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D-Index
66
Citations
15682
World Ranking
7266
National Ranking
95

Fahmi Himo 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 Fahmi Himo sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 212 publications — 37th percentile

37% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Fahmi Himo 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 Fahmi Himo sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 60th percentile

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

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

Overview

Fahmi Himo is a researcher affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden focusing primarily on the fields of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Their work spans various subfields, particularly Organic Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Science.

Their research covers a range of main topics that include:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilization
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis

Fahmi Himo has published extensively in several journals. Their frequent publication venues include:

  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Among recent scholarly articles authored or co-authored by Himo are:

  • Status report on the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions, 2022, Communications Chemistry
  • Modeling Enzymatic Enantioselectivity using Quantum Chemical Methodology, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • The Quantum Chemical Cluster Approach in Biocatalysis, 2023, Accounts of Chemical Research
  • Enantioselective Construction of Tertiary Fluoride Stereocenters by Organocatalytic Fluorocyclization, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrophilic Fluorination of Alkenes via Bora-Wagner-Meerwein Rearrangement. Access to β-Difluoroalkyl Boronates, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

They have collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Xiang Sheng
  • Kálmán J. Szabó
  • Binh Khanh
  • Julius Rebek
  • Maria Biosca

Best Publications

  • Copper(I)-catalyzed synthesis of azoles. DFT study predicts unprecedented reactivity and intermediates.

    Fahmi Himo;Timothy Lovell;Robert Hilgraf;Vsevolod V Rostovtsev

  • Quantum chemical studies of mechanisms for metalloenzymes.

    Margareta R. A. Blomberg;Tomasz Borowski;Fahmi Himo;Rong-Zhen Liao

  • Why is tetrazole formation by addition of azide to organic nitriles catalyzed by zinc(II) salts

    Fahmi Himo;Z. P. Demko;L. Noodleman;K. B. Sharpless

  • Quantum chemical studies of intermediates and reaction pathways in selected enzymes and catalytic synthetic systems.

    Louis Noodleman;Timothy Lovell;Wen-Ge Han;Jian Li

  • Mechanisms of tetrazole formation by addition of azide to nitriles.

    Fahmi Himo;Zachary P Demko;Louis Noodleman;K Barry Sharpless

  • Recent developments of the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions

    Per E. M. Siegbahn;Fahmi Himo

  • Quantum chemical studies of radical-containing enzymes.

    Fahmi Himo;Per E. M. Siegbahn

  • The quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions

    Per E.M. Siegbahn;Fahmi Himo

  • Recent Trends in Quantum Chemical Modeling of Enzymatic Reactions

    Fahmi Himo

  • Arylation with Unsymmetrical Diaryliodonium Salts: A Chemoselectivity Study

    Joel Malmgren;Stefano Santoro;Nazli Jalalian;Fahmi Himo

  • Quantum chemical modeling of enzyme active sites and reaction mechanisms

    Fahmi Himo

  • Phosphoric Acid Catalyzed Enantioselective Transfer Hydrogenation of Imines: A Density Functional Theory Study of Reaction Mechanism and the Origins of Enantioselectivity

    Tommaso Marcelli;Peter Hammar;Fahmi Himo

  • The direct catalytic asymmetric alpha-aminooxylation reaction: development of stereoselective routes to 1,2-diols and 1,2-amino alcohols and density functional calculations.

    Armando Córdova;Henrik Sundén;Anders Bøgevig;Mikael Johansson

  • Status report on the quantum chemical cluster approach for modeling enzyme reactions

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  • Insights into properties and energetics of iron-sulfur proteins from simple clusters to nitrogenase.

    Louis Noodleman;Timothy Lovell;Tiqing Liu;Fahmi Himo

  • The Origin of Stereoselectivity in Primary Amino Acid Catalyzed Intermolecular Aldol Reactions

    Arianna Bassan;Weibiao Zou;Efraim Reyes;Fahmi Himo

  • Enantioselective Organocatalytic Hydrophosphination of α,β-Unsaturated Aldehydes

    Ismail Ibrahem;Ramon Rios;Jan Vesely;Peter Hammar

  • Hydrogen Atom Transfer in Ribonucleotide Reductase (RNR)

    Per E. M. Siegbahn;Leif Eriksson;Fahmi Himo;Maria Pavlov

  • Catalytic Mechanism of Galactose Oxidase: A Theoretical Study

    Fahmi Himo;Leif A. Eriksson;Feliu Maseras;Per E. M. Siegbahn

  • Ribonucleotide reductase inhibition by metal complexes of Triapine (3-aminopyridine-2-carboxaldehyde thiosemicarbazone): A combined experimental and theoretical study

    Ana Popović-Bijelić;Christian R. Kowol;Maria E.S. Lind;Jinghui Luo

  • Theoretical study of the phosphotriesterase reaction mechanism

    Shi-Lu Chen;Wei-Hai Fang;Fahmi Himo

Frequent Co-Authors

Per E. M. Siegbahn
Per E. M. Siegbahn Stockholm University
Leif A. Eriksson
Leif A. Eriksson University of Gothenburg
Louis Noodleman
Louis Noodleman Scripps Research Institute
Armando Córdova
Armando Córdova Mid Sweden University
Julius Rebek
Julius Rebek Scripps Research Institute
K. Barry Sharpless
K. Barry Sharpless Scripps Research Institute
Kálmán J. Szabó
Kálmán J. Szabó Stockholm University
Valery V. Fokin
Valery V. Fokin University of Southern California
Kurt Faber
Kurt Faber University of Graz
Wei-Hai Fang
Wei-Hai Fang Beijing Normal University

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