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Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal

Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
51
Citations
7585
World Ranking
14154
National Ranking
586

Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal 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 Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 197 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal 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 Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal is affiliated with Chimie ParisTech in France and has made contributions primarily in the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their work spans several specialized subfields, including organic chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, molecular biology, and biomedical engineering.

The scientist's research focuses on a range of topics, which include:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Chemical Synthesis and Analysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Catalytic Alkyne Reactions

Publishing extensively, they have contributed to several journals with notable frequency. The most common venues for their work are:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organic Letters
  • Synthesis
  • Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Tetrahedron

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Recent Progress in Metal-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions," 2021, Synthesis
  • "Recent Progress and Applications of Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines through Dynamic Kinetic Resolution," 2020, Synthesis
  • "Rhodium-Catalyzed Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation/Dynamic Kinetic Resolution of 3-Benzylidene-Chromanones," 2021, Organic Letters
  • "Recent Developments in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Enamides," 2020, Synthesis
  • "Stereodivergent synthesis of chiral succinimides via Rh-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation," 2022, Nature Communications

The scientist frequently collaborates with others in their field. Primary co-authors include:

  • Phannarath Phansavath
  • Gérard Guillamot
  • Ricardo Molina Betancourt
  • Mansour Haddad

Best Publications

  • Difluorphos, an Electron‐Poor Diphosphane: A Good Match Between Electronic and Steric Features

    Séverine Jeulin;Sébastien Duprat de Paule;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Jean-Pierre Genêt

  • Enantioselective hydrogenation reactions with a full set of preformed and prepared in situ chiral diphosphine-ruthenium (II) catalysts.

    J.P. Genêt;C. Pinel;V. Ratovelomanana-Vidal;S. Mallart

  • Recent Developments in Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines through Dynamic Kinetic Resolution

    Pierre-Georges Echeverria;Tahar Ayad;Phannarath Phansavath;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal

  • Enantioselective Hydrogenation of β‐Keto Esters using Chiral Diphosphine‐Ruthenium Complexes: Optimization for Academic and Industrial Purposes and Synthetic Applications

    V. Ratovelomanana‐Vidal;C. Girard;R. Touati;J. P. Tranchier

  • Electron-deficient diphosphines: the impact of DIFLUORPHOS in asymmetric catalysis.

    Jean-Pierre Genet;Tahar Ayad;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal

  • Unprecedented halide dependence on catalytic asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-aryl- and 2-alkyl-substituted quinolinium salts by using Ir complexes with difluorphos and halide ligands.

    Hiroshi Tadaoka;Damien Cartigny;Takuto Nagano;Tushar Gosavi

  • Chiral biphenyl diphosphines for asymmetric catalysis: stereoelectronic design and industrial perspectives.

    Séverine Jeulin;Sébastien Duprat de Paule;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Jean-Pierre Genêt

  • Novel, general synthesis of the chiral catalysts diphosphine-ruthenium (II) diallyl complexes and a new practical in situ preparation of chiral ruthenium (II) catalysts

    J.P. Genêt;C. Pinel;V. Ratovelomanana-Vidal;S. Mallart

  • Guidelines to design organic electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries: environmental impact, physicochemical and electrochemical properties

    Benjamin Flamme;Gonzalo Rodriguez Garcia;Gonzalo Rodriguez Garcia;Marcel Weil;Mansour Haddad

  • Oxidative addition of RCO2H and HX to chiral diphosphine complexes of iridium(I) : Convenient synthesis of mononuclear halo-carboxylate iridium(III) complexes and cationic dinuclear triply halogen-bridged iridium(III) complexes and their catalytic performance in asymmetric hydrogenation of cyclic imines and 2-phenylquinoline

    Tsuneaki Yamagata;Hiroshi Tadaoka;Mitsuhiro Nagata;Tsukasa Hirao

  • Synthesis and Molecular Modeling Studies of SYNPHOS®, a New, Efficient Diphosphane Ligand For Ruthenium‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation

    Sébastien Duprat de Paule;Séverine Jeulin;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Jean-Pierre Genêt

  • SYNPHOS®, a new chiral diphosphine ligand: synthesis, molecular modeling and application in asymmetric hydrogenation

    Sébastien Duprat de Paule;Séverine Jeulin;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Jean-Pierre Genêt

  • Iridium‐Difluorphos‐Catalyzed Asymmetric Hydrogenation of 2‐Alkyl‐ and 2‐Aryl‐Substituted Quinoxalines: A General and Efficient Route into Tetrahydroquinoxalines

    Damien Cartigny;Takuto Nagano;Tahar Ayad;Jean‐Pierre Genêt

  • Palladium(0)-Catalyzed Dearomative [3 + 2] Cycloaddition of 3-Nitroindoles with Vinylcyclopropanes: An Entry to Stereodefined 2,3-Fused Cyclopentannulated Indoline Derivatives

    Maxime Laugeois;Johanne Ling;Charlène Férard;Véronique Michelet

  • A practical synthetic approach to chiral α-aryl substituted ethylphosphonates

    Natalia S Goulioukina;Tat'yana M Dolgina;Irina P Beletskaya;Jean-Christophe Henry

  • Enantioselective hydrogenation of β-keto sulfones with chiral Ru(II)-catalysts: synthesis of enantiomerically pure butenolides and γ-butyrolactones

    P Bertus;P Phansavath;V Ratovelomanana-Vidal;J.-P Genêt

  • Ruthenium-catalyzed asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of 1-aryl-substituted dihydroisoquinolines: access to valuable chiral 1-aryl-tetrahydroisoquinoline scaffolds.

    Zi Wu;Marc Perez;Michelangelo Scalone;Tahar Ayad

  • Recent Progress in Metal-Catalyzed [2+2+2] Cycloaddition Reactions

    Pascal Matton;Steve Huvelle;Mansour Haddad;Phannarath Phansavath

  • Asymmetric preparation of polysubstituted cyclopentanes by synergistic Pd(0)/amine catalyzed formal [3+2] cycloadditions of vinyl cyclopropanes with enals.

    Maxime Laugeois;Sudipta Ponra;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Véronique Michelet

  • CeCl3·7H2O: An Effective Additive in Ru-Catalyzed Enantioselective Hydrogenation of Aromatic α-Ketoesters

    Qinghua Meng;Yanhui Sun;Virginie Ratovelomanana-Vidal;Jean Pierre Genêt

  • Enantioselective synthesis of 1-aryl-tetrahydroisoquinolines through iridium catalyzed asymmetric hydrogenation.

    Farouk Berhal;Zi Wu;Zhaoguo Zhang;Tahar Ayad

  • General asymmetric hydrogenation of 2-alkyl- and 2-aryl-substituted quinoxaline derivatives catalyzed by iridium-difluorphos: Unusual halide effect and synthetic application

    Damien Cartigny;Damien Cartigny;Farouk Berhal;Farouk Berhal;Takuto Nagano;Takuto Nagano;Phannarath Phansavath;Phannarath Phansavath

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Genet
Jean-Pierre Genet Chimie ParisTech
Véronique Michelet
Véronique Michelet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Janine Cossy
Janine Cossy ESPCI Paris
Kazushi Mashima
Kazushi Mashima Osaka University
Takashi Ohshima
Takashi Ohshima Kyushu University
Xiaoming Tao
Xiaoming Tao Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Irina P. Beletskaya
Irina P. Beletskaya Lomonosov Moscow State University
Catherine Pinel
Catherine Pinel Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Angela Marinetti
Angela Marinetti Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Theodore Cohen
Theodore Cohen University of Pittsburgh

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