Greg Springsteen

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Greg Springsteen is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Greg Springsteen has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 8 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Greg Springsteen's work include Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Greg Springsteen is often cited by papers focused on Origins and Evolution of Life (11 papers), Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (8 papers) and Enzyme Structure and Function (5 papers). Greg Springsteen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Belgium and China. Greg Springsteen's co-authors include Binghe Wang, Jun Yan, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Gerald F. Joyce, Mahipal Yadav, Weijuan Ni, Minh Tho Nguyen, Jerzy Leszczyński, Jiande Gu and Y. Jayasudhan Reddy and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Greg Springsteen

27 papers receiving 3.1k 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.

A detailed examination of boronic acid–diol complexation

2002 1.3k citations Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang Tetrahedron profile →
The relationship among pKa, pH, and binding constants in the interactions between boronic acids and diols—it is not as simple as it appears

2004 639 citations Jun Yan, Greg Springsteen et al. Tetrahedron profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Greg Springsteen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Greg Springsteen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Greg Springsteen 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 Greg Springsteen. Greg Springsteen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	From Amino Acids to α‐Keto Acids via β‐Elimination and Transamination Initiates a Pathway to Prebiotic Reaction Networks 2025 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), Kevin Ryan, (unknown), (unknown), Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Greg Springsteen	1
2	A Plausible Prebiotic One‐Pot Synthesis of Orotate and Pyruvate Suggestive of Common Protometabolic Pathways 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), (unknown), Ravi Kumar, Mahipal Yadav, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Greg Springsteen	14
3	Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways 2022 ·Nature Chemistry ·(unknown), Mahipal Yadav, Greg Springsteen, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy	45
4	A Plausible Prebiotic One‐Pot Synthesis of Orotate and Pyruvate Suggestive of Common Protometabolic Pathways 2022 ·Angewandte Chemie ·(unknown), (unknown), Ravi Kumar, Mahipal Yadav, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Greg Springsteen	3
5	A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids 2020 ·Nature Chemistry ·(unknown), Mahipal Yadav, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Greg Springsteen	84
6	The Messy Alkaline Formose Reaction and Its Link to Metabolism 2020 ·Life ·(unknown), César Menor‐Salván, Greg Springsteen, Matthew A. Pasek	48
7	Synthesis of 2-Thioorotidine and Comparison of Its Unusual Instability with Its Canonical Pyrimidine Counterparts 2019 ·The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Ravi Kumar, Greg Springsteen, Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy	1
8	Linked cycles of oxidative decarboxylation of glyoxylate as protometabolic analogs of the citric acid cycle 2018 ·Nature Communications ·Greg Springsteen, Y. Jayasudhan Reddy, (unknown), (unknown), Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy	92
9	Reaching Back to Jump Forward: Recent Efforts towards a Systems‐Level Hypothesis for an Early RNA World 2015 ·ChemBioChem ·Greg Springsteen	1
10	A Unified Mechanism for Abiotic Adenine and Purine Synthesis in Formamide 2012 ·Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy, Greg Springsteen	59
11	Conversion of a Ribozyme to a Deoxyribozyme through In Vitro Evolution 2006 ·Chemistry & Biology ·Natasha Paul, Greg Springsteen, Gerald F. Joyce	31
12	Regulating the fluorescence intensity of an anthracene boronic acid system: a B–N bond or a hydrolysis mechanism? 2004 ·Bioorganic Chemistry ·Weijuan Ni, Gurpreet Kaur, Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang, Stefan Franzen	86
13	The Design of Boronic Acid Spectroscopic Reporter Compounds by Taking Advantage of the pK_a-Lowering Effect of Diol Binding: Nitrophenol-Based Color Reporters for Diols 2004 ·The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Weijuan Ni, Hao Fang, Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang	47
14	The relationship among pKa, pH, and binding constants in the interactions between boronic acids and diols—it is not as simple as it appears breakdown → 2004 ·Tetrahedron ·Jun Yan, Greg Springsteen, (unknown), Binghe Wang	639
15	A novel type of fluorescent boronic acid that shows large fluorescence intensity changes upon binding with a carbohydrate in aqueous solution at physiological pH 2003 ·Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters ·Wenqian Yang, Jun Yan, Greg Springsteen, (unknown), Binghe Wang	76
16	A detailed examination of boronic acid–diol complexation breakdown → 2002 ·Tetrahedron ·Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang	1264
17	Catechol pendant polystyrene for solid-phase synthesis 2002 ·Tetrahedron Letters ·Wenqian Yang, Xingming Gao, Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang	25
18	The Development of Photometric Sensors for Boronic Acids 2001 ·Bioorganic Chemistry ·Greg Springsteen, (unknown), Shouhai Gao, Wei Wang, Binghe Wang	20
19	Alizarin Red S. as a general optical reporter for studying the binding of boronic acids with carbohydrates 2001 ·Chemical Communications ·Greg Springsteen, Binghe Wang	310
20	The first fluorescent sensor for boronic and boric acids with sensitivity at sub-micromolar concentrations 2000 ·Chemical Communications ·(unknown), Greg Springsteen, Shouhai Gao, Binghe Wang	24

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