George Lang

3.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

George Lang is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, George Lang has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Materials Chemistry, 15 papers in Molecular Biology and 11 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in George Lang's work include Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (18 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (11 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (10 papers). George Lang is often cited by papers focused on Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (18 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (11 papers) and Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (10 papers). George Lang collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. George Lang's co-authors include James P. Collman, Christopher A. Reed, Thomas R. Halbert, Robert R. Gagnè, Ward T. Robinson, W. T. Oosterhuis, W. Robert Scheidt, Peter Reichard, Lars Thelander and Curtis L. Atkin and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Journal of Biological Chemistry and The Journal of Chemical Physics.

In The Last Decade

George Lang

39 papers receiving 2.6k 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.

Picket fence porphyrins. Synthetic models for oxygen binding hemoproteins

1975 688 citations James P. Collman, Christopher A. Reed et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
George Lang United States	21	1.6k	1.2k	1.0k	738	507	39	2.9k
Thomas R. Halbert United States	23	1.3k 0.8×	753 0.6×	673 0.7×	561 0.8×	288 0.6×	39	2.4k
Ronald H. Felton United States	26	1.6k 1.0×	710 0.6×	1.2k 1.2×	476 0.6×	224 0.4×	43	3.0k
Charles E. Schulz United States	34	1.5k 1.0×	1.3k 1.1×	826 0.8×	623 0.8×	757 1.5×	87	3.2k
Christopher A. Reed United States	36	2.8k 1.8×	1.5k 1.3×	823 0.8×	717 1.0×	702 1.4×	73	4.6k
Lyle H. Jensen United States	18	623 0.4×	609 0.5×	1.1k 1.1×	287 0.4×	155 0.3×	33	2.0k
Charles P. Scholes United States	35	836 0.5×	709 0.6×	1.6k 1.6×	438 0.6×	211 0.4×	89	3.2k
George B. Richter‐Addo United States	32	976 0.6×	887 0.8×	522 0.5×	756 1.0×	569 1.1×	135	3.1k
Harry B. Gray United States	41	1.6k 1.0×	935 0.8×	1.7k 1.7×	333 0.5×	577 1.1×	81	5.7k
J. Timothy Sage United States	36	926 0.6×	602 0.5×	1.6k 1.6×	1.4k 1.8×	410 0.8×	92	3.3k
J. Fajer United States	44	4.5k 2.8×	1.6k 1.4×	3.3k 3.2×	455 0.6×	468 0.9×	125	6.6k

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Spartalian, K., George Lang, & Robert C. Woodworth. (1991). Moessbauer spectroscopy of iron-ovotransferrin: a crystal field interpretation. Biochemistry. 30(4). 1004–1009. 5 indexed citations

Gupta, Govind P., George Lang, Carol A. Koch, et al.. (1990). Moessbauer and magnetic susceptibility investigation of a ferromagnetically coupled iron(III) porphyrin-dicopper(II) system with imidazolate bridging ligands. Inorganic Chemistry. 29(21). 4234–4239. 20 indexed citations

Lang, George, et al.. (1988). Susceptibility and Moessbauer analysis of a high-spin ferrous synthetic heme with unusually large quadrupole splitting. Inorganic Chemistry. 27(25). 4607–4613. 20 indexed citations

Gupta, Govind P., George Lang, Young Ja Lee, et al.. (1987). Spin coupling in admixed intermediate-spin iron(III) porphyrin dimers: crystal structure, Moessbauer, and susceptibility study of Fe(TPP)(B11CH12).C7H8. Inorganic Chemistry. 26(18). 3022–3030. 50 indexed citations

Gupta, Govind P., George Lang, W. Robert Scheidt, David K. Geiger, & Christopher A. Reed. (1986). Susceptibility and Mössbauer study of coupled admixed-spin state in [Fe(OEP) (3-ClPy)]+ dimers. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 85(9). 5212–5220. 19 indexed citations

Groves, John T., et al.. (1984). Iron(IV) porphyrins from iron(III) porphyrin cation radicals. Journal of the Chemical Society Chemical Communications. 1455–1455. 20 indexed citations

Lang, George, et al.. (1983). A Mössbauer spectroscopic study of the six-coordinate high-spin ferrous compound (meso-tetraphenylporphinato) bis(tetrahydrofuran) iron(II). The Journal of Chemical Physics. 78(5). 2561–2567. 8 indexed citations

Scheidt, W. Robert, David K. Geiger, Robert G. Hayes, & George Lang. (1983). Control of spin state in (porphinato)iron(III) complexes. An axial ligand orientation effect leading to an intermediate-spin complex. Molecular structure and physical characterization of the monoclinic form of bis(3-chloropyridine)(octaethylporphinato)iron(III) perchlorate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 105(9). 2625–2632. 55 indexed citations

Scholz, William F., Christopher A. Reed, Young Ja Lee, W. Robert Scheidt, & George Lang. (1982). Magnetic interactions in metalloporphyrin .pi.-radical cations of copper and iron. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 104(24). 6791–6793. 52 indexed citations

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Reed, Christopher A., T. Mashiko, W. Robert Scheidt, K. Spartalian, & George Lang. (1980). High-spin iron(II) in the porphyrin plane. Structural characterization of (meso-tetraphenylporphinato)bis(tetrahydrofuran)iron(II). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(7). 2302–2306. 79 indexed citations

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Collman, James P., John I. Brauman, Kenneth M. Doxsee, et al.. (1980). Synthesis and characterization of "tailed picket fence" porphyrins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 102(12). 4182–4192. 134 indexed citations

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Reed, Christopher A., T. Mashiko, Margaret E. Kastner, et al.. (1979). The missing heme spin state and a model for cytochrome c'. The mixed S = 3/2, 5/2 intermediate spin ferric porphyrin: perchlorato(meso-tetraphenylporphinato)iron(III). Journal of the American Chemical Society. 101(11). 2948–2958. 199 indexed citations

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Lang, George, et al.. (1974). Mössbauer spectroscopy studies of beef-heart cytochrome c oxidase. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure. 336(1). 6–14. 6 indexed citations

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Bock, Jay L. & George Lang. (1972). Mössbauer spectroscopy of iron chelated by deferoxamine. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 264(2). 245–251. 14 indexed citations

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Nichols, Alan L., et al.. (1972). The effect of the asymmetry parameter on the unresolved quadrupole splitting of 151Eu Mo¨ssbauer spectra. Chemical Physics Letters. 15(4). 598–599. 3 indexed citations

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Lang, George. (1971). Choice of applied field direction for resolving electric field gradient ambiguity in Mössbauer spectra. Journal of the Chemical Society A Inorganic Physical Theoretical. 0(0). 3245–3246. 3 indexed citations

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Lang, George, Toshio Asakura, & Takashi Yonetani. (1970). Mössbauer spectroscopy of mesohaem and protohaem myoglobins and their fluoride complexes. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Protein Structure. 214(3). 381–388. 12 indexed citations

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Lang, George, et al.. (1968). Mössbauer Spectroscopy of Cytochrome c. The Journal of Chemical Physics. 49(2). 944–950. 34 indexed citations

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Lang, George. (1967). Biological Applications of Magnetism. Journal of Applied Physics. 38(3). 915–922. 20 indexed citations

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Lang, George, et al.. (1966). Mössbauer effect in some haemoglobin compounds. Journal of Molecular Biology. 18(3). 385–404. 65 indexed citations

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