Kai Baldenius

2.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
21 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Kai Baldenius is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Nutrition and Dietetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kai Baldenius has authored 21 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Molecular Biology, 11 papers in Organic Chemistry and 4 papers in Nutrition and Dietetics. Recurrent topics in Kai Baldenius's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (10 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers). Kai Baldenius is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (10 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (7 papers) and Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (5 papers). Kai Baldenius collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Austria and United States. Kai Baldenius's co-authors include Uwe T. Bornscheuer, Radka Šnajdrová, Shuke Wu, Jeffrey C. Moore, K. C. Nicolaou, Bernd Nidetzky, Henri B. Kagan, Melanie Weingarten, Katharina Schmölzer and Klaus Ditrich and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Kai Baldenius

20 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Biocatalysis: Enzymatic Synthesis for Industrial Applications

2020 1.0k citations Shuke Wu, Radka Šnajdrová et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kai Baldenius Germany	15	1.1k	604	319	203	161	21	1.7k
Leandro H. Andrade Brazil	27	1.3k 1.1×	868 1.4×	504 1.6×	361 1.8×	231 1.4×	116	2.5k
Rob Schoevaart Netherlands	17	1.2k 1.1×	406 0.7×	382 1.2×	164 0.8×	127 0.8×	25	1.8k
Daniela Monti Italy	29	1.6k 1.4×	634 1.0×	340 1.1×	503 2.5×	253 1.6×	105	2.7k
Christopher K. Savile Canada	14	1.6k 1.4×	588 1.0×	332 1.0×	228 1.1×	217 1.3×	21	2.0k
Cynthia Ebert Italy	22	1.4k 1.2×	337 0.6×	419 1.3×	215 1.1×	74 0.5×	89	1.9k
Jiang Pan China	27	1.6k 1.4×	277 0.5×	345 1.1×	144 0.7×	71 0.4×	120	2.1k
Gianluca Ottolina Italy	31	1.8k 1.6×	600 1.0×	524 1.6×	170 0.8×	173 1.1×	87	2.6k
Dörte Rother Germany	28	1.7k 1.5×	659 1.1×	621 1.9×	260 1.3×	251 1.6×	80	2.5k
Paola D’Arrigo Italy	25	1.1k 1.0×	275 0.5×	380 1.2×	121 0.6×	76 0.5×	80	1.7k
Yongmin Zhang France	24	642 0.6×	936 1.5×	124 0.4×	205 1.0×	142 0.9×	89	1.6k

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Bayer, Thomas, Shuke Wu, Radka Šnajdrová, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). An Update: Enzymatic Synthesis for Industrial Applications. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(27). e202505976–e202505976. 11 indexed citations

Bayer, Thomas, Shuke Wu, Radka Šnajdrová, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2025). Update: Enzymatische Synthese für industrielle Anwendungen. Angewandte Chemie. 137(27).

Gran‐Scheuch, Alejandro, Hein J. Wijma, Hugo L. van Beek, et al.. (2024). Bioinformatics and Computationally Supported Redesign of Aspartase for β-Alanine Synthesis by Acrylic Acid Hydroamination. ACS Catalysis. 15(2). 928–938. 2 indexed citations

Wu, Shuke, Radka Šnajdrová, Jeffrey C. Moore, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2020). Biokatalyse: Enzymatische Synthese für industrielle Anwendungen. Angewandte Chemie. 133(1). 89–123. 90 indexed citations

Wu, Shuke, Radka Šnajdrová, Jeffrey C. Moore, Kai Baldenius, & Uwe T. Bornscheuer. (2020). Biocatalysis: Enzymatic Synthesis for Industrial Applications. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(1). 88–119. 1034 indexed citations breakdown →

Freakley, Simon J., Svenja Kochius, Richard J. Lewis, et al.. (2019). A chemo-enzymatic oxidation cascade to activate C–H bonds with in situ generated H2O2. Nature Communications. 10(1). 4178–4178. 81 indexed citations

Schmölzer, Katharina, Melanie Weingarten, Kai Baldenius, & Bernd Nidetzky. (2019). Glycosynthase Principle Transformed into Biocatalytic Process Technology: Lacto-N-triose II Production with Engineered exo-Hexosaminidase. ACS Catalysis. 9(6). 5503–5514. 49 indexed citations

Schmölzer, Katharina, Melanie Weingarten, Kai Baldenius, & Bernd Nidetzky. (2019). Lacto-N-tetraose synthesis by wild-type and glycosynthase variants of the β-N-hexosaminidase from Bifidobacterium bifidum. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 17(23). 5661–5665. 24 indexed citations

Tasnádi, Gábor, Wolfgang Jud, Mélanie Hall, et al.. (2018). Evaluation of Natural and Synthetic Phosphate Donors for the Improved Enzymatic Synthesis of Phosphate Monoesters. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 360(12). 2394–2401. 19 indexed citations

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Tasnádi, Gábor, et al.. (2017). Investigation of acid phosphatase variants for the synthesis of phosphate monoesters. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 114(10). 2187–2195. 12 indexed citations

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Tasnádi, Gábor, Mélanie Hall, Kai Baldenius, Klaus Ditrich, & Kurt Faber. (2016). Biocatalytic functionalization of hydroxyalkyl acrylates and phenoxyethanol via phosphorylation. Journal of Biotechnology. 233. 219–227. 14 indexed citations

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Bartsch, Sebastian, Klaus Ditrich, Michael Breuer, et al.. (2016). Enzymatic network for production of ether amines from alcohols. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 113(9). 1853–1861. 22 indexed citations

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Thompson, Mark L., et al.. (2015). Enzymatic Enantioselective Decarboxylative Protonation of Heteroaryl Malonates. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(17). 6557–6563. 14 indexed citations

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Tasnádi, Gábor, Wolfgang Jud, Mélanie Hall, et al.. (2015). Exploiting Acid Phosphatases in the Synthesis of Phosphorylated Monoalcohols and Diols. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2016(1). 45–50. 17 indexed citations

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Alissandratos, Apostolos, Nina Baudendistel, Bernhard Hauer, et al.. (2010). Biocompatible functionalisation of starch. Chemical Communications. 47(2). 683–685. 16 indexed citations

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Hasselwander, Oliver, Klaus Krämer, P. P. Hoppe, et al.. (2002). Effects of feeding various tocotrienol sources on plasma lipids and aortic atherosclerotic lesions in cholesterol-fed rabbits. Food Research International. 35(2-3). 245–251. 9 indexed citations

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O’Byrne, Dawn, Scott M. Grundy, Lester Packer, et al.. (2000). Studies of LDL oxidation following α-, γ-, or δ-tocotrienyl acetate supplementation of hypercholesterolemic humans. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. 29(9). 834–845. 90 indexed citations

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Li, Tianhu, Zijian Zeng, Virginia A. Estevez, et al.. (1994). Carbohydrate-Minor Groove Interactions in the Binding of Calicheamicin .gamma.1I to Duplex DNA. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 116(9). 3709–3715. 58 indexed citations

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Baldenius, Kai, et al.. (1993). On the formation of biacetyl trimers in acidic media. Tetrahedron Letters. 34(9). 1517–1520. 2 indexed citations

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Baldenius, Kai & Henri B. Kagan. (1990). Synthesis of new optically active sulfoxides with chelating properties. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 1(9). 597–610. 36 indexed citations

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