Aaron M. Appel

8.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Aaron M. Appel is a scholar working on Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Process Chemistry and Technology and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Aaron M. Appel has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, 23 papers in Process Chemistry and Technology and 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Aaron M. Appel's work include CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (40 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (31 papers) and Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (24 papers). Aaron M. Appel is often cited by papers focused on CO2 Reduction Techniques and Catalysts (40 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (31 papers) and Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins (24 papers). Aaron M. Appel collaborates with scholars based in United States, China and Netherlands. Aaron M. Appel's co-authors include R. Morris Bullock, Daniel L. DuBois, Monte L. Helm, John C. Linehan, Eric S. Wiedner, M. Rakowski DuBois, Michael T. Mock, Matthew S. Jeletic, Michel Dupuis and Alexander J. M. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Reviews, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Aaron M. Appel

72 papers receiving 7.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Frontiers, Opportunities, and Challenges in Biochemical and Chemical Catalysis of CO₂ Fixation

2013 1.9k citations Aaron M. Appel, Daniel L. DuBois et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Aaron M. Appel United States	41	5.2k	2.4k	2.2k	1.7k	1.4k	73	7.2k
Theodor Agapie United States	46	3.2k 0.6×	3.0k 1.3×	1.3k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	1.9k 1.4×	157	7.8k
Koji Tanaka Japan	42	3.3k 0.6×	2.2k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	778 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	233	6.2k
Daniel L. DuBois United States	64	10.5k 2.0×	4.1k 1.7×	2.6k 1.2×	2.2k 1.3×	2.4k 1.7×	133	14.0k
M. Rakowski DuBois United States	37	5.5k 1.1×	2.2k 0.9×	774 0.3×	761 0.5×	1.2k 0.8×	107	7.4k
Eva M. Nichols United States	21	3.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	571 0.3×	1.1k 0.6×	2.9k 2.1×	31	5.5k
Yuichiro Himeda Japan	48	4.3k 0.8×	3.8k 1.6×	5.3k 2.4×	1.9k 1.2×	2.4k 1.8×	113	8.2k
Di‐Chang Zhong China	44	3.6k 0.7×	2.7k 1.1×	737 0.3×	539 0.3×	3.5k 2.5×	166	6.4k
Jenny Y. Yang United States	38	3.0k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	511 0.2×	753 0.4×	1.0k 0.7×	95	4.4k
Jabor Rabeah Germany	40	2.8k 0.5×	2.5k 1.0×	650 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	4.3k 3.1×	157	7.3k
Julien Bonin France	25	3.5k 0.7×	786 0.3×	1.1k 0.5×	761 0.5×	2.0k 1.5×	46	4.4k

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Nguyen, Manh‐Thuong, et al.. (2025). Electrocatalysis in CO₂-Binding Organic Liquids with an Iron Porphyrin. ACS electrochemistry.. 1(5). 689–698. 2 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, Samantha I. Johnson, Aaron M. Appel, & R. Morris Bullock. (2024). Oxidation of Ammonia Catalyzed by a Molecular Iron Complex: Translating Chemical Catalysis to Mediated Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(41). e202402635–e202402635. 9 indexed citations

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Liu, Liang, Samantha I. Johnson, Aaron M. Appel, & R. Morris Bullock. (2024). Oxidation of Ammonia Catalyzed by a Molecular Iron Complex: Translating Chemical Catalysis to Mediated Electrocatalysis. Angewandte Chemie. 136(41). 2 indexed citations

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Appel, Aaron M. & Jenny Y. Yang. (2024). Maximum and Comparative Efficiency Calculations for Integrated Capture and Electrochemical Conversion of CO ₂. ACS Energy Letters. 9(2). 768–770. 21 indexed citations

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Galan, Brandon R., William G. Dougherty, W. Scott Kassel, et al.. (2023). Operando Mechanistic Studies of CO₂ Hydrogenation by Ruthenium Complexes Using High-Pressure NMR Spectroscopy. ACS Catalysis. 13(23). 15611–15619. 3 indexed citations

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Speelman, Amy L., et al.. (2022). Role of High-Spin Species and Pendant Amines in Electrocatalytic Alcohol Oxidation by a Nickel Phosphine Complex. ACS Catalysis. 12(5). 2729–2740. 10 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shaoguang, Haixia Li, Aaron M. Appel, Michael B. Hall, & R. Morris Bullock. (2020). Controlling P–C/C–H Bond Cleavage in Nickel Bis(diphosphine) Complexes: Reactivity Scope, Mechanism, and Computations. Organometallics. 39(18). 3306–3314. 7 indexed citations

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Zhang, Shaoguang, Aaron M. Appel, & R. Morris Bullock. (2017). Reversible Heterolytic Cleavage of the H–H Bond by Molybdenum Complexes: Controlling the Dynamics of Exchange Between Proton and Hydride. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(21). 7376–7387. 49 indexed citations

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Burgess, Samantha A., Aaron M. Appel, John C. Linehan, & Eric S. Wiedner. (2017). Changing the Mechanism for CO₂ Hydrogenation Using Solvent‐Dependent Thermodynamics. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(47). 15002–15005. 43 indexed citations

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Cardenas, Allan Jay P., Bojana Ginovska, Neeraj Kumar, et al.. (2016). Controlling Proton Delivery through Catalyst Structural Dynamics. Angewandte Chemie. 128(43). 13707–13711. 11 indexed citations

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Lindley, Brian M., Aaron M. Appel, Karsten Krogh‐Jespersen, James M. Mayer, & Alexander J. M. Miller. (2016). Evaluating the Thermodynamics of Electrocatalytic N₂ Reduction in Acetonitrile. ACS Energy Letters. 1(4). 698–704. 126 indexed citations

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Wiedner, Eric S., et al.. (2015). Predicting the reactivity of hydride donors in water: thermodynamic constants for hydrogen. Dalton Transactions. 44(13). 5933–5938. 65 indexed citations

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Weiss, Charles J., et al.. (2014). Catalytic Oxidation of Alcohol via Nickel Phosphine Complexes with Pendant Amines. ACS Catalysis. 4(9). 2951–2958. 60 indexed citations

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Jeletic, Matthew S., Michael T. Mock, Aaron M. Appel, & John C. Linehan. (2013). A Cobalt-Based Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of CO₂ under Ambient Conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 135(31). 11533–11536. 342 indexed citations

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Lense, Sheri, Ming‐Hsun Ho, Shentan Chen, et al.. (2012). Incorporating Amino Acid Esters into Catalysts for Hydrogen Oxidation: Steric and Electronic Effects and the Role of Water as a Base. Organometallics. 31(19). 6719–6731. 31 indexed citations

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Kilgore, U.J., John A. S. Roberts, Douglas H. Pool, et al.. (2011). [Ni(P^Ph₂N^C6H4X₂)₂]²⁺ Complexes as Electrocatalysts for H₂ Production: Effect of Substituents, Acids, and Water on Catalytic Rates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 133(15). 5861–5872. 349 indexed citations

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Appel, Aaron M., Suh-Jane Lee, James A. Franz, Daniel L. DuBois, & M. Rakowski DuBois. (2009). Free Energy Landscapes for S−H Bonds in Cp*₂Mo₂S₄ Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 131(14). 5224–5232. 40 indexed citations

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Appel, Aaron M., Suh-Jane Lee, James A. Franz, et al.. (2008). Formation and Reactivity of a Persistent Radical in a Dinuclear Molybdenum Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 130(28). 8940–8951. 13 indexed citations

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Appel, Aaron M., R. Newell, Daniel L. DuBois, & M. Rakowski DuBois. (2005). Concentration of Carbon Dioxide by Electrochemically Modulated Complexation with a Binuclear Copper Complex. Inorganic Chemistry. 44(9). 3046–3056. 58 indexed citations

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Huang, Xiao‐Ying, et al.. (2002). [Cu(i)(bpp)]BF4: the first extended coordination network prepared solvothermally in an ionic liquid solvent. Chemical Communications. 2872–2873. 174 indexed citations

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