The breadth of Carl Djerassi's scientific work

One measure of the diversity of Carl Djerassi's work can be gained from a simple diversity analysis of the top 50 of his most cited papers - he wrote more than 1200. The articles range from pure synthetic methodology to novel natural product isolation and structure determination to marine steroid biosynthesis to circular dichroism to artificial intelligence to mechanistic organic chemistry.

Here's a sampling based on a listing of those top 50 in Scifinder. And this of course does not even consider his very substantial second career in the arts and humanities. A towering intellect and a role model for the rest of us to emulate. 


  • By Budzikiewicz, H.; Wilson, J. M.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1963), 85(22), 3688-99.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Gunatilaka, A. A. Leslie; Gopichand, Yalamanchili; Schmitz, Francis J.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of Organic Chemistry (1981), 46(19), 3860-6.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Moffitt, William; Woodward, R. B.; Moscowitz, A.; Klyne, W.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1961), 83, 4013-18.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Djerassi, Carl; Gorman, Marvin
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1953), 75, 3704-8.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Djerassi, Carl; Engle, Robert R.
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1953), 75, 3838-40.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Sheikh, Younus M.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Tetrahedron (1974), 30(23/24), 4095-103.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Djerassi, Carl; Silva, Christopher J.
  • From Accounts of Chemical Research (1991), 24(12), 371-8.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Djerassi, Carl; Scholz, Caesar R.
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1948), 70, 417-18.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Grant, Barbara; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of Organic Chemistry (1974), 39(7), 968-70.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Lederberg, Joshua; Sutherland, Georgia L.; Buchanan, Bruce G.; Feigenbaum, Edward A.; Robertson, Alexander V.; Duffield, Alan M.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1969), 91(11), 2973-6.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Djerassi, Carl; Zderic, John A.
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1956), 78, 6390-5.  |  Language: Unavailable, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Eggert, Hanne; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Journal of the American Chemical Society (1973), 95(11), 3710-18.  |  Language: English, Database: CAPLUS
  • By Walser, A.; Djerassi, Carl
  • From Helvetica Chimica Acta (1965), 48(2), 391-404.  |  Language: German, Database: CAPLUS

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