E. L. Muetterties

19.9k total citations · 6 hit papers
300 papers, 14.9k citations indexed

About

E. L. Muetterties is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, E. L. Muetterties has authored 300 papers receiving a total of 14.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 128 papers in Organic Chemistry, 121 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 57 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in E. L. Muetterties's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (55 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (44 papers) and Boron Compounds in Chemistry (40 papers). E. L. Muetterties is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (55 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (44 papers) and Boron Compounds in Chemistry (40 papers). E. L. Muetterties collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. E. L. Muetterties's co-authors include L. J. Guggenberger, John R. Bleeke, H. C. Miller, Elliot I. Band, Judith Stein, C. W. Alegranti, W. H. Knoth, Frank Klanberg, C. M. Friend and W. R. Pretzer and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

E. L. Muetterties

298 papers receiving 13.7k citations

Hit Papers

Idealized polytopal forms. Description of real molecules ... 1967 2026 1986 2006 1974 1979 1967 1982 1972 200 400 600
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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.

  1. Idealized polytopal forms. Description of real molecules referenced to idealized polygons or polyhedra in geometric reaction path form
    1974 644 citations E. L. Muetterties, L. J. Guggenberger Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  2. Clusters and surfaces
    1979 522 citations E. L. Muetterties, Elliot I. Band et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  3. The chemistry of boron and its compounds
    1967 453 citations E. L. Muetterties profile →
  4. Structural, stereochemical, and electronic features of arene-metal complexes
    1982 394 citations E. L. Muetterties et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
  5. Molecular orbital theory of pentacoordinate phosphorus
    1972 215 citations E. L. Muetterties et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. Seven-coordination. A molecular orbital exploration of structure, stereochemistry, and reaction dynamics
    1977 166 citations E. L. Muetterties et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
E. L. Muetterties United States 68 7.6k 6.8k 4.3k 2.1k 2.0k 300 14.9k
D. Michael P. Mingos United Kingdom 58 8.2k 1.1× 5.7k 0.8× 5.5k 1.3× 1.7k 0.8× 758 0.4× 332 15.0k
Heinrich Nöth Germany 55 14.5k 1.9× 10.0k 1.5× 3.5k 0.8× 2.3k 1.1× 370 0.2× 864 18.2k
Roland Boese Germany 63 13.9k 1.8× 7.9k 1.2× 4.7k 1.1× 822 0.4× 1.4k 0.7× 790 20.6k
G. te Velde Netherlands 13 5.7k 0.7× 5.3k 0.8× 6.1k 1.4× 266 0.1× 4.4k 2.3× 17 16.2k
Robin K. Harris United Kingdom 55 3.7k 0.5× 3.8k 0.6× 6.3k 1.5× 823 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 490 15.3k
Hans Georg̀ von Schnering Germany 56 7.9k 1.0× 7.6k 1.1× 5.3k 1.2× 290 0.1× 1.7k 0.9× 680 16.5k
Konstantin А. Lyssenko Russia 47 6.7k 0.9× 3.7k 0.5× 4.5k 1.0× 608 0.3× 1.0k 0.5× 828 12.8k
Max C. Holthausen Germany 48 5.5k 0.7× 4.5k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 437 0.2× 2.1k 1.1× 172 10.8k
Clark R. Landis United States 50 8.7k 1.1× 5.9k 0.9× 3.2k 0.7× 272 0.1× 2.0k 1.0× 149 14.9k
A. Zalkin United States 49 3.1k 0.4× 4.2k 0.6× 3.2k 0.7× 367 0.2× 892 0.5× 202 7.7k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Johnson, A.L., E. L. Muetterties, J. Stöhr, & F. Sette. (1985). Chemisorption geometry of pyridine on platinum(111) by NEXAFS. The Journal of Physical Chemistry. 89(19). 4071–4075. 85 indexed citations
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Gentle, T. M., et al.. (1983). Catalytic chemistry of palladium surfaces under ultrahigh-vacuum conditions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 105(22). 6766–6767. 7 indexed citations
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Burch, R., E. L. Muetterties, A.J. Schultz, E. Gebert, & Jack M. Williams. (1981). Reaction of carbon monoxide with the coordinately unsaturated metal dimer (.mu.-H)2Rh2[P(O-i-C3H7)3]4 with retention of dimeric form. Crystal and molecular structure of Rh2(.mu.-CO)2[P(O-i-C3H7)3]4. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 103(18). 5517–5522. 16 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L., et al.. (1981). Arene transition-metal chemistry. 6. Hydride reduction of .eta.6-arene iridium(I) complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 20(7). 2276–2278. 6 indexed citations
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Wreford, S. S., et al.. (1980). A study of structure and dynamic stereochemistry in seven coordination: HMo[P(OCH3)3]4[O2CCF3]. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(5). 1558–1563. 8 indexed citations
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Tachikawa, M., Judith Stein, E. L. Muetterties, et al.. (1980). Metal clusters with exposed and low-coordinate nitride nitrogen atoms. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(21). 6648–6649. 57 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L., Howard J. Schaeffer, Robert I. Mink, et al.. (1979). Arene-transition metal chemistry. 2. Hydrogenation of metal-arene and allylmetal-arene complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 18(3). 883–884. 17 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L. & Patricia L. Watson. (1978). An examination of the reductive-elimination reaction. Chemistry of XYCo[P(OR)3]z+ complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 100(22). 6978–6989. 14 indexed citations
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Band, Elliot I. & E. L. Muetterties. (1978). Mechanistic features of metal cluster rearrangements. Chemical Reviews. 78(6). 639–658. 114 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L., et al.. (1977). A coordination chemistry guide to structural studies of chemisorbed molecules. Inorganic Chemistry. 16(12). 3381–3385. 13 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L. & Patricia L. Watson. (1976). Reductive elimination reactions. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 98(15). 4665–4667. 24 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L., et al.. (1975). ChemInform Abstract: INTRAMOLECULAR REARRANGEMENTS IN BORON CLUSTERS. Chemischer Informationsdienst. 6(25). 1 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1974). Solution state, nuclear magnetic resonance spectral features for tetrakis(N-methyl-N-(perfluorophenyl)dithiocarbamato)zirconium(IV). Inorganic Chemistry. 13(4). 1011–1012. 13 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1973). Intramolecular and intermolecular ligand exchange in five-co-ordinate cobalt(I) complexes. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 221–221. 6 indexed citations
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Meakin, Paul, E. L. Muetterties, & J. P. Jesson. (1973). Stereochemically Nonrigid Six-Coordinate Molecules.' III. The Temperature-Dependent 'H and 31P Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectra of Some Iron and Ruthenium Dihydrides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 95(1). 75–88. 90 indexed citations
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Guggenberger, L. J., Alexander R. Kane, & E. L. Muetterties. (1972). Metalloboranes. VII. Synthesis and chemistry of .pi.-borallyl complexes and the crystal structure of [(CH3)2PC6H5]2PtB3H7. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 94(16). 5665–5673. 28 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1971). TRANSITION METAL--HYDROGEN INTERACTION.. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 1 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1967). Intramolecular racemization processes in pentacoordinate structures. Inorganic Chemistry. 6(3). 635–638. 27 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1959). SYNTHESIS OF ARYLDICHLOROBORANES. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 81(10). 2597–2597. 37 indexed citations
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Muetterties, E. L.. (1957). Notizen: Reactions of Amine Hydrochlorides with Boron Trifluoride-Etherates. Zeitschrift für Naturforschung B. 12(4). 265–266. 2 indexed citations

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