Samuel J. Danishefsky

52.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
850 papers, 41.6k citations indexed

About

Samuel J. Danishefsky is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel J. Danishefsky has authored 850 papers receiving a total of 41.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 701 papers in Organic Chemistry, 390 papers in Molecular Biology and 125 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Samuel J. Danishefsky's work include Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (252 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (248 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (177 papers). Samuel J. Danishefsky is often cited by papers focused on Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (252 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (248 papers) and Glycosylation and Glycoproteins Research (177 papers). Samuel J. Danishefsky collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Denmark. Samuel J. Danishefsky's co-authors include Qian Wan, Rebecca M. Wilson, Dirk Trauner, Hong Lin, Sherry R. Chemler, Mark T. Bilodeau, Ting‐Chao Chou, Takeshi Kitahara, Mark D. Bednarski and Neal Rosen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Samuel J. Danishefsky

841 papers receiving 40.2k citations

Hit Papers

The B-Alkyl Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling... 1974 2026 1991 2008 2001 2007 1996 2003 1979 250 500 750
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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. The B-Alkyl Suzuki-Miyaura Cross-Coupling Reaction: Development, Mechanistic Study, and Applications in Natural Product Synthesis
    2001 788 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Free‐Radical‐Based, Specific Desulfurization of Cysteine: A Powerful Advance in the Synthesis of Polypeptides and Glycopolypeptides
    2007 736 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  3. Glycals in Organic Synthesis: The Evolution of Comprehensive Strategies for the Assembly of Oligosaccharides and Glycoconjugates of Biological Consequence
    1996 586 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky et al. profile →
  4. Gelsemine: A Thought‐Provoking Target for Total Synthesis
    2003 565 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  5. Electrophilic cyclopropanes in organic synthesis
    1979 431 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
  6. Useful diene for the Diels-Alder reaction
    1974 376 citations Samuel J. Danishefsky et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel J. Danishefsky United States 97 33.4k 19.9k 5.0k 4.7k 3.5k 850 41.6k
Herbert Waldmann Germany 95 18.6k 0.6× 23.3k 1.2× 4.9k 1.0× 2.7k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 840 38.6k
K. C. Nicolaou United States 100 34.1k 1.0× 12.5k 0.6× 8.0k 1.6× 4.0k 0.8× 4.3k 1.2× 600 41.9k
George R. Pettit United States 77 10.3k 0.3× 11.7k 0.6× 4.9k 1.0× 3.6k 0.8× 4.6k 1.3× 680 24.4k
Ernest Hamel United States 81 15.5k 0.5× 10.4k 0.5× 3.7k 0.7× 5.2k 1.1× 1.8k 0.5× 475 24.7k
Paul A. Wender United States 83 13.3k 0.4× 10.5k 0.5× 1.8k 0.4× 1.4k 0.3× 1.5k 0.4× 361 24.5k
William Roush United States 66 12.7k 0.4× 6.6k 0.3× 1.9k 0.4× 1.3k 0.3× 1.6k 0.4× 406 18.9k
William A. Denny New Zealand 76 8.4k 0.3× 12.4k 0.6× 827 0.2× 4.3k 0.9× 824 0.2× 600 21.1k
Dieter Seebàch Switzerland 105 37.7k 1.1× 24.8k 1.2× 1.2k 0.2× 1.6k 0.3× 726 0.2× 954 50.9k
Christian Bailly France 66 5.6k 0.2× 10.6k 0.5× 1.5k 0.3× 3.1k 0.7× 607 0.2× 520 17.4k
Valery V. Fokin United States 76 33.3k 1.0× 18.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.2× 1.7k 0.4× 295 0.1× 185 40.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fera, Daniela, Kevin Wiehe, Robert Meyerhoff, et al.. (2018). HIV envelope V3 region mimic embodies key features of a broadly neutralizing antibody lineage epitope. Nature Communications. 9(1). 1111–1111. 16 indexed citations
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Roberts, Andrew G., Gardner S. Creech, Ting Wang, et al.. (2017). Total Chemical Synthesis and Folding of All-l and All-d Variants of Oncogenic KRas(G12V). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(22). 7632–7639. 47 indexed citations
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Wang, Ping, Suwei Dong, Jae-Hung Shieh, et al.. (2013). Erythropoietin Derived by Chemical Synthesis. Science. 342(6164). 1357–1360. 202 indexed citations
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Tan, Zhongping, Shiying Shang, & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (2011). Rational development of a strategy for modifying the aggregatibility of proteins. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108(11). 4297–4302. 49 indexed citations
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Danishefsky, Samuel J. & Mingji Dai. (2009). An Oxidative Dearomatization Cyclization Model for Cortistatin A. Heterocycles. 77(1). 157–157. 33 indexed citations
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Rao, Yu, et al.. (2009). A simple method for the conversion of carboxylic acids into thioacids with Lawesson’s reagent. Tetrahedron Letters. 50(48). 6684–6686. 37 indexed citations
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Chou, Ting‐Chao, Xiu-Guo Zhang, Huajin Dong, et al.. (2008). Iso-oxazole-Fludelone (KOS-1803) as a potent and efficacious microtubule-stablization epothilone against xenograft tumors.. Cancer Research. 68. 1402–1402. 1 indexed citations
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Wittmann, Valentin & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (2007). Glycopeptides and glycoproteins : synthesis, structure, and application. Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)). 12 indexed citations
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Chou, Ting‐Chao, Huajin Dong, Alexey Rivkin, et al.. (2003). Design and Total Synthesis of a Superior Family of Epothilone Analogues, which Eliminate Xenograft Tumors to a Nonrelapsable State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 42(39). 4762–4767. 50 indexed citations
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Lin, Songnian & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (2002). The Total Synthesis of Proteasome Inhibitors TMC-95A and TMC-95B: Discovery of a New Method To Generate cis-Propenyl Amides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41(3). 512–515. 104 indexed citations
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Gagnon, Alexandre & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (2002). Evaluation of Diene Hierarchies for Diels-Alder Reactions En Route to Xestocyclamine A: Elaboration of an Ansa Bridge byB-Alkyl Suzuki Macrocyclization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 41(9). 1581–1584. 30 indexed citations
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Ragupathi, Govindaswami, Don M. Coltart, Lawrence J. Williams, et al.. (2002). On the power of chemical synthesis: Immunological evaluation of models for multiantigenic carbohydrate-based cancer vaccines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 99(21). 13699–13704. 88 indexed citations
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Coltart, Don M., Ajay K. Royyuru, Lawrence J. Williams, et al.. (2002). Principles of Mucin Architecture:  Structural Studies on Synthetic Glycopeptides Bearing Clustered Mono-, Di-, Tri-, and Hexasaccharide Glycodomains. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 124(33). 9833–9844. 153 indexed citations
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Zheng, Fuzhong F., Scott D. Kuduk, Gabriela Chiosis, et al.. (2000). Identification of a geldanamycin dimer that induces the selective degradation of HER-family tyrosine kinases.. PubMed. 60(8). 2090–4. 73 indexed citations
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Wu, Zhicai, Fei Zhang, & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (2000). Subtle Variations in the Long-Range Transmission of Stereochemical Information: Matched and Mismatched Aldol Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 39(24). 4505–4508. 17 indexed citations
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Kwon, Ohyun, Dai‐Shi Su, Dong‐Fang Meng, et al.. (1998). A Stereospecific Geminal Alkylation Scheme En Route To CP-225, 917 and CP-263,114. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 37(13-14). 1880–1882. 38 indexed citations
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Friesen, Richard W. & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (1990). On the use of the haloetherification method to synthesize fully functionalized disaccharides. Tetrahedron. 46(1). 103–112. 28 indexed citations
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Danishefsky, Samuel J. & Mark D. Bednarski. (1985). On the acetoxylation of 2,3-dihydro-4-pyrones: a concise, fully synthetic route to the glucal stereochemical series. Tetrahedron Letters. 26(29). 3411–3412. 16 indexed citations
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Larson, Eric R. & Samuel J. Danishefsky. (1982). On the mechanism of the lewis acid catalyzed cyclocondensation of aldehydes with siloxydienes. Tetrahedron Letters. 23(19). 1975–1978. 17 indexed citations
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Danishefsky, Samuel J.. (1979). Electrophilic cyclopropanes in organic synthesis. Accounts of Chemical Research. 12(2). 66–72. 431 indexed citations breakdown →

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