Tobias Ritter

25.2k total citations · 10 hit papers
195 papers, 21.1k citations indexed

About

Tobias Ritter is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Tobias Ritter has authored 195 papers receiving a total of 21.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 146 papers in Organic Chemistry, 71 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 50 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Tobias Ritter's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (93 papers), Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (69 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (52 papers). Tobias Ritter is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (93 papers), Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (69 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (52 papers). Tobias Ritter collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Belgium. Tobias Ritter's co-authors include Takeru Furuya, Constanze N. Neumann, Theresa Liang, David C. Powers, Adam S. Kamlet, Michael G. Campbell, Florian Berger, Jonas Börgel, Pingping Tang and Eunsung Lee and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Tobias Ritter

190 papers receiving 20.8k citations

Hit Papers

Introduction of Fluorine and Fluorine‐Containing Function... 2009 2026 2014 2020 2013 2011 2014 2019 2013 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
What are hit papers?

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. Introduction of Fluorine and Fluorine‐Containing Functional Groups
    2013 2.3k citations Tobias Ritter et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
  2. Catalysis for fluorination and trifluoromethylation
    2011 2.0k citations Tobias Ritter et al. Nature profile →
  3. Modern Carbon–Fluorine Bond Forming Reactions for Aryl Fluoride Synthesis
    2014 650 citations Tobias Ritter et al. profile →
  4. Site-selective and versatile aromatic C−H functionalization by thianthrenation
    2019 569 citations Florian Berger, Matthew B. Plutschack et al. Nature profile →
  5. Einführung von Fluor und fluorhaltigen funktionellen Gruppen
    2013 557 citations Tobias Ritter et al. Angewandte Chemie profile →
  6. Bimetallic Pd(III) complexes in palladium-catalysed carbon–heteroatom bond formation
    2009 508 citations Tobias Ritter et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  7. Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination
    2019 289 citations Jiakun Li, Junting Chen et al. Nature Chemistry profile →
  8. Late-Stage Functionalization
    2020 264 citations Jonas Börgel, Tobias Ritter profile →
  9. A Perspective on Late-Stage Aromatic C–H Bond Functionalization
    2022 235 citations Tobias Ritter et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  10. Photoinduced Copper-Catalyzed Late-Stage Azidoarylation of Alkenes via Arylthianthrenium Salts
    2023 102 citations Yuan Cai, Tobias Ritter 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
Tobias Ritter Germany 76 17.2k 9.8k 5.5k 1.9k 827 195 21.1k
Véronique Gouverneur United Kingdom 66 15.5k 0.9× 13.0k 1.3× 5.5k 1.0× 3.3k 1.7× 598 0.7× 278 20.9k
Melanie S. Sanford United States 98 31.3k 1.8× 6.0k 0.6× 8.9k 1.6× 2.3k 1.2× 2.0k 2.4× 277 37.3k
Antonio Togni Switzerland 69 14.8k 0.9× 6.3k 0.6× 8.3k 1.5× 2.3k 1.2× 731 0.9× 287 17.9k
Armido Studer Germany 98 31.0k 1.8× 5.2k 0.5× 4.5k 0.8× 2.8k 1.4× 515 0.6× 567 35.4k
Vladimir V. Grushin United States 53 7.6k 0.4× 5.4k 0.6× 4.6k 0.8× 565 0.3× 602 0.7× 131 11.1k
Martin Oestreich Germany 75 16.4k 1.0× 1.4k 0.1× 6.7k 1.2× 1.7k 0.9× 853 1.0× 435 17.5k
Jianbo Wang China 82 22.4k 1.3× 2.7k 0.3× 2.6k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 323 0.4× 473 25.1k
Tamejiro Hiyama Japan 79 22.6k 1.3× 4.1k 0.4× 5.1k 0.9× 2.2k 1.1× 1.4k 1.7× 550 25.9k
Gregory C. Fu United States 120 41.3k 2.4× 2.4k 0.3× 10.4k 1.9× 5.6k 2.9× 587 0.7× 319 43.5k
Aiwen Lei China 107 38.8k 2.3× 2.8k 0.3× 5.5k 1.0× 2.6k 1.4× 1.3k 1.5× 573 43.0k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ritter, Tobias, et al.. (2025). Copper‐Photoredox‐Catalyzed C(sp 3 )–C(sp 3 ) Reductive Cross‐Coupling of Alkyl Bromides with BCP‐Thianthrenium Reagents. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(30). e202506785–e202506785. 1 indexed citations
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Dietz, Karl‐Josef, et al.. (2025). On-DNA C–H functionalization of electron-rich arenes for DNA-encoded libraries. Nature Chemistry. 17(9). 1340–1347. 3 indexed citations
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Bai, Zibo, et al.. (2025). Thianthrenium-enabled modular synthesis of bicyclo[1.1.1]pentanes. Nature Synthesis. 4(9). 1161–1169. 6 indexed citations
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Altun, Ahmet, et al.. (2025). Deaminative Cyanation of Anilines by Oxylanion Radical Transfer. Organic Letters. 27(32). 8921–8926.
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Ritter, Tobias, et al.. (2024). Allenyl Thianthrenium Salt: A Bench-Stable C3 Synthon for Annulation and Cross-Coupling Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(40). 27282–27286. 7 indexed citations
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Juliá, Fabio, et al.. (2023). Reductive Cross‐Coupling of a Vinyl Thianthrenium Salt and Secondary Alkyl Iodides. Angewandte Chemie. 135(52). 2 indexed citations
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Cai, Yuan & Tobias Ritter. (2022). Meerwein‐type Bromoarylation with Arylthianthrenium Salts. Angewandte Chemie. 134(47). 3 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiang & Tobias Ritter. (2021). Decarboxylative Polyfluoroarylation of Alkylcarboxylic Acids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 60(19). 10557–10562. 52 indexed citations
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Su, Wanqi, Peng Xu, & Tobias Ritter. (2021). Decarboxylative Hydroxylation of Benzoic Acids. Angewandte Chemie. 133(45). 24214–24219. 12 indexed citations
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Zhao, Da, et al.. (2021). Tritiation of aryl thianthrenium salts with a molecular palladium catalyst. Nature. 600(7889). 444–449. 119 indexed citations
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Ritter, Tobias, et al.. (2021). Site-Selective C–H alkylation of Complex Arenes by a Two-Step Aryl Thianthrenation-Reductive Alkylation Sequence. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(21). 7909–7914. 118 indexed citations
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Cheng, Qiang, et al.. (2020). Allylic Amination of Alkenes with Iminothianthrenes to Afford Alkyl Allylamines. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(41). 17287–17293. 91 indexed citations
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Chen, Junting, Jiakun Li, Matthew B. Plutschack, Florian Berger, & Tobias Ritter. (2019). Regio‐ and Stereoselective Thianthrenation of Olefins To Access Versatile Alkenyl Electrophiles. Angewandte Chemie. 132(14). 5665–5669. 25 indexed citations
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Sang, Ruocheng, Wanqi Su, Fei Ye, et al.. (2019). Site‐Selective C−H Oxygenation via Aryl Sulfonium Salts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(45). 16161–16166. 195 indexed citations
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Tanwar, Lalita, Jonas Börgel, & Tobias Ritter. (2019). Synthesis of Benzylic Alcohols by C–H Oxidation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(45). 17983–17988. 117 indexed citations
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Ham, Won Seok, Julius Hillenbrand, Jérôme Jacq, Christophe Génicot, & Tobias Ritter. (2018). Divergent Late‐Stage (Hetero)aryl C−H Amination by the Pyridinium Radical Cation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(2). 532–536. 106 indexed citations
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Pan, Fei, Gregory B. Boursalian, & Tobias Ritter. (2018). Palladium‐Catalyzed Decarbonylative Difluoromethylation of Acid Chlorides at Room Temperature. Angewandte Chemie. 130(51). 17113–17118. 22 indexed citations
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Sun, Xiang, Junting Chen, & Tobias Ritter. (2018). Catalytic dehydrogenative decarboxyolefination of carboxylic acids. Nature Chemistry. 10(12). 1229–1233. 202 indexed citations
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Ye, Fei, Junting Chen, & Tobias Ritter. (2017). Rh-Catalyzed Anti-Markovnikov Hydrocyanation of Terminal Alkynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(21). 7184–7187. 76 indexed citations
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Ritter, Tobias & Erick M. Carreira. (2004). 1,2,4‐Oxadiazolidinones as Configurationally Stable Chiral Building Blocks. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(6). 936–938. 20 indexed citations

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