William Tam

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
136 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

William Tam is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Tam has authored 136 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 123 papers in Organic Chemistry, 36 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 10 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in William Tam's work include Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (57 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (52 papers) and Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (51 papers). William Tam is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic Alkyne Reactions (57 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (52 papers) and Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms (51 papers). William Tam collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and France. William Tam's co-authors include Mark Lautens, Wolfgang Klute, Karine Villeneuve, John D. Goddard, Nicole Riddell, Geoffrey K. Tranmer, Peter Mayo, Emily Carlson, Louise Edwards and Anna Allen and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

William Tam

131 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Transition Metal-Mediated Cycloaddition Reactions 1996 2026 2006 2016 1996 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Transition Metal-Mediated Cycloaddition Reactions
    1996 1.6k citations William Tam et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William Tam Canada 29 4.0k 712 242 120 109 136 4.2k
Tetsuo Kusumoto Japan 19 1.5k 0.4× 667 0.9× 354 1.5× 117 1.0× 122 1.1× 74 1.8k
Quanrui Wang China 24 1.4k 0.4× 327 0.5× 261 1.1× 77 0.6× 134 1.2× 131 1.8k
Jean‐François Brière France 24 1.7k 0.4× 333 0.5× 350 1.4× 114 0.9× 116 1.1× 93 1.9k
Pedro J. Campos Spain 29 1.9k 0.5× 468 0.7× 293 1.2× 265 2.2× 297 2.7× 105 2.3k
Benjamin D. Sherry United States 15 4.6k 1.2× 1.2k 1.7× 353 1.5× 90 0.8× 267 2.4× 23 4.9k
Ulf M. Lindström Sweden 16 2.0k 0.5× 456 0.6× 576 2.4× 52 0.4× 181 1.7× 25 2.3k
Jean‐Marc Weibel France 27 2.1k 0.5× 332 0.5× 365 1.5× 134 1.1× 119 1.1× 68 2.3k
Matthew O. Kitching United Kingdom 14 3.3k 0.8× 571 0.8× 411 1.7× 111 0.9× 431 4.0× 25 3.7k
Ruth Dorel Spain 20 2.9k 0.7× 506 0.7× 194 0.8× 67 0.6× 504 4.6× 31 3.3k
Ryo Takita Japan 25 1.9k 0.5× 496 0.7× 288 1.2× 109 0.9× 181 1.7× 73 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by William Tam

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Fields of papers citing papers by William Tam

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Tam

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All Works

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Zalm, Joshua van der, et al.. (2024). Cobalt‐Catalyzed Hydrogenation and Deuteration Reactions of Bicyclic Alkenes in an Aqueous Environment. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 27(11). 2 indexed citations
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Neufeld, Eric, et al.. (2024). Nickel-Catalyzed Arylation/Lactonization Cascade Reactions for the Synthesis of Bicyclo[3.2.1]lactones. Organometallics. 43(20). 2443–2449. 1 indexed citations
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Neufeld, Eric, et al.. (2023). Rhodium-catalyzed ring-opening reactions of heterobicyclic alkenes with heteroarene nucleophiles. Tetrahedron Letters. 127. 154685–154685. 3 indexed citations
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Neufeld, Eric, et al.. (2023). Transition-metal-catalyzed domino reactions of strained bicyclic alkenes. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 19. 487–540. 14 indexed citations
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Chen, Leanne D., et al.. (2022). Iridium-catalyzed hydroacylation reactions of C1-substituted oxabenzonorbornadienes with salicylaldehyde: an experimental and computational study. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 18. 251–261. 3 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2021). Iron-catalyzed domino coupling reactions of π-systems. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 17. 2848–2893. 9 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2021). Chemistry of Unsymmetrical C1-Substituted Oxabenzonorbornadienes. Current Organic Synthesis. 18(5). 446–474. 6 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2020). Intramolecular Palladium-Catalyzed Ring Opening of Oxabenzonorbornadienes with C1-Tethered Aryl Halides. Organic Letters. 22(9). 3433–3437. 14 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2020). Intramolecular Nickel‐Catalyzed Ring‐Opening Reactions of Oxabenzonorbornadienes with C1‐Tethered Aryl Halides: An Improvement of Method. European Journal of Organic Chemistry. 2020(29). 4558–4562. 9 indexed citations
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Ahmed, Nawaz, Saeed M. Ghazani, Alessia Roma, et al.. (2020). Avocado-derived polyols for use as novel co-surfactants in low energy self-emulsifying microemulsions. Scientific Reports. 10(1). 5566–5566. 19 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2019). Palladium/Lewis Acid Cocatalyzed Ring-Opening Reactions of Unsymmetrical Oxabenzonobornadienes with Oximes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(12). 8309–8314. 13 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2016). Regioselective palladium-catalyzed ring-opening reactions of C1-substituted oxabicyclo[2,2,1]hepta-2,5-diene-2,3-dicarboxylates. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 12. 239–244. 4 indexed citations
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Lough, Alan J., et al.. (2012). Hexamethyl 13,14-dioxapentacyclo[8.2.1.14,7.02,9.03,8]tetradeca-5,11-diene-1,4,5,6,11,12-hexacarboxylate. Acta Crystallographica Section E Structure Reports Online. 68(10). o2963–o2963. 2 indexed citations
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Tam, William, et al.. (2008). Enantioselective Palladium‐Catalyzed Trimethylenemethane [3+2] Cycloadditions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(16). 2926–2928. 25 indexed citations
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Tam, William & Meir Steiner. (1999). Seasonal Affective Disorder and Beyond: Light Treatment for SAD and Non-SAD Conditions.. Journal of Psychiatry and Neuroscience. 24(5). 480–481. 8 indexed citations

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