John F. Hartwig

94.6k total citations · 28 hit papers
602 papers, 80.8k citations indexed

About

John F. Hartwig is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, John F. Hartwig has authored 602 papers receiving a total of 80.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 550 papers in Organic Chemistry, 264 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 80 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in John F. Hartwig's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (313 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (290 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (223 papers). John F. Hartwig is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (313 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (290 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (223 papers). John F. Hartwig collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Germany. John F. Hartwig's co-authors include Eric M. Simmons, Motoi Kawatsura, Qilong Shen, Darcy A. Culkin, Jaclyn M. Murphy, Patrick S. Fier, Cheng Chen, Janis Louie, James P. Stambuli and Christopher D. Incarvito and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

John F. Hartwig

591 papers receiving 79.7k citations

Hit Papers

C−H Activation for the Co... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2009 2012 2008 1998 1998 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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  1. C−H Activation for the Construction of C−B Bonds
    2009 2.4k citations Jaclyn M. Murphy, John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  2. On the Interpretation of Deuterium Kinetic Isotope Effects in CH Bond Functionalizations by Transition‐Metal Complexes
    2012 1.9k citations John F. Hartwig et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Evolution of a Fourth Generation Catalyst for the Amination and Thioetherification of Aryl Halides
    2008 1.7k citations John F. Hartwig profile →
  4. Transition Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Arylamines and Aryl Ethers from Aryl Halides and Triflates: Scope and Mechanism
    1998 1.5k citations John F. Hartwig Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Carbon−Heteroatom Bond-Forming Reductive Eliminations of Amines, Ethers, and Sulfides
    1998 1.0k citations John F. Hartwig profile →
  6. Mild Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Arenes. High Turnover Numbers, Room Temperature Reactions, and Isolation of a Potential Intermediate
    2001 968 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Borylation and Silylation of C–H Bonds: A Platform for Diverse C–H Bond Functionalizations
    2011 931 citations John F. Hartwig profile →
  8. Carbon–heteroatom bond formation catalysed by organometallic complexes
    2008 881 citations John F. Hartwig profile →
  9. Palladium-Catalyzed α-Arylation of Carbonyl Compounds and Nitriles
    2003 854 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  10. Thermal, Catalytic, Regiospecific Functionalization of Alkanes
    2000 769 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Science profile →
  11. Selective, Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Aryl Ethers
    2011 730 citations Alexey G. Sergeev, John F. Hartwig Science profile →
  12. Palladium-catalyzed synthesis of arylamines from aryl halides. Mechanistic studies lead to coupling in the absence of tin reagents
    1995 728 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  13. Regioselectivity of the borylation of alkanes and arenes
    2011 712 citations John F. Hartwig profile →
  14. Undirected, Homogeneous C–H Bond Functionalization: Challenges and Opportunities
    2016 689 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  15. Palladium-catalyzed formation of carbon-nitrogen bonds. Reaction intermediates and catalyst improvements in the hetero cross-coupling of aryl halides and tin amides
    1994 678 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  16. Evolution of C–H Bond Functionalization from Methane to Methodology
    2015 653 citations John F. Hartwig Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  17. Room-Temperature Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aryl Bromides and Chlorides and Extended Scope of Aromatic C−N Bond Formation with a Commercial Ligand
    1999 652 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  18. Air Stable, Sterically Hindered Ferrocenyl Dialkylphosphines for Palladium-Catalyzed C−C, C−N, and C−O Bond-Forming Cross-Couplings
    2002 648 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  19. A General and Long-Lived Catalyst for the Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Halides with Thiols
    2006 637 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  20. Mechanistically Driven Development of Iridium Catalysts for Asymmetric Allylic Substitution
    2010 624 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  21. Catalytic Silylation of Unactivated C–H Bonds
    2015 603 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  22. Palladium-Catalyzed Direct α-Arylation of Ketones. Rate Acceleration by Sterically Hindered Chelating Ligands and Reductive Elimination from a Transition Metal Enolate Complex
    1997 513 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  23. Palladium-Catalyzed Amination of Aromatic C−H Bonds with Oxime Esters
    2010 509 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  24. Zur Interpretation des kinetischen Isotopeneffekts bei der Funktionalisierung von C‐H‐Bindungen durch Übergangsmetallkomplexe
    2012 468 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Angewandte Chemie profile →
  25. Rhodium-Catalyzed Intermolecular C–H Silylation of Arenes with High Steric Regiocontrol
    2014 411 citations John F. Hartwig et al. Science profile →
  26. Metal-catalysed azidation of tertiary C–H bonds suitable for late-stage functionalization
    2015 366 citations John F. Hartwig et al. profile →
  27. Catalytic deconstruction of waste polyethylene with ethylene to form propylene
    2022 279 citations Jake X. Shi, Nicodemo R. Ciccia et al. Science profile →
  28. Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Silylation and Borylation of C–H Bonds for the Synthesis and Functionalization of Complex Molecules
    2023 106 citations Isaac Furay Yu, John F. Hartwig et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John F. Hartwig United States 156 72.5k 25.7k 8.3k 6.5k 4.3k 602 80.8k
Stephen L. Buchwald United States 160 80.6k 1.1× 21.7k 0.8× 12.8k 1.5× 6.3k 1.0× 4.9k 1.1× 677 89.7k
Frank Glorius Germany 146 67.4k 0.9× 15.5k 0.6× 3.5k 0.4× 4.0k 0.6× 3.9k 0.9× 640 73.2k
F. Dean Toste United States 134 40.7k 0.6× 13.1k 0.5× 4.7k 0.6× 4.2k 0.7× 5.1k 1.2× 400 48.4k
David W. C. MacMillan United States 114 53.9k 0.7× 10.1k 0.4× 6.2k 0.8× 7.3k 1.1× 4.4k 1.0× 232 60.2k
Eric N. Jacobsen United States 116 42.3k 0.6× 17.5k 0.7× 10.5k 1.3× 2.2k 0.3× 5.7k 1.3× 328 50.4k
Robert G. Bergman United States 110 45.1k 0.6× 20.7k 0.8× 4.0k 0.5× 2.4k 0.4× 6.1k 1.4× 689 52.4k
Lutz Ackermann Germany 131 62.1k 0.9× 15.7k 0.6× 3.7k 0.4× 3.2k 0.5× 1.7k 0.4× 680 65.2k
Chao‐Jun Li Canada 107 43.3k 0.6× 9.3k 0.4× 5.1k 0.6× 2.2k 0.3× 3.2k 0.8× 651 47.8k
Carsten Bolm Germany 104 38.4k 0.5× 11.3k 0.4× 6.7k 0.8× 1.9k 0.3× 4.5k 1.0× 689 45.9k
Shu̅ Kobayashi Japan 105 38.5k 0.5× 12.3k 0.5× 10.0k 1.2× 1.6k 0.2× 5.5k 1.3× 880 44.7k

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All Works

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Yu, Isaac Furay, et al.. (2025). Electronic Activation Enables the Borylation of Alkyl C–H Bonds in Saturated Nitrogen Heterocycles. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(47). 43223–43230.
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Shi, Jake X., et al.. (2025). Backbone editing and deconstruction of polyethylene by Beckmann rearrangement and hydrogenolysis. Chemical Science. 16(25). 11304–11310. 2 indexed citations
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Yu, Isaac Furay, et al.. (2024). 2-Aminophenanthroline Ligands Enable Mild, Undirected, Iridium-Catalyzed Borylation of Alkyl C–H Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(11). 7124–7129. 15 indexed citations
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Fantoni, Tommaso, X. S. Jiang, Zhi‐Tao He, et al.. (2024). Convergent synthesis and protein binding of vicinal difluorides by stereodivergent C–C bond formation. Chem. 10(12). 3709–3721. 7 indexed citations
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Shi, Jake X., Nicodemo R. Ciccia, Subhajit Pal, et al.. (2023). Chemical Modification of Oxidized Polyethylene Enables Access to Functional Polyethylenes with Greater Reuse. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(39). 21527–21537. 57 indexed citations
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Ng, Tai L., et al.. (2023). Discovery of the Azaserine Biosynthetic Pathway Uncovers a Biological Route for α‐Diazoester Production. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(28). e202304646–e202304646. 30 indexed citations
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Ciccia, Nicodemo R., Jake X. Shi, Subhajit Pal, et al.. (2023). Diverse functional polyethylenes by catalytic amination. Science. 381(6665). 1433–1440. 67 indexed citations
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Liu, Zhennan, Jing Huang, Yang Gu, et al.. (2022). Assembly and Evolution of Artificial Metalloenzymes within E. coli Nissle 1917 for Enantioselective and Site-Selective Functionalization of C─H and C═C Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(2). 883–890. 31 indexed citations
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Butcher, Trevor W., et al.. (2021). gem‐Difluoroallylation of Aryl Halides and Pseudo Halides with Difluoroallylboron Reagents in High Regioselectivity. Angewandte Chemie. 133(49). 25950–25956. 4 indexed citations
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Su, Bo, et al.. (2020). Palladium-Catalyzed Oxidation of β-C(sp3)–H Bonds of Primary Alkylamines through a Rare Four-Membered Palladacycle Intermediate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(17). 7912–7919. 46 indexed citations
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Oeschger, Raphael J., Bo Su, Isaac Furay Yu, et al.. (2020). Diverse functionalization of strong alkyl C–H bonds by undirected borylation. Science. 368(6492). 736–741. 167 indexed citations
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Ray, Ritwika & John F. Hartwig. (2020). Oxalohydrazide Ligands for Copper‐Catalyzed C−O Coupling Reactions with High Turnover Numbers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(15). 8203–8211. 60 indexed citations
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He, Zhi‐Tao, X. S. Jiang, & John F. Hartwig. (2019). Stereodivergent Construction of Tertiary Fluorides in Vicinal Stereogenic Pairs by Allylic Substitution with Iridium and Copper Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(33). 13066–13073. 186 indexed citations
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Strom, Alexandra E., et al.. (2018). Mechanistic Studies of Palladium-Catalyzed Aminocarbonylation of Aryl Chlorides with Carbon Monoxide and Ammonia. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(25). 7979–7993. 61 indexed citations
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Wang, Yajie, Mark J. Bartlett, Carl A. Denard, John F. Hartwig, & Huimin Zhao. (2017). Combining Rh-Catalyzed Diazocoupling and Enzymatic Reduction To Efficiently Synthesize Enantioenriched 2-Substituted Succinate Derivatives. ACS Catalysis. 7(4). 2548–2552. 35 indexed citations
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Dydio, Paweł, et al.. (2016). An artificial metalloenzyme with the kinetics of native enzymes. Science. 354(6308). 102–106. 304 indexed citations
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Fier, Patrick S. & John F. Hartwig. (2013). Selective C-H Fluorination of Pyridines and Diazines Inspired by a Classic Amination Reaction. Science. 342(6161). 956–960. 214 indexed citations
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Sergeev, Alexey G. & John F. Hartwig. (2011). Selective, Nickel-Catalyzed Hydrogenolysis of Aryl Ethers. Science. 332(6028). 439–443. 730 indexed citations breakdown →
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Murphy, Jaclyn M., Carl Christoph Tzschucke, & John F. Hartwig. (2007). One-Pot Synthesis of Arylboronic Acids and Aryl Trifluoroborates by Ir-Catalyzed Borylation of Arenes. Organic Letters. 9(5). 757–760. 121 indexed citations

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