Israel Agranat

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
217 papers, 4.1k citations indexed

About

Israel Agranat is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Israel Agranat has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 4.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 157 papers in Organic Chemistry, 57 papers in Spectroscopy and 44 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Israel Agranat's work include Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (64 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (32 papers) and Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (31 papers). Israel Agranat is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (64 papers), Analytical Chemistry and Chromatography (32 papers) and Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (31 papers). Israel Agranat collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Italy. Israel Agranat's co-authors include P. Ulrich Biedermann, Sergey Pogodin, John Caldwell, Shmuel Cohen, John J. Stezowski, Ernst Bergmann, Yitzhak Tapuhi, L Levy, Mordecai Rabinovitz and T. P. Radhakrishnan and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics and Chemistry of Materials.

In The Last Decade

Israel Agranat

211 papers receiving 4.0k 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. Putting chirality to work: the strategy of chiral switches
    2002 488 citations Israel Agranat et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Israel Agranat Israel 30 2.3k 1.0k 993 562 554 217 4.1k
Walter M. F. Fabian Austria 32 2.4k 1.0× 708 0.7× 674 0.7× 844 1.5× 584 1.1× 216 4.1k
Jochen Mattay Germany 38 4.4k 1.9× 1.0k 1.0× 1.8k 1.8× 624 1.1× 983 1.8× 302 5.9k
H. J. Geise Belgium 33 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 1.3× 923 0.9× 441 0.8× 741 1.3× 227 4.1k
Mordecai Rabinovitz Israel 33 3.1k 1.3× 603 0.6× 1.5k 1.5× 258 0.5× 384 0.7× 229 4.1k
Horst Hartmann Germany 31 2.1k 0.9× 557 0.5× 1.5k 1.6× 414 0.7× 604 1.1× 285 4.4k
Brian D. Wagner Canada 29 1.3k 0.6× 868 0.8× 885 0.9× 362 0.6× 871 1.6× 86 2.8k
Hans Wynberg Netherlands 38 3.5k 1.5× 947 0.9× 832 0.8× 1.1k 1.9× 456 0.8× 187 5.5k
Erich Kleinpeter Germany 33 4.3k 1.8× 1.6k 1.5× 715 0.7× 732 1.3× 759 1.4× 405 5.6k
Hans Wynberg Netherlands 37 2.8k 1.2× 860 0.8× 909 0.9× 764 1.4× 276 0.5× 133 4.8k
Asao Nakamura Japan 27 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 1.1× 1.2k 1.2× 690 1.2× 429 0.8× 110 3.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Agranat, Israel & Ilaria D’Acquarica. (2025). Racemic drugs are not necessarily less efficacious and less safe than their single-enantiomer components. European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences. 209. 107082–107082. 1 indexed citations
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Agranat, Israel & Ilaria D’Acquarica. (2024). Chiral Switches of Tramadol Hydrochloride, a Potential Psychedelic Drug─Past and Future. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(9). 1409–1416. 3 indexed citations
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Dilly, Sébastien, Patricia Abbe, Stéphanie Solier, et al.. (2021). Distinction between 2′- and 3′-Phosphate Isomers of a Fluorescent NADPH Analogue Led to Strong Inhibition of Cancer Cells Migration. Antioxidants. 10(5). 723–723. 1 indexed citations
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Agranat, Israel, et al.. (2010). The strategy of enantiomer patents of drugs. Drug Discovery Today. 15(5-6). 163–170. 44 indexed citations
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Biedermann, P. Ulrich, et al.. (2007). Pyramidal inversion mechanism of simple chiral and achiral sulfoxides: A theoretical study. Chirality. 19(7). 559–569. 25 indexed citations
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Gangopadhyay, Palash, D. Narayana Rao, Israel Agranat, & T. P. Radhakrishnan. (2002). Strategic Placement of Stereogenic Centers in Molecular Materials for Second Harmonic Generation. PubMed. 7(2-3). 119–127. 9 indexed citations
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Agranat, Israel. (2002). Pharmaceutical Substances: Syntheses, Patents, Applications. Synthesis. 2002(3). 439–440. 234 indexed citations
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Radhakrishnan, T. P. & Israel Agranat. (2001). Linear versus Y-Topology in Conjugated Polyene Dications:  Questioning Y-Aromaticity. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 66(9). 3215–3219. 7 indexed citations
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Pogodin, Sergey & Israel Agranat. (2001). Large PAHs Derived from Benzanthrone and Naphthanthrone. A Semiempirical Study. Polycyclic aromatic compounds. 18(3). 247–263. 6 indexed citations
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Gangopadhyay, Palash, et al.. (1999). Optical Second Harmonic Generation in Achiral Bis(n-alkylamino)dicyanoquinodimethanes:  Alkyl Chain Length as the Design Element. Chemistry of Materials. 11(2). 466–472. 35 indexed citations
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Biedermann, P. Ulrich, Volker Schurig, & Israel Agranat. (1997). Enantiomerization of Environmentally Significant Overcrowded Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs). Chirality. 9(4). 350–353. 22 indexed citations
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Mosurkal, Ravi, D. Narayana Rao, Shmuel Cohen, Israel Agranat, & T. P. Radhakrishnan. (1997). Push−Pull Quinonoid Compounds:  Enhanced Powder SHG Utilizing the Effect of Chiral Centers on the Dipole Alignment. Chemistry of Materials. 9(3). 830–837. 30 indexed citations
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Gutman, İvan & Israel Agranat. (1991). Cyclic Conjugation in Peropyrenes. Polycyclic aromatic compounds. 2(1). 63–73. 11 indexed citations
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Isaksson, Roland, et al.. (1988). Enantiomer resolution of nefopam hydrochloride, a novel analgesic: a study by liquid chromatography and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology. 40(1). 48–50. 5 indexed citations
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Herndon, William C. & Israel Agranat. (1983). Structure‐Resonance Valence Bond Theory for Ferrocenes and Ferrocenylalkyl Cations. Israel Journal of Chemistry. 23(1). 66–71. 5 indexed citations
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Agranat, Israel, et al.. (1979). Multiple Horner-Emmons cyclizations as a route to nonbenzenoid aromatics. Synthesis of polycyclic dodecalenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 44(12). 1936–1941. 14 indexed citations
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Fry, Albert J., et al.. (1976). Electrochemical and chemical reduction of the triferrocenylcyclopropenium ion. Tetrahedron Letters. 17(52). 4803–4806. 11 indexed citations
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Agranat, Israel, et al.. (1974). The Synthesis of Linearly Annelated Polycyclic Ketones by Friedel-Crafts Rearrangements of Their Angular Isomers. Synthetic Communications. 4(2). 119–126. 5 indexed citations
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Bergmann, Ernst & Israel Agranat. (1971). 15H-cyclohepta[2,1-a:4,5-a′]dinaphthalen-15-one. The condensation of naphthalene-1,2-dicarboxylic anhydride with 2-naphthylacetic acid. Journal of the Chemical Society C Organic. 0(0). 3532–3536.
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Bergmann, Ernst, Israel Agranat, & Menahem A. Kraus. (1967). An approach to the synthesis of tetrabenzo[a,c,g,i]heptalene. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 32(3). 600–602. 8 indexed citations

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