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Cornelis Altona

Cornelis Altona

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
16985
World Ranking
10458
National Ranking
205

Cornelis Altona 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 Cornelis Altona sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 237 publications — 45th percentile

45% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Cornelis Altona 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 Cornelis Altona sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Cornelis Altona was affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Throughout their career, they contributed to academic research without publicly documented frequent co-authors or regular publication venues.

No recent papers, book publications, or awards were recorded for Cornelis Altona, and data on their main fields of study, subfields, or the specific topics of their work are also unavailable.

As the scientist is deceased, the profile reflects their career in the past tense. The lack of detailed publication and research topics suggests limited publicly accessible bibliographic records or data specific to their academic contributions.

Best Publications

  • The relationship between proton-proton NMR coupling constants and substituent electronegativities—I : An empirical generalization of the karplus equation

    C.A.G. Haasnoot;F.A.A.M. de Leeuw;C. Altona

  • Conformational analysis of the sugar ring in nucleosides and nucleotides. A new description using the concept of pseudorotation.

    Unknown

  • Conformational analysis of the sugar ring in nucleosides and nucleotides. Improved method for the interpretation of proton magnetic resonance coupling constants.

    Unknown

  • Conformation of non-aromatic ring Compounds—XXV: Geometry and conformation of ring D in some steroids from X-ray structure determinations

    C. Altona;H.J. Geise;C. Romers

  • Prediction of anti and gauche vicinal proton‐proton coupling constants in carbohydrates: A simple additivity rule for pyranose rings

    Cornelis Altona;Cornelis A. G. Haasnoot

  • Conformational Analysis of the Deoxyribofuranose Ring in DNA by means of Sums of Proton-proton Coupling Constants: A Graphical Method

    Lambertus J. Rinkel;Cornelis Altona

  • Application of self-consistent-field ab initio calculations to organic molecules: II. Scale factor method for the calculation of vibrational frequencies from ab initio force constants: ethane, propane and cyclopropane

    C.E. Blom;C. Altona

  • Empirical Correlations Between Conformational Parameters in β‐D‐Furanoside Fragments Derived from a Statistical Survey of Crystal Structures of Nucleic Acid Constituents Full Description of Nucleoside Molecular Geometries in Terms of Four Parameters

    Harry P. M. De Leeuw;Cornelis A. G. Haasnoot;Cornelis Altona

  • The relationship between proton–proton NMR coupling constants and substituent electronegativities. II—conformational analysis of the sugar ring in nucleosides and nucleotides in solution using a generalized Karplus equation

    C. A. G. Haasnoot;F. A. A. M. de Leeuw;H. P. M. de Leeuw;C. Altona

  • Conformational analysis of nucleic acids. Determination of backbone geometry of single‐helical RNA and DNA in aqueous solution

    C. Altona

  • Computer-assisted pseudorotation analysis of five-membered rings by means of proton spin-spin coupling constants: program PSEUROT

    Frank A. A. M. De Leeuw;Cornelis Altona

  • Empirical group electronegativities for vicinal NMR proton–proton couplings along a C ? C bond: Solvent effects and reparameterization of the Haasnoot equation

    Cornelis Altona;Robert Francke;Rudy de Haan;Johannes H. Ippel

  • Relationship between proton ? proton NMR coupling constants and substituent electronegativities. V—Empirical substituent constants deduced from ethanes and propanes

    Cornelis Altona;Johannes H. Ippel;Aldert J. A. Westra Hoekzema;Cornelis Erkelens

  • Relationship between proton–proton nmr coupling constants and substituent electronegativities. III. Conformational analysis of proline rings in solution using a generalized Karplus equation

    C. A. G. Haasnoot;F. A. A. M. De Leeuw;H. P. M. De Leeuw;C. Altona

  • Conformational analysis of the adduct cis-[Pt(NH3)2 d(GpG)]+ in aqueous solution. A high field (500-300 MHz) nuclear magnetic resonance investigation.

    Jeroen H.J. den Hartog;Cornelis Altona;Jean-Claude Chottard;Jean-Pierre Girault

  • Furanose sugar conformations in DNA from NMR coupling constants.

    J. Van Wijk;B. D. Huckriede;J. H. Ippel;C. Altona

  • Application of self-consistent-field ab initio calculations to organic molecules

    C.E. Blom;C. Altona

  • Force field parameters for sulfates and sulfamates based on ab initio calculations: Extensions of AMBER and CHARMm fields

    Cornelis J. M. Huige;Cornelis Altona

  • Conformational analysis of β-D-ribo-, β-D-deoxyribo-, β-D-arabino-, β-D-xylo-, and β-D-lyxo-nucleosides from proton–proton coupling constants

    Frank A. A. M. de Leeuw;Cornelis Altona

  • Conformation of non-aromatic ring compounds—XLVII

    A.J. de Hoog;H.R. Buys;C. Altona;E. Havinga

  • Relationship between proton—proton NMR coupling constants and substituent electronegativities. IV—An extended karplus equation accounting for interactions between substituents and its application to coupling constant data calculated by the Extended Hückel method†

    Lambertus A. Donders;Franciscus A. A. M. De Leeuw;Cornelis Altona

  • Interpretation of vicinal proton-proton coupling constants by a generalized Karplus relation. Conformational analysis of the exocyclic C4′-C5′ bond in nucleosides and nucleotides: Preliminary Communication

    Cornelis A. G. Haasnoot;Frank A. A. M. de Leeuw;Harry P. M. de Leeuw;Cornelis Altona

  • Geometry and Conformational Properties of Some Five‐ and Six‐Membered Heterocyclic Compounds Containing Oxygen or Sulfur

    C. Romers;C. Altona;H. R. Buys;E. Havinga

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Reedijk
Jan Reedijk Leiden University
Andrew H.-J. Wang
Andrew H.-J. Wang Academia Sinica
C. A. A. Van Boeckel
C. A. A. Van Boeckel Leiden University
Horst Kessler
Horst Kessler Technical University of Munich
Antonius T. M. Marcelis
Antonius T. M. Marcelis Wageningen University & Research
Johan Lugtenburg
Johan Lugtenburg Leiden University
Wolfgang Pfleiderer
Wolfgang Pfleiderer University of Konstanz
Johannis P. Kamerling
Johannis P. Kamerling Utrecht University
Ettore Novellino
Ettore Novellino University of Naples Federico II

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