Lawrence Que

52.0k total citations · 8 hit papers
569 papers, 42.8k citations indexed

About

Lawrence Que is a scholar working on Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry and Oncology. According to data from OpenAlex, Lawrence Que has authored 569 papers receiving a total of 42.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 474 papers in Inorganic Chemistry, 210 papers in Materials Chemistry and 196 papers in Oncology. Recurrent topics in Lawrence Que's work include Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (461 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (195 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (143 papers). Lawrence Que is often cited by papers focused on Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms (461 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (195 papers) and Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (143 papers). Lawrence Que collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Netherlands. Lawrence Que's co-authors include Miguel Costas, Eckard Münck, William B. Tolman, Kui Chen, M.P. Mehn, Michael P. Jensen, Raymond Y. N. Ho, Jinheung Kim, Jan‐Uwe Rohde and John D. Lipscomb and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Lawrence Que

567 papers receiving 41.8k citations

Hit Papers

Dioxygen Activation at Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Active Si... 1995 2026 2005 2015 2004 2008 2003 1996 2003 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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.

  1. Dioxygen Activation at Mononuclear Nonheme Iron Active Sites:  Enzymes, Models, and Intermediates
    2004 2.2k citations Miguel Costas, Lawrence Que et al. profile →
  2. Biologically inspired oxidation catalysis
    2008 1.2k citations Lawrence Que, William B. Tolman profile →
  3. Crystallographic and Spectroscopic Characterization of a Nonheme Fe(IV)=O Complex
    2003 790 citations Jan‐Uwe Rohde, Mi Hee Lim et al. Science profile →
  4. Dioxygen Activation by Enzymes with Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Active Sites
    1996 603 citations Lawrence Que, Raymond Y. N. Ho profile →
  5. Nonheme FeIVO Complexes That Can Oxidize the C−H Bonds of Cyclohexane at Room Temperature
    2003 570 citations Jan‐Uwe Rohde, Audria Stubna et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
  6. High-valent nonheme iron-oxo complexes: Synthesis, structure, and spectroscopy
    2012 464 citations Lawrence Que et al. profile →
  7. Dioxygen Activation by Nonheme Diiron Enzymes: Diverse Dioxygen Adducts, High-Valent Intermediates, and Related Model Complexes
    2018 368 citations Lawrence Que et al. profile →
  8. Nonheme Iron Centers in Oxygen Activation: Characterization of an Iron(III) Hydroperoxide Intermediate
    1995 234 citations Lawrence Que 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
Lawrence Que United States 106 33.6k 16.3k 14.7k 10.5k 10.0k 569 42.8k
Edward I. Solomon United States 120 30.0k 0.9× 20.5k 1.3× 15.1k 1.0× 9.1k 0.9× 13.7k 1.4× 726 59.1k
Wonwoo Nam South Korea 95 20.5k 0.6× 15.6k 1.0× 7.5k 0.5× 8.8k 0.8× 5.0k 0.5× 465 30.2k
Eckard Münck United States 82 12.8k 0.4× 6.5k 0.4× 4.5k 0.3× 2.8k 0.3× 6.4k 0.6× 278 20.9k
Shunichi Fukuzumi Japan 122 16.5k 0.5× 34.4k 2.1× 5.5k 0.4× 22.9k 2.2× 6.5k 0.6× 1.2k 60.5k
Eckhard Bill Germany 87 14.0k 0.4× 9.5k 0.6× 7.0k 0.5× 9.2k 0.9× 3.3k 0.3× 557 28.4k
Brian M. Hoffman United States 85 9.9k 0.3× 11.8k 0.7× 2.5k 0.2× 3.9k 0.4× 9.2k 0.9× 694 33.1k
Thomas J. Meyer United States 121 12.1k 0.4× 28.3k 1.7× 15.1k 1.0× 15.4k 1.5× 5.7k 0.6× 843 68.7k
Rudi van Eldik Germany 64 5.8k 0.2× 5.6k 0.3× 6.0k 0.4× 7.5k 0.7× 3.6k 0.4× 890 22.0k
Sam P. de Visser United Kingdom 76 12.7k 0.4× 5.8k 0.4× 3.4k 0.2× 4.3k 0.4× 5.9k 0.6× 327 18.2k
Kenneth D. Karlin United States 80 12.9k 0.4× 7.5k 0.5× 8.6k 0.6× 5.3k 0.5× 3.9k 0.4× 369 20.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Que, Lawrence, et al.. (2024). Safe and Sustainable Industrial-Scale Production of Anhydrous Diazomethane via a Fully DCS/SIS-Controlled Continuous Flow System: Synthesis of α-Haloketones. Organic Process Research & Development. 29(1). 200–208. 3 indexed citations
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Oloo, Williamson N., Johannes E. M. N. Klein, Ruixi Fan, et al.. (2024). NMR and Mössbauer Studies Reveal a Temperature-Dependent Switch from S = 1 to 2 in a Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex with Faster C–H Bond Cleavage Rates. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(6). 3796–3804. 5 indexed citations
3.
Guo, Yisong, et al.. (2021). Spontaneous Formation of an Fe/Mn Diamond Core: Models for the Fe/Mn Sites in Class 1c Ribonucleotide Reductases. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(12). 8710–8721. 6 indexed citations
4.
Sheng, Yuan, et al.. (2018). Facile Conversion of syn‐[FeIV(O)(TMC)]2+ into the anti Isomer via Meunier's Oxo–Hydroxo Tautomerism Mechanism. Angewandte Chemie. 131(7). 2017–2021. 2 indexed citations
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Fan, Ruixi, Joan Serrano‐Plana, Williamson N. Oloo, et al.. (2018). Spectroscopic and DFT Characterization of a Highly Reactive Nonheme FeV–Oxo Intermediate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(11). 3916–3928. 84 indexed citations
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Draksharapu, Apparao, et al.. (2017). Facile and Reversible Formation of Iron(III)–Oxo–Cerium(IV) Adducts from Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes and Cerium(III). Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(31). 9091–9095. 30 indexed citations
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Ching, Wei‐Min, Johannes E. M. N. Klein, Ruixi Fan, et al.. (2017). Characterization of the Fleeting Hydroxoiron(III) Complex of the Pentadentate TMC-py Ligand. Inorganic Chemistry. 56(18). 11129–11140. 29 indexed citations
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Draksharapu, Apparao, et al.. (2017). Facile and Reversible Formation of Iron(III)–Oxo–Cerium(IV) Adducts from Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complexes and Cerium(III). Angewandte Chemie. 129(31). 9219–9223. 7 indexed citations
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Klein, Johannes E. M. N., Apparao Draksharapu, Alireza Rangriz Shokri, Christopher J. Cramer, & Lawrence Que. (2017). On the Lewis Acidity of the Oxoiron(IV) Unit in a Tetramethylcyclam Complex. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(20). 5373–5378. 10 indexed citations
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Fielding, Andrew J., John D. Lipscomb, & Lawrence Que. (2014). A two-electron-shell game: intermediates of the extradiol-cleaving catechol dioxygenases. JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 19(4-5). 491–504. 38 indexed citations
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Li, Feifei, Jason England, & Lawrence Que. (2010). Near-Stoichiometric Conversion of H 2 O 2 to Fe IV =O at a Nonheme Iron(II) Center. Insights into the O−O Bond Cleavage Step. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 132(7). 2134–2135. 61 indexed citations
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Que, Lawrence, et al.. (2007). Non-heme iron(ii) complexes are efficient olefin aziridination catalysts. Chemical Communications. 2063–2063. 52 indexed citations
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Ray, Kallol, Sang Mok Lee, & Lawrence Que. (2007). Iron-oxidation-state-dependent O–O bond cleavage of meta-chloroperbenzoic acid to form an iron(IV)-oxo complex. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 361(4). 1066–1069. 27 indexed citations
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Sastri, Chivukula V., Jimin Lee, Kyungeun Oh, et al.. (2007). Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104(49). 19181–19186. 370 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Filipe Tiago de, Arani Chanda, Deboshri Banerjee, et al.. (2006). Chemical and Spectroscopic Evidence for an Fe V -Oxo Complex. Science. 315(5813). 835–838. 392 indexed citations
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Bukowski, Michael R., Kevin D. Koehntop, Audria Stubna, et al.. (2005). A Thiolate-Ligated Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex Relevant to Cytochrome P450. Science. 310(5750). 1000–1002. 237 indexed citations
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Que, Lawrence & William B. Tolman. (2004). Bio-coordination chemistry. Elsevier eBooks. 33 indexed citations
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Lim, Mi Hee, Jan‐Uwe Rohde, Audria Stubna, et al.. (2003). An Fe IV O complex of a tetradentate tripodal nonheme ligand. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 100(7). 3665–3670. 298 indexed citations
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Que, Lawrence. (2000). Physical methods in bioinorganic chemistry : spectroscopy and magnetism. 195 indexed citations
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Roelfes, Gérard, et al.. (1999). N4Py iron complexes as model for iron bleomycin. Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry. 74(8). 279–279. 1 indexed citations

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