| Ylides by the desilylation of. alpha.-silyl onium salts E Vedejs, FG West Chemical Reviews 86 (5), 941-955, 1986 | 208 | 1986 |
| Recent advances in the Stevens rearrangement of ammonium ylides. Application to the synthesis of alkaloid natural products JA Vanecko, H Wan, FG West Tetrahedron 62 (6), 1043-1062, 2006 | 185 | 2006 |
| New efficient iterative approaches to polycyclic ethers FP Marmsäter, FG West Chemistry–A European Journal 8 (19), 4346-4353, 2002 | 144 | 2002 |
| Advances in the Nazarov cyclization. W Nakanishi, FG West Current Opinion in Drug Discovery & Development 12 (6), 732-751, 2009 | 139 | 2009 |
| The total synthesis of a natural cardenolide:(+)-digitoxigenin G Stork, F West, HY Lee, RCA Isaacs, S Manabe Journal of the American Chemical Society 118 (43), 10660-10661, 1996 | 121 | 1996 |
| Comprehensive in vitro characterization of PD-L1 small molecule inhibitors A Ganesan, M Ahmed, I Okoye, E Arutyunova, D Babu, WL Turnbull, ... Scientific reports 9 (1), 12392, 2019 | 115 | 2019 |
| Interrupting the Nazarov reaction: domino and cascade processes utilizing cyclopentenyl cations TN Grant, CJ Rieder, FG West Chemical communications, 5676-5688, 2009 | 114 | 2009 |
| Profound catalyst effects in the generation and reactivity of carbenoid-derived cyclic ylides FG West, BN Naidu, RW Tester The Journal of Organic Chemistry 59 (23), 6892-6894, 1994 | 112 | 1994 |
| Nonstabilized imidate ylides by the desilylation method: a route to the pyrrolizidine alkaloids retronecine and indicine E Vedejs, S Larsen, FG West The Journal of Organic Chemistry 50 (12), 2170-2174, 1985 | 107 | 1985 |
| Thioimidate methylides by the desilylation method: an improved synthesis of pyrrolines and pyrroles E Vedejs, FG West The Journal of Organic Chemistry 48 (24), 4773-4774, 1983 | 105 | 1983 |
| Formal intermolecular 4+ 4 approach to cyclooctanoids: 4+ 3 capture of the Nazarov oxyallyl intermediate with simple 1, 3-dienes Y Wang, BD Schill, AM Arif, FG West Organic Letters 5 (15), 2747-2750, 2003 | 103 | 2003 |
| A novel cycloisomerization of tetraenones: 4+ 3 trapping of the Nazarov oxyallyl intermediate Y Wang, AM Arif, FG West Journal of the American Chemical Society 121 (4), 876-877, 1999 | 103 | 1999 |
| Synthesis and characterization of fluorescent cobalamin (CobalaFluor) derivatives for imaging CC Smeltzer, MJ Cannon, PR Pinson, JD Munger, FG West, CB Grissom Organic letters 3 (6), 799-801, 2001 | 102 | 2001 |
| Chirality transfer from carbon to nitrogen to carbon via cyclic ammonium ylides KW Glaeske, FG West Organic Letters 1 (1), 31-34, 1999 | 101 | 1999 |
| The Stevens [1, 2]-shift of oxonium ylides: a route to substituted tetrahydrofuranones TH Eberlein, FG West, RW Tester The Journal of Organic Chemistry 57 (12), 3479-3482, 1992 | 100 | 1992 |
| New route to substituted piperidines via the Stevens [1, 2]-shift of ammonium ylides FG West, BN Naidu Journal of the American Chemical Society 115 (3), 1177-1178, 1993 | 96 | 1993 |
| Piperidines via Ammonium Ylide [1, 2]-Shifts: A Concise, Enantioselective Route to (-)-Epilupinine from Proline Ester FG West, BN Naidu Journal of the American Chemical Society 116 (18), 8420-8421, 1994 | 95 | 1994 |
| Preparation and synthetic applications of azetidines TM Bott, FG West Heterocycles: an international journal for reviews and communications in …, 2012 | 92 | 2012 |
| A new approach to the nazarov reaction via sequential electrocyclic ring opening and ring closure TN Grant, FG West Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (29), 9348-9349, 2006 | 91 | 2006 |
| Intermolecular trapping of the Nazarov intermediate: domino electrocyclization/[3+ 2] cycloadditions with allylsilanes S Giese, L Kastrup, D Stiens, FG West Angewandte Chemie International Edition 39 (11), 1970-1973, 2000 | 91 | 2000 |
