William McCoull

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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William McCoull is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Computational Theory and Mathematics. According to data from OpenAlex, William McCoull has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Organic Chemistry, 14 papers in Molecular Biology and 5 papers in Computational Theory and Mathematics. Recurrent topics in William McCoull's work include Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (6 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (5 papers). William McCoull is often cited by papers focused on Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions (6 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers) and Computational Drug Discovery Methods (5 papers). William McCoull collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Sweden. William McCoull's co-authors include Franklin A. Davis, Hongxing Yan, Yongzhong Wu, Kavirayani R. Prasad, Jeffrey D. Winkler, Robert M. Adlington, Jack E. Baldwin, Donald D. Titus, Gareth J. Pritchard and Gerald W. Becker and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery and Cancer Research.

In The Last Decade

William McCoull

29 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Recent Synthetic Applications of Chiral Aziridines

2000 516 citations William McCoull, Franklin A. Davis profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William McCoull United Kingdom	15	1.0k	328	145	65	61	29	1.2k
Jeremy J. Edmunds United States	20	631 0.6×	427 1.3×	51 0.4×	45 0.7×	64 1.0×	54	1.1k
Arvind Mathur United States	18	657 0.6×	243 0.7×	52 0.4×	23 0.4×	69 1.1×	87	983
Elena Carceller Spain	18	374 0.4×	283 0.9×	42 0.3×	62 1.0×	44 0.7×	42	828
Scot Campbell United States	15	412 0.4×	256 0.8×	85 0.6×	34 0.5×	32 0.5×	28	648
Noel A. Powell United States	17	459 0.5×	309 0.9×	52 0.4×	35 0.5×	32 0.5×	29	751
Herman H. Stein United States	20	548 0.5×	652 2.0×	72 0.5×	99 1.5×	52 0.9×	59	1.3k
Mark S. Plummer United States	13	684 0.7×	212 0.6×	87 0.6×	55 0.8×	32 0.5×	20	978
David J. St. Jean United States	16	425 0.4×	258 0.8×	63 0.4×	113 1.7×	47 0.8×	28	751
Tae‐young Yoon United States	15	577 0.6×	237 0.7×	69 0.5×	15 0.2×	20 0.3×	35	890
Dooseop Kim United States	16	689 0.7×	201 0.6×	113 0.8×	98 1.5×	63 1.0×	21	1.1k

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Rácz, Anita, Maximilian Beckers, Nikolas Fechner, et al.. (2025). The changing landscape of medicinal chemistry optimization. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery. 24(11). 870–887. 3 indexed citations

Hamm, Grégory, Gareth Maglennon, Beth Williamson, et al.. (2022). Pharmacological inhibition of MERTK induces in vivo retinal degeneration: a multimodal imaging ocular safety assessment. Archives of Toxicology. 96(2). 613–624. 8 indexed citations

Williamson, Beth, Lindsay McMurray, Scott Boyd, et al.. (2022). Identification and Strategies to Mitigate High Total Clearance of Benzylamine-Substituted Biphenyl Ring Systems. Molecular Pharmaceutics. 19(7). 2115–2132. 2 indexed citations

Sundström, Linda, Monika Sundqvist, Andrea Ahnmark, et al.. (2017). The acute glucose lowering effect of specific GPR120 activation in mice is mainly driven by glucagon-like peptide 1. PLoS ONE. 12(12). e0189060–e0189060. 41 indexed citations

McCoull, William, Edward J. Hennessy, Kevin Blades, et al.. (2016). Optimization of Highly Kinase Selective Bis-anilino Pyrimidine PAK1 Inhibitors. ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 7(12). 1118–1123. 20 indexed citations

McCoull, William, Edward J. Hennessy, Kevin Blades, et al.. (2014). Identification and optimisation of 7-azaindole PAK1 inhibitors with improved potency and kinase selectivity. MedChemComm. 5(10). 1533–1539. 14 indexed citations

Leach, Andrew G., et al.. (2013). Experimental Testing of Quantum Mechanical Predictions of Mutagenicity: Aminopyrazoles. Chemical Research in Toxicology. 26(5). 703–709. 8 indexed citations

McCoull, William, Martin Augustin, Anne Ertan, et al.. (2013). Identification and optimisation of 3,3-dimethyl-azetidin-2-ones as potent and selective inhibitors of 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 (11β-HSD1). MedChemComm. 5(1). 57–63. 6 indexed citations

Luke, Richard, Peter Ballard, David Buttar, et al.. (2009). Novel thienopyrimidine and thiazolopyrimidine kinase inhibitors with activity against Tie-2 in vitro and in vivo. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 19(23). 6670–6674. 31 indexed citations

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Höfer, Peter, et al.. (2005). 8-Substituted Analogues of 3-(3-Cyclopentyloxy-4-methoxy-benzyl)-8-isopropyl- adenine: Highly Potent and Selective PDE4 Inhibitors. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 48(4). 1237–1243. 11 indexed citations

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Davis, Franklin A., Yongzhong Wu, Hongxing Yan, William McCoull, & Kavirayani R. Prasad. (2003). Asymmetric Synthesis of Aziridine 2-Phosphonates from Enantiopure Sulfinimines (N-Sulfinyl Imines). Synthesis of α-Amino Phosphonates. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 68(6). 2410–2419. 82 indexed citations

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Davis, Franklin A., Yongzhong Wu, Hongxing Yan, Kavirayani R. Prasad, & William McCoull. (2002). 2H-Azirine 3-Phosphonates: A New Class of Chiral Iminodienophiles. Asymmetric Synthesis of Quaternary Piperidine Phosphonates. Organic Letters. 4(4). 655–658. 40 indexed citations

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Adlington, Robert M., Jack E. Baldwin, Gerald W. Becker, et al.. (2001). Design, Synthesis, and Proposed Active Site Binding Analysis of Monocyclic 2-Azetidinone Inhibitors of Prostate Specific Antigen. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 44(10). 1491–1508. 61 indexed citations

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McCoull, William & Franklin A. Davis. (2000). ChemInform Abstract: Recent Synthetic Applications of Chiral Aziridines. ChemInform. 31(46). 1 indexed citations

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Davis, Franklin A. & William McCoull. (1999). Concise Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Amino Acid Derivatives from N-Sulfinylimino Esters. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 64(10). 3396–3397. 101 indexed citations

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Davis, Franklin A., William McCoull, & Donald D. Titus. (1999). Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Methylphosphophenylalanine Derivatives Using Sulfinimine-Derived Enantiopure Aziridine-2-phosphonates. Organic Letters. 1(7). 1053–1055. 35 indexed citations

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Davis, Franklin A. & William McCoull. (1999). Asymmetric synthesis of aziridine 2-phosphonates and azirinyl phosphonates from enantiopure sulfinimines. Tetrahedron Letters. 40(2). 249–252. 53 indexed citations

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Adlington, Robert M., Jack E. Baldwin, Beining Chen, et al.. (1997). Design and synthesis of novel monocyclic β-lactam inhibitors of prostate specific antigen. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 7(13). 1689–1694. 63 indexed citations

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Adlington, Robert M., Jack E. Baldwin, Stephen Cooper, et al.. (1997). ChemInform Abstract: Design and Synthesis of Novel Monocyclic β‐Lactam Inhibitors of Prostate Specific Antigen.. ChemInform. 28(46). 2 indexed citations

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Adlington, Robert M., Jack E. Baldwin, Andreas Gansäuer, William McCoull, & Andrew T. Russell. (1994). A study of the intramolecular stille cross coupling reaction of vinylstannyl chloroformates: application to the synthesis of α-methylene lactones. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 1. 1697–1701. 8 indexed citations

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