Robert Bau

17.7k total citations · 6 hit papers
281 papers, 15.0k citations indexed

About

Robert Bau is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Bau has authored 281 papers receiving a total of 15.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 147 papers in Organic Chemistry, 117 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 84 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert Bau's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (66 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (47 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (40 papers). Robert Bau is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (66 papers), Metal complexes synthesis and properties (47 papers) and Crystallography and molecular interactions (40 papers). Robert Bau collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Japan. Robert Bau's co-authors include Peter I. Djurovich, Mark E. Thompson, I. Tsyba, Sergey Lamansky, Thomas F. Koetzle, Arnold Tamayo, Muhammed Yousufuddin, N.N. Ho, B.D. Alleyne and Jason Brooks and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of the American Chemical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert Bau

277 papers receiving 14.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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. Synthesis and Characterization of Phosphorescent Cyclometalated Platinum Complexes
    2002 1.2k citations Jason Brooks, Peter I. Djurovich et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →
  2. Synthesis and Characterization of Facial and Meridional Tris-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Complexes
    2003 1.1k citations Arnold Tamayo, Peter I. Djurovich et al. profile →
  3. Synthesis and Characterization of Phosphorescent Cyclometalated Iridium Complexes
    2001 1.1k citations Peter I. Djurovich, I. Tsyba et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →
  4. Synthetic Control of Excited-State Properties in Cyclometalated Ir(III) Complexes Using Ancillary Ligands
    2005 634 citations Peter I. Djurovich, Muhammed Yousufuddin et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →
  5. Blue and Near-UV Phosphorescence from Iridium Complexes with Cyclometalated Pyrazolyl or N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands
    2005 605 citations T. Sajoto, Peter I. Djurovich et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →
  6. Cationic Bis-cyclometalated Iridium(III) Diimine Complexes and Their Use in Efficient Blue, Green, and Red Electroluminescent Devices
    2005 530 citations Arnold Tamayo, T. Sajoto et al. Inorganic Chemistry profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Robert Bau 7.0k 6.3k 5.4k 4.5k 1.9k 281 15.0k
Catherine E. Housecroft 5.2k 0.7× 5.1k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 4.2k 0.9× 3.4k 1.8× 599 13.3k
Andrei S. Batsanov 8.7k 1.2× 8.2k 1.3× 6.7k 1.2× 3.3k 0.7× 770 0.4× 558 19.1k
Auke Meetsma 11.0k 1.6× 5.1k 0.8× 2.4k 0.4× 6.2k 1.4× 1.4k 0.7× 387 17.6k
Paul R. Raithby 12.5k 1.8× 6.1k 1.0× 3.1k 0.6× 8.9k 2.0× 3.6k 1.9× 913 20.3k
Karl M. Kadish 7.0k 1.0× 15.7k 2.5× 4.0k 0.7× 5.8k 1.3× 1.9k 1.0× 704 21.4k
Clifford P. Kubiak 3.4k 0.5× 5.9k 0.9× 5.7k 1.1× 3.5k 0.8× 1.2k 0.6× 280 19.5k
Alex von Zelewsky 5.1k 0.7× 4.5k 0.7× 2.1k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 4.7k 2.5× 166 11.3k
J. A. Gareth Williams 5.5k 0.8× 11.4k 1.8× 6.8k 1.3× 2.0k 0.4× 2.1k 1.1× 251 16.8k
Michael Hanack 4.7k 0.7× 8.8k 1.4× 2.0k 0.4× 2.3k 0.5× 617 0.3× 500 13.8k
Charlotte L. Stern 11.7k 1.7× 9.0k 1.4× 3.9k 0.7× 9.3k 2.1× 1.2k 0.6× 389 23.4k

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All Works

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Bau, Robert. (2010). Ten Strategy Paradoxes in Service Innovation and Design. 101–110. 1 indexed citations
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Moiseeva, Natalia, Robert Bau, Stephen D. Swenson, et al.. (2008). Structure of acostatin, a dimeric disintegrin from Southern copperhead (Agkistrodon contortrix contortrix), at 1.7 Å resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 64(4). 466–470. 17 indexed citations
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Evans, William J., Kevin A. Miller, Antonio G. DiPasquale, et al.. (2008). A Crystallizable f‐Element Tuck‐In Complex: The Tuck‐in Tuck‐over Uranium Metallocene [(C5Me5)U{μ‐η5:η1:η1‐C5Me3(CH2)2}(μ‐H)2U(C5Me5)2]. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(27). 5075–5078. 78 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo & Robert Bau. (2007). Neutron protein crystallography: beyond the folding structure of biological macromolecules. Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations of Crystallography. 64(1). 12–22. 64 indexed citations
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Borek, Carsten, Kenneth Hanson, Peter I. Djurovich, et al.. (2007). Highly Efficient, Near‐Infrared Electrophosphorescence from a Pt–Metalloporphyrin Complex. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 46(7). 1109–1112. 250 indexed citations
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Niimura, Nobuo, Shigeki Arai, Kazuo Kurihara, et al.. (2006). Recent results on hydrogen and hydration in biology studied by neutron macromolecular crystallography. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 63(3). 285–300. 37 indexed citations
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Sajoto, T., Peter I. Djurovich, Arnold Tamayo, et al.. (2005). Blue and Near-UV Phosphorescence from Iridium Complexes with Cyclometalated Pyrazolyl or N-Heterocyclic Carbene Ligands. Inorganic Chemistry. 44(22). 7992–8003. 605 indexed citations breakdown →
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Haiges, Ralf, Jerry A. Boatz, Robert Bau, et al.. (2005). Polyazide Chemistry: The First Binary Group 6 Azides, Mo(N3)6, W(N3)6, [Mo(N3)7]−, and [W(N3)7]−, and the [NW(N3)4]− and [NMo(N3)4]− Ions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(12). 1860–1865. 85 indexed citations
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Yousufuddin, Muhammed, Ting‐Bin Wen, Sax A. Mason, et al.. (2005). A Neutron Diffraction Study of [OsClH3(PPh3)3]: A Complex Containing a Highly “Stretched” Dihydrogen Ligand. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 44(44). 7227–7230. 18 indexed citations
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Chatake, Toshiyuki, Kazuo Kurihara, Ichiro Tanaka, et al.. (2004). A neutron crystallographic analysis of a rubredoxin mutant at 1.6 Å resolution. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 60(8). 1364–1373. 29 indexed citations
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Li, Xinmin, Paul Langan, Robert Bau, et al.. (2003). W3Y single mutant of rubredoxin fromPyrococcus furiosus: a preliminary time-of-flight neutron study. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 60(1). 200–202. 9 indexed citations
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Moiseeva, Natalia, Stephen D. Swenson, Francis S. Markland, & Robert Bau. (2002). Purification, crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the disintegrin contortrostatin fromAgkistrodon contortrix contortrixsnake venom. Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography. 58(12). 2122–2124. 7 indexed citations
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Lagow, Richard J., Joel J. Kampa, Scott L. Battle, et al.. (1998). Synthesis of Linear Acetylenic Carbon. TANSO. 1998(181). 27–33. 8 indexed citations
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Klooster, Wim T., et al.. (1998). Neutron Diffraction Study of [Nd(AlMe4)3]⋅0.5 Al2Me6 at 100 K: The First Detailed Look at a Bridging Methyl Group with a Trigonal-Bipyramidal Carbon Atom. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 37(9). 1268–1270. 54 indexed citations
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Veyrat, Marc, Anne Petitjean, Marinella Mazzanti, et al.. (1997). En route to an efficient preparation of biocartol esters. Synthetic and structural investigations in the (1R,3S)-(-)-2,2-dimethyl-3-formylcyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid series. Infoscience (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne). 134(7). 703–711.
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Pergola, Roberto Della, Luigi Garlaschelli, Secondo Martinengo, et al.. (1990). Chemistry of iridium carbonyl cluster complexes. Synthesis, chemical characterization and X-ray crystal structures of [PPh4][Ir6(CO)15Cl] · C4H8O and [PPh4][Ir6(CO)14Cl]. Journal of Organometallic Chemistry. 396(2-3). 385–399. 9 indexed citations
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McLean, Malcolm R., Raymond C. Stevens, Robert Bau, & Thomas F. Koetzle. (1989). Location of the elusive hydride ligand in HRh [P(C6H5)3]4 via a neutron diffraction analysis. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 166(2). 173–175. 13 indexed citations
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Hadjiliadis, Nick, et al.. (1983). Complexes of mercury(II) with thiamine. Inorganica Chimica Acta. 69. 109–115. 26 indexed citations

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