William J. Drury

4.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
36 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

William J. Drury is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William J. Drury has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Organic Chemistry, 18 papers in Molecular Biology and 8 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William J. Drury's work include Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (9 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (8 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers). William J. Drury is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (9 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (8 papers) and Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (5 papers). William J. Drury collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Sweden. William J. Drury's co-authors include Thomas Lectka, Danny Reinberg, Andreas Pfaltz, Dana Ferraris, Brandon Young, Philipp Voigt, Jinsook Son, Christopher D. Cox, Andrew E. Taggi and Stephen R. Martin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Cell.

In The Last Decade

William J. Drury

35 papers receiving 3.6k 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.

Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of repressive histone marks

2009 890 citations Raphaël Margueron, N. Justin et al. Nature profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William J. Drury United States	25	2.4k	1.4k	500	213	180	36	3.7k
Kazumasa Yoshida Japan	27	1.1k 0.5×	688 0.5×	336 0.7×	90 0.4×	73 0.4×	110	2.2k
Raquel L. Lieberman United States	28	1.9k 0.8×	432 0.3×	622 1.2×	74 0.3×	119 0.7×	85	3.2k
J. Koch Germany	27	1.3k 0.5×	313 0.2×	236 0.5×	125 0.6×	106 0.6×	110	2.4k
Song Xiang China	26	1.5k 0.6×	462 0.3×	272 0.5×	67 0.3×	97 0.5×	58	2.7k
G. Ekin Atilla‐Gokcumen United States	31	1.3k 0.5×	527 0.4×	140 0.3×	49 0.2×	302 1.7×	75	2.6k
Jiabin Li China	25	1.8k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	314 0.6×	42 0.2×	52 0.3×	91	2.7k
Rebecca A. Green United States	22	1.2k 0.5×	531 0.4×	174 0.3×	121 0.6×	49 0.3×	33	2.3k
Jiandong Zhang China	27	1.4k 0.6×	335 0.2×	132 0.3×	97 0.5×	207 1.1×	102	2.7k
Zhiwei Liu China	26	850 0.4×	164 0.1×	332 0.7×	99 0.5×	110 0.6×	93	2.2k
Youliang Wang China	30	930 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	178 0.4×	83 0.4×	39 0.2×	91	2.9k

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Cook, Brendon E., Khaled Nasr, Pei Li, et al.. (2022). Non-invasive Imaging of Antisense Oligonucleotides in the Brain via In Vivo Click Chemistry. Molecular Imaging and Biology. 24(6). 940–949. 13 indexed citations

Anderson, Brooke A., Graeme C. Freestone, Audrey Low, et al.. (2021). Towards next generation antisense oligonucleotides: mesylphosphoramidate modification improves therapeutic index and duration of effect of gapmer antisense oligonucleotides. Nucleic Acids Research. 49(16). 9026–9041. 89 indexed citations

Noisier, Anaïs F. M., Magnus J. Johansson, Laurent Knerr, et al.. (2019). Late‐Stage Functionalization of Histidine in Unprotected Peptides. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(52). 19096–19102. 55 indexed citations

Ämmälä, Carina, William J. Drury, Laurent Knerr, et al.. (2018). Targeted delivery of antisense oligonucleotides to pancreatic β-cells. Science Advances. 4(10). eaat3386–eaat3386. 127 indexed citations

Drury, William J., et al.. (2015). Effects of a Beaver Pond in Southwestern Montana on Metals Concentrations and Loads. 21. 38–46.

Voigt, Philipp, Gary LeRoy, William J. Drury, et al.. (2012). Asymmetrically Modified Nucleosomes. Cell. 151(1). 181–193. 317 indexed citations

Dancy, Blair C. R., Romeo Papazyan, Christine Jelinek, et al.. (2012). Azalysine Analogues as Probes for Protein Lysine Deacetylation and Demethylation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 134(11). 5138–5148. 41 indexed citations

Sims, Robert J., Luis Alejandro Rojas, David B. Beck, et al.. (2011). The C-Terminal Domain of RNA Polymerase II Is Modified by Site-Specific Methylation. Science. 332(6025). 99–103. 171 indexed citations

Li, Yan, Patrick Trojer, Chong‐Feng Xu, et al.. (2009). The Target of the NSD Family of Histone Lysine Methyltransferases Depends on the Nature of the Substrate. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 284(49). 34283–34295. 237 indexed citations

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Margueron, Raphaël, N. Justin, Katsuhito Ohno, et al.. (2009). Role of the polycomb protein EED in the propagation of repressive histone marks. Nature. 461(7265). 762–767. 890 indexed citations breakdown →

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Drury, William J., Nici Zimmermann, Martine Keenan, et al.. (2003). Synthesis of Versatile Chiral N,P Ligands Derived from Pyridine and Quinoline. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(1). 70–74. 134 indexed citations

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Taggi, Andrew E., Ahmed M. Hafez, Harald Wack, et al.. (2000). ChemInform Abstract: Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β‐Lactams.. ChemInform. 31(47). 2 indexed citations

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Drury, William J.. (2000). Modeling of sulfate reduction in anaerobic solid substrate bioreactors for mine drainage treatment. Mine Water and the Environment. 19(1). 19–29. 16 indexed citations

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Taggi, Andrew E., Ahmed M. Hafez, Harald Wack, et al.. (2000). Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of β-Lactams. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 122(32). 7831–7832. 192 indexed citations

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Ferraris, Dana, Brandon Young, Travis Dudding, William J. Drury, & Thomas Lectka. (1999). Catalytic, enantioselective alkylations of N,O- and N, N-acetals and hemiacetals. Tetrahedron. 55(29). 8869–8882. 30 indexed citations

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Ferraris, Dana, Travis Dudding, Brandon Young, William J. Drury, & Thomas Lectka. (1999). Catalytic, Enantioselective Alkylations of N,O-Acetals. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 64(7). 2168–2169. 93 indexed citations

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Drury, William J.. (1999). Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage with Anaerobic Solid‐Substrate Reactors. Water Environment Research. 71(6). 1244–1250. 60 indexed citations

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Wack, Harald, William J. Drury, Andrew E. Taggi, Dana Ferraris, & Thomas Lectka. (1999). Nucleophilic Metal Complexes as Acylation Catalysts: Solvent-Dependent “Switch” Mechanisms Leading to the First Catalyzed Staudinger Reaction. Organic Letters. 1(12). 1985–1988. 31 indexed citations

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Ferraris, Dana, William J. Drury, Christopher D. Cox, & Thomas Lectka. (1998). “Orthogonal” Lewis Acids: Catalyzed Ring Opening and Rearrangement of Acylaziridines. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 63(14). 4568–4569. 114 indexed citations

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Drury, William J., Philip S. Stewart, & William G. Characklis. (1993). Transport of 1‐μm latex particles in pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. Biotechnology and Bioengineering. 42(1). 111–117. 57 indexed citations

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