Olafs Daugulis

20.6k total citations · 7 hit papers
133 papers, 18.5k citations indexed

About

Olafs Daugulis is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Process Chemistry and Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Olafs Daugulis has authored 133 papers receiving a total of 18.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 122 papers in Organic Chemistry, 34 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 15 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology. Recurrent topics in Olafs Daugulis's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (70 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (55 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (36 papers). Olafs Daugulis is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (70 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (55 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (36 papers). Olafs Daugulis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Poland and Latvia. Olafs Daugulis's co-authors include Dmitry Shabashov, Hien‐Quang Do, Ly D. Tran, V. G. Zaitsev, Liene Grigorjeva, James Roane, Maurice Brookhart, Enrico T. Nadres, Hendrich A. Chiong and Ilya Popov and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Olafs Daugulis

131 papers receiving 18.4k citations

Hit Papers

Palladium- and Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Carbon−Hydro... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2009 2005 2015 2010 2008 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Palladium- and Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds
    2009 1.9k citations Olafs Daugulis, Hien‐Quang Do et al. profile →
  2. Highly Regioselective Arylation of sp3 C−H Bonds Catalyzed by Palladium Acetate
    2005 1.3k citations V. G. Zaitsev, Olafs Daugulis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Bidentate, Monoanionic Auxiliary-Directed Functionalization of Carbon–Hydrogen Bonds
    2015 1.1k citations Olafs Daugulis, James Roane et al. profile →
  4. Auxiliary-Assisted Palladium-Catalyzed Arylation and Alkylation of sp2 and sp3 Carbon−Hydrogen Bonds
    2010 819 citations Olafs Daugulis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  5. A General Method for Copper-Catalyzed Arylation of Arene C−H Bonds
    2008 532 citations Hien‐Quang Do, Olafs Daugulis et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Copper-Promoted Sulfenylation of sp2 C–H Bonds
    2012 520 citations Ly D. Tran, Ilya Popov et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  7. Cobalt‐Catalyzed, Aminoquinoline‐Directed C(sp2)H Bond Alkenylation by Alkynes
    2014 474 citations Liene Grigorjeva, Olafs Daugulis Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olafs Daugulis United States 66 17.4k 4.2k 1.2k 1.1k 878 133 18.5k
Fumitoshi Kakiuchi Japan 62 13.4k 0.8× 4.7k 1.1× 768 0.6× 372 0.3× 533 0.6× 173 14.2k
Guangbin Dong United States 71 15.1k 0.9× 3.6k 0.9× 367 0.3× 751 0.7× 641 0.7× 261 16.3k
Martin Oestreich Germany 75 16.4k 0.9× 6.7k 1.6× 853 0.7× 1.4k 1.3× 696 0.8× 435 17.5k
Tetsuya Satoh Japan 87 23.9k 1.4× 4.6k 1.1× 435 0.4× 603 0.5× 559 0.6× 275 24.6k
Shinji Murai Japan 62 11.8k 0.7× 4.0k 1.0× 753 0.6× 475 0.4× 602 0.7× 292 12.8k
Franziska Schoenebeck Germany 60 8.4k 0.5× 2.7k 0.7× 415 0.3× 2.0k 1.8× 826 0.9× 177 9.9k
Vladimir Gevorgyan United States 84 22.5k 1.3× 2.7k 0.6× 368 0.3× 1.1k 0.9× 714 0.8× 264 23.2k
Marco Bandini Italy 56 10.6k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 353 0.3× 446 0.4× 486 0.6× 182 11.2k
Pedro J. Pérez Spain 56 9.5k 0.5× 2.6k 0.6× 546 0.4× 526 0.5× 788 0.9× 230 10.6k
Pierre H. Dixneuf France 71 18.7k 1.1× 6.5k 1.6× 1.7k 1.4× 617 0.5× 1.1k 1.3× 454 20.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Janeta, Mateusz, Ana T. Carmona, Xiqu Wang, Maurice Brookhart, & Olafs Daugulis. (2025). 2,4,6-Triphenylpyridinium-Substituted Neutral Nickel Catalysts: Ethylene Polymerization, Influence of Activator, Catalyst Decomposition, and End-Group Analysis. Organometallics. 44(5). 672–683.
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Chen, Zhihao, et al.. (2025). Vinylsilanes as Chain-Transfer Agents in Ethylene Polymerization: Direct Synthesis of Heterotelechelic Polyolefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(51). 47392–47397.
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Chen, Zhihao, Olafs Daugulis, & Maurice Brookhart. (2023). Polymerization of Terminal Acetylenes by a Bulky Monophosphine-Palladium Catalyst. Organometallics. 42(3). 235–239. 2 indexed citations
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Le, Thanh Van, et al.. (2023). “Sandwich” Diimine‐Copper Catalyzed Trifluoroethylation and Pentafluoropropylation of Unactivated C(sp3)−H Bonds by Carbene Insertion. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(48). e202301672–e202301672. 7 indexed citations
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Daugulis, Olafs, et al.. (2020). N-Iminopyridinium ylide-directed, cobalt-catalysed coupling of sp2 C–H bonds with alkynes. Chemical Communications. 56(75). 11070–11073. 18 indexed citations
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Daugulis, Olafs, et al.. (2019). N-Aminopyridinium Ylide-Directed, Copper-Promoted Amination of sp2 C–H Bonds. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(20). 13022–13032. 10 indexed citations
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Kocen, Andrew L., Maurice Brookhart, & Olafs Daugulis. (2019). A highly active Ni(II)-triadamantylphosphine catalyst for ultrahigh-molecular-weight polyethylene synthesis. Nature Communications. 10(1). 438–438. 65 indexed citations
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Gulia, Nurbey, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of Unsymmetrical 2,6-Diarylanilines by Palladium-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization Methodology. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(10). 5844–5850. 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Teng‐Hao, Ilya Popov, Watchareeya Kaveevivitchai, et al.. (2014). Thermally robust and porous noncovalent organic framework with high affinity for fluorocarbons and CFCs. Nature Communications. 5(1). 5131–5131. 285 indexed citations
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Grigorjeva, Liene & Olafs Daugulis. (2014). Cobalt‐Catalyzed, Aminoquinoline‐Directed C(sp2)H Bond Alkenylation by Alkynes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(38). 10209–10212. 474 indexed citations breakdown →
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Popov, Ilya, Teng‐Hao Chen, Sergey Belyakov, et al.. (2014). Macrocycle Embrace: Encapsulation of Fluoroarenes by m‐Phenylene Ethynylene Host. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(7). 2750–2754. 26 indexed citations
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Allen, Kate E., Jesús Campos, Olafs Daugulis, & Maurice Brookhart. (2014). Living Polymerization of Ethylene and Copolymerization of Ethylene/Methyl Acrylate Using “Sandwich” Diimine Palladium Catalysts. ACS Catalysis. 5(1). 456–464. 178 indexed citations
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Vaidya, Tulaza, Kristīne Kļimoviča, Anne M. LaPointe, et al.. (2014). Secondary Alkene Insertion and Precision Chain-Walking: A New Route to Semicrystalline “Polyethylene” from α-Olefins by Combining Two Rare Catalytic Events. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(20). 7213–7216. 162 indexed citations
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Tran, Ly D., James Roane, & Olafs Daugulis. (2013). Directed Amination of Non‐Acidic Arene CH Bonds by a Copper–Silver Catalytic System. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(23). 6043–6046. 307 indexed citations
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Truong, Thanh & Olafs Daugulis. (2012). Divergent reaction pathways for phenol arylation by arynes: synthesis of helicenes and 2-arylphenols. Chemical Science. 4(1). 531–535. 64 indexed citations
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Truong, Thanh & Olafs Daugulis. (2012). Directed Functionalization of CH Bonds: Now also meta Selective. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(47). 11677–11679. 30 indexed citations
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Daugulis, Olafs, et al.. (2009). パラジウム(II)アセタート/ブチルジ(1-アダマンチル)ホスフィン系を触媒とする電子過剰複素環類のアリール化 5-フェニル-2-イソブチルチアゾールの合成. Organic Syntheses. 86. 105–112. 2 indexed citations
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Daugulis, Olafs. (2009). Palladium and Copper Catalysis in Regioselective, Intermolecular Coupling of C–H and C–Hal Bonds. Topics in current chemistry. 292. 57–84. 250 indexed citations
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Do, Hien‐Quang & Olafs Daugulis. (2009). Copper-catalyzed arene C–H bond cross-coupling. Chemical Communications. 6433–6433. 44 indexed citations
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Daugulis, Olafs & V. G. Zaitsev. (2005). Anilide ortho‐Arylation by Using C—H Activation Methodology.. ChemInform. 36(43). 1 indexed citations

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