Daniel H. Ess

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
199 papers, 10.3k citations indexed

About

Daniel H. Ess is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel H. Ess has authored 199 papers receiving a total of 10.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Organic Chemistry, 78 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 39 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Daniel H. Ess's work include Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (53 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (46 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (33 papers). Daniel H. Ess is often cited by papers focused on Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (53 papers), Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (46 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (33 papers). Daniel H. Ess collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Daniel H. Ess's co-authors include K. N. Houk, László Kürti, Thomas J. Meyer, Gavin O. Jones, Jonathan F. Hull, Amit Paul, Hongyin Gao, Caleb A. Kent, Dewey G. McCafferty and Christine Fecenko Murphy and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Daniel H. Ess

191 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Hit Papers

Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer 2007 2026 2013 2019 2012 2007 2008 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer
    2012 1.9k citations Daniel H. Ess et al. profile →
  2. Distortion/Interaction Energy Control of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloaddition Reactivity
    2007 853 citations Daniel H. Ess et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  3. Theory of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions: Distortion/Interaction and Frontier Molecular Orbital Models
    2008 732 citations Daniel H. Ess et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Daniel H. Ess United States 47 7.3k 2.5k 1.6k 1.3k 1.1k 199 10.3k
Agustı́ Lledós Spain 55 8.7k 1.2× 5.5k 2.2× 1.7k 1.1× 888 0.7× 1.1k 1.0× 384 12.3k
Feliu Maseras Spain 64 11.4k 1.6× 5.6k 2.2× 2.3k 1.4× 1.6k 1.2× 1.4k 1.3× 314 16.2k
Sebastian Kozuch Israel 40 4.0k 0.6× 2.5k 1.0× 2.5k 1.5× 1.1k 0.9× 562 0.5× 106 8.4k
Max C. Holthausen Germany 48 5.5k 0.8× 4.5k 1.8× 3.2k 2.0× 751 0.6× 689 0.6× 172 10.8k
Imre Pápai Hungary 47 4.9k 0.7× 3.1k 1.2× 1.2k 0.7× 676 0.5× 669 0.6× 158 7.4k
Jin‐Pei Cheng China 66 11.6k 1.6× 3.5k 1.4× 1.8k 1.1× 929 0.7× 2.1k 1.8× 347 15.0k
Israel Fernández Spain 54 10.2k 1.4× 3.3k 1.3× 2.0k 1.3× 327 0.3× 566 0.5× 431 12.1k
Marcel Swart Spain 49 3.0k 0.4× 2.2k 0.9× 2.7k 1.6× 554 0.4× 1.2k 1.1× 183 7.9k
Stefan Dapprich Germany 16 3.6k 0.5× 2.3k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 531 0.4× 1.1k 1.0× 20 6.9k
Thomas R. Cundari United States 65 10.2k 1.4× 6.7k 2.6× 3.7k 2.2× 2.0k 1.5× 638 0.6× 445 15.9k

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All Works

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Telser, Joshua, et al.. (2025). Cooperative Heterobimetallic CO2 Activation Involving a Mononuclear Aluminum(II) Intermediate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(15). 12715–12721. 1 indexed citations
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Luo, Jian, et al.. (2023). Understanding Formation and Roles of Ni II Aryl Amido and Ni III Aryl Amido Intermediates in Ni-Catalyzed Electrochemical Aryl Amination Reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 145(29). 16130–16141. 15 indexed citations
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Kirkland, Justin K., et al.. (2023). Rate-Limiting Spin Crossover and Cp Ligand Involvement During Ir(III) Retro-Hydroformylation Catalysis. ACS Catalysis. 13(16). 10895–10907.
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Kirkland, Justin K., et al.. (2022). Carbene Character in a Series of Neutral PC carbene P Cobalt(I) Complexes: Radical Carbenes versus Nucleophilic Carbenes. Organometallics. 41(3). 235–245. 3 indexed citations
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Kattamuri, Padmanabha V., et al.. (2022). Aza-Quasi-Favorskii Reaction: Construction of Highly Substituted Aziridines through a Concerted Multibond Rearrangement Process. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(24). 10943–10949. 7 indexed citations
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Koppaka, Anjaneyulu, Justin K. Kirkland, Roy A. Periana, & Daniel H. Ess. (2022). Experimental Demonstration and Density Functional Theory Mechanistic Analysis of Arene C–H Bond Oxidation and Product Protection by Osmium Tetroxide in a Strongly Basic/Nucleophilic Solvent. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 87(21). 13573–13582. 2 indexed citations
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Ess, Daniel H., et al.. (2021). Machine learning classification of disrotatory IRC and conrotatory non-IRC trajectory motion for cyclopropyl radical ring opening. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 23(21). 12309–12320. 13 indexed citations
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Chen, Shusen, Anjaneyulu Koppaka, Roy A. Periana, & Daniel H. Ess. (2021). Theory and Experiment Demonstrate that Sb(V)-Promoted Methane C–H Activation and Functionalization Outcompete Superacid Protonolysis in Sulfuric Acid. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 143(43). 18242–18250. 14 indexed citations
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Major, George H., et al.. (2020). Spectroscopic ellipsometry of SU‐8 photoresist from 190 to 1680 nm (0.740–6.50 eV). Surface and Interface Analysis. 53(1). 5–13. 1 indexed citations
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Gunsalus, Niles, Sae Hume Park, Brian G. Hashiguchi, et al.. (2019). Selective N Functionalization of Methane and Ethane to Aminated Derivatives by Main-Group-Directed C–H Activation. Organometallics. 38(11). 2319–2322. 11 indexed citations
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Rechignat, Lionel, et al.. (2019). C–O and C–N Functionalization of Cationic, NCN-Type Pincer Complexes of Trivalent Nickel: Mechanism, Selectivity, and Kinetic Isotope Effect. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(6). 3861–3874. 7 indexed citations
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Rollins, Nick E., et al.. (2018). Electrophilic Impact of High-Oxidation State Main-Group Metal and Ligands on Alkane C–H Activation and Functionalization Reactions. Organometallics. 37(18). 3045–3054. 5 indexed citations
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Gustafson, Samantha J., Michael M. Konnick, Roy A. Periana, & Daniel H. Ess. (2018). Mechanisms and Reactivity of Tl(III) Main-Group-Metal–Alkyl Functionalization in Water. Organometallics. 37(16). 2723–2731. 1 indexed citations
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Kwon, Doo‐Hyun, et al.. (2017). Catalytic Dinuclear Nickel Spin Crossover Mechanism and Selectivity for Alkyne Cyclotrimerization. ACS Catalysis. 7(7). 4796–4804. 36 indexed citations
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Kattamuri, Padmanabha V., Jun Yin, Daniel H. Ess, et al.. (2017). Practical Singly and Doubly Electrophilic Aminating Agents: A New, More Sustainable Platform for Carbon–Nitrogen Bond Formation. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(32). 11184–11196. 70 indexed citations
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Jat, Jawahar L., Mahesh P. Paudyal, Hongyin Gao, et al.. (2014). Direct Stereospecific Synthesis of Unprotected N-H and N-Me Aziridines from Olefins. Science. 343(6166). 61–65. 255 indexed citations

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