Peter Beak

13.3k total citations · 5 hit papers
217 papers, 10.4k citations indexed

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Peter Beak is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Beak has authored 217 papers receiving a total of 10.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 191 papers in Organic Chemistry, 36 papers in Spectroscopy and 20 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Peter Beak's work include Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (105 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (66 papers) and Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (65 papers). Peter Beak is often cited by papers focused on Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (105 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (66 papers) and Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (65 papers). Peter Beak collaborates with scholars based in United States, South Korea and Canada. Peter Beak's co-authors include Victor Snieckus, Yong Sun Park, Marna C. Whisler, Shawn T. Kerrick, Donald J. Gallagher, A. I. MEYERS, Stephen L. MacNeil, Amit Basu, S. Thayumanavan and David B. Reitz and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Peter Beak

214 papers receiving 9.9k 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.

Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions

2004 626 citations Marna C. Whisler, Stephen L. MacNeil et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Regioselective, Diastereoselective, and Enantioselective Lithiation−Substitution Sequences: Reaction Pathways and Synthetic Applications

1996 496 citations Peter Beak, Donald J. Gallagher et al. profile →
Stereo- and regiocontrol by complex induced proximity effects: reactions of organolithium compounds

1986 442 citations Peter Beak et al. profile →
Directed lithiation of aromatic tertiary amides: an evolving synthetic methodology for polysubstituted aromatics

1982 349 citations Peter Beak, Victor Snieckus profile →
Energies and alkylations of tautomeric heterocyclic compounds: old problems - new answers

1977 322 citations Peter Beak profile →

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Author						Papers	Cites
Peter Beak	9.2k	1.6k	1.6k	845	568	217	10.4k
Hans J. Reich	6.7k 0.7×	1.4k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.3×	438 0.8×	169	8.7k
Reinhard W. Hoffmann	11.0k 1.2×	1.8k 1.1×	2.6k 1.6×	1.1k 1.3×	659 1.2×	403	12.7k
Herbert O. House	6.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	1.5k 0.9×	825 1.0×	412 0.7×	175	7.9k
Eusebio Juaristi	5.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.7×	2.9k 1.8×	1.3k 1.6×	843 1.5×	302	7.8k
Jan W. Bats	8.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.6×	1.4k 0.9×	853 1.0×	611 1.1×	419	10.4k
Armin de Meijere	11.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.3k 0.8×	967 1.1×	681 1.2×	485	12.8k
Paul G. Gassman	5.6k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.9×	856 1.0×	1.2k 2.0×	328	7.8k
Karl Peters	7.2k 0.8×	3.4k 2.1×	849 0.5×	862 1.0×	861 1.5×	636	9.4k
Paul A. Grieco	7.7k 0.8×	817 0.5×	2.6k 1.7×	597 0.7×	324 0.6×	265	9.6k
Satoru Masamune	10.0k 1.1×	3.2k 2.0×	3.1k 2.0×	1.1k 1.3×	615 1.1×	232	13.0k

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Whisler, Marna C., Stephen L. MacNeil, Victor Snieckus, & Peter Beak. (2004). Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(17). 2206–2225. 626 indexed citations breakdown →

Whisler, Marna C., Stephen L. MacNeil, Victor Snieckus, & Peter Beak. (2004). Jenseits thermodynamischer Acidität: der Komplex‐induzierte Näherungseffekt (CIPE) bei Deprotonierungen. Angewandte Chemie. 116(17). 2256–2276. 252 indexed citations

Beak, Peter, et al.. (2000). Mechanisms and consequences of oxygen transfer reactions. Pure and Applied Chemistry. 72(12). 2259–2264. 1 indexed citations

Park, Yong Sun & Peter Beak. (1998). Asymmetric Lithiation-Substitutions of N-Boc Benzylamines Using RLi/Chiral Ligand Complex. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 19(11). 1253–1256. 1 indexed citations

Pippel, Daniel J., Gerald A. Weisenburger, Scott R. Wilson, & Peter Beak. (1998). Solid-State Structural Investigation of an Organolithium (−)-Sparteine Complex:η3-N-Boc-N-(p-methoxyphenyl)-3-phenylallyllithium⋅(−)-Sparteine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 37(18). 2522–2524. 59 indexed citations

Gallagher, Donald J., et al.. (1995). Chiral Organolithium Complexes: The Effect of Ligand Structure on the Enantioselective Deprotonation of Boc-Pyrrolidine. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 60(25). 8148–8154. 68 indexed citations

Beak, Peter, Shawn T. Kerrick, Shengde Wu, & Jingxi Chu. (1994). Complex Induced Proximity Effects: Enantioselective Syntheses Based on Asymmetric Deprotonations of N-Boc-pyrrolidines. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 116(8). 3231–3239. 276 indexed citations

Beak, Peter & Gordon W. Selling. (1989). Displacements at the nitrogen of lithioalkoxylamides by organometallic reagents. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 54(23). 5574–5580. 54 indexed citations

Beak, Peter, et al.. (1988). An experimental and computational study of the formation of (.pi.-allyl) palladium complexes from olefins and palladium(II) salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 110(1). 230–238. 23 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1987). Complex-induced proximity effects: remote lithiations of carboxamides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 109(18). 5403–5412. 32 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1984). Metalation and electrophilic substitution of amine derivatives adjacent to nitrogen: .alpha.-metallo amine synthetic equivalents. Chemical Reviews. 84(5). 471–523. 216 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter & Thomas Sullivan. (1982). One-electron chemical reductions of phenylalkylsulfonium salts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 104(16). 4450–4457. 54 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1977). Dipole-stabilized carbanions. Direct lithiation of the methyl group of a methyl ester. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 99(15). 5213–5213. 46 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1976). Equilibration studies. Protomeric equilibria of 2- and 4-hydroxypyridines, 2- and 4-hydroxypyrimidines, 2- and 4-mercaptopyridines, and structurally related compounds in the gas phase. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 98(1). 171–179. 232 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1974). Reductions of benzyl and cyclohexyl chloroformates with tributyltin hydride. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 39(9). 1320–1321. 5 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter & Ronald J. Trancik. (1968). Cationic aromatic substitution at the bridgehead of 1-substituted apocamphanes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 90(10). 2714–2715. 3 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1966). The Reaction of Chloroformates with Silver Fluoroborate in Chlorobenzene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 88(18). 4288–4289. 8 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter, et al.. (1965). The Deuteration of Some N-Methyl-4-pyridones. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 87(15). 3365–3371. 22 indexed citations

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Beak, Peter. (1964). Equilibration studies. Tetrahedron. 20(4). 831–840. 11 indexed citations

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Wenkert, Ernest & Peter Beak. (1961). THE STEREOCHEMISTRY OF RIMUENE. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83(4). 998–1000. 29 indexed citations

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