Florian Berger

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
65 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Florian Berger is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Cell Biology and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Berger has authored 65 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Organic Chemistry, 15 papers in Cell Biology and 11 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Florian Berger's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (13 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (13 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (12 papers). Florian Berger is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (13 papers), Microtubule and mitosis dynamics (13 papers) and Sulfur-Based Synthesis Techniques (12 papers). Florian Berger collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Florian Berger's co-authors include Tobias Ritter, Matthew B. Plutschack, Nils Frank, Pascal S. Engl, Andreas P. Häring, Matthew Ho, Wanwan Yu, Hao Jia, Christophe Génicot and Ruocheng Sang and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Florian Berger

63 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Site-selective and versatile aromatic C−H functionalizati... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 2019 100 200 300 400 500
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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. Site-selective and versatile aromatic C−H functionalization by thianthrenation
    2019 569 citations Florian Berger, Matthew B. Plutschack et al. profile →
  2. Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination
    2019 289 citations Jiakun Li, Junting Chen et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florian Berger Germany 26 2.3k 478 463 333 284 65 3.3k
Di Qiu China 32 3.6k 1.6× 561 1.2× 960 2.1× 38 0.1× 866 3.0× 74 5.0k
Chin‐Fa Lee Taiwan 29 3.1k 1.4× 70 0.1× 312 0.7× 17 0.1× 234 0.8× 85 3.7k
Xiyun Zhang China 28 879 0.4× 43 0.1× 1.2k 2.7× 53 0.2× 173 0.6× 96 3.3k
Daniel G. Oblinsky United States 23 1.1k 0.5× 140 0.3× 844 1.8× 88 0.3× 160 0.6× 40 2.4k
Gábor London Hungary 22 972 0.4× 90 0.2× 616 1.3× 31 0.1× 135 0.5× 49 1.9k
Kyungtae Kang South Korea 22 459 0.2× 28 0.1× 651 1.4× 157 0.5× 51 0.2× 138 2.1k
R. Aldrin Denny United States 20 203 0.1× 109 0.2× 547 1.2× 44 0.1× 38 0.1× 36 1.2k
Mark A. Gallop United States 29 2.6k 1.1× 105 0.2× 3.4k 7.4× 46 0.1× 346 1.2× 63 4.9k
Jordi Solà Spain 26 1.3k 0.5× 28 0.1× 1.1k 2.4× 18 0.1× 185 0.7× 54 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florian Berger

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Berger

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Florian Berger. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Florian Berger based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Florian Berger. Florian Berger is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Passmore, Josiah B., et al.. (2025). Closed-loop optogenetic control of cell biology enables outcome-driven microscopy. Nature Communications. 17(1). 1087–1087.
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Leutzsch, Markus, Alessandro Vetere, Heike Hinrichs, et al.. (2025). A selenoxide for single-atom protein modification of tyrosine residues enabled by water-resistant chalcogen and hydrogen bonding. Nature Chemistry. 17(9). 1331–1339. 3 indexed citations
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Alvarez, Eva Maria, et al.. (2021). Late‐Stage Heteroarylation of Hetero(aryl)sulfonium Salts Activated by α‐Amino Alkyl Radicals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(24). 13609–13613. 107 indexed citations
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Juliá, Fabio, Qianzhen Shao, Meng Duan, et al.. (2021). High Site Selectivity in Electrophilic Aromatic Substitutions: Mechanism of C–H Thianthrenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(39). 16041–16054. 92 indexed citations
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Jia, Hao, Andreas P. Häring, Florian Berger, Li Zhang, & Tobias Ritter. (2021). Trifluoromethyl Thianthrenium Triflate: A Readily Available Trifluoromethylating Reagent with Formal CF3+, CF3•, and CF3– Reactivity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(20). 7623–7628. 176 indexed citations
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Ritter, Tobias & Florian Berger. (2021). Site-Selective Late-Stage C–H Functionalization via Thianthrenium Salts. Synlett. 33(4). 339–345. 69 indexed citations
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Hooikaas, Peter Jan, Wilhelmina E. van Riel, Maud Martin, et al.. (2020). Kinesin-4 KIF21B limits microtubule growth to allow rapid centrosome polarization in T cells. eLife. 9. 31 indexed citations
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Brenner, Sibylle, Florian Berger, Lu Rao, Matthew P. Nicholas, & Arne Gennerich. (2020). Force production of human cytoplasmic dynein is limited by its processivity. Science Advances. 6(15). eaaz4295–eaaz4295. 25 indexed citations
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Berger, Florian, et al.. (2020). Cine-Substitutions at Five-Membered Hetarenes Enabled by Sulfonium Salts. Organic Letters. 22(14). 5671–5674. 35 indexed citations
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Alvarez, Eva Maria, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2020). Site-Selective C–H Functionalization–Sulfination Sequence to Access Aryl Sulfonamides. Organic Letters. 22(12). 4593–4596. 111 indexed citations
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Sang, Ruocheng, Wanqi Su, Fei Ye, et al.. (2019). Site‐Selective C−H Oxygenation via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Angewandte Chemie. 131(45). 16307–16312. 33 indexed citations
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Xu, Peng, et al.. (2019). Site‐Selective Late‐Stage Aromatic [18F]Fluorination via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(5). 1956–1960. 108 indexed citations
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Xu, Peng, et al.. (2019). Site‐Selective Late‐Stage Aromatic [18F]Fluorination via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Angewandte Chemie. 132(5). 1972–1976. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Junting, Jiakun Li, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2019). Regio‐ and Stereoselective Thianthrenation of Olefins To Access Versatile Alkenyl Electrophiles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(14). 5616–5620. 119 indexed citations
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Sang, Ruocheng, Wanqi Su, Fei Ye, et al.. (2019). Site‐Selective C−H Oxygenation via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(45). 16161–16166. 195 indexed citations
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Li, Jiakun, Junting Chen, Ruocheng Sang, et al.. (2019). Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination. Nature Chemistry. 12(1). 56–62. 289 indexed citations breakdown →
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Engl, Pascal S., et al.. (2019). C–N Cross-Couplings for Site-Selective Late-Stage Diversification via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(34). 13346–13351. 216 indexed citations
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Börgel, Jonas, Lalita Tanwar, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2018). Late-Stage Aromatic C–H Oxygenation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(47). 16026–16031. 86 indexed citations
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Berger, Florian, et al.. (2017). Tau directs intracellular trafficking by regulating the forces exerted by kinesin and dynein teams. Traffic. 19(2). 111–121. 79 indexed citations
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Berger, Florian, et al.. (2005). ARSBOX and Palmist - Technologies for Digital Mock-up Development in Immersive Virtual Environments.. 521–526. 1 indexed citations

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