Jan‐E. Bäckvall

18.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
295 papers, 15.1k citations indexed

About

Jan‐E. Bäckvall is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan‐E. Bäckvall has authored 295 papers receiving a total of 15.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 238 papers in Organic Chemistry, 107 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 78 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Jan‐E. Bäckvall's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (88 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (78 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (62 papers). Jan‐E. Bäckvall is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (88 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (78 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (62 papers). Jan‐E. Bäckvall collaborates with scholars based in Sweden, France and Germany. Jan‐E. Bäckvall's co-authors include Òscar Pàmies, Joseph S. M. Samec, Pher G. Andersson, Oscar Verho, Alida H. Éll, Peter Brandt, Fernando F. Huerta, Julio Piera, Andreas K. Å. Persson and Alexander B. E. Minidis and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Jan‐E. Bäckvall

293 papers receiving 14.8k citations

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Mechanistic aspects of transition metal-catalyzed hydrogen transfer reactions

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Jan‐E. Bäckvall Sweden	64	11.1k	6.6k	4.0k	1.9k	1.5k	295	15.1k
Kuiling Ding China	65	9.1k 0.8×	6.2k 0.9×	2.0k 0.5×	1.9k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	254	12.5k
Andreas Pfaltz Switzerland	72	17.4k 1.6×	12.7k 1.9×	5.0k 1.3×	3.4k 1.8×	1.2k 0.8×	282	21.9k
Miguel Yus Spain	77	27.2k 2.5×	9.9k 1.5×	5.4k 1.3×	1.8k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	648	30.2k
Albert S. C. Chan Hong Kong	69	11.9k 1.1×	7.4k 1.1×	3.6k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.0k 0.7×	403	15.9k
Michael J. Krische United States	89	21.3k 1.9×	11.0k 1.7×	4.1k 1.0×	920 0.5×	848 0.6×	377	23.4k
Gary A. Molander United States	94	32.5k 2.9×	4.5k 0.7×	4.0k 1.0×	646 0.3×	1.6k 1.1×	441	34.6k
Shun‐Ichi Murahashi Japan	66	12.8k 1.2×	4.9k 0.7×	2.4k 0.6×	528 0.3×	2.0k 1.4×	297	14.6k
Gregory C. Fu United States	120	41.3k 3.7×	10.4k 1.6×	5.6k 1.4×	733 0.4×	1.8k 1.2×	319	43.5k
Yong‐Gui Zhou China	62	11.0k 1.0×	7.8k 1.2×	2.7k 0.7×	3.1k 1.7×	499 0.3×	283	13.7k
Jonathan M. J. Williams United Kingdom	60	11.8k 1.1×	9.3k 1.4×	5.7k 1.4×	1.4k 0.7×	670 0.5×	194	14.7k

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Naidu, Veluru Ramesh, Daniels Posevins, Chandra M. R. Volla, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2017). Selective Cascade Reaction of Bisallenes via Palladium‐Catalyzed Aerobic Oxidative Carbocyclization–Borylation and Aldehyde Trapping. Angewandte Chemie. 129(6). 1612–1616. 12 indexed citations

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Wikmark, Ylva, Maria Svedendahl Humble, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2015). Combinatorial Library Based Engineering of Candida antarctica Lipase A for Enantioselective Transacylation of sec‐Alcohols in Organic Solvent. Angewandte Chemie. 127(14). 4358–4362. 8 indexed citations

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Zhu, Can, Bin Yang, Tuo Jiang, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2015). Olefin‐Directed Palladium‐Catalyzed Regio‐ and Stereoselective Oxidative Arylation of Allenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(31). 9066–9069. 72 indexed citations

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Volkov, Alexey, Karl P. J. Gustafson, Cheuk‐Wai Tai, et al.. (2015). Mild Deoxygenation of Aromatic Ketones and Aldehydes over Pd/C Using Polymethylhydrosiloxane as the Reducing Agent. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 54(17). 5122–5126. 94 indexed citations

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Zhu, Can, Bin Yang, Tuo Jiang, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2015). Olefin‐Directed Palladium‐Catalyzed Regio‐ and Stereoselective Oxidative Arylation of Allenes. Angewandte Chemie. 127(31). 9194–9197. 29 indexed citations

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Gigant, Nicolas & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2014). Aerobic Double Dehydrogenative Cross Coupling between Cyclic Saturated Ketones and Simple Arenes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(20). 5890–5894. 28 indexed citations

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Deng, Youqian & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2013). Palladium‐Catalyzed Oxidative Acyloxylation/Carbocyclization of Allenynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(11). 3217–3221. 49 indexed citations

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Babu, Beneesh P., Xu Meng, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2013). Aerobic Oxidative Coupling of Arenes and Olefins through a Biomimetic Approach. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(13). 4140–4145. 57 indexed citations

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Shakeri, Mozaffar, Cheuk‐Wai Tai, Emmanuelle Göthelid, Sven Oscarsson, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2011). Small Pd Nanoparticles Supported in Large Pores of Mesocellular Foam: An Excellent Catalyst for Racemization of Amines. Chemistry - A European Journal. 17(47). 13269–13273. 73 indexed citations

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Martı́n-Matute, Belén, Michaela Edin, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2006). Highly Efficient Synthesis of Enantiopure Diacetylated C₂‐Symmetric Diols by Ruthenium‐ and Enzyme‐Catalyzed Dynamic Kinetic Asymmetric Transformation (DYKAT). Chemistry - A European Journal. 12(23). 6053–6061. 46 indexed citations

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Pàmies, Òscar & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2001). Studies on the Mechanism of Metal-Catalyzed Hydrogen Transfer from Alcohols to Ketones. Chemistry - A European Journal. 7(23). 5052–5058. 255 indexed citations

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Jonasson, Catrin, Magnus Rönn, & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (2000). An Enantioselective Route to Paeonilactone A via Palladium- and Copper-Catalyzed Reactions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 65(7). 2122–2126. 27 indexed citations

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Löfstedt, Joakim, et al.. (1999). A General Approach to Indolizidine Alkaloids From 1-Benzyloxy-5-(p-toluenesulfonamido)-3-alken-2-ols: Synthesis of (+)-Monomorine I. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 1999(12). 3277–3280. 2 indexed citations

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Bäckvall, Jan‐E., Rafael Chinchílla, Carmén Nájera, & Miguel Yus. (1998). The Use of Sulfonyl 1,3-Dienes in Organic Synthesis. Chemical Reviews. 98(6). 2291–2312. 130 indexed citations

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Grennberg, Helena, et al.. (1993). Cobalttetra(hydrochinon)porphyrin als wirkungsvoller Elektronenüberträger bei der aeroben Pd‐katalysierten 1,4‐Diacetoxylierung von 1,3‐Cyclohexadien. Angewandte Chemie. 105(2). 269–271. 15 indexed citations

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Bäckvall, Jan‐E., et al.. (1992). Stereoselective synthesis of (3E,5E)-dien-2-ones and (2E,4E)-dienals via 2-phenylsulfonyl 1,3-dienes. Tetrahedron Letters. 33(1). 131–134. 15 indexed citations

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Chinchílla, Rafael & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (1992). Cycloadditions of 2-nitro 1,3-dienes to enamines. Asymmetric induction and synthesis of unsaturated nitroketones and diels-alder adducts via [4+2] heterocyloadditions.. Tetrahedron Letters. 33(38). 5641–5644. 10 indexed citations

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Nordberg, Ruth E. & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (1985). A new method for stereocontrol in palladium-catalyzed reactions of allylic substrates. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 285(1-3). C24–C26. 10 indexed citations

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Heumann, Andreas & Jan‐E. Bäckvall. (1985). Methyl Migration and Transannular 1,5‐Hydride Shift on Oxidative Cleavage of CPd Bonds with CuCl₂. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 24(3). 207–208. 13 indexed citations

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Bäckvall, Jan‐E., Ruth E. Nordberg, Eva Björkman, & Christina Moberg. (1980). Stereochemistry of nucleophilic attack on π-allylpalladium complexes. Evidence for cis-migration of acetate from palladium to carbon. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 943–944. 34 indexed citations

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