K. A. Woerpel

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
163 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

K. A. Woerpel is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, K. A. Woerpel has authored 163 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 156 papers in Organic Chemistry, 27 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in K. A. Woerpel's work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (65 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (63 papers) and Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (34 papers). K. A. Woerpel is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (65 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (63 papers) and Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (34 papers). K. A. Woerpel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and France. K. A. Woerpel's co-authors include David A. Evans, Mira M. Hinman, Margaret M. Faul, Deborah Smith, Jared T. Shaw, Claudia G. Lucero, Jacqueline H. Smitrovich, Jan Antoinette C. Romero, Tom G. Driver and Annaliese K. Franz and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

K. A. Woerpel

162 papers receiving 6.5k 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.

Bis(oxazolines) as chiral ligands in metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions. Catalytic, asymmetric cyclopropanation of olefins

1991 828 citations K. A. Woerpel et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Identification of essential sites of lipid peroxidation in ferroptosis

2023 253 citations K. A. Woerpel et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. A. Woerpel United States	44	5.8k	2.0k	1.1k	298	270	163	6.6k
Giovanni Casiraghi Italy	37	4.4k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	495 0.4×	275 0.9×	114 0.4×	173	5.3k
Shuji Akai Japan	40	3.8k 0.6×	1.3k 0.6×	608 0.5×	147 0.5×	60 0.2×	208	4.9k
Yoshimitsu Nagao Japan	36	4.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.8×	661 0.6×	253 0.8×	38 0.1×	269	5.2k
Hans‐Ulrich Reißig Germany	43	9.5k 1.6×	1.6k 0.8×	698 0.6×	134 0.4×	43 0.2×	493	10.3k
Sherry R. Chemler United States	45	5.9k 1.0×	648 0.3×	1.3k 1.2×	256 0.9×	45 0.2×	89	6.4k
Metin Balcı Türkiye	32	3.7k 0.6×	716 0.4×	502 0.5×	153 0.5×	84 0.3×	252	4.3k
Gloria Rassu Italy	36	3.8k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	423 0.4×	250 0.8×	35 0.1×	116	4.4k
Patrick J. Guiry Ireland	44	8.1k 1.4×	1.9k 1.0×	3.2k 2.9×	49 0.2×	72 0.3×	199	9.5k
P. L. Fuchs United States	40	4.7k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	356 0.3×	669 2.2×	42 0.2×	234	6.1k
Masataka Ihara Japan	41	5.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.9×	697 0.6×	354 1.2×	28 0.1×	400	7.0k

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Newman, Justin A., et al.. (2024). Supramolecular Mille-Feuille: Adaptive Guest Inclusion in a New Aliphatic Guanidinium Monosulfonate Hydrogen-Bonded Framework. Crystal Growth & Design. 24(8). 3483–3490. 7 indexed citations

Shtukenberg, Alexander G., et al.. (2024). Hydrogen-bonded frameworks for conformational analysis of reactive substrates. Chemical Communications. 60(82). 11770–11773. 1 indexed citations

Codée, Jeroen D. C., et al.. (2023). Neighboring‐Group Participation by C‐2 Acyloxy Groups: Influence of the Nucleophile and Acyl Group on the Stereochemical Outcome of Acetal Substitution Reactions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(57). e202301894–e202301894. 10 indexed citations

Yang, Yingying, et al.. (2022). Conformationally Biased Ketones React Diastereoselectively with Allylmagnesium Halides. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 87(5). 3042–3065. 5 indexed citations

Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2022). Origin of High Diastereoselectivity in Reactions of Seven‐Membered‐Ring Enolates. Angewandte Chemie. 134(14). 1 indexed citations

Hu, Chunhua, et al.. (2021). Diastereoselective Additions of Allylmagnesium Reagents to α-Substituted Ketones When Stereochemical Models Cannot Be Used. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 86(10). 7203–7217. 10 indexed citations

Greene, Margaret A., et al.. (2020). Carboalumination of Seven-Membered-Ring trans-Alkenes. Organic Letters. 22(19). 7518–7521. 2 indexed citations

Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2018). Cobalt-Catalyzed Oxygenation/Dearomatization of Furans. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(16). 9067–9075. 15 indexed citations

Carroll, William L., et al.. (2016). Five-Membered Ring Peroxide Selectively Initiates Ferroptosis in Cancer Cells. ACS Chemical Biology. 11(5). 1305–1312. 154 indexed citations

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Hurlocker, Brisa, et al.. (2014). Synthesis of Silyl Monoperoxyketals by Regioselective Cobalt-Catalyzed Peroxidation of Silyl Enol Ethers: Application to the Synthesis of 1,2-Dioxolanes. Organic Letters. 16(16). 4280–4283. 27 indexed citations

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Beaver, Matthew G. & K. A. Woerpel. (2010). Erosion of Stereochemical Control with Increasing Nucleophilicity: O-Glycosylation at the Diffusion Limit. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 75(4). 1107–1118. 100 indexed citations

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Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2010). Palladium- and Nickel-Catalyzed Carbon−Carbon Bond Insertion Reactions with Alkylidenesilacyclopropanes. Organometallics. 29(7). 1661–1669. 27 indexed citations

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Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2010). Silylene-Mediated Polarity Reversal of Dienoates: Additions of Dienoates to Aldehydes at the δ-Position To Formtrans-Dioxasilacyclononenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(3). 406–408. 20 indexed citations

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Yang, Michael T. & K. A. Woerpel. (2008). The Effect of Electrostatic Interactions on Conformational Equilibria of Multiply Substituted Tetrahydropyran Oxocarbenium Ions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 74(2). 545–553. 110 indexed citations

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Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2008). Dearomatization Reactions of Aryl-Substituted Silaaziridines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73(20). 8113–8115. 7 indexed citations

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Driver, Tom G., Jason Harris, & K. A. Woerpel. (2007). Kinetic Resolution of Hydroperoxides with Enantiopure Phosphines: Preparation of Enantioenriched Tertiary Hydroperoxides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 129(13). 3836–3837. 55 indexed citations

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Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2007). Synthesis of Tertiary α-Hydroxy Acids by Silylene Transfer to α-Keto Esters. Organic Letters. 9(22). 4651–4653. 29 indexed citations

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Woerpel, K. A., et al.. (2006). Electrostatic Effects on the Reactions of Cyclohexanone Oxocarbenium Ions. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 71(18). 6851–6858. 24 indexed citations

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Lucero, Claudia G. & K. A. Woerpel. (2006). Stereoselective C-Glycosylation Reactions of Pyranoses: The Conformational Preference and Reactions of the Mannosyl Cation. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 71(7). 2641–2647. 134 indexed citations

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Palmer, Wylie S., et al.. (1995). Stereo- and Regiochemistry of Aldehyde Insertions into the C-Si Bonds of Siliranes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 117(42). 10575–10576. 30 indexed citations

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