John E. Moses

9.0k total citations · 4 hit papers
124 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

John E. Moses is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John E. Moses has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Organic Chemistry, 67 papers in Molecular Biology and 21 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in John E. Moses's work include Click Chemistry and Applications (51 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (43 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (21 papers). John E. Moses is often cited by papers focused on Click Chemistry and Applications (51 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (43 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (21 papers). John E. Moses collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Australia. John E. Moses's co-authors include Adam D. Moorhouse, K. Barry Sharpless, Christopher J. Smedley, Andrew S. Barrow, Suhua Li, Peng Wu, Christian Spiteri, Robert M. Adlington, Jack E. Baldwin and Karine Barral and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

John E. Moses

123 papers receiving 7.2k 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.

The growing applications of click chemistry

2007 2.1k citations John E. Moses, Adam D. Moorhouse Chemical Society Reviews profile →
The growing applications of SuFEx click chemistry

2019 442 citations Andrew S. Barrow, Christopher J. Smedley et al. Chemical Society Reviews profile →
SuFEx-enabled, agnostic discovery of covalent inhibitors of human neutrophil elastase

2019 157 citations Qinheng Zheng, Jordan L. Woehl et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
SuFExable polymers with helical structures derived from thionyl tetrafluoride

2021 122 citations Suhua Li, Gencheng Li et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John E. Moses United Kingdom	41	5.5k	3.2k	1.1k	540	403	124	7.3k
Ayman El‐Faham Egypt	42	5.2k 0.9×	5.0k 1.5×	295 0.3×	473 0.9×	260 0.6×	297	8.1k
Jan H. van Maarseveen Netherlands	43	6.7k 1.2×	3.5k 1.1×	275 0.3×	468 0.9×	446 1.1×	151	7.9k
Beate Koksch Germany	39	2.4k 0.4×	3.9k 1.2×	1.5k 1.5×	664 1.2×	393 1.0×	178	6.2k
Floris L. van Delft Netherlands	46	6.2k 1.1×	4.8k 1.5×	361 0.3×	413 0.8×	1.8k 4.4×	174	8.2k
Andrei K. Yudin Canada	50	10.2k 1.9×	4.0k 1.2×	1.4k 1.3×	624 1.2×	233 0.6×	229	12.2k
Henk Hiemstra Netherlands	50	10.3k 1.9×	3.8k 1.2×	447 0.4×	442 0.8×	317 0.8×	267	11.5k
Helma Wennemers Switzerland	52	4.5k 0.8×	4.0k 1.2×	465 0.4×	623 1.2×	135 0.3×	199	7.0k
Romano V. A. Orrù Netherlands	51	10.5k 1.9×	3.4k 1.0×	453 0.4×	581 1.1×	137 0.3×	190	12.1k
Matthieu Sollogoub France	39	3.0k 0.6×	2.0k 0.6×	473 0.5×	600 1.1×	145 0.4×	160	4.1k
Louis A. Carpino United States	44	5.4k 1.0×	6.4k 2.0×	616 0.6×	373 0.7×	428 1.1×	148	8.8k

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Moses, John E., et al.. (2025). Combustion characteristics of hydrogen, ammonia, and their blends: A review. Fuel. 388. 134404–134404. 13 indexed citations

Wang, Zifei, Qiyao Huang, Robert Johnson, et al.. (2025). Phosphorus Fluoride Exchange (PFEx) Click Chemistry: 2‐Substituted‐Alkynyl‐1‐Cyclotriphosphazene (SACP) Hubs for Diversity Oriented Clicking. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 367(7). 2 indexed citations

Homer, Joshua A., et al.. (2024). Protocol for producing phosphoramidate using phosphorus fluoride exchange click chemistry. STAR Protocols. 5(1). 102824–102824. 4 indexed citations

Homer, Joshua A., et al.. (2024). Strategic re-engineering of antibiotics. Nature Reviews Bioengineering. 3(3). 213–229. 7 indexed citations

Smedley, Christopher J., Marie‐Claire Giel, Thomas Fallon, & John E. Moses. (2023). Ethene‐1,1‐disulfonyl Difluoride (EDSF) for SuFEx Click Chemistry: Synthesis of SuFExable 1,1‐Bissulfonylfluoride Substituted Cyclobutene Hubs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(30). e202303916–e202303916. 11 indexed citations

Homer, Joshua A., Long Xu, Qinheng Zheng, et al.. (2023). Sulfur fluoride exchange. Nature Reviews Methods Primers. 3(1). 66 indexed citations

Wang, Zifei, Joshua A. Homer, Wen‐Hsuan Yang, et al.. (2023). Inhibition of mitochondrial metabolism by (−)-jerantinine A: synthesis and biological studies in triple-negative breast cancer cells. RSC Medicinal Chemistry. 14(4). 710–714. 1 indexed citations

Cheng, Yunfei, Gencheng Li, Christopher J. Smedley, et al.. (2022). Diversity oriented clicking delivers β-substituted alkenyl sulfonyl fluorides as covalent human neutrophil elastase inhibitors. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(37). e2208540119–e2208540119. 31 indexed citations

Li, Suhua, Gencheng Li, Bing Gao, et al.. (2021). SuFExable polymers with helical structures derived from thionyl tetrafluoride. Nature Chemistry. 13(9). 858–867. 122 indexed citations breakdown →

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Zheng, Qinheng, Jordan L. Woehl, Seiya Kitamura, et al.. (2019). SuFEx-enabled, agnostic discovery of covalent inhibitors of human neutrophil elastase. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(38). 18808–18814. 157 indexed citations breakdown →

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Spiteri, Christian, et al.. (2016). Biomimetic Approaches Towards The Synthesis of Complex Dimeric Natural Products. Current Pharmaceutical Design. 22(12). 1628–1657. 8 indexed citations

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Moore, Jonathan C., E. Stephen Davies, Darren A. Walsh, Pallavi Sharma, & John E. Moses. (2014). Formal synthesis of kingianin A based upon a novel electrochemically-induced radical cation Diels–Alder reaction. Chemical Communications. 50(83). 12523–12525. 29 indexed citations

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Moorhouse, Adam D., Christian Spiteri, Pallavi Sharma, Mire Zloh, & John E. Moses. (2010). Targeting glycolysis: a fragment based approach towards bifunctional inhibitors of hLDH-5. Chemical Communications. 47(1). 230–232. 22 indexed citations

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Spiteri, Christian, Christopher R. Mason, Fengzhi Zhang, et al.. (2010). An efficient entry to 1,2-benzisoxazoles via 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition of in situ generated nitrile oxides and benzyne. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 8(11). 2537–2537. 28 indexed citations

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Moses, John E., Dougal J. Ritson, Fengzhi Zhang, et al.. (2010). A click chemistry approach to C3 symmetric, G-quadruplex stabilising ligands. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 8(13). 2926–2926. 28 indexed citations

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Gunaratnam, Mekala, Colin Green, Adam D. Moorhouse, et al.. (2009). G-quadruplex compounds and cis-platin act synergistically to inhibit cancer cell growth in vitro and in vivo. Biochemical Pharmacology. 78(2). 115–122. 32 indexed citations

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Moorhouse, Adam D., Shozeb Haider, Mekala Gunaratnam, et al.. (2008). Targeting telomerase and telomeres: a click chemistry approach towards highly selective G-quadruplex ligands. Molecular BioSystems. 4(6). 629–642. 33 indexed citations

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Moorhouse, Adam D. & John E. Moses. (2008). Click Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry: A Case of “Cyclo‐Addiction”. ChemMedChem. 3(5). 715–723. 174 indexed citations

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Moses, John E. & Adam D. Moorhouse. (2007). The growing applications of click chemistry. Chemical Society Reviews. 36(8). 1249–1262. 2077 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moses, John E., et al.. (2005). Biomimetic synthesis of (±)-9,10-deoxytridachione. Chemical Communications. 1687–1689. 25 indexed citations

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