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Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12354
World Ranking
10598
National Ranking
2925

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1974 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Best Publications

  • Pyridinium p-toluenesulfonate. A mild and efficient catalyst for the tetrahydropyranylation of alcohols

    Masaaki Miyashita;Akira Yoshikoshi;Paul A. Grieco

  • Organoselenium chemistry. A facile one-step synthesis of alkyl aryl selenides from alcohols

    Paul A. Grieco;Sydney. Gilman;Mugio. Nishizawa

  • Dramatic rate accelerations of Diels-Alder reactions in 5 M lithium perchlorate-diethyl ether: the cantharidin problem reexamined

    Paul A. Grieco;Joseph J. Nunes;Micheal D. Gaul

  • Aza Diels-Alder reactions in aqueous solution: cyclocondensation of dienes with simple iminium salts generated under Mannich conditions

    Scott D. Larsen;Paul A. Grieco

  • One-Pot Synthesis of Symmetrical and Unsymmetrical Bisarylethynes by a Modification of the Sonogashira Coupling Reaction

    Unknown

  • A mild two-step method for the hydrolysis of lactams and secondary amides

    Daniel L. Flynn;Robert E. Zelle;Paul A. Grieco

  • Methods for the Synthesis of α-Methylene Lactones

    Paul A. Grieco

  • Sesquiterpene lactones: total synthesis of (.+-.)-vernolepin and (.+-.)-vernomenin

    Paul A. Grieco;Mugio Nishizawa;Tomei Oguri;Steven D. Burke

  • “Micellar” catalysis in the aqueous intermolecular diels-alder reaction: rate acceleration and enhanced selectivity

    Unknown

  • [1,3]-Sigmatropic rearrangement of allyl vinyl ethers at ambient temperature in 3.0 M lithium, perchlorate-diethyl ether

    Paul A. Grieco;Jerry D. Clark;Christopher T. Jagoe

  • Convergent, enantiospecific total synthesis of the novel cyclodepsipeptide (+)-jasplakinolide (jaspamide)

    Paul A. Grieco;Yung Son. Hon;Arturo. Perez-Medrano

  • Aqueous intermolecular Diels-Alder chemistry: reactions of diene carboxylates with dienophiles in water at ambient temperature

    Unknown

  • Biomimetic total synthesis of pseudotabersonine : a novel oxindole-based approach to construction of Aspidosperma alkaloids

    William A. Carroll;Paul A. Grieco

  • Cyclopentenones. Efficient synthesis of cis-jasome

    Unknown

  • LiAl(OC(Ph)(CF3)2)4: A Hydrocarbon-Soluble Catalyst for Carbon−Carbon Bond-Forming Reactions

    Thomas J. Barbarich;Scott T. Handy;Susie M. Miller;Oren P. Anderson

  • Water as a solvent for the Claisen rearrangement: practical implications for synthetic organic chemistry

    Paul A. Grieco;Ellen B. Brandes;Stephen McCann;Jerry D. Clark

  • Organoselenium chemistry. .alpha.-Phenylseleno lactones. New general route to the synthesis of fused .alpha.-methylene lactones

    Paul A. Grieco;Masaaki Miyashita

  • Remote double bond migration via rhodium catalysis: a novel enone transposition

    Paul A. Grieco;Mugio Nishizawa;Nebojsa Marinovic;William J. Ehmann

  • One-step conversion of protected lactols into lactones

    Paul A. Grieco;Tomei Oguri;Yuusaku Yokoyama

  • Cycloalkenone synthesis via Lewis acid-catalyzed retro Diels-Alder reactions of norbornene derivatives: synthesis of 12-oxophytodienoic acid (12-oxoPDA)

    Paul A. Grieco;Norman Abood

Frequent Co-Authors

Mugio Nishizawa
Mugio Nishizawa Tokushima Bunri University
Yasufumi Ohfune
Yasufumi Ohfune Osaka Metropolitan University
Gilbert Stork
Gilbert Stork Columbia University
John C. Huffman
John C. Huffman Indiana University
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Ken Hirotsu
Ken Hirotsu Osaka Metropolitan University

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