Liam T. Ball

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
32 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Liam T. Ball is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Liam T. Ball has authored 32 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Organic Chemistry, 5 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 3 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Liam T. Ball's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (20 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (15 papers) and Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (9 papers). Liam T. Ball is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (20 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (15 papers) and Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (9 papers). Liam T. Ball collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and United States. Liam T. Ball's co-authors include Guy C. Lloyd‐Jones, Christopher A. Russell, Michael Green, Graham R. Cumming, William Lewis, Stephen P. Argent, Valentin Magné, Louis Adriaenssens, Andy M. Chapman and Thomas Barber and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Liam T. Ball

29 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Skeletal Editing: Interconversion of Arenes and Heteroarenes

2023 159 citations Liam T. Ball et al. Helvetica Chimica Acta profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liam T. Ball United Kingdom	17	1.4k	274	98	98	69	32	1.5k
Domingo García‐Cuadrado Spain	10	1.6k 1.1×	361 1.3×	66 0.7×	61 0.6×	68 1.0×	13	1.6k
Huiling Shao United States	15	789 0.6×	139 0.5×	103 1.1×	103 1.1×	79 1.1×	24	892
Mayur J. Bhanushali India	17	892 0.7×	264 1.0×	196 2.0×	40 0.4×	67 1.0×	26	988
Ji Yang Germany	22	1.2k 0.9×	488 1.8×	97 1.0×	160 1.6×	97 1.4×	39	1.4k
Chia‐Yu Huang Canada	20	1.2k 0.9×	133 0.5×	146 1.5×	97 1.0×	112 1.6×	32	1.3k
M. Stodulski Poland	15	698 0.5×	219 0.8×	144 1.5×	49 0.5×	68 1.0×	26	815
Marc Magre Germany	20	910 0.7×	595 2.2×	138 1.4×	150 1.5×	63 0.9×	31	1.1k
Craig S. Day Spain	19	928 0.7×	249 0.9×	79 0.8×	246 2.5×	70 1.0×	28	1.1k
Julien Sofack‐Kreutzer Saudi Arabia	9	1.3k 1.0×	362 1.3×	36 0.4×	42 0.4×	70 1.0×	11	1.5k
Peng Cao China	20	1.3k 0.9×	502 1.8×	162 1.7×	59 0.6×	121 1.8×	54	1.5k

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Morris, J.A., et al.. (2025). Pd-Catalyzed O-Arylation of Phenols Mediated by a Weak, Soluble Organic Base: Methodology, Mechanism, and Compatibility with Enabling Technologies. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(40). 36870–36881.

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2025). Synthesis of 2-Arylphenols via Formal Bismuth(V)-Mediated C–O Arylation of Guaiacols. Organic Letters. 27(11). 2769–2774. 1 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2025). Cross‐Coupling Reactions in Aqueous Micellar Media. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 28(33).

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Cumming, Graham R., et al.. (2023). Photochemically Mediated Ring Expansion of Indoles and Pyrroles with Chlorodiazirines: Synthetic Methodology and Thermal Hazard Assessment. Angewandte Chemie. 135(31). 6 indexed citations

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Cumming, Graham R., et al.. (2023). Photochemically Mediated Ring Expansion of Indoles and Pyrroles with Chlorodiazirines: Synthetic Methodology and Thermal Hazard Assessment. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(31). e202305081–e202305081. 56 indexed citations

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Guiry, Patrick J., et al.. (2023). Synthesis of Highly Functionalized Bismacycles via Post-Transmetallation Modification of Arylboronic Acids. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 88(14). 9730–9736. 2 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2023). Skeletal Editing: Interconversion of Arenes and Heteroarenes. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 106(3). 159 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ling, Kenneth B., et al.. (2022). Umpolung Synthesis of Pyridyl Ethers by Bi^V‐Mediated O‐Arylation of Pyridones. Angewandte Chemie. 134(51). 1 indexed citations

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Ling, Kenneth B., et al.. (2022). Umpolung Synthesis of Pyridyl Ethers by Bi^V‐Mediated O‐Arylation of Pyridones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(51). e202212873–e202212873. 16 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2022). meta-Selective C–H arylation of phenols via regiodiversion of electrophilic aromatic substitution. Nature Chemistry. 15(3). 386–394. 35 indexed citations

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Denton, Ross M., et al.. (2022). Modular Synthesis of α,α-Diaryl α-Amino Esters via Bi(V)-Mediated Arylation/S_N2-Displacement of Kukhtin–Ramirez Intermediates. Organic Letters. 24(43). 8002–8007. 13 indexed citations

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Argent, Stephen P., et al.. (2022). Bismuth‐Mediated α‐Arylation of Acidic Diketones with ortho‐Substituted Boronic Acids. Angewandte Chemie. 134(40). 3 indexed citations

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Lewis, William, et al.. (2020). Modular bismacycles for the selective C–H arylation of phenols and naphthols. Nature Chemistry. 12(3). 260–269. 65 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2020). Bismuth(V)-Mediated C–H Arylation of Phenols and Naphthols. Synlett. 32(3). 235–240. 6 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., et al.. (2020). Polyurethanes and Polyallophanates via Sequence-Selective Copolymerization of Epoxides and Isocyanates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(18). 8136–8141. 51 indexed citations

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Magné, Valentin & Liam T. Ball. (2019). Synthesis of Air‐stable, Odorless Thiophenol Surrogates via Ni‐Catalyzed C−S Cross‐Coupling. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(37). 8903–8910. 21 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., Guy C. Lloyd‐Jones, & Christopher A. Russell. (2012). Gold‐Catalysed Oxyarylation of Styrenes and Mono‐ and gem‐Disubstituted Olefins Facilitated by an Iodine(III) Oxidant. Chemistry - A European Journal. 18(10). 2931–2937. 73 indexed citations

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Aggarwal, Varinder K., Liam T. Ball, Matthew J. Hesse, et al.. (2012). Application of the lithiation–borylation reaction to the rapid and enantioselective synthesis of the bisabolane family of sesquiterpenes. Chemical Communications. 48(74). 9230–9230. 29 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., Guy C. Lloyd‐Jones, & Christopher A. Russell. (2012). Gold-Catalyzed Direct Arylation. Science. 337(6102). 1644–1648. 343 indexed citations

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Ball, Liam T., Guy C. Lloyd‐Jones, & Christopher A. Russell. (2012). ChemInform Abstract: Gold‐Catalyzed Oxyarylation of Styrenes and Mono‐ and gem‐Disubstituted Olefins Facilitated by an Iodine(III) Oxidant.. ChemInform. 43(29).

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