Vance E. Williams

1.7k citations

70 papers · 1.4k indexed · h-index 21

Impact in

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials top 5%
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements
Organic Chemistry top 2%
- Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems

Papers in ⓘ

Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials 48
- Liquid Crystal Research Advancements 37
- Magnetism in coordination complexes 10
Organic Chemistry 38
- Surfactants and Colloidal Systems 19
- Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds 6

Co-authors: E. Johan Foster (9 shared papers)Christine Lavigueur (5 shared papers)Timothy M. Swager (5 shared papers)Robert P. Lemieux (6 shared papers)Ray Jones (1 shared paper)David N. Bailey (6 shared papers)Daniel B. Leznoff (10 shared papers)J. R. Thompson (6 shared papers)
Journals: Chemical Communications (6 papers)Journal of the American Chemical Society (6 papers)Canadian Journal of Chemistry (4 papers)Liquid Crystals (4 papers)Soft Matter (4 papers)
Partner nations: Canada United States France

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Vance E. Williams

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1	Structural Factors Controlling the Self-Assembly of Columnar Liquid Crystals Journal of the American Chemical Society ·E. Johan Foster, Ray Jones, Christine Lavigueur, Vance E. Williams	2006	159
2	Using novel fluorescent polymers as sensory materials for above-ground sensing of chemical signature compounds emanating from buried landmines IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing ·Colin Cumming, Craig Aker, Mark Fisher, M. V. Fok, Marcus J. la Grone, Dennis K. Reust, Mark G. Rockley, Timothy M. Swager, Eric Towers, Vance E. Williams	2001	122
3	Self-Assembly of Discotic Mesogens in Solution and in Liquid Crystalline Phases: Effects of Substituent Position and Hydrogen Bonding Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Christine Lavigueur, E. Johan Foster, Vance E. Williams	2008	95
4	Photolysis of aromatic azides. Part 4.—Lifetimes of aromatic nitrenes and absolute rates of some of their reactions Transactions of the Faraday Society ·Arnost Reiser, F. W. Willets, G. C. Terry, Vance E. Williams, R. Marley	1968	92
5	Correlation between Molecular Structure and Helicity of Induced Chiral Nematics in Terms of Short-Range and Electrostatic−Induction Interactions. The Case of Chiral Biphenyls Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Andrea Di Matteo, Steve M. Todd, Giovanni Gottarelli, Guy Solladié, Vance E. Williams, Robert P. Lemieux, Alberta Ferrarini, Gian Piero Spada	2001	73
6	Self-assembly of hydrogen-bonded molecules: discotic and elliptical mesogens Journal of Materials Chemistry ·E. Johan Foster, Christine Lavigueur, Ying-Chieh Ke, Vance E. Williams	2005	69
7	Effects of Symmetry on the Stability of Columnar Liquid Crystals Chemistry of Materials ·E. Voisin, E. Johan Foster, Muriel Rakotomalala, Vance E. Williams	2009	55
8	Iptycene-Containing Poly(aryleneethynylene)s Macromolecules ·Vance E. Williams, Timothy M. Swager	2000	48
9	Synthesis of unsymmetrical dibenzoquinoxaline discotic mesogensElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: full synthetic and analytical details, POM images. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b4/b400998c/ Chemical Communications ·E. Johan Foster, Jarret Babuin, Natalie Nguyen, Vance E. Williams	2004	46
10	Substituent Effects on the Stability of Arene−Arene Complexes: An AM1 Study of the Conformational Equilibria ofcis-1,3-Diphenylcyclohexanes The Journal of Organic Chemistry ·Vance E. Williams, Robert P. Lemieux, Gregory R. J. Thatcher	1996	39
11	An efficient synthesis of substituted anthraquinones and naphthoquinones Tetrahedron Letters ·David N. Bailey, Vance E. Williams	2004	30
12	Amphiphilic Cyclodextrin-Based Liquid Crystals for Proton Conduction Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Pier‐Luc Champagne, David Ester, Danielle M Polan, Vance E. Williams, Venkataraman Thangadurai, Chang‐Chun Ling	2019	29
13	An improved synthesis of poly(p-phenylenebutadiynylene)s Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry ·Vance E. Williams, Timothy M. Swager	2000	26
14	Role of Dispersion and Electrostatic Forces on Solute−Solvent Interactions in a Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase Journal of the American Chemical Society ·Vance E. Williams, Robert P. Lemieux	1998	26
15	Synthesis of a hexaalkoxybenzo[b]triphenylene mesogenElectronic supplementary information (ESI) available: full synthetic and analytical details. See http://www.rsc.org/suppdata/cc/b3/b305462d/ Chemical Communications ·Kevin Lau, E. Johan Foster, Vance E. Williams	2003	25
16	Supramolecular Assembly of Bis(benzimidazole)pyridine: An Extended Anisotropic Ligand For Highly Birefringent Materials Chemistry - A European Journal ·J. R. Thompson, Jeffrey S. Ovens, Vance E. Williams, Daniel B. Leznoff	2013	24
17	Structural Design Parameters for Highly Birefringent Coordination Polymers Inorganic Chemistry ·J. R. Thompson, Michael J. Katz, Vance E. Williams, Daniel B. Leznoff	2015	23
18	An investigation of the mesogenic properties of dibenzoquinoxaline derivatives Tetrahedron Letters ·Jarret Babuin, E. Johan Foster, Vance E. Williams	2003	22
19	Correlating Structural Features and ²⁰⁷Pb NMR Parameters with the Stereochemical Activity of Pb^II Lone Pairs in Birefringent Pb[2,6‐bis(benzimidazol‐2‐yl)pyridine] Complexes European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry ·J. R. Thompson, David Snider, John E. C. Wren, Scott Kroeker, Vance E. Williams, Daniel B. Leznoff	2016	21
20	Dibenz[a,c]anthracene derivatives exhibiting columnar mesophases over broad temperature ranges Chemical Communications ·Joseph A. Paquette, Colin J. Yardley, Katie M. Psutka, Melissa A. Cochran, Oliver Calderon, Vance E. Williams, Kenneth E. Maly	2012	20

About Vance E. Williams

Vance E. Williams is a scholar working on Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Toxicology and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, having authored 70 papers that have together received 1.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Liquid Crystal Research Advancements (37 papers), Surfactants and Colloidal Systems (19 papers), Molecular spectroscopy and chirality (14 papers), Magnetism in coordination complexes (10 papers), Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry (8 papers), Photochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry (7 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (6 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (6 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials (673 citations), Organic Chemistry (732 citations), Spectroscopy (369 citations), Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (136 citations) and Materials Chemistry (561 citations). Vance E. Williams has collaborated with scholars based in Canada, United States and France. Frequent co-authors include E. Johan Foster, Christine Lavigueur, Timothy M. Swager, Robert P. Lemieux, Ray Jones, David N. Bailey, Daniel B. Leznoff, J. R. Thompson, Arnost Reiser and Chang‐Chun Ling. Their work appears in journals such as Chemical Communications, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Canadian Journal of Chemistry, Liquid Crystals and Soft Matter.

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