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Chemistry
Australia
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
92
Citations
45332
World Ranking
1839
National Ranking
49

Brian W. Skelton 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 Brian W. Skelton sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,835 publications — 100th percentile

100% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Brian W. Skelton 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 Brian W. Skelton sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 92 D-Index — 90th percentile

90% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Australia Leader Award

Overview

Brian W. Skelton is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research spans broadly within the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with particular focus on Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, and Inorganic Chemistry. They have also contributed work related to Oncology and Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials.

The main topics of their research include:

  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Crystal structures of chemical compounds
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes

Brian W. Skelton has published extensively, with numerous works appearing in several frequent publication venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Inorganica Chimica Acta
  • Organometallics
  • CrystEngComm

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Skelton include:

  • Chiral NHC-Iridium Complexes and Their Performance in Enantioselective Intramolecular Hydroamination and Ring-Opening Amination Reactions, 2020, Organometallics
  • Synthesis, Structure and Physical Properties of "Wire-like" Metal Complexes, 2020, Organometallics
  • Organic-inorganic hybrid tetrachlorocadmates as promising fluorescent agents for cross-linked polyurethanes: synthesis, crystal structures and extended performance analysis, 2021, RSC Advances
  • 2,7- and 4,9-Dialkynyldihydropyrene Molecular Switches: Syntheses, Properties, and Charge Transport in Single-Molecule Junctions, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Synthesis, crystallization and Hirshfeld surface analysis of transition metal carboxylate pentapyridines, 2021, CrystEngComm

Frequent collaborators include the following individuals:

  • Alexandre N. Sobolev
  • Murray V. Baker
  • Ahmed Hassoon Mageed
  • Olga Yu. Vassilyeva
  • V. P. Clark

Best Publications

  • Zerovalent palladium and nickel complexes of heterocyclic carbenes: Oxidative addition of organic halides, carbon-carbon coupling processes, and the Heck reaction

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  • Palladium(II) complexes containing mono-, bi- and tridentate carbene ligands. Synthesis, characterisation and application as catalysts in CC coupling reactions

    Alison M Magill;David S McGuinness;Kingsley J Cavell;George J.P Britovsek

  • Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, the arsenical constituent of the western rock lobster panulirus longipes cygnus George

    John S. Edmonds;Kevin A. Francesconi;Jack R. Cannon;Colin L. Raston

  • Designed Synthesis of Mononuclear Tris(heteroleptic) Ruthenium Complexes Containing Bidentate Polypyridyl Ligands

    Peter A. Anderson;Glen B. Deacon;Klaus H. Haarmann;F. Richard Keene

  • Strigolactone Hormones and Their Stereoisomers Signal through Two Related Receptor Proteins to Induce Different Physiological Responses in Arabidopsis

    Adrian Scaffidi;Mark T. Waters;Yueming K. Sun;Brian W. Skelton

  • Synthesis and reaction chemistry of mixed ligand methylpalladium–carbene complexes

    David S McGuinness;Melinda J Green;Kingsley J Cavell;Brian W Skelton

  • Oxidative Addition of the Imidazolium Cation to Zerovalent Ni, Pd, and Pt: A Combined Density Functional and Experimental Study

    David S. McGuinness;Kingsley John Cavell;Brian F. Yates;Brian W. Skelton

  • Luminescence studies of the intracellular distribution of a dinuclear gold(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complex.

    Peter J. Barnard;Louise E. Wedlock;Murray V. Baker;Susan J. Berners-Price

  • Synthesis and Structural Analysis of a Helical Coordination Polymer Formed by the Self-Assembly of a 2,2'-Bipyridine-Based exo-Ditopic Macrocyclic Ligand and Silver Cations.

    Christian Kaes;Mir Wais Hosseini;Clifton E. F. Rickard;Brian W. Skelton

  • Harzianic acid, an antifungal and plant growth promoting metabolite from Trichoderma harzianum

    Francesco Vinale;Gavin Flematti;Krishnapillai Sivasithamparam;Matteo Lorito

  • Cationic, linear Au(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: synthesis, structure and anti-mitochondrial activity

    Murray V. Baker;Peter J. Barnard;Susan J. Berners-Price;Simon K. Brayshaw

  • Syntheses, Structures, and Spectro-electrochemistry of {Cp*(PP)Ru}C⋮CC⋮C{Ru(PP)Cp*} (PP = dppm, dppe) and Their Mono- and Dications†

    Michael I. Bruce;Benjamin G. Ellis;Paul J. Low;Brian W. Skelton

  • Nickel(II) Heterocyclic Carbene Complexes as Catalysts for Olefin Dimerization in an Imidazolium Chloroaluminate Ionic Liquid

    David S. McGuinness;Wolfgang Mueller;Peter Wasserscheid;Kingsley J. Cavell

  • A pyridine bridged dicarbene ligand and its silver(I) and palladium(II) complexes: synthesis, structures, and catalytic applications ☆

    David J. Nielsen;Kingsley J. Cavell;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  • Synthesis and structural characterisation of linear Au(I) N-heterocyclic carbene complexes: New analogues of the Au(I) phosphine drug Auranofin

    Murray V. Baker;Peter J. Barnard;Susan J. Berners-Price;Simon K. Brayshaw

  • Isolation, crystal structure and synthesis of arsenobetaine, a constituent of the western rock lobster, the dusky shark, and some samples of human urine

    Jack R. Cannon;John S. Edmonds;Kevin A. Francesconi;Colin L. Raston

  • Template syntheses involving carbon acids. Synthesis and characterization of (3,10-dimethyl-3,10-dinitro-1,4,8,11-tetraazacyclotetradecane)copper(II) and (1,9-diamino-5-methyl-5-nitro-3,7-diazanonane)copper(II) cations and nitro group reduction products

    Peter Comba;Neil F. Curtis;Geoffrey A. Lawrance;Alan M. Sargeson

  • Structural studies on the caesium alums, CsMIII[SO4]2·12H2O

    James K. Beattie;Stephen P. Best;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  • The oxidative addition of lodomethane to [PdMe2(bpy)] and the X-ray structure of the organopalladium(IV) product fac-[PdMe3(bpy)l](bpy = 2,2′-bipyridyl)

    Peter K. Byers;Allan J. Canty;Brian W. Skelton;Allan H. White

  • Cylindricines A and B, novel alkaloids from the ascidian clavelina cylindrica

    Adrian J. Blackman;Caiping Li;David C.R. Hockless;Brian W. Skelton

  • Dinuclear gold(I) complexes of bridging bidentate carbene ligands: synthesis, structure and spectroscopic characterisation

    Peter J. Barnard;Murray V. Baker;Susan J. Berners-Price;Brian W. Skelton

Frequent Co-Authors

Allan H. White
Allan H. White University of Western Australia
Michael I. Bruce
Michael I. Bruce Stanford University
Allan J. Canty
Allan J. Canty University of Tasmania
Colin L. Raston
Colin L. Raston Flinders University
Claudio Pettinari
Claudio Pettinari University of Camerino
Stephen G. Pyne
Stephen G. Pyne University of Wollongong
Glen B. Deacon
Glen B. Deacon Monash University
Peter C. Junk
Peter C. Junk James Cook University
Peter Conrad Healy
Peter Conrad Healy Griffith University
Graham A. Bowmaker
Graham A. Bowmaker University of Auckland

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