Richard A. Layfield

11.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
120 papers, 9.6k citations indexed

About

Richard A. Layfield is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Richard A. Layfield has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 9.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, 68 papers in Organic Chemistry and 64 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Richard A. Layfield's work include Magnetism in coordination complexes (76 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (57 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (56 papers). Richard A. Layfield is often cited by papers focused on Magnetism in coordination complexes (76 papers), Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes (57 papers) and Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (56 papers). Richard A. Layfield collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, China and Finland. Richard A. Layfield's co-authors include Richard E. P. Winpenny, Daniel N. Woodruff, Fu‐Sheng Guo, Benjamin M. Day, Akseli Mansikkamäki, Ming‐Liang Tong, Yan‐Cong Chen, Thomas Pugh, Floriana Tuna and Nicholas F. Chilton and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Chemical Reviews and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Richard A. Layfield

118 papers receiving 9.5k citations

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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.

Lanthanide Single-Molecule Magnets

2013 2.5k citations Richard E. P. Winpenny, Richard A. Layfield et al. Chemical Reviews profile →
Magnetic hysteresis up to 80 kelvin in a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet

2018 1.6k citations Fu‐Sheng Guo, Benjamin M. Day et al. profile →
A Dysprosium Metallocene Single‐Molecule Magnet Functioning at the Axial Limit

2017 940 citations Fu‐Sheng Guo, Benjamin M. Day et al. Angewandte Chemie International Edition profile →

Peers

Richard A. Layfield

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Yanhua Lan Germany

Olivier Cador France

Yan‐Cong Chen China

Ilia Korobkov Canada

David P. Mills United Kingdom

Lahcène Ouahab France

Jean‐Pascal Sutter France

Philippe Guionneau France

Masahiro Yamashita Japan

Stergios Piligkos Denmark

Yanhua Lan Germany

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De, Siddhartha, Arpan Mondal, Lucy Clark, et al.. (2025). Four‐Centre, Multielectron Bonding in Rare‐Earth Germole Sandwich Complexes. Angewandte Chemie. 137(21). 1 indexed citations

De, Siddhartha, Arpan Mondal, Yan‐Cong Chen, Ming‐Liang Tong, & Richard A. Layfield. (2025). Single‐molecule Magnet Properties of Silole‐ and Stannole‐ligated Erbium Cyclo‐octatetraenyl Sandwich Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 31(17). e202500011–e202500011. 5 indexed citations

Liu, Ming, Yan‐Cong Chen, Arpan Mondal, et al.. (2025). η⁶-Benzene Tetra-Anion Complexes of Early and Late Rare-Earth Metals. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 147(13). 11359–11367. 2 indexed citations

Mondal, Arpan, S. R. Giblin, Catherine P. Raptopoulou, et al.. (2024). Unveiling new [1+1] Schiff-base macrocycles towards high energy-barrier hexagonal bipyramidal Dy(iii) single-molecule magnets. Chemical Communications. 60(87). 12730–12733. 6 indexed citations

Barluzzi, Luciano, Sean P. Ogilvie, Alan Β. Dalton, et al.. (2024). Triply Bonded Pancake π-Dimers Stabilized by Tetravalent Actinides. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(6). 4234–4241. 10 indexed citations

White, Andrew J. P., et al.. (2023). Syntheses and Characterization of Main Group, Transition Metal, Lanthanide, and Actinide Complexes of Bidentate Acylpyrazolone Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry. 62(33). 13253–13276. 4 indexed citations

De, Siddhartha, Arpan Mondal, Ze‐Yu Ruan, Ming‐Liang Tong, & Richard A. Layfield. (2023). Dynamic Magnetic Properties of Germole‐ligated Lanthanide Sandwich Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 29(37). e202300567–e202300567. 22 indexed citations

Barluzzi, Luciano, S. R. Giblin, Akseli Mansikkamäki, & Richard A. Layfield. (2022). Identification of Oxidation State +1 in a Molecular Uranium Complex. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(40). 18229–18233. 70 indexed citations

Bar, Arun Kumar, et al.. (2020). Coupling of Nitric Oxide and Release of Nitrous Oxide from Rare-Earth-Dinitrosyliron Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(9). 4104–4107. 7 indexed citations

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Guo, Fu‐Sheng, Arun Kumar Bar, & Richard A. Layfield. (2019). Main Group Chemistry at the Interface with Molecular Magnetism. Chemical Reviews. 119(14). 8479–8505. 185 indexed citations

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Guo, Fu‐Sheng, Benjamin M. Day, Yan‐Cong Chen, et al.. (2017). A Dysprosium Metallocene Single‐Molecule Magnet Functioning at the Axial Limit. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 56(38). 11445–11449. 940 indexed citations breakdown →

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Moilanen, Jani O., Akseli Mansikkamäki, Manu Lahtinen, et al.. (2017). Thermal expansion and magnetic properties of benzoquinone-bridged dinuclear rare-earth complexes. Dalton Transactions. 46(39). 13582–13589. 22 indexed citations

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Day, Benjamin M., et al.. (2017). Activation of C–H bonds by rare-earth metallocene-butyl complexes. Chemical Communications. 53(72). 9990–9993. 17 indexed citations

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Pugh, Thomas, Floriana Tuna, Liviu Ungur, et al.. (2015). Influencing the properties of dysprosium single-molecule magnets with phosphorus donor ligands. Nature Communications. 6(1). 7492–7492. 124 indexed citations

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Moilanen, Jani O., Benjamin M. Day, Thomas Pugh, & Richard A. Layfield. (2015). Open-shell doublet character in a hexaazatrinaphthylene trianion complex. Chemical Communications. 51(57). 11478–11481. 25 indexed citations

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Sulway, Scott A., Richard A. Layfield, Floriana Tuna, Wolfgang Wernsdorfer, & Richard E. P. Winpenny. (2011). Single-molecule magnetism in cyclopentadienyl-dysprosium chlorides. Chemical Communications. 48(10). 1508–1510. 134 indexed citations

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Layfield, Richard A., Joseph J. W. McDouall, Manfred Scheer, Christoph Schwarzmaier, & Floriana Tuna. (2011). Structure and bonding in three-coordinate N-heterocyclic carbene adducts of iron(ii) bis(trimethylsilyl)amide. Chemical Communications. 47(38). 10623–10623. 89 indexed citations

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Solomon, Sophia A. & Richard A. Layfield. (2009). The coordination chemistry of silyl-substituted allyl ligands. Dalton Transactions. 39(10). 2469–2483. 38 indexed citations

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Layfield, Richard A.. (2008). Manganese(ii): the black sheep of the organometallic family. Chemical Society Reviews. 37(6). 1098–1098. 72 indexed citations

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Layfield, Richard A., et al.. (2006). The cationic cluster Grignard [{MgCl(thf)₂}₃(μ₃-C₃H₅)₂]⁺. Chemical Communications. 2039–2041. 16 indexed citations

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