CAS Recognizes Most Requested Article and Journal from 2003

30-Mar-2004

A paper published in the Journal of organic chemistry in 2002 by four researchers from Yale was the most requested scientific article of 2003, according to the Science Spotlight free Web service of Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).

With the click of a button, users of CAS electronic services enter a Real-Time Document Request(TM) (RDR(TM)) for the electronic full text of a desired article or patent. Since 2001, CAS has been tallying RDRs to determine the journal articles and journals that are most sought by scientists in connection with their research. Also recognized by CAS Science Spotlight was The Journal of the American Chemical Society for receiving the greatest number of RDRs among all serial publications during the same period.

The authors, journal editors and publishers with the highest 2003 RDR scores were recognized during a CAS Science Spotlight ceremony held March 29 during the national meeting of the American Chemical Society in Anaheim, California.

Those honored for the highest RDR ratings were as follows:

- Dr. John F. Hartwig, Yale University; co-authors (with their current affiliations) Dr. Quinetta D. Shelby, Chicago State University; Noriyasu Kataoka, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. and Dr. James P. Stambuli, Stanford University; for their article, "Air Stable, Sterically Hindered Ferrocenyl Dialkylphosphines for Palladium-Catalyzed C-C, C-N, and C-O Bond-Forming Cross-Couplings," Journal of Organic Chemistry (2002), 67(16)

- Dr. C. Dale Poulter, editor of Journal of Organic Chemistry

- Robert D. Bovenschulte, President, ACS Publications Division, representing the publisher of the journal receiving the most RDRs.

The honored article garnered the greatest number of RDRs among the more than 20,000 received daily through CAS' information services in 2003. It discusses a highly active, air-stable palladium catalyst for cross-coupling reactions, useful in a wide variety of synthetic organic chemistry transformations, especially in "green" (environmentally friendly) chemistry applications. Researchers requested the article's full text through any of several CAS services, including SciFinder®, SciFinder® Scholar and STN® information services.

Also honored at the event was the Journal of the American Chemical Society, recognized as the journal with the highest RDR count during 2003. Dr. Peter Stang, editor, accepted the CAS Science Spotlight sculpture on behalf of the journal.

"CAS Science Spotlight is the only service that evaluates researchers' interest in articles by tallying real-time document requests - RDRs - for the full-text documents," said CAS President Robert Massie. "Scientists around the world rely on SciFinder, SciFinder Scholar and STN as the central source of chemistry and related research information. CAS tabulated more than 7 million RDRs submitted by users of its electronic services in 2003, and we anticipate more than 10 million for 2004. The resulting ratings are freely available on the CAS Science Spotlight Web site to give the sci-tech community a new perspective on research activity that has attracted the attention of fellow scientists."

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