| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Synthesis and Activity of a New Generation of Ruthenium-Based Olefin Metathesis Catalysts Coordinated with 1,3-Dimesityl-4,5-dihydroimidazol-2-ylidene Ligands§ | Organic Letters | 1999 | 3,359 |
| 2 | Polytriazoles as Copper(I)-Stabilizing Ligands in Catalysis | Organic Letters | 2004 | 1,418 |
| 3 | Which NICS Aromaticity Index for Planar π Rings Is Best? | Organic Letters | 2006 | 1,003 |
| 4 | Highly Enantioselective Conjugate Addition of Nitromethane to Chalcones Using Bifunctional Cinchona Organocatalysts | Organic Letters | 2005 | 959 |
| 5 | Dissected Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shift Analysis of π-Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity | Organic Letters | 2001 | 913 |
| 6 | An Efficient Waste-Free Oxidative Coupling via Regioselective C−H Bond Cleavage: Rh/Cu-Catalyzed Reaction of Benzoic Acids with Alkynes and Acrylates under Air | Organic Letters | 2007 | 673 |
| 7 | Phosphine Gold(I) Bis-(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imidate Complexes as New Highly Efficient and Air-Stable Catalysts for the Cycloisomerization of Enynes | Organic Letters | 2005 | 662 |
| 8 | New Fluorescent Rhodamine Hydrazone Chemosensor for Cu(II) with High Selectivity and Sensitivity | Organic Letters | 2006 | 650 |
| 9 | A Fluorogenic 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reaction of 3-Azidocoumarins and Acetylenes† | Organic Letters | 2004 | 641 |
| 10 | A “Traceless” Staudinger Ligation for the Chemoselective Synthesis of Amide Bonds | Organic Letters | 2000 | 592 |
| 11 | Air-Stable Trialkylphosphonium Salts: Simple, Practical, and Versatile Replacements for Air-Sensitive Trialkylphosphines. Applications in Stoichiometric and Catalytic Processes | Organic Letters | 2001 | 588 |
| 12 | Efficient Proline-Catalyzed Michael Additions of Unmodified Ketones to Nitro Olefins | Organic Letters | 2001 | 580 |
| 13 | A Road Map to Stable, Soluble, Easily Crystallized Pentacene Derivatives | Organic Letters | 2002 | 572 |
| 14 | Eosin Y Catalyzed Visible Light Oxidative C–C and C–P bond Formation | Organic Letters | 2011 | 553 |
| 15 | Lipase-Catalyzed Reactions in Ionic Liquids | Organic Letters | 2000 | 551 |
| 16 | Formation of Aryl−Nitrogen, Aryl−Oxygen, and Aryl−Carbon Bonds Using Well-Defined Copper(I)-Based Catalysts | Organic Letters | 2001 | 541 |
| 17 | Homeopathic Ligand-Free Palladium as a Catalyst in the Heck Reaction. A Comparison with a Palladacycle | Organic Letters | 2003 | 536 |
| 18 | Fluorescence Turn On of Coumarin Derivatives by Metal Cations: A New Signaling Mechanism Based on C=N Isomerization | Organic Letters | 2007 | 536 |
| 19 | A Microwave-Assisted Click Chemistry Synthesis of 1,4-Disubstituted 1,2,3-Triazoles via a Copper(I)-Catalyzed Three-Component Reaction | Organic Letters | 2004 | 530 |
| 20 | An Efficient, Inexpensive, and Shelf-Stable Diazotransfer Reagent: Imidazole-1-sulfonyl Azide Hydrochloride | Organic Letters | 2007 | 521 |
| 21 | Novel Acetoxylation and C−C Coupling Reactions at Unactivated Positions in α-Amino Acid Derivatives | Organic Letters | 2006 | 516 |
| 22 | Cyclic Carbonate Formation from Carbon Dioxide and Oxiranes in Tetrabutylammonium Halides as Solvents and Catalysts | Organic Letters | 2002 | 508 |
| 23 | Copper-Catalyzed Coupling of Alkylamines and Aryl Iodides: An Efficient System Even in an Air Atmosphere | Organic Letters | 2002 | 506 |
| 24 | Ratiometric and Selective Fluorescent Sensor for CuIIBased on Internal Charge Transfer (ICT) | Organic Letters | 2005 | 506 |
| 25 | The Heck Reaction in Ionic Liquids: A Multiphasic Catalyst System | Organic Letters | 1999 | 493 |
| 26 | Catalytic Direct Asymmetric Michael Reactions: Taming Naked Aldehyde Donors | Organic Letters | 2001 | 483 |
| 27 | Staudinger Ligation: A Peptide from a Thioester and Azide | Organic Letters | 2000 | 482 |
| 28 | A General, Efficient, and Inexpensive Catalyst System for the Coupling of Aryl Iodides and Thiols | Organic Letters | 2002 | 481 |
| 29 | Enantioselective Brønsted Acid Catalyzed Transfer Hydrogenation: Organocatalytic Reduction of Imines | Organic Letters | 2005 | 477 |
| 30 | Enantioselective Synthesis of α-Amino Nitriles fromN-Benzhydryl Imines and HCN with a Chiral Bicyclic Guanidine as Catalyst | Organic Letters | 1999 | 474 |
| 31 | Ionic Liquid as Catalyst and Reaction Medium. The Dramatic Influence of a Task-Specific Ionic Liquid, [bmIm]OH, in Michael Addition of Active Methylene Compounds to Conjugated Ketones, Carboxylic Esters, and Nitriles | Organic Letters | 2005 | 461 |
| 32 | C−C Bond Formation via Double C−H Functionalization: Aerobic Oxidative Coupling as a Method for Synthesizing Heterocoupled Biaryls | Organic Letters | 2007 | 458 |
| 33 | General and Efficient Indole Syntheses Based on Catalytic Amination Reactions | Organic Letters | 2005 | 456 |
| 34 | Potassium t-Butoxide Alone Can Promote the Biaryl Coupling of Electron-Deficient Nitrogen Heterocycles and Haloarenes | Organic Letters | 2008 | 456 |
| 35 | Click Chemistry as a Reliable Method for the High-Density Postsynthetic Functionalization of Alkyne-Modified DNA | Organic Letters | 2006 | 453 |
| 36 | The First Silver-Catalyzed Three-Component Coupling of Aldehyde, Alkyne, and Amine | Organic Letters | 2003 | 445 |
| 37 | Cross-Linked Enzyme Aggregates: A Simple and Effective Method for the Immobilization of Penicillin Acylase | Organic Letters | 2000 | 443 |
| 38 | A New Rhodamine-Based Chemosensor Exhibiting Selective FeIII-Amplified Fluorescence | Organic Letters | 2006 | 442 |
| 39 | Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reactions Catalyzed by Palladium Nanoparticles in Aqueous Solution | Organic Letters | 2000 | 437 |
| 40 | Efficient and Simple Colorimetric Fluoride Ion Sensor Based on Receptors Having Urea and Thiourea Binding Sites | Organic Letters | 2004 | 436 |
| 41 | A General Palladium-Catalyzed Coupling of Aryl Bromides/Triflates and Thiols | Organic Letters | 2004 | 435 |
| 42 | Rhodamine-Based Hg2+-Selective Chemodosimeter in Aqueous Solution: Fluorescent OFF−ON | Organic Letters | 2007 | 435 |
| 43 | Fluorescent Sensing of Pyrophosphate and Bis-carboxylates with Charge Neutral PET Chemosensors† | Organic Letters | 2002 | 433 |
| 44 | Pd(PhCN)2Cl2/P(t-Bu)3: A Versatile Catalyst for Sonogashira Reactions of Aryl Bromides at Room Temperature | Organic Letters | 2000 | 432 |
| 45 | Synthesis of Functionalized Oxazolines and Oxazoles with DAST and Deoxo-Fluor | Organic Letters | 2000 | 431 |
| 46 | Synthesis of Isoindigo-Based Oligothiophenes for Molecular Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells | Organic Letters | 2010 | 431 |
| 47 | Organic Dyes Incorporating Low-Band-Gap Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells | Organic Letters | 2005 | 428 |
| 48 | H-Bonding Additives Act Like Lewis Acid Catalysts | Organic Letters | 2002 | 425 |
| 49 | Fluorescent Chemodosimeter for Selective Detection of Cyanide in Water | Organic Letters | 2008 | 425 |
| 50 | Facile Oxidation of Aldehydes to Acids and Esters with Oxone | Organic Letters | 2003 | 423 |
