John S. Murdzek

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
9 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

John S. Murdzek is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Oncology and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. According to data from OpenAlex, John S. Murdzek has authored 9 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Organic Chemistry, 2 papers in Oncology and 2 papers in Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment. Recurrent topics in John S. Murdzek's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (4 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (2 papers). John S. Murdzek is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (6 papers), Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods (4 papers) and Metal complexes synthesis and properties (2 papers). John S. Murdzek collaborates with scholars based in United States. John S. Murdzek's co-authors include Richard R. Schrock, Jennifer Robbins, Marie B. O’Regan, Marcello DiMare, Jerald Feldman, William M. Davis, Guillermo C. Bazan, Konrad Knoll, Kenneth S. Pitzer and Melvyn Rowen Churchill and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Macromolecules and Organometallics.

In The Last Decade

John S. Murdzek

9 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

Synthesis of molybdenum imido alkylidene complexes and so... 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 250 500 750
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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. Synthesis of molybdenum imido alkylidene complexes and some reactions involving acyclic olefins
    1990 825 citations Richard R. Schrock, John S. Murdzek 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
John S. Murdzek United States 9 1.2k 422 148 134 104 9 1.3k
Jennifer Robbins 5 1.0k 0.8× 346 0.8× 112 0.8× 144 1.1× 91 0.9× 6 1.0k
Nissim Calderon United States 13 839 0.7× 189 0.4× 107 0.7× 120 0.9× 84 0.8× 21 969
R. Kashif M. Khan United States 13 1.3k 1.1× 251 0.6× 102 0.7× 148 1.1× 100 1.0× 14 1.4k
John H. Oskam United States 7 711 0.6× 238 0.6× 102 0.7× 69 0.5× 38 0.4× 8 742
Anna Szadkowska Poland 19 955 0.8× 321 0.8× 117 0.8× 105 0.8× 69 0.7× 26 1.0k
Andrew Hejl United States 9 778 0.6× 265 0.6× 124 0.8× 75 0.6× 51 0.5× 10 817
Cezary Pietraszuk Poland 24 1.5k 1.2× 165 0.4× 112 0.8× 380 2.8× 282 2.7× 78 1.6k
Shinji Watanabe Japan 22 1.7k 1.4× 225 0.5× 62 0.4× 268 2.0× 227 2.2× 75 2.0k
César A. Urbina‐Blanco United Kingdom 21 991 0.8× 295 0.7× 110 0.7× 209 1.6× 104 1.0× 32 1.2k
Philip L. Osburn United States 10 804 0.7× 157 0.4× 38 0.3× 250 1.9× 156 1.5× 11 941

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John S. Murdzek

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All Works

9 of 9 papers shown
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Robbins, Jennifer, Guillermo C. Bazan, John S. Murdzek, Marie B. O’Regan, & Richard R. Schrock. (1991). Reduction of molybdenum imido-alkylidene complexes in the presence of olefins to give molybdenum(IV) complexes. Organometallics. 10(8). 2902–2907. 67 indexed citations
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Schrock, Richard R., et al.. (1990). Synthesis of molybdenum imido alkylidene complexes and some reactions involving acyclic olefins. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 112(10). 3875–3886. 825 indexed citations breakdown →
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Feldman, Jerald, John S. Murdzek, William M. Davis, & Richard R. Schrock. (1989). Reaction of neopentylidene complexes of the type M(CH-t-Bu)(N-2,6-C6H3-i-Pr2)(OR)2 (M = W, Mo) with methyl acrylate and N,N-dimethylacrylamide to give metallacyclobutane complexes. Organometallics. 8(9). 2260–2265. 73 indexed citations
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Murdzek, John S., et al.. (1988). Tungsten and molybdenum alkylidyne complexes containing bulky thiolate ligands. Organometallics. 7(2). 436–441. 16 indexed citations
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Schrock, Richard R., et al.. (1988). Controlled ring-opening metathesis polymerization by molybdenum and tungsten alkylidene complexes. Journal of Molecular Catalysis. 46(1-3). 243–253. 61 indexed citations
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Murdzek, John S. & Richard R. Schrock. (1987). Low polydispersity homopolymers and block copolymers by ring opening of 5,6-dicarbomethoxynorbornene. Macromolecules. 20(10). 2640–2642. 57 indexed citations
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Murdzek, John S. & Richard R. Schrock. (1987). Well-characterized olefin metathesis catalysts that contain molybdenum. Organometallics. 6(6). 1373–1374. 124 indexed citations
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Pitzer, Kenneth S. & John S. Murdzek. (1982). Thermodynamics of aqueous sodium sulfate. Journal of Solution Chemistry. 11(6). 409–413. 11 indexed citations

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