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Chemistry D-index 55 Citations 10,224 480 World Ranking 8545 National Ranking 496

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Organic chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Oxygen

David L. Hughes mainly focuses on Medicinal chemistry, Stereochemistry, Crystal structure, Ligand and Crystallography. His Medicinal chemistry research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Imine, Adduct, Organic chemistry, Alkyl and Deprotonation. The various areas that David L. Hughes examines in his Stereochemistry study include Chemical synthesis, Nucleophile, Cycloaddition and Amide.

David L. Hughes combines subjects such as Yield, Tetrahydrofuran, Inorganic chemistry, Chelation and Substituent with his study of Crystal structure. His work deals with themes such as Allylic rearrangement, Catalysis, Norbornadiene and Single crystal, which intersect with Ligand. His Crystallography study combines topics in areas such as Hydrazone, Molecule and Metal.

His most cited work include:

  • Are Heterogeneous Catalysts Precursors to Homogeneous Catalysts (244 citations)
  • A di-iron dithiolate possessing structural elements of the carbonyl/cyanide sub-site of the H-centre of Fe-only hydrogenase (181 citations)
  • Mechanistic Studies of the Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction (180 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His scientific interests lie mostly in Crystal structure, Crystallography, Stereochemistry, Medicinal chemistry and Molecule. His Crystal structure research includes themes of Inorganic chemistry, Molybdenum, Ligand and Hydrogen bond. He studies Denticity which is a part of Ligand.

His Crystallography research incorporates themes from Ion, Protonation, Electrochemistry and Metal. The concepts of his Stereochemistry study are interwoven with issues in Octahedron, Tetrahydrofuran, Vanadium and Ring. His Medicinal chemistry research also works with subjects such as

  • Catalysis which is related to area like Polymerization,
  • Organic chemistry that connect with fields like Polymer chemistry.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Crystal structure (44.78%)
  • Crystallography (38.71%)
  • Stereochemistry (35.10%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2011-2021)?

  • Crystallography (38.71%)
  • Crystal structure (44.78%)
  • Stereochemistry (35.10%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

David L. Hughes spends much of his time researching Crystallography, Crystal structure, Stereochemistry, Medicinal chemistry and Ligand. His Crystallography research incorporates elements of Relaxation, Atom, Electron paramagnetic resonance, Hydrogen bond and Electrochemistry. His Crystal structure course of study focuses on Atom and Sulfite and Bioinformatics.

David L. Hughes has researched Stereochemistry in several fields, including Dihedral angle, Bond length, Cyclopentadienyl complex, Amide and Methyl group. The various areas that David L. Hughes examines in his Medicinal chemistry study include Benzene, Polymerization, Solvent, Ring and Catalysis. His Ligand research includes elements of Pyridine and Molecule.

Between 2011 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • A thermally stable gold(III) hydride: synthesis, reactivity, and reductive condensation as a route to gold(II) complexes. (103 citations)
  • Gold peroxide complexes and the conversion of hydroperoxides into gold hydrides by successive oxygen-transfer reactions (93 citations)
  • Discotic triphenylene twins linked through thiophene bridges: controlling nematic behavior in an intriguing class of functional organic materials. (36 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Organic chemistry
  • Catalysis
  • Alkene

David L. Hughes focuses on Stereochemistry, Photochemistry, Medicinal chemistry, Catalysis and Organic chemistry. David L. Hughes merges many fields, such as Stereochemistry and Solid-state, in his writings. His work carried out in the field of Medicinal chemistry brings together such families of science as Aryl, Brønsted–Lowry acid–base theory and Ligand.

He has included themes like Peroxide and Alkyl in his Catalysis study. His research investigates the connection between Organic chemistry and topics such as Electrochemistry that intersect with problems in Borohydride, Hydrogen fuel, Metal ions in aqueous solution and Crystal structure. Crystallography is closely connected to Chromophore in his research, which is encompassed under the umbrella topic of Triphenylene.

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Best Publications

Are heterogeneous catalysts precursors to homogeneous catalysts

Ian W. Davies;Louis Matty;David L. Hughes;Paul J. Reider.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (2001)

419 Citations

Mechanistic Studies of the Suzuki Cross-Coupling Reaction

George B. Smith;George C. Dezeny;David L. Hughes;Anthony O. King.
Journal of Organic Chemistry (1994)

319 Citations

A mechanistic study of the Mitsunobu esterification reaction

D. L. Hughes;R. A. Reamer;J. J. Bergan;E. J. J. Grabowski.
Journal of the American Chemical Society (1988)

270 Citations

Titanium, zinc and alkaline-earth metal complexes supported by bulky O,N,N,O-multidentate ligands: syntheses, characterisation and activity in cyclic ester polymerisation.

Yann Sarazin;Ruth H. Howard;David L. Hughes;Simon M. Humphrey.
Dalton Transactions (2006)

265 Citations

A di-iron dithiolate possessing structural elements of the carbonyl/cyanide sub-site of the H-centre of Fe-only hydrogenase

Alban Le Cloirec;Sian C. Davies;David J. Evans;David L. Hughes.
Chemical Communications (1999)

208 Citations

Ligand transfer reactions of mixed-metal lanthanide/magnesium allyl complexes with β-diketimines: Synthesis, structures, and ring-opening polymerization catalysis

Luis F. Sánchez-Barba;David L. Hughes;Simon M. Humphrey;Manfred Bochmann.
Organometallics (2006)

170 Citations

A thermally stable gold(III) hydride: synthesis, reactivity, and reductive condensation as a route to gold(II) complexes.

Dragoş-Adrian Roşca;Dan A. Smith;David L. Hughes;Manfred Bochmann.
Angewandte Chemie (2012)

168 Citations

Gold peroxide complexes and the conversion of hydroperoxides into gold hydrides by successive oxygen-transfer reactions

Dragoş-Adrian Roşca;Joseph A Wright;David L Hughes;Manfred Bochmann.
Nature Communications (2013)

157 Citations

Aryl Trihydroxyborates: Easily Isolated Discrete Species Convenient for Direct Application in Coupling Reactions

Andrew N. Cammidge;Victoria H. M. Goddard;Hermant Gopee;Nicola L. Harrison.
Organic Letters (2006)

155 Citations

Acidities of carboxamides, hydroxamic acids, carbohydrazides, benzenesulfonamides, and benzenesulfonohydrazides in DMSO solution

F. G. Bordwell;Herbert E. Fried;David L. Hughes;Tsuei Yun Lynch.
Journal of Organic Chemistry (1990)

151 Citations

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