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D-Index
88
Citations
22709
World Ranking
2345
National Ranking
175

Eric Meggers 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 Eric Meggers sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 347 publications — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Eric Meggers 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 Eric Meggers sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 88 D-Index — 88th percentile

88% 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

  • 2006 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Eric Meggers is affiliated with Philipp University of Marburg in Germany and has contributed extensively to the fields of chemistry and materials science. Their research spans a wide array of specialized areas, particularly within organic chemistry and materials chemistry, and encompasses significant work in inorganic chemistry. They have also been involved in biomedical engineering and spectroscopy, albeit to a lesser extent.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Synthesis and Catalytic Reactions
  • Cyclopropane Reaction Mechanisms
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions

Eric Meggers has authored numerous publications in respected scientific venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • ACS Catalysis

Some of the recent papers by Eric Meggers are:

  • Metal Stereogenicity in Asymmetric Transition Metal Catalysis, 2023, Chemical Reviews
  • Catalytic α-Deracemization of Ketones Enabled by Photoredox Deprotonation and Enantioselective Protonation, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Electrochemical Enantioselective Nucleophilic α-C(sp3)-H Alkenylation of 2-Acyl Imidazoles, 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Atroposelective Synthesis of Axially Chiral N-Arylpyrroles by Chiral-at-Rhodium Catalysis, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Stereocontrolled 1,3-nitrogen migration to access chiral α-amino acids, 2022, Nature Chemistry

Collaboration has played a notable role in their research, with frequent co-authors including Sergei I. Ivlev, Xiulan Xie, Klaus Harms, Chen-Xi Ye, and Marcel Hemming.

Eric Meggers has been recognized with awards such as the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2006. This acknowledgment reflects their standing within the scientific community.

Best Publications

  • Sequence Dependent Long Range Hole Transport in DNA

    Eric Meggers;‡ and Maria E. Michel-Beyerle;Bernd Giese

  • Asymmetric photoredox transition-metal catalysis activated by visible light

    Haohua Huo;Xiaodong Shen;Chuanyong Wang;Lilu Zhang

  • A Novel Copper-Mediated DNA Base Pair

    Eric Meggers;Patrick L. Holland;William B. Tolman;Floyd E. Romesberg

  • Targeting proteins with metal complexes.

    Eric Meggers

  • In vivo incorporation of unnatural amino acids

    Peter Schultz;Lei Wang;John Christopher Anderson;Jason William Chin

  • A simple glycol nucleic acid.

    Lilu Zhang;and Adam Peritz;Eric Meggers

  • Steering Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis Exclusively with Octahedral Metal-Centered Chirality

    Lilu Zhang;Eric Meggers

  • Asymmetric catalysis activated by visible light

    Eric Meggers;Eric Meggers

  • On the Mechanism of Long‐Range Electron Transfer through DNA

    Bernd Giese;Stephan Wessely;Martin Spormann;Ute Lindemann

  • Exploring biologically relevant chemical space with metal complexes

    Eric Meggers

  • Ruthenium-induced allylcarbamate cleavage in living cells.

    Craig Streu;Eric Meggers

  • Progress towards bioorthogonal catalysis with organometallic compounds.

    Timo Völker;Felix Dempwolff;Peter L. Graumann;Eric Meggers;Eric Meggers

  • Ruthenium half-sandwich complexes bound to protein kinase Pim-1.

    Judit É. Debreczeni;Alex N. Bullock;G. Ekin Atilla;Douglas S. Williams

  • An Organometallic Protein Kinase Inhibitor Pharmacologically Activates p53 and Induces Apoptosis in Human Melanoma Cells

    Keiran S.M. Smalley;Rooha Contractor;Nikolas K. Haass;Angela N. Kulp

  • Asymmetric Radical-Radical Cross-Coupling through Visible-Light-Activated Iridium Catalysis.

    Chuanyong Wang;Jie Qin;Xiaodong Shen;Radostan Riedel

  • Structure of a Copper-Mediated Base Pair in DNA

    Shane Atwell;Eric Meggers;Glen Spraggon;Peter G. Schultz

  • Structurally Sophisticated Octahedral Metal Complexes as Highly Selective Protein Kinase Inhibitors

    Li Feng;Yann Geisselbrecht;Sebastian Blanck;Alexander Wilbuer

  • Direct Visible-Light-Excited Asymmetric Lewis Acid Catalysis of Intermolecular [2+2] Photocycloadditions.

    Xiaoqiang Huang;Taylor R. Quinn;Klaus Harms;Richard D. Webster

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Csp3 -H Functionalization under Photoredox Conditions by Radical Translocation and Stereocontrolled Alkene Addition.

    Chuanyong Wang;Klaus Harms;Eric Meggers

  • Asymmetric Photocatalysis with Bis-cyclometalated Rhodium Complexes

    Xiaoqiang Huang;Eric Meggers

  • ELECTRON TRANSFER THROUGH DNA IN THE COURSE OF RADICAL-INDUCED STRAND CLEAVAGE

    Eric Meggers;Dirk Kusch;Martin Spichty;Uta Wille

  • Targeting Large Kinase Active Site with Rigid, Bulky Octahedral Ruthenium Complexes

    Jasna Maksimoska;Li Feng;Klaus Harms;Chunling Yi

Frequent Co-Authors

Klaus Harms
Klaus Harms Philipp University of Marburg
Peter G. Schultz
Peter G. Schultz Scripps Research Institute
Jason W. Chin
Jason W. Chin MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Lei Wang
Lei Wang University of California, San Francisco
David R. Liu
David R. Liu Broad Institute
Xiulan Xie
Xiulan Xie Philipp University of Marburg
Ronen Marmorstein
Ronen Marmorstein University of Pennsylvania
Bernd Giese
Bernd Giese University of Fribourg
Patrick J. Carroll
Patrick J. Carroll University of Pennsylvania
Meenhard Herlyn
Meenhard Herlyn The Wistar Institute

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