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Notable events in 1996

First year of the Chicago Bull’s second three peat (96, 97, 98)

The Yankees win the world series and go on to win 3 of the next 4

Beast Wars airs for the first time

Prizes in Chemistry (1996)

Nobel Prize

Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley

"for their discovery of fullerenes“

Wolf Prize 95/96: Gilbert Stork and Samuel Danishefsky

Wolf Prize 96/97: No Award

Priestley Medal: Ernest L. Eliel

Statistics: 13118 pages

2269 items published (including 1 retraction)

~60 articles on total syntheses

5 articles with 0 citations

Publication count:

Bergman (9)

Corey (9)

Trost (9)

Buchwald (8)

Boger (7)

Grubbs (7)

Paquette (7)

Most highly cited articles:

Development and Testing of the OPLS All Atom Force Field on Conformational Energetics and Properties of Organic Liquids

Jorgensen, WL; Maxwell, DS; TiradoRives, J.

JACS, 1996, 118, 11225

3,430 Citations

Nucleus-Independant Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe

Schleyer, PV; Maerker, C; Dransfeld, A; et al.

JACS, 1996, 118, 6317

2,492 Citations

Synthesis and Applications of RuCl2(=CHR‘)(PR3)2: The Influence of the Alkylidine Moiety on Metathesis Activity

Schwab, P; Grubbs, RH; Ziller, JW.

JACS, 1996, 118, 100

1,637 Citations

Most highly cited total synthesis articles:

Total Synthesis of Baccatin III and Taxol

Danishefsky, SJ; Masters, JJ; Young, WB; et al.

JACS, 1996, 118, 2843

287 Citations

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743

Corey, EJ; Gin, DY; Kania, RS.

JACS, 1996, 118, 9202

208 Citations

JACS Year in Review, 1996 Baran Lab Group Meeting Marcus Farmer

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Natural Products Discussed Today

What to look for

1) Interesting structures

2) Rearrangements

3) A Few Odd Reagents/Conditions

4) Enantioselective Reactions/Catalysis

5) Palladium Catalyzed Cyclizations

JACS Year in Review, 1996 Baran Lab Group Meeting Marcus Farmer

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Danishefsky, S. et al., JACS, 1996, 2825

Wood, J. L. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 10656

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Paquette, L. A. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 11990 Fukuyama, T. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 7426

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Corey, E. J., et al., JACS, 1996, 118, 9202

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Corey, E. J. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 1229

Shibasaki, M. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 7108

Keay, B. A. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 10766

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Trost, B. M. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 5146 Trost, B. M. et al, JACS, 1996, 118, 6625

Kibayashi, C. et al, JACS, 1996, 118,1054 Recommended Articles

Total Synthesis of Baccatin III and Taxol

Danishefsky, S. et al., JACS, 1996, 118, 2843

Total Synthesis of (+/-)-Taxusin

Kuwajima, I. et al., JACS, 1996, 118, 9186

Asymmetric Total Synthesis of (+)-Milbemycin D

Crimmins, M. T., et al., JACS, 1996, 118, 7513