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Richard R. Schmidt

Richard R. Schmidt

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Chemistry

D-Index
88
Citations
35020
World Ranking
2247
National Ranking
165

Overview

Richard R. Schmidt is affiliated with the University of Konstanz in Germany. Their research primarily intersects the fields of molecular biology, organic chemistry, and plant science, with additional work in pharmacology and surgery.

The scientist's main topics of investigation include carbohydrate chemistry and synthesis, glycosylation and glycoproteins research, chemical synthesis and analysis, legume nitrogen fixing symbiosis, asymmetric synthesis and catalysis, enzyme catalysis and immobilization, and microbial metabolites in food biotechnology.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Chinese Journal of Chemistry

Recent notable papers authored include:

  • O-Glycosyl Trichloroacetimidates as Glycosyl Donors and Platinum(IV) Chloride as a Dual Catalyst Permitting Stereo- and Regioselective Glycosidations, 2021, ACS Catalysis
  • Catalytic Regioselective Benzoylation of 1,2-trans-Diols in Carbohydrates with Benzoyl Cyanide: The Axial Oxy Group Effect and the Action of Achiral and Chiral Amine Catalysts, 2020, ACS Catalysis
  • Regioselective benzoylation of unprotected β-glycopyranosides with benzoyl cyanide and an amine catalyst - application to saponin synthesis, 2020, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Divergent Synthesis of Core m1, Core m2 and Core m3 O-Mannosyl Glycopeptides via a Chemoenzymatic Approach, 2022, Chinese Journal of Chemistry
  • Synthesis of Core M3 Matriglycan Constituents via an Additive-Controlled 1,2-cis-Xylopyranosylation with O-Xylosyl Imidates as Donors, 2023, The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Richard R. Schmidt has collaborated frequently with multiple researchers, including Joseph Sottile, Paul Sullivan, Shesha Jayaram, F.P. Dawson, and Saleh Saleh. These collaborations have contributed to a diverse and interdisciplinary body of work.

Best Publications

  • New Methods for the Synthesis of Glycosides and Oligosaccharides—Are There Alternatives to the Koenigs‐Knorr Method? [New Synthetic Methods (56)]

    Richard R. Schmidt

  • New principles for glycoside-bond formation.

    Xiangming Zhu;Richard R. Schmidt

  • Anomeric-oxygen activation for glycoside synthesis: the trichloroacetimidate method.

    Richard R. Schmidt;Willy Kinzy

  • Facile Synthesis of α- and β-O-Glycosyl Imidates; Preparation of Glycosides and Disaccharides

    Richard R. Schmidt;Josef Michel

  • Commensal bacteria regulate toll-like receptor 3-dependent inflammation after skin injury

    Yuping Lai;Anna Di Nardo;Anna Di Nardo;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Teruaki Nakatsuji;Anke Leichtle;Anke Leichtle

  • Neue Methoden zur Glycosid- und Oligosaccharidsynthese – gibt es Alternativen zur Koenigs-Knorr-Methode?

    Richard R. Schmidt

  • NKT cells enhance CD4+ and CD8+ T cell responses to soluble antigen in vivo through direct interaction with dendritic cells.

    Ian F. Hermans;Jonathan D. Silk;Uzi Gileadi;Mariolina Salio

  • The crystal structure of human CD1d with and without alpha-galactosylceramide.

    Michael Koch;Victoria S Stronge;Dawn Shepherd;Stephan D Gadola

  • Activation of TLR2 and TLR4 by Glycosylphosphatidylinositols Derived from Toxoplasma gondii

    Françoise Debierre-Grockiego;Marco A. Campos;Nahid Azzouz;Jörg Schmidt

  • Synthetic Routes to Thiooligosaccharides and Thioglycopeptides

    Kandasamy Pachamuthu;Richard R. Schmidt

  • Synthetic lipoteichoic acid from Staphylococcus aureus is a potent stimulus of cytokine release

    Siegfried Morath;Andreas Stadelmaier;Armin Geyer;Richard R. Schmidt

  • Einfache Synthese von α-und β-O-Glykosylimidaten; Herstellung von Glykosiden und Disacchariden†

    Richard R. Schmidt;Josef Michel

  • Structure of Human Cd1B with Bound Ligands at 2.3 A, a Maze for Alkyl Chains

    Stephan D. Gadola;Stephan D. Gadola;Nathan R. Zaccai;Karl Harlos;Dawn Shepherd

  • Efficient sialylation with phosphite as leaving group

    Thomas J. Martin;Richard R. Schmidt

  • Nitriles as Solvents in Glycosylation Reactions: Highly Selective β-Glycoside Synthesis1

    Richard R. Schmidt;Michael Behrendt;Alexander Toepfer

  • Sphingosine 1-phosphate-induced cell rounding and neurite retraction are mediated by the G protein-coupled receptor H218.

    James R. Van Brocklyn;Zhenxing Tu;Lisa C. Edsall;Richard R. Schmidt

  • Hetero-Diels-Alder reaction in highly functionalized natural product synthesis

    Richard R. Schmidt

  • Glycosylimidate, 12 Direkte Synthese von O‐α‐ und O‐β‐Glycosyl‐imidaten

    Richard R. Schmidt;Josef Michel;Michael Roos

  • The length of lipids bound to human CD1d molecules modulates the affinity of NKT cell TCR and the threshold of NKT cell activation

    C McCarthy;D Shepherd;S Fleire;V S Stronge

  • Sphingomyelin is synthesized in the cis Golgi

    Dieter Jeckel;Achim Karrenbauer;Rolf Birk;R. Richard Schmidt

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin E. Maier
Martin E. Maier University of Tübingen
Konrad Sandhoff
Konrad Sandhoff University of Bonn
Gerd Ritter
Gerd Ritter Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Thomas Hartung
Thomas Hartung Johns Hopkins University
José M. Lassaletta
José M. Lassaletta Spanish National Research Council
Vincenzo Cerundolo
Vincenzo Cerundolo University of Oxford
Werner Reutter
Werner Reutter Freie Universität Berlin
Ulrich Zähringer
Ulrich Zähringer Research Center Borstel - Leibniz-Center for Medicine and Biosciences
Motomu Tanaka
Motomu Tanaka Heidelberg University

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