Robert G. Bergman

60.9k total citations · 17 hit papers
689 papers, 52.4k citations indexed

About

Robert G. Bergman is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert G. Bergman has authored 689 papers receiving a total of 52.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 603 papers in Organic Chemistry, 310 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 57 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert G. Bergman's work include Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (238 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (202 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (111 papers). Robert G. Bergman is often cited by papers focused on Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis (238 papers), Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (202 papers) and Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (111 papers). Robert G. Bergman collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Robert G. Bergman's co-authors include Jonathan A. Ellman, Kenneth N. Raymond, Denise A. Colby, F. Dean Toste, Jared C. Lewis, Michael D. Pluth, Bruce A. Arndtsen, Richard A. Andersen, Patrick J. Walsh and John Arnold and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Chemical Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Robert G. Bergman

682 papers receiving 51.2k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Rhodium-Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation via Heteroatom-Directed C−H Bond Activation

2009 3.4k citations Robert G. Bergman et al. profile →
Rhodium Catalyzed Chelation-Assisted C–H Bond Functionalization Reactions

2011 1.3k citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
C–H activation

2007 1.3k citations Robert G. Bergman profile →
Selective Intermolecular Carbon-Hydrogen Bond Activation by Synthetic Metal Complexes in Homogeneous Solution

1995 1.3k citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
Supramolecular Catalysis in Metal–Ligand Cluster Hosts

2015 1.1k citations F. Dean Toste, Robert G. Bergman et al. profile →
Direct Functionalization of Nitrogen Heterocycles via Rh-Catalyzed C−H Bond Activation

2008 902 citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
Selective molecular recognition, C-H bond activation, and catalysis in nanoscale reaction \nvessels

2004 878 citations Dorothea Fiedler, Dennis Leung et al. eScholarship (California Digital Library) profile →
Acid Catalysis in Basic Solution: A Supramolecular Host Promotes Orthoformate Hydrolysis

2007 714 citations Robert G. Bergman, Kenneth N. Raymond et al. profile →
Reactive 1,4-dehydroaromatics

1973 652 citations Robert G. Bergman Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
p-Benzyne. Generation as an intermediate in a thermal isomerization reaction and trapping evidence for the 1,4-benzenediyl structure

1972 561 citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Proton-Mediated Chemistry and Catalysis in a Self-Assembled Supramolecular Host

2009 538 citations Robert G. Bergman, Kenneth N. Raymond et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
Carbon-hydrogen activation in completely saturated hydrocarbons: direct observation of M + R-H .fwdarw. M(R)(H)

1982 468 citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
A supramolecular microenvironment strategy for transition metal catalysis

2015 425 citations Robert G. Bergman, Kenneth N. Raymond et al. profile →
Unusually Mild and Selective Hydrocarbon C-H Bond Activation with Positively Charged Iridium(III) Complexes

1995 416 citations Robert G. Bergman et al. profile →
Self-Assembled Tetrahedral Hosts as Supramolecular Catalysts

2018 337 citations Cynthia Hong, Robert G. Bergman et al. Accounts of Chemical Research profile →
Mechanistic Investigation of the Staudinger Ligation

2005 308 citations Robert G. Bergman et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Advances in supramolecular host-mediated reactivity

2020 307 citations Mariko Morimoto, Robert G. Bergman et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Robert G. Bergman	45.1k	20.7k	6.1k	4.0k	3.6k	689	52.4k
Alexandra M. Z. Slawin	32.5k 0.7×	15.7k 0.8×	11.9k 2.0×	5.5k 1.4×	4.6k 1.3×	1.5k	48.4k
Eric N. Jacobsen	42.3k 0.9×	17.5k 0.8×	5.7k 0.9×	10.5k 2.6×	3.3k 0.9×	328	50.4k
Roland Fröhlich	26.5k 0.6×	12.6k 0.6×	4.2k 0.7×	3.1k 0.8×	2.1k 0.6×	1.0k	32.0k
F. Dean Toste	40.7k 0.9×	13.1k 0.6×	5.1k 0.8×	4.7k 1.2×	2.3k 0.6×	400	48.4k
Michael B. Hursthouse	23.7k 0.5×	15.1k 0.7×	9.8k 1.6×	2.6k 0.6×	4.1k 1.1×	1.5k	38.5k
W. Clegg	19.4k 0.4×	13.7k 0.7×	6.5k 1.1×	1.7k 0.4×	1.7k 0.5×	1.3k	28.9k
Gerard van Koten	25.4k 0.6×	12.5k 0.6×	4.8k 0.8×	3.1k 0.8×	1.0k 0.3×	834	31.6k
Alan J. Lough	18.1k 0.4×	13.6k 0.7×	5.7k 0.9×	2.3k 0.6×	1.6k 0.4×	810	27.1k
A.G. Orpen	18.6k 0.4×	13.4k 0.6×	4.9k 0.8×	2.0k 0.5×	1.2k 0.3×	532	26.7k
Louis J. Farrugia	25.9k 0.6×	27.6k 1.3×	10.4k 1.7×	4.4k 1.1×	3.1k 0.9×	206	47.4k

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Rajeshkumar, Thayalan, et al.. (2024). Spectroscopic and Computational Evidence of Uranium Dihydrogen Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 146(2). 1257–1261. 5 indexed citations

Bergman, Robert G., et al.. (2022). Heterobimetallic-Mediated Dinitrogen Functionalization: N–C Bond Formation at Rhenium-Group 9 Diazenido Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 61(40). 16064–16071. 13 indexed citations

Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2021). σ or π? Bonding interactions in a series of rhenium metallotetrylenes. Dalton Transactions. 50(6). 2083–2092. 16 indexed citations

Boreen, Michael A., et al.. (2021). A Diverse Array of C–C Bonds Formed at a Tantalum Metal Center. Inorganic Chemistry. 60(13). 9912–9931. 8 indexed citations

Lohrey, Trevor D., Guodong Rao, David W. Small, et al.. (2020). Electronic Structures of Rhenium(II) β-Diketiminates Probed by EPR Spectroscopy: Direct Comparison of an Acceptor-Free Complex to Its Dinitrogen, Isocyanide, and Carbon Monoxide Adducts. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 142(32). 13805–13813. 9 indexed citations

Grant, Lauren N., et al.. (2020). 1,2-Addition and cycloaddition reactions of niobium bis(imido) and oxo imido complexes. Chemical Science. 11(42). 11613–11632. 19 indexed citations

Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2020). Electron acceptors promote proton–hydride tautomerism in low valent rhenium β-diketiminates. Chemical Communications. 56(26). 3761–3764. 10 indexed citations

Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2020). Facile Activation of Triarylboranes by Rhenium(V) Oxo Imido Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(10). 7216–7226. 6 indexed citations

Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2020). Diverse Reactivity of a Rhenium(V) Oxo Imido Complex: [2 + 2] Cycloadditions, Chalcogen Metathesis, Oxygen Atom Transfer, and Protic and Hydridic 1,2-Additions. Inorganic Chemistry. 59(15). 11096–11107. 13 indexed citations

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Lohrey, Trevor D., Robert G. Bergman, & John Arnold. (2019). Controlling dinitrogen functionalization at rhenium through alkali metal ion pairing. Dalton Transactions. 48(48). 17936–17944. 24 indexed citations

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Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2019). Structural diversity in multinuclear tantalum polyhydrides formed via reductive hydrogenolysis of metal–carbon bonds. Chemical Communications. 55(88). 13263–13266. 10 indexed citations

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Hong, Cynthia, Robert G. Bergman, Kenneth N. Raymond, & F. Dean Toste. (2018). Self-Assembled Tetrahedral Hosts as Supramolecular Catalysts. Accounts of Chemical Research. 51(10). 2447–2455. 337 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lohrey, Trevor D., Laurent Maron, Robert G. Bergman, & John Arnold. (2018). Heterotetrametallic Re–Zn–Zn–Re Complex Generated by an Anionic Rhenium(I) β-Diketiminate. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(2). 800–804. 29 indexed citations

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Hong, Cynthia, Mariko Morimoto, Eugene A. Kapustin, et al.. (2018). Deconvoluting the Role of Charge in a Supramolecular Catalyst. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(21). 6591–6595. 95 indexed citations

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Lohrey, Trevor D., et al.. (2018). Hydroboration Reactivity of Niobium Bis(N-heterocyclic carbene)borate Complexes. Inorganic Chemistry. 57(9). 5213–5224. 13 indexed citations

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Garner, Mary E., Bernard F. Parker, Stephan Hohloch, Robert G. Bergman, & John Arnold. (2017). Thorium Metallacycle Facilitates Catalytic Alkyne Hydrophosphination. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(37). 12935–12938. 43 indexed citations

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Lohrey, Trevor D., Robert G. Bergman, & John Arnold. (2017). Olefin‐Supported Rhenium(III) Terminal Oxo Complexes Generated by Nucleophilic Addition to a Cyclopentadienyl Ligand. Angewandte Chemie. 129(45). 14429–14433. 1 indexed citations

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Kaltsoyannis, Nikolas, et al.. (2017). Synthesis and Redox Chemistry of a Tantalum Alkylidene Complex Bearing a Metallaimidazole Ring. Organometallics. 36(18). 3520–3529. 6 indexed citations

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Fiedler, Dorothea, Dennis Leung, Kenneth N. Raymond, & Robert G. Bergman. (2004). Selective molecular recognition, C-H bond activation, and catalysis in nanoscale reaction \nvessels. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 878 indexed citations breakdown →

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