Luca Schmermund

1.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 840 citations indexed

About

Luca Schmermund is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Schmermund has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 840 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Molecular Biology, 10 papers in Organic Chemistry and 6 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Luca Schmermund's work include Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (9 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (5 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (3 papers). Luca Schmermund is often cited by papers focused on Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (9 papers), Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (5 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (3 papers). Luca Schmermund collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Australia. Luca Schmermund's co-authors include Wolfgang Kroutil, Christoph K. Winkler, Robert Kourist, Valentina Jurkaš, Fatma Feyza Özgen, Hanna C. Büchsenschütz, Giovanni Davide Barone, Sandy Schmidt, Stefan Simić and Kurt Faber and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and ACS Catalysis.

In The Last Decade

Luca Schmermund

18 papers receiving 831 citations

Hit Papers

Shortening Synthetic Routes to Small Molecule Active Phar... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150
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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.

  1. Shortening Synthetic Routes to Small Molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Employing Biocatalytic Methods
    2021 168 citations Stefan Simić, Luca Schmermund et al. Chemical Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Luca Schmermund Austria 13 439 377 194 166 122 18 840
Milja Pesic Netherlands 12 507 1.2× 282 0.7× 198 1.0× 176 1.1× 163 1.3× 13 895
Carolin Mügge Germany 15 457 1.0× 238 0.6× 117 0.6× 112 0.7× 82 0.7× 36 735
Álvaro Gómez Baraibar Germany 14 515 1.2× 221 0.6× 150 0.8× 117 0.7× 81 0.7× 18 773
Braddock A. Sandoval United States 13 479 1.1× 640 1.7× 223 1.1× 88 0.5× 140 1.1× 14 1.1k
Megan A. Emmanuel United States 11 315 0.7× 618 1.6× 180 0.9× 104 0.6× 110 0.9× 14 916
Daniel F. Sauer Germany 18 457 1.0× 413 1.1× 78 0.4× 82 0.5× 89 0.7× 36 772
Rio Yamanaka Japan 8 818 1.9× 174 0.5× 139 0.7× 195 1.2× 57 0.5× 15 937
Ekaterina Churakova Netherlands 9 343 0.8× 285 0.8× 88 0.5× 74 0.4× 119 1.0× 10 660
Heike Hinrichs Germany 9 404 0.9× 161 0.4× 101 0.5× 144 0.9× 146 1.2× 16 761
Andrew G. H. Wee Canada 22 213 0.5× 872 2.3× 113 0.6× 218 1.3× 224 1.8× 56 1.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Luca Schmermund

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Fields of papers citing papers by Luca Schmermund

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Schmermund

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All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2025). Gas–Liquid Interface Effects on a One-Pot Two-Enzyme Biocatalytic Oxidation Systems. ACS Catalysis. 15(11). 9277–9289. 1 indexed citations
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Rühmann, Broder, et al.. (2024). N‐substituted pyrrole carboxylic acid derivatives from 3,4‐dihydroxyketons. ChemSusChem. 17(9). e202301169–e202301169. 2 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2024). Synthesis of N‐Substituted Pyrrole‐2,5‐dicarboxylic Acids from Pyrroles. Helvetica Chimica Acta. 107(6). 2 indexed citations
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Bierbaumer, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Enantiopure Sulfoxides by Concurrent Photocatalytic Oxidation and Biocatalytic Reduction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(17). e202117103–e202117103. 48 indexed citations
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Bierbaumer, Sarah, et al.. (2022). Synthesis of Enantiopure Sulfoxides by Concurrent Photocatalytic Oxidation and Biocatalytic Reduction. Angewandte Chemie. 134(17). e202117103–e202117103. 5 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2022). Engineering approaches for O2-dependent enzymes. Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable Chemistry. 40. 100733–100733. 12 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2021). A robust and stereocomplementary panel of ene-reductase variants for gram-scale asymmetric hydrogenation. Molecular Catalysis. 502. 111404–111404. 20 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, Susanne Reischauer, Sarah Bierbaumer, et al.. (2021). Chromoselective Photocatalysis Enables Stereocomplementary Biocatalytic Pathways**. Angewandte Chemie. 133(13). 7041–7045. 14 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, Susanne Reischauer, Sarah Bierbaumer, et al.. (2021). Chromoselective Photocatalysis Enables Stereocomplementary Biocatalytic Pathways**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(13). 6965–6969. 68 indexed citations
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Winkler, Christoph K., Stefan Simić, Valentina Jurkaš, et al.. (2021). Accelerated Reaction Engineering of Photo(bio)catalytic Reactions through Parallelization with an Open‐Source Photoreactor. ChemPhotoChem. 5(10). 957–965. 23 indexed citations
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Simić, Stefan, et al.. (2021). Shortening Synthetic Routes to Small Molecule Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Employing Biocatalytic Methods. Chemical Reviews. 122(1). 1052–1126. 168 indexed citations breakdown →
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Díaz‐Rodríguez, Alba, Gemma C. Cook, Jason D. Williams, et al.. (2019). The Right Light: De Novo Design of a Robust Modular Photochemical Reactor for Optimum Batch and Flow Chemistry. ChemPhotoChem. 4(1). 45–51. 62 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2019). Chemoenzymatic Total Synthesis of Deoxy‐, epi‐, and Podophyllotoxin and a Biocatalytic Kinetic Resolution of Dibenzylbutyrolactones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(24). 8226–8230. 68 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, et al.. (2019). Directed Evolution of an Fe II -Dependent Halogenase for Asymmetric C(sp 3 )–H Chlorination. ACS Catalysis. 10(2). 1272–1277. 47 indexed citations
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Schmermund, Luca, Valentina Jurkaš, Fatma Feyza Özgen, et al.. (2019). Photo-Biocatalysis: Biotransformations in the Presence of Light. ACS Catalysis. 9(5). 4115–4144. 271 indexed citations

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