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Richard Goddard

Richard Goddard

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Chemistry

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75
Citations
22098
World Ranking
4407
National Ranking
324

Overview

Richard Goddard is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and conducts research primarily in materials science and chemistry. Their scholarly work spans multiple subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, molecular biology, inorganic chemistry, and physical and theoretical chemistry.

The main topics of Goddard's research encompass crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, quinazolinone synthesis and applications, phenothiazines and benzothiazines synthesis and activities, synthesis and biological activity, crystallography and molecular interactions, and cancer therapeutics and mechanisms.

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, reflecting a focus on crystallographic and chemical research. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications
  • Journal of Chemical Crystallography
  • Molbank
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society

Richard Goddard's recent papers span from 2020 to 2025 and cover a wide range of chemical and materials science topics. Notable publications include:

  • "Synthesis and isolation of a triplet bismuthinidene with a quenched magnetic response" (2023, Science)
  • "A New Ligand Design Based on London Dispersion Empowers Chiral Bismuth-Rhodium Paddlewheel Catalysts" (2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Hydrogenative Metathesis of Enynes via Piano-Stool Ruthenium Carbene Complexes Formed by Alkyne gem-Hydrogenation" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Synthesis and Characterization of Phenylalanine Amides Active against Mycobacterium abscessus and Other Mycobacteria" (2023, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry)
  • "Spiro-C(sp 3)-atom transfer: Creating rigid three-dimensional structures with Ph2 SCN2" (2025, Science)

Frequent collaborators in Goddard's research include:

  • Rüdiger W. Seidel
  • Adrian Richter
  • Peter Imming
  • Nils Nöthling
  • Christoph Lehmann

Best Publications

  • Comparative investigation of ruthenium-based metathesis catalysts bearing N-heterocyclic carbene (NHC) ligands.

    Alois Fürstner;Lutz Ackermann;Barbara Gabor;Richard Goddard

  • Preparation, Structure, and Reactivity of Nonstabilized Organoiron Compounds. Implications for Iron-Catalyzed Cross Coupling Reactions

    Alois Fürstner;Rubén Martin;Helga Krause;Günter Seidel

  • Novel Coordination of (Benzoylmethylene)triphenylphosphorane in a Nickel Oligomerization Catalyst

    Wilhelm Keim;Frank H. Kowaldt;Richard Goddard;Carl Krüger

  • Coordination Chemistry of Ene‐1,1‐diamines and a Prototype “Carbodicarbene”

    Alois Fürstner;Manuel Alcarazo;Richard Goddard;Christian W. Lehmann

  • An N-heterocyclic carbene ligand with flexible steric bulk allows Suzuki cross-coupling of sterically hindered aryl chlorides at room temperature.

    Gereon Altenhoff;Richard Goddard;Christian W. Lehmann;Frank Glorius

  • A Cheap Metal for a “Noble” Task: Preparative and Mechanistic Aspects of Cycloisomerization and Cycloaddition Reactions Catalyzed by Low-Valent Iron Complexes

    Alois Fürstner;Kaisuke Majima;Rubén Martín;Helga Krause

  • Practical new silyloxy-based alkyne metathesis catalysts with optimized activity and selectivity profiles.

    Johannes Heppekausen;Robert Stade;Richard Goddard;Alois Fürstner

  • Direct catalytic asymmetric synthesis of cyclic aminals from aldehydes.

    Xu Cheng;Sreekumar Vellalath;Richard Goddard;Benjamin List

  • Oxazolines as chiral building blocks for imidazolium salts and N-heterocyclic carbene ligands

    Frank Glorius;Gereon Altenhoff;Richard Goddard;Christian W. Lehmann

  • Multifunctional “Clickates” as Versatile Extended Heteroaromatic Building Blocks: Efficient Synthesis via Click Chemistry, Conformational Preferences, and Metal Coordination

    Robert M. Meudtner;Marc Ostermeier;Richard Goddard;Christian Limberg

  • Enantioselective Gold Catalysis: Opportunities Provided by Monodentate Phosphoramidite Ligands with an Acyclic TADDOL Backbone

    Henrik Teller;Susanne Flügge;Richard Goddard;Alois Fürstner

  • Efficient asymmetric hydrogenation of pyridines.

    Frank Glorius;Nick Spielkamp;Sigrid Holle;Richard Goddard

  • Crystallization of Large Planar Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: The Molecular and Crystal Structures of Hexabenzo[bc,ef,hi,kl,no,qr]coronene and Benzo[1,2,3-bc:4,5,6-b'c']dicoronene

    Richard Goddard;Matthias W. Haenel;William C. Herndon;Carl Krueger

  • Total syntheses of the phytotoxic lactones herbarumin I and II and a synthesis-based solution of the pinolidoxin puzzle.

    Alois Fürstner;Karin Radkowski;Conny Wirtz;Richard Goddard

  • First enantioselective catalysis using a helical diphosphane

    Manfred T Reetz;Eckart W Beuttenmüller;Richard Goddard

  • Optimized synthesis, structural investigations, ligand tuning and synthetic evaluation of silyloxy-based alkyne metathesis catalysts.

    Johannes Heppekausen;Robert Stade;Azusa Kondoh;Günter Seidel

  • One-Point Binding Ligands for Asymmetric Gold Catalysis: Phosphoramidites with a TADDOL-Related but Acyclic Backbone

    Henrik Teller;Matthieu Corbet;Luca Mantilli;Gopinadhanpillai Gopakumar

  • Synthesis of TRIP and Analysis of Phosphate Salt Impurities

    Martin Klussmann;Lars Ratjen;Sebastian Hoffmann;Vijay Wakchaure

  • Direct catalytic asymmetric three-component Kabachnik-Fields reaction.

    Xu Cheng;Richard Goddard;Gernot Buth;Benjamin List

  • Synthesis of Versatile Chiral N,P Ligands Derived from Pyridine and Quinoline

    William J. Drury;Nicole Zimmermann;Martine Keenan;Masahiko Hayashi

  • Comparative Investigation of Ruthenium-Based Metathesis Catalysts Bearing N-Heterocyclic Carbene (NHC) Ligands.

    Alois Fuerstner;Lutz Ackermann;Barbara Gabor;Richard Goddard

  • Preparation, Structure, and Reactivity of Nonstabilized Organoiron Compounds. Implications for Iron-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions.

    Alois Fuerstner;Ruben Martin;Helga Krause;Guenter Seidel

Frequent Co-Authors

Carl Krüger
Carl Krüger Max Planck Society
Manfred T. Reetz
Manfred T. Reetz Max Planck Society
Alois Fürstner
Alois Fürstner Max Planck Society
Christian W. Lehmann
Christian W. Lehmann Max Planck Society
Manuel Alcarazo
Manuel Alcarazo University of Göttingen
Walter Thiel
Walter Thiel Max Planck Society
Richard Mynott
Richard Mynott Max Planck Society
Eckhard Bill
Eckhard Bill Max Planck Society
Günther Wilke
Günther Wilke Max Planck Society
Benjamin List
Benjamin List Max Planck Society

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