Ahmet Altun

4.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Ahmet Altun is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ahmet Altun has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Organic Chemistry, 22 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ahmet Altun's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (14 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (13 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (12 papers). Ahmet Altun is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (14 papers), Nonlinear Optical Materials Research (13 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (12 papers). Ahmet Altun collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Türkiye and United States. Ahmet Altun's co-authors include Walter Thiel, Sason Shaik, Devesh Kumar, Sam P. de Visser, Frank Neese, M. Kumru, Giovanni Bistoni, Kurtuluş Gölcük, Keiji Morokuma and Shozo Yokoyama and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Ahmet Altun

71 papers receiving 3.5k citations

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Theoretical Perspective on the Structure and Mechanism of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes

2005 1.1k citations Sason Shaik, Ahmet Altun et al. profile →

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Pankaz K. Sharma India

Harry B. Gray United States

Lung Wa Chung China

Mats Svensson Sweden

Masahiro Hatano Japan

Takashi Ogura Japan

Yong Zhang United States

Carlo Rosini Italy

Shigeru Ohba Japan

Shyamalava Mazumdar India

Pankaz K. Sharma India

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Carboni, Davide, et al.. (2025). Iron-Mediated Nitrate Reduction at Ambient Temperature for Deaminative Sulfonylation and Fluorination of Anilines. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(20). 16901–16908. 1 indexed citations

Altun, Ahmet, et al.. (2025). Deaminative Cyanation of Anilines by Oxylanion Radical Transfer. Organic Letters. 27(32). 8921–8926.

Mateos, Javier, Markus Leutzsch, Ahmet Altun, et al.. (2024). Nitrate reduction enables safer aryldiazonium chemistry. Science. 384(6694). 446–452. 19 indexed citations

Altun, Ahmet, et al.. (2024). A Generally Applicable Method for Disentangling the Effect of Individual Noncovalent Interactions on the Binding Energy. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(12). e202421922–e202421922. 6 indexed citations

Becker, Jonathan, et al.. (2023). Exploring the Limits of Intramolecular London Dispersion Stabilization with Bulky Dispersion Energy Donors in Alkane Solution. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(4). 2093–2097. 18 indexed citations

Altun, Ahmet, Frank Neese, & Giovanni Bistoni. (2018). Local energy decomposition analysis of hydrogen-bonded dimers within a domain-based pair natural orbital coupled cluster study. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 14. 919–929. 80 indexed citations

Altun, Ahmet, Frank Neese, & Giovanni Bistoni. (2018). Effect of Electron Correlation on Intermolecular Interactions: A Pair Natural Orbitals Coupled Cluster Based Local Energy Decomposition Study. Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation. 15(1). 215–228. 99 indexed citations

Yokoyama, Shozo, Takashi Tada, Yang Liu, Davide Faggionato, & Ahmet Altun. (2016). A simple method for studying the molecular mechanisms of ultraviolet and violet reception in vertebrates. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16(1). 64–64. 16 indexed citations

Altun, Ahmet, et al.. (2015). Tautomeric conversion, vibrational spectra, and density functional studies on peripheral sulfur derivatives of benzothiazole and benzothiazoline isomers. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 152. 181–191. 8 indexed citations

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Agh‐Atabay, Naz M., et al.. (2014). Synthesis, spectroscopic characterization and density functional studies of a bis-benzimidazole derivative and of its complexes with palladium(II) halides. Comptes Rendus Chimie. 17(9). 905–912. 9 indexed citations

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Mert, Samet, Rahmi Kasımoğulları, Tuba İça, et al.. (2014). Synthesis, structure–activity relationships, and in vitro antibacterial and antifungal activity evaluations of novel pyrazole carboxylic and dicarboxylic acid derivatives. European Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 78. 86–96. 144 indexed citations

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Kumru, M., et al.. (2014). Experimental and theoretical studies on IR, Raman, and UV–Vis spectra of quinoline-7-carboxaldehyde. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 134. 81–89. 28 indexed citations

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Altun, Ahmet, et al.. (2011). Combined experimental and theoretical studies on the vibrational spectra of 2-quinolinecarboxaldehyde. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 85(1). 92–98. 17 indexed citations

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Sekharan, Sivakumar, Ahmet Altun, & Keiji Morokuma. (2010). QM/MM Study of Dehydro and Dihydro β-Ionone Retinal Analogues in Squid and Bovine Rhodopsins: Implications for Vision in Salamander Rhodopsin. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(45). 15856–15859. 21 indexed citations

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Sekharan, Sivakumar, Ahmet Altun, & Keiji Morokuma. (2010). Photochemistry of Visual Pigment in a G_q Protein‐Coupled Receptor (GPCR)—Insights from Structural and Spectral Tuning Studies on Squid Rhodopsin. Chemistry - A European Journal. 16(6). 1744–1749. 29 indexed citations

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Altun, Ahmet, Shozo Yokoyama, & Keiji Morokuma. (2008). Quantum Mechanical/Molecular Mechanical Studies on Spectral Tuning Mechanisms of Visual Pigments and Other Photoactive Proteins^†. Photochemistry and Photobiology. 84(4). 845–854. 32 indexed citations

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Zheng, Jingjing, Ahmet Altun, & Walter Thiel. (2007). Common system setup for the entire catalytic cycle of cytochrome P450_cam in quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical studies. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 28(13). 2147–2158. 44 indexed citations

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Altun, Ahmet, Sason Shaik, & Walter Thiel. (2006). Systematic QM/MM investigation of factors that affect the cytochrome P450‐catalyzed hydrogen abstraction of camphor. Journal of Computational Chemistry. 27(12). 1324–1337. 77 indexed citations

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Gölcük, Kurtuluş, Ahmet Altun, & M. Kumru. (2003). Thermal studies and vibrational analyses of m-methylaniline complexes of Zn(II), Cd(II) and Hg(II) bromides. Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 59(8). 1841–1847. 56 indexed citations

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Altun, Ahmet, Kurtuluş Gölcük, M. Kumru, & Abraham F. Jalbout. (2003). Electron-conformational study for the structure–hallucinogenic activity relationships of phenylalkylamines. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry. 11(18). 3861–3868. 11 indexed citations

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