Karl O. Christe

Research.com Recognitions

• 2017 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 2011 - Tolman Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
• 2009 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
• 2006 - Alfred-Stock-Gedächtnispreis (Alfred Stock Memorial Prize), German Chemical Society
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts

Overview

Best Publications

• On a Quantitative Scale for Lewis Acidity and Recent Progress in Polynitrogen Chemistry

  Karl O. Christe;Karl O. Christe;David A. Dixon;Douglas McLemore;William W. Wilson

  480
  Citations

• Syntheses, properties, and structures of anhydrous tetramethylammonium fluoride and its 1:1 adduct with trans-3-amino-2-butenenitrile

  Karl O. Christe;William W. Wilson;Richard D. Wilson;Robert Bau

  393
  Citations

• Experimental Detection of the Pentaazacyclopentadienide (Pentazolate) Anion, cyclo‐N5−

  Ashwani Vij;Ashwani Vij;James G. Pavlovich;William W. Wilson;William W. Wilson;Vandana Vij;Vandana Vij

  344
  Citations

• Polynitrogen chemistry. Synthesis, characterization, and crystal structure of surprisingly stable fluoroantimonate salts of N5+.

  Ashwani Vij;William W Wilson;Vandana Vij;Fook S Tham

  318
  Citations

• N5+: A Novel Homoleptic Polynitrogen Ion as a High Energy Density Material

  Karl O. Christe;William W. Wilson;Jeffrey A. Sheehy;Jerry A. Boatz

  286
  Citations

• Enthalpies of Formation of Gas-Phase N3, N3-, N5+, and N5- from Ab Initio Molecular Orbital Theory, Stability Predictions for N5+N3- and N5+N5-, and Experimental Evidence for the Instability of N5+N3-

  David A. Dixon;David F. Feller;Karl O. Christe;william W. wilson

  260
  Citations

• Recent Advances in the Chemistry of N5+, N5− and High-Oxygen Compounds

  Karl O. Christe

  202
  Citations

• Synthesis of AgN 5 and its extended 3D energetic framework

  Chengguo Sun;Chong Zhang;Chao Jiang;Chen Yang

  182
  Citations

• Synthesis and Characterization of cyclo-Pentazolate Salts of NH4+, NH3OH+, N2H5+, C(NH2)3+, and N(CH3)4+

  Chen Yang;Chong Zhang;Zhansheng Zheng;Chao Jiang

  181
  Citations

• High-Energy-Density Materials: Synthesis and Characterization of N5+[P(N3)6]−, N5+ [B(N3)4]−, N5+ [HF2]−⋅n HF, N5+ [BF4]−, N5+ [PF6]−, and N5+ [SO3F]−†

  Ralf Haiges;Stefan Schneider;Thorsten Schroer;Karl O. Christe

  172
  Citations

• A Renaissance in Noble Gas Chemistry.

  Karl O. Christe

  166
  Citations

• Energetic high-nitrogen compounds: 5-(trinitromethyl)-2H-tetrazole and -tetrazolates, preparation, characterization, and conversion into 5-(dinitromethyl)tetrazoles.

  Ralf Haiges;Karl O. Christe

  161
  Citations

• Third Row Transition Metal Hexafluorides, Extraordinary Oxidizers, and Lewis Acids: Electron Affinities, Fluoride Affinities, and Heats of Formation of WF6, ReF6, OsF6, IrF6, PtF6, and AuF6

  Raluca Craciun;Désireé Picone;Rebecca T. Long;Shenggang Li

  154
  Citations

• The pentafluoroxenate(IV) anion, XeF5- : the first example of a pentagonal planar AX5 species

  Karl O. Christe;Earl C. Curtis;David A. Dixon;Helene P. Mercier

  153
  Citations

• Long‐Lived Trifluoromethanide Anion: A Key Intermediate in Nucleophilic Trifluoromethylations

  G. K. Surya Prakash;Fang Wang;Zhe Zhang;Ralf Haiges

  141
  Citations

• The Dinitramide Anion, N(NO2)2- ∇

  Karl O. Christe;William W. Wilson;Mark A. Petrie;Harvey H. Michels

  139
  Citations

• Polynitrogen chemistry enters the ring.

  Karl O. Christe

  128
  Citations

• Oxygen-Balanced Energetic Ionic Liquid**

  C. Bigler Jones;Ralf Haiges;Thorsten Schroer;Karl O. Christe

  123
  Citations

• Polyazide Chemistry: Preparation and Characterization of Te(N3)4 and [P(C6H5)4]2[Te(N3)6] and Evidence for [N(CH3)4][Te(N3)5]

  Ralf Haiges;Jerry A. Boatz;Ashwani Vij;Michael Gerken

  122
  Citations

• Novel High-Energy Density Materials. Synthesis and Characterization of Triazidocarbenium Dinitramide, -Perchlorate, and -Tetrafluoroborate

  Mark A. Petrie;Jeffrey A. Sheehy;Jerry A. Boatz;Golam Rasul

  121
  Citations

• Polynitrogen Chemistry. Synthesis, Characterization, and Crystal Structure of Surprisingly Stable Fluoroantimonate Salts of N5+.

  Ashwani Vij;William W. Wilson;Vandana Vij;Fook S. Tham

  5
  Citations