| Beyond the Ugi reaction: less conventional interactions between isocyanides and iminium species L El Kaim, L Grimaud Tetrahedron 65 (11), 2153-2171, 2009 | 300 | 2009 |
| Phenol Ugi-smiles systems: Strategies for the multicomponent N-arylation of primary amines with isocyanides, aldehydes, and phenols L El Kaïm, L Grimaud, J Oble Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 44 (48), 7961-7963, 2005 | 265 | 2005 |
| Challenging 50 years of established views on Ugi reaction: a theoretical approach N Chéron, R Ramozzi, LE Kaïm, L Grimaud, P Fleurat-Lessard The Journal of organic chemistry 77 (3), 1361-1366, 2012 | 176 | 2012 |
| Smiles Rearrangements in Ugi- and Passerini-Type Couplings: New Multicomponent Access to O- and N-Arylamides L El Kaim, M Gizolme, L Grimaud, J Oble The Journal of Organic Chemistry 72 (11), 4169-4180, 2007 | 154 | 2007 |
| Direct access to heterocyclic scaffolds by new multicomponent Ugi− Smiles couplings L El Kaim, M Gizolme, L Grimaud, J Oble Organic Letters 8 (18), 4019-4021, 2006 | 114 | 2006 |
| O-Arylative Passerini Reactions L El Kaim, M Gizolme, L Grimaud Organic letters 8 (22), 5021-5023, 2006 | 107 | 2006 |
| A new and efficient synthesis of trifluoromethyl ketones from carboxylic acids. Part I J Boivin, L El Kaim, SZ Zard Tetrahedron 51 (9), 2573-2584, 1995 | 103 | 1995 |
| New MCR− Heck− isomerization cascade toward indoles L El Kaim, M Gizzi, L Grimaud Organic Letters 10 (16), 3417-3419, 2008 | 87 | 2008 |
| Selective Domino Ring-Closing Metathesis− Cross-Metathesis Reactions between Enynes and Electron-Deficient Alkenes F Royer, C Vilain, L Elkaïm, L Grimaud Organic Letters 5 (11), 2007-2009, 2003 | 87 | 2003 |
| Three-component metal-free arylation of isocyanides UMV Basavanag, AØ Dos Santos, L El Kaim, R Gµmez-MontaÇo, ... Communications 1, 1, 2013 | 80 | 2013 |
| Three-component strategy toward 5-membered heterocycles from isocyanide dibromides. LE Kaim, L Grimaud, P Patil Organic letters 13 (5), 1261-1263, 2011 | 80 | 2011 |
| Ugi–Smiles couplings: new entries to N-aryl carboxamide derivatives L El Kaïm, L Grimaud Molecular diversity 14, 855-867, 2010 | 72 | 2010 |
| The Ugi–Smiles and Passerini–Smiles Couplings: A Story About Phenols in Isocyanide‐Based Multicomponent Reactions L El Kaim, L Grimaud European Journal of Organic Chemistry 2014 (35), 7749-7762, 2014 | 70 | 2014 |
| Isocyanide-based two-step three-component keteneimine formation D Coffinier, L El Kaim, L Grimaud Organic Letters 11 (8), 1825-1827, 2009 | 70 | 2009 |
| An expedient access to trifluoromethyl ketones from carboxylic acids J Boivin, L El Kaim, SZ Zard Tetrahedron letters 33 (10), 1285-1288, 1992 | 70 | 1992 |
| An unprecedented radical reaction of benzotriazole derivatives. A new efficient method for the generation of iminyl radicals L El Kaim, C Meyer The Journal of Organic Chemistry 61 (5), 1556-1557, 1996 | 67 | 1996 |
| Ugi/xanthate cyclizations as a radical route to lactam scaffolds L El Kaïm, L Grimaud, LD Miranda, E Vieu Tetrahedron letters 47 (47), 8259-8261, 2006 | 61 | 2006 |
| New benzotriazole and benzimidazole scaffolds from Ugi− Smiles couplings of isocyanides D Coffinier, L El Kaim, L Grimaud Organic Letters 11 (4), 995-997, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Straightforward four-component access to spiroindolines LE Ka, XF Goff Chemical communications 47 (28), 8145-8147, 2011 | 56 | 2011 |
| Toward Pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidine Scaffolds L El Kaim, L Grimaud, S Wagschal The Journal of Organic Chemistry 75 (15), 5343-5346, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
