Ryan A. Shenvi

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
92 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Ryan A. Shenvi is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ryan A. Shenvi has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Organic Chemistry, 26 papers in Molecular Biology and 13 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Ryan A. Shenvi's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (19 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (19 papers) and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (16 papers). Ryan A. Shenvi is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (19 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (19 papers) and Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (16 papers). Ryan A. Shenvi collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Ireland. Ryan A. Shenvi's co-authors include Steven W. M. Crossley, Carla Obradors, Ruben M. Martinez, Phil S. Baran, Samantha A. Green, Sergey V. Pronin, Sophia L. Shevick, Jeishla L. M. Matos, Suhelen Vásquez‐Céspedes and Francis Barabé and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ryan A. Shenvi

88 papers receiving 5.8k 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.

Mn-, Fe-, and Co-Catalyzed Radical Hydrofunctionalizations of Olefins

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ryan A. Shenvi United States	38	4.8k	1.2k	1.2k	491	445	92	5.9k
Yong‐Qiang Tu China	48	6.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.3×	1.1k 1.0×	409 0.8×	263 0.6×	231	7.8k
Tamsyn Montagnon Greece	31	5.1k 1.0×	710 0.6×	864 0.8×	526 1.1×	489 1.1×	71	5.9k
Stephen P. Marsden United Kingdom	36	5.6k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.6k 1.4×	364 0.7×	323 0.7×	113	6.5k
Timothy R. Newhouse United States	31	4.0k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	692 0.6×	289 0.6×	276 0.6×	74	4.7k
David Šarlah United States	43	9.2k 1.9×	1.9k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	720 1.5×	556 1.2×	110	10.1k
Sherry R. Chemler United States	45	5.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	648 0.6×	217 0.4×	256 0.6×	89	6.4k
Neil K. Garg United States	62	11.5k 2.4×	2.0k 1.7×	2.2k 2.0×	782 1.6×	436 1.0×	205	12.9k
Miwako Mori Japan	52	7.8k 1.6×	1.7k 1.4×	1.7k 1.5×	474 1.0×	257 0.6×	272	8.7k
Pei‐Qiang Huang China	43	6.1k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	2.1k 1.9×	313 0.6×	349 0.8×	296	6.8k
Jeffrey N. Johnston United States	40	4.0k 0.8×	1.2k 1.0×	1.6k 1.4×	304 0.6×	151 0.3×	122	4.8k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Shenvi, Ryan A., et al.. (2026). Catalytic acyloin-type heterocoupling of thioesters via a putative cobalt siloxycarbene. Nature Chemistry.

Khan, Saif Ur Rehman, Gye Won Han, Terry Kenakin, et al.. (2025). Molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism via κ-opioid receptor–G protein complexes. Nature Chemical Biology. 21(7). 1046–1057. 3 indexed citations

Shenvi, Ryan A., et al.. (2024). On the role of thermally activated EDA complexes in decarboxylative cross-coupling. Tetrahedron. 166. 134204–134204. 1 indexed citations

Gan, Xu-cheng, Benxiang Zhang, Cheng Bi, et al.. (2024). Carbon quaternization of redox active esters and olefins by decarboxylative coupling. Science. 384(6691). 113–118. 50 indexed citations

Clay, Khalyd J. & Ryan A. Shenvi. (2024). The original caretakers of salvinorin A and recognizing Indigenous contributions to science. Nature Chemistry. 16(11). 1735–1736. 2 indexed citations

Shenvi, Ryan A., et al.. (2024). Total synthesis of 25 picrotoxanes by virtual library selection. Nature. 638(8052). 980–986. 8 indexed citations

Gan, Xu-cheng, et al.. (2023). Iron-Catalyzed Hydrobenzylation: Stereoselective Synthesis of (−)-Eugenial C. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(29). 15714–15720. 41 indexed citations

Tong, Guanghu, et al.. (2023). C5 methylation confers accessibility, stability and selectivity to picrotoxinin. Nature Communications. 14(1). 8308–8308. 7 indexed citations

Oguma, Takuya, et al.. (2022). Concise syntheses of GB22, GB13, and himgaline by cross-coupling and complete reduction. Science. 375(6586). 1270–1274. 26 indexed citations

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Puyl, Vincent A. van der, et al.. (2021). Cobalt-catalyzed alkene hydrogenation by reductive turnover. Tetrahedron Letters. 72. 153047–153047. 19 indexed citations

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Chen, Shuming, J. Luca Schwarz, R. Erik Plata, et al.. (2020). Electronic complementarity permits hindered butenolide heterodimerization and discovery of novel cGAS/STING pathway antagonists. Nature Chemistry. 12(3). 310–317. 43 indexed citations

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Ohtawa, Masaki, Shuming Chen, Sophia Khom, et al.. (2020). Synthetic, Mechanistic, and Biological Interrogation of Ginkgo biloba Chemical Space En Route to (−)-Bilobalide. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(43). 18599–18618. 44 indexed citations

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Flood, Dillon T., Shota Asai, Xue‐Jing Zhang, et al.. (2019). Expanding Reactivity in DNA-Encoded Library Synthesis via Reversible Binding of DNA to an Inert Quaternary Ammonium Support. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(25). 9998–10006. 130 indexed citations

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Ohtawa, Masaki, et al.. (2019). Concise asymmetric synthesis of (−)-bilobalide. Nature. 575(7784). 643–646. 41 indexed citations

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Shevick, Sophia L., et al.. (2019). Olefin Hydroarylation via Ni/Co Dual Catalysis. Trends in Chemistry. 1(5). 540–541. 1 indexed citations

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Matos, Jeishla L. M., et al.. (2018). Branch-Selective Addition of Unactivated Olefins into Imines and Aldehydes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(49). 16976–16981. 133 indexed citations

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Cho, Min, et al.. (2018). O6C-20-nor-salvinorin A is a stable and potent KOR agonist. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 28(16). 2770–2772. 11 indexed citations

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Pronin, Sergey V., Christopher A. Reiher, & Ryan A. Shenvi. (2013). Stereoinversion of tertiary alcohols to tertiary-alkyl isonitriles and amines. Nature. 501(7466). 195–199. 146 indexed citations

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Pronin, Sergey V. & Ryan A. Shenvi. (2012). Synthesis of highly strained terpenes by non-stop tail-to-head polycyclization. Nature Chemistry. 4(11). 915–920. 87 indexed citations

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Baran, Phil S., Ryan A. Shenvi, & Christos Mitsos. (2005). A Remarkable Ring Contraction En Route to the Chartelline Alkaloids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(24). 3714–3717. 54 indexed citations

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