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Douglas W. Stephan

Douglas W. Stephan

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Chemistry
Canada
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
112
Citations
52224
World Ranking
728
National Ranking
12

Douglas W. Stephan 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 Douglas W. Stephan sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 673 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Douglas W. Stephan 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 Douglas W. Stephan sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 112 D-Index — 96th percentile

96% 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 Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Canada Leader Award
  • 2021 - Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2020 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2014 - Applied Catalysis Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) For the development of new commercially viable, transition-metal based and metal-free catalyst technologies for polymerization, hydrogenation and metathesis.
  • 2014 - Chemical Institute of Canada Medal
  • 2013 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
  • 2012 - Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)
  • 2005 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science

Overview

Douglas W. Stephan is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research spans materials science and chemistry, with a particular emphasis on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. The subfields of study they are involved in include inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and pharmaceutical science.

Their work covers a range of topics such as crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, and organoboron and organosilicon chemistry. They have also contributed to synthesis and characterization of novel inorganic/organometallic compounds, crystallography and molecular interactions, coordination chemistry and organometallics, and fluorine in organic chemistry.

Recent papers authored by Douglas W. Stephan include the following:

  • Diverse Uses of the Reaction of Frustrated Lewis Pair (FLP) with Hydrogen, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Catalysis, FLPs, and Beyond, 2020, Chem

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Stephan are:

  • Zheng-Wang Qu
  • Stefan Grimme
  • Yile Wu
  • Dipendu Mandal
  • Maotong Xu

Douglas W. Stephan has published extensively in several scientific venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemical Communications
  • Dalton Transactions
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

In addition to journal articles, Stephan has contributed to book publications, including one titled Frustrated Lewis Pairs published by the American Chemical Society, expected in 2025.

The scientist has received multiple awards and honors over their career, including:

  • Centenary Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2021
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 2020
  • Chemical Institute of Canada Medal, 2014
  • Applied Catalysis Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2014, for the development of new commercially viable, transition-metal based and metal-free catalyst technologies for polymerization, hydrogenation and metathesis
  • Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, 2013
  • Ludwig Mond Award, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK), 2012
  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, 2005, Academy of Science

Best Publications

  • Reversible, Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation

    Gregory C. Welch;Ronan R. San Juan;Jason D. Masuda;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Frustrated Lewis pairs: metal-free hydrogen activation and more.

    Douglas W. Stephan;Gerhard Erker

  • Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry: development and perspectives.

    Douglas W. Stephan;Gerhard Erker

  • Frustrated Lewis Pairs

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • Frustrated Lewis pairs: from concept to catalysis.

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • The broadening reach of frustrated Lewis pair chemistry

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • Facile heterolytic cleavage of dihydrogen by phosphines and boranes.

    Gregory C Welch;Douglas W Stephan

  • Reversible Metal-Free Carbon Dioxide Binding by Frustrated Lewis Pairs

    Cornelia M. Mömming;Edwin Otten;Gerald Kehr;Roland Fröhlich

  • "Frustrated Lewis pairs": a concept for new reactivity and catalysis.

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • Metal‐Free Catalytic Hydrogenation

    Preston A. Chase;Gregory C. Welch;Titel Jurca;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Room Temperature Reduction of CO2 to Methanol by Al-Based Frustrated Lewis Pairs and Ammonia Borane

    Gabriel Ménard;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Early-late heterobimetallics

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • Frustrierte Lewis‐Paare: metallfreie Wasserstoffaktivierung und mehr

    Douglas W. Stephan;Gerhard Erker

  • Rapid intramolecular heterolytic dihydrogen activation by a four-membered heterocyclic phosphane-borane adduct.

    Patrick Spies;Gerhard Erker;Gerald Kehr;Klaus Bergander

  • Frustrated Lewis pairs: a new strategy to small molecule activation and hydrogenation catalysis

    Douglas W. Stephan

  • Reactivity of “Frustrated Lewis Pairs”: Three-Component Reactions of Phosphines, a Borane, and Olefins

    Jenny S. J. McCahill;Gregory C. Welch;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Terminal alkyne activation by frustrated and classical Lewis acid/phosphine pairs.

    Meghan A. Dureen;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Frustrated Lewis pair chemistry of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur oxides

    Douglas W. Stephan;Gerhard Erker

  • Hydrogen and Amine Activation by a Frustrated Lewis Pair of a Bulky N-Heterocyclic Carbene and B(C6F5)3

    Preston A. Chase;Douglas W. Stephan

  • Chemie frustrierter Lewis‐Paare: Entwicklung und Perspektiven

    Douglas W. Stephan;Gerhard Erker

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerhard Erker
Gerhard Erker University of Münster
Stefan Grimme
Stefan Grimme University of Bonn
Gregory C. Welch
Gregory C. Welch University of Calgary
Pradip K. Mascharak
Pradip K. Mascharak University of California, Santa Cruz
Gerald Kehr
Gerald Kehr University of Münster
Stephen J. Loeb
Stephen J. Loeb University of Windsor
Roland Fröhlich
Roland Fröhlich University of Münster
A. Stephen K. Hashmi
A. Stephen K. Hashmi Heidelberg University
Constantin G. Daniliuc
Constantin G. Daniliuc University of Münster
Frank Rominger
Frank Rominger Heidelberg University

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