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D-Index
67
Citations
13961
World Ranking
7024
National Ranking
49

Gregory Leitus 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 Gregory Leitus sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 196 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Gregory Leitus 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 Gregory Leitus sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Gregory Leitus is a researcher affiliated with the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Their work primarily focuses on materials science, with a significant emphasis on materials chemistry. The scope of their research includes organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical, and magnetic materials, as well as biomaterials.

Their research topics span several areas related to crystallography and materials science. Key topics include:

  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Magnetism in Coordination Complexes
  • Nanocluster Synthesis and Applications
  • Synthetic Organic Chemistry Methods
  • Lanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes

Frequent publication venues for their research include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • CrystEngComm
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Crystal Growth & Design

Among their recent papers are:

  • Iron-catalysed ring-opening metathesis polymerization of olefins and mechanistic studies (2022, Nature Catalysis)
  • Directing the Morphology, Packing, and Properties of Chiral Metal-Organic Frameworks by Cation Exchange (2022, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • Spin-induced electron transmission through metal-organic chiral crystals (2023, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics)
  • All-inorganic ferric wheel based on hexaniobate-anion linkers (2022, Dalton Transactions)
  • The relationship between the crystal habit and the energy framework pattern: a case study involving halogen bonding on the edge of a covalent bond (2023, CrystEngComm)

Leitus frequently collaborates with a number of coauthors, including Linda J. W. Shimon, Raanan Carmieli, David Milstein, Yael Diskin-Posner, and Daniel B. Lawson.

Best Publications

  • Facile Conversion of Alcohols into Esters and Dihydrogen Catalyzed by New Ruthenium Complexes

    Jing Zhang;Gregory Leitus;Yehoshoa Ben-David;David Milstein

  • Efficient Homogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols

    Jing Zhang;Gregory Leitus;Yehoshoa Ben-David;David Milstein

  • Low-Pressure Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by an Iron Pincer Complex Exhibiting Noble Metal Activity

    Robert Langer;Yael Diskin-Posner;Gregory Leitus;Linda J. W. Shimon

  • Manganese-Catalyzed Environmentally Benign Dehydrogenative Coupling of Alcohols and Amines to Form Aldimines and H2: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study.

    Arup Mukherjee;Alexander Nerush;Gregory Leitus;Linda J. W. Shimon

  • Efficient Hydrogenation of Ketones Catalyzed by an Iron Pincer Complex

    Robert Langer;Gregory Leitus;Yehoshoa Ben-David;David Milstein

  • Catalytic transformation of alcohols to carboxylic acid salts and H2 using water as the oxygen atom source

    Ekambaram Balaraman;Eugene Khaskin;Gregory Leitus;David Milstein

  • Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxyselenophene).

    Asit Patra;Yair H. Wijsboom;Sanjio S. Zade;Mao Li

  • Metal-ligand cooperation in C-H and H2 activation by an electron-rich PNP Ir(I) system: facile ligand dearomatization-aromatization as key steps.

    Eyal Ben-Ari;Gregory Leitus;Linda J W Shimon;David Milstein

  • Electron-Rich PNP- and PNN-Type Ruthenium(II) Hydrido Borohydride Pincer Complexes. Synthesis, Structure, and Catalytic Dehydrogenation of Alcohols and Hydrogenation of Esters

    Jing Zhang;Ekambaram Balaraman;Gregory Leitus;David Milstein

  • Evidence for a terminal Pt(iv)-oxo complex exhibiting diverse reactivity

    Elena Poverenov;Irena Efremenko;Anatoly I. Frenkel;Yehoshoa Ben-David

  • Tuning the Band Gap of Low-Band-Gap Polyselenophenes and Polythiophenes: The Effect of the Heteroatom†

    Asit Patra;Yair H. Wijsboom;Gregory Leitus;Michael Bendikov

  • Manganese-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols.

    Noel Angel Espinosa-Jalapa;Alexander Nerush;Linda J. W. Shimon;Gregory Leitus

  • Iron borohydride pincer complexes for the efficient hydrogenation of ketones under mild, base-free conditions: synthesis and mechanistic insight.

    Robert Langer;Mark A. Iron;Leonid Konstantinovski;Yael Diskin-Posner

  • Alkali Metal Intercalated Fullerene-Like MS2 (M = W, Mo) Nanoparticles and Their Properties

    Alla Zak;Yishay Feldman;Vera Lyakhovitskaya;Gregory Leitus

  • Hydrogenative Depolymerization of Nylons

    Amit Kumar;Niklas Von Wolff;Michael Rauch;You Quan Zou

  • Cobalt‐Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Esters to Alcohols: Unexpected Reactivity Trend Indicates Ester Enolate Intermediacy

    Dipankar Srimani;Arup Mukherjee;Alexander F. G. Goldberg;Gregory Leitus

  • New CNN-Type Ruthenium Pincer NHC Complexes. Mild, Efficient Catalytic Hydrogenation of Esters

    Eran Fogler;Ekambaram Balaraman;Yehoshua Ben-David;Gregory Leitus

  • Template Catalysis by Metal–Ligand Cooperation. C–C Bond Formation via Conjugate Addition of Non-activated Nitriles under Mild, Base-free Conditions Catalyzed by a Manganese Pincer Complex

    Alexander Nerush;Matthias Vogt;Urs Gellrich;Gregory Leitus

  • Manganese‐Catalyzed N‐Formylation of Amines by Methanol Liberating H2: A Catalytic and Mechanistic Study

    Subrata Chakraborty;Urs Gellrich;Yael Diskin-Posner;Gregory Leitus

  • Highly efficient additive-free dehydrogenation of neat formic acid

    Sayan Kar;Michael Rauch;Gregory Leitus;Yehoshoa Ben-David

  • Magnetism induced by the organization of self-assembled monolayers

    I. Carmeli;G. Leitus;R. Naaman;S. Reich

  • Field-effect transistors based on WS2 nanotubes with high current-carrying capacity.

    Roi Levi;Ora Bitton;Gregory Leitus;Reshef Tenne

Frequent Co-Authors

David Milstein
David Milstein Weizmann Institute of Science
Linda J. W. Shimon
Linda J. W. Shimon Weizmann Institute of Science
Yehoshoa Ben-David
Yehoshoa Ben-David Weizmann Institute of Science
Yael Diskin-Posner
Yael Diskin-Posner Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronny Neumann
Ronny Neumann Weizmann Institute of Science
Michael Bendikov
Michael Bendikov Weizmann Institute of Science
Ron Naaman
Ron Naaman Weizmann Institute of Science
Ellen Wachtel
Ellen Wachtel Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronit Popovitz-Biro
Ronit Popovitz-Biro Weizmann Institute of Science
Reshef Tenne
Reshef Tenne Weizmann Institute of Science

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