Timothy J. Donohoe

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
256 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

Timothy J. Donohoe is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Timothy J. Donohoe has authored 256 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 220 papers in Organic Chemistry, 68 papers in Molecular Biology and 50 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Timothy J. Donohoe's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (95 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (77 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (48 papers). Timothy J. Donohoe is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (95 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (77 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (48 papers). Timothy J. Donohoe collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Poland. Timothy J. Donohoe's co-authors include Ignacio Colomer, Carole J. R. Bataille, Akshat Rathi, Panayiotis A. Procopiou, John F. Bower, C.K.A. Callens, Sam Butterworth, Darren L. Poole, Roly J. Armstrong and Richard G. Compton and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Society Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Timothy J. Donohoe

251 papers receiving 8.3k 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.

Hexafluoroisopropanol as a highly versatile solvent

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Author						Papers	Cites
Timothy J. Donohoe	7.2k	2.1k	2.1k	509	443	256	8.4k
Kazuhiko Takai	10.5k 1.5×	2.4k 1.2×	1.4k 0.7×	372 0.7×	207 0.5×	241	11.3k
Janine Cossy	12.4k 1.7×	1.9k 0.9×	3.0k 1.4×	244 0.5×	359 0.8×	593	13.6k
Siegfried Blechert	11.5k 1.6×	2.0k 1.0×	4.6k 2.2×	402 0.8×	190 0.4×	263	16.8k
István E. Markó	7.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	1.0k 0.5×	161 0.3×	231 0.5×	208	7.9k
Makoto Tokunaga	5.3k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 0.6×	464 0.9×	166 0.4×	135	7.2k
Mukund P. Sibi	11.2k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	2.4k 1.2×	281 0.6×	132 0.3×	243	12.5k
B. V. Subba Reddy	11.5k 1.6×	1.2k 0.6×	2.8k 1.3×	146 0.3×	251 0.6×	592	12.8k
Jiro Tsuji	14.3k 2.0×	3.6k 1.7×	2.2k 1.1×	680 1.3×	296 0.7×	314	15.7k
T. V. RajanBabu	8.2k 1.1×	3.4k 1.6×	1.4k 0.7×	393 0.8×	126 0.3×	147	9.0k
Guangbin Dong	15.1k 2.1×	3.6k 1.7×	1.1k 0.5×	367 0.7×	133 0.3×	261	16.3k

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All Works

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Jenkins, Timothy C, et al.. (2025). Hydrogen‐Borrowing‐Based Methods for the Construction of Quaternary Stereocentres. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(8). e202423179–e202423179. 2 indexed citations

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Wang, Jinfang, et al.. (2025). Asymmetric Hydride Shift Reactions Catalyzed by Chiral Aluminium Complexes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(5). e21374–e21374.

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Donohoe, Timothy J., et al.. (2024). Functional group tolerant hydrogen borrowing C-alkylation. Nature Communications. 15(1). 5131–5131. 8 indexed citations

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Donohoe, Timothy J., et al.. (2024). HFIP promoted carbo-lactonisation as a new route to functionalised lactones. Chemical Communications. 60(73). 9997–10000. 2 indexed citations

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Smith, Lewis B., Roly J. Armstrong, Edward C. Smith, et al.. (2023). Redox Reorganization: Aluminium Promoted 1,5‐Hydride Shifts Allow the Controlled Synthesis of Multisubstituted Cyclohexenes. Angewandte Chemie. 135(36).

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Smith, Lewis B., Roly J. Armstrong, Edward C. Smith, et al.. (2023). Redox Reorganization: Aluminium Promoted 1,5‐Hydride Shifts Allow the Controlled Synthesis of Multisubstituted Cyclohexenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(36). e202307424–e202307424. 4 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Roly J., et al.. (2020). Enantioconvergent alkylation of ketones with racemic secondary alcohols via hydrogen borrowing catalysis. Chemical Communications. 56(24). 3543–3546. 40 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Roly J., et al.. (2020). A hydrogen borrowing annulation strategy for the stereocontrolled synthesis of saturated aza-heterocycles. Chemical Communications. 56(24). 3563–3566. 28 indexed citations

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Smith, Lewis B., et al.. (2020). Chemo- and Regioselective Synthesis of Acyl-Cyclohexenes by a Tandem Acceptorless Dehydrogenation-[1,5]-Hydride Shift Cascade. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(5). 2514–2523. 32 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Roly J., et al.. (2020). Control of Absolute Stereochemistry in Transition‐Metal‐Catalysed Hydrogen‐Borrowing Reactions. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(57). 12912–12926. 111 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Roly J., Wasim M. Akhtar, Tom A. Young, Fernanda Duarte, & Timothy J. Donohoe. (2019). Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclohexanes by Hydrogen Borrowing Annulations. Angewandte Chemie. 131(36). 12688–12692. 26 indexed citations

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Armstrong, Roly J., Wasim M. Akhtar, Tom A. Young, Fernanda Duarte, & Timothy J. Donohoe. (2019). Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Cyclohexanes by Hydrogen Borrowing Annulations. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(36). 12558–12562. 57 indexed citations

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Akhtar, Wasim M., Roly J. Armstrong, James R. Frost, Neil G. Stevenson, & Timothy J. Donohoe. (2018). Stereoselective Synthesis of Cyclohexanes via an Iridium Catalyzed (5 + 1) Annulation Strategy. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(38). 11916–11920. 69 indexed citations

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Donohoe, Timothy J., et al.. (2016). Iridium-Catalyzed C4-Alkylation of 2,6-Di-tert-butylphenol by Using Hydrogen-Borrowing Catalysis. Synthesis. 49(4). 910–916. 9 indexed citations

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Shen, Di, et al.. (2014). Hydrogen‐Borrowing and Interrupted‐Hydrogen‐Borrowing Reactions of Ketones and Methanol Catalyzed by Iridium. Angewandte Chemie. 127(5). 1662–1665. 36 indexed citations

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Pilgrim, Ben S., et al.. (2014). Short and Efficient Syntheses of Protoberberine Alkaloids using Palladium‐Catalyzed Enolate Arylation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(52). 14555–14558. 52 indexed citations

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Chan, Louis K. M., Darren L. Poole, Di Shen, Mark P. Healy, & Timothy J. Donohoe. (2013). Rhodium‐Catalyzed Ketone Methylation Using Methanol Under Mild Conditions: Formation of α‐Branched Products. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 53(3). 761–765. 220 indexed citations

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Chan, Louis K. M., Darren L. Poole, Di Shen, Mark P. Healy, & Timothy J. Donohoe. (2013). Rhodium‐Catalyzed Ketone Methylation Using Methanol Under Mild Conditions: Formation of α‐Branched Products. Angewandte Chemie. 126(3). 780–784. 58 indexed citations

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Baron, Ronan, Neil M. Kershaw, Timothy J. Donohoe, & Richard G. Compton. (2008). Quantitative voltammetry of the reduction of methyl benzoate in THF reveals strong ion pairing of the radical anion with tetra‐n‐butyl cations. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 22(3). 247–253. 17 indexed citations

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Paddon, Christopher A., et al.. (2007). Kinetics and thermodynamics of the Li/Li⁺ couple in tetrahydrofuran at low temperatures (195–295 K). Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 20(9). 677–684. 26 indexed citations

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