Impact of the Discovery of Fluorous Biphasic Systems on Chemistry: A Statistical and Network Analysis

Abstract

Fluorous chemistry has been in the focus of research interests since the end of the last century. One of the most important contributions in the field was the article Facile Catalyst Separation Without Water: Fluorous Biphase Hydroformylation of Olefins by István T. Horváth and József Rábai. It has had great impact on academic chemical research. According to Web of Science (downloaded on 31 January 2017), in more than two decades, 2384 researchers have cited this work in 1077 scientific documents. In the present paper, we illustrate and analyze the co-authorship network determined by these citing documents. We studied the statistical features of these publications, as well as the macro- and micro-characteristics of the network using standard social network analysis techniques. We also interpret the results from a chemical point of view.