Angelo Frei

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Angelo Frei is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Oncology and Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. According to data from OpenAlex, Angelo Frei has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Organic Chemistry, 14 papers in Oncology and 9 papers in Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging. Recurrent topics in Angelo Frei's work include Metal complexes synthesis and properties (10 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (9 papers) and Synthesis and Biological Evaluation (6 papers). Angelo Frei is often cited by papers focused on Metal complexes synthesis and properties (10 papers), Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications (9 papers) and Synthesis and Biological Evaluation (6 papers). Angelo Frei collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Australia and United Kingdom. Angelo Frei's co-authors include Mark A. T. Blaskovich, Johannes Zuegg, Alysha G. Elliott, Anthony D. Verderosa, Roger Alberto, Gilles Gasser, Olivier Blacque, Riccardo Rubbiani, Philipp Anstaett and Leone Spiccia and has published in prestigious journals such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Journal of Medicinal Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

Angelo Frei

28 papers receiving 1.1k 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.

Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance

2023 419 citations Angelo Frei, Anthony D. Verderosa et al. Nature Reviews Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Angelo Frei Switzerland	16	513	344	303	235	231	29	1.2k
Tarun K. Mandal United States	26	259 0.5×	282 0.8×	316 1.0×	347 1.5×	541 2.3×	97	2.1k
Niklaas J. Buurma United Kingdom	20	638 1.2×	170 0.5×	367 1.2×	205 0.9×	528 2.3×	52	1.5k
Ndumiso N. Mhlongo South Africa	13	526 1.0×	554 1.6×	148 0.5×	65 0.3×	388 1.7×	33	1.1k
Umar Ndagi South Africa	8	464 0.9×	553 1.6×	142 0.5×	61 0.3×	244 1.1×	14	918
Shabbir Ahmad India	22	387 0.8×	112 0.3×	334 1.1×	144 0.6×	176 0.8×	97	1.4k
Pushpa Mishra India	10	291 0.6×	208 0.6×	90 0.3×	85 0.4×	263 1.1×	29	823
Peter Wich Germany	25	282 0.5×	66 0.2×	178 0.6×	257 1.1×	764 3.3×	57	1.6k
Ke‐Wu Yang China	26	403 0.8×	122 0.4×	253 0.8×	217 0.9×	426 1.8×	98	1.8k
Sihui Long China	23	540 1.1×	75 0.2×	312 1.0×	192 0.8×	386 1.7×	93	1.4k
Matthew J. Panzner United States	26	2.5k 4.9×	399 1.2×	491 1.6×	144 0.6×	312 1.4×	63	3.4k

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Hemmingsen, Lars, et al.. (2025). SMILES all around: structure to SMILES conversion for transition metal complexes. Journal of Cheminformatics. 17(1). 63–63. 4 indexed citations

Frei, Angelo, et al.. (2025). ELECTRUM: an electron configuration-based universal metal fingerprint for transition metal compounds. Digital Discovery. 4(12). 3567–3577. 1 indexed citations

Pinelli, Silvana, et al.. (2024). Discovery of antibacterial manganese( i ) tricarbonyl complexes through combinatorial chemistry. Chemical Science. 15(11). 3907–3919. 21 indexed citations

Frei, Angelo, et al.. (2024). Exploration of Rhenium Bisquinoline Tricarbonyl Complexes for their Antibacterial Properties. ChemBioChem. 25(17). e202400435–e202400435. 4 indexed citations

Ang, Wee Han, et al.. (2023). Using Machine Learning to Predict the Antibacterial Activity of Ruthenium Complexes**. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 63(10). e202317901–e202317901. 32 indexed citations

Frei, Angelo, Anthony D. Verderosa, Alysha G. Elliott, Johannes Zuegg, & Mark A. T. Blaskovich. (2023). Metals to combat antimicrobial resistance. Nature Reviews Chemistry. 7(3). 202–224. 419 indexed citations breakdown →

Kavanagh, Angela M., Hue Dinh, Andrew J. Swarts, et al.. (2023). The Antimicrobial Properties of Pd ^II − and Ru ^II −pyta Complexes**. ChemBioChem. 24(19). e202300247–e202300247. 5 indexed citations

White, Andrew J. P., et al.. (2022). Synthesis and anti-microbial activity of a new series of bis(diphosphine) rhenium(v) dioxo complexes. Dalton Transactions. 51(34). 12791–12795. 14 indexed citations

Frei, Angelo, et al.. (2022). To chelate thallium( i ) – synthesis and evaluation of Kryptofix-based chelators for ²⁰¹ Tl. Dalton Transactions. 51(23). 9039–9048. 10 indexed citations

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Medina‐Franco, José L., Edgar López‐López, Lena Ruíz-Azuara, et al.. (2022). Bridging informatics and medicinal inorganic chemistry: Toward a database of metallodrugs and metallodrug candidates. Drug Discovery Today. 27(5). 1420–1430. 22 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, et al.. (2021). New approach for the synthesis of water soluble fac-[M^I(CO)₃]⁺ bis(diarylphosphino)alkylamine complexes (M = ⁹⁹Tc, Re). Dalton Transactions. 50(47). 17506–17514. 6 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, Marietjie Schutte‐Smith, Alice Brink, et al.. (2021). Exploring preliminary structural relationships and mitochondrial targeting of fac-[M^I(CO)₃]-bis(diarylphosphino)alkylamine complexes (M = ⁹⁹Tc, Re). New Journal of Chemistry. 45(47). 22141–22149. 3 indexed citations

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Notaro, Anna, Angelo Frei, Riccardo Rubbiani, et al.. (2020). Ruthenium(II) Complex Containing a Redox-Active Semiquinonate Ligand as a Potential Chemotherapeutic Agent: From Synthesis to In Vivo Studies. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 63(10). 5568–5584. 33 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, Anna King, Gabrielle J. Lowe, et al.. (2020). Nontoxic Cobalt(III) Schiff Base Complexes with Broad‐Spectrum Antifungal Activity. Chemistry - A European Journal. 27(6). 2021–2029. 48 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo. (2020). Metal Complexes, an Untapped Source of Antibiotic Potential?. Antibiotics. 9(2). 90–90. 142 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, et al.. (2019). Two is better than one: difunctional high-affinity PSMA probes based on a [CpM(CO)₃] (M = Re/^99mTc) scaffold. Dalton Transactions. 48(39). 14600–14605. 19 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, Maite Amado, Matthew A. Cooper, & Mark A. T. Blaskovich. (2019). Light‐Activated Rhenium Complexes with Dual Mode of Action against Bacteria. Chemistry - A European Journal. 26(13). 2852–2858. 40 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, Bernhard Spingler, & Roger Alberto. (2018). Multifunctional Cyclopentadienes as a Scaffold for Combinatorial Bioorganometallics in [(η⁵‐C₅H₂R₁R₂R₃)M(CO)₃] (M=Re, ^99mTc) Piano‐Stool Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(40). 10156–10164. 26 indexed citations

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Frei, Angelo, Henrik Braband, Thomas Fox, et al.. (2016). Kinetics and Mechanism of CO Exchange in fac-[MBr₂(solvent)(CO)₃]⁻ (M = Re, ⁹⁹Tc). Inorganic Chemistry. 55(18). 9352–9360. 13 indexed citations

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Leonidova, Anna, et al.. (2013). An Environmentally Benign and Cost-Effective Synthesis of Aminoferrocene and Aminoruthenocene. Organometallics. 32(6). 2037–2040. 22 indexed citations

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