Victor Snieckus

21.8k total citations · 6 hit papers
396 papers, 17.1k citations indexed

About

Victor Snieckus is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Victor Snieckus has authored 396 papers receiving a total of 17.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 345 papers in Organic Chemistry, 62 papers in Molecular Biology and 28 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Victor Snieckus's work include Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (170 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (100 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (80 papers). Victor Snieckus is often cited by papers focused on Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics (170 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (100 papers) and Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (80 papers). Victor Snieckus collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Victor Snieckus's co-authors include Matthew O. Kitching, Thomas J. Colacot, Carin C. C. Johansson Seechurn, Peter Beak, Stephen L. MacNeil, Wolfgang Oppolzer, Marna C. Whisler, Yigang Zhao, Mukund P. Sibi and Matthew J. Sharp and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Victor Snieckus

379 papers receiving 16.4k 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.

Palladium‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling: A Historical Contextual Perspective to the 2010 Nobel Prize

2012 2.5k citations Matthew O. Kitching, Victor Snieckus et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Directed ortho metalation. Tertiary amide and O-carbamate directors in synthetic strategies for polysubstituted aromatics

1990 1.9k citations Victor Snieckus profile →
Beyond Thermodynamic Acidity: A Perspective on the Complex‐Induced Proximity Effect (CIPE) in Deprotonation Reactions

2004 626 citations Victor Snieckus et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →
Palladiumkatalysierte Kreuzkupplungen: eine historische Perspektive im Kontext der Nobel‐Preise 2010

2012 482 citations Matthew O. Kitching, Victor Snieckus et al. Angewandte Chemie profile →
Directed lithiation of aromatic tertiary amides: an evolving synthetic methodology for polysubstituted aromatics

1982 349 citations Victor Snieckus et al. profile →
Intramolecular Ene Reactions in Organic Synthesis

1978 333 citations Victor Snieckus et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Victor Snieckus Canada	60	14.9k	2.3k	2.3k	779	671	396	17.1k
Hans‐Joachim Knölker Germany	56	10.5k 0.7×	2.0k 0.9×	2.9k 1.3×	702 0.9×	743 1.1×	301	14.1k
Edwin Vedējs United States	58	10.4k 0.7×	2.6k 1.1×	2.8k 1.2×	557 0.7×	512 0.8×	247	11.9k
Takashi Ooi Japan	64	12.2k 0.8×	4.0k 1.7×	3.8k 1.7×	689 0.9×	453 0.7×	342	14.3k
Reinhard W. Hoffmann Germany	51	11.0k 0.7×	1.8k 0.8×	2.6k 1.1×	457 0.6×	612 0.9×	403	12.7k
Derek H. R. Barton United States	51	9.4k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	2.6k 1.1×	1.7k 2.2×	595 0.9×	401	12.1k
Jiro Tsuji Japan	61	14.3k 1.0×	3.6k 1.5×	2.2k 1.0×	775 1.0×	657 1.0×	314	15.7k
Ei‐ichi Negishi United States	71	18.0k 1.2×	3.6k 1.5×	2.1k 0.9×	758 1.0×	705 1.1×	335	19.2k
Satoru Masamune United States	60	10.0k 0.7×	3.2k 1.4×	3.1k 1.4×	839 1.1×	861 1.3×	232	13.0k
D. H. R. BARTON United States	45	8.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	2.6k 1.1×	748 1.0×	599 0.9×	303	10.6k
Charles Mioskowski France	49	7.4k 0.5×	1.5k 0.7×	4.1k 1.8×	2.0k 2.6×	608 0.9×	414	12.5k

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Patel, Jignesh J., Ross D. Jansen‐van Vuuren, Gregory M. Ross, et al.. (2021). Directed Ortho and Remote Metalation of Naphthalene 1,8-Diamide: Complementing S_EAr Reactivity for the Synthesis of Substituted Naphthalenes. Organic Letters. 23(6). 1966–1973. 5 indexed citations

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Patel, Jignesh J., et al.. (2020). Expedient Pd‐Catalyzed α‐Arylation towards Dibenzoxepinones: Pivotal Manske's Ketone for the Formal Synthesis of Cularine Alkaloids. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2020(30). 4693–4697. 5 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, et al.. (2019). Purification and Kinetic Characterization of the Essential Condensation Enzymes Involved in Prodiginine and Tambjamine Biosynthesis. ChemBioChem. 21(7). 1036–1042. 9 indexed citations

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Patel, Jignesh J., et al.. (2019). Regioselective Functionalization of 7‐Azaindole by Controlled Annular Isomerism: The Directed Metalation‐Group Dance. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(22). 7313–7317. 14 indexed citations

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Patel, Jignesh J., et al.. (2019). Regioselective Functionalization of 7‐Azaindole by Controlled Annular Isomerism: The Directed Metalation‐Group Dance. Angewandte Chemie. 131(22). 7391–7395. 3 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, et al.. (2019). Synthesis of γ-Arylated Butenolides by Palladium or Copper Catalysis. Synfacts. 15(6). 594–594. 1 indexed citations

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Patel, Jignesh J., et al.. (2018). Directed Remote Lateral Metalation: Highly Substituted 2‐Naphthols and BINOLs by In Situ Generation of a Directing Group. Angewandte Chemie. 130(30). 9569–9573. 4 indexed citations

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Patel, Jignesh J., et al.. (2018). Directed Remote Lateral Metalation: Highly Substituted 2‐Naphthols and BINOLs by In Situ Generation of a Directing Group. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 57(30). 9425–9429. 13 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, et al.. (2016). O-Benzoylhydroxylamine-Promoted Electrophilic Amination of Alkenes. Synfacts. 12(7). 668–668.

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Månsson, Kristoffer, Erhad Ascic, Ola F. Wendt, et al.. (2015). A Protocol for the exo-Mono and exo,exo-Bis Functionalization of the Diazocine Ring of Tröger’s Base. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 80(24). 12006–12014. 4 indexed citations

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Kitching, Matthew O., Timothy E. Hurst, & Victor Snieckus. (2012). Copper‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Interrupted by an Opportunistic Smiles Rearrangement: An Efficient Domino Approach to Dibenzoxazepinones. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(12). 2925–2929. 61 indexed citations

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Green, James R., Babajide I. Alo, Marek Majewski, & Victor Snieckus. (2009). γ-Silylated α,β-unsaturated amides — Preparation by [1,5]-sigmatropic rearrangement and use as masked dienolate equivalents in carbonyl condensations. Canadian Journal of Chemistry. 87(6). 745–759. 2 indexed citations

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Macklin, Todd K., Jane Panteleev, & Victor Snieckus. (2008). Carbamoyl Translocations by an Anionic ortho‐Fries and Cumulenolate α‐Acylation Pathway: Regioselective Synthesis of Polysubstituted Chromone 3‐ and 8‐Carboxamides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(11). 2097–2101. 30 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, et al.. (2005). The Directed ortho‐Metallation Cross‐Coupling Nexus: Synthetic Methodology for the Formation of Aryl—Aryl and Aryl—Heteroatom—Aryl Bonds. ChemInform. 36(51). 5 indexed citations

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Chatgilialoglu, Chryssostomos & Victor Snieckus. (1996). Chemical synthesis : gnosis to prognosis. Kluwer Academic eBooks. 38 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, Françis Beaulieu, Kunihiko Mohri, et al.. (1994). Directed ortho metalation - mediated F+ introduction. Regiospecific synthesis of fluorinated aromatics. Tetrahedron Letters. 35(21). 3465–3468. 52 indexed citations

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BELLAMY, F., et al.. (1991). TheN-tert-Butylcarbamoyl Directed Metalation Group for the Regiospecific Synthesis of 2-Substituted Pyrroles and Indoles. Synthesis. 1991(12). 1079–1082. 32 indexed citations

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Snieckus, Victor, et al.. (1990). Regioselective Synthesis of Substituted Anthraquinones by Tandem DirectedorthoMetalation-Metal Halogen Exchange. Synlett. 1990(6). 313–316. 8 indexed citations

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Cuevas, Juan Carlos, Pradeep A. Patil, & Victor Snieckus. (1989). α′,α′-disilylated tertiary benzamides as dual ortho- and α′-carbanion synthons. Tetrahedron Letters. 30(43). 5841–5844. 33 indexed citations

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Siddiqui, M. Arshad, et al.. (1986). Synthetic connections to the aromatic directed metalation reaction. A modified von niementowski quinoline synthesis from anthranilamides. Tetrahedron Letters. 27(44). 5323–5326. 22 indexed citations

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