Herbert C. Brown

55.7k total citations · 26 hit papers
1.1k papers, 37.4k citations indexed

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Herbert C. Brown is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Herbert C. Brown has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 37.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 984 papers in Organic Chemistry, 309 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 177 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Herbert C. Brown's work include Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (351 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Reactions (337 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (235 papers). Herbert C. Brown is often cited by papers focused on Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (351 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Reactions (337 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (235 papers). Herbert C. Brown collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Japan. Herbert C. Brown's co-authors include S. Krishnamurthy, P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran, George Zweifel, K. S. BHAT, Y Okamoto, Bin Rao, Prabhakar K. Jadhav, Darl H. McDaniel, Uday S. Racherla and Bakthan Singaram and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Herbert C. Brown

1.1k papers receiving 34.6k citations

Hit Papers

Sodium Borohydride, Its H... 1953 2026 1977 2001 1953 1958 1958 1983 1979 250 500 750
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  1. Sodium Borohydride, Its Hydrolysis and its Use as a Reducing Agent and in the Generation of Hydrogen1
    1953 971 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Electrophilic Substituent Constants
    1958 940 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. An Extended Table of Hammett Substitutent Constants Based on the Ionization of Substituted Benzoic Acids
    1958 922 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
  4. Asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation via .beta.-allyldiisopinocampheylborane. Simple synthesis of secondary homoallylic alcohols with excellent enantiomeric purities
    1983 416 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. Forty years of hydride reductions
    1979 357 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Tetrahedron profile →
  6. Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 7. Diastereoselective and enantioselective synthesis of erythro- and threo-.beta.-methylhomoallyl alcohols via enantiomeric (Z)- and (E)-crotylboranes
    1986 330 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 6. Asymmetric allylboration via chiral allyldialkylboranes. Synthesis of homoallylic alcohols with exceptionally high enantiomeric excess
    1986 310 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
  8. An Interpretation of the Chemical Behavior of Five- and Six-membered Ring Compounds1
    1954 244 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  9. Lithium tri-sec-butylborohydride. New reagent for the reduction of cyclic and bicyclic ketones with super stereoselectivity. Remarkably simple and practical procedure for the conversion of ketones to alcohols in exceptionally high stereochemical purity
    1972 244 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. The Nonclassical Ion Problem
    1977 223 citations Herbert C. Brown profile →
  11. Organic syntheses via boranes
    1975 206 citations Herbert C. Brown profile →
  12. New, Highly Active Metal Catalysts for the Hydrolysis of Borohydride
    1962 201 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  13. Boranes in Organic Chemistry
    1972 194 citations Herbert C. Brown profile →
  14. A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR THE CONVERSION OF OLEFINS INTO ORGANOBORANES AND RELATED ALCOHOLS
    1956 186 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  15. Substituent Constants for Aromatic Substitution1-3
    1957 185 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Catecholborane (1,3,2-benzodioxaorole) as a new, general monohydroboration reagent for alkynes. Convenient synthesis of alkeneboronic esters and acids from alkynes via hydroboration
    1972 185 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  17. A SIMPLE PROCEDURE FOR THE CHROMIC ACID OXIDATION OF ALCOHOLS TO KETONES OF HIGH PURITY
    1961 184 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  18. Hydroboration. XXXIX. 1,3,2-Benzodioxaborole (catecholborane) as a new hydroboration reagent for alkenes and alkynes. General synthesis of alkane- and alkeneboronic acids and esters via hydroboration. Directive effects in the hydroboration of alkenes and alkynes with catecholborane
    1975 173 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  19. Reactions of Diborane with Alkali Metal Hydrides and Their Addition Compounds. New Syntheses of Borohydrides. Sodium and Potassium Borohydrides1
    1953 171 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  20. Selective reductions. XVIII. Fast reaction of primary, secondary, and tertiary amides with diborane. Simple, convenient procedure for the conversion of amides to the corresponding amines
    1973 163 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
  21. Selective reductions. XII. Explorations in some representative applications of aluminum hydride for selective reductions
    1968 160 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  22. The Oxymercuration-Demercuration of Representative Olefins. A Convenient, Mild Procedure for the Markovnikov Hydration of the Carbon-Carbon Double Bond
    1967 151 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Selective Reductions. X. Reaction of Aluminum Hydride with Selected Organic Compounds Containing Representative Functional Groups. Comparison of the Reducing Characteristics of Lithium Aluminum Hydride and Its Derivatives
    1966 148 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  24. Oxidation of secondary alcohols in diethyl ether with aqueous chromic acid. Convenient procedure for the preparation of ketones in high epimeric purity
    1971 140 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
  25. A Quantitative Treatment for Electrophilic Reactions of Aromatic Derivatives1-3
    1957 137 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
  26. Hydroboration. III. The Reduction of Organic Compounds by Diborane, an Acid-type Reducing Agent
    1960 136 citations Herbert C. Brown et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Herbert C. Brown 28.8k 7.7k 7.3k 4.0k 3.9k 1.1k 37.4k
Alan R. Katritzky 38.8k 1.3× 3.8k 0.5× 10.3k 1.4× 5.3k 1.3× 5.2k 1.3× 2.0k 52.7k
Colin Eaborn 22.1k 0.8× 13.5k 1.8× 3.0k 0.4× 8.7k 2.2× 2.8k 0.7× 662 36.0k
Robert G. Bergman 45.1k 1.6× 20.7k 2.7× 4.0k 0.5× 6.1k 1.5× 3.6k 0.9× 689 52.4k
Michael B. Hursthouse 23.7k 0.8× 15.1k 2.0× 2.6k 0.4× 9.8k 2.4× 4.1k 1.0× 1.5k 38.5k
Michael J. S. Dewar 21.8k 0.8× 4.0k 0.5× 5.5k 0.8× 8.6k 2.1× 7.8k 2.0× 496 42.2k
Roland Fröhlich 26.5k 0.9× 12.6k 1.6× 3.1k 0.4× 4.2k 1.1× 2.1k 0.5× 1.0k 32.0k
F. Matthias Bickelhaupt 22.3k 0.8× 11.6k 1.5× 5.1k 0.7× 8.0k 2.0× 3.6k 0.9× 859 38.6k
Ralph G. Pearson 17.1k 0.6× 7.2k 0.9× 3.4k 0.5× 12.5k 3.1× 3.2k 0.8× 181 39.7k
Robin Taylor 12.9k 0.4× 11.2k 1.5× 8.7k 1.2× 8.4k 2.1× 3.7k 0.9× 91 33.6k
Kenneth B. Wiberg 18.2k 0.6× 5.1k 0.7× 3.9k 0.5× 5.6k 1.4× 7.5k 1.9× 497 34.4k

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All Works

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Roy, Chandra D. & Herbert C. Brown. (2007). Monobromoborane–Dimethyl Sulfide—a Highly Promising Reagent for the Regio- and Chemoselective Brominative Cleavage of Terminal Epoxides into Vicinal Bromohydrins*. Australian Journal of Chemistry. 60(2). 139–145. 3 indexed citations
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Chen, Guangming, P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran, & Herbert C. Brown. (1999). The Critical Importance of Water in the Asymmetric Allylboration ofN-Trimethylsilylbenzaldimines withB-Allyldiisopinocampheylborane. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 38(6). 825–826. 50 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., Guangming Chen, Michael P. Jennings, & P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran. (1999). Markovnikov Hydroboration of Perfluoroalkylethylenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 38(13-14). 2052–2054. 51 indexed citations
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Ramachandran, P. Veeraraghavan, Zhi‐Hui Lu, & Herbert C. Brown. (1997). Efficient general synthesis of 1,2- and 1,3-diols in high enantiomeric excess via the intramolecular asymmetric reduction of the corresponding ketoalkyl diisopinocampheylborinate intermediates. Tetrahedron Letters. 38(5). 761–764. 23 indexed citations
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Ramachandran, P. Veeraraghavan, Baoqing Gong, & Herbert C. Brown. (1993). Asymmetric synthesis of both enantiomers of α-(4-fluorophenyl)-4-(2-pyrimidinyl)-1-piperazinebutanol: Potential antipsychotic agents. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 4(12). 2399–2400. 6 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., et al.. (1993). Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 37. Enantioselective synthesis of conjugated acyclic α-chiral (E)-alkenones. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 4(1). 59–68. 4 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., N. RAVINDRAN, & Surendra U. Kulkarni. (1980). Hydroboration. 54. New general synthesis of alkyldihaloboranes via hydroboration of alkenes with dihaloborane-dimethyl sulfide complexes. Unusual trends in the reactivities and directive effects. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 45(3). 384–389. 43 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., et al.. (1978). Additions to bicyclic olefins—X. Tetrahedron. 34(23). 3405–3411. 11 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., C. G. RAO, & M. Ravindranathan. (1978). Structural effects in solvolytic reactions. 29. Solvolysis of tertiary allylic p-nitrobenzoates. Effect of the allylic double bond on the rates of solvolysis of representative tertiary p-nitrobenzoates. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 43(26). 4939–4943. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C. & Alan B. Levy. (1972). Organoboranes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 44(2). 233–236. 18 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C. & Ei‐ichi Negishi. (1971). A simple synthesis of bisborinane and its applicability in hydroboration for the preparation ofB-alkylborinanes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 26(3). C67–C69. 13 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C. & Richard L. Klimisch. (1966). Steric Effects in Elimination Reactions. XI. The Reaction of Potassium t-Butoxide with 2-Butyl and t-Amyl Halides. The Effect of the Halogen on the Direction of Elimination1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 88(7). 1425–1429. 9 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C. & Paul M. Weissman. (1965). Selective Reductions. VII. Reaction of Lithium Trimethoxyaluminohydride with Selected Organic Compounds Containing Representative Functional Groups1. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 87(24). 5614–5620. 49 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., et al.. (1963). Hydroboration. XV. The Influence of Structure on the Relative Rates of Hydroboration of Representative Unsaturated Hydrocarbons with Diborane and with Bis-(3-methyl-2-butyl)-borane. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 85(14). 2063–2065. 32 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., et al.. (1962). Hydroboration. XIV. Rates and Stoichiometry of the Hydroboration of Some Representative Hindered Olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 84(8). 1478–1484. 32 indexed citations
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Brown, Herbert C., et al.. (1957). Isomer Distribution in the Aluminum Chloride-Catalyzed Benzoylation of Toluene in Nitrobenzene1-3. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 22(7). 719–723. 13 indexed citations
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