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Darren J. Dixon

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
14057
World Ranking
5710
National Ranking
328

Darren J. Dixon 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 Darren J. Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 287 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Darren J. Dixon 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 Darren J. Dixon sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Darren J. Dixon is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research contributions lie primarily within the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with 141 and 44 publications respectively. Within these fields, their subfield expertise includes Organic Chemistry (118 publications), Materials Chemistry (44), Inorganic Chemistry (23), Molecular Biology (10), and Pharmaceutical Science (4).

Their main topics of work encompass various areas of synthetic and catalytic chemistry. These include:

  • Advanced Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Chemical synthesis and alkaloids
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods

Dixon has published a number of recent papers covering developments in organic synthesis and catalysis. Notable recent publications include:

  • Installing the "magic methyl" - C-H methylation in synthesis, 2021, Chemical Society Reviews
  • α-Amino Radicals via Photocatalytic Single-Electron Reduction of Imine Derivatives, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Catalytic Reductive Functionalization of Tertiary Amides using Vaska's Complex: Synthesis of Complex Tertiary Amine Building Blocks and Natural Products, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Bifunctional Iminophosphorane Superbase Catalysis: Applications in Organic Synthesis, 2020, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Dearomative Photocatalytic Construction of Bridged 1,3-Diazepanes, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist has maintained collaborations with several frequent coauthors, including Ken Yamazaki, Trevor A. Hamlin, Kirsten E. Christensen, Jamie A. Leitch, and Benjamin D. A. Shennan.

Their publications often appear in specialized and high-impact research venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (22 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie (13 publications)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition (12 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (7 publications)
  • ACS Catalysis (5 publications)

Best Publications

  • Enantioselective organocatalytic Michael addition of malonate esters to nitro olefins using bifunctional cinchonine derivatives

    Jinxing Ye;Darren J. Dixon;Peter S. Hynes

  • Enantioselective Brønsted Acid-Catalyzed N-Acyliminium Cyclization Cascades

    Michael E. Muratore;Chloe A. Holloway;Adam W. Pilling;R. Ian Storer

  • Organocatalytic enantioselective desymmetrisation

    A. Borissov;T. Q. Davies;S. R. Ellis;T. A. Fleming

  • Total synthesis of (-)-nakadomarin A.

    Pavol Jakubec;Dane M. Cockfield;Darren J. Dixon

  • A new family of cinchona-derived amino phosphine precatalysts: application to the highly enantio- and diastereoselective silver-catalyzed isocyanoacetate aldol reaction.

    Filippo Sladojevich;Andrea Trabocchi;Antonio Guarna;Darren J. Dixon

  • Synthesis of macrocyclic natural products by catalyst-controlled stereoselective ring-closing metathesis

    Miao Yu;Chenbo Wang;Andrew F. Kyle;Pavol Jakubec

  • Installing the "magic methyl"- C-H methylation in synthesis.

    Daniya Aynetdinova;Mia C Callens;Harry B Hicks;Charmaine Y X Poh

  • Bifunctional iminophosphorane organocatalysts for enantioselective synthesis: application to the ketimine nitro-Mannich reaction.

    Marta G. Núñez;Alistair J. M. Farley;Darren J. Dixon

  • 1,2-diacetals: a new opportunity for organic synthesis.

    Steven V. Ley;Daniel K. Baeschlin;Darren J. Dixon;Alison C. Foster

  • Organocatalytic Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (R)-Rolipram and Formal Synthesis of (3S,4R)-Paroxetine

    Peter S. Hynes;Paul A. Stupple;Darren J. Dixon

  • Brønsted Base/Lewis Acid Cooperative Catalysis in the Enantioselective Conia-Ene Reaction

    Ting Yang;Alessandro Ferrali;Filippo Sladojevich;Leonie Campbell

  • Direct enantio- and diastereoselective Mannich reactions of malonate and β-keto esters with N-Boc and N-Cbz aldimines catalysed by a bifunctional cinchonine derivative

    A. Louise Tillman;Jinxing Ye;Darren J. Dixon

  • LP99: Discovery and Synthesis of the First Selective BRD7/9 Bromodomain Inhibitor

    Peter G. K. Clark;Lucas C. C. Vieira;Cynthia Tallant;Oleg Fedorov

  • Iridium‐Catalyzed Reductive Strecker Reaction for Late‐Stage Amide and Lactam Cyanation

    Ángel L. Fuentes de Arriba;Elena Lenci;Mahendra Sonawane;Odilon Formery

  • Total Synthesis of Manzamine A and Related Alkaloids

    Pavol Jakubec;Alison Hawkins;Wolfgang Felzmann;Darren J. Dixon

  • Combination iminium, enamine and copper(I) cascade catalysis: a carboannulation for the synthesis of cyclopentenes.

    Ting Yang;Alessandro Ferrali;Leonie Campbell;Darren J. Dixon

  • Total Synthesis of (−)-Himalensine A

    Heyao Shi;Iacovos N. Michaelides;Benjamin Darses;Pavol Jakubec

  • α-Amino Radicals via Photocatalytic Single-Electron Reduction of Imine Derivatives

    Jamie A. Leitch;Thomas Rossolini;Tatiana Rogova;J. Andrew P. Maitland

  • Thioamide-Directed Cobalt(III)-Catalyzed Selective Amidation of C(sp3 )-H Bonds.

    Peng Wen Tan;Adrian M. Mak;Michael B. Sullivan;Darren James Dixon

  • Diastereodivergent organocatalytic asymmetric vinylogous Michael reactions

    Xin Li;Min Lu;Yun Dong;Wenbin Wu

  • A Au(i)-catalyzed N-acyl iminium ion cyclization cascade.

    Ting Yang;Leonie Campbell;Darren J. Dixon

  • Chemical probes and inhibitors of bromodomains outside the BET family

    M Moustakim;Clark Pgk.;D A Hay;D J Dixon

  • Direct Enantio‐ and Diastereoselective Mannich Reactions of Malonate and β‐Keto Esters with N‐Boc and N‐Cbz Aldimines Catalyzed by a Bifunctional Cinchonine Derivative.

    A. Louise Tillman;Jinxing Ye;Darren J. Dixon

Frequent Co-Authors

Steven V. Ley
Steven V. Ley University of Cambridge
Paul Brennan
Paul Brennan International Agency For Research On Cancer
Edward W. Tate
Edward W. Tate Imperial College London
Stefan Knapp
Stefan Knapp Goethe University Frankfurt
Robert S. Paton
Robert S. Paton Colorado State University
Oleg Fedorov
Oleg Fedorov University of Oxford
Stephen G. Davies
Stephen G. Davies University of Oxford
Susanne Müller
Susanne Müller Structural Genomics Consortium
Peng-Fei Xu
Peng-Fei Xu Lanzhou University
Christine K. Luscombe
Christine K. Luscombe Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology

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