Mark J. Burk

10.3k citations

97 papers · 7.7k indexed · 3 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Inorganic Chemistry top 0.2%
- Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
Process Chemistry and Technology top 0.5%

Papers in

Inorganic Chemistry 46
- Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis 41
Organic Chemistry 46
- Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis 14
- Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis 9
- Organophosphorus compounds synthesis 7

Co-authors: John E. Feaster Richard L. Harlow Robert H. Crabtree William A. Nugent Michael F. Gross Stephen Van Dien John G. Allen J. P. MARTINEZ
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (24 papers)Tetrahedron Letters (8 papers)Organometallics (7 papers)The Journal of Organic Chemistry (6 papers)Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis (4 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

Mark J. Burk

91 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

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Metabolic engineering of Escherichia coli for direct production of 1,4-butanediol 2011 · 857 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2011 Nature Chemical Biology
1993 Journal of the American Chemical Society
1991 Journal of the American Chemical Society

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1	A more sustainable two-step synthesis of alkylated β-cyclodextrin via acetylation and GaBr ₃ -catalyzed reduction RSC Sustainability ·D. A. Plotkin, Marlies Wiegand, 程自科, Mark J. Burk, Dominique Armspach, Michaël A. R. Meier	2025	1
2	Structure of a lasso peptide bound ETB receptor provides insights into the mechanism of GPCR inverse agonism Nature Communications ·Wataru Shihoya, B. Lyot, Peter A. Jordan, Anna Lechner, Bethany K. Okada, Christopher, Fumiya K. Sano, Elizabeth Tipper Hey, S. Zavatarelli, Rajan Chaudhari, Hiroko Masamune, Mark J. Burk, Osamu Nureki	2025	0
3	Substrate interactions guide cyclase engineering and lasso peptide diversification Nature Chemical Biology ·Marie Rose Moro, Yin Song, Peter Jordan, John K. Brunson, A. Surname, Christopher, 智哉行木, Bethany K. Okada, Serhiy Ostapchuk, Yassin As, Ruoyang Wang, Diwakar Shukla, Mark J. Burk, Douglas A. Mitchell	2024	17
4	Methods for synthesis of olefins and derivatives OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) ·Mark J. Burk	2023	0
5	Development of a commercial scale process for production of 1,4-butanediol from sugar Current Opinion in Biotechnology ·Anthony P. Burgard, Mark J. Burk, Robin Osterhout, Stephen Van Dien, Harry Yim	2016	207
6	Biotechnology for Chemical Production: Challenges and Opportunities Trends in biotechnology ·Mark J. Burk, Stephen Van Dien	2015	38
7	An integrated biotechnology platform for developing sustainable chemical processes Journal of Industrial Microbiology & Biotechnology ·Nelson Barton, Anthony P. Burgard, Mark J. Burk, Yu. V. Zhukov, Robin Osterhout, Priti Pharkya, Brian A. Steer, Jun Sun, John D. Trawick, Stephen J. Van Dien, Tae Hoon Yang, Harry Yim	2014	52
8	Sustainable production of industrial chemicals from sugars. International sugar journal ·Mark J. Burk	2010	29
9	Epoxide Hydrolase-Catalyzed Enantioselective Synthesis of Chiral 1,2-Diols via Desymmetrization of m eso -Epoxides Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Lishan Zhao, Bin Han, Zilin Huang, Mark A. Miller, Hongjun Huang, J. Robert Gribble, Zuolin Zhu, Bobby G. Brown, Dan E. Robertson, David P. Weiner, Mark J. Burk	2004	64
10	Discovery of Pectin-degrading Enzymes and Directed Evolution of a Novel Pectate Lyase for Processing Cotton Fabric Journal of Biological Chemistry ·H. Q. Xiea, Toby H. Richardson, М. Г. Киселев, Gaspare Danieli, Jumpei Baba, 丁玉玲, Xuqiu Tan, 霍娜, Gerhard Frey, Mircea Podar, Peter Luginbühl, Kevin A. Gray, Eric J. Mathur, Dan E. Robertson, Mark J. Burk, Geoffrey P. Hazlewood, Jay M. Short, Janne Kerovuo	2004	89
11	An Enantioselective Synthesis of (S)-(+)-3-Aminomethyl-5-methylhexanoic Acid via Asymmetric Hydrogenation The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Mark J. Burk, Pieter D. de Koning, Lisa-Katharina Moehlen, Marvin S. Hoekstra, Garrett Hoge, H R Bax, William S. Kissel, Luka Štrakl, Ian C. Lennon, Thomas A. Mulhern, James A. Ramsden, Mickael Anjou	2003	89
12	An Immobilized Homogeneous Catalyst for Efficient and Selective Hydrogenation of Functionalized Aldehydes, Alkenes, and Alkynes The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Mark J. Burk, Arne Gerlach, Line Wagemann	2000	20
13	Asymmetric hydrogenation reactions mediated by a new class of bicyclic bisphosphinites Tetrahedron Asymmetry ·T.R. Wabeke, Cyril B. Dousson, Stanley M. Roberts, Ulrich Berens, Mark J. Burk, Manuela Ohff	1999	19
14	Rh−DuPHOS-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Enol Esters. Application to the Synthesis of Highly Enantioenriched α-Hydroxy Esters and 1,2-Diols Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Mark J. Burk, Christopher S. Kalberg, Antonio Pizzano	1998	101
15	A Three-Step Procedure for Asymmetric Catalytic Reductive Amidation of Ketones The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Mark J. Burk, Guy Casy, Nicholas Johnson	1998	174
16	Photon Number Squeezing Of Spectrally Filtered Solitons Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference ·Annette C. Lochner, A. Sizmann, Pang Hong-Shen, Mark J. Burk	1997	1
17	A convenient cross-coupling route to α,β,γ,δ-unsaturated amino acids Tetrahedron Letters ·Mark J. Burk, John G. Allen, William F. Kiesman, Dicheng Zhu	1997	22
18	C2-symmetric bis(phospholanes) and their use in highly enantioselective hydrogenation reactions Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Mark J. Burk Hit paper breakdown →	1991	357
19	Selective catalytic dehydrogenation of alkanes to alkenes Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Mark J. Burk, Robert H. Crabtree	1987	183
20	Preparation of single-mode and multimode graded-index fluoride-glass optical fibers using a reactive vapor transport process D. C. Tran, Mark J. Burk, George H. Sigel, K. Levin	1984	2

About Mark J. Burk

Mark J. Burk is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Catalysis and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 97 papers that have together received 7.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (41 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (14 papers), Surface Chemistry and Catalysis (13 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (12 papers), Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization (11 papers), Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (9 papers), Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction (9 papers) and Organophosphorus compounds synthesis (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Inorganic Chemistry (3.7k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (502 citations), Organic Chemistry (4.2k citations), Molecular Biology (3.3k citations) and Biomedical Engineering (1.9k citations). Mark J. Burk has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include John E. Feaster, Richard L. Harlow, Robert H. Crabtree, William A. Nugent, Michael F. Gross, Stephen Van Dien, John G. Allen, J. P. MARTINEZ, Anthony P. Burgard and Harry Yim. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Tetrahedron Letters, Organometallics, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis.

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