Gian Piero Spada

7.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
143 papers, 6.3k citations indexed

About

Gian Piero Spada is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Gian Piero Spada has authored 143 papers receiving a total of 6.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Organic Chemistry, 62 papers in Spectroscopy and 57 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Gian Piero Spada's work include Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (47 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (44 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers). Gian Piero Spada is often cited by papers focused on Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (47 papers), DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry (44 papers) and Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (41 papers). Gian Piero Spada collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United States. Gian Piero Spada's co-authors include Giovanni Gottarelli, Stefano Masiero, Silvia Pieraccini, Jeffery T. Davis, Stefano Lena, Antonio Randazzo, Paolo Mariani, Mateus Webba da Silva, Alberta Ferrarini and Paolo Samorı́ and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Gian Piero Spada

140 papers receiving 6.2k citations

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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.

Supramolecular architectures generated by self-assembly of guanosine derivatives

2006 591 citations Jeffery T. Davis, Gian Piero Spada Chemical Society Reviews profile →

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Giovanni Gottarelli Italy

Mark M. Green United States

Leonard J. Prins Italy

Akio Teŕamoto Japan

Stefano Masiero Italy

John P. Mathias United Kingdom

Stephen M. Goldup United Kingdom

Silvia Pieraccini Italy

Stuart Cantrill United States

Richard J. Bushby United Kingdom

Giovanni Gottarelli Italy

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gian Piero Spada

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Ciesielski, Artur, Sébastien Haar, Gábor Paragi, et al.. (2013). Supramolecular H-bonded porous networks at surfaces: exploiting primary and secondary interactions in a bi-component melamine–xanthine system. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 15(30). 12442–12442. 15 indexed citations

Masiero, Stefano, et al.. (2012). Liponucleoside thin films: The special behaviour of guanosine. Colloids and Surfaces B Biointerfaces. 103. 45–51. 5 indexed citations

Randazzo, Antonio, Gian Piero Spada, & Mateus Webba da Silva. (2012). Circular Dichroism of Quadruplex Structures. Topics in current chemistry. 330. 67–86. 179 indexed citations

Wu, Yi‐Lin, Fiammetta Ferroni, Silvia Pieraccini, et al.. (2012). 1,2-Di(phenylethynyl)ethenes with axially chiral, 2,2′-bridged 1,1′-binaphthyl substituents: potent cholesteric liquid-crystal inducers. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 10(39). 8016–8016. 34 indexed citations

Ferrarini, Alberta, Fiammetta Ferroni, Silvia Pieraccini, et al.. (2011). Central‐to‐axial chirality transfer revealed by liquid crystals: A combined experimental and computational approach for the determination of absolute configuration of carboxylic acids with an α chirality centre. Chirality. 23(9). 736–743. 3 indexed citations

Lena, Stefano, Paolo Neviani, Stefano Masiero, Silvia Pieraccini, & Gian Piero Spada. (2010). Triggering of Guanosine Self‐Assembly by Light. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(21). 3657–3660. 56 indexed citations

Ciesielski, Artur, Stefano Lena, Stefano Masiero, Gian Piero Spada, & Paolo Samorı́. (2010). Dynamers at the Solid–Liquid Interface: Controlling the Reversible Assembly/Reassembly Process between Two Highly Ordered Supramolecular Guanine Motifs. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 49(11). 1963–1966. 146 indexed citations

Pieraccini, Silvia, Sara Bonacchi, Stefano Lena, et al.. (2009). Solvent-induced switching between two supramolecular assemblies of a guanosine–terthiophene conjugate. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 8(4). 774–781. 22 indexed citations

Ferrarini, Alberta, Silvia Pieraccini, Stefano Masiero, & Gian Piero Spada. (2009). Chiral amplification in a cyanobiphenyl nematic liquid crystal doped with helicene-like derivatives. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 5. 50–50. 21 indexed citations

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Neviani, Paolo, Elisabetta Mileo, Stefano Masiero, et al.. (2009). Self-Assembled Hexadecanitroxide. Organic Letters. 11(14). 3004–3007. 7 indexed citations

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Masiero, Stefano, Stefano Lena, Silvia Pieraccini, & Gian Piero Spada. (2008). The Direct Conversion of Light into Continuous Mechanical Energy by Photoreversible Self‐Assembly: A Prototype of a Light‐Powered Engine. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(17). 3184–3187. 35 indexed citations

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Spada, Gian Piero. (2007). Induktion starker Circulardichroismuseffekte durch Ausrichtung achiraler selbstorganisierter Fasern in konvektiven und in Wirbelströmungen. Angewandte Chemie. 120(4). 646–648. 12 indexed citations

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Pieraccini, Silvia, Alberta Ferrarini, & Gian Piero Spada. (2007). Chiral doping of nematic phases and its application to the determination of absolute configuration. Chirality. 20(5). 749–759. 68 indexed citations

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Gottarelli, Giovanni, Stefano Lena, Stefano Masiero, Silvia Pieraccini, & Gian Piero Spada. (2007). The use of circular dichroism spectroscopy for studying the chiral molecular self‐assembly: An overview. Chirality. 20(3-4). 471–485. 201 indexed citations

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Lena, Stefano, Mauro A. Cremonini, Giovanni Gottarelli, et al.. (2007). The Supramolecular Helical Architecture of 8‐Oxoinosine and 8‐Oxoguanosine Derivatives. Chemistry - A European Journal. 13(12). 3441–3449. 23 indexed citations

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Davis, Jeffery T. & Gian Piero Spada. (2006). Supramolecular architectures generated by self-assembly of guanosine derivatives. Chemical Society Reviews. 36(2). 296–313. 591 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pieraccini, Silvia, Alberta Ferrarini, Kaoru Fuji, et al.. (2005). Homochiral Helices of Oligonaphthalenes Inducing Opposite‐Handed Cholesteric Phases. Chemistry - A European Journal. 12(4). 1121–1126. 23 indexed citations

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Gottarelli, Giovanni & Gian Piero Spada. (2004). The stepwise supramolecular organisation of guanosine derivatives. The Chemical Record. 4(1). 39–49. 35 indexed citations

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Cisnetti, Federico, Roberto Ballardini, Alberto Credi, et al.. (2004). Photochemical and Electronic Properties of Conjugated Bis(azo) Compounds: An Experimental and Computational Study. Chemistry - A European Journal. 10(8). 2011–2021. 113 indexed citations

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Cainelli, Gianfranco, Paola Galletti, Silvia Pieraccini, et al.. (2003). Chiral aldehydes in hydrocarbons: diastereoselective nucleophilic addition, NMR, and CD spectroscopy reveal dynamic solvation effects. Chirality. 16(1). 50–56. 11 indexed citations

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