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46
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7227
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16099
National Ranking
4014

Liviu M. Mirica 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 Liviu M. Mirica sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 211 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Liviu M. Mirica 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 Liviu M. Mirica sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 46 D-Index — 12th percentile

12% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Liviu M. Mirica is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, primarily focusing on materials science and chemistry. Among the main fields of study are:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

Within these fields, the subfields where they have significant contributions include:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Physiology
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Inorganic Chemistry

The main topics covered in their work reflect a diverse range of interests at the interface of chemistry and biomedical applications. These include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Alzheimer's disease research and treatments
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry and Applications

Liviu M. Mirica's frequent publication venues, indicating the journals and platforms where their research is most often published, include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Chemical Science
  • Alzheimer's & Dementia

The researcher has coauthored with several frequent collaborators, suggesting established working relationships in the scientific community. Notable coauthors include:

  • Giang N. Tran
  • Leonel Griego
  • Bailey S. Bouley
  • Hanah Na
  • Nigam P. Rath

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Liviu M. Mirica are:

  • A General Approach to Convert Hemicyanine Dyes into Highly Optimized Photoacoustic Scaffolds for Analyte Sensing, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Deciphering the mechanism of the Ni-photocatalyzed C-O cross-coupling reaction using a tridentate pyridinophane ligand, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Amphiphilic Distyrylbenzene Derivatives as Potential Therapeutic and Imaging Agents for Soluble and Insoluble Amyloid β Aggregates in Alzheimer's Disease, 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Simultaneous Fe 2+ /Fe 3+ imaging shows Fe 3+ over Fe 2+ enrichment in Alzheimer's disease mouse brain, 2023, Science Advances
  • Metal-chelating benzothiazole multifunctional compounds for the modulation and 64 Cu PET imaging of Aβ aggregation, 2020, Chemical Science

Liviu M. Mirica was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Structure and Spectroscopy of Copper−Dioxygen Complexes

    Liviu M Mirica;Xavier Ottenwaelder;T Daniel P Stack

  • Tyrosinase Reactivity in a Model Complex: An Alternative Hydroxylation Mechanism

    Liviu M. Mirica;Michael Vance;Deanne Jackson Rudd;Britt Hedman

  • Bifunctional Compounds for Controlling Metal-Mediated Aggregation of the Aβ42 Peptide

    Anuj K. Sharma;Stephanie T. Pavlova;Jaekwang Kim;Darren Finkelstein

  • Organometallic nickel(III) complexes relevant to cross-coupling and carbon-heteroatom bond formation reactions.

    Bo Zheng;Fengzhi Tang;Jia Luo;Jason W. Schultz

  • Stable mononuclear organometallic Pd(III) complexes and their C-C bond formation reactivity.

    Julia R. Khusnutdinova;Nigam P. Rath;Liviu M. Mirica

  • Spectroscopic demonstration of a large antisymmetric exchange contribution to the spin-frustrated ground state of a D3 symmetric hydroxy-bridged trinuclear Cu(II) complex: ground-to-excited state superexchange pathways.

    Jungjoo Yoon;Liviu M. Mirica;T. Daniel P. Stack;Edward I. Solomon

  • The effect of Cu2+ and Zn2+ on the Aβ42 peptide aggregation and cellular toxicity

    Anuj K. Sharma;Stephanie T. Pavlova;Jaekwang Kim;Jungsu Kim

  • Isolated Organometallic Nickel(III) and Nickel(IV) Complexes Relevant to Carbon-Carbon Bond Formation Reactions.

    Jason W. Schultz;Kei Fuchigami;Bo Zheng;Nigam P. Rath

  • Structure and electronic properties of Pd(III) complexes

    Liviu M. Mirica;Julia R. Khusnutdinova

  • The Aerobic Oxidation of a Pd(II) Dimethyl Complex Leads to Selective Ethane Elimination from a Pd(III) Intermediate

    Julia R. Khusnutdinova;Nigam P. Rath;Liviu M. Mirica

  • A Stabilized μ-η2:η2 Peroxodicopper(II) Complex with a Secondary Diamine Ligand and Its Tyrosinase-like Reactivity

    Liviu Mihail Mirica;Michael Vance;Deanne Jackson Rudd;Britt Hedman

  • Pulsed hydrogen–deuterium exchange mass spectrometry probes conformational changes in amyloid beta (Aβ) peptide aggregation

    Ying Zhang;Don L. Rempel;Jun Zhang;Anuj K. Sharma

  • Reaction coordinate of a functional model of tyrosinase: spectroscopic and computational characterization.

    Bryan T. Op’t Holt;Michael A. Vance;Liviu M. Mirica;David E. Heppner

  • Bis(μ-oxo)dicopper(III) complexes of a homologous series of simple peralkylated 1,2-diamines: Steric modulation of structure, stability, and reactivity

    Adam P. Cole;Viswanath Mahadevan;Liviu M. Mirica;Xavier Ottenwaelder

  • μ-η2:η2-Peroxodicopper(II) Complex with a Secondary Diamine Ligand: A Functional Model of Tyrosinase

    Liviu Mihail Mirica;Deanne Jackson Rudd;Michael A. Vance;Edward I. Solomon

  • Oxidative C–C Bond Formation Reactivity of Organometallic Ni(II), Ni(III), and Ni(IV) Complexes

    Michael B. Watson;Nigam P. Rath;Liviu M. Mirica

  • Variable-Temperature, Variable-Field Magnetic Circular Dichroism Studies of Tris-Hydroxy- and μ3-Oxo-Bridged Trinuclear Cu(II) Complexes: Evaluation of Proposed Structures of the Native Intermediate of the Multicopper Oxidases

    Jungjoo Yoon;Liviu M. Mirica;T. Daniel P. Stack;Edward I. Solomon

  • A General Approach to Convert Hemicyanine Dyes into Highly Optimized Photoacoustic Scaffolds for Analyte Sensing

    Sarah H. Gardner;Catharine J. Brady;Cameron Keeton;Anuj K. Yadav

  • The nature of O2 activation by the ethylene-forming enzyme 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid oxidase

    Liviu M. Mirica;Judith P. Klinman

  • Tale of a twist: magnetic and optical switching in copper(II) semiquinone complexes.

    Pratik Verma;John Weir;Liviu Mirica;T. Daniel P. Stack

  • A Tris(μ-hydroxy)tricopper(II) Complex as a Model of the Native Intermediate in Laccase and Its Relationship to a Binuclear Analogue

    Liviu M. Mirica;T. Daniel P. Stack

Frequent Co-Authors

Nigam P. Rath
Nigam P. Rath University of Missouri–St. Louis
T. Daniel P. Stack
T. Daniel P. Stack Stanford University
Judith P. Klinman
Judith P. Klinman University of California, Berkeley
Edward I. Solomon
Edward I. Solomon Stanford University
Britt Hedman
Britt Hedman SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Keith O. Hodgson
Keith O. Hodgson Stanford University
Michael L. Gross
Michael L. Gross Washington University in St. Louis
Emad Tajkhorshid
Emad Tajkhorshid University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Robert E. Blankenship
Robert E. Blankenship Washington University in St. Louis
Robert G. Kranz
Robert G. Kranz Washington University in St. Louis

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