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Netherlands
2025

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Chemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
15203
World Ranking
5118
National Ranking
124

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Chemistry in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Jaap J. Boon is affiliated with the Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in the Netherlands. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields including Chemistry, Arts and Humanities, and Engineering, reflecting a diverse academic portfolio.

Their main areas of study incorporate Analytical Chemistry, Archeology, and Mechanics of Materials. The scientist's work focuses on topics related to Petroleum Processing and Analysis, Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis, and Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis.

Boon has published research in the Microchemical Journal, among other venues. One of their recent papers is titled "Tracking asphalt markers in bitumen oil paint reconstructions by Py-TMAH-GC/MS and Py-GCxGC/MS", published in 2022 in the Microchemical Journal.

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Raquel Marques
  • Michel Sablier
  • Gauthier Rosé
  • Leslie Carlyle
  • Isabel Pombo Cardoso

The work by Boon reflects an integration of chemical analysis techniques applied to both petroleum-based materials and cultural heritage contexts, illustrating a bridging of industrial and archaeological disciplines.

Best Publications

  • Black Sea sterol—a molecular fossil for dinoflagellate blooms

    Jaap J. Boon;W. Irene C. Rijpstra;Frits De Lange;J. W. De Leeuw

  • Manipulation of lignin quality by downregulation of cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase

    Claire Halpin;Mary E. Knight;Geoffrey A. Foxon;Malcolm M. Campbell

  • Cellulose char structure: a combined analytical Py-GC-MS, FTIR, and NMR study

    Ivana Pastorova;Robert E. Botto;Peter W. Arisz;Jaap J. Boon

  • Curie-point pyrolysis-capillary gas chromatography-high-resolution mass spectrometry of microcrystalline cellulose

    Aloys D. Pouwels;Gert B. Eijkel;Jaap J. Boon

  • Molecular preservation. Discussion

    Geoffrey Eglinton;Graham A. Logan;R. P. Ambler;J. J. Boon

  • FTIR studies of the effects of pigments on the aging of oil

    Jaap van der Weerd;Annelies van Loon;Jaap J. Boon

  • Molecular aspects of the peatification and early coalification of angiosperm and gymnosperm woods

    Scott A. Stout;Scott A. Stout;Jaap J. Boon;William Spackman

  • Characterisation of beech wood and its holocellulose and xylan fractions by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Aloys D. Pouwels;Anneke Tom;Gert B. Eijkel;Jaap J. Boon

  • Mass spectrometric methodology for the analysis of highly oxidized diterpenoid acids in Old Master paintings

    Klaas Jan van den Berg;Jaap J. Boon;Ivana Pastorova;Leo F. M. Spetter

  • Structural characterization of lignin polymers by temperature-resolved in-source pyrolysis—mass spectrometry and Curie-point pyrolysis—gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

    Erik R.E. van der Hage;Marcel M. Mulder;Jaap J. Boon

  • Characterisation of subfossil Sphagnum leaves, rootlets of ericaceae and their peat by pyrolysis-high-resolution gas chromatography-mass spectrometry

    Dirk G. Van Smeerdijk;Dirk G. Van Smeerdijk;Jaap J. Boon

  • Significance and taxonomic value of iso and anteiso monoenoic fatty acids and branded beta-hydroxy acids in Desulfovibrio desulfuricans

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  • Analysis of fresh triterpenoid resins and aged triterpenoid varnishes by high-performance liquid chromatography–atmospheric pressure chemical ionisation (tandem) mass spectrometry

    Gisela A van der Doelen;Klaas Jan van den Berg;Jaap J Boon;Nobuko Shibayama

  • Involvement of cinnamyl-alcohol dehydrogenase in the control of lignin formation in Sorghum bicolor L. Moench.

    Christian Pillonel;Marcel M. Mulder;Jaap J. Boon;Birgit Forster

  • Scope and limitations of several pyrolysis methods in the structural elucidation of a macromolecular plant constituent in the leaf cuticle of Agave americana L.

    E.W. Tegelaar;J.W. de Leeuw;C. Largeau;S. Derenne

  • Dissolved organic matter and its parent organic matter in grass upland soil horizons studied by analytical pyrolysis techniques

    Y. Huang;G. Eglinton;E. R. E. Van Der Hage;J. J. Boon

  • Substituent distribution along the cellulose backbone in O-methylcelluloses using GC and FAB-MS for monomer and oligomer analysis

    Peter W. Arisz;Hendrikus J.J. Kauw;Jaap J. Boon

  • Characterization of a highly resistant biomacromolecular material in the cell wall of a marine dinoflagellate resting cyst

    John P Kokinos;Timothy I Eglinton;Miguel A Goñi;Jaap J Boon

  • Organic geochemistry of Walvis Bay diatomaceous ooze—I. Occurrence and significance of the fatty acids

    Jaap J. Boon;J.W. De Leeuw;P.A. Schenck

  • Molecular archaeology: Analysis of charred (food) remains from prehistoric pottery by pyrolysis—gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

    T.F.M. Oudemans;J.J. Boon

  • Perylene in sediments from the Namibian Shelf

    Stuart G. Wakeham;Christian Schaffner;Walter Giger;Jaap J. Boon

Frequent Co-Authors

Ron M. A. Heeren
Ron M. A. Heeren Maastricht University
J.W. de Leeuw
J.W. de Leeuw Delft University of Technology
P.A. Schenck
P.A. Schenck Delft University of Technology
Peter B. O’Connor
Peter B. O’Connor University of Warwick
Jacob A. Moulijn
Jacob A. Moulijn Delft University of Technology
Marianne Baas
Marianne Baas Delft University of Technology
Geoffrey Eglinton
Geoffrey Eglinton University of Bristol
Helena Pereira
Helena Pereira University of Lisbon
Hans Lambers
Hans Lambers University of Western Australia

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