William L. Karney

1.9k total citations
47 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

William L. Karney is a scholar working on Organic Chemistry, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. According to data from OpenAlex, William L. Karney has authored 47 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Organic Chemistry, 26 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 25 papers in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry. Recurrent topics in William L. Karney's work include Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (26 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (24 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (19 papers). William L. Karney is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (26 papers), Chemical Reactions and Mechanisms (24 papers) and Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds (19 papers). William L. Karney collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Russia. William L. Karney's co-authors include Weston Thatcher Borden, Claire Castro, Carl R. Kemnitz, Matthew S. Platz, Nina P. Gritsan, Christopher M. Hadad, Paul von Ragué Schleyer, Ryan P. Pemberton, Michael Mauksch and Anna D. Guđmundsdóttir and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Accounts of Chemical Research.

In The Last Decade

William L. Karney

43 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
William L. Karney United States 23 1.2k 734 405 309 182 47 1.5k
Stéphane Noury France 8 1.1k 0.9× 607 0.8× 747 1.8× 320 1.0× 91 0.5× 8 1.7k
Obis Castaño Spain 22 960 0.8× 413 0.6× 424 1.0× 383 1.2× 138 0.8× 92 1.5k
David Ley Germany 12 507 0.4× 441 0.6× 402 1.0× 147 0.5× 184 1.0× 23 1.1k
José L. Andrés Spain 24 667 0.6× 238 0.3× 516 1.3× 293 0.9× 112 0.6× 46 1.4k
Michael Serafin Germany 17 573 0.5× 216 0.3× 249 0.6× 464 1.5× 152 0.8× 40 1.2k
Axel Diefenbach Germany 13 644 0.5× 201 0.3× 351 0.9× 198 0.6× 116 0.6× 16 1.0k
San‐Yan Chu Taiwan 20 717 0.6× 216 0.3× 469 1.2× 246 0.8× 225 1.2× 106 1.4k
Arpita Varadwaj Japan 25 409 0.3× 766 1.0× 225 0.6× 518 1.7× 292 1.6× 46 1.4k
Moritz von Hopffgarten Germany 18 1.3k 1.1× 332 0.5× 344 0.8× 409 1.3× 116 0.6× 24 2.0k
Paul R. Horn United States 17 391 0.3× 460 0.6× 700 1.7× 385 1.2× 134 0.7× 19 1.3k

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All Works

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Karney, William L., et al.. (2025). Influence of Heavy-Atom Tunneling on Pericyclic Reactions in Biosynthesis: A Computational Study. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 90(36). 12638–12647.
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Karney, William L., et al.. (2024). Mechanistic Analysis of 5-Hydroxy γ-Pyrones as Michael Acceptor Prodrugs. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 89(17). 12432–12438.
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Castro, Claire & William L. Karney. (2020). Heavy‐Atom Tunneling in Organic Reactions. Angewandte Chemie International Edition. 59(22). 8355–8366. 74 indexed citations
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Castro, Claire & William L. Karney. (2020). Heavy‐Atom Tunneling in Organic Reactions. Angewandte Chemie. 132(22). 8431–8442. 20 indexed citations
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Krause, Jeanette A., et al.. (2020). Photoinduced α-Cleavage of 2-Azido-2-phenyl-1,3-indandione at Cryogenic Temperatures. Organic Letters. 22(20). 7885–7890. 6 indexed citations
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Karney, William L., et al.. (2020). Photolysis of 5-Azido-3-Phenylisoxazole at Cryogenic Temperature: Formation and Direct Detection of a Nitrosoalkene. Molecules. 25(3). 543–543. 7 indexed citations
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Karney, William L., et al.. (2019). Formation and Reactivity of Triplet Vinylnitrenes as a Function of Ring Size. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 84(14). 9215–9225. 5 indexed citations
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Castro, Claire, et al.. (2019). Calculations Predict That Heavy-Atom Tunneling Dominates Möbius Bond Shifting in [12]- and [16]Annulene. Organic Letters. 21(21). 8587–8591. 7 indexed citations
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Moll, Joseph, et al.. (2019). Tunneling by 16 Carbons: Planar Bond Shifting in [16]Annulene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141(13). 5286–5293. 30 indexed citations
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Castano, Ioannina, et al.. (2017). Hydrogen Shifts in Aryl Radicals and Diradicals: The Role of m-Benzynes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 83(1). 314–322. 4 indexed citations
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Karney, William L., et al.. (2016). Using Molecular Architecture to Control the Reactivity of a Triplet Vinylnitrene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 138(45). 14905–14914. 27 indexed citations
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Castro, Claire, et al.. (2015). Stone–Wales Rearrangements in Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: A Computational Study. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 80(8). 3825–3831. 27 indexed citations
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Nguyen, Phuong Tuyet, et al.. (2013). Hydrogen shifts and benzene ring contractions in phenylenes. Journal of Physical Organic Chemistry. 26(9). 750–754. 6 indexed citations
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Santander, Mitchell V., et al.. (2012). Hückel and Möbius Bond-Shifting Routes to Configuration Change in Dehydro[4n+2]annulenes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 78(5). 2033–2039. 3 indexed citations
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Castro, Claire, et al.. (2010). Dehydro[12]annulenes: Structures, Energetics, and Dynamic Processes. The Journal of Organic Chemistry. 76(2). 403–407. 3 indexed citations
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Dosa, Peter I., Zhenhua Gu, Dominik Hager, William L. Karney, & K. Peter C. Vollhardt. (2009). Flash-vacuum-pyrolytic reorganization of angular [4]phenylene. Chemical Communications. 1967–1967. 19 indexed citations
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Castro, Claire, Zhongfang Chen, Chaitanya S. Wannere, et al.. (2005). Investigation of a Putative Möbius Aromatic Hydrocarbon. The Effect of Benzannelation on Möbius [4n]Annulene Aromaticity. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127(8). 2425–2432. 84 indexed citations
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Karney, William L. & Weston Thatcher Borden. (1997). Ab Initio Study of the Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene and Comparison with the Ring Expansion of Phenylcarbene. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(6). 1378–1387. 135 indexed citations
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Karney, William L. & Weston Thatcher Borden. (1997). Why Doeso-Fluorine Substitution Raise the Barrier to Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene?. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 119(14). 3347–3350. 78 indexed citations

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