Ian D. Williams

36.3k total citations · 7 hit papers
553 papers, 32.0k citations indexed

About

Ian D. Williams is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian D. Williams has authored 553 papers receiving a total of 32.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 275 papers in Organic Chemistry, 229 papers in Materials Chemistry and 209 papers in Inorganic Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Ian D. Williams's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (150 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (123 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (73 papers). Ian D. Williams is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (150 papers), Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials (123 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (73 papers). Ian D. Williams collaborates with scholars based in Hong Kong, China and United States. Ian D. Williams's co-authors include Herman H. Y. Sung, Ben Zhong Tang, S.M.F. Lo, Jacky W. Y. Lam, S.S.-Y. Chui, A. Guy Orpen, J.P.H. Charmant, Guochen Jia, Kam Sing Wong and Ryan T. K. Kwok 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

Ian D. Williams

537 papers receiving 31.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A Chemically Functionalizable Nanoporous Material [Cu ₃ (TMA) ₂ (H ₂ O) ₃ ] _n

1999 5.3k citations Ian D. Williams et al. profile →
Synthesis, Light Emission, Nanoaggregation, and Restricted Intramolecular Rotation of 1,1-Substituted 2,3,4,5-Tetraphenylsiloles

2003 1.1k citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Ian D. Williams et al. profile →
Ruthenium-Catalyzed Cycloaddition of Alkynes and Organic Azides

2005 925 citations Ian D. Williams, Guochen Jia et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Twisted Intramolecular Charge Transfer and Aggregation-Induced Emission of BODIPY Derivatives

2009 907 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H. Y. Sung et al. profile →
Synergy between Twisted Conformation and Effective Intermolecular Interactions: Strategy for Efficient Mechanochromic Luminogens with High Contrast

2013 442 citations Jacky W. Y. Lam, Herman H‐Y. Sung et al. profile →
Highly Efficient Circularly Polarized Electroluminescence from Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogens with Amplified Chirality and Delayed Fluorescence

2018 371 citations Zheng Zhao, Haoke Zhang et al. profile →
Rational Design of NIR-II AIEgens with Ultrahigh Quantum Yields for Photo- and Chemiluminescence Imaging

2022 214 citations Hanchen Shen, Feiyi Sun 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						Papers	Cites
Ian D. Williams Hong Kong	84	19.2k	11.3k	9.7k	6.5k	6.4k	553	32.0k
Chen‐Ho Tung China	113	30.8k 1.6×	15.8k 1.4×	5.9k 0.6×	11.8k 1.8×	4.5k 0.7×	942	54.4k
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin United Kingdom	98	11.9k 0.6×	32.5k 2.9×	15.7k 1.6×	4.9k 0.8×	4.6k 0.7×	1.5k	48.4k
Vincent M. Lynch United States	88	13.7k 0.7×	12.4k 1.1×	5.5k 0.6×	1.6k 0.3×	10.3k 1.6×	564	26.4k
Andrew J. P. White United Kingdom	90	10.1k 0.5×	27.9k 2.5×	12.3k 1.3×	3.0k 0.5×	4.4k 0.7×	1.0k	40.5k
Shuang‐Quan Zang China	99	21.9k 1.1×	3.9k 0.3×	11.9k 1.2×	9.1k 1.4×	3.3k 0.5×	571	34.0k
Rong Cao China	101	20.7k 1.1×	6.3k 0.6×	21.7k 2.2×	5.2k 0.8×	1.9k 0.3×	878	39.4k
Wai‐Yeung Wong Hong Kong	96	22.7k 1.2×	9.6k 0.8×	3.8k 0.4×	24.3k 3.8×	3.1k 0.5×	989	42.5k
Deqing Zhang China	75	13.5k 0.7×	4.0k 0.4×	2.8k 0.3×	6.5k 1.0×	5.4k 0.8×	583	23.1k
David N. Reinhoudt Netherlands	107	16.6k 0.9×	19.7k 1.7×	5.6k 0.6×	10.1k 1.6×	14.4k 2.2×	966	49.6k
Uwe H. F. Bunz Germany	81	12.7k 0.7×	11.6k 1.0×	2.1k 0.2×	7.9k 1.2×	3.6k 0.6×	539	26.3k

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Sung, Herman H. Y., et al.. (2025). Synthesis and Alkyne Metathesis Activity of Rhenium Carbyne Complexes with PS‐Chelating Ligands. European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry. 28(12).

So, Yat‐Ming, et al.. (2025). Redox and Photochemical Reactivity of Cerium(IV) Carbonate and Carboxylate Complexes Supported by a Tripodal Oxygen Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry. 64(3). 1433–1442.

Sung, Herman H. Y., et al.. (2024). Synthesis, structure, and reactivity of ruthenium perfluoropinacolate complexes. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 1013. 123160–123160.

Zhao, Xueqian, Junyi Gong, Zikang Li, et al.. (2024). Au···I coinage bonds: Boosting photoluminescence efficiency and solid‐state molecular motion. Aggregate. 6(2). 5 indexed citations

Huang, Jie, et al.. (2024). Exploring efficient and air-stable d² Re(v) alkylidyne catalysts: toward room temperature alkyne metathesis. Chemical Science. 15(44). 18318–18326. 5 indexed citations

Li, Yanyan, Zhicong Zhou, Zengshan Xing, et al.. (2024). Solvent‐Induced Bright Emission in Lead‐Free Organic–Inorganic Antimony Bromides with Reversible Transformation. Small Methods. 9(2). e2400003–e2400003. 3 indexed citations

Ye, Wenkang, Xinnan Wang, Parvej Alam, et al.. (2024). Discovery of a novel marine bacterial AIEgen that lights up specific G-quadruplexes. Chemical Engineering Journal. 497. 154947–154947. 2 indexed citations

Bai, Wei, Yilun Wang, Yang Li, et al.. (2022). Synthesis and characterization of bi(metallacycloprop-1-ene) complexes. Chemical Science. 14(1). 96–102. 18 indexed citations

Shen, Hanchen, Feiyi Sun, Xinyan Zhu, et al.. (2022). Rational Design of NIR-II AIEgens with Ultrahigh Quantum Yields for Photo- and Chemiluminescence Imaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(33). 15391–15402. 214 indexed citations breakdown →

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Wang, Zhaoyu, Xinhui Zou, Yi Xie, et al.. (2022). A nonconjugated radical polymer with stable red luminescence in the solid state. Materials Horizons. 9(10). 2564–2571. 35 indexed citations

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Cheng, Aifang, Changdong Liu, Wenkang Ye, et al.. (2022). Selective C9orf72 G-Quadruplex-Binding Small Molecules Ameliorate Pathological Signatures of ALS/FTD Models. Journal of Medicinal Chemistry. 65(19). 12825–12837. 22 indexed citations

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Xu, Changhuo, Hang Zou, Zheng Zhao, et al.. (2021). Turning on Light Emission of a Dark Pro‐Aggregation‐Induced Emission Luminogen in Aqueous Media Through Reductase‐Modulated Derotation. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1(4). 20 indexed citations

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Li, Keyao, et al.. (2021). Varying degrees of homostructurality in a series of cocrystals of antimalarial drug 11-azaartemisinin with salicylic acids. Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry. 77(6). 262–270. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Xiaojun, Siwei Luo, Huiliang Sun, et al.. (2021). Medium band-gap non-fullerene acceptors based on a benzothiophene donor moiety enabling high-performance indoor organic photovoltaics. Energy & Environmental Science. 14(8). 4555–4563. 57 indexed citations

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Ye, Wenkang, et al.. (2020). Albofungin and chloroalbofungin: antibiotic crystals with 2D but not 3D isostructurality. Acta Crystallographica Section C Structural Chemistry. 76(12). 1100–1107. 7 indexed citations

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Niu, Guangle, Xiuli Zheng, Zheng Zhao, et al.. (2019). Functionalized Acrylonitriles with Aggregation-Induced Emission: Structure Tuning by Simple Reaction-Condition Variation, Efficient Red Emission, and Two-Photon Bioimaging. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(38). 15111–15120. 166 indexed citations

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Gao, Qingqing, Ling‐Hong Xiong, Ting Han, et al.. (2019). Three-Component Regio- and Stereoselective Polymerizations toward Functional Chalcogen-Rich Polymers with AIE-Activities. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(37). 14712–14719. 51 indexed citations

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Xie, Ni, Herman H. Y. Sung, Alexander A. Voityuk, et al.. (2019). Unusual Through‐Space Interactions between Oxygen Atoms that Mediate Inverse Morphochromism of an AIE Luminogen. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(22). 8552–8559. 33 indexed citations

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Zhang, Haoke, Xiaoyan Zheng, Ni Xie, et al.. (2017). Why Do Simple Molecules with “Isolated” Phenyl Rings Emit Visible Light?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(45). 16264–16272. 227 indexed citations

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Fang, Qianrong, et al.. (1999). Synthesis, structure and non-linear optical properties of FeHg(SCN)(4) and MnHg(SCN)(4). Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 6 indexed citations

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