Uttam Dhawa

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Uttam Dhawa is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Uttam Dhawa has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Organic Chemistry, 11 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 4 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in Uttam Dhawa's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (11 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (10 papers). Uttam Dhawa is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (25 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (11 papers) and Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (10 papers). Uttam Dhawa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and Italy. Uttam Dhawa's co-authors include Lutz Ackermann, Fabio Pesciaioli, João C. A. Oliveira, Joanna Wencel‐Delord, Joachim Loup, Cong Tian, Tomasz Wdowik, Daniel Zell, Jiping Hao and Valentin Müller and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Uttam Dhawa

29 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Enantioselective C−H Activation with Earth‐Abundant 3d Tr... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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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. Enantioselective C−H Activation with Earth‐Abundant 3d Transition Metals
    2019 368 citations Uttam Dhawa, Fabio Pesciaioli et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Uttam Dhawa Germany 21 2.0k 571 205 146 118 31 2.1k
Alexander P. Pulis United Kingdom 27 2.2k 1.1× 384 0.7× 162 0.8× 72 0.5× 180 1.5× 44 2.3k
Zhong‐Yan Cao China 25 3.1k 1.5× 682 1.2× 285 1.4× 114 0.8× 287 2.4× 40 3.2k
Łukasz Woźniak Switzerland 15 1.7k 0.9× 499 0.9× 188 0.9× 149 1.0× 116 1.0× 25 1.8k
Chandra M. R. Volla India 33 3.6k 1.8× 507 0.9× 155 0.8× 53 0.4× 258 2.2× 94 3.7k
Jitan Zhang China 18 2.5k 1.2× 457 0.8× 107 0.5× 175 1.2× 114 1.0× 39 2.6k
Songjie Yu China 38 4.7k 2.3× 950 1.7× 235 1.1× 69 0.5× 168 1.4× 65 4.8k
Fang‐Lin Zhang China 19 1.6k 0.8× 370 0.6× 107 0.5× 77 0.5× 136 1.2× 54 1.7k
Hun Young Kim South Korea 27 2.0k 1.0× 386 0.7× 116 0.6× 64 0.4× 221 1.9× 80 2.1k
Huifeng Yue Saudi Arabia 32 2.6k 1.3× 379 0.7× 188 0.9× 110 0.8× 281 2.4× 56 2.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Uttam Dhawa

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dhawa, Uttam, et al.. (2026). Lysine Targeting Group‐Transfer Chimeras for Proximity Induction. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 65(13). e12131–e12131.
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Dhawa, Uttam & Xile Hu. (2025). Enantioconvergent Cobalt‐Catalyzed Hydroalkylation for the Construction of Fluoro, Chloro, and Trifluoromethyl Stereogenic Centers. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(32). e202508637–e202508637. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Chao, et al.. (2024). Regiodivergent and Enantioselective Synthesis of Cyclic Sulfones via Ligand‐Controlled Nickel‐Catalyzed Hydroalkylation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(29). e202406767–e202406767. 11 indexed citations
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Chaudhary, Santosh Kumar, et al.. (2023). Proximity-inducing modalities: the past, present, and future. Chemical Society Reviews. 52(16). 5485–5515. 23 indexed citations
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Lin, Zhipeng, Uttam Dhawa, Xiaoyan Hou, et al.. (2023). Electrocatalyzed direct arene alkenylations without directing groups for selective late-stage drug diversification. Nature Communications. 14(1). 4224–4224. 31 indexed citations
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Dhawa, Uttam, et al.. (2023). Copper‐Catalyzed Benzylic Functionalization of Lignin‐Derived Monomers. ChemSusChem. 16(21). e202300703–e202300703. 1 indexed citations
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Shoba, Veronika M., Santosh Kumar Chaudhary, Arghya Deb, et al.. (2023). Development and Applications of Chimera Platforms for Tyrosine Phosphorylation. ACS Central Science. 9(8). 1558–1566. 19 indexed citations
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Dhawa, Uttam, Tomasz Wdowik, Xiaoyan Hou, et al.. (2021). Enantioselective palladaelectro-catalyzed C–H olefinations and allylations for N–C axial chirality. Chemical Science. 12(42). 14182–14188. 73 indexed citations
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Dhawa, Uttam, et al.. (2021). Enantioselective Ruthenium-Catalyzed C–H Alkylations by a Chiral Carboxylic Acid with Attractive Dispersive Interactions. Organic Letters. 23(7). 2760–2765. 49 indexed citations
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Mei, Ruhuai, Uttam Dhawa, Ramesh C. Samanta, et al.. (2020). Cobalt‐Catalyzed Oxidative C−H Activation: Strategies and Concepts. ChemSusChem. 13(13). 3306–3356. 89 indexed citations
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Tian, Cong, Tjark H. Meyer, Maximilian Stangier, et al.. (2020). Cobaltaelectro-catalyzed C–H activation for resource-economical molecular syntheses. Nature Protocols. 15(5). 1760–1774. 17 indexed citations
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Dhawa, Uttam, Cong Tian, Tomasz Wdowik, et al.. (2020). Enantioselective Pallada‐Electrocatalyzed C−H Activation by Transient Directing Groups: Expedient Access to Helicenes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(32). 13451–13457. 209 indexed citations
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Júnior, Eufrânio N. da Silva, Guilherme A. M. Jardim, Claus Jacob, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of quinones with highlighted biological applications: A critical update on the strategies towards bioactive compounds with emphasis on lapachones. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 179. 863–915. 59 indexed citations
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Tian, Cong, Uttam Dhawa, Julia Struwe, & Lutz Ackermann. (2019). Cobaltaelectro‐Catalyzed C—H Acyloxylation. Chinese Journal of Chemistry. 37(6). 552–556. 38 indexed citations
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Pesciaioli, Fabio, et al.. (2018). Enantioselective Cobalt(III)‐Catalyzed C−H Activation Enabled by Chiral Carboxylic Acid Cooperation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(47). 15425–15429. 192 indexed citations
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Pesciaioli, Fabio, et al.. (2018). Enantioselective Cobalt(III)‐Catalyzed C−H Activation Enabled by Chiral Carboxylic Acid Cooperation. Angewandte Chemie. 130(47). 15651–15655. 56 indexed citations
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Zell, Daniel, Valentin Müller, Uttam Dhawa, et al.. (2017). Mild Cobalt(III)‐Catalyzed Allylative C−F/C−H Functionalizations at Room Temperature. Chemistry - A European Journal. 23(50). 12145–12148. 96 indexed citations
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Maity, Soham, et al.. (2016). Palladium catalyzed selective distal C–H olefination of biaryl systems. Chemical Communications. 52(97). 14003–14006. 49 indexed citations
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Maity, Soham, et al.. (2016). Switch to Allylic Selectivity in Cobalt-Catalyzed Dehydrogenative Heck Reactions with Unbiased Aliphatic Olefins. ACS Catalysis. 6(8). 5493–5499. 162 indexed citations

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