William N. Lipscomb

33.2k citations

518 papers · 26.7k indexed · 15 hit papers · h-index 78

Impact in

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry top 0.05%
- Crystallography and molecular interactions
Inorganic Chemistry top 0.2%

Papers in

Physical and Theoretical Chemistry 71
- Crystallography and molecular interactions 34
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging 138
- Boron Compounds in Chemistry 133

Co-authors: Thomas A. Halgren Norbert Sträter Roald Hoffmann David W. Christianson Richard M. Stevens Douglas C. Rees Russell M. Pitzer Florante A. Quiocho
Journals: Journal of the American Chemical Society (94 papers)The Journal of Chemical Physics (93 papers)Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (74 papers)Inorganic Chemistry (65 papers)Biochemistry (23 papers)
Partner nations: United States Germany France

In The Last Decade

William N. Lipscomb

514 papers receiving 25.0k citations

Hit Papers

15 papers align trajectories log scale

Two‐Metal Ion Catalysis in Enzymatic Acyl‐ and Phosphoryl‐Transfer Reactions 1996 · 553 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1996 Angewandte Chemie International Edition in English
1996 Chemical Reviews
1989 Accounts of Chemical Research
1977 Chemical Physics Letters
1973 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
1973 The Journal of Chemical Physics
1971 Advances in protein chemistry
1966 Science
1966 Journal of the American Chemical Society
1963 The Journal of Chemical Physics
1962 The Journal of Chemical Physics
1962 The Journal of Chemical Physics
1962 The Journal of Chemical Physics
1960 Journal of the American Chemical Society
1954 Acta Crystallographica

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1	An eight-subunit COP9 signalosome with an intact JAMM motif is required for fungal fruit body formation Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Silke Busch, Jiafeng Zhang, Raden Ayu, Özgür Bayram, Kerstin Helmstaedt, Oliver Draht, Sven Krappmann, Oliver Valerius, William N. Lipscomb, Gerhard H. Braus	2007	77
2	The Allosteric Mechanism of Yeast Chorismate Mutase: A Dynamic Analysis Journal of Molecular Biology ·Yifei Kong, Jianpeng Ma, Martin Karplus, William N. Lipscomb	2005	28
3	Mechanisms of catalysis and allosteric regulation of yeast chorismate mutase from crystal structures Structure ·Norbert Sträter, Georg Schnappauf, Gerhard H. Braus, William N. Lipscomb	1997	86
4	The crystal structure of Haelll methyltransferase covalently complexed to DNA: An extrahelical cytosine and rearranged base pairing Cell ·Karin M. Reinisch, Lin Chen, Gregory L. Verdine, William N. Lipscomb	1995	322
5	Crystallization and Preliminary Crystallographic Analysis of a DNA (Cytosine-5)-Methyltransferase from Haemophilus aegyptius Bound Covalently to DNA Journal of Molecular Biology ·Karin M. Reinisch, Lin Chen, Gregory L. Verdine, William N. Lipscomb	1994	7
6	Toward a Mechanism for the Allosteric Transition of Pig Kidney Fructose-1,6-Bisphosphatase Journal of Molecular Biology ·Yiping Zhang, J Y Liang, Shenghua Huang, William N. Lipscomb	1994	87
7	Aspartate Transcarbamylase from Escherichia Coli: Activity and Regulation Advances in enzymology and related areas of molecular biology/Advances in enzymology and related subjects ·William N. Lipscomb	1994	123
8	Structural Similarities between Fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase and Inositol Monophosphatase Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·Yaoping Zhang, J Y Liang, William N. Lipscomb	1993	39
9	Crystallographic studies of the catalytic mechanism of the neutral form of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase Biochemistry ·Yiping Zhang, Ghadah A Almujlli, Shenghua Huang, Hengming Ke, William N. Lipscomb	1993	91
10	Conformational transition of fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase: structure comparison between the AMP complex (T form) and the fructose 6-phosphate complex (R form) Biochemistry ·Hengming Ke, Ghadah A Almujlli, Yiping Zhang, William N. Lipscomb	1991	78
11	Electron deficient boron and carbon clusters Wiley eBooks ·George A. Olah, Kenneth Wade, William N. Lipscomb	1991	52
12	Crystal structure of the complex of carboxypeptidase A with a strongly bound phosphonate in a new crystalline form: comparison with structures of other complexes Biochemistry ·Hidong Kim, William N. Lipscomb	1990	100
13	Crystal structures of aspartate carbamoyltransferase ligated with phosphonoacetamide, malonate, and CTP or ATP at 2.8-.ANG. resolution and neutral pH Biochemistry ·J. Eric Gouaux, Raymond C. Stevens, William N. Lipscomb	1990	86
14	Binding of sulfonamide and acetamide to the active-site zinc(2+) in carbonic anhydrase: a theoretical study Biochemistry ·Ghadah A Almujlli, William N. Lipscomb	1989	28
15	Structure of a single amino acid mutant of aspartate carbamoyltransferase at 2.5 .ANG. resolution: implications for the cooperative mechanism Biochemistry ·J. Eric Gouaux, William N. Lipscomb, Steven A. Middleton, Evan R. Kantrowitz	1989	11
16	Hydration of carbon dioxide by carbonic anhydrase: intramolecular proton transfer between zinc-bound water and histidine 64 in human carbonic anhydrase II Biochemistry ·J Y Liang, William N. Lipscomb	1988	33
17	Hydration of carbon dioxide by carbonic anhydrase: internal protein transfer of zinc(2+)-bound bicarbonate Biochemistry ·J Y Liang, William N. Lipscomb	1987	74
18	The catalytic mechanism of Escherichia coli aspartate carbamoyltransferase: A molecular modelling study Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications ·J. Eric Gouaux, Kurt L. Krause, William N. Lipscomb	1987	54
19	X-ray studies of bonding electrons. Corrections for bonds to hydrogen upon extension of the basis sets Chemical Physics Letters ·Thomas A. Halgren, Mikio Imamura, Daniel S. Jones, William N. Lipscomb	1971	13
20	The Crystal Structure of Uranophane [Ca(H3O)2](UO2)2(SiO4)2·3H2O American Mineralogist ·Deane K. Smith, John W. Gruner, William N. Lipscomb	1957	14

About William N. Lipscomb

William N. Lipscomb is a scholar working on Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging, Biochemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Materials Chemistry, having authored 518 papers that have together received 26.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Boron Compounds in Chemistry (133 papers), Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research (67 papers), Enzyme Structure and Function (67 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (63 papers), Peptidase Inhibition and Analysis (42 papers), Crystallography and molecular interactions (34 papers), Amino Acid Enzymes and Metabolism (34 papers) and Biochemical and Molecular Research (33 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry (2.8k citations), Inorganic Chemistry (4.1k citations), Spectroscopy (3.5k citations), Organic Chemistry (5.7k citations) and Materials Chemistry (8.9k citations). William N. Lipscomb has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Thomas A. Halgren, Norbert Sträter, Roald Hoffmann, David W. Christianson, Richard M. Stevens, Douglas C. Rees, Russell M. Pitzer, Florante A. Quiocho, Masao Atoji and Hengming Ke. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Chemical Physics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Inorganic Chemistry and Biochemistry.

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