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Boris Le Guennic

Boris Le Guennic

University of Rennes
France

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
66
Citations
12883
World Ranking
7442
National Ranking
255

Boris Le Guennic 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 Boris Le Guennic sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 402 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Boris Le Guennic 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 Boris Le Guennic sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 66 D-Index — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Boris Le Guennic is a researcher affiliated with the University of Rennes in France, specializing in the field of Materials Science. Their work contributes extensively to Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, and Inorganic Chemistry. The primary focus lies on the study of crystallization, solubility, and magnetism within coordination complexes.

The scientist's research covers several interconnected topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
  • Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
  • Luminescence and Fluorescent Materials
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry

Recent publications by Boris Le Guennic demonstrate a focus on chiral and magnetic properties of coordination complexes, often involving lanthanides such as ytterbium and dysprosium. Notable papers include:

  • "Helicene-Based Ligands Enable Strong Magneto-Chiral Dichroism in a Chiral Ytterbium Complex" (2021) published in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Multifunctional Helicene-Based Ytterbium Coordination Polymer Displaying Circularly Polarized Luminescence, Slow Magnetic Relaxation and Room Temperature Magneto-Chiral Dichroism" (2022) published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Solid-State Near-Infrared Circularly Polarized Luminescence from Chiral YbIII-Single-Molecule Magnet" (2021) published in Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Luminescence, chiroptical, magnetic and ab initio crystal-field characterizations of an enantiopure helicoidal Yb(III) complex" (2020) published in Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers
  • "High temperature quantum tunnelling of magnetization and thousand kelvin anisotropy barrier in a Dy2 single-molecule magnet" (2020) published in Chemical Communications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Boris Le Guennic include:

  • Olivier Cador
  • Fabrice Pointillart
  • Léo La Droitte
  • Frédéric Gendron
  • Grégory Nocton

Most publications appear in venues that reflect a strong orientation toward inorganic and materials chemistry, including:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry

Best Publications

  • Uncommon lanthanide ions in purely 4f Single Molecule Magnets

    Fabrice Pointillart;Olivier Cador;Boris Le Guennic;Lahcène Ouahab

  • Taking up the cyanine challenge with quantum tools.

    Boris Le Guennic;Denis Jacquemin;Denis Jacquemin

  • Efficient sensitization of europium, ytterbium, and neodymium functionalized tris-dipicolinate lanthanide complexes through tunable charge-transfer excited states.

    Anthony D’Aléo;Alexandre Picot;Andrew Beeby;J. A. Gareth Williams

  • Magnetic memory in an isotopically enriched and magnetically isolated mononuclear dysprosium complex.

    Fabrice Pointillart;Kevin Bernot;Stéphane Golhen;Boris Le Guennic

  • Continuous Symmetry Breaking Induced by Ion Pairing Effect in Heptamethine Cyanine Dyes: Beyond the Cyanine Limit

    Pierre-Antoine Bouit;Christophe Aronica;Loïc Toupet;Boris Le Guennic

  • A redox-active luminescent ytterbium based single molecule magnet

    Fabrice Pointillart;Boris Le Guennic;Stéphane Golhen;Olivier Cador

  • Synthesis and characterization of hypoelectronic rhenaboranes. Analysis of the geometric and electronic structures of species following neither borane nor metal cluster electron-counting paradigms.

    Boris Le Guennic;Haijun Jiao;Samia Kahlal;† Jean-Yves Saillard

  • A planar triangular Dy3 + Dy3 single-molecule magnet with a toroidal magnetic moment

    Xiao-Lei Li;Xiao-Lei Li;Jianfeng Wu;Jinkui Tang;Boris Le Guennic

  • Revisiting the optical signatures of BODIPY with ab initio tools

    Siwar Chibani;Boris Le Guennic;Azzam Charaf-Eddin;Adèle D. Laurent

  • Cyclometalated Ir(iii) complexes with styryl-BODIPY ligands showing near IR absorption/emission: preparation, study of photophysical properties and application as photodynamic/luminescence imaging materials.

    Poulomi Majumdar;Xiaolin Yuan;Shengfu Li;Boris Le Guennic

  • Simultaneous bridge-localized and mixed-valence character in diruthenium radical cations featuring diethynylaromatic bridging ligands.

    Mark A. Fox;Boris Le Guennic;Boris Le Guennic;Rachel L. Roberts;Daniel A. Brue

  • First-principles investigation of the Schrock mechanism of dinitrogen reduction employing the full HIPTN3N ligand.

    Stephan Schenk;Boris Le Guennic;Barbara Kirchner;Markus Reiher

  • Lanthanide Ion and Tetrathiafulvalene-Based Ligand as a "Magic" Couple toward Luminescence, Single Molecule Magnets, and Magnetostructural Correlations

    Fabrice Pointillart;Boris le Guennic;Olivier Cador;Olivier Maury

  • Magnetic Poles Determinations and Robustness of Memory Effect upon Solubilization in a DyIII-Based Single Ion Magnet

    Tamyris T. Da Cunha;Tamyris T. Da Cunha;Julie Jung;Marie Emmanuelle Boulon;Giulio Campo

  • Cis- trans isomerism modulates the magnetic relaxation of dysprosium single-molecule magnets

    Jianfeng Wu;Julie Jung;Peng Zhang;Haixia Zhang

  • Expanding the polymethine paradigm: evidence for the contribution of a bis-dipolar electronic structure.

    Simon Pascal;Alexandre Haefele;Cyrille Monnereau;Azzam Charaf-Eddin

  • Ruthenium complexes of C,C'-bis(ethynyl)carboranes: an investigation of electronic interactions mediated by spherical pseudo-aromatic spacers.

    Mark A. Fox;Rachel L. Roberts;Thomas E. Baines;Boris Le Guennic

  • Aza-boron-dipyrromethene dyes: TD-DFT benchmarks, spectral analysis and design of original near-IR structures

    Boris Le Guennic;Boris Le Guennic;Olivier Maury;Denis Jacquemin

  • Site‐Resolved Two‐Step Relaxation Process in an Asymmetric Dy2 Single‐Molecule Magnet

    Li Zhang;Julie Jung;Peng Zhang;Mei Guo

  • On the Computation of Adiabatic Energies in Aza-Boron-Dipyrromethene Dyes.

    Siwar Chibani;Boris Le Guennic;Azzam Charaf-Eddin;Olivier Maury

  • Synthesis, Photophysics, Electrochemistry, Theoretical, and Transient Absorption Studies of Luminescent Copper(I) and Silver(I) Diynyl Complexes. X-ray Crystal Structures of [Cu3(μ-dppm)3(μ3-η1-C⋮CC⋮CPh)2]PF6 and [Cu3(μ-dppm)3(μ3-η1-C⋮CC⋮CH)2]PF6

    Wing-Yin Lo;Chi-Ho Lam;Vivian Wing-Wah Yam;Nianyong Zhu

  • Two-Photon Antenna Effect Induced in Octupolar Europium Complexes

    Alexandre Picot;Floriane Malvolti;Boris Le Guennic;Patrice L. Baldeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Cador
Olivier Cador University of Rennes
Denis Jacquemin
Denis Jacquemin University of Nantes
Fabrice Pointillart
Fabrice Pointillart University of Rennes
Olivier Maury
Olivier Maury École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
Lahcène Ouahab
Lahcène Ouahab University of Rennes
Kevin Bernot
Kevin Bernot University of Rennes
Stéphane Golhen
Stéphane Golhen University of Rennes
Vincent Dorcet
Vincent Dorcet University of Rennes
Jinkui Tang
Jinkui Tang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Guillaume Chastanet
Guillaume Chastanet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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