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Daniel Romo

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Chemistry

D-Index
61
Citations
10083
World Ranking
9486
National Ranking
2665

Daniel Romo publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Romo sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 227 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Daniel Romo D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Daniel Romo sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Daniel Romo is affiliated with Baylor University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Materials Science. Within these broad areas, their subfields of study include Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Organic Chemistry, Biotechnology, and Pharmacology.

The main topics of their work cover a range of subjects such as Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods, Microbial Natural Products and Biosynthesis, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, and Polyamine Metabolism and Applications.

Frequent publication venues for Daniel Romo include The Cambridge Structural Database, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Organic Letters, Natural Product Reports, and Nature Communications.

Among their recent papers are:

  • Triptolide: reflections on two decades of research and prospects for the future (2020) published in Natural Product Reports
  • Bridging the gap between natural product synthesis and drug discovery (2020) published in Natural Product Reports
  • Photocatalyzed, β-Selective Hydrocarboxylation of α,β-Unsaturated Esters with CO2 under Flow for β-Lactone Synthesis (2021) published in ACS Catalysis
  • Spin-Selective Oxygen Evolution Reaction in Chiral Iron Oxide Nanoparticles: Synergistic Impact of Inherent Magnetic Moment and Chirality (2023) published in Nano Letters
  • Functional mimicry revealed by the crystal structure of an eIF4A:RNA complex bound to the interfacial inhibitor, desmethyl pateamine A (2021) published in Cell chemical biology

Daniel Romo has collaborated extensively with several researchers, including Kenneth G. Hull, Mingzhao Zhu, Joseph H. Taube, Jun O. Liu, and Nathanyal J. Truax.

They received the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α-independent Pathway of Stress Granule Induction by the Natural Product Pateamine A

    Yongjun Dang;Nancy Kedersha;Woon Kai Low;Daniel Romo

  • Inhibition of Eukaryotic Translation Initiation by the Marine Natural Product Pateamine A

    Woon Kai Low;Yongjun Dang;Tilman Schneider-Poetsch;Zonggao Shi

  • Chiral non-racemic bicyclic lactams. Vehicles for the construction of natural and unnatural products containing quaternary carbon centers.

    Daniel Romo;A.I. Meyers

  • Intramolecular, Nucleophile-Catalyzed Aldol-Lactonization (NCAL) Reactions: Catalytic, Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclic β-Lactones

    Guillermo S. Cortez;and Reginald L. Tennyson;Daniel Romo

  • Biosynthesis, asymmetric synthesis, and pharmacology, including cellular targets, of the pyrrole-2-aminoimidazole marine alkaloids.

    Ali Al-Mourabit;Manuel A. Zancanella;Supriya Tilvi;Daniel Romo

  • Methods for the synthesis of optically active β-lactones (2-oxetanones)

    Hong Woon Yang;Daniel Romo

  • Total Synthesis and Immunosuppressive Activity of (−)-Pateamine A and Related Compounds: Implementation of a β-Lactam-Based Macrocyclization

    Daniel Romo;Robert M. Rzasa;Helene A. Shea;Kaapjoo Park

  • Total Synthesis of (-)-Rapamycin Using an Evans-Tishchenko Fragment Coupling

    Daniel Romo;Stephanie D. Meyer;Donna D. Johnson;Stuart L. Schreiber

  • Enantioselective, organocatalyzed, intramolecular aldol lactonizations with keto acids leading to bi- and tricyclic β-lactones and topology-morphing transformations.

    Carolyn A. Leverett;Vikram C. Purohit;Daniel Romo

  • Chemo- and site-selective derivatizations of natural products enabling biological studies.

    Omar Robles;Daniel Romo

  • Concise total synthesis of (+/-)-salinosporamide A, (+/-)-cinnabaramide A, and derivatives via a bis-cyclization process: implications for a biosynthetic pathway?

    Gil Ma;Henry Nguyen;Daniel Romo

  • β-Lactones: Intermediates for natural product total synthesis and new transformations

    Daniel Romo;Yingcai Wang;Reginald L. Tennyson

  • Acylammonium Salts as Dienophiles in Diels–Alder/Lactonization Organocascades

    Mikail E. Abbasov;Brandi M. Hudson;Dean J. Tantillo;Daniel Romo

  • Interrogating translational efficiency and lineage-specific transcriptomes using ribosome affinity purification

    Pingzhu Zhou;Yijing Zhang;Qing Ma;Fei Gu

  • Asymmetric Synthesis of Bicyclic β-Lactones via the Intramolecular, Nucleophile-Catalyzed Aldol Lactonization: Improved Efficiency and Expanded Scope

    Seong Ho Oh;Guillermo S. Cortez;Daniel Romo

  • Rapid assembly of complex cyclopentanes employing chiral, α,β-unsaturated acylammonium intermediates

    Gang Liu;Morgan E. Shirley;Khoi N. Van;Rae Lynn McFarlin

  • Enantioselective total synthesis of (+)-dibromophakellstatin.

    Karine G. Poullennec;Daniel Romo

  • Concise Synthesis of Spirocyclic, Bridged γ-Butyrolactones via Stereospecific, Dyotropic Rearrangements of β-Lactones Involving 1,2-Acyl and δ-Lactone Migrations

    Vikram C. Purohit;Andrea S. Matla;Daniel Romo

  • Potent in vitro and in vivo anticancer activities of des-methyl, des-amino pateamine A, a synthetic analogue of marine natural product pateamine A.

    Galina Kuznetsov;Qunli Xu;Lori Rudolph-Owen;Karen TenDyke

  • Simultaneous structure–activity studies and arming of natural products by C–H amination reveal cellular targets of eupalmerin acetate

    Jing Li;Justin S. Cisar;Cong-Ying Zhou;Brunilda Vera

  • Bicyclic β-Lactones via Intramolecular NCAL Reactions with Cinchona Alkaloids: Effect of the C9-Substituent on Enantioselectivity and Catalyst Conformation

    Guillermo S. Cortez;Seong Ho Oh;Daniel Romo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun O. Liu
Jun O. Liu Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Albert I. Meyers
Albert I. Meyers Colorado State University
Dean J. Tantillo
Dean J. Tantillo University of California, Davis
Jeffrey W. Smith
Jeffrey W. Smith Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
William G. Wierda
William G. Wierda The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
David E. Bergbreiter
David E. Bergbreiter Texas A&M University
William Plunkett
William Plunkett The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Antonio Evidente
Antonio Evidente University of Naples Federico II
Niels H. Gehring
Niels H. Gehring University of Cologne
Alexander D. Johnson
Alexander D. Johnson University of California, San Francisco

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