| Strained cyclic cumulenes RP Johnson Chemical Reviews 89 (5), 1111-1124, 1989 | 304 | 1989 |
| Total Synthesis of the Quinone Epoxide Dimer (+)-Torreyanic Acid: Application of a Biomimetic Oxidation/Electrocyclization/Diels−Alder Dimerization Cascade1 C Li, RP Johnson, JA Porco Journal of the American Chemical Society 125 (17), 5095-5106, 2003 | 194 | 2003 |
| Thermolysis of 1, 3, 8-nonatriyne: Evidence for intramolecular [2+ 4] cycloaromatization to a benzyne intermediate AZ Bradley, RP Johnson Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (41), 9917-9918, 1997 | 162 | 1997 |
| Strain estimates for small-ring cyclic allenes and butatrienes KJ Daoust, SM Hernandez, KM Konrad, ID Mackie, J Winstanley, ... The Journal of Organic Chemistry 71 (15), 5708-5714, 2006 | 108 | 2006 |
| Concerted vs stepwise mechanisms in dehydro-Diels–Alder reactions A Ajaz, AZ Bradley, RC Burrell, WHH Li, KJ Daoust, LB Bovee, KJ DiRico, ... The Journal of Organic Chemistry 76 (22), 9320-9328, 2011 | 107 | 2011 |
| 1, 2, 3-cyclohexatriene and cyclohexen-3-yne: two new highly strained C6H6 isomers WC Shakespeare, RP Johnson Journal of the American Chemical Society 112 (23), 8578-8579, 1990 | 107 | 1990 |
| Vinylogous addition of siloxyfurans to benzopyryliums: a concise approach to the tetrahydroxanthone natural products T Qin, RP Johnson, JA Porco Jr Journal of the American Chemical Society 133 (6), 1714-1717, 2011 | 105 | 2011 |
| Interconversions of cyclobutyne, cyclopentyne, cyclohexyne, and their corresponding cycloalkylidenecarbenes RP Johnson, KJ Daoust Journal of the American chemical society 117 (1), 362-367, 1995 | 105 | 1995 |
| Strained Cyclic Cumulene Intermediates in Diels− Alder Cycloadditions of Enynes and Diynes RC Burrell, KJ Daoust, AZ Bradley, KJ DiRico, RP Johnson Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (17), 4218-4219, 1996 | 102 | 1996 |
| Small-ring cyclic cumulenes: theoretical studies of the structure and barrier to inversion in cyclic allenes RO Angus Jr, MW Schmidt, RP Johnson Journal of the American Chemical Society 107 (3), 532-537, 1985 | 101 | 1985 |
| Atropselective syntheses of (−) and (+) rugulotrosin A utilizing point-to-axial chirality transfer T Qin, SL Skraba-Joiner, ZG Khalil, RP Johnson, RJ Capon, JA Porco Jr Nature chemistry 7 (3), 234-240, 2015 | 91 | 2015 |
| Reduction of CO2 on a Tricarbonyl Rhenium(I) Complex: Modeling a Catalytic Cycle J Agarwal, RP Johnson, G Li The Journal of Physical Chemistry A 115 (13), 2877-2881, 2011 | 90 | 2011 |
| Total synthesis of the ubiquitin-activating enzyme inhibitor (+)-panepophenanthrin X Lei, RP Johnson, JA Porco Angewandte Chemie 115 (33), 4043-4047, 2003 | 79 | 2003 |
| Electrocyclic Ring Opening Modes of Dewar Benzenes: Ab Initio Predictions for Möbius Benzene and trans-Dewar Benzene as New C6H6 Isomers RP Johnson, KJ Daoust Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (31), 7381-7385, 1996 | 68 | 1996 |
| Biomimetic dehydrogenative Diels-Alder cycloadditions: total syntheses of brosimones A and B C Qi, H Cong, KJ Cahill, P Müller, RP Johnson, JA Porco Jr Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 52 (32), 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| Generation and study of benzylchlorocarbene from a phenanthrene precursor M Nigam, MS Platz, BM Showalter, JP Toscano, R Johnson, SC Abbot, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 120 (32), 8055-8059, 1998 | 65 | 1998 |
| Absolute kinetics of dichlorocarbene in solution JE Chateauneuf, RP Johnson, MM Kirchhoff Journal of the American Chemical Society 112 (8), 3217-3218, 1990 | 65 | 1990 |
| Phenyl Shifts in Substituted Arenes via Ipso Arenium Ions A Ajaz, EC McLaughlin, SL Skraba, R Thamatam, RP Johnson The Journal of Organic Chemistry 77 (21), 9487-9495, 2012 | 63 | 2012 |
| Small-ring cyclic cumulenes: Synthesis of a kinetically stable eight membered ring allene JD Price, RP Johnson Tetrahedron letters 27 (39), 4679-4682, 1986 | 62 | 1986 |
| Unusual organic photochemistry effected by cyano and methoxy substitution. Exploratory and mechanistic organic photochemistry HE Zimmerman, D Armesto, MG Amezua, TP Gannett, RP Johnson Journal of the American Chemical Society 101 (21), 6367-6383, 1979 | 61 | 1979 |
