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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2020

Catalytic Gels for a Prebiotically Relevant Asymmetric Aldol Reaction in Water: From Organocatalyst Design to Hydrogel Discovery and Back Again.

Kirsten Hawkins, Anna K Patterson, Paul A Clarke, David K Smith

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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17citing papers in PubMed
4.6field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kirsten HawkinsDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
Anna K PattersonDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
Paul A ClarkeDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.
David K SmithDepartment of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, U.K.ORCID 0000-0002-9881-2714
University of York · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper reports an investigation into organocatalytic hydrogels as prebiotically relevant systems. Gels are interesting prebiotic reaction media, combining heterogeneous and homogeneous characteristics with a structurally organized active "solid-like" catalyst separated from the surrounding environment, yet in intimate contact with the solution phase and readily accessible via "liquid-like" diffusion. A simple self-assembling glutamine amide derivative

Indexed as

AcetaldehydeBenzaldehydesCatalysisCyclohexanonesGlutamineHydrogelsSchiff BasesStereoisomerismTetrosesAcetaldehydeBenzaldehydescyclohexanoneCyclohexanoneserythroseGlutamineglycolaldehydeHydrogelsSchiff BasesTetroses

Identifiers

PMID32023044
PMCPMC7146862
OpenAlexW3004682942

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