Kari Rissanen

35.0k total citations · 6 hit papers
891 papers, 30.0k citations indexed

About

Kari Rissanen is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Kari Rissanen has authored 891 papers receiving a total of 30.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 578 papers in Organic Chemistry, 277 papers in Spectroscopy and 248 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Kari Rissanen's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (278 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (238 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (227 papers). Kari Rissanen is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (278 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (238 papers) and Molecular Sensors and Ion Detection (227 papers). Kari Rissanen collaborates with scholars based in Finland, Germany and India. Kari Rissanen's co-authors include Massimo Cametti, Jonathan R. Nitschke, Arto Valkonen, Prasenjit Mal, Ngong Kodiah Beyeh, Boris Breiner, Rakesh Puttreddy, Markus Albrecht, Maija Nissinen and Dieter Enders and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Kari Rissanen

874 papers receiving 29.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Definition of the halogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2013)

2013 1.7k citations Kari Rissanen et al. profile →
White Phosphorus Is Air-Stable Within a Self-Assembled Tetrahedral Capsule

2009 1.0k citations Kari Rissanen et al. profile →
X-ray analysis on the nanogram to microgram scale using porous complexes

2013 727 citations Kari Rissanen et al. profile →
Recognition and sensing of fluoride anion

2009 629 citations Kari Rissanen et al. Chemical Communications profile →
Definition of the chalcogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2019)

2019 428 citations Kari Rissanen et al. profile →
Definition of the pnictogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2023)

2024 63 citations Kari Rissanen et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kari Rissanen Finland	76	16.7k	10.0k	8.9k	8.7k	8.2k	891	30.0k
Christopher A. Hunter United Kingdom	68	10.9k 0.7×	8.7k 0.9×	4.3k 0.5×	5.4k 0.6×	7.1k 0.9×	316	23.6k
Paul D. Beer United Kingdom	79	16.2k 1.0×	14.1k 1.4×	5.3k 0.6×	18.8k 2.2×	6.8k 0.8×	533	31.4k
Jerry L. Atwood United States	87	24.1k 1.4×	11.2k 1.1×	16.8k 1.9×	7.4k 0.9×	6.2k 0.8×	778	34.6k
Jonathan W. Steed United Kingdom	67	10.6k 0.6×	9.7k 1.0×	6.6k 0.7×	5.5k 0.6×	5.3k 0.7×	421	23.2k
Giuseppe Resnati Italy	76	11.8k 0.7×	8.9k 0.9×	12.0k 1.4×	5.0k 0.6×	18.3k 2.2×	411	30.4k
David J. Williams United Kingdom	86	24.5k 1.5×	8.0k 0.8×	8.3k 0.9×	6.0k 0.7×	3.2k 0.4×	850	31.9k
Vincent M. Lynch United States	88	12.4k 0.7×	13.7k 1.4×	5.5k 0.6×	10.3k 1.2×	2.7k 0.3×	564	26.4k
Pierangelo Metrangolo Italy	70	9.5k 0.6×	9.0k 0.9×	10.8k 1.2×	4.6k 0.5×	16.8k 2.1×	312	27.8k
Antonio Frontera Spain	79	10.9k 0.7×	8.3k 0.8×	15.1k 1.7×	5.9k 0.7×	15.6k 1.9×	1.1k	31.3k
Andrew J. P. White United Kingdom	90	27.9k 1.7×	10.1k 1.0×	12.3k 1.4×	4.4k 0.5×	2.2k 0.3×	1.0k	40.5k

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Engelage, Elric, et al.. (2025). Ortho ‐Carborane‐Derived Halogen Bonding Organocatalysts. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 64(17). e202424072–e202424072. 4 indexed citations

Ovsyannikov, Alexander S., Stéphane A. Baudron, Jas S. Ward, et al.. (2024). Face-controlled chirality induction in octahedral thiacalixarene-based porous coordination cages. Nanoscale. 17(4). 1980–1989.

Yu, Shilin, J. Mikko Rautiainen, Parveen Kumar, et al.. (2023). Ortho‐Substituent Effects on Halogen Bond Geometry for N‐Haloimide⋯2‐Substituted Pyridine Complexes. Advanced Science. 11(6). e2307208–e2307208. 6 indexed citations

Rissanen, Kari & Jas S. Ward. (2023). Iodine(I) and Silver(I) Complexes Incorporating 3-Substituted Pyridines. ACS Omega. 8(26). 24064–24071. 6 indexed citations

Ward, Jas S., Elina Sievänen, & Kari Rissanen. (2023). Solid‐state NMR Spectroscopy of Iodine(I) Complexes. Chemistry - An Asian Journal. 18(6). e202201203–e202201203. 6 indexed citations

Schumacher, Christian, Khai‐Nghi Truong, Jas S. Ward, et al.. (2023). Halogen bonding and mechanochemistry combined: synthesis, characterization, and application of N -iodosaccharin pyridine complexes. Organic Chemistry Frontiers. 11(3). 781–795. 6 indexed citations

Ward, Jas S., et al.. (2023). Cover Feature: Diiminium Nucleophile Adducts Are Stable and Convenient Strong Lewis Acids (Chem. Eur. J. 58/2023). Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(58).

Truong, Khai‐Nghi, et al.. (2022). A handy and accessible tool for identification of Sn(II) in toothpaste. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 2305–2305. 5 indexed citations

Ferrer, Montserrat, et al.. (2022). Homo- and heterometallic chiral dynamic architectures from allyl–palladium(ii) building blocks. Dalton Transactions. 51(15). 5913–5928. 2 indexed citations

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Yu, Shilin, Jas S. Ward, Khai‐Nghi Truong, & Kari Rissanen. (2021). Carbonyl Hypoiodites as Extremely Strong Halogen Bond Donors. Angewandte Chemie. 133(38). 20907–20911. 2 indexed citations

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Taimoory, S. Maryamdokht, Fangfang Pan, Manu Lahtinen, et al.. (2020). Bringing a Molecular Plus One: Synergistic Binding Creates Guest-Mediated Three-Component Complexes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 85(9). 5884–5894. 11 indexed citations

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Jia, Fei, Hendrik V. Schröder, Liu‐Pan Yang, et al.. (2020). Redox-Responsive Host–Guest Chemistry of a Flexible Cage with Naphthalene Walls. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(7). 3306–3310. 50 indexed citations

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Jurček, Ondřej, Rakesh Puttreddy, Filip Topić, et al.. (2020). Heads or Tails? Sandwich-Type Metallo Complexes of Hexakis(2,3-di-O-methyl)-α-cyclodextrin. Crystal Growth & Design. 20(6). 4193–4199. 6 indexed citations

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Shi, Qixun, Xin‐Hui Zhou, Yuan Wei, et al.. (2020). Selective Formation of S₄- and T-Symmetric Supramolecular Tetrahedral Cages and Helicates in Polar Media Assembled via Cooperative Action of Coordination and Hydrogen Bonds. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(7). 3658–3670. 50 indexed citations

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Arteaga, Oriol, Frank Balzer, Dirk Hertel, et al.. (2020). Polymorphic chiral squaraine crystallites in textured thin films. Chirality. 32(5). 619–631. 13 indexed citations

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Topić, Filip, et al.. (2019). Cocrystal trimorphism as a consequence of the orthogonality of halogen- and hydrogen-bonds synthons. Chemical Communications. 55(93). 14066–14069. 14 indexed citations

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Yang, Liu‐Pan, et al.. (2019). Probing the guest-binding preference of three structurally similar and conformationally adaptive macrocycles. Chemical Communications. 55(54). 7768–7771. 7 indexed citations

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Eßen, Carolina von, Kari Rissanen, & Rakesh Puttreddy. (2019). Halogen Bonds in 2,5-Dihalopyridine-Copper(I) Halide Coordination Polymers. Materials. 12(20). 3305–3305. 10 indexed citations

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Puttreddy, Rakesh, Ngong Kodiah Beyeh, S. Maryamdokht Taimoory, et al.. (2018). Host–guest complexes of conformationally flexibleC-hexyl-2-bromoresorcinarene and aromaticN-oxides: solid-state, solution and computational studies. Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry. 14. 1723–1733. 8 indexed citations

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Hakala, Kati, Jari Nuutinen, Thomas Straub, Kari Rissanen, & Pirjo Vainiotalo. (2002). Mass spectrometric studies of benzoxazine resorcarenes. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry. 16(17). 1680–1685. 9 indexed citations

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