Robert Britton

5.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
159 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Robert Britton is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Britton has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Organic Chemistry, 49 papers in Molecular Biology and 24 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Robert Britton's work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (34 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (28 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (23 papers). Robert Britton is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (34 papers), Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (28 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (23 papers). Robert Britton collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Switzerland. Robert Britton's co-authors include Rainer E. Martin, Michael Meanwell, Stanley Chang, Shira D. Halperin, Baldip Kang, Terry J. Klopfenstein, Matthew B. Nodwell, Ian Paterson, Michael Holmes and Hope Fan and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Britton

152 papers receiving 4.5k 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.

Contemporary synthetic strategies in organofluorine chemistry

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert Britton Canada	39	2.6k	1.4k	917	438	429	159	4.7k
Dennis L. Wright United States	35	2.3k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	83 0.1×	57 0.1×	246 0.6×	153	4.6k
Hans Paulsen Germany	52	10.1k 3.9×	9.1k 6.6×	315 0.3×	96 0.2×	1.1k 2.6×	568	12.6k
Ulrich Schmidt Germany	27	1.5k 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	102 0.1×	220 0.5×	98 0.2×	127	2.6k
Pascal Bonnet France	28	836 0.3×	1.0k 0.7×	158 0.2×	134 0.3×	35 0.1×	120	2.5k
Toru Koizumi Japan	28	2.1k 0.8×	642 0.5×	322 0.4×	19 0.0×	94 0.2×	190	2.9k
Patrick G. Steel United Kingdom	34	3.5k 1.3×	1.3k 0.9×	197 0.2×	20 0.0×	91 0.2×	140	5.2k
Ryo Takeuchi Japan	37	2.9k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	93 0.1×	11 0.0×	125 0.3×	143	4.4k
Gregory T. Bourne Australia	15	2.9k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	104 0.1×	36 0.1×	65 0.2×	39	3.5k
George Bárány United States	46	3.0k 1.2×	5.8k 4.2×	83 0.1×	22 0.1×	72 0.2×	222	7.4k
Jesse C. Rabinowitz United States	42	188 0.1×	4.6k 3.3×	139 0.2×	111 0.3×	250 0.6×	145	6.4k

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Britton, Robert, et al.. (2025). A convenient synthesis of enantioenriched α-haloaldehydes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 13(3). 836–843.

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Nodwell, Matthew B., Youn‐Il Park, Steven M. Silverman, et al.. (2025). Unmasking the halide effect in diastereoselective Grignard reactions applied to C4´ modified nucleoside synthesis. Nature Communications. 16(1). 1679–1679. 3 indexed citations

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Nodwell, Matthew B., et al.. (2024). Symmetry breaking of fluorophore binding to a G-quadruplex generates an RNA aptamer with picomolar KD. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(14). 8039–8051. 3 indexed citations

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Zhao, Dongchang, Visweswaran Ravikumar, Daniel C. Kraushaar, et al.. (2024). Inflammation-induced epigenetic imprinting regulates intestinal stem cells. Cell stem cell. 31(10). 1447–1464.e6. 11 indexed citations

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Hunter, James H., et al.. (2024). sp³‐Rich Heterocycle Synthesis on DNA: Application to DNA‐Encoded Library Production. Angewandte Chemie. 136(12). 3 indexed citations

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Nodwell, Matthew B., et al.. (2024). A flexible and scalable synthesis of 4′-thionucleosides. Chemical Science. 16(1). 318–322. 4 indexed citations

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Popova, A.M., et al.. (2024). Complete list of canonical post-transcriptional modifications in the Bacillus subtilis ribosome and their link to RbgA driven large subunit assembly. Nucleic Acids Research. 52(18). 11203–11217. 3 indexed citations

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Ashmus, Roger A., Matthew B. Nodwell, Yang Wang, et al.. (2024). A metabolic inhibitor blocks cellular fucosylation and enables production of afucosylated antibodies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(27). e2314026121–e2314026121. 9 indexed citations

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Davison, Emma K., Matthew B. Nodwell, Michael Meanwell, et al.. (2023). Efficient protocol for the preparation of α-heteroaryl acetaldehydes. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 101(7). 487–490. 3 indexed citations

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Nodwell, Matthew B., et al.. (2022). Rapid ¹⁸F‐ and ¹⁹F‐Difluoromethylation through Desulfurative Fluorination of Transient N‐, O‐, and C‐Linked Dithioles. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(5). e202202862–e202202862. 10 indexed citations

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Jelier, Benson J., et al.. (2020). Quaternary Ammonium Trifluoromethoxide Salts as Stable Sources of Nucleophilic OCF₃. Organic Letters. 22(5). 1785–1790. 35 indexed citations

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Ren, Weiwu, Katarzyna Świderek, Yang Wang, et al.. (2020). Glycoside hydrolase stabilization of transition state charge: new directions for inhibitor design. Chemical Science. 11(38). 10488–10495. 12 indexed citations

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Britton, Robert, et al.. (2020). Fluorodesulfurization of Thionobenzodioxoles with Silver(I) Fluoride. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(20). 13298–13305. 4 indexed citations

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Nodwell, Matthew B., et al.. (2019). A Convenient Synthesis of Difluoroalkyl Ethers from Thionoesters Using Silver(I) Fluoride. Chemistry - A European Journal. 25(70). 15993–15997. 22 indexed citations

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Yuan, Zheliang, Matthew B. Nodwell, Hua Yang, et al.. (2018). Site‐Selective, Late‐Stage C−H ¹⁸F‐Fluorination on Unprotected Peptides for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging. Angewandte Chemie. 130(39). 12915–12918. 19 indexed citations

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Meanwell, Michael, et al.. (2018). Synthesis of acyl fluorides via photocatalytic fluorination of aldehydic C–H bonds. Chemical Communications. 54(71). 9985–9988. 71 indexed citations

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Meanwell, Michael, Zheliang Yuan, Matthew B. Nodwell, et al.. (2018). Direct heterobenzylic fluorination, difluorination and trifluoromethylthiolation with dibenzenesulfonamide derivatives. Chemical Science. 9(25). 5608–5613. 47 indexed citations

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Yuan, Zheliang, Matthew B. Nodwell, Hua Yang, et al.. (2018). Site‐Selective, Late‐Stage C−H ¹⁸F‐Fluorination on Unprotected Peptides for Positron Emission Tomography Imaging. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(39). 12733–12736. 74 indexed citations

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Nodwell, Matthew B., Hua Yang, Milena Čolović, et al.. (2017). ¹⁸F-Fluorination of Unactivated C–H Bonds in Branched Aliphatic Amino Acids: Direct Synthesis of Oncological Positron Emission Tomography Imaging Agents. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(10). 3595–3598. 113 indexed citations

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Roth, Christian, Wendy A. Offen, G.R. Hemsworth, et al.. (2017). Structural and functional insight into human O-GlcNAcase. Nature Chemical Biology. 13(6). 610–612. 84 indexed citations

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