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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Chemistry D-index 54 Citations 7,112 273 World Ranking 9220 National Ranking 2670

Research.com Recognitions

Awards & Achievements

1991 - Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry or Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, Elsevier

1989 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

1989 - Arthur C. Cope Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)

1987 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his outstanding achievements in organic synthesis, notably in the stereoselective total synthesis of steroids by classical and biomimetic pressures.", Presented by President Reagan at a White House Ceremony on June 25, 1987.

1968 - William H. Nichols Medal, American Chemical Society (ACS)

1952 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Asymmetric synthesis via acetal templates. 3. On the stereochemistry observed in the cyclization of chiral acetals of polyolefinic aldehydes; formation of optically active homoallylic alcohols

Paul A. Bartlett;William S. Johnson;John D. Elliott.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1983)

229 Citations

The Proton Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Some α-Acetoxy Ketones

Kenneth L. Williamson;William S. Johnson.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1961)

210 Citations

Biomimetic polyene cyclizations.

William S. Johnson.
Angewandte Chemie (1976)

198 Citations

Acetylenic bond participation in biogenetic-like olefinic cyclizations. II. Synthesis of dl-progesterone.

William S. Johnson;Michael B. Gravestock;Brian E. McCarry.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1971)

161 Citations

The Energy Difference between the Chair and Boat Forms of Cyclohexane. The Twist Conformation of Cyclohexane

William S. Johnson;Victor J. Bauer;John L. Margrave;Margaret A. Frisch.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1961)

147 Citations

A highly stereoselective synthesis of trans-trisubstituted olefinic bonds

Stephen F. Brady;Marcia A. Ilton;William S. Johnson.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1968)

146 Citations

A Plan for Distinguishing between Some Five- and Six-membered Ring Ketones

William S. Johnson;Wesley E. Shelberg.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1945)

128 Citations

An improved reagent for the o-alkyl cleavage of methyl esters by nucleophilic displacement

Paul A. Bartlett;William S. Johnson.
Tetrahedron Letters (1970)

124 Citations

Biomimetische Cyclisierungen von Polyenen

William S. Johnson.
Angewandte Chemie (1976)

114 Citations

The First Examples of Nonenzymic, Biomimetic Polyene Pentacyclizations. Total Synthesis of the Pentacyclic Triterpenoid Sophoradiol

Paul V. Fish;William S. Johnson.
Journal of Organic Chemistry (1994)

105 Citations

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