JACS Year in Review, 1996 Baran Lab Group Meeting Marcus Farmer 11/16/2013 Notable events in 1996 First year of the Chicago Bull’s second three peat (96, 97, 98) The Yankees win the world series and go on to win 3 of the next 4 Beast Wars airs for the first time Prizes in Chemistry (1996) Nobel Prize Robert F. Curl Jr., Sir Harold W. Kroto and Richard E. Smalley "for their discovery of fullerenes“ Wolf Prize 95/96: Gilbert Stork and Samuel Danishefsky Wolf Prize 96/97: No Award Priestley Medal: Ernest L. Eliel Statistics: 13118 pages 2269 items published (including 1 retraction) ~60 articles on total syntheses 5 articles with 0 citations Publication count: Bergman (9) Corey (9) Trost (9) Buchwald (8) Boger (7) Grubbs (7) Paquette (7) Most highly cited articles: Development and Testing of the OPLS All Atom Force Field on Conformational Energetics and Properties of Organic Liquids Jorgensen, WL; Maxwell, DS; TiradoRives, J. JACS, 1996, 118, 11225 3,430 Citations Nucleus-Independant Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe Schleyer, PV; Maerker, C; Dransfeld, A; et al. JACS, 1996, 118, 6317 2,492 Citations Synthesis and Applications of RuCl2(=CHR‘)(PR3)2: The Influence of the Alkylidine Moiety on Metathesis Activity Schwab, P; Grubbs, RH; Ziller, JW. JACS, 1996, 118, 100 1,637 Citations Most highly cited total synthesis articles: Total Synthesis of Baccatin III and Taxol Danishefsky, SJ; Masters, JJ; Young, WB; et al. JACS, 1996, 118, 2843 287 Citations Enantioselective Total Synthesis of Ecteinascidin 743 Corey, EJ; Gin, DY; Kania, RS. JACS, 1996, 118, 9202 208 Citations