William B. Motherwell

8.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
193 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

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William B. Motherwell is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Pharmaceutical Science. According to data from OpenAlex, William B. Motherwell has authored 193 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 164 papers in Organic Chemistry, 38 papers in Molecular Biology and 30 papers in Pharmaceutical Science. Recurrent topics in William B. Motherwell's work include Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (36 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (32 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (29 papers). William B. Motherwell is often cited by papers focused on Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (36 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (32 papers) and Fluorine in Organic Chemistry (29 papers). William B. Motherwell collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, France and Portugal. William B. Motherwell's co-authors include Derek H. R. Barton, D. H. R. BARTON, David Crich, Andreas A. Danopoulos, David Crich, Joseph A. Wright, Matilda Bingham, Yvan Six, Feroze Ujjainwalla and Andrew M. K. Pennell and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

William B. Motherwell

184 papers receiving 6.1k 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 invention of new radical chain reactions. Part VIII. Radical chemistry of thiohydroxamic esters; A new method for the generation of carbon radicals from carboxylic acids

1985 455 citations Derek H. R. Barton, William B. Motherwell et al. Tetrahedron profile →
New and improved methods for the radical decarboxylation of acids

1983 307 citations D. H. R. BARTON, William B. Motherwell et al. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William B. Motherwell United Kingdom	40	5.4k	1.2k	1.1k	719	462	193	6.4k
Akíra Hosomi Japan	43	6.4k 1.2×	1.6k 1.3×	1.3k 1.2×	467 0.6×	349 0.8×	314	7.5k
Hans‐Ulrich Reißig Germany	43	9.5k 1.8×	1.6k 1.3×	698 0.6×	577 0.8×	482 1.0×	493	10.3k
Masahito Ochiai Japan	45	7.1k 1.3×	711 0.6×	1.5k 1.3×	727 1.0×	337 0.7×	259	7.7k
Armin de Meijere Germany	40	5.9k 1.1×	865 0.7×	618 0.6×	326 0.5×	430 0.9×	265	6.5k
Louis S. Hegedus United States	49	7.8k 1.4×	1.1k 0.9×	2.3k 2.1×	454 0.6×	516 1.1×	194	8.7k
L. Brandsma Netherlands	35	5.6k 1.0×	660 0.5×	1.1k 1.0×	433 0.6×	454 1.0×	359	6.5k
Seijiro Matsubara Japan	45	6.3k 1.2×	771 0.6×	1.7k 1.6×	704 1.0×	541 1.2×	297	7.4k
David B. Collum United States	52	7.1k 1.3×	1.0k 0.8×	2.1k 1.9×	308 0.4×	481 1.0×	172	8.0k
Samir Z. Zard France	54	11.6k 2.2×	1.7k 1.4×	960 0.9×	1.4k 1.9×	912 2.0×	377	12.5k
Alberto Brandi Italy	38	5.6k 1.0×	1.5k 1.3×	555 0.5×	481 0.7×	429 0.9×	250	6.3k

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Desrat, Sandy, et al.. (2014). Taming the Carboxyl Group for Directed Carbometalation: Observations on the Use of Anions, Dianions and Ester Enolates. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(29). 8918–8922. 3 indexed citations

Ishikawa, Shingo, et al.. (2013). A Rapid Route to Aminocyclopropanes via Carbamatoorganozinc Carbenoids. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 52(38). 10060–10063. 14 indexed citations

Ishikawa, Shingo, et al.. (2013). A Rapid Route to Aminocyclopropanes via Carbamatoorganozinc Carbenoids. Angewandte Chemie. 125(38). 10244–10247. 5 indexed citations

Motherwell, William B., et al.. (2010). ChemInform Abstract: Studies Toward the Taming of the “Carbocation” in the Regioselective Ring Opening of Epoxides to Allylic Alcohols.. ChemInform. 41(28). 1 indexed citations

Motherwell, William B., Abil E. Aliev, Simon J. Coles, et al.. (2007). Noncovalent Functional‐Group–Arene Interactions. Angewandte Chemie. 119(41). 7969–7972. 31 indexed citations

Motherwell, William B., et al.. (2006). Observations on the reductive ring opening reactions of alkylidenecyclopropyl ketones promoted by lithium in liquid ammonia. Tetrahedron Letters. 47(49). 8789–8791. 1 indexed citations

Hilton, Stephen T., et al.. (2005). Observations on the reactivity of thiyl radicals derived from 3,6-epidithiodiketopiperazine-2,5-diones and related congeners. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 15(9). 2239–2242. 15 indexed citations

Danopoulos, Andreas A., Joseph A. Wright, & William B. Motherwell. (2004). Molecular N₂complexes of iron stabilised by N-heterocyclic ‘pincer’ dicarbene ligands. Chemical Communications. 784–786. 126 indexed citations

Lau, Raymond, et al.. (2003). A commentary on the self assembly and properties of a chiral titanium alkoxide cyclic trimer. Tetrahedron Letters. 44(9). 1851–1853. 5 indexed citations

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Gazzard, Lewis, William B. Motherwell, & David A. Sandham. (1999). Rhodium promoted isomerisation of allylic alkoxides: a new method for enolate anion formation. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 979–994. 37 indexed citations

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Lewis, Richard T., et al.. (1995). Intramolecular palladium catalysed [3+2] cycloadditions of methylenecyclopropanes with acetylenic acceptors. Tetrahedron. 51(11). 3303–3318. 51 indexed citations

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Afonso, Carlos A. M., William B. Motherwell, & Lee R. Roberts. (1992). Observations on the selective deoxygenation of epoxides to olefins with chlorotrimethylsilane and zinc.. Tetrahedron Letters. 33(23). 3367–3370. 5 indexed citations

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Lewis, Richard T., William B. Motherwell, & Michael Shipman. (1988). Observations on the intramolecular palladium(0) catalysed [3 + 2] cycloaddition of diphenylmethylenecyclopropanes. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 948–948. 35 indexed citations

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HOUGE‐FRYDRYCH, C. S. V., William B. Motherwell, & Dennis M. O’Shea. (1987). The electron transfer induced head to tail coupling reaction of an isoprenoidal sulphone enone. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 1819–1819. 5 indexed citations

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Barton, Derek H. R., Jean‐Claude Blazejewski, Brigitte Charpiot, et al.. (1985). Pentavalent organobismuth reagents. Part 2. The phenylation of phenols. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 2657–2657. 75 indexed citations

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BARTON, D. H. R., et al.. (1985). The selective oxidation of protected cholestanol derivatives using the Gif system. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 583–585. 13 indexed citations

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BARTON, D. H. R., Brigitte Charpiot, K. U. Ingold, et al.. (1985). Direct observation and chemistry of biradicals from photochemical decarbonylation of .alpha.-perphenylated cycloalkanones. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 107(12). 3607–3611. 33 indexed citations

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Barton, Derek H. R., William B. Motherwell, & Samir Z. Zard. (1984). A mild reduction of aliphatic nitro compounds to imines for further reactions : A simple synthesis of pyrroles. Tetrahedron Letters. 25(34). 3707–3710. 23 indexed citations

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Barton, Derek H. R., Brigitte Charpiot, & William B. Motherwell. (1982). Regiospecific arlation by acid/base controlled reactions of tetraphenylbismuth esters. Tetrahedron Letters. 23(33). 3365–3368. 28 indexed citations

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Barton, Derek H. R., William B. Motherwell, & Alan Stobie. (1981). A catalytic method for α-glycol cleavage. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 1232–1233. 25 indexed citations

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