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Herbert C. Brown

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry, Chemical Synthesis and Reactions, Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis, Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis, Chemical Synthesis and Analysis

Most-Cited Works

→ Electrophilic Substituent Constants(1958)1,123 cited
→ Sodium Borohydride, Its Hydrolysis and its Use as a Reducing Agent and in the Generation of Hydrogen1(1953)1,090 cited
→ An Extended Table of Hammett Substitutent Constants Based on the Ionization of Substituted Benzoic Acids(1958)1,061 cited
→ Asymmetric carbon-carbon bond formation via .beta.-allyldiisopinocampheylborane. Simple synthesis of secondary homoallylic alcohols with excellent enantiomeric purities(1983)487 cited
→ Forty years of hydride reductions(1979)447 cited
→ Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 7. Diastereoselective and enantioselective synthesis of erythro- and threo-.beta.-methylhomoallyl alcohols via enantiomeric (Z)- and (E)-crotylboranes(1986)379 cited

→ Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 27. Remarkably rapid and exceptionally enantioselective (approaching 100% ee) allylboration of representative aldehydes at -100.degree. under new, salt-free conditions(1991)

357 cited

→ Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 6. Asymmetric allylboration via chiral allyldialkylboranes. Synthesis of homoallylic alcohols with exceptionally high enantiomeric excess(1986)356 cited

→ Enantiomeric Z- and E-crotyldiisopinocampheylboranes. Synthesis in high optical purity of all four possible stereoisomers of .beta.-methylhomoallyl alcohols(1986)323 cited

→ Chiral synthesis via organoboranes. 14. Selective reductions. 41. Diisopinocampheylchloroborane, an exceptionally efficient chiral reducing agent(1988)298 cited