 0.8×	159 0.1×	337	18.4k
Martin Newcomb United States	56	6.3k 1.1×	2.2k 0.5×	3.8k 1.4×	2.2k 1.3×	602 0.6×	248	10.4k
Thomas C. Bruice United States	61	6.0k 1.1×	8.1k 1.7×	2.9k 1.0×	4.1k 2.5×	587 0.5×	546	16.5k
Brian M. Stoltz United States	81	21.2k 3.8×	3.8k 0.8×	6.0k 2.2×	1.5k 0.9×	397 0.4×	379	25.8k

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Kong, Wei‐Jun, Haibo Wu, Jiayi Chen, et al.. (2025). Palladium-Catalyzed Site-Selective Regiodivergent Carbocyclization of Di- and Trienallenes: A Switch between Substituted Cyclohexene and Cyclobutene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(11). 9909–9918. 3 indexed citations

Wei, Wenjie, Kálmán J. Szabó, & Fahmi Himo. (2025). Mechanism of formation of chiral allyl SCF₃ compounds via selenium-catalyzed sulfenofunctionalization of allylboronic acids. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 12(9). 2994–3003.

Sheng, Xiang, Wolfgang Kroutil, & Fahmi Himo. (2024). Computational Study of the Fries Rearrangement Catalyzed by Acyltransferase from Pseudomonas protegens. ChemistryOpen. 13(7). e202300256–e202300256. 1 indexed citations

Wei, Wenjie, et al.. (2024). Uncatalyzed Diboron Activation by a Strained Hydrocarbon: Experimental and Theoretical Study of [1.1.1]Propellane Diborylation. Chemistry - A European Journal. 30(52). e202402152–e202402152. 5 indexed citations

Cesari, Cristiana, Filippo Tamassia, Marco Garavelli, et al.. (2024). Combined computational-experimental study of Ru(0)-catalyzed Guerbet reaction. Cell Reports Physical Science. 5(11). 102291–102291. 2 indexed citations

Himo, Fahmi & Sam P. de Visser. (2022). Status report on the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions. Communications Chemistry. 5(1). 29–29. 63 indexed citations

Li, Man, Amparo Sanz‐Marco, Binh Khanh, et al.. (2020). Unraveling the Mechanism of the Ir^III‐Catalyzed Regiospecific Synthesis of α‐Chlorocarbonyl Compounds from Allylic Alcohols. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(65). 14978–14986. 10 indexed citations

Höfer, Gerhard, Xiang Sheng, Simone Braeuer, et al.. (2020). Metal Ion Promiscuity and Structure of 2,3‐Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Decarboxylase of Aspergillus oryzae. ChemBioChem. 22(4). 652–656. 18 indexed citations

Sheng, Xiang, et al.. (2018). A Theoretical Study of the Benzoylformate Decarboxylase Reaction Mechanism. Frontiers in Chemistry. 6. 205–205. 20 indexed citations

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Payer, Stefan E., Stephen Marshall, Xiang Sheng, et al.. (2017). Regioselektive para‐Carboxylierung von Catecholen mit einer Prenylflavin‐abhängigen Decarboxylase. Angewandte Chemie. 129(44). 14081–14085. 6 indexed citations

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Payer, Stefan E., Stephen Marshall, Xiang Sheng, et al.. (2017). Regioselective para‐Carboxylation of Catechols with a Prenylated Flavin Dependent Decarboxylase. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(44). 13893–13897. 64 indexed citations

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Kazemi, Masoud, Fahmi Himo, & Johan Åqvist. (2016). Enzyme catalysis by entropy without Circe effect. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(9). 2406–2411. 50 indexed citations

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Caruana, Lorenzo, Andrea Mazzanti, Fahmi Himo, et al.. (2015). Catalytic Asymmetric Reactions of 4‐Substituted Indoles with Nitroethene: A Direct Entry to Ergot Alkaloid Structures. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(49). 17578–17582. 49 indexed citations

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Himo, Fahmi, et al.. (2013). Quantum Chemistry as a Tool in Asymmetric Biocatalysis: Limonene Epoxide Hydrolase Test Case. Angewandte Chemie. 125(17). 4661–4665. 13 indexed citations

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Himo, Fahmi, et al.. (2013). Quantum Chemistry as a Tool in Asymmetric Biocatalysis: Limonene Epoxide Hydrolase Test Case. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(17). 4563–4567. 55 indexed citations

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Malmgren, Joel, Stefano Santoro, Nazli Jalalian, Fahmi Himo, & Berit Olofsson. (2013). Arylation with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts: A Chemoselectivity Study. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(31). 10334–10342. 229 indexed citations

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Patton, Gregory C., Pål Stenmark, Deviprasad R. Gollapalli, et al.. (2011). Cofactor mobility determines reaction outcome in the IMPDH and GMPR (β-α)8 barrel enzymes. Nature Chemical Biology. 7(12). 950–958. 30 indexed citations

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Chen, Shi‐Lu, Wei‐Hai Fang, & Fahmi Himo. (2008). Reaction mechanism of the binuclear zinc enzyme glyoxalase II – A theoretical study. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 103(2). 274–281. 40 indexed citations

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Himo, Fahmi, et al.. (2007). Quantum chemical modeling of enzymatic reactions: The case of 4-oxalocrotonate tautomerase. Bioorganic Chemistry. 35(6). 444–457. 77 indexed citations

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Himo, Fahmi, Astrid Gräslund, & Leif A. Eriksson. (1997). Density functional calculations on model tyrosyl radicals. Biophysical Journal. 72(4). 1556–1567. 115 indexed citations

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