Keiji Mori

6.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
143 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Keiji Mori is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Keiji Mori has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Organic Chemistry, 34 papers in Molecular Biology and 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Keiji Mori's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (37 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (31 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (21 papers). Keiji Mori is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (37 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (31 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (21 papers). Keiji Mori collaborates with scholars based in Japan, United States and Poland. Keiji Mori's co-authors include Takahiko Akiyama, Masahiro Yamanaka, Kazuki Kurihara, Takeji Hashimoto, Kensuke Ehara, Takuya Katoh, Ken Ohmori, Keisuke Suzuki, T. Suzuki and Masayuki Imai 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

Keiji Mori

136 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keiji Mori Japan	43	4.4k	1.2k	957	631	543	143	5.7k
Ulf Ragnarsson Sweden	32	2.1k 0.5×	513 0.4×	2.2k 2.3×	781 1.2×	768 1.4×	288	5.2k
P. Veeraraghavan Ramachandran United States	41	3.8k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	1.4k 1.4×	410 0.6×	1.0k 1.9×	248	5.8k
Nigam P. Rath United States	49	7.0k 1.6×	3.9k 3.4×	1.2k 1.2×	558 0.9×	2.5k 4.7×	519	11.2k
Mats Svensson Sweden	37	2.2k 0.5×	1.2k 1.0×	864 0.9×	462 0.7×	1.3k 2.4×	77	5.3k
R. Gilardi United States	40	2.9k 0.7×	619 0.5×	708 0.7×	434 0.7×	2.8k 5.2×	253	6.2k
Hans Wynberg Netherlands	38	3.5k 0.8×	680 0.6×	1.1k 1.1×	947 1.5×	832 1.5×	187	5.5k
Robert Vianello Croatia	33	2.0k 0.5×	432 0.4×	888 0.9×	608 1.0×	447 0.8×	148	3.6k
George W. Kabalka United States	50	7.1k 1.6×	1.4k 1.2×	1.9k 1.9×	449 0.7×	881 1.6×	468	9.8k
Stephen Caddick United Kingdom	49	6.4k 1.4×	735 0.6×	2.9k 3.1×	370 0.6×	394 0.7×	181	8.7k
Frank‐Gerrit Klärner Germany	37	2.7k 0.6×	341 0.3×	1.5k 1.5×	1.3k 2.0×	1.2k 2.2×	195	5.1k

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Anada, Masahiro, et al.. (2025). Double Hydride Transfer Enabled Substitution of All Hydrogens at α,β-Positions of Cyclic Amines: Access to α,β-Unsaturated Lactams. Organic Letters. 27(8). 1961–1966. 3 indexed citations

Matsuno, Takayuki, Masahiro Anada, Shunsuke Sueki, et al.. (2025). 1,6-Reduction-Type Hydride Shift/Cyclization Process without Adjacent Heteroatom: Stereoselective Synthesis of Hexahydrofluorene Derivatives via Internal Redox Reaction/Friedel–Crafts Reaction Sequence. Organic Letters. 27(23). 6198–6203. 1 indexed citations

Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2024). (n+3)-Cyclization for the Formation of Benzo[7]annulene Derivatives via a [1,4]-Hydride Shift: A Novel Cyclization Mode Involving an Internal Redox Reaction. Synlett. 35(18). 2143–2147. 2 indexed citations

Kojima, Tatsuhiro, et al.. (2024). Stereoselective synthesis of 6/7/6-fused heterocycles with multiple stereocenters via an internal redox reaction/inverse electron-demand hetero-Diels–Alder reaction sequence. Chemical Communications. 60(53). 6797–6800. 2 indexed citations

Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2024). Silyl-Group Boosted Internal Redox Reaction: Hydride Shift from an Aliphatic Secondary Position for the Formation of Six- and Seven-Membered Carbocycles. Organic Letters. 26(8). 1662–1666. 9 indexed citations

Anada, Masahiro, et al.. (2024). Divergent synthesis of multi-substituted phenanthrenes via an internal redox reaction/ring expansion sequence. Chemical Communications. 60(28). 3822–3825. 9 indexed citations

Kojima, Tatsuhiro, et al.. (2023). Lewis acid-catalyzed formal 1,3-aminomethyl migration. Chemical Communications. 59(66). 9976–9979. 1 indexed citations

Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2023). Diarylmethylamine (‘Butterfly’-Type Amine) Unit: A Useful Unit for the Modulation of the Catalytic Activity of Aminothiourea Catalysts. Synlett. 34(16). 1899–1904. 3 indexed citations

Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2020). Rapid access to 3-indolyl-1-trifluoromethyl-isobenzofurans by hybrid use of Lewis/Brønsted acid catalysts. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 18(34). 6602–6606. 12 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2020). Highly Stereoselective Synthesis of Fused Tetrahydropyrans via Lewis-Acid-Promoted Double C(sp³)–H Bond Functionalization. Organic Letters. 22(15). 5801–5805. 28 indexed citations

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Inoue, Aiko, et al.. (2020). Facile Synthesis of π-Conjugated Heteroaromatic Compounds via Weak-Base-Promoted Transition-Metal-Free C–N Coupling. Synthesis. 52(7). 1096–1102. 2 indexed citations

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Zhang, Huiping, et al.. (2019). The Discovery of Fungal Polyene Macrolides via a Postgenomic Approach Reveals a Polyketide Macrocyclization by trans-Acting Thioesterase in Fungi. Organic Letters. 21(12). 4788–4792. 37 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2019). Expeditious Synthesis of Multisubstituted Quinolinone Derivatives Based on Ring Recombination Strategy. Organic Letters. 22(1). 244–248. 35 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2019). Construction of seven- and eight-membered carbocycles by Lewis acid catalyzed C(sp³)–H bond functionalization. Chemical Communications. 55(92). 13856–13859. 44 indexed citations

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Kitamura, Eriko, et al.. (2019). Diastereoselective Synthesis of CF₃-Substituted Spiroisochromans by [1,5]-Hydride Shift/Cyclization/Intramolecular Friedel–Crafts Reaction Sequence. Organic Letters. 21(7). 2383–2387. 36 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2018). Expeditious synthesis of multisubstituted indoles via multiple hydrogen transfers. Chemical Communications. 54(90). 12686–12689. 38 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2018). Highly diastereoselective synthesis of tricyclic fused-pyrans by sequential hydride shift mediated double C(sp³)–H bond functionalization. Chemical Science. 9(37). 7327–7331. 52 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2018). Divergent synthesis of CF₃-substituted polycyclic skeletons based on control of activation site of acid catalysts. Chemical Communications. 54(50). 6927–6930. 38 indexed citations

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Kamei, Yuto, et al.. (2018). Construction of 1,3-Dithio-Substituted Tetralins by [1,5]-Alkylthio Group Transfer Mediated Skeletal Rearrangement. Organic Letters. 20(14). 4223–4226. 17 indexed citations

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Mori, Keiji, et al.. (2017). Hf(OTf)₄-Catalyzed highly diastereoselective synthesis of 1,3-disubstituted tetralin derivatives via benzylic C(sp³)–H bond functionalization. Chemical Communications. 53(31). 4319–4322. 36 indexed citations

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