Viresh H. Rawal

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
152 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Viresh H. Rawal is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmacology. According to data from OpenAlex, Viresh H. Rawal has authored 152 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 136 papers in Organic Chemistry, 31 papers in Molecular Biology and 19 papers in Pharmacology. Recurrent topics in Viresh H. Rawal's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (62 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (44 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (26 papers). Viresh H. Rawal is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (62 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (44 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (26 papers). Viresh H. Rawal collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Brazil. Viresh H. Rawal's co-authors include Jeremiah P. Malerich, Yong Huang, Sergey A. Kozmin, Koji Hagihara, Tetsuo Iwama, Ye Zhu, Avinash N. Thadani, Aditya K. Unni, Seiji Iwasa and Michael P. Cava and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Viresh H. Rawal

149 papers receiving 8.4k 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.

  1. Chiral Squaramide Derivatives are Excellent Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts
    2008 838 citations Jeremiah P. Malerich, Koji Hagihara et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Viresh H. Rawal United States 53 7.8k 1.6k 1.4k 618 510 152 8.6k
Kiyoshi Tomioka Japan 50 8.2k 1.1× 2.4k 1.5× 1.8k 1.3× 420 0.7× 289 0.6× 315 8.9k
Henk Hiemstra Netherlands 50 10.3k 1.3× 1.6k 1.0× 3.8k 2.6× 519 0.8× 475 0.9× 267 11.5k
István E. Markó Belgium 43 7.0k 0.9× 1.7k 1.1× 1.0k 0.7× 251 0.4× 313 0.6× 208 7.9k
Masataka Ihara Japan 41 5.5k 0.7× 697 0.4× 1.8k 1.2× 617 1.0× 528 1.0× 400 7.0k
Richard P. Hsung United States 59 11.0k 1.4× 831 0.5× 1.4k 1.0× 291 0.5× 784 1.5× 252 12.5k
David J. Procter United Kingdom 63 10.8k 1.4× 1.6k 1.0× 1.4k 1.0× 363 0.6× 310 0.6× 230 12.1k
Neil K. Garg United States 62 11.5k 1.5× 2.0k 1.3× 2.2k 1.6× 789 1.3× 782 1.5× 205 12.9k
Philip Magnus United States 44 6.0k 0.8× 666 0.4× 1.2k 0.8× 733 1.2× 438 0.9× 250 6.7k
Steven M. Weinreb United States 52 9.1k 1.2× 983 0.6× 3.0k 2.1× 665 1.1× 879 1.7× 236 10.5k
Yian Shi United States 60 10.5k 1.3× 2.9k 1.9× 1.3k 0.9× 311 0.5× 244 0.5× 202 11.3k

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All Works

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Türkmen, Yunus E., et al.. (2013). [2+2+2] Cycloadditions of Siloxy Alkynes with 1,2‐Diazines: From Reaction Discovery to Identification of an Antiglycolytic Chemotype. Angewandte Chemie. 125(51). 13821–13824. 7 indexed citations
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Türkmen, Yunus E., et al.. (2013). [2+2+2] Cycloadditions of Siloxy Alkynes with 1,2‐Diazines: From Reaction Discovery to Identification of an Antiglycolytic Chemotype. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(51). 13576–13579. 24 indexed citations
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Türkmen, Yunus E., et al.. (2012). Silver-Catalyzed Formal Inverse Electron-Demand Diels–Alder Reaction of 1,2-Diazines and Siloxy Alkynes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(22). 9062–9065. 63 indexed citations
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Dang, Yongjun, Tilman Schneider‐Poetsch, Daniel E. Eyler, et al.. (2011). Inhibition of eukaryotic translation elongation by the antitumor natural product Mycalamide B. RNA. 17(8). 1578–1588. 20 indexed citations
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Malerich, Jeremiah P., Koji Hagihara, & Viresh H. Rawal. (2008). Chiral Squaramide Derivatives are Excellent Hydrogen Bond Donor Catalysts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(44). 14416–14417. 838 indexed citations breakdown →
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Unni, Aditya K., et al.. (2006). Highly Diastereo‐ and Enantioselective Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions Catalyzed by Hydrogen Bonding. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 45(37). 6130–6133. 84 indexed citations
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Iwama, Tetsuo & Viresh H. Rawal. (2006). Palladium-Catalyzed Regiocontrolled α-Arylation of Trimethylsilyl Enol Ethers with Aryl Halides. Organic Letters. 8(25). 5725–5728. 53 indexed citations
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Unni, Aditya K., et al.. (2006). Highly Diastereo‐ and Enantioselective Mukaiyama Aldol Reactions Catalyzed by Hydrogen Bonding. Angewandte Chemie. 118(37). 6276–6279. 23 indexed citations
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Unni, Aditya K., Norito Takenaka, Hisashi Yamamoto, & Viresh H. Rawal. (2005). Axially Chiral Biaryl Diols Catalyze Highly Enantioselective Hetero-Diels−Alder Reactions through Hydrogen Bonding. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(5). 1336–1337. 188 indexed citations
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Gravel, Michel, et al.. (2005). Hydrogen Bond Catalyzed Enantioselective Vinylogous Mukaiyama Aldol Reaction. Organic Letters. 7(25). 5657–5660. 91 indexed citations
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Reddy, T. Jagadeeswar, Tetsuo Iwama, Howard J. Halpern, & Viresh H. Rawal. (2002). General Synthesis of Persistent Trityl Radicals for EPR Imaging of Biological Systems. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 67(14). 4635–4639. 162 indexed citations
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Janey, Jacob M., Tetsuo Iwama, Sergey A. Kozmin, & Viresh H. Rawal. (2000). Racemic and Asymmetric Diels−Alder Reactions of 1-(2-Oxazolidinon-3-yl)-3-siloxy-1,3-butadienes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 65(26). 9059–9068. 72 indexed citations
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Hennings, D. David, Tetsuo Iwama, & Viresh H. Rawal. (1999). Palladium-Catalyzed (Ullmann-Type) Homocoupling of Aryl Halides:  A Convenient and General Synthesis of Symmetrical Biaryls via Inter- and Intramolecular Coupling Reactions. Organic Letters. 1(8). 1205–1208. 155 indexed citations
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Kozmin, Sergey A. & Viresh H. Rawal. (1997). Asymmetric Diels−Alder Reactions of Chiral 1-Amino-3-siloxy-1,3-butadiene:  Application to the Enantioselective Synthesis of (−)-α-Elemene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(30). 7165–7166. 81 indexed citations
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Rawal, Viresh H. & Seiji Iwasa. (1994). A Short, Stereocontrolled Synthesis of Strychnine. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 59(10). 2685–2686. 123 indexed citations
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Rawal, Viresh H. & Christophe Michoud. (1991). A general solution to the synthesis of 2-azabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane unit of Strychnos alkaloids. Tetrahedron Letters. 32(14). 1695–1698. 38 indexed citations
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Rawal, Viresh H., Mitsuo Akiba, & Michael P. Cava. (1984). α-Methoxythioanisole. Further Uses as an Umpolung Reagent. Synthetic Communications. 14(12). 1129–1139. 11 indexed citations

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