Ba L. Tran

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

Ba L. Tran is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ba L. Tran has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 26 papers in Organic Chemistry and 12 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ba L. Tran's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (10 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (10 papers). Ba L. Tran is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (10 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (10 papers). Ba L. Tran collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Denmark. Ba L. Tran's co-authors include Daniel J. Mindiola, Maren Pink, Matthias Drieß, John F. Hartwig, Karsten Meyer, Bi‐Jie Li, Tom Autrey, Mark Bowden, Kriston Brooks and R. Morris Bullock and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

Ba L. Tran

50 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen

2022 311 citations Mark D. Allendorf, Vitalie Stavila et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ba L. Tran United States	22	1.1k	859	655	345	187	50	2.0k
Torsten Beweries Germany	30	1.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	548 0.8×	107 0.3×	202 1.1×	122	2.6k
Richard H. Heyn Norway	27	1.6k 1.5×	1.1k 1.3×	348 0.5×	88 0.3×	147 0.8×	73	2.0k
H.V.K. Diyabalanage United States	19	789 0.7×	656 0.8×	973 1.5×	650 1.9×	317 1.7×	27	2.1k
Simon Doherty United Kingdom	35	2.7k 2.4×	1.5k 1.8×	444 0.7×	86 0.2×	320 1.7×	123	3.1k
A.D. Phillips United States	35	3.6k 3.2×	2.9k 3.4×	496 0.8×	171 0.5×	164 0.9×	72	4.4k
Burkhard Butschke Germany	18	690 0.6×	442 0.5×	246 0.4×	87 0.3×	117 0.6×	45	1.1k
Martin B. Smith United Kingdom	30	1.9k 1.7×	1.4k 1.6×	269 0.4×	143 0.4×	99 0.5×	116	2.5k
Jesús J. Pérez‐Torrente Spain	35	3.3k 2.9×	1.6k 1.9×	393 0.6×	206 0.6×	111 0.6×	157	3.9k
Peter Sirsch Germany	25	1.5k 1.3×	872 1.0×	328 0.5×	139 0.4×	88 0.5×	51	1.9k
Margarita Paneque Spain	35	2.9k 2.6×	1.3k 1.5×	218 0.3×	159 0.5×	122 0.7×	117	3.2k

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Sharada, Shaama Mallikarjun, et al.. (2025). Trigonal Planar Bis (carbene)Cu(I) Complexes Enable Divergent H ₂ Activation with H ₂ O for Accelerated Olefin Hydrogenation. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(33). e202510627–e202510627. 1 indexed citations

Fuller, Jack T., Jeremy D. Erickson, Amy L. Speelman, et al.. (2025). Mechanistic Insights into Molecular Copper Hydride Catalysis: the Kinetic Stability of CuH Monomers toward Aggregation is a Critical Parameter for Catalyst Performance. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(17). 14280–14298. 2 indexed citations

Bullock, R. Morris, et al.. (2024). Synthesis and Structural Investigation of Rigid Naphthyridine-Bis(carbene) for Trigonal Planar Coordination of Coinage Metals. Organometallics. 44(2). 373–384. 2 indexed citations

Tran, Ba L., Jack T. Fuller, Jeremy D. Erickson, Bojana Ginovska, & Simone Raugei. (2024). Direct observation of β-alkynyl eliminations from unstrained propargylic alkoxide Cu(i) complexes by C–C bond cleavage. Chemical Science. 15(42). 17481–17489. 1 indexed citations

Tran, Ba L., et al.. (2024). Roles of Solvent in the Catalytic Hydrogen Release from Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers: Chemical, Thermodynamical and Technological Aspects. Topics in Catalysis. 67(13-14). 892–899. 1 indexed citations

Tran, Ba L. & Jeremy D. Erickson. (2023). Insertion reactions and structural studies of [(NHC)CuH]2 with nitrogen-based substrates. Polyhedron. 249. 116811–116811. 1 indexed citations

Bowden, Mark, et al.. (2023). Single‐Crystal to Single‐Crystal Transformations: Stepwise CO₂ Insertions into Bridging Hydrides of [(NHC)CuH]₂ Complexes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(30). e202304648–e202304648. 10 indexed citations

Ghosh, Soumen, Mirza Galib, Ba L. Tran, et al.. (2022). Near-Quantitative Predictions of the First-Shell Coordination Structure of Hydrated First-Row Transition Metal Ions Using K-Edge X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Spectroscopy. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 13(27). 6323–6330. 13 indexed citations

Allendorf, Mark D., Vitalie Stavila, Jonathan L. Snider, et al.. (2022). Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen. Nature Chemistry. 14(11). 1214–1223. 311 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tran, Ba L., Jeremy D. Erickson, Amy L. Speelman, & R. Morris Bullock. (2022). Mechanistic Studies of Carbonyl Allylation Mediated by (NHC)CuH: Isoprene Insertion, Allylation, and β-Hydride Elimination. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(1). 342–352. 3 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L., et al.. (2021). Effects of Glymes on the Distribution of Mg(B10H10) and Mg(B12H12) from the Thermolysis of Mg(BH4)2. Inorganics. 9(6). 41–41. 14 indexed citations

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Brzeziński, Marek, Ba L. Tran, Kathryn Price, et al.. (2020). An Analysis of Successful Features of Anesthesiology Journal Clubs. 22(4). 1 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L., Richard R. Thompson, Soumya Ghosh, et al.. (2013). A four-coordinate thionitrosyl complex of vanadium. Chemical Communications. 49(27). 2768–2768. 15 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L., Danielle A. Henckel, Xinfeng Gao, et al.. (2011). A four coordinate parent imidevia a titanium nitridyl. Chemical Communications. 48(10). 1529–1531. 38 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L., Maren Pink, Xinfeng Gao, Hyunsoo Park, & Daniel J. Mindiola. (2010). Low-Coordinate and Neutral Nitrido Complexes of Vanadium. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(5). 1458–1459. 85 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L., Hyunsoo Park, O.P. Lam, et al.. (2010). Reactivity Studies of a Masked Three‐Coordinate Vanadium(II) Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(51). 9871–9875. 51 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L. & Carl J. Carrano. (2007). Oxo−Molybdenum(VI,V,IV) Complexes of the Facially Coordinating Tris(mercaptoimidazolyl)borate Ligand: Synthesis, Characterization, and Oxygen Atom Transfer Reactivity. Inorganic Chemistry. 46(13). 5429–5438. 31 indexed citations

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Hoffman, Justin, Ba L. Tran, & Carl J. Carrano. (2006). Oxidation-state and metal-ion dependent stereoisomerization in oxo molybdenum and tungsten complexes of a bulky alkoxy heteroscorpionate ligand. Dalton Transactions. 3822–3822. 18 indexed citations

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Lewis, Jana A., Ba L. Tran, D.T. Puerta, et al.. (2005). Synthesis, structure and spectroscopy of new thiopyrone and hydroxypyridinethione transition-metal complexes. Dalton Transactions. 2588–2588. 26 indexed citations

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Tran, Ba L. & Seth M. Cohen. (2005). Flavothionato metal complexes: implications for the use of hydroxyflavothiones as green pesticides. Chemical Communications. 203–205. 14 indexed citations

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