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Andreas Kirschning

Andreas Kirschning

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Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
15910
World Ranking
8340
National Ranking
595

Overview

Andreas Kirschning is affiliated with the University of Hannover in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, chemistry, and medicine. Their research spans over 80 publications in Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, along with 43 publications in Chemistry and 40 in Medicine.

Their work covers diverse subfields including molecular biology, organic chemistry, pharmacology, materials chemistry, and biomedical engineering. The main topics of their research include microbial natural products and biosynthesis, plant biochemistry and biosynthesis, oxidative organic chemistry reactions, photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, synthetic organic chemistry methods, chemical synthesis and analysis, as well as crystallization and solubility studies.

Recent papers authored by Andreas Kirschning include:

  • Coenzymes and Their Role in the Evolution of Life, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • On the Evolutionary History of the Twenty Encoded Amino Acids, 2022, Chemistry - A European Journal

Other recent influential publications in venues where Kirschning is frequently involved include:

  • Nature-driven approaches to non-natural terpene analogues, 2020, Natural Product Reports
  • Rocaglamide and silvestrol: a long story from anti-tumor to anti-coronavirus compounds, 2020, Natural Product Reports
  • Methyl-Shifted Farnesyldiphosphate Derivatives Are Substrates for Sesquiterpene Cyclases, 2020, Organic Letters

Kirschning has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, most notably:

  • Gerald Dräger
  • Jennifer Herrmann
  • Rolf Müller
  • Tim Seedorf
  • Göran Schulz

Their publications frequently appear in journals such as Chemistry - A European Journal, The Cambridge Structural Database, Organic Letters, Natural Product Reports, and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. Specifically, they have nine publications in Chemistry - A European Journal, six in The Cambridge Structural Database, five in Organic Letters, and four each in Natural Product Reports and Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry.

Best Publications

  • Ten key issues in modern flow chemistry.

    Jens Wegner;Sascha Ceylan;Andreas Kirschning

  • Flow Chemistry – A Key Enabling Technology for (Multistep) Organic Synthesis

    Jens Wegner;Sascha Ceylan;Andreas Kirschning

  • Continuous Flow Techniques in Organic Synthesis

    Gerhard Jas;Andreas Kirschning

  • Combining enabling techniques in organic synthesis: continuous flow processes with heterogenized catalysts.

    Andreas Kirschning;Wladimir Solodenko;Klaas Mennecke

  • Functionalized Polymers—Emerging Versatile Tools for Solution-Phase Chemistry and Automated Parallel Synthesis

    Andreas Kirschning;Holger Monenschein;Rüdiger Wittenberg

  • Sustainable concepts in olefin metathesis.

    Hervé Clavier;Karol Grela;Andreas Kirschning;Marc Mauduit

  • Inductive Heating for Organic Synthesis by Using Functionalized Magnetic Nanoparticles Inside Microreactors

    Sascha Ceylan;Carsten Friese;Christian Lammel;Karel Mazac

  • Chemical and biochemical aspects of deoxysugars and deoxysugar oligosaccharides

    Andreas Kirschning;Andreas F. W. Bechthold;Jürgen Rohr

  • Fully defined in situ cross-linkable alginate and hyaluronic acid hydrogels for myocardial tissue engineering.

    Julia Dahlmann;Andreas Krause;Lena Möller;George Kensah

  • Merging chemical synthesis and biosynthesis: a new chapter in the total synthesis of natural products and natural product libraries.

    Andreas Kirschning;Frank Hahn

  • A green catalyst for green chemistry: Synthesis and application of an olefin metathesis catalyst bearing a quaternary ammonium group

    Anna Michrowska;Łukasz Gułajski;Łukasz Gułajski;Zuzanna Kaczmarska;Zuzanna Kaczmarska;Klaas Mennecke

  • Inductive Heating with Magnetic Materials inside Flow Reactors

    Sascha Ceylan;Ludovic Coutable;Jens Wegner;Andreas Kirschning

  • Long term expansion of undifferentiated human iPS and ES cells in suspension culture using a defined medium

    Ruth Olmer;Alexandra Haase;Sylvia Merkert;Wei Cui

  • sp3-sp3 Coupling reactions in the synthesis of natural products and biologically active molecules.

    Egor Geist;Andreas Kirschning;Thomas Schmidt

  • Heating under High‐Frequency Inductive Conditions: Application to the Continuous Synthesis of the Neurolepticum Olanzapine (Zyprexa)

    Jan Hartwig;Sascha Ceylan;Lukas Kupracz;Ludovic Coutable

  • Copper nanoparticles supported on silica coated maghemite as versatile, magnetically recoverable and reusable catalyst for alkyne coupling and cycloaddition reactions

    Fabiana Nador;María A. Volpe;Francisco Alonso;Armin Feldhoff

  • A new concept for the noncovalent binding of a ruthenium-based olefin metathesis catalyst to polymeric phases: preparation of a catalyst on Raschig rings.

    Anna Michrowska;Klaas Mennecke;Ulrich Kunz;Andreas Kirschning

  • Cloning of an avilamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü57.

    Sibylle Gaisser;Axel Trefzer;Sigrid Stockert;Andreas Kirschning

  • New Synthetic Opportunities in Miniaturized Flow Reactors with Inductive Heating

    Andreas Kirschning;Lukas Kupracz;Jan Hartwig

  • Decanolides, 10-membered lactones of natural origin

    Gerald Dräger;Andreas Kirschning;Ralf Thiericke;Marion Zerlin

  • PASSflow Syntheses Using Functionalized Monolithic Polymer/Glass Composites in Flow-Through Microreactors Part of these studies were supported by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and the European Community (EC project number HPRI-CT-1999-00085) for which we are grateful. PASSflow=Polymer Assisted Solution-Phase Synthesis technique in flow-through mode.

    Andreas Kirschning;Carsten Altwicker;Gerald Dräger;Jan Harders

Frequent Co-Authors

Rolf Müller
Rolf Müller Saarland University
Florenz Sasse
Florenz Sasse Technische Universität Braunschweig
Rolf Jansen
Rolf Jansen Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Heinz G. Floss
Heinz G. Floss University of Washington
Karol Grela
Karol Grela University of Warsaw
Viktor V. Zhdankin
Viktor V. Zhdankin University of Minnesota
Klaus Gerth
Klaus Gerth Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research
Jürgen Rohr
Jürgen Rohr University of Kentucky
Ulrich Martin
Ulrich Martin Hannover Medical School
Irene Wagner-Döbler
Irene Wagner-Döbler Technische Universität Braunschweig

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