David A. Lightner

8.7k total citations
374 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

David A. Lightner is a scholar working on Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Molecular Biology and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, David A. Lightner has authored 374 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 188 papers in Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, 177 papers in Molecular Biology and 111 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in David A. Lightner's work include Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (188 papers), Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (130 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (106 papers). David A. Lightner is often cited by papers focused on Neonatal Health and Biochemistry (188 papers), Heme Oxygenase-1 and Carbon Monoxide (130 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (106 papers). David A. Lightner collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Bulgaria. David A. Lightner's co-authors include Antony F. McDonagh, Stefan E. Boiadjiev, Lucita A. Palma, Jerome E. Gurst, Jacek Gawroński, Gary B. Quistad, Francesc R. Trull, Michael T. Huggins, Sergio Abbate and Thomas D. Bouman and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

David A. Lightner

370 papers receiving 6.8k citations

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
David A. Lightner 3.4k 3.2k 2.1k 1.8k 1.6k 374 7.2k
Koji Kano 1.9k 0.6× 326 0.1× 2.5k 1.2× 1.7k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 211 5.9k
Gerd N. La Mar 4.2k 1.2× 1.4k 0.4× 2.5k 1.2× 592 0.3× 1.2k 0.8× 293 8.4k
David Dolphin 2.8k 0.8× 165 0.1× 4.7k 2.2× 1.7k 0.9× 580 0.4× 191 8.2k
Kurt Schaffner 4.0k 1.2× 204 0.1× 2.5k 1.2× 2.9k 1.6× 1.0k 0.6× 299 8.4k
Teddy G. Traylor 1.5k 0.5× 221 0.1× 2.4k 1.1× 1.6k 0.9× 399 0.2× 112 5.0k
Guoqiang Feng 2.4k 0.7× 385 0.1× 2.5k 1.2× 911 0.5× 3.9k 2.4× 155 7.3k
Shun Hirota 2.9k 0.9× 227 0.1× 1.7k 0.8× 933 0.5× 388 0.2× 246 5.9k
Philip George 2.2k 0.6× 238 0.1× 1.0k 0.5× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 197 7.3k
Alan R. Battersby 3.5k 1.0× 352 0.1× 1.5k 0.7× 1.6k 0.9× 333 0.2× 374 5.8k
Ronald G. Harvey 4.4k 1.3× 263 0.1× 576 0.3× 4.3k 2.3× 1.2k 0.7× 399 10.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lightner, David A., et al.. (2014). (m.n)-Homorubins: syntheses and structures. Monatshefte für Chemie - Chemical Monthly. 145(11). 1777–1801. 4 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A.. (2013). Introduction. Fortschritte der Chemie Organischer Naturstoffe/Fortschritte der Chemie organischer Naturstoffe/Progress in the chemistry of organic natural products. 1–7. 18 indexed citations
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Frey, Joseph, Saeed I. Khan, Carolyn B. Knobler, et al.. (2010). Thermal motion of tert-butyl groups III. tert-Butyl substituents in aromatic hydrocarbons, the view from the bottom of the well. Acta Crystallographica Section B Structural Science. 66(6). 622–638. 1 indexed citations
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Nikitin, Edward B., Michael J. Nelson, & David A. Lightner. (2007). A new bipyrrole coupling reaction. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 44(3). 739–743. 7 indexed citations
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Boiadjiev, Stefan E. & David A. Lightner. (2007). Converting 9-methyldipyrrinones to 9-H and 9-CHO dipyrrinones. Tetrahedron. 63(36). 8962–8976. 2 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A., et al.. (2007). Intermolecularly hydrogen-bonded dimeric helices: tripyrrindiones. Tetrahedron. 63(45). 11030–11039. 29 indexed citations
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McDonagh, Antony F., et al.. (2002). Hepatobiliary Excretion of Dipyrrinone Sulfonates in Mrp2-Deficient (TR−) Rats. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 12(17). 2483–2486. 3 indexed citations
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Boiadjiev, Stefan E. & David A. Lightner. (2001). Chirality inversion in the bilirubin molecular exciton. Chirality. 13(5). 251–257. 7 indexed citations
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McDonagh, Antony F., et al.. (2001). Biliary excretion of a stretched bilirubin in UGT1A1‐deficient (Gunn) and Mrp2‐deficient (TR−) rats. FEBS Letters. 506(3). 211–215. 8 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A. & Jerome E. Gurst. (2000). Organic conformational analysis and stereochemistry from circular dichroism spectroscopy. Wiley-VCH eBooks. 212 indexed citations
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Kurtin, William E., et al.. (2000). Acid Dissociation Constants of Bilirubin and Related Carboxylic Acid Compounds in Bile Salt Solutions. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 381(1). 83–91. 9 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A., Dave Holmes, & Antony F. McDonagh. (1996). Dissociation constants of water-insoluble carboxylic acids by13C-NMR. pK as of mesobiliverdin-XIIIα and mesobilirubin-XIIIα. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 52(6). 639–642. 8 indexed citations
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Trull, Francesc R., et al.. (1992). Conformation inversion of bilirubin formed by reduction of the biliverdin-human serum albumin complex: Evidence from circular dichroism. Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics. 298(2). 710–714. 16 indexed citations
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Morris, Michael D., et al.. (1991). Resonance Raman spectroscopy of bilirubins: band assignments and application to bilirubin/lipid complexation. Biochemistry. 30(3). 688–694. 36 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A. & Manhua Zhang. (1988). Conformation of bilirubin amides from circular dichroism spectroscopy. Tetrahedron. 44(15). 4679–4688. 1 indexed citations
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McDonagh, Antony F. & David A. Lightner. (1988). Phototherapy and the Photobiology of Bilirubin. Seminars in Liver Disease. 8(3). 272–283. 66 indexed citations
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Park, Yong Tae & David A. Lightner. (1985). Syntheses of Silica Gel Bound Hemin, Biliverdin, and Bilirubin. Bulletin of the Korean Chemical Society. 6(2). 112–115. 2 indexed citations
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Lightner, David A., et al.. (1978). On the vinyl group photooxygenation of bilirubin‐like model compounds. Journal of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 15(7). 1117–1120. 2 indexed citations
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Petryka, Z. J., C. J. Watson, E. A. Davis, et al.. (1968). On the existence and structure of a stable mesobiliviolin of molecular weight 590. Tetrahedron Letters. 9(57). 5983–5985. 5 indexed citations
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Budzikiewicz, H., et al.. (1965). Massenspektroskopie und IHRE anwendung auf strukturelle und stereochemische probleme—LXVIII: Massenspektroskopische untersuchung der inhaltstoffe von haschisch. Tetrahedron. 21(7). 1881–1888. 73 indexed citations

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