L. Mercs

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
13 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

L. Mercs is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, L. Mercs has authored 13 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Organic Chemistry, 4 papers in Materials Chemistry and 3 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in L. Mercs's work include N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry (6 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (5 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (3 papers). L. Mercs is often cited by papers focused on N-Heterocyclic Carbenes in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry (6 papers), Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions (5 papers) and Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (3 papers). L. Mercs collaborates with scholars based in Ireland, Switzerland and United Kingdom. L. Mercs's co-authors include Martin Albrecht, A. Neels, G. Labat, Andreas W. Ehlers, H. Stoeckli‐Evans, Dawn E. Barry, Jonathan A. Kitchen, Thorfinnur Gunnlaugsson, Robert D. Peacock and Gianluca Pozzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Chemical Society Reviews, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Inorganic Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

L. Mercs

13 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

Beyond catalysis: N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as com... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2010 200 400 600
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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. Beyond catalysis: N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as components for medicinal, luminescent, and functional materials applications
    2010 677 citations L. Mercs, Martin Albrecht Chemical Society Reviews profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
L. Mercs Ireland 13 1.2k 247 218 95 87 13 1.3k
Nuria Rendón Spain 19 995 0.8× 363 1.5× 152 0.7× 53 0.6× 126 1.4× 46 1.2k
Juan Gil‐Rubio Spain 20 909 0.8× 316 1.3× 178 0.8× 126 1.3× 43 0.5× 41 1.1k
Martin Haehnel Germany 17 869 0.7× 264 1.1× 330 1.5× 62 0.7× 30 0.3× 30 1.1k
Ajay Venugopal India 19 674 0.6× 543 2.2× 225 1.0× 138 1.5× 81 0.9× 48 891
Paul A. Deck United States 19 881 0.7× 484 2.0× 91 0.4× 42 0.4× 146 1.7× 37 1.1k
Dan A. Smith United Kingdom 13 553 0.5× 275 1.1× 129 0.6× 44 0.5× 38 0.4× 20 691
Soichiro Kawamorita Japan 17 1.5k 1.2× 416 1.7× 185 0.8× 38 0.4× 32 0.4× 40 1.6k
Lydia Karmazin‐Brelot France 12 422 0.4× 239 1.0× 195 0.9× 134 1.4× 50 0.6× 20 670
S.R. Dubberley United Kingdom 20 958 0.8× 475 1.9× 118 0.5× 59 0.6× 245 2.8× 29 1.1k
Mikhail V. Barybin United States 20 468 0.4× 209 0.8× 240 1.1× 161 1.7× 29 0.3× 40 715

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All Works

13 of 13 papers shown
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Barry, Dawn E., Jonathan A. Kitchen, L. Mercs, et al.. (2019). Chiral luminescent lanthanide complexes possessing strong (samarium, SmIII) circularly polarised luminescence (CPL), and their self-assembly into Langmuir–Blodgett films. Dalton Transactions. 48(30). 11317–11325. 47 indexed citations
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Kitchen, Jonathan A., Dawn E. Barry, L. Mercs, et al.. (2011). Circularly Polarized Lanthanide Luminescence from Langmuir–Blodgett Films Formed from Optically Active and Amphiphilic EuIII‐Based Self‐Assembly Complexes. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 51(3). 704–708. 88 indexed citations
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Kitchen, Jonathan A., Dawn E. Barry, L. Mercs, et al.. (2011). Circularly Polarized Lanthanide Luminescence from Langmuir–Blodgett Films Formed from Optically Active and Amphiphilic EuIII‐Based Self‐Assembly Complexes. Angewandte Chemie. 124(3). 728–732. 16 indexed citations
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Mercs, L., A. Neels, H. Stoeckli‐Evans, & Martin Albrecht. (2011). Probing Intermetallic Coupling in Dinuclear N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ruthenium(II) Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 50(17). 8188–8196. 46 indexed citations
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Mercs, L. & Martin Albrecht. (2010). Beyond catalysis: N-heterocyclic carbene complexes as components for medicinal, luminescent, and functional materials applications. Chemical Society Reviews. 39(6). 1903–1903. 677 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schuster, O., L. Mercs, & Martin Albrecht. (2010). The Potential of N-Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes as Components for Electronically Active Materials. CHIMIA International Journal for Chemistry. 64(3). 184–184. 38 indexed citations
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Mercs, L., A. Neels, H. Stoeckli‐Evans, & Martin Albrecht. (2009). Main-chain organometallic polymers comprising redox-active iron(ii) centers connected by ditopic N-heterocyclic carbenes. Dalton Transactions. 7168–7168. 82 indexed citations
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Mercs, L., A. Neels, & Martin Albrecht. (2008). Probing the potential of N-heterocyclic carbenes in molecular electronics: redox-active metal centers interlinked by a rigid ditopic carbene ligand. Dalton Transactions. 5570–5570. 106 indexed citations
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Mercs, L., Gianluca Pozzi, & Silvio Quici. (2007). Efficient condensation of carboxylic acids with alcohols catalyzed by fluorous ammonium triflates. Tetrahedron Letters. 48(17). 3053–3056. 25 indexed citations
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Pozzi, Gianluca, et al.. (2006). Straightforward Synthesis of a Fluorous Tetraarylporphyrin: an Efficient and Recyclable Sensitizer for Photooxygenation Reactions. Advanced Synthesis & Catalysis. 348(12-13). 1611–1620. 13 indexed citations
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Mercs, L., G. Labat, A. Neels, Andreas W. Ehlers, & Martin Albrecht. (2006). Piano-Stool Iron(II) Complexes as Probes for the Bonding of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes:  Indications for π-Acceptor Ability. Organometallics. 25(23). 5648–5656. 173 indexed citations
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Bayardon, Jérôme, et al.. (2005). Fluorous derivatives of (1R,2R)-diaminocyclohexane as chiral ligands for metal-catalyzed asymmetric reactions. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 16(13). 2319–2327. 21 indexed citations
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Micskei, Károly, et al.. (2004). Enantioselective reduction of prochiral ketones by chromium(II) amino acid complexes. Tetrahedron Asymmetry. 15(11). 1735–1744. 16 indexed citations

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