Mattia Silvi

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Mattia Silvi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mattia Silvi has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Organic Chemistry, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 2 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Mattia Silvi's work include Radical Photochemical Reactions (17 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (14 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (7 papers). Mattia Silvi is often cited by papers focused on Radical Photochemical Reactions (17 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (14 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (7 papers). Mattia Silvi collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Italy. Mattia Silvi's co-authors include Paolo Melchiorre, Varinder K. Aggarwal, Christopher Sandford, Luca Buzzetti, Charlie Verrier, Carlo Cassani, Yannick P. Rey, Igor D. Jurberg, Elena Arceo and Giacomo Filippini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Mattia Silvi

25 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

  1. Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light
    2018 523 citations Mattia Silvi, Paolo Melchiorre Nature profile →

Peers

Mattia Silvi
Kaila A. Margrey United States
Baokun Qiao China
Giulia Bergonzini Sweden
Hoimin Jung South Korea
Rory C. McAtee United States
Shorouk O. Badir United States
Rupert S. J. Proctor United Kingdom
Subhabrata Dutta Germany
Eric R. Welin United States
Stéphanie Essafi United Kingdom
Kaila A. Margrey United States
Mattia Silvi
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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mattia Silvi

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All Works

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Buck, Leslie T., et al.. (2025). A Unified Synthetic Approach to 2-Alkyl Azetidines, Oxetanes, Thietanes and Cyclobutanes from Unactivated Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(49). 44652–44660.
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Silvi, Mattia, et al.. (2024). Iterative One-Carbon Homologation of Unmodified Carboxylic Acids. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(50). 34285–34291. 8 indexed citations
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Paul, Subhasis, et al.. (2023). Polarity Transduction Enables the Formal Electronically Mismatched Radical Addition to Alkenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(5). 2773–2778. 36 indexed citations
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Paul, Subhasis, et al.. (2023). Oxetane Synthesis via Alcohol C–H Functionalization. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(29). 15688–15694. 26 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, et al.. (2021). Visible light-driven conjunctive olefination. Nature Chemistry. 14(1). 66–70. 34 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, et al.. (2020). Visible‐Light‐Driven Strain‐Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Angewandte Chemie. 132(16). 6587–6590. 20 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, et al.. (2020). Visible‐Light‐Driven Strain‐Increase Ring Contraction Allows the Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(16). 6525–6528. 60 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia & Varinder K. Aggarwal. (2019). Radical Addition to Strained σ-Bonds Enables the Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Cyclobutyl Boronic Esters. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(24). 9511–9515. 165 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia & Paolo Melchiorre. (2018). Enhancing the potential of enantioselective organocatalysis with light. Nature. 554(7690). 41–49. 523 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gandhamsetty, Narasimhulu, James R. Smith, Damien Mailhol, et al.. (2018). Reoptimization of the Organocatalyzed Double Aldol Domino Process to a Key Enal Intermediate and Its Application to the Total Synthesis of Δ12‐Prostaglandin J3. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(38). 9542–9545. 31 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, et al.. (2018). Enantiospecific Three‐Component Alkylation of Furan and Indole. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(17). 4279–4282. 35 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, Charlie Verrier, Yannick P. Rey, Luca Buzzetti, & Paolo Melchiorre. (2017). Visible-light excitation of iminium ions enables the enantioselective catalytic β-alkylation of enals. Nature Chemistry. 9(9). 868–873. 256 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, Christopher Sandford, & Varinder K. Aggarwal. (2017). Merging Photoredox with 1,2-Metallate Rearrangements: The Photochemical Alkylation of Vinyl Boronate Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(16). 5736–5739. 193 indexed citations
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Filippini, Giacomo, Mattia Silvi, & Paolo Melchiorre. (2017). Enantioselective Formal α‐Methylation and α‐Benzylation of Aldehydes by Means of Photo‐organocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 129(16). 4518–4522. 24 indexed citations
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Garlets, Zachary J., Mattia Silvi, & John P. Wolfe. (2016). Synthesis of Cyclic Guanidines via Silver-Catalyzed Intramolecular Alkene Hydroamination Reactions of N-Allylguanidines. Organic Letters. 18(10). 2331–2334. 22 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia. (2015). New Directions in Aminocatalysis: Vinylogy and Photochemistry. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1 indexed citations
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Silvi, Mattia, Polyssena Renzi, Cristiana Margarita, et al.. (2013). Enantioselective Aza‐Michael Addition of Imides by Using an Integrated Strategy Involving the Synthesis of a Family of Multifunctional Catalysts, Usage of Multiple Catalysis, and Rational Design of Experiment. Chemistry - A European Journal. 19(30). 9973–9978. 19 indexed citations
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