Jérôme Lacour

10.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
268 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

Jérôme Lacour is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Jérôme Lacour has authored 268 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 206 papers in Organic Chemistry, 110 papers in Spectroscopy and 59 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Jérôme Lacour's work include Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (71 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (59 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (45 papers). Jérôme Lacour is often cited by papers focused on Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (71 papers), Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis (59 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (45 papers). Jérôme Lacour collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, France and Italy. Jérôme Lacour's co-authors include Céline Besnard, Jonathan J. Jodry, Philip Magnus, Johann Bosson, Delphine Moraléda, David Linder, Laure Guénée, Catherine Ginglinger, Gérald Bernardinelli and Francesco Zinna and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Chemical Society Reviews and Advanced Materials.

In The Last Decade

Jérôme Lacour

260 papers receiving 8.6k citations

Hit Papers

Helicenes—A New Class of Organic Spin Filter 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 100 200 300
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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. Helicenes—A New Class of Organic Spin Filter
    2016 390 citations I. Hernández Delgado, Jérôme Lacour et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jérôme Lacour Switzerland 48 6.3k 2.4k 2.4k 1.4k 1.3k 268 8.7k
Nicolas Vanthuyne France 48 6.2k 1.0× 2.4k 1.0× 3.3k 1.4× 852 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 339 8.3k
Sota Sato Japan 49 6.4k 1.0× 1.8k 0.8× 3.4k 1.4× 2.5k 1.8× 861 0.6× 186 8.5k
Arne Lützen Germany 42 3.7k 0.6× 1.7k 0.7× 1.7k 0.7× 1.3k 0.9× 627 0.5× 217 5.7k
Christiane Dietrich‐Buchecker France 50 6.6k 1.0× 2.6k 1.1× 3.5k 1.4× 1.2k 0.9× 2.0k 1.5× 99 8.7k
Javier de Mendoza Spain 47 4.7k 0.7× 3.0k 1.2× 2.2k 0.9× 1.0k 0.7× 2.0k 1.5× 176 7.1k
Michael Schmittel Germany 56 7.2k 1.1× 2.7k 1.1× 3.8k 1.6× 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 355 11.7k
Koji Araki Japan 44 4.5k 0.7× 3.3k 1.4× 4.5k 1.9× 605 0.4× 1.1k 0.8× 251 8.2k
Peter N. Horton United Kingdom 41 3.3k 0.5× 1.0k 0.4× 2.6k 1.1× 1.9k 1.3× 725 0.5× 275 7.0k
J.-M. Lehn France 8 4.6k 0.7× 2.5k 1.0× 3.3k 1.3× 2.5k 1.8× 1.2k 0.9× 10 8.9k
Steven J. Geib United States 52 6.7k 1.1× 1.4k 0.6× 3.1k 1.3× 4.4k 3.1× 1.7k 1.3× 243 11.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jérôme Lacour

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All Works

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Besnard, Céline, Alexander F. Siegle, Oliver Trapp, et al.. (2025). All-Heteroatom-Substituted Carbon Spiro Stereocenters: Synthesis, Resolution, Enantiomeric Stability, and Absolute Configuration. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(24). 21121–21130.
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Saleh, Nidal, Valerio Zullo, Lorenzo Arrico, et al.. (2025). Tethered Enantiopure Boramidines for Advanced Chiroptical Studies. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(27). e202500490–e202500490. 3 indexed citations
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Besnard, Céline, et al.. (2023). 2,4,5,7‐Tetranitrofluorenone Oximate for the Naked‐Eye Detection of H‐Bond Donors and the Chiroptical Sensing of Enantiopure Reagents. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(60). e202302169–e202302169. 1 indexed citations
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Zhang, Kefeng, Nidal Saleh, Arnulf Rosspeintner, et al.. (2023). Multistate Aggregation‐Induced Chiroptical Properties of Enantiopure Disulfide‐Mediated Bispyrene Macrocycles. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 62(29). e202304075–e202304075. 26 indexed citations
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Zhang, Kefeng, Nidal Saleh, Arnulf Rosspeintner, et al.. (2023). Multistate Aggregation‐Induced Chiroptical Properties of Enantiopure Disulfide‐Mediated Bispyrene Macrocycles. Angewandte Chemie. 135(29).
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Elie, Margaux, Marion Pupier, Adiran de Aguirre, et al.. (2022). Acetylene Derivatives of Cationic Diazaoxatriangulenes and Diaza [4]Helicenes ‐ Access to Red Emitters and Planar Chiral Stereochemical Traits. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(15). e202104405–e202104405. 6 indexed citations
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Oppermann, Malte, Francesco Zinna, Jérôme Lacour, & Majed Chergui. (2022). Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes. Nature Chemistry. 14(7). 739–745. 50 indexed citations
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Baghdasaryan, Ani, Elodie Brun, Yuming Wang, et al.. (2021). Combined spectroscopic studies on post-functionalized Au25 cluster as an ATR-FTIR sensor for cations. Chemical Science. 12(21). 7419–7427. 7 indexed citations
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Delgado, I. Hernández, Francesco Zinna, Vincent Dorcet, et al.. (2021). Hybrids of cationic [4]helicene and N-heterocyclic carbene as ligands for complexes exhibiting (chir)optical properties in the far red spectral window. Chemical Communications. 57(31). 3793–3796. 16 indexed citations
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Aguirre, Adiran de, et al.. (2020). Regiodivergent synthesis of pyrazino-indolines vs. triazocines via α-imino carbenes addition to imidazolidines. Chemical Science. 12(4). 1479–1485. 24 indexed citations
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Saleh, Nidal, et al.. (2020). Access to Chiral Rigid Hemicyanine Fluorophores from Tröger Bases and α-Imino Carbenes. Organic Letters. 22(19). 7599–7603. 8 indexed citations
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Li, Haidong, Romain Duwald, Simon Pascal, et al.. (2020). Near-infrared electrochemiluminescence in water through regioselective sulfonation of diaza [4] and [6]helicene dyes. Chemical Communications. 56(68). 9771–9774. 12 indexed citations
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Homberg, Alexandre & Jérôme Lacour. (2020). From reactive carbenes to chiral polyether macrocycles in two steps – synthesis and applications made easy?. Chemical Science. 11(25). 6362–6369. 14 indexed citations
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Duwald, Romain, Johann Bosson, Simon Pascal, et al.. (2019). Merging polyacenes and cationic helicenes: from weak to intense chiroptical properties in the far red region. Chemical Science. 11(4). 1165–1169. 33 indexed citations
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Zinna, Francesco, Silvia Voci, Lorenzo Arrico, et al.. (2019). Circularly‐Polarized Electrochemiluminescence from a Chiral Bispyrene Organic Macrocycle. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(21). 6952–6956. 122 indexed citations
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Bauer, Christoph, Romain Duwald, Simon Pascal, et al.. (2018). Specific labeling of mitochondria of Chlamydomonas with cationic helicene fluorophores. Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry. 16(6). 919–923. 26 indexed citations
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Magnus, Philip, Jérôme Lacour, & Andrew J. Evans. (1993). New Trialkylsilyl Enol Ether Chemistry. Archive ouverte UNIGE (University of Geneva). 7 indexed citations

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