Robert J. Nielsen

5.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
69 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Robert J. Nielsen is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert J. Nielsen has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Organic Chemistry, 29 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 19 papers in Materials Chemistry. Recurrent topics in Robert J. Nielsen's work include Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (18 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (13 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers). Robert J. Nielsen is often cited by papers focused on Catalytic C–H Functionalization Methods (18 papers), Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions (13 papers) and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis (12 papers). Robert J. Nielsen collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Australia. Robert J. Nielsen's co-authors include William A. Goddard, Jonas Oxgaard, Roy A. Periana, Yufeng Huang, Mu‐Jeng Cheng, Yuan Ping, John T. Groves, Wei Liu, Xiongyi Huang and Manuel P. Soriaga 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 J. Nielsen

67 papers receiving 4.2k 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.

Oxidative Aliphatic C-H Fluorination with Fluoride Ion Catalyzed by a Manganese Porphyrin

2012 466 citations Wei Liu, Xiongyi Huang et al. Science profile →

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Zheng‐Wang Qu Germany

Mark A. Iron Israel

Róbert K. Szilágyi United States

Yoshihito Shiota Japan

Simone Raugei United States

Ulrich Wedig Germany

My Hang V. Huynh United States

Yury Minenkov Russia

Ritimukta Sarangi United States

Carles Bó Spain

Zheng‐Wang Qu Germany

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Lionetti, Davide, Emily Y. Tsui, Luo Lu, et al.. (2019). Effects of Lewis Acidic Metal Ions (M) on Oxygen-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Heterometallic Mn₃MO₄ Cubane and Fe₃MO(OH) and Mn₃MO(OH) Clusters. Inorganic Chemistry. 58(4). 2336–2345. 28 indexed citations

Boaz, Nicholas C., Thompson Zhuang, Jonathan M. Goldberg, et al.. (2018). Mechanism of Hydrocarbon Functionalization by an Iodate/Chloride System: The Role of Ester Protection. ACS Catalysis. 8(4). 3138–3149. 22 indexed citations

Gallo, Adair, Andreia S.F. Farinha, Abdul‐Hamid Emwas, et al.. (2018). The chemical reactions in electrosprays of water do not always correspond to those at the pristine air–water interface. Chemical Science. 10(9). 2566–2577. 52 indexed citations

Zhou, Haiqing, Yu Fang, Yufeng Huang, et al.. (2016). Efficient hydrogen evolution by ternary molybdenum sulfoselenide particles on self-standing porous nickel diselenide foam. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12765–12765. 338 indexed citations

Ping, Yuan, Robert J. Nielsen, & William A. Goddard. (2016). The Reaction Mechanism with Free Energy Barriers at Constant Potentials for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction at the IrO₂ (110) Surface. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 139(1). 149–155. 302 indexed citations

Fu, Ross, Matthew E. O’Reilly, Robert J. Nielsen, William A. Goddard, & T. Brent Gunnoe. (2014). Rhodium Bis(quinolinyl)benzene Complexes for Methane Activation and Functionalization. Chemistry - A European Journal. 21(3). 1286–1293. 23 indexed citations

Shaffer, David W., Samantha I. Johnson, Arnold L. Rheingold, et al.. (2014). Reactivity of a Series of Isostructural Cobalt Pincer Complexes with CO₂, CO, and H⁺. Inorganic Chemistry. 53(24). 13031–13041. 43 indexed citations

Mishra, Himanshu, Shinichi Enami, Robert J. Nielsen, et al.. (2012). Anions dramatically enhance proton transfer through aqueous interfaces. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 109(26). 10228–10232. 50 indexed citations

Liu, Wei, Xiongyi Huang, Mu‐Jeng Cheng, et al.. (2012). Oxidative Aliphatic C-H Fluorination with Fluoride Ion Catalyzed by a Manganese Porphyrin. Science. 337(6100). 1322–1325. 466 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cheng, Mu‐Jeng, Steven M. Bischof, Robert J. Nielsen, et al.. (2012). The para-substituent effect and pH-dependence of the organometallic Baeyer–Villiger oxidation of rhenium–carbon bonds. Dalton Transactions. 41(13). 3758–3758. 8 indexed citations

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Cheng, Mu‐Jeng, Robert J. Nielsen, Jamil Tahir‐Kheli, & William A. Goddard. (2011). The magnetic and electronic structure of vanadyl pyrophosphate from density functional theory. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics. 13(20). 9831–9831. 13 indexed citations

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Jaramillo-Botero, Andrés, Robert J. Nielsen, Ravinder Abrol, et al.. (2011). First-Principles-Based Multiscale, Multiparadigm Molecular Mechanics and Dynamics Methods for Describing Complex Chemical Processes. Topics in current chemistry. 307. 1–42. 10 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Robert J., et al.. (2011). Iridium complexes bearing a PNP ligand, favoring facile C(sp3)–H bond cleavage. Dalton Transactions. 40(36). 9094–9094. 11 indexed citations

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Goddard, William A., Lianchi Liu, Jonathan E. Mueller, Sanja Pudar, & Robert J. Nielsen. (2011). Structures, Mechanisms, and Kinetics of Ammoxidation and Selective Oxidation of Propane Over the M2 Phase of MoVNbTeO Catalysts. Topics in Catalysis. 54(10-12). 659–668. 17 indexed citations

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Conley, Brian L., Somesh K. Ganesh, Jason M. Gonzales, et al.. (2008). Facile Oxy‐Functionalization of a Nucleophilic Metal Alkyl with a cis‐Dioxo Metal Species via a (2+3) Transition State. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 47(41). 7849–7852. 24 indexed citations

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Oxgaard, Jonas, William J. Tenn, Robert J. Nielsen, Roy A. Periana, & William A. Goddard. (2007). Mechanistic Analysis of Iridium Heteroatom C−H Activation: Evidence for an Internal Electrophilic Substitution Mechanism. Organometallics. 26(7). 1565–1567. 127 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Robert J. & William A. Goddard. (2006). Mechanism of the Aerobic Oxidation of Alcohols by Palladium Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 128(30). 9651–9660. 72 indexed citations

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Jones, C. Bigler, Doug Taube, Vadim R. Ziatdinov, et al.. (2004). Selective Oxidation of Methane to Methanol Catalyzed, with CH Activation, by Homogeneous, Cationic Gold. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 43(35). 4626–4629. 212 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Robert J., Jason M. Keith, Brian M. Stoltz, & William A. Goddard. (2004). A Computational Model Relating Structure and Reactivity in Enantioselective Oxidations of Secondary Alcohols by (−)-Sparteine−Pd^II Complexes. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 126(25). 7967–7974. 81 indexed citations

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Nielsen, Robert J., et al.. (1969). Quasi-uniformizability. Mathematische Annalen. 182(4). 273–274. 7 indexed citations

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