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D-Index
133
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63963
World Ranking
282
National Ranking
134

Lawrence Que 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 Lawrence Que sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 675 publications — 95th percentile

95% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lawrence Que 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 Lawrence Que sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 133 D-Index — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Lawrence Que is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of chemistry, with a particular focus on inorganic chemistry and materials science. Their research encompasses various subfields, including inorganic chemistry, materials chemistry, oncology, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, and molecular biology.

The primary areas of study for Que include metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, metal complexes synthesis and properties, porphyrin and phthalocyanine chemistry, metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins, magnetism in coordination complexes, radioactive element chemistry and processing, and crystallization and solubility studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Apparao Draksharapu, Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Jin Xiong, and Chase S. Abelson. Que's work has been published in notable scientific journals and venues such as the Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Cambridge Structural Database, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Angewandte Chemie International Edition, and Angewandte Chemie.

Among their recent scientific contributions are papers addressing various aspects of iron chemistry and reactivity:

  • "Sc3+-Promoted O-O Bond Cleavage of a (μ-1,2-Peroxo)diiron(III) Species Formed from an Iron(II) Precursor and O2 to Generate a Complex with an FeIV2(μ-O)2 Core" (2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society)
  • "Tuning the H-Atom Transfer Reactivity of Iron(IV)-Oxo Complexes as Probed by Infrared Photodissociation Spectroscopy" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "Unmasking Steps in Intramolecular Aromatic Hydroxylation by a Synthetic Nonheme Oxoiron(IV) Complex" (2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition)
  • "A tale of two topological isomers: Uptuning [Fe IV (O)(Me 4 cyclam)] 2+ for olefin epoxidation" (2024, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • "Spontaneous Formation of an Fe/Mn Diamond Core: Models for the Fe/Mn Sites in Class 1c Ribonucleotide Reductases" (2021, Inorganic Chemistry)

Best Publications

  • Dioxygen activation at mononuclear nonheme iron active sites: enzymes, models, and intermediates.

    Miquel Costas;Mark P. Mehn;Michael P. Jensen;Lawrence Que

  • Catalysis Research of Relevance to Carbon Management: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities

    Hironori Arakawa;Michele Aresta;John N. Armor;Mark A. Barteau

  • Biologically inspired oxidation catalysis

    Lawrence Que;William B. Tolman

  • Dioxygen Activation by Enzymes with Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron Active Sites

    Lawrence Que;Raymond Y. N. Ho

  • Crystallographic and spectroscopic characterization of a nonheme Fe(IV)-O complex.

    Jan Uwe Rohde;Jun Hee In;Jun Hee In;Mi Hee Lim;Mi Hee Lim;William W. Brennessel

  • An Fe2IVO2 Diamond Core Structure for the Key Intermediate Q of Methane Monooxygenase

    Lijin Shu;Jeremy C. Nesheim;Karl Kauffmann;Eckard Münck

  • The 2-His-1-Carboxylate Facial Triad — An Emerging Structural Motif in Mononuclear Non-Heme Iron(II) Enzymes

    Eric L. Hegg;Lawrence Que

  • Reversible cleavage and formation of the dioxygen O-O bond within a dicopper complex.

    Jason A. Halfen;Samiran Mahapatra;Elizabeth C. Wilkinson;Susan Kaderli

  • Nonheme FeIVO complexes that can oxidize the C-H bonds of cyclohexane at room temperature.

    József Kaizer;Eric J. Klinker;Na Young Oh;Jan Uwe Rohde

  • Dinuclear iron- and manganese-oxo sites in biology

    Lawrence Que;Anne E. True

  • High-valent nonheme iron-oxo complexes: Synthesis, structure, and spectroscopy

    Aidan R. McDonald;Lawrence Que

  • Biomimetic nonheme iron catalysts for alkane hydroxylation

    Miquel Costas;Kui Chen;Lawrence Que

  • Olefin cis-dihydroxylation versus epoxidation by non-heme iron catalysts: Two faces of an FeIII-OOH coin

    Kui Chen;Miquel Costas;Jinheung Kim;Adrianne K. Tipton

  • The Road to Non-Heme Oxoferryls and Beyond †

    Lawrence Que

  • Chemical and Spectroscopic Evidence for an FeV-Oxo Complex

    Filipe Tiago de Oliveira;Arani Chanda;Deboshri Banerjee;Xiaopeng Shan

  • The 2-His-1-carboxylate facial triad: a versatile platform for dioxygen activation by mononuclear non-heme iron(II) enzymes.

    Kevin D. Koehntop;Joseph P. Emerson;Lawrence Que

  • Bis(μ‐oxo)dimetal “Diamond” Cores in Copper and Iron Complexes Relevant to Biocatalysis

    Lawrence Que;William B. Tolman

  • Bioinspired Nonheme Iron Catalysts for C-H and C═C Bond Oxidation: Insights into the Nature of the Metal-Based Oxidants.

    Williamson N. Oloo;Lawrence Que

  • Aqueous FeIV==O: spectroscopic identification and oxo-group exchange.

    Oleg Pestovsky;Sebastian Stoian;Emile L. Bominaar;Xiaopeng Shan

  • Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction

    Chivukula V. Sastri;Jimin Lee;Kyungeun Oh;Yoon Jin Lee

  • Stereospecific alkane hydroxylation by non-heme iron catalysts: mechanistic evidence for an Fe(V)=O active species.

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Frequent Co-Authors

Eckard Münck
Eckard Münck Carnegie Mellon University
Miquel Costas
Miquel Costas University of Girona
John D. Lipscomb
John D. Lipscomb University of Minnesota
William B. Tolman
William B. Tolman Washington University in St. Louis
Michael P. Hendrich
Michael P. Hendrich Carnegie Mellon University
Yanhong Dong
Yanhong Dong University of Minnesota
Emile L. Bominaar
Emile L. Bominaar Carnegie Mellon University
Ronald Hage
Ronald Hage Leiden University
Wonwoo Nam
Wonwoo Nam Ewha Womans University
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University

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