Katrien Brak

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Katrien Brak is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Katrien Brak has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Organic Chemistry, 3 papers in Molecular Biology and 3 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Katrien Brak's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (4 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (3 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (3 papers). Katrien Brak is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (4 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (3 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (3 papers). Katrien Brak collaborates with scholars based in United States. Katrien Brak's co-authors include Eric N. Jacobsen, Jonathan A. Ellman, Patricia S. Doyle, James H. McKerrow, Kimberly T. Barrett, Iain Kerr, Linda S. Brinen, Juan C. Engel, Andrew C. Stevens and Lydia Wolfe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Journal of Medicinal Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Katrien Brak

10 papers receiving 1.6k 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.

Asymmetric Ion‐Pairing Catalysis

2012 906 citations Katrien Brak, Eric N. Jacobsen Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katrien Brak United States	8	1.4k	492	311	135	120	10	1.6k
Vince S. C. Yeh United States	16	1.1k 0.8×	327 0.7×	255 0.8×	95 0.7×	131 1.1×	22	1.4k
J. B. Sweeney United Kingdom	26	2.8k 2.0×	423 0.9×	488 1.6×	30 0.2×	56 0.5×	102	3.0k
Ruchir Kant India	32	2.7k 1.9×	226 0.5×	406 1.3×	33 0.2×	62 0.5×	166	2.9k
Jan Mies Germany	22	1.6k 1.1×	1.1k 2.3×	199 0.6×	78 0.6×	56 0.5×	35	2.0k
Fernando García‐Tellado Spain	26	2.2k 1.6×	337 0.7×	679 2.2×	27 0.2×	237 2.0×	107	2.6k
Iain Coldham United Kingdom	30	3.5k 2.5×	404 0.8×	688 2.2×	28 0.2×	78 0.7×	128	3.7k
Kap‐Sun Yeung United States	22	2.1k 1.5×	481 1.0×	387 1.2×	44 0.3×	107 0.9×	46	2.6k
Arianna Quintavalla Italy	23	997 0.7×	142 0.3×	398 1.3×	26 0.2×	81 0.7×	69	1.4k
Jean‐Marc Plancher Switzerland	19	871 0.6×	257 0.5×	456 1.5×	31 0.2×	107 0.9×	27	1.5k
Xuesen Fan China	41	5.6k 3.9×	479 1.0×	574 1.8×	78 0.6×	34 0.3×	272	5.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katrien Brak

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All Works

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10 of 10 papers shown

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Stevens, Andrew C., Katrien Brak, Angela Brown, et al.. (2021). Development of a Scalable Lanthanide Halide/Quaternary Ammonium Salt System for the Nucleophilic Addition of Grignard Reagents to Carbonyl Groups and Application to the Synthesis of a Remdesivir Intermediate. Organic Process Research & Development. 26(3). 754–763. 7 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien & Eric N. Jacobsen. (2012). Asymmetric Ion‐Pairing Catalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(2). 534–561. 906 indexed citations breakdown →

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Brak, Katrien & Eric N. Jacobsen. (2012). Asymmetrische Ionenpaarkatalyse. Angewandte Chemie. 125(2). 558–588. 296 indexed citations

4.

Brak, Katrien & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2010). Total Synthesis of (−)-Aurantioclavine. Organic Letters. 12(9). 2004–2007. 69 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2010). Asymmetric Rh(I)-Catalyzed Addition of MIDA Boronates to N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Aldimines: Development and Comparison to Trifluoroborates. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 75(9). 3147–3150. 55 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien, Iain Kerr, Kimberly T. Barrett, et al.. (2010). Nonpeptidic Tetrafluorophenoxymethyl Ketone Cruzain Inhibitors as Promising New Leads for Chagas Disease Chemotherapy. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 53(4). 1763–1773. 106 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2010). Total Synthesis of (−)-Aurantioclavine. Organic Letters. 12(14). 3283–3283. 1 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2009). Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Branched Allylic Amines by the Rh(I)-Catalyzed Addition of Alkenyltrifluoroborates to N-tert-Butanesulfinyl Aldimines. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(11). 3850–3851. 73 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien, Kimberly T. Barrett, & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2009). General One-Pot Method for the Preparation of N-tert-Butanesulfinylamine Diastereomer Mixtures as Standards for Stereoselectivity Determinations. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 74(9). 3606–3608. 15 indexed citations

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Brak, Katrien, Patricia S. Doyle, James H. McKerrow, & Jonathan A. Ellman. (2008). Identification of a New Class of Nonpeptidic Inhibitors of Cruzain. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(20). 6404–6410. 100 indexed citations

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