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Alexey A. Popov

Alexey A. Popov

Leibniz Association
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
68
Citations
12646
World Ranking
6718
National Ranking
486

Alexey A. Popov publication distribution in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Chemistry in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexey A. Popov sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 411 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,295 publications or more.

Alexey A. Popov D-index placement in Chemistry in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Chemistry scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexey A. Popov sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 68 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 159 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alexey A. Popov is affiliated with the Leibniz Association in Germany and has a significant publication record in materials science and chemistry. Their work spans multiple fields and subfields, including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, electrical and electronic engineering, and spectroscopy. The focus of their research covers topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, fullerene chemistry and applications, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, graphene research and applications, synthesis and properties of aromatic compounds, magnetism in coordination complexes, and advanced NMR techniques and applications.

Their research outputs have appeared frequently in several key publication venues. These include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Alexey A. Popov cover a range of chemical and materials science topics. Some examples include:

  • "A Curved Graphene Nanoribbon with Multi-Edge Structure and High Intrinsic Charge Carrier Mobility" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Photoinduced Charge Accumulation and Prolonged Multielectron Storage for the Separation of Light and Dark Reaction" (2020), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "π-Extended Helical Multilayer Nanographenes with Layer-Dependent Chiroptical Properties" (2023), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Electrophilic Trifluoromethylation of Dimetallofullerene Anions en Route to Air-Stable Single-Molecule Magnets with High Blocking Temperature of Magnetization" (2021), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Quinoidal Azaacenes: 99 % Diradical Character" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Alexey A. Popov collaborates frequently with several researchers in related areas. Regular co-authors include:

  • Fupin Liu
  • B. Büchner
  • Evgenia Dmitrieva
  • Stanislav M. Avdoshenko
  • Xinliang Feng

Their work in the study of crystallization and solubility, fullerene chemistry, and related X-ray diffraction techniques reflects a multidisciplinary approach intersecting chemistry and materials science. The focus on graphene and aromatic compound synthesis also involves electronic and magnetic properties, which aligns with their interest in magnetism within coordination complexes and applications of advanced nuclear magnetic resonance methods.

Best Publications

  • Free-Standing Single-Atom-Thick Iron Membranes Suspended in Graphene Pores

    Jiong Zhao;Qingming Deng;Alicja Bachmatiuk;Alicja Bachmatiuk;Gorantla Sandeep

  • Structure, stability, and cluster-cage interactions in nitride clusterfullerenes M3N@C2n (M = Sc, Y; 2n = 68-98) : A density functional theory study

    and Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Single molecule magnet with an unpaired electron trapped between two lanthanide ions inside a fullerene.

    Fupin Liu;Denis S. Krylov;Lukas Spree;Stanislav M. Avdoshenko

  • An Endohedral Single-Molecule Magnet with Long Relaxation Times: DySc2N@C80

    Rasmus Westerström;Jan Dreiser;Cinthia Piamonteze;Matthias Muntwiler

  • Metal Sulfide in a C82 Fullerene Cage: A New Form of Endohedral Clusterfullerenes

    Lothar Dunsch;Shangfeng Yang;Lin Zhang;Anna Svitova

  • Violating the Isolated Pentagon Rule (IPR): The Endohedral Non‐IPR C70 Cage of Sc3N@C70

    Shangfeng Yang;Alexey A. Popov;Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Bonding in Endohedral Metallofullerenes as Studied by Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules

    Alexey A. Popov;Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Electrochemical, Spectroscopic, and DFT Study of C60(CF3)n Frontier Orbitals (n = 2−18): The Link between Double Bonds in Pentagons and Reduction Potentials

    Alexey A. Popov;Ivan E. Kareev;Natalia B. Shustova;Evgeny B. Stukalin

  • Helical Nanographenes Containing an Azulene Unit: Synthesis, Crystal Structures, and Properties

    Ji Ma;Yubin Fu;Evgenia Dmitrieva;Fupin Liu

  • Deviation from the planarity--a large Dy3N cluster encapsulated in an Ih-C80 cage: an X-ray crystallographic and vibrational spectroscopic study.

    Shangfeng Yang;Sergey I. Troyanov;Alexey A. Popov;Matthias Krause

  • Air-stable redox-active nanomagnets with lanthanide spins radical-bridged by a metal-metal bond.

    Fupin Liu;Georgios Velkos;Denis S. Krylov;Lukas Spree

  • Synthesis of NBN-Type Zigzag-Edged Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons: 1,9-Diaza-9a-boraphenalene as a Structural Motif

    Xinyang Wang;Fan Zhang;Karl Sebastian Schellhammer;Peter Machata

  • Trifluoromethyl Derivatives of Insoluble Small-HOMO−LUMO-Gap Hollow Higher Fullerenes. NMR and DFT Structure Elucidation of C2-(C74-D3h)(CF3)12, Cs-(C76-Td(2))(CF3)12, C2-(C78-D3h(5))(CF3)12, Cs-(C80-C2v(5))(CF3)12, and C2-(C82-C2(5))(CF3)12

    Natalia B. Shustova;Igor V. Kuvychko;Robert D. Bolskar;Konrad Seppelt

  • Hindered cluster rotation and 45Sc hyperfine splitting constant in distonoid anion radical Sc3N@C80-, and spatial spin-charge separation as a general principle for anions of endohedral fullerenes with metal-localized lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals.

    Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Single-Electron Lanthanide-Lanthanide Bonds Inside Fullerenes toward Robust Redox-Active Molecular Magnets.

    Fupin Liu;Lukas Spree;Denis S Krylov;Denis S Krylov;Georgios Velkos

  • Electron Affinity of Phenyl–C61–Butyric Acid Methyl Ester (PCBM)

    Bryon W. Larson;James B. Whitaker;Xue Bin Wang;Alexey A. Popov

  • Entrapped Bonded Hydrogen in a Fullerene: the Five‐Atom Cluster Sc3CH in C80

    Matthias Krause;Frank Ziegs;Alexey A. Popov;Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Toward Full Zigzag-Edged Nanographenes: peri-Tetracene and Its Corresponding Circumanthracene.

    Murugan Rathamony Ajayakumar;Yubin Fu;Ji Ma;Felix Hennersdorf

  • Bonding between strongly repulsive metal atoms: an oxymoron made real in a confined space of endohedral metallofullerenes

    Alexey A. Popov;Alexey A. Popov;Stanislav Avdoshenko;Angel Martín Pendás;Lothar Dunsch

  • The role of an asymmetric nitride cluster on a fullerene cage: the non-IPR endohedral DySc2N@C76.

    Shangfeng Yang;and Alexey A. Popov;Lothar Dunsch

  • Synthesis and X-ray or NMR/DFT structure elucidation of twenty-one new trifluoromethyl derivatives of soluble cage isomers of C76, C78, C84, and C90.

    Ivan E. Kareev;Alexey A. Popov;Igor V. Kuvychko;Natalia B. Shustova

  • An Endohedral Single-Molecule Magnet with Long Relaxation Times:

    Jan Dreiser;Cinthia Piamonteze;Matthias Muntwiler;Stephen Weyeneth

Frequent Co-Authors

Olga V. Boltalina
Olga V. Boltalina Colorado State University
Steven H. Strauss
Steven H. Strauss Colorado State University
Lothar Dunsch
Lothar Dunsch Leibniz-Institut für Festkörper- und Werkstoffforschung Dresden
Shangfeng Yang
Shangfeng Yang University of Science and Technology of China
Bernd Büchner
Bernd Büchner Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research
Thomas Greber
Thomas Greber University of Zurich
Yu-Sheng Chen
Yu-Sheng Chen Nankai University
Sergey I. Troyanov
Sergey I. Troyanov Lomonosov Moscow State University
Oren P. Anderson
Oren P. Anderson Colorado State University
Steven Stevenson
Steven Stevenson Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne

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