| Drying of organic solvents: quantitative evaluation of the efficiency of several desiccants DBG Williams, M Lawton The Journal of organic chemistry 75 (24), 8351-8354, 2010 | 1057 | 2010 |
| Aluminium triflate: a remarkable Lewis acid catalyst for the ring opening of epoxides by alcohols DBG Williams, M Lawton Organic & biomolecular chemistry 3 (18), 3269-3272, 2005 | 138 | 2005 |
| Aluminum Triflate as a Highly Active and Efficient Nonprotic Cocatalyst in the Palladium‐Catalyzed Methoxycarbonylation Reaction DBG Williams, ML Shaw, MJ Green, CW Holzapfel Angewandte Chemie International Edition 47 (3), 560-563, 2008 | 118 | 2008 |
| A facile and regioselective synthesis of trans-heterofunctionalized porphyrazine derivatives TP Forsyth, DBG Williams, AG Montalban, CL Stern, AGM Barrett, ... The Journal of Organic Chemistry 63 (2), 331-336, 1998 | 114 | 1998 |
| Aluminium triflate: an efficient recyclable Lewis acid catalyst for the aminolysis of epoxides DBG Williams, M Lawton Tetrahedron letters 47 (37), 6557-6560, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Acid‐Catalyzed Conversion of Carbohydrates into Value‐Added Small Molecules in Aqueous Media and Ionic Liquids I Bodachivskyi, U Kuzhiumparambil, DBG Williams ChemSusChem 11 (4), 642-660, 2018 | 74 | 2018 |
| Bubbles in solvent microextraction: the influence of intentionally introduced bubbles on extraction efficiency DBG Williams, MJ George, R Meyer, L Marjanovic Analytical chemistry 83 (17), 6713-6716, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| Efficient tetrahydropyranyl and tetrahydrofuranyl protection/deprotection of alcohols and phenols with Al (OTf) 3 as catalyst DBG Williams, SB Simelane, M Lawton, HH Kinfe Tetrahedron 66 (25), 4573-4576, 2010 | 60 | 2010 |
| Highly atom efficient aluminium triflate catalysed acetal formation DBG Williams, MC Lawton Green Chemistry 10 (9), 914-917, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| Palladium-catalysed substitution reactions of geminal allylic diacetates FR van Heerden, JJ Huyser, D Bradley, G Williams, CW Holzapfel Tetrahedron letters 39 (29), 5281-5284, 1998 | 58 | 1998 |
| Porphyrazinediols: Synthesis, characterization, and complexation to group IVB metallocenes N Bellec, A Garrido Montalban, DBG Williams, AS Cook, ME Anderson, ... The Journal of organic chemistry 65 (6), 1774-1779, 2000 | 54 | 2000 |
| Enantiomerically pure “winged” spirane porphyrazinoctaols AS Cook, DBG Williams, AJP White, DJ Williams, SJ Lange, AGM Barrett, ... Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English 36 (7), 760-761, 1997 | 54 | 1997 |
| One-pot SmI 2-promoted transformation of carbohydrate derivatives into cyclopentanols JJ CronjéGrové, CW Holzapfel, DBG Williams Tetrahedron letters 37 (32), 5817-5820, 1996 | 53 | 1996 |
| Stereoselective SmI2-mediated conversion of carbohydrates into cyclopentanols JJ CronjéGrové, CW Holzapfel, DBG Williams Tetrahedron letters 37 (8), 1305-1308, 1996 | 53 | 1996 |
| Star porphyrazines and related multimetallic macrocycles K Andersen, OP Anderson, T Miller, NS Mani, TF Baumann, M Anderson, ... Journal of heterocyclic chemistry 35 (5), 1013-1042, 1998 | 51 | 1998 |
| Dissolution of Cellulose: Are Ionic Liquids Innocent or Noninnocent Solvents? I Bodachivskyi, CJ Page, U Kuzhiumparambil, SFR Hinkley, IM Sims, ... ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 8 (27), 10142-10150, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| Metal triflates: On the question of Lewis versus Brønsted acidity in retinyl carbocation formation DBG Williams, M Lawton Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical 317 (1-2), 68-71, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Highly selective metathesis of 1-octene in ionic liquids DBG Williams, M Ajam, A Ranwell Organometallics 25 (12), 3088-3090, 2006 | 44 | 2006 |
| Mild water-promoted selective deacetalisatison of acyclic acetals DBG Williams, A Cullen, A Fourie, H Henning, M Lawton, W Mommsen, ... Green Chemistry 12 (11), 1919-1921, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Recyclable Pd (OAc) 2/Ligand/Al (OTf) 3 Catalyst for the Homogeneous Methoxycarbonylation and Hydrocarboxylation Reactions of Phenylacetylene DBG Williams, ML Shaw, T Hughes Organometallics 30 (18), 4968-4973, 2011 | 42 | 2011 |
