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Wittig Reaction

The Wittig Reaction is an organic chemical reaction in which an aldehyde or ketone undergoes nucleophilic addition with a phosphonium ylide to form an alkene, distinguished by the formation of a carbon–carbon double bond through the transformation of a carbonyl group into a vinyl group.

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Wittig Olefination

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Organic Azides: An Exploding Diversity of a Unique Class of Compounds

Stefan Bräse, Carmen Gil, Kerstin Knepper et al. · Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2005 · 2.2K citations

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Synthesis of a carbon nanobelt

Guillaume Povie, Yasutomo Segawa, Taishi Nishihara et al. · Science · 2017 · 584 citations · Full text

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Synthesis and electroluminescence of novel copolymers containing crown ether spacers

Qingjiang Sun, Haiqiao Wang, Chunhe Yang et al. · Journal of Materials Chemistry · 2003 · 510 citations

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Big Data from Pharmaceutical Patents: A Computational Analysis of Medicinal Chemists’ Bread and Butter

Nadine Schneider, Daniel M. Lowe, Roger A. Sayle et al. · Journal of Medicinal Chemistry · 2016 · 447 citations

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Ylide-Initiated Michael Addition−Cyclization Reactions beyond Cyclopropanes

Xiu‐Li Sun, Yong Tang · Accounts of Chemical Research · 2008 · 409 citations

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    Stuart Warren

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    24 publications · 855 citations

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    Ming‐Wu Ding

    Central China Normal University, China

    34 publications · 793 citations

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    Wenwei Lin

    National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan

    22 publications · 820 citations

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    Ali Ramazani

    University of Zanjan, Iran

    18 publications · 753 citations

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    Francisco Palácios

    University of the Basque Country, Spain

    19 publications · 1.2K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

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  2. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

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    183 publications

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  3. Tokyo Institute of Technology

    Tokyo, Japan

    22 h-index

    134 publications

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  4. Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry

    Shanghai, China

    22 h-index

    107 publications

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  5. Central China Normal University

    Wuhan, China

    20 h-index

    141 publications

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  6. Laboratoire de Chimie Organique

    Paris, France

    19 h-index

    110 publications

    3.3K citations

  7. National Taiwan Normal University

    Taipei, Taiwan

    18 h-index

    111 publications

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  8. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    17 h-index

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  1. Journal of the American Chemical Society

    JACS · 111 publications · 9K citations

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  2. The Journal of Organic Chemistry

    JOC · 298 publications · 12.2K citations

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  3. Organic Letters

    OL · 126 publications · 5.7K citations

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  4. Tetrahedron Letters

    260 publications · 7.3K citations

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  5. Synthesis

    121 publications · 4.6K citations

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