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Top 40 Countdown



2005, Issue 1 Cover image
In 2005 ChemComm celebrates 40 years of successful publication. We have taken a look back through the decades to uncover the top 40 most cited articles published in ChemComm since its inception in 1965, with some fascinating results.

Topping the chart with more than 1500 cites is Jack Baldwin's 1976 paper "Rules for ring closure". Baldwin scores a second hit at number 18 with his follow-on communication "5-Endo-trigonal reactions: a disfavoured ring closure". 

R. Donald Sedgwick and co-workers take the number 2 spot with their 1981 breakthrough in Mass Spectrometry entitled "Fast atom bombardment of solids (F.A.B.): a new ion source for mass spectrometry".

Mathias Brust et al. appear at number 3 with "Synthesis of thiol-derivatised gold nanoparticles in a two-phase Liquid-Liquid system", published in 1994. This paper was recently listed in the Chemical Abstracts Service top ten most cited articles in materials science. This group makes a second appearance at number 37 with further work on functionalised gold nanoparticles.

Roger Sheldon's feature article "Catalytic reactions in ionic liquids" makes it in at number 11 with an impressive 400 cites since its publication just four years ago.

All top 40 articles are listed below and are now free to access for a limited period.

 

1-10

Rules for ring closure
Jack E. Baldwin, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1976, 734
DOI: 10.1039/C39760000734

Fast atom bombardment of solids (F.A.B.): a new ion source for mass spectrometry
Michael Barber, Robert S. Bordoli, R. Donald Sedgwick and Andrew N. Tyler, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1981, 325
DOI: 10.1039/C39810000325

Synthesis of thiol-derivatised gold nanoparticles in a two-phase Liquid–Liquid system
Mathias Brust, Merryl Walker, Donald Bethell, David J. Schiffrin and Robin Whyman, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 801
DOI: 10.1039/C39940000801

Electrochemical polymerization of pyrrole
A. F. Diaz, K. Keiji Kanazawa and Gian Piero Gardini, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1979, 635
DOI: 10.1039/C39790000635

Synthesis of electrically conducting organic polymers: halogen derivatives of polyacetylene, (CH)x
Hideki Shirakawa, Edwin J. Louis, Alan G. MacDiarmid, Chwan K. Chiang and Alan J. Heeger, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1977, 578
DOI: 10.1039/C39770000578

Isolation, separation and characterisation of the fullerenes C60 and C70: the third form of carbon
Roger Taylor, Jonathan P. Hare, Ala'a K. Abdul-Sada and Harold W. Kroto, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1423
DOI: 10.1039/C39900001423

Synthesis of highly ordered mesoporous materials from a layered polysilicate
S. Inagaki, Y. Fukushima and K. Kuroda, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1993, 680
DOI: 10.1039/C39930000680

Preparation and use of tetra-n-butylammonium per-ruthenate (TBAP reagent) and tetra-n-propylammonium per-ruthenate (TPAP reagent) as new catalytic oxidants for alcohols
William P. Griffith, Steven V. Ley, Gwynne P. Whitcombe and Andrew D. White, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1987, 1625
DOI: 10.1039/C39870001625

Soluble conducting polythiophenes
Masa-aki Sato, Susumu Tanaka and Kyoji Kaeriyama, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1986, 873
DOI: 10.1039/C39860000873

Synthesis of an ultralarge pore titanium silicate isomorphous to MCM-41 and its application as a catalyst for selective oxidation of hydrocarbons
A. Corma, M. T. Navarro and J. Pérez Pariente, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 147
DOI: 10.1039/C39940000147

11-20

Catalytic reactions in ionic liquids
Roger Sheldon, Chem. Commun., 2001, 2399
DOI: 10.1039/b107270f

Organic metals: polypyrrole, a stable synthetic metallic polymer
K. Keiji Kanazawa, A. F. Diaz, Roy H. Geiss, William D. Gill, James F. Kwak, J. Anthony Logan, John F. Rabolt and G. Bryan Street, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1979, 854
DOI: 10.1039/C39790000854

Precise carbon-13 n.m.r. multiplicity determination
Christian Le Cocq and Jean-Yves Lallemand, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1981, 150
DOI: 10.1039/C39810000150

A polymer electrode with variable conductivity: polypyrrole
Art F. Diaz and Juan I. Castillo, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1980, 397
DOI: 10.1039/C39800000397

Structure elucidation of the fumonisins, mycotoxins from Fusarium moniliforme
S. Catherine Bezuidenhout, Wentzel C. A. Gelderblom, Charles P. Gorst-Allman, R. Marthinus Horak, Walter F. O. Marasas, Gerhard Spiteller and Robert Vleggaar, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1988, 743
DOI: 10.1039/C39880000743

Experimental chemical shift correlation maps in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Ray Freeman and Gareth A. Morris, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1978, 684
DOI: 10.1039/C39780000684

Sterically protected hemins with electronegative substituents: efficient catalysts for hydroxylation and epoxidation
Patricia S. Traylor, David Dolphin and Teddy G. Traylor, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1984, 279
DOI: 10.1039/C39840000279

5-Endo-trigonal reactions: a disfavoured ring closure
Jack E. Baldwin, John Cutting, William Dupont, Lawrence Kruse, Lee Silberman and Richard C. Thomas, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1976, 736
DOI: 10.1039/C39760000736

Structure of tris(2,2-bipyridyl)ruthenium(II) hexafluorophosphate, [Ru(bipy)3][PF6]2; X-ray crystallographic determination
D. Paul Rillema and Daniel S. Jones, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1979, 849
DOI: 10.1039/C39790000849

A novel hydrogel matrix on gold surfaces in surface plasmon resonance sensors for fast and efficient covalent immobilization of ligands
Stefan Löfås and Bo Johnsson, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1526
DOI: 10.1039/C39900001526

21-30

An unusually stable thionitrite from N-acetyl-D,L-penicillamine; X-ray crystal and molecular structure of 2-(acetylamino)-2-carboxy-1,1-dimethylethyl thionitrite
Lamar Field, Robert V. Dilts, Ramanathan Ravichandran, P. Galen Lenhert and Gary E. Carnahan, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1978, 249
DOI: 10.1039/C39780000249

Room temperature ionic liquids as novel media for clean liquid–liquid extraction
Jonathan G. Huddleston and Robin D. Rogers, Chem. Commun., 1998, 1765
DOI: 10.1039/a803999b

Synthesis of solid superacid catalyst with acid strength of H0–16.04
Makoto Hino and Kazushi Arata, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1980, 851
DOI: 10.1039/C39800000851

Unrolling the hydrogen bond properties of C–H···O interactions
Thomas Steiner, Chem. Commun., 1997, 727
DOI: 10.1039/a603049a

-Peptides: a surprise at every turn
Dieter Seebach and Jennifer L. Matthews, Chem. Commun., 1997, 2015
DOI: 10.1039/a704933a

Interwoven two- and three-dimensional coordination polymers through self-assembly of CuI cations with linear bidentate ligands
Leonard R. MacGillivray, S. Subramanian and Michael J. Zaworotko, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 1325
DOI: 10.1039/C39940001325

Novel olefin polymerization catalysts based on iron and cobalt
George J. P. Britovsek, Vernon C. Gibson, Stuart J. McTavish, Gregory A. Solan, Andrew J. P. White, David J. Williams, Brian S. Kimberley and Peter J. Maddox, Chem. Commun., 1998, 849
DOI: 10.1039/a801933i

Crystal and molecular structure of cyclo{quater[(5-t-butyl-2-hydroxy-1,3-phenylene)methylene]} toluene (1 : 1) clathrate
Giovanni Dario Andreetti, Rocco Ungaro and Andrea Pochini, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1979, 1005
DOI: 10.1039/C39790001005

Molecular paneling via coordination
Makoto Fujita, Kazuhiko Umemoto, Michito Yoshizawa, Norifumi Fujita, Takahiro Kusukawa and Kumar Biradha, Chem. Commun., 2001, 509
DOI: 10.1039/b008684n

Synthesis of mesoporous vanadium silicate molecular sieves
Kondam Madhusudan Reddy, Igor Moudrakovski and Abdelhamid Sayari, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 1059
DOI: 10.1039/C39940001059

31-40

Some guidelines for radical reactions
Athelstan L. J. Beckwith, Christopher J. Easton and Algirdas K. Serelis, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1980, 482
DOI: 10.1039/C39800000482

Palladium-catalysed vinylation of organic halides under solid–liquid phase transfer conditions
Tuyet Jeffery, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1984, 1287
DOI: 10.1039/C39840001287

Molecular recognition directed self-assembly of ordered supramolecular strands by cocrystallization of complementary molecular components
Jean-Marie Lehn, Mark Mascal, André Decian and Jean Fischer, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 479
DOI: 10.1039/C39900000479

The structural significance of the number of skeletal bonding electron-pairs in carboranes, the higher boranes and borane anions, and various transition-metal carbonyl cluster compounds
K. Wade, J. Chem. Soc. D, 1971, 792
DOI: 10.1039/C29710000792

Interpenetrating diamondoid frameworks of silver(I) cations linked by N,N-bidentate molecular rods
Lucia Carlucci, Gianfranco Ciani, Davide M. Proserpio and Angelo Sironi, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 2755
DOI: 10.1039/C39940002755

Novel method for the investigation of the electrochemistry of metalloproteins: cytochrome c
Mark J. Eddowes and H. Allen O. Hill, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1977, 771b
DOI: 10.1039/C3977000771b

Synthesis and reactions of functionalised gold nanoparticles
M. Brust, J. Fink, D. Bethell, D. J. Schiffrin and C. Kiely, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1995, 1655
DOI: 10.1039/C39950001655

Highly conducting, soluble, and environmentally-stable poly(3-alkylthiophenes)
Kwan-Yue Jen, G. G. Miller and Ronald L. Elsenbaumer, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1986, 1346
DOI: 10.1039/C39860001346

C60 embedded in -cyclodextrin: a water-soluble fullerene
Thomas Andersson, Karolina Nilsson, Mikael Sundahl, Gunnar Westman and Olof Wennerström, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1992, 604
DOI: 10.1039/C39920000604

A new convergent approach to monodisperse dendritic macromolecules
Craig Hawker and Jean M. J. Fréchet, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1990, 1010
DOI: 10.1039/C39900001010