William Kuester

727 total citations · 1 hit paper
5 papers, 656 citations indexed

About

William Kuester is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William Kuester has authored 5 papers receiving a total of 656 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 4 papers in Organic Chemistry, 2 papers in Spectroscopy and 2 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William Kuester's work include Vanadium and Halogenation Chemistry (2 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (2 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (2 papers). William Kuester is often cited by papers focused on Vanadium and Halogenation Chemistry (2 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (2 papers) and Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (2 papers). William Kuester collaborates with scholars based in United States. William Kuester's co-authors include Matthew T. Burk, Scott E. Denmark, Yun Lü, Fengrui Qu and Yu Zhao and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Tetrahedron Letters.

In The Last Decade

William Kuester

5 papers receiving 653 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.

Catalytic, Asymmetric Halofunctionalization of Alkenes—A Critical Perspective

2012 492 citations Scott E. Denmark, William Kuester et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Kuester United States	5	593	455	80	65	30	5	656
Arvind Jaganathan United States	13	891 1.5×	681 1.5×	76 0.9×	109 1.7×	30 1.0×	17	962
Won‐jin Chung South Korea	16	808 1.4×	283 0.6×	97 1.2×	64 1.0×	23 0.8×	38	931
Roozbeh Yousefi United States	8	611 1.0×	530 1.2×	34 0.4×	69 1.1×	23 0.8×	10	706
Matthew T. Burk United States	10	1.3k 2.2×	952 2.1×	111 1.4×	130 2.0×	55 1.8×	10	1.4k
Nicholas R. Deprez United States	10	2.1k 3.6×	353 0.8×	102 1.3×	56 0.9×	20 0.7×	11	2.2k
Subhajit Bhunia India	17	1.4k 2.4×	216 0.5×	63 0.8×	76 1.2×	13 0.4×	19	1.5k
Santanu Ghosh India	17	789 1.3×	111 0.2×	35 0.4×	92 1.4×	17 0.6×	22	827
Alexander Kuenkel Germany	9	1.2k 2.1×	374 0.8×	68 0.8×	32 0.5×	25 0.8×	10	1.2k
Yajing Lian United States	23	2.3k 3.9×	347 0.8×	112 1.4×	29 0.4×	15 0.5×	37	2.4k
Jérémy Merad France	15	902 1.5×	155 0.3×	63 0.8×	37 0.6×	10 0.3×	26	955

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Kuester

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Denmark, Scott E., William Kuester, & Matthew T. Burk. (2012). Catalytic, Asymmetric Halofunctionalization of Alkenes—A Critical Perspective. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(44). 10938–10953. 492 indexed citations breakdown →

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Denmark, Scott E., William Kuester, & Matthew T. Burk. (2012). Katalytische asymmetrische Halogenfunktionalisierung von Alkenen – eine kritische Betrachtung. Angewandte Chemie. 124(44). 11098–11113. 119 indexed citations

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Lü, Yun, et al.. (2011). Structure–reactivity relationship for alcohol oxidations via hydride transfer to a carbocationic oxidizing agent. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 24(12). 1172–1178. 12 indexed citations

4.

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2008). Hydride Reduction of NAD⁺ Analogues by Isopropyl Alcohol: Kinetics, Deuterium Isotope Effects and Mechanism. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 73(13). 4763–4770. 20 indexed citations

5.

Lü, Yun, et al.. (2007). Effective thermal oxidation of isopropanol by an NAD+ model. Tetrahedron Letters. 48(36). 6356–6359. 13 indexed citations

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