K. C. Nicolaou

50.7k citations
600 papers · 42.1k · 10 hit papers · h-index 100

Impact in

    • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
    • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
    • Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods
    • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis
    • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Pharmacology top 0.01%
    • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis

Papers in

    • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods 296
    • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids 93
    • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis 85
    • Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis 65
    • Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis 142

K. C. Nicolaou

597 papers receiving 40.8k citations

K. C. Nicolaou's Hit Papers

Cascade Reactions in Total Synthesis 2006 · 1.9k citations
1.9k0+17+34Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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K. C. Nicolaou
Comparison fields: 5 of 178
  • Organic Chemistry 34.1k
  • Pharmacology 8.0k
  • Biotechnology 4.3k
  • Toxicology 919
  • Biochemistry 1.7k
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Palladium‐Catalyzed Cross‐Coupling Reactions in Total Synthesis
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Cascade Reactions in Total Synthesis
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Metathesis Reactions in Total Synthesis
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Total synthesis of taxol
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Palladiumkatalysierte Kreuzkupplungen in der Totalsynthese
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Kaskadenreaktionen in der Totalsynthese
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Natural Product-like Combinatorial Libraries Based on Privileged Structures. 1. General Principles and Solid-Phase Synthesis of Benzopyrans
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Chemistry and Biology of Taxol
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Chasing Molecules That Were Never There: Misassigned Natural Products and the Role of Chemical Synthesis in Modern Structure Elucidation
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Efficient and mild lactonization method for the synthesis of macrolides
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Adventures in Carbohydrate Chemistry: New Synthetic Technologies, Chemical Synthesis, Molecular Design, and Chemical Biology A list of abbreviations can be found at the end of this article. Telemachos Charalambous was an inspiring teacher at the Pancyprian Gymnasium, Nicosia, Cyprus.
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About K. C. Nicolaou

K. C. Nicolaou is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Pharmacology, Molecular Biology, Oncology and Biotechnology, having authored 600 papers that have together received 42.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (296 papers), Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis (142 papers), Chemical synthesis and alkaloids (93 papers), Chemical Synthesis and Analysis (86 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (85 papers), Cancer Treatment and Pharmacology (85 papers), Marine Sponges and Natural Products (80 papers) and Carbohydrate Chemistry and Synthesis (65 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Organic Chemistry (34.1k citations), Pharmacology (8.0k citations), Biotechnology (4.3k citations), Toxicology (919 citations) and Biochemistry (1.7k citations). K. C. Nicolaou has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Greece. Frequent co-authors include Paul G. Bulger, David Šarlah, David J. Edmonds, Helen J. Mitchell, Scott A. Snyder, Dionisios Vourloumis, Phil S. Baran, Wei‐Min Dai, R. Kiplin Guy and Zhen Yang. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Chemistry - A European Journal, The Journal of Organic Chemistry and Tetrahedron Letters.

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