Alan J. Lough

31.3k citations

810 papers · 27.1k · 3 hit papers · h-index 79

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Inorganic Chemistry top 0.02%
- Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
- Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds
Process Chemistry and Technology top 0.05%
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis

Papers in

Organic Chemistry 513
- Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis 209
- Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry 93
Inorganic Chemistry 487
- Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis 144
- Crystal structures of chemical compounds 140
- Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds 111
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications 79

Co-authors: Robert H. Morris (116 shared papers)Ian Manners (127 shared papers)Kamaluddin Abdur‐Rashid (25 shared papers)Douglas W. Stephan (19 shared papers)Dmitry G. Gusev (19 shared papers)George Ferguson (59 shared papers)Michael G. Organ (7 shared papers)Cory A. Jaska (10 shared papers)
Journals: Organometallics (84 papers)Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications (73 papers)Inorganic Chemistry (49 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (49 papers)Dalton Transactions (37 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United Kingdom South Korea

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787 papers receiving 26.4k citations

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Easily Prepared Air‐ and Moisture‐Stable Pd–NHC (NHC=N‐Heterocyclic Carbene) Complexes: A Reliable, User‐Friendly, Highly Active Palladium Precatalyst for the Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction 2006 · 727 citations

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it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2006 Chemistry - A European Journal
2003 Journal of the American Chemical Society
1989 Journal of the American Chemical Society

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1	Easily Prepared Air‐ and Moisture‐Stable Pd–NHC (NHC=N‐Heterocyclic Carbene) Complexes: A Reliable, User‐Friendly, Highly Active Palladium Precatalyst for the Suzuki–Miyaura Reaction Chemistry - A European Journal ·Christopher J. O’Brien, Eric Assen B. Kantchev, Cory Valente, Niloufar Hadei, Gregory A. Chass, Alan J. Lough, Alan C. Hopkinson, Michael G. Organ Hit paper breakdown →	2006	727
2	Transition Metal-Catalyzed Formation of Boron−Nitrogen Bonds: Catalytic Dehydrocoupling of Amine-Borane Adducts to Form Aminoboranes and Borazines Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Cory A. Jaska, Karen Temple, Alan J. Lough, Ian Manners Hit paper breakdown →	2003	540
3	Synthesis, x-ray crystal structures, and cation-binding properties of alkyl calixaryl esters and ketones, a new family of macrocyclic molecular receptors Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Françoise Arnaud‐Neu, Elizabeth M. Collins, Mary Deasy, George Ferguson, Stephen J. Harris, B. Kaitner, Alan J. Lough, M. Anthony McKervey, Elizabeth Marques Hit paper breakdown →	1989	525
4	Mechanism of the Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by trans-Dihydrido(diamine)ruthenium(II) Complexes Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Kamaluddin Abdur‐Rashid, S.E. Clapham, A. Hadzovic, Jeremy N. Harvey, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2002	465
5	Amine(imine)diphosphine Iron Catalysts for Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines Science ·Weiwei Zuo, Alan J. Lough, Young Feng Li, Robert H. Morris	2013	439
6	Pd‐PEPPSI‐IPent: An Active, Sterically Demanding Cross‐Coupling Catalyst and Its Application in the Synthesis of Tetra‐Ortho‐Substituted Biaryls Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Michael G. Organ, Selçuk Çalimsiz, Mahmoud Sayah, Ka Hou Hoi, Alan J. Lough	2009	340
7	Linear Oligo(ferrocenyldimethylsilanes) with between Two and Nine Ferrocene Units: Electrochemical and Structural Models for Poly(ferrocenylsilane) High Polymers Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Ron Rulkens, Alan J. Lough, Ian Manners, Sherri R. Lovelace, C. Cordell Grant, William E. Geiger	1996	318
8	Lamellar aluminophosphates with surface patterns that mimic diatom and radiolarian microskeletons Nature ·Scott R. J. Oliver, Alex Kuperman, Neil Coombs, Alan J. Lough, Geoffrey A. Ozin	1995	308
9	Highly Efficient Catalyst Systems Using Iron Complexes with a Tetradentate PNNP Ligand for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Polar Bonds Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·C. Sui-Seng, Friederike Freutel, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2007	301
10	Identification of 1,3-Dialkylimidazolium Salt Supramolecular Aggregates in Solution The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Crestina S. Consorti, Paulo A. Z. Suarez, Roberto Fernando de Souza, Robert A. Burrow, David H. Farrar, Alan J. Lough, Watson Loh, Luís Henrique Mendes da Silva, Jaı̈rton Dupont	2005	265
11	Catalytic Cycle for the Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Prochiral Ketones to Chiral Alcohols: Direct Hydride and Proton Transfer from Chiral Catalysts trans-Ru(H)₂(diphosphine)(diamine) to Ketones and Direct Addition of Dihydrogen to the Resulting Hydridoamido Complexes Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Kamaluddin Abdur‐Rashid, M. Faatz, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2001	263
12	Iron(II) Complexes Containing Unsymmetrical P–N–P′ Pincer Ligands for the Catalytic Asymmetric Hydrogenation of Ketones and Imines Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Paraskevi O. Lagaditis, Peter E. Sues, Jessica F. Sonnenberg, Kai Y. Wan, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2014	260
13	Osmium and Ruthenium Catalysts for Dehydrogenation of Alcohols Organometallics ·Marcello Bertoli, A. Choualeb, Alan J. Lough, Brandon d. Moore, Denis M. Spasyuk, Dmitry G. Gusev	2011	253
14	Structure–Activity Relationship Analysis of Pd–PEPPSI Complexes in Cross‐Couplings: A Close Inspection of the Catalytic Cycle and the Precatalyst Activation Model Chemistry - A European Journal ·Joanna Nasielski, Nilofaur Hadei, George T. Achonduh, Eric Assen B. Kantchev, Christopher J. O’Brien, Alan J. Lough, Michael G. Organ	2010	229
15	Switching On and Off a New Intramolecular Hydrogen-Hydrogen Interaction and the Heterolytic Splitting of Dihydrogen. Crystal and Molecular Structure of [Ir{H(.eta.1-SC5H4NH)}2(PCy3)2]BF4.cntdot.2.7CH2Cl2 Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Alan J. Lough, Sung-Han Park, Ravindranath Ramachandran, Robert H. Morris	1994	229
16	Efficient Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by an Iron Complex Containing a P−N−N−P Tetradentate Ligand Formed by Template Synthesis Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Alexandre A. Mikhailine, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2009	229
17	Rhodium-catalyzed formation of boron–nitrogen bonds: a mild route to cyclic aminoboranes and borazines Chemical Communications ·Cory A. Jaska, Karen Temple, Alan J. Lough, Ian Manners	2001	222
18	Reversible, Metal-Free, Heterolytic Activation of H₂ at Room Temperature Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Matthias S. Ullrich, Alan J. Lough, Douglas W. Stephan	2008	221
19	An Acidity Scale for Phosphorus-Containing Compounds Including Metal Hydrides and Dihydrogen Complexes in THF: Toward the Unification of Acidity Scales Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Kamaluddin Abdur‐Rashid, Tina P. Fong, Bronwyn C. Greaves, Dmitry G. Gusev, J.G. Hinman, S.E. Landau, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris	2000	219
20	Dihydrogen with Frequency of Motion Near the¹H Larmor Frequency. Solid-State Structures and Solution NMR Spectroscopy of Osmium Complexestrans-[Os(H··H)X(PPh₂CH₂CH₂PPh₂)₂]⁺(X = Cl, Br) Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Patricia A. Maltby, Marcel Schlaf, Martin Steinbeck, Alan J. Lough, Robert H. Morris, Wim T. Klooster, Thomas F. Koetzle, R. C. Srivastava	1996	206

About Alan J. Lough

Alan J. Lough is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Oncology and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, having authored 810 papers that have together received 27.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (209 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (144 papers), Crystal structures of chemical compounds (140 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (112 papers), Synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds (111 papers), Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry (93 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (91 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (79 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Inorganic Chemistry (13.6k citations), Process Chemistry and Technology (2.6k citations), Organic Chemistry (18.1k citations), Catalysis (1.5k citations) and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (1.7k citations). Alan J. Lough has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United Kingdom and South Korea. Frequent co-authors include Robert H. Morris, Ian Manners, Kamaluddin Abdur‐Rashid, Douglas W. Stephan, Dmitry G. Gusev, George Ferguson, Michael G. Organ, Cory A. Jaska, Ron Rulkens and Karen Temple. Their work appears in journals such as Organometallics, Acta Crystallographica Section C Crystal Structure Communications, Inorganic Chemistry, Journal of the American Chemical Society and Dalton Transactions.

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