William S. Wadsworth

2.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William S. Wadsworth is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William S. Wadsworth has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Organic Chemistry, 5 papers in Molecular Biology and 4 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William S. Wadsworth's work include Organophosphorus compounds synthesis (11 papers), Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (9 papers) and Synthesis and Reactivity of Sulfur-Containing Compounds (6 papers). William S. Wadsworth is often cited by papers focused on Organophosphorus compounds synthesis (11 papers), Chemical Reaction Mechanisms (9 papers) and Synthesis and Reactivity of Sulfur-Containing Compounds (6 papers). William S. Wadsworth collaborates with scholars based in United States. William S. Wadsworth's co-authors include William D. Emmons, William G. Wadsworth, James J. Worman, Kurt Mislow, Geoffrey Hunter, William P. Jensen, Richard E. Wagner, Q. Johnson and Stevin H. Gehrke and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Tetrahedron Letters.

In The Last Decade

William S. Wadsworth

24 papers receiving 1.4k 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 Utility of Phosphonate Carbanions in Olefin Synthesis

1961 1.2k citations William S. Wadsworth, William D. Emmons Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William S. Wadsworth United States	11	1.2k	368	181	98	90	25	1.5k
Ernest W. Colvin United Kingdom	21	1.5k 1.2×	357 1.0×	256 1.4×	97 1.0×	127 1.4×	39	1.7k
G. LINSTRUMELLE France	26	1.9k 1.6×	300 0.8×	158 0.9×	74 0.8×	106 1.2×	67	2.1k
L. M. WEINSTOCK United States	20	930 0.8×	348 0.9×	173 1.0×	71 0.7×	73 0.8×	55	1.2k
Ned M. Weinshenker United States	14	736 0.6×	316 0.9×	95 0.5×	221 2.3×	58 0.6×	23	1.0k
Hans Plieninger Germany	20	948 0.8×	417 1.1×	88 0.5×	81 0.8×	131 1.5×	156	1.4k
Robert V. Stevens United States	20	1.3k 1.0×	335 0.9×	120 0.7×	97 1.0×	86 1.0×	46	1.5k
Giuseppe Casnati Italy	19	863 0.7×	269 0.7×	139 0.8×	130 1.3×	144 1.6×	71	1.2k
B. G. B. GUPTA United States	18	1.0k 0.8×	315 0.9×	211 1.2×	53 0.5×	109 1.2×	36	1.2k
Peter Schiess Switzerland	19	1.1k 0.9×	284 0.8×	135 0.7×	47 0.5×	96 1.1×	58	1.4k
Vito Fiandanese Italy	26	1.5k 1.2×	285 0.8×	188 1.0×	53 0.5×	96 1.1×	89	1.7k

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Wadsworth, William S.. (1987). Acid-catalyzed solvolysis of highly reactive phosphoramidates: a stereochemistry study. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 52(9). 1748–1753. 13 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1986). The simple conversion of a phosphorochloridate into one of opposite configuration. Tetrahedron Letters. 27(16). 1755–1756. 1 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William G. & William S. Wadsworth. (1983). A cyclic phosphate: base and metal acetate catalyzed ring opening. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 105(6). 1631–1637. 8 indexed citations

Hunter, Geoffrey, William S. Wadsworth, & Kurt Mislow. (1982). Conformational variability in tricarbonyl(hexaethylborazine)chromium(0). Organometallics. 1(7). 968–971. 5 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William S.. (1981). Lewis acid catalyzed methanolysis of a phosphate triester. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 46(20). 4080–4082. 8 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1978). Nucleophilic substitution at phosphorus. The effect of ion association on the stereochemistry and rate of substitution at phosphorus in a six-membered ring phosphate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100(20). 6388–6394. 9 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1976). Phosphorothioates. Substitution at phosphorus with inversion of configuration. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 93–93. 2 indexed citations

Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1976). Substitution at phosphorus. Unusual effect of the lithium ion. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 41(7). 1264–1266. 9 indexed citations

Worman, James J., et al.. (1975). Mass spectra of some 5‐substituted 1‐phenyl and 1‐phenyl‐4‐methyltetrazolines. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 12(5). 1031–1033. 8 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1974). Nucleophilic substitution at phosphorus. Phosphorothioates. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 39(7). 984–989. 14 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S.. (1973). Effect of added salts on the stereochemistry of nucleophilic displacements at phosphorus in phosphate esters and their analogs. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 38(17). 2921–2927. 18 indexed citations

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Wagner, Richard E., William P. Jensen, William S. Wadsworth, & Q. Johnson. (1973). The crystal and molecular structure of 2-piperidino-5-chloromethyl-5-methyl-2-oxo-1,3,2-dioxaphosphorinan. Acta Crystallographica Section B. 29(10). 2160–2163. 4 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S.. (1972). The phosphoryl cation as an intermediate in the reaction of benzoyl phosphates. Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions 2. 1686–1686. 3 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1970). Nucleophilic displacements at phosphorus. Evidence for an SNl (P) mechanism. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 92(12). 3785–3787. 9 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S.. (1969). Preparation and reactions of 1,4-bis(alkoxycarbonyl)-1,4-dialkyl-2-tetrazenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 34(10). 2994–2997. 23 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S., et al.. (1968). The thermal rearrangement of nitrogen ylids. Chemical Communications (London). 542a–542a. 1 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S.. (1966). Cyclic Aminimides. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 31(6). 1704–1707. 18 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S. & William D. Emmons. (1962). Phosphoramidate Anions: The Preparation of Carbodiimides, Ketenimines and Isothiocyanates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 84(7). 1316–1317. 28 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S. & William D. Emmons. (1962). Bicyclic Phosphites. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 84(4). 610–617. 64 indexed citations

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Wadsworth, William S. & William D. Emmons. (1961). The Utility of Phosphonate Carbanions in Olefin Synthesis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 83(7). 1733–1738. 1159 indexed citations breakdown →

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