William Cullen

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

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William Cullen is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. According to data from OpenAlex, William Cullen has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Organic Chemistry, 8 papers in Inorganic Chemistry and 7 papers in Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials. Recurrent topics in William Cullen's work include Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (14 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (8 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (7 papers). William Cullen is often cited by papers focused on Supramolecular Chemistry and Complexes (14 papers), Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (8 papers) and Magnetism in coordination complexes (7 papers). William Cullen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and Malaysia. William Cullen's co-authors include Michael D. Ward, Christopher A. Hunter, Nicholas H. Williams, Maria Cristina Misuraca, Simon Turega, Alexander J. Metherell, Hiroki Takezawa, Makoto Fujita, Ashley B. Wragg and Christopher G. P. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Chemical Communications.

In The Last Decade

William Cullen

17 papers receiving 1.2k citations

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Highly efficient catalysis of the Kemp elimination in the cavity of a cubic coordination cage

2016 400 citations William Cullen, Maria Cristina Misuraca et al. Nature Chemistry profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
William Cullen United Kingdom	15	989	522	449	390	264	17	1.2k
Colm Browne United Kingdom	10	916 0.9×	450 0.9×	394 0.9×	282 0.7×	267 1.0×	13	1.1k
Masahiro Yamashina Japan	15	1.1k 1.1×	381 0.7×	519 1.2×	509 1.3×	217 0.8×	30	1.3k
Casey J. Brown United States	5	1.3k 1.3×	672 1.3×	555 1.2×	411 1.1×	273 1.0×	8	1.6k
Jacopo Tessarolo Germany	15	860 0.9×	391 0.7×	532 1.2×	287 0.7×	269 1.0×	30	1.2k
Kazuhisa Kumazawa Japan	12	842 0.9×	466 0.9×	410 0.9×	279 0.7×	341 1.3×	14	1.2k
V. Nicholas Vukotic Canada	20	1.2k 1.2×	697 1.3×	783 1.7×	602 1.5×	268 1.0×	29	1.7k
David M. Engelhard Germany	10	771 0.8×	379 0.7×	327 0.7×	253 0.6×	243 0.9×	10	1.0k
Salvatore Zarra United Kingdom	17	1.3k 1.4×	671 1.3×	679 1.5×	573 1.5×	425 1.6×	22	1.7k
Marco Ziegler United States	14	922 0.9×	497 1.0×	428 1.0×	404 1.0×	290 1.1×	15	1.2k
J. Bryant Pollock United States	12	1.1k 1.2×	508 1.0×	644 1.4×	403 1.0×	171 0.6×	14	1.5k

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Tilly, David, et al.. (2021). α‐Amino‐iso‐Butyric Acid Foldamers Terminated with Rhodium(I) N‐Heterocyclic Carbene Catalysts. Chemistry - A European Journal. 28(9). e202104293–e202104293. 4 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Hiroki Takezawa, & Makoto Fujita. (2019). Demethylenation of Cyclopropanes via Photoinduced Guest‐to‐Host Electron Transfer in an M₆L₄ Cage. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 58(27). 9171–9173. 102 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Hiroki Takezawa, & Makoto Fujita. (2019). Demethylenation of Cyclopropanes via Photoinduced Guest‐to‐Host Electron Transfer in an M₆L₄ Cage. Angewandte Chemie. 131(27). 9269–9271. 27 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Alexander J. Metherell, Ashley B. Wragg, et al.. (2018). Catalysis in a Cationic Coordination Cage Using a Cavity-Bound Guest and Surface-Bound Anions: Inhibition, Activation, and Autocatalysis. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 140(8). 2821–2828. 119 indexed citations

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Metherell, Alexander J., William Cullen, Nicholas H. Williams, & Michael D. Ward. (2017). Binding of Hydrophobic Guests in a Coordination Cage Cavity is Driven by Liberation of “High‐Energy” Water. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(7). 1554–1560. 55 indexed citations

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Metherell, Alexander J., William Cullen, Nicholas H. Williams, & Michael D. Ward. (2017). Binding of Hydrophobic Guests in a Coordination Cage Cavity is Driven by Liberation of “High‐Energy” Water. Chemistry - A European Journal. 24(7). 1463–1463. 1 indexed citations

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Wright, James S., et al.. (2017). Highly selective CO₂vs. N₂ adsorption in the cavity of a molecular coordination cage. Chemical Communications. 53(31). 4398–4401. 25 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Maria Cristina Misuraca, Christopher A. Hunter, Nicholas H. Williams, & Michael D. Ward. (2016). Highly efficient catalysis of the Kemp elimination in the cavity of a cubic coordination cage. Nature Chemistry. 8(3). 231–236. 400 indexed citations breakdown →

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Taylor, Christopher G. P., et al.. (2016). A Quantitative Study of the Effects of Guest Flexibility on Binding Inside a Coordination Cage Host. Chemistry - A European Journal. 23(1). 206–213. 27 indexed citations

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Wragg, Ashley B., Alexander J. Metherell, William Cullen, & Michael D. Ward. (2015). Stepwise assembly of mixed-metal coordination cages containing both kinetically inert and kinetically labile metal ions: introduction of metal-centred redox and photophysical activity at specific sites. Dalton Transactions. 44(41). 17939–17949. 21 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Simon Turega, Christopher A. Hunter, & Michael D. Ward. (2015). Virtual screening for high affinity guests for synthetic supramolecular receptors. Chemical Science. 6(5). 2790–2794. 45 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Christopher A. Hunter, & Michael D. Ward. (2015). An Interconverting Family of Coordination Cages and a meso-Helicate; Effects of Temperature, Concentration, and Solvent on the Product Distribution of a Self-Assembly Process. Inorganic Chemistry. 54(6). 2626–2637. 58 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, et al.. (2015). pH-Controlled selection between one of three guests from a mixture using a coordination cage host. Chemical Science. 6(7). 4025–4028. 32 indexed citations

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Turega, Simon, et al.. (2014). Mapping the Internal Recognition Surface of an Octanuclear Coordination Cage Using Guest Libraries. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 136(23). 8475–8483. 103 indexed citations

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Cullen, William, Simon Turega, Christopher A. Hunter, & Michael D. Ward. (2014). pH-dependent binding of guests in the cavity of a polyhedral coordination cage: reversible uptake and release of drug molecules. Chemical Science. 6(1). 625–631. 131 indexed citations

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Ahmad, Haslina, et al.. (2014). From Intercalation to Groove Binding: Switching the DNA‐Binding Mode of Isostructural Transition‐Metal Complexes. Chemistry - A European Journal. 20(11). 3089–3096. 30 indexed citations

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Metherell, Alexander J., William Cullen, Andrew Stephenson, Christopher A. Hunter, & Michael D. Ward. (2013). Fac and mer isomers of Ru(ii) tris(pyrazolyl-pyridine) complexes as models for the vertices of coordination cages: structural characterisation and hydrogen-bonding characteristics. Dalton Transactions. 43(1). 71–84. 38 indexed citations

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