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Holger F. Bettinger

Holger F. Bettinger

University of Tübingen
Germany

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
53
Citations
8765
World Ranking
13207
National Ranking
974

Holger F. Bettinger 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 Holger F. Bettinger sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 214 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Holger F. Bettinger 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 Holger F. Bettinger sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 53 D-Index — 28th percentile

28% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Holger F. Bettinger is affiliated with the University of Tübingen in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within chemistry and materials science, focusing particularly on materials chemistry and organic chemistry. Additional expertise is demonstrated in electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their work covers several main topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Molecular Junctions and Nanostructures
  • Graphene Research and Applications
  • Fullerene Chemistry and Applications

Bettinger has a significant publication record with frequent appearances in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Chemical Communications
  • Angewandte Chemie

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Pushing the Limits of Acene Chemistry: The Recent Surge of Large Acenes" (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "Synthesis of Tridecacene by Multistep Single-Molecule Manipulation" (2024), Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Bright Luminescence by Combining Chiral [2.2]Paracyclophane with a Boron-Nitrogen-Doped Polyaromatic Hydrocarbon Building Block" (2021), Chemistry - A European Journal
  • "A Free-Radical Prompted Barrierless Gas-Phase Synthesis of Pentacene" (2020), Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Energetics of Formation of Cyclacenes from 2,3-Didehydroacenes and Implications for Astrochemistry" (2020), Chemistry - A European Journal

Bettinger's frequent collaborators include:

  • Hartmut Schubert
  • Markus Ströbele
  • Lars Wesemann
  • Cäcilia Maichle-Mößmer
  • Heiko Peisert

Best Publications

  • Photogeneration of octacene and nonacene.

    Christina Tönshoff;Christina Tönshoff;Holger F. Bettinger;Holger F. Bettinger

  • Synthesis, stability, and photochemistry of pentacene, hexacene, and heptacene: a matrix isolation study.

    Rajib Mondal;Christina Tönshoff;Dmitriy Khon;Douglas C. Neckers

  • Fluorinated single-wall carbon nanotubes

    Konstantin N. Kudin;Holger F. Bettinger;Gustavo E. Scuseria

  • Open-Shell Singlet Character of Cyclacenes and Short Zigzag Nanotubes

    Chen Z;Jiang De;Lu X;Bettinger Hf

  • Mechanically induced defects and strength of BN nanotubes

    Holger F. Bettinger;Traian Dumitrică;Gustavo E. Scuseria;Boris I. Yakobson

  • Role of the Terminal Atoms in the Donor−Acceptor Complexes MX3−D (M = Al, Ga, In; X = F, Cl, Br, I; D = YH3, YX3, X-; Y = N, P, As)

    Alexey Y. Timoshkin;Andrew V. Suvorov;Holger F. Bettinger;Henry F. Schaefer

  • Towards graphite: magnetic properties of large polybenzenoid hydrocarbons.

    Damian Moran;Frank Stahl;Holger F. Bettinger;Henry F. Schaefer

  • Scratching the surface of buckminsterfullerene: the barriers for Stone-Wales transformation through symmetric and asymmetric transition states.

    Holger F. Bettinger;Boris I. Yakobson;Gustavo E. Scuseria

  • Formation of Nitriles in the Interstellar Medium via Reactions of Cyano Radicals, CN(X 2Σ+), with Unsaturated Hydrocarbons

    N. Balucani;O. Asvany;L. C. L. Huang;Y. T. Lee

  • Thermochemistry of fluorinated single wall carbon nanotubes.

    Holger F. Bettinger;Konstantin N. Kudin;Gustavo E. Scuseria

  • Crossed beam reaction of cyano radicals with hydrocarbon molecules. I. Chemical dynamics of cyanobenzene (C6H5CN; X 1A1) and perdeutero cyanobenzene (C6D5CN; X 1A1) formation from reaction of CN(X 2Σ+) with benzene C6H6(X 1A1g), and d6-benzene C6D6(X 1A1g)

    N. Balucani;O. Asvany;A. H. H. Chang;S. H. Lin

  • The reactivity of defects at the sidewalls of single-walled carbon nanotubes: the Stone-Wales defect.

    Holger F. Bettinger

  • Construction of an Internally B3N3-Doped Nanographene Molecule

    Matthias Krieg;Florian Reicherter;Peter Haiss;Markus Ströbele

  • Pushing the Limits of Acene Chemistry: The Recent Surge of Large Acenes

    Christina Tönshoff;Holger F. Bettinger

  • Electronic structure of higher acenes and polyacene: The perspective developed by theoretical analyses

    Holger F. Bettinger

  • Heptacene: Characterization in Solution, in the Solid State, and in Films.

    Ralf Einholz;Treliant Fang;Robert Berger;Robert Berger;Peter Grüninger

  • Metal-Free Conversion of Methane and Cycloalkanes to Amines and Amides by Employing a Borylnitrene

    Holger F. Bettinger;Matthias Filthaus;Holger Bornemann;Iris M. Oppel

  • Evolution of the Optical Gap in the Acene Series: Undecacene.

    Bin Shen;Jörg Tatchen;Elsa Sanchez‐Garcia;Holger F. Bettinger

  • Noncovalent π−π Stacking and CH---π Interactions of Aromatics on the Surface of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes: An MP2 Study

    Tapas Kar;Holger F. Bettinger;Steve Scheiner;Ajit K. Roy

  • BN‐Phenanthryne: Cyclotetramerization of an 1,2‐Azaborine Derivative

    Matthias Müller;Cäcilia Maichle-Mössmer;Holger F. Bettinger

  • THE CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION OF ALUMINUM NITRIDE : UNUSUAL CLUSTER FORMATION IN THE GAS PHASE

    Alexey Y. Timoshkin;Holger F. Bettinger;Henry F. Schaefer

  • RING OPENING OF CYCLOPROPYLIDENE AND INTERNAL ROTATION OF ALLENE

    Holger F. Bettinger;Peter R. Schreiner;Paul v. R. Schleyer;Henry F. Schaefer

  • Photochemische Erzeugung von Octacen und Nonacen

    Christina Tönshoff;Christina Tönshoff;Holger F. Bettinger;Holger F. Bettinger

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
Ralf I. Kaiser
Ralf I. Kaiser University of Hawaii at Manoa
Gustavo E. Scuseria
Gustavo E. Scuseria Rice University
Matthias M. Müller
Matthias M. Müller Leipzig University
Paul v. R. Schleyer
Paul v. R. Schleyer University of Georgia
Shih-Yuan Liu
Shih-Yuan Liu Boston College
Alain Omont
Alain Omont Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
Peter R. Schreiner
Peter R. Schreiner University of Giessen
Luc Vereecken
Luc Vereecken Max Planck Society
Yuan T. Lee
Yuan T. Lee Academia Sinica

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