Kendall N. Houk

Kendall N. Houk

University of California, Los Angeles

H-index: 162

North America-United States

About Kendall N. Houk

Kendall N. Houk, With an exceptional h-index of 162 and a recent h-index of 83 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at University of California, Los Angeles, specializes in the field of computational chemistry, organic chemistry.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1, 3-dienes

Accessing Medium-Sized Rings via Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates

Biocatalytic strategy for the construction of sp3-rich polycyclic compounds from directed evolution and computational modelling

Characterizing Hydroxyl Radical Formation from the Light-Driven Fe (II)–Peracetic Acid Reaction, a Key Process for Aerosol-Cloud Chemistry

How cycloalkane fusion enhances the cycloaddition reactivity of dibenzocyclooctynes

Review and Theoretical Analysis of Fluorinated Radicals in Direct CAr–H Functionalization of (Hetero) arenes

Double Strain-Release [2π+ 2σ]-Photocycloaddition

Carbene-Assisted Arene Ring-Opening

Kendall N. Houk Information

University

Position

Saul Winstein Chair in Organic Chemistry

Citations(all)

122474

Citations(since 2020)

37785

Cited By

101534

hIndex(all)

162

hIndex(since 2020)

83

i10Index(all)

1376

i10Index(since 2020)

809

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University Profile Page

University of California, Los Angeles

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Kendall N. Houk Skills & Research Interests

computational chemistry

organic chemistry

Top articles of Kendall N. Houk

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1, 3-dienes

Nature Catalysis

Quan-Hao Wu

Meng Duan

Yu Chen

Peiyuan Yu

Yong-Bin Wang

...

2024/1/17

Accessing Medium-Sized Rings via Vinyl Carbocation Intermediates

Organic Letters

Zhenqi Zhao

Stasik Popov

Woojin Lee

Jessica E Burch

David A Delgadillo

...

2024/1/31

Biocatalytic strategy for the construction of sp3-rich polycyclic compounds from directed evolution and computational modelling

Nature Chemistry

David A Vargas

Xinkun Ren

Arkajyoti Sengupta

Ledong Zhu

Satyajit Roy

...

2024/2/13

Characterizing Hydroxyl Radical Formation from the Light-Driven Fe (II)–Peracetic Acid Reaction, a Key Process for Aerosol-Cloud Chemistry

Environmental Science & Technology

Steven J Campbell

Chris La

Qingyang Zhou

Jason Le

Jennyfer Galvez-Reyes

...

2024/4/15

How cycloalkane fusion enhances the cycloaddition reactivity of dibenzocyclooctynes

Chemical Science

Dennis Svatunek

Anton Murnauer

Zhuoting Tan

Kendall N Houk

Kathrin Lang

2024

Review and Theoretical Analysis of Fluorinated Radicals in Direct CAr–H Functionalization of (Hetero) arenes

Anthony J Fernandes

Rahul Giri

Kendall N Houk

Dmitry Katayev

2024/1/28

Double Strain-Release [2π+ 2σ]-Photocycloaddition

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Subhabrata Dutta

Yi-Lin Lu

Johannes E Erchinger

Huiling Shao

Emanuel Studer

...

2024/2/13

Carbene-Assisted Arene Ring-Opening

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Zengrui Cheng

Haoran Xu

Zhibin Hu

Minghui Zhu

KN Houk

...

2024/5/1

Cyclic Diaryl λ3‐Bromanes as a Precursor for Regiodivergent Alkynylation Reactions

Angewandte Chemie

Maxime De Abreu

Torben Rogge

Matteo Lanzi

Tomas J Saiegh

Kendall N Houk

...

2024/4/15

Stereoselective construction of β-, γ-and δ-lactam rings via enzymatic C–H amidation

Nature Catalysis

Satyajit Roy

David A Vargas

Pengchen Ma

Arkajyoti Sengupta

Ledong Zhu

...

2024/1

Click Organocatalysis: Acceleration of Azide–Alkyne Cycloadditions with Mutually Orthogonal Click Reactions

The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Brian J Levandowski

Brian J Graham

KN Houk

Ronald T Raines

2024/1/26

Characterization and heterologous reconstitution of Taxus biosynthetic enzymes leading to baccatin III

Science

Bin Jiang

Lei Gao

Haijun Wang

Yaping Sun

Xiaolin Zhang

...

2024/2/9

Bicyclo [1.1. 0] butyl Radical Cations: Synthesis and Application to [2π+ 2σ] Cycloaddition Reactions

Jasper Tyler

Felix Schäfer

Huiling Shao

Colin Stein

Audrey Wong

...

2024/3/29

Periselectivity and ambimodal transition states in cycloadditions of tetrachloro‐o‐benzoquinone with 6,6‐dimethylfulvene

Journal of Computational Chemistry

Ruirui Su

Xue He

KN Houk

Qianqian Lu

Fang Liu

2024/4/30

Iron Heme Enzyme-Catalyzed Cyclopropanations with Diazirines as Carbene Precursors: Computational Explorations of Diazirine Activation and Cyclopropanation Mechanism

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Torben Rogge

Qingyang Zhou

Nicholas J Porter

Frances H Arnold

KN Houk

2024/1/25

Biocatalytic, stereoconvergent alkylation of (Z/E)-trisubstituted silyl enol ethers

Nature Synthesis

Runze Mao

Doris Mia Taylor

Daniel J Wackelin

Torben Rogge

Sophia J Wu

...

2024/2

Controlling Rates and Reversibilities of Elimination Reactions of Hydroxybenzylammoniums by Tuning Dearomatization Energies

Zihuan Fu

Joseph Treacy

Brock Hosier

Kendall Houk

Heather Maynard

2024/2/28

Ultrafast Au (III)-Mediated Arylation of Cysteine

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Evan A Doud

James AR Tilden

Joseph W Treacy

Elaine Y Chao

Hayden R Montgomery

...

2024/4/24

Trimethyllysine reader proteins exhibit widespread charge-agnostic binding via different mechanisms to cationic and neutral ligands

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Christopher R Travis

Kelsey M Kean

Katherine I Albanese

Hanne C Henriksen

Joseph W Treacy

...

2024/1/24

Modular synthesis of 1, 2-azaborines via ring-opening BN-isostere benzannulation

Nature Chemistry

Hairong Lyu

Thomas H Tugwell

Zhijie Chen

Garrett A Kukier

Aneta Turlik

...

2024/2

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