Hans Renata

4.0k total citations · 3 hit papers
69 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Hans Renata is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Hans Renata has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Organic Chemistry, 36 papers in Molecular Biology and 33 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Hans Renata's work include Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (31 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (14 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (14 papers). Hans Renata is often cited by papers focused on Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (31 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (14 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (14 papers). Hans Renata collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Austria. Hans Renata's co-authors include Frances H. Arnold, Z. Jane Wang, Christian R. Zwick, Jian Li, Emma King‐Smith, Fuzhuo Li, Nicole E. Peck, Xiao Zhang, Phil S. Baran and Qianghui Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hans Renata

64 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

Expanding the Enzyme Universe: Accessing Non‐Natural Reactions by Mechanism‐Guided Directed Evolution

2015 433 citations Hans Renata, Z. Jane Wang et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Enzymatic assembly of carbon–carbon bonds via iron-catalysed sp3 C–H functionalization

2018 257 citations Ruijie K. Zhang, Kai Chen et al. Nature profile →
Improved Cyclopropanation Activity of Histidine‐Ligated Cytochrome P450 Enables the Enantioselective Formal Synthesis of Levomilnacipran

2014 164 citations Z. Jane Wang, Hans Renata et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Hans Renata United States	31	1.7k	1.6k	546	544	359	69	3.0k
Alison R. H. Narayan United States	28	1.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.6×	329 0.6×	708 1.3×	194 0.5×	62	2.4k
Joerg H. Schrittwieser Austria	25	2.3k 1.4×	1.1k 0.7×	467 0.9×	250 0.5×	241 0.7×	47	3.0k
Mitsuhiro Arisawa Japan	35	1.2k 0.7×	3.4k 2.1×	472 0.9×	209 0.4×	179 0.5×	193	4.2k
Bettina M. Nestl Germany	30	2.1k 1.2×	562 0.4×	370 0.7×	192 0.4×	316 0.9×	75	2.5k
Takeshi Sugai Japan	27	1.8k 1.1×	1.5k 1.0×	209 0.4×	257 0.5×	155 0.4×	246	3.0k
Mingji Dai United States	33	712 0.4×	2.4k 1.5×	287 0.5×	287 0.5×	350 1.0×	99	3.3k
Jason S. Chen United States	31	941 0.6×	2.6k 1.6×	561 1.0×	251 0.5×	137 0.4×	54	3.2k
Mathias Christmann Germany	34	1.1k 0.7×	3.0k 1.9×	570 1.0×	529 1.0×	153 0.4×	122	3.9k
Ryan A. Shenvi United States	38	1.2k 0.7×	4.8k 3.0×	1.2k 2.1×	491 0.9×	385 1.1×	92	5.9k
Shigeru Nishiyama Japan	33	1.2k 0.7×	3.3k 2.1×	245 0.4×	714 1.3×	154 0.4×	253	4.5k

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Chen, Fang, Jian Li, & Hans Renata. (2025). Development of Sclareol- and Sclareolide-Based Chemoenzymatic Approaches to Ring Intact and Seco Limonoids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(24). 21131–21142. 3 indexed citations

MORI, Takahiro, et al.. (2025). A Ketone‐Accepting Pictet–Spenglerase for the Asymmetric Construction of 1,1‐Disubstituted Tetrahydro‐ß‐carboline Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(25). e202502367–e202502367. 2 indexed citations

Renata, Hans, et al.. (2024). Chemoenzymatic synthesis of 7-chloro-4-Dimethylallyl-L-Tryptophan, a fragment of krisynomycin. Tetrahedron. 162. 134127–134127. 4 indexed citations

Zhang, Benxiang, et al.. (2024). Biocatalytic C–H oxidation meets radical cross-coupling: Simplifying complex piperidine synthesis. Science. 386(6728). 1421–1427. 7 indexed citations

Renata, Hans, et al.. (2024). Total Synthesis Facilitates In Vitro Reconstitution of the C–S Bond-Forming P450 in Griseoviridin Biosynthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(31). 21815–21823. 7 indexed citations

Renata, Hans, et al.. (2024). One-pot chemoenzymatic syntheses of non-canonical amino acids. Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology. 51.

Li, Fuzhuo, et al.. (2023). Author Correction: Chemoenzymatic approaches for exploring structure–activity relationship studies of bioactive natural products. Nature Synthesis. 2(11). 1127–1127.

Morstein, Johannes, Anton Shuster, Daniel Abegg, et al.. (2023). Optical Control of Proteasomal Protein Degradation with a Photoswitchable Lipopeptide. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(8). e202314791–e202314791. 4 indexed citations

Li, Fuzhuo, et al.. (2023). Chemoenzymatic approaches for exploring structure–activity relationship studies of bioactive natural products. Nature Synthesis. 2(8). 708–718. 13 indexed citations

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Renata, Hans, et al.. (2022). Finding superior biocatalysts via homolog screening. Chem Catalysis. 2(10). 2471–2480. 6 indexed citations

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Li, Fuzhuo & Hans Renata. (2021). A Chiral-Pool-Based Strategy to Access trans-syn -Fused Drimane Meroterpenoids: Chemoenzymatic Total Syntheses of Polysin, N -Acetyl-polyveoline and the Chrodrimanins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(43). 18280–18286. 36 indexed citations

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Zwick, Christian R., et al.. (2021). Modular Chemoenzymatic Synthesis of GE81112 B1 and Related Analogues Enables Elucidation of Its Key Pharmacophores. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(3). 1673–1679. 24 indexed citations

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Renata, Hans, et al.. (2021). Regiodivergent biocatalytic hydroxylation of l-Glutamine facilitated by characterization of Non-Heme dioxygenases from Non-Ribosomal peptide biosyntheses. Tetrahedron. 90. 132190–132190. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiao, Emma King‐Smith, Liao‐Bin Dong, et al.. (2020). Divergent synthesis of complex diterpenes through a hybrid oxidative approach. Science. 369(6505). 799–806. 116 indexed citations

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Li, Jian, et al.. (2020). Recent advances in the chemoenzymatic synthesis of bioactive natural products. Current Opinion in Chemical Biology. 55. 111–118. 66 indexed citations

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Zhang, Xiao & Hans Renata. (2019). Efficient chemoenzymatic synthesis of (2S,3R)-3-hydroxy-3-methylproline, a key fragment in polyoxypeptin A and FR225659. Tetrahedron. 75(24). 3253–3257. 8 indexed citations

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Zhang, Ruijie K., Kai Chen, Xiongyi Huang, et al.. (2018). Enzymatic assembly of carbon–carbon bonds via iron-catalysed sp3 C–H functionalization. Nature. 565(7737). 67–72. 257 indexed citations breakdown →

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Renata, Hans, Russell D. Lewis, S. B. Jennifer Kan, et al.. (2016). Highly Stereoselective Biocatalytic Synthesis of Key Cyclopropane Intermediate to Ticagrelor. ACS Catalysis. 6(11). 7810–7813. 60 indexed citations

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Renata, Hans, Z. Jane Wang, & Frances H. Arnold. (2015). Expanding the Enzyme Universe: Accessing Non‐Natural Reactions by Mechanism‐Guided Directed Evolution. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(11). 3351–3367. 433 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Z. Jane, Hans Renata, Nicole E. Peck, et al.. (2014). Titelbild: Improved Cyclopropanation Activity of Histidine‐Ligated Cytochrome P450 Enables the Enantioselective Formal Synthesis of Levomilnacipran (Angew. Chem. 26/2014). Angewandte Chemie. 126(26). 6689–6689. 3 indexed citations

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