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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal), Société chimique de France,
  • 2002 - Ryoji Noyori Prize, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry
  • 2001 - Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation for their pioneering, creative and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules, greatly increasing mankind's ability to create new products of fundamental and practical importance.
  • 1999 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier
  • 1999 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 1998 - Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana France
  • 1994 - Polish Academy of Science

Overview

Henri B. Kagan is affiliated with the University of Paris-Saclay in France. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of materials science and materials chemistry, with a particular emphasis on crystallization and solubility studies as well as X-ray diffraction in crystallography.

Their work includes contributions to experimental crystal structure determinations, with recent papers published in 2020. These papers appeared in The Cambridge Structural Database and include the following titles:

  • CCDC 1996741: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020, The Cambridge Structural Database)
  • CCDC 1996215: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020, The Cambridge Structural Database)
  • CCDC 1996209: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020, The Cambridge Structural Database)
  • CCDC 1996210: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination (2020, The Cambridge Structural Database)

Frequent co-authorship in their work includes collaboration with Régis Guillot, who has co-authored multiple papers with them.

Their research findings have been published predominantly in The Cambridge Structural Database, reflecting a consistency in the chosen venue for disseminating their structural chemistry data.

The major topics covered by their work are:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Several awards have been conferred on Henri B. Kagan throughout their career, including:

  • Médaille Lavoisier (Lavoisier Medal), Société chimique de France (2015)
  • Ryoji Noyori Prize, Society of Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2002)
  • Wolf Prize in Chemistry, Wolf Foundation (2001) for pioneering, creative, and crucial work in developing asymmetric catalysis for the synthesis of chiral molecules
  • Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier (1999)
  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) (1999)
  • Chirality Medal, Società Chimica Italiana (1998)
  • Polish Academy of Science award (1994)

Best Publications

  • Divalent lanthanide derivatives in organic synthesis. 1. Mild preparation of samarium iodide and ytterbium iodide and their use as reducing or coupling agents

    P. Girard;J. L. Namy;H. B. Kagan

  • Asymmetric catalytic reduction with transition metal complexes. I. Catalytic system of rhodium(I) with (-)-2,3-0-isopropylidene-2,3-dihydroxy-1,4-bis(diphenylphosphino)butane, a new chiral diphosphine

    Henri B. Kagan;Dang-Tuan-Phat

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Diels-Alder Reactions

    Henri B. Kagan;Olivier Riant

  • Nonlinear Effects in Asymmetric Synthesis and Stereoselective Reactions: Ten Years of Investigation.

    Christian Girard;Henri B. Kagan

  • An efficient asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides

    P. Pitchen;E. Dunach;M. N. Deshmukh;H. B. Kagan

  • Nonlinear Effects in Asymmetric Catalysis

    Tummanapalli Satyanarayana;Susan Abraham;Henri B. Kagan

  • Tetrahedron report number 213

    H.B. Kagan;J.L. Namy

  • Twenty-five years of organic chemistry with diiodosamarium: an overview

    Henri B. Kagan

  • Nonlinear effects in asymmetric synthesis. Examples in asymmetric oxidations and aldolization reactions.

    C. Puchot;O. Samuel;E. Dunach;S. Zhao

  • NONLINEAR EFFECTS IN ASYMMETRIC CATALYSIS

    Denis Guillaneux;Shu-Hai Zhao;Odile Samuel;David Rainford

  • The asymmetric synthesis of hydratropic acid and amino-acids by homogeneous catalytic hydrogenation

    T. P. Dang;H. B. Kagan

  • Use of Nonfunctionalized Enamides and Enecarbamates in Asymmetric Synthesis

    Kovuru Gopalaiah;Henri B Kagan

  • Asymmetric catalytic reduction with transition metal complexes. II. Asymmetric catalysis by a supported chiral rhodium complex

    Willy. Dumont;Jean C. Poulin;Dang Tuan Phat;Henri B. Kagan

  • Preparation of chiral compounds with high optical purity by irradiation with circularly polarized light, a model reaction for the prebiotic generation of optical activity

    G. Balavoine;A. Moradpour;H. B. Kagan

  • An Efficient Asymmetric Synthesis of 2-Substituted Ferrocenecarboxaldehydes

    Olivier Riant;Odile Samuel;Timo Flessner;Stephan Taudien

  • A general asymmetric synthesis of ferrocenes with planar chirality

    Olivier Riant;Odile Samuel;Henri B. Kagan

  • An efficient asymmetric oxidation of sulfides to sulfoxides

    Philippe Pitchen;Henri B. Kagan

  • Efficient formation of pinacols from aldehydes or ketones mediated by samarium diiodide

    J.L. Namy;J. Souppe;H.B. Kagan

  • Nichtlineare Effekte bei asymmetrischen Synthesen und stereoselektiven Reaktionen

    Christian Girard;Henri B. Kagan

  • HIGH YIELD SYNTHESIS OF MONOSUBSTITUTED FERROCENES

    Denis Guillaneux;Henri B. Kagan

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Riant
Olivier Riant Université Catholique de Louvain
Yuri N. Belokon
Yuri N. Belokon A. N. Nesmeyanov Institute of Organoelement Compounds
Jean-Paul Collin
Jean-Paul Collin University of Strasbourg
Louis Ricard
Louis Ricard École Polytechnique
Tom J. Mabry
Tom J. Mabry The University of Texas at Austin
Volker Schurig
Volker Schurig University of Tübingen
Virinder S. Parmar
Virinder S. Parmar City University of New York
Jean-François Nicoud
Jean-François Nicoud University of Strasbourg
Régis Guillot
Régis Guillot University of Paris-Saclay
Armin Börner
Armin Börner Leibniz Institute for Catalysis

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