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D-Index
62
Citations
11416
World Ranking
9001
National Ranking
2548

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2001 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1975 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Gerd N. La Mar is affiliated with the University of California, Davis, located in the United States. The focus of their academic career is within scientific research, with recognition reflected through prestigious honors.

La Mar has been awarded fellowships from notable organizations. In 1975, they received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Additionally, in 2001, La Mar was named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • Structural correlations and vinyl influences in resonance Raman spectra of protoheme complexes and proteins

    S. Choi;T. G. Spiro;K. C. Langry;K. M. Smith

  • Proton magnetic resonance investigation of antiferromagnetic oxo-bridged ferric dimers and related high-spin monomeric ferric complexes

    Gerd N. La Mar;G. R. Eaton;R. H. Holm;F. Ann. Walker

  • Heme orientational disorder in reconstituted and native sperm whale myoglobin. Proton nuclear magnetic resonance characterizations by heme methyl deuterium labeling in the Met-cyano protein.

    Gerd N. La Mar;N.L. Davis;Daniel W. Parish;Kevin M. Smith

  • Mechanism of autoxidation of iron(II) porphyrins. Detection of a peroxo-bridged iron(III) porphyrin dimer and the mechanism of its thermal decomposition to the oxo-bridged iron(III) porphyrin dimer

    Der-Hang Chin;Gerd N. La Mar;Alan L. Balch

  • Oxygenation patterns for iron(II) porphyrins. Peroxo and ferryl (FeIVO) intermediates detected by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy during the oxygenation of (tetramesitylporphyrin)iron(II)

    Alan L. Balch;Yee Wai Chan;Ru Jen Cheng;Gerd N. La Mar

  • NMR of Paramagnetic Molecules: Principles and Applications

    Gerd N. La Mar;William DeW. Horrocks;Richard Hadley Holm

  • Proton NMR investigation of the rate and mechanism of heme rotation in sperm whale myoglobin: evidence for intramolecular reorientation about a heme two-fold axis

    Gerd N. La Mar;Hiroo Toi;R. Krishnamoorthi

  • 2 – Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of Paramagnetic Metalloporphyrins

    Gerd N. La Mar;F. Ann Walker

  • Proton NMR characterization of the catalytically relevant proximal and distal hydrogen-bonding networks in ligated resting state horseradish peroxidase

    V. Thanabal;Jeffrey S. De Ropp;Gerd N. La Mar

  • Formation of porphyrin ferryl (FeO2+) complexes through the addition of nitrogen bases to peroxo-bridged iron(III) porphyrins

    Der-Hang Chin;Alan L. Balch;Gerd N. La Mar

  • Proton NMR characterization of the ferryl group in model heme complexes and hemoproteins: evidence for the FeIVO group in ferryl myoglobin and compound II of horseradish peroxidase

    Gerd N. La Mar;Jeffrey S. De Ropp;Lechoslaw Latos-Grazynski;Alan L. Balch

  • Assignment of proximal histidine proton nmr peaks in myoglobin and hemoglobin

    Gerd N. La Mar;David L. Budd;Harold Goff

  • NMR studies of low-spin ferric complexes of natural porphyrin derivatives. 1. Effect of peripheral substituents on the .pi. electronic asymmetry in biscyano complexes

    Gerd N. La Mar;David B. Viscio;Kevin M. Smith;W. S. Caughey

  • Role of ferryl (FeO2+) complexes in oxygen atom transfer reactions. Mechanism of iron(II) porphyrin catalyzed oxygenation of triphenylphosphine

    Der-Hang Chin;Gerd N. La Mar;Alan L. Balch

  • Identification of the catalytically important amino acid residue resonances in ferric low-spin horseradish peroxidase with nuclear Overhauser effect measurements

    V. Thanabal;Jeffrey S. De Ropp;Gerd N. La Mar

  • Nuclear magnetic resonance of high-spin ferric hemoproteins. Assignment of proton resonances in met-aquo myoglobins using deuterium-labeled hemes

    Gerd N. La Mar;David L. Budd;Kevin M. Smith;Kevin C. Langry

  • Proton NMR study of the electronic and molecular structure of the heme cavity in horseradish peroxidase. Complete heme resonance assignments based on saturation transfer and nuclear Overhauser effects

    V. Thanabal;Jeffrey S. DeRopp;Gerd N. La Mar

  • Proton NMR study of high-spin ferric natural porphyrin derivatives as models of methemoproteins

    David L. Budd;Gerd N. La Mar;Kevin C. Langry;Kevin M. Smith

  • Proton nuclear magnetic resonance study of the relaxation behavior and kinetic lability of exchangeable protons in the heme pocket of cyanometmyoglobin

    John D. Cutnell;Gerd N. La Mar;Stephen B. Kong

  • Proton nuclear magnetic resonance and electron spin resonance investigation of the electronic structure and magnetic properties of synthetic low-spin ferric porphyrins.

    Gerd N. La Mar;F. Ann. Walker

  • Quenching the Nuclear Overhauser Effect in NMR Spectra of Carbon‐13

    Ray Freeman;K. G. R. Pachler;Gerd N. La Mar

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan L. Balch
Alan L. Balch University of California, Davis
F. Ann Walker
F. Ann Walker University of Arizona
Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano
Paul R. Ortiz de Montellano University of California, San Francisco
Stephen G. Sligar
Stephen G. Sligar University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński University of Wrocław
Michael W. W. Adams
Michael W. W. Adams University of Georgia
Ravindra Pandey
Ravindra Pandey Michigan Technological University
Richard H. Holm
Richard H. Holm Harvard University
Kaspar H. Winterhalter
Kaspar H. Winterhalter École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Maurizio Brunori
Maurizio Brunori Sapienza University of Rome

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