Gerhard Hilt

9.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
206 papers, 7.4k citations indexed

About

Gerhard Hilt is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerhard Hilt has authored 206 papers receiving a total of 7.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 179 papers in Organic Chemistry, 51 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 18 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Gerhard Hilt's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (74 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (63 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (58 papers). Gerhard Hilt is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (74 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (63 papers) and Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (58 papers). Gerhard Hilt collaborates with scholars based in Germany, China and United Kingdom. Gerhard Hilt's co-authors include Jonas Treutwein, Klaus Harms, Konstantin I. Smolko, Steffen Lüers, J. Michael Gottfried, Julian Kuttner, Wilfried Hess, Philipp Röse, Qitang Fan and Judith Janikowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Gerhard Hilt

203 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Asymmetric photoredox transition-metal catalysis activated by visible light
    2014 545 citations Haohua Huo, Xiaodong Shen et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Gerhard Hilt Germany 47 5.6k 1.6k 1.2k 993 850 206 7.4k
Ataualpa Albert Carmo Braga Brazil 47 5.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 531 0.4× 915 0.9× 969 1.1× 185 7.4k
Jérôme Lacour Switzerland 48 6.3k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 444 0.4× 2.4k 2.4× 734 0.9× 268 8.7k
Susumu Saito Japan 50 5.4k 1.0× 2.3k 1.4× 646 0.5× 3.3k 3.3× 806 0.9× 296 9.1k
Lung Wa Chung China 42 3.3k 0.6× 1.9k 1.2× 462 0.4× 878 0.9× 408 0.5× 109 5.8k
Zhuofeng Ke China 47 3.9k 0.7× 2.4k 1.4× 325 0.3× 1.6k 1.6× 1.3k 1.5× 217 7.6k
Pier Giorgio Cozzi Italy 55 8.8k 1.6× 3.5k 2.1× 618 0.5× 1.6k 1.6× 432 0.5× 230 11.1k
Silvio Quici Italy 45 3.4k 0.6× 1.9k 1.2× 667 0.6× 3.8k 3.8× 849 1.0× 188 7.5k
Christian Mück‐Lichtenfeld Germany 51 6.4k 1.2× 2.1k 1.3× 453 0.4× 1.2k 1.2× 677 0.8× 209 8.6k
Xin Hong China 62 9.2k 1.7× 2.6k 1.6× 449 0.4× 1.7k 1.8× 567 0.7× 290 12.3k
Agustı́ Lledós Spain 55 8.7k 1.6× 5.5k 3.3× 545 0.5× 1.7k 1.7× 419 0.5× 384 12.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Gerhard Hilt

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerhard Hilt

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Gerhard Hilt. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Gerhard Hilt 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 Gerhard Hilt. Gerhard Hilt 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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Jamshidi, Mahdi, et al.. (2025). The Electrochemical Iodination of Electron‐Deficient Arenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202422442–e202422442. 2 indexed citations
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Klein, Benedikt P., Luke A. Rochford, Paul T. P. Ryan, et al.. (2024). Probing the role of surface termination in the adsorption of azupyrene on copper. Nanoscale. 16(11). 5802–5812. 1 indexed citations
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Crespo, Daniel, et al.. (2024). Nanoporous Copper for the Electrosynthesis of Cyclic Carbonates from CO2 and Epoxides. ChemElectroChem. 11(10). 2 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard, et al.. (2024). Electrochemical Nickel-Catalyzed Synthesis of Unsymmetrical Diorganyl Selanes from Diaryl Diselanes and Aryl and Alkyl Iodides. Molecules. 29(19). 4669–4669. 1 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard, et al.. (2024). The Electrochemical trans-Chloroformyloxylation of Unactivated Alkenes. Synlett. 35(16). 1906–1908. 1 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard. (2023). Recent advances in paired electrolysis and their application in organic electrosynthesis. Current Opinion in Electrochemistry. 43. 101425–101425. 26 indexed citations
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Klein, Benedikt P., Alexander Ihle, Stefan R. Kachel, et al.. (2022). Topological Stone–Wales Defects Enhance Bonding and Electronic Coupling at the Graphene/Metal Interface. ACS Nano. 16(8). 11979–11987. 29 indexed citations
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Klein, Benedikt P., Luke A. Rochford, Marc Walker, et al.. (2022). Using polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons for graphene growth on Cu(111) under ultra-high vacuum. Applied Physics Letters. 121(19). 3 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard, et al.. (2021). Late 3d Metal-Catalyzed (Cross-) Dimerization of Terminal and Internal Alkynes. Frontiers in Chemistry. 9. 635826–635826. 19 indexed citations
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Kuttner, Julian, et al.. (2020). Polymorphism at the Metal/Organic Interface: Hybrid Phase with Alternating Coplanar and Vertical Adsorption Geometry. The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 124(29). 15928–15934. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Qitang, Daniel Martín-Jiménez, Daniel Ebeling, et al.. (2019). Nanoribbons with Nonalternant Topology from Fusion of Polyazulene: Carbon Allotropes beyond Graphene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(44). 17713–17720. 186 indexed citations
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Fan, Qitang, Daniel Ebeling, André Schirmeisen, et al.. (2018). Precise Monoselective Aromatic C–H Bond Activation by Chemisorption of Meta-Aryne on a Metal Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(24). 7526–7532. 60 indexed citations
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Huo, Haohua, Xiaodong Shen, Chuanyong Wang, et al.. (2014). Asymmetric photoredox transition-metal catalysis activated by visible light. Nature. 515(7525). 100–103. 545 indexed citations breakdown →
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Tonner, Ralf, et al.. (2011). Understanding the regioselectivity in Scholl reactions for the synthesis of oligoarenes. Chemical Communications. 48(3). 377–379. 45 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard. (2009). Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Ring Opening of Hetero‐Diels–Alder Adducts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 48(35). 6390–6393. 7 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard. (2009). Übergangsmetall‐katalysierte Ringöffnungen von Hetero‐Diels‐Alder‐Addukten. Angewandte Chemie. 121(35). 6508–6511. 3 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard. (2003). Konvergente gepaarte Elektrolyse zur Drei‐Komponenten‐Synthese geschützter Homoallylalkohole. Angewandte Chemie. 115(15). 1760–1762. 23 indexed citations
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Hilt, Gerhard & Konstantin I. Smolko. (2001). Electrochemical Regeneration of Low-Valent Indium(I) Species as Catalysts for C−C Bond Formations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 40(18). 3399–3402. 52 indexed citations
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Piotrowski, H., Gerhard Hilt, Axel Schulz, et al.. (2001). Self-Assembled Organometallic [12]Metallacrown-3 Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 7(15). 3196–3208. 100 indexed citations

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