Willi M. Amberg

2.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
27 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Willi M. Amberg is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmaceutical Science and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Willi M. Amberg has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Organic Chemistry, 6 papers in Pharmaceutical Science and 5 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Willi M. Amberg's work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (6 papers), Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (6 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (5 papers). Willi M. Amberg is often cited by papers focused on Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (6 papers), Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (6 papers) and Radical Photochemical Reactions (5 papers). Willi M. Amberg collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Germany. Willi M. Amberg's co-authors include K. Barry Sharpless, Jens Hartung, Gerard A. Crispino, Youssef L. Bennani, Kyu‐Sung Jeong, K. Morikawa, Hoi‐Lun Kwong, Erick M. Carreira, Dieter Seebàch and John F. Hartwig and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Willi M. Amberg

26 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

The osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation: a new ligand class and a process improvement

1992 1.3k citations K. Barry Sharpless, Willi M. Amberg et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →
New ligands double the scope of the catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins

1991 184 citations K. Barry Sharpless, Willi M. Amberg et al. The Journal of Organic Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Willi M. Amberg Switzerland	16	1.6k	658	304	207	205	27	2.2k
Yoo Tanabe Japan	32	2.5k 1.6×	740 1.1×	282 0.9×	167 0.8×	113 0.6×	140	2.9k
A. Venkateswarlu India	17	1.9k 1.2×	896 1.4×	152 0.5×	202 1.0×	136 0.7×	30	2.4k
Reinhard Brückner Germany	30	2.8k 1.7×	879 1.3×	288 0.9×	195 0.9×	260 1.3×	229	3.7k
Hiroko Masamune United States	10	1.5k 0.9×	673 1.0×	208 0.7×	172 0.8×	159 0.8×	18	2.1k
Kiyoharu Nishide Japan	27	1.7k 1.1×	572 0.9×	304 1.0×	167 0.8×	111 0.5×	103	2.1k
Kaori Ando Japan	27	2.8k 1.7×	598 0.9×	418 1.4×	126 0.6×	83 0.4×	116	3.1k
Ernesto Suárez Spain	29	2.9k 1.8×	872 1.3×	252 0.8×	76 0.4×	128 0.6×	151	3.3k
Kay M. Brummond United States	34	3.2k 2.0×	746 1.1×	325 1.1×	95 0.5×	125 0.6×	89	3.8k
Takeshi Sugai Japan	27	1.5k 0.9×	1.8k 2.8×	209 0.7×	454 2.2×	233 1.1×	246	3.0k
Jun Ishihara Japan	28	1.8k 1.1×	666 1.0×	240 0.8×	60 0.3×	191 0.9×	145	2.4k

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Amberg, Willi M., Ritwika Ray, Guodong Rao, et al.. (2025). Efficient Aminations of Aryl Halides by a Cu(II) Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(24). 20939–20946. 2 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., Viktoriia Morad, Leon G. Feld, et al.. (2025). Ligand Influence on the Performance of Cesium Lead Bromide Perovskite Quantum Dots in Photocatalytic C(sp³)–H Bromination Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(10). 8548–8558. 10 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., et al.. (2024). Photo‐ and Cobalt‐Catalyzed Synthesis of Heterocycles via Cycloisomerization of Unactivated Olefins. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(19). e202319515–e202319515. 40 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., et al.. (2023). Total Synthesis of (+)-Euphorikanin A via an Atropospecific Cascade. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(50). 27225–27229. 11 indexed citations

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Fischer, David M., et al.. (2023). Intermolecular Organophotocatalytic Cyclopropanation of Unactivated Olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(2). 774–780. 59 indexed citations

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Fischer, David M., et al.. (2023). Organophotocatalytic carbo-heterofunctionalization of unactivated olefins with pendant nucleophiles. Chemical Science. 14(26). 7256–7261. 18 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., Evgenia Dmitrieva, Alexey A. Popov, et al.. (2023). Cover Feature: Heterophenoquinones: Tuning Optoelectronics and Electrochromicity (Chem. Eur. J. 37/2023). Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(37).

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Amberg, Willi M., Evgenia Dmitrieva, Alexey A. Popov, et al.. (2023). Heterophenoquinones: Tuning Optoelectronics and Electrochromicity. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(37). e202203862–e202203862. 2 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., et al.. (2023). Iron-Mediated Photochemical Anti-Markovnikov Hydroazidation of Unactivated Olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(41). 22347–22353. 41 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M. & Erick M. Carreira. (2022). Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Aberrarone. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(34). 15475–15479. 35 indexed citations

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Butcher, Trevor W., Willi M. Amberg, & John F. Hartwig. (2021). Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Monofluoroalkylation: Strategies for the Synthesis of Alkyl Fluorides by C−C Bond Formation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 61(7). e202112251–e202112251. 54 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., et al.. (2021). Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Euphorikanin A. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(22). 8261–8265. 28 indexed citations

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Butcher, Trevor W., Willi M. Amberg, & John F. Hartwig. (2021). Transition‐Metal‐Catalyzed Monofluoroalkylation: Strategies for the Synthesis of Alkyl Fluorides by C−C Bond Formation. Angewandte Chemie. 134(7). 5 indexed citations

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Butcher, Trevor W., et al.. (2020). Desymmetrization of difluoromethylene groups by C–F bond activation. Nature. 583(7817). 548–553. 114 indexed citations

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Gopalakrishnan, Sujatha M., Martin Schmidt, Willi M. Amberg, et al.. (2005). An Offline-Addition Format for Identifying GPCR Modulators by Screening 384-Well Mixed Compounds in the FLIPR. SLAS DISCOVERY. 10(1). 46–55. 6 indexed citations

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Raschack, Manfred, et al.. (1998). LU 302 872 and Its Racemate (LU 224 332) Show Balanced Endothelin-A/B Receptor Affinity, High Oral Activity, and Inhibit Human Prostate Tissue Contractions. Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology. 31. S241–S244. 24 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M., Youssef L. Bennani, Raj K. Chadha, et al.. (1993). Syntheses and crystal structures of the cinchona alkaloid derivatives used as ligands in the osmium-catalyzed asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 58(4). 844–849. 93 indexed citations

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Sharpless, K. Barry, Willi M. Amberg, Matthias Beller, et al.. (1991). New ligands double the scope of the catalytic asymmetric dihydroxylation of olefins. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 56(15). 4585–4588. 184 indexed citations breakdown →

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Amberg, Willi M. & Dieter Seebàch. (1990). Direkte Michael‐artige Addition von Si‐Gruppen an β‐Aryl‐α,β‐ungesättigte Carbonylverbindungen mit R₃SiCl/Bu₂Cu(CN)Li₂. Chemische Berichte. 123(12). 2439–2444. 20 indexed citations

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Amberg, Willi M. & Dieter Seebàch. (1988). Direct Michael Additions of Silyl Groups to α,β‐Unsaturated β‐Arylketones and an α‐Benzylidenelactone with Mixtures Obtained from Copper(I) Cyanide, Butyllithium and Chlorosilanes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English. 27(12). 1718–1719. 12 indexed citations

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