Nicholas Butt

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
20 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

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Nicholas Butt is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Butt has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Organic Chemistry, 12 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 4 papers in Biomedical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Butt's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (5 papers). Nicholas Butt is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (12 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (5 papers). Nicholas Butt collaborates with scholars based in China and United Kingdom. Nicholas Butt's co-authors include Wanbin Zhang, Zhenfeng Zhang, Delong Liu, Yangang Liu, Guoqiang Yang, Jiefeng Shen, Jianzhong Chen, Liang Wu, Dongyang Fan and Xuezhen Kou and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Chemical Society Reviews and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Butt

20 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions with unactivated allylic substrates

2015 596 citations Nicholas Butt, Wanbin Zhang Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicholas Butt China	15	1.4k	995	382	292	127	20	1.7k
Fei Ling China	24	1.2k 0.8×	517 0.5×	210 0.5×	234 0.8×	88 0.7×	75	1.4k
Taichiro Touge Japan	11	453 0.3×	588 0.6×	307 0.8×	169 0.6×	131 1.0×	15	757
Pierre‐Georges Echeverria France	13	502 0.4×	442 0.4×	211 0.6×	162 0.6×	111 0.9×	26	761
Emma L. McInturff United States	15	975 0.7×	586 0.6×	84 0.2×	248 0.8×	87 0.7×	22	1.2k
Jens Paetzold Germany	12	1.0k 0.7×	425 0.4×	123 0.3×	317 1.1×	67 0.5×	16	1.2k
Garrett Hoge United States	14	769 0.5×	547 0.5×	164 0.4×	318 1.1×	58 0.5×	18	947
Quanbin Jiang China	15	713 0.5×	382 0.4×	116 0.3×	128 0.4×	68 0.5×	24	809
Heiko Bernsmann Germany	11	605 0.4×	424 0.4×	172 0.5×	245 0.8×	49 0.4×	15	772
Luca Mantilli Switzerland	14	864 0.6×	555 0.6×	52 0.1×	161 0.6×	48 0.4×	17	941
Manabu Kashiwabara Japan	6	431 0.3×	415 0.4×	203 0.5×	115 0.4×	46 0.4×	9	587

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Chen, Jianzhong, Nicholas Butt, & Wanbin Zhang. (2019). The application of the chiral ligand DTBM-SegPHOS in asymmetric hydrogenation. Research on Chemical Intermediates. 45(12). 5959–5974. 14 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhenfeng, et al.. (2018). Asymmetric Transfer and Pressure Hydrogenation with Earth‐Abundant Transition Metal Catalysts. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 36(5). 443–454. 168 indexed citations

Wu, Liang, et al.. (2017). Palladium‐Catalyzed Addition of Arylboronic Acids to para‐ Quinone Methides for Preparation of Diarylacetates. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 359(6). 1028–1036. 29 indexed citations

Yang, Guoqiang, Nicholas Butt, & Wanbin Zhang. (2016). Recent advances of remote selective C–H activation: Ligand and template design. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS (CHINESE VERSION). 37(1). 98–101. 6 indexed citations

Butt, Nicholas, Guoqiang Yang, & Wanbin Zhang. (2016). Allylic Alkylations with Enamine Nucleophiles. The Chemical Record. 16(6). 2687–2696. 57 indexed citations

Zhang, Zhenfeng, Nicholas Butt, & Wanbin Zhang. (2016). Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Nonaromatic Cyclic Substrates. Chemical Reviews. 116(23). 14769–14827. 337 indexed citations

He, Qun, Liang Wu, Xuezhen Kou, et al.. (2015). Pd(II)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Addition of Arylboronic Acids to Isatin-Derived Ketimines. Organic Letters. 18(2). 288–291. 72 indexed citations

Butt, Nicholas & Wanbin Zhang. (2015). Transition metal-catalyzed allylic substitution reactions with unactivated allylic substrates. Chemical Society Reviews. 44(22). 7929–7967. 596 indexed citations breakdown →

Shen, Jiefeng, et al.. (2015). The Construction of 3‐Methyl‐4‐arylpiperidines via a trans‐ Perhydroindolic Acid‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Aza‐Diels–Alder Reaction. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 357(16-17). 3627–3638. 41 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiefeng, et al.. (2014). Asymmetric Domino Reaction of Cyclic N-Sulfonylimines and Simple Aldehydes with trans-Perhydroindolic Acid as an Organocatalyst. Organic Letters. 16(17). 4496–4499. 34 indexed citations

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Li, Jing, Jiefeng Shen, Nicholas Butt, et al.. (2014). Asymmetric tandem reactions of N-sulfonylimines and α,β-unsaturated aldehydes: an alternative reaction pathway to that of using saturated aldehydes. Chemical Communications. 51(5). 885–888. 35 indexed citations

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Zhang, Wanbin, Nicholas Butt, & Delong Liu. (2014). The Design and Synthesis of Planar Chiral Ligands and Their Application to Asymmetric Catalysis. Synlett. 25(5). 615–630. 63 indexed citations

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Quan, Mao, et al.. (2013). The synthesis of chiral β-aryl-α,β-unsaturated amino alcohols via a Pd-catalyzed asymmetric allylic amination. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 11(42). 7412–7412. 34 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianzhong, Delong Liu, Nicholas Butt, et al.. (2013). Palladium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of α‐Acyloxy‐1‐arylethanones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(44). 11632–11636. 73 indexed citations

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Shen, Jiefeng, et al.. (2013). ChemInform Abstract: Asymmetric Domino Double Michael Addition of Nitroolefins and Aldehyde Esters with trans‐Perhydroindolic Acid as an Organocatalyst.. ChemInform. 44(40). 1 indexed citations

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Liu, Delong, et al.. (2013). Asymmetric Domino Double Michael Addition of Nitroolefins and Aldehyde Esters with trans-Perhydroindolic Acid as an Organocatalyst. Synthesis. 45(12). 1612–1623. 14 indexed citations

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Chen, Jianzhong, Delong Liu, Nicholas Butt, et al.. (2013). Palladium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of α‐Acyloxy‐1‐arylethanones. Angewandte Chemie. 125(44). 11846–11850. 16 indexed citations

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Guo, Hui, Delong Liu, Nicholas Butt, Yangang Liu, & Wanbin Zhang. (2012). Efficient Ru(II)-catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation of simple ketones with C2-symmetric planar chiral metallocenyl phosphinooxazoline ligands. Tetrahedron. 68(16). 3295–3299. 31 indexed citations

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Liu, Shan, Zhenfeng Zhang, Fang Xie, et al.. (2012). First catalytic enantioselective synthesis of P-stereogenic phosphoramides via kinetic resolution promoted by a chiral bicyclic imidazole nucleophilic catalyst. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 23(5). 329–332. 57 indexed citations

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Butt, Nicholas & Christopher J. Moody. (2011). Synthesis of Spirotetramates via a Diels−Alder Approach. Organic Letters. 13(9). 2224–2227. 11 indexed citations

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