Ronald Breslow

28.7k citations

270 papers · 23.5k indexed · 10 hit papers · h-index 69

Impact in

Organic Chemistry top 0.05%
- Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
- N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry
Pharmaceutical Science top 0.1%

Papers in

Organic Chemistry 122
- Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions 18
- Click Chemistry and Applications 15
- Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions 14
Pharmaceutical Science 18

Co-authors: Paul A. Marks Richard A. Rifkind Victoria M. Richon Steven D. Dong Biliang Zhang William Kevin Kelly Thomas A. Miller Uday Maitra
Journals: Tetrahedron Letters (68 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (67 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (23 papers)Tetrahedron (8 papers)Organic Letters (8 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany Israel

In The Last Decade

Ronald Breslow

269 papers receiving 22.6k citations

Hit Papers

10 papers align trajectories log scale

Dimethyl sulfoxide to vorinostat: development of this histone deacetylase inhibitor as an anticancer drug 2007 · 965 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2007 Nature Biotechnology
2001 Nature reviews. Cancer
1999 Nature
1998 Chemical Reviews
1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1995 Accounts of Chemical Research
1991 Accounts of Chemical Research
1980 Accounts of Chemical Research
1959 Tetrahedron Letters
1958 Journal of the American Chemical Society

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1	Probing the conductance superposition law in single-molecule circuits with parallel paths Nature Nanotechnology ·Héctor Vázquez, Rachid Skouta, Severin T. Schneebeli, Maria Kamenetska, Ronald Breslow, Latha Venkataraman, Mark S. Hybertsen	2012	302
2	Highly Conducting π-Conjugated Molecular Junctions Covalently Bonded to Gold Electrodes Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Wenbo Chen, Jonathan R. Widawsky, Héctor Vázquez, Severin T. Schneebeli, Mark S. Hybertsen, Ronald Breslow, Latha Venkataraman	2011	174
3	Imitating Prebiotic Homochirality on Earth Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres ·Ronald Breslow, Mindy Levine, Zhan-Ling Cheng	2009	29
4	Biomimetic Chemistry: Biology as an Inspiration Journal of Biological Chemistry ·Ronald Breslow	2008	84
5	Synthesis and catalytic properties of diverse chiral polyamines Tetrahedron Letters ·Mindy Levine, Zhenhai Wu, Shengping Zheng, Jordan R. Quinn, Ronald Breslow	2008	15
6	Enantioselective transaminations by dendrimeric enzyme mimics Tetrahedron ·Ronald Breslow, Sujun Wei, Zhenhai Wu	2007	17
7	Polymeric and dendrimeric pyridoxal enzyme mimics Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Lei Liu, Ronald Breslow	2004	33
8	Helical templating of oligopeptides by cyclodextrin dimers Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·David M. Wilson, B Diallo, Ronald Breslow	2003	31
9	Stereoselectivity in reactions of amino acids catalyzed by pyridoxal derivatives carrying rigidly-Attached chirally-Mounted basic groups—transamination, racemization, decarboxylation, retro-Aldol reaction, and aldol condensation Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·Lei Liu, 石油学会精製部会, Ronald Breslow	2002	27
10	Biomimetic selectivity The Chemical Record ·Ronald Breslow	2001	27
11	Concerning Two-Metal Cooperativity in Model Phosphate Hydrolysis Bioorganic Chemistry ·William Zamboni, Ronald Breslow	2001	27
12	Histone deacetylases and cancer: causes and therapies Nature reviews. Cancer ·Paul A. Marks, Richard A. Rifkind, Victoria M. Richon, Ronald Breslow, Thomas A. Miller, William Kevin Kelly Hit paper breakdown →	2001	1554
13	Selective Hydroxylation of a Steroid at C-9 by an Artificial Cytochrome P-450 Angewandte Chemie ·Jerry Yang, Ronald Breslow	2000	119
14	Reversal of optical induction in transamination by regioisomeric bifunctionalized cyclodextrins Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry ·곽영군, Steven D. Dong, Ronald Breslow	1999	44
15	Photoaffinity Labeling and Mass Spectrometry Identify Ribosomal Protein S3 as a Potential Target for Hybrid Polar Cytodifferentiation Agents Journal of Biological Chemistry ·В.А. Фатхулин, Xianbo Zhou, Lang Ngo, Virginia W. Cornish, Joachim Stahl, Hediye Erdjument‐Bromage, Paul Tempst, Richard A. Rifkind, Paul A. Marks, Ronald Breslow, Victoria M. Richon	1999	29
16	Hybrid polar inducers of transformed cell differentiation/apoptosis. From the cell to the clinic Comptes Rendus de l Académie des Sciences - Series III - Sciences de la Vie ·Paul A. Marks, Victoria M. Richon, Ronald Breslow, Richard A. Rifkind	1999	9
17	Structures of a histone deacetylase homologue bound to the TSA and SAHA inhibitors Nature ·Michael S. Finnin, Jill R. Donigian, Alberto Abaroa, Victoria M. Richon, Richard A. Rifkind, Paul A. Marks, Ronald Breslow, Nikola P. Pavletich Hit paper breakdown →	1999	1411
18	Selective Binding of the Dipeptides L‐Phe‐D‐Pro and D‐Phe‐L‐Pro to β‐Cyclodextrin Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English ·Milana Maletic, Helma Wennemers, D. Quentin McDonald, Ronald Breslow, W. Clark Still	1996	67
19	Selective sulfonation of a secondary hydroxyl group of β-cyclodextrin Tetrahedron Letters ·Akihiko Ueno, Ronald Breslow	1982	120
20	Radical relay chlorination of cholestanol directed by an attached diphenylsulfide template Tetrahedron Letters ·Ronald Breslow, Richard L. Wife, David J. Prezant	1976	11

About Ronald Breslow

Ronald Breslow is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, having authored 270 papers that have together received 23.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (39 papers), Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures (29 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (25 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (19 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (18 papers), Organic Chemistry Cycloaddition Reactions (18 papers), Click Chemistry and Applications (15 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (14 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Organic Chemistry (10.4k citations), Pharmaceutical Science (1.2k citations), Molecular Biology (10.8k citations), Inorganic Chemistry (1.9k citations) and Spectroscopy (2.3k citations). Ronald Breslow has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Israel. Frequent co-authors include Paul A. Marks, Richard A. Rifkind, Victoria M. Richon, Steven D. Dong, Biliang Zhang, William Kevin Kelly, Thomas A. Miller, Uday Maitra, Jerry Yang and Nikola P. Pavletich. Their work appears in journals such as Tetrahedron Letters, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Tetrahedron and Organic Letters.

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