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117
Citations
48880
World Ranking
568
National Ranking
240

Marilyn M. Olmstead 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 Marilyn M. Olmstead sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 1,019 publications — 99th percentile

99% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marilyn M. Olmstead 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 Marilyn M. Olmstead sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 117 D-Index — 97th percentile

97% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2014 - Fellow of the American Chemical Society

Overview

Marilyn M. Olmstead was a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Davis in the United States. Their academic contributions primarily focused on Materials Science, with a significant emphasis on Materials Chemistry, as reflected by the large number of publications in this area. They also contributed to fields such as Organic Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

The main topics covered in their research included Crystallization and Solubility Studies, X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography, Crystallography and molecular interactions, Fullerene Chemistry and Applications, Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis, Magnetism in coordination complexes, and Metal complexes synthesis and properties.

Their publication record included a notable number of papers in key scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues were:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Polyhedron
  • Acta Crystallographica Section A Foundations and Advances
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Marilyn M. Olmstead collaborated often with several co-authors, including Alan L. Balch, Lucy M. C. Luong, James C. Fettinger, Daniel T. Walters, and Xian B. Carroll.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Olmstead included:

  • Role of Anions and Mixtures of Anions on the Thermochromism, Vapochromism, and Polymorph Formation of Luminescent Crystals of a Single Cation, [(C6H11NC)2Au]+ (2020) in Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Fabrication of Ag-ZnO composite thin films for plasmonic enhanced water splitting (2020) in Materials Chemistry and Physics
  • Unsymmetrical Coordination of Bipyridine in Three-Coordinate Gold(I) Complexes (2020) in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Reactivity of Nitric Oxide and Nitrosonium Ion with Copper(II/I) Schiff Base Complexes: Mechanistic Aspects of Imine CN Bond Cleavage and Oxidation of Pyridine-2-aldehyde to Pyridine-2-carboxylic Acid (2022) in Inorganic Chemistry
  • Seeing luminescence appear as crystals crumble. Isolation and subsequent self-association of individual [(C6H11NC)2Au]+ ions in crystals (2020) in Chemical Science

Olmstead was recognized as a Fellow of the American Chemical Society in 2014.

Best Publications

  • Small-bandgap endohedral metallofullerenes in high yield and purity

    S. Stevenson;G. Rice;T. Glass;K. Harich

  • REACTIONS OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES WITH FULLERENES (C60, C70, ETC.) AND RELATED MATERIALS

    Alan L. Balch;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Solvent‐Stimulated Luminescence from the Supramolecular Aggregation of a Trinuclear Gold(I) Complex that Displays Extensive Intermolecular AuċAu Interactions

    Jess C. Vickery;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ella Y. Fung;Alan L. Balch

  • Molecular Features of the Copper Binding Sites in the Octarepeat Domain of the Prion Protein

    Colin S. Burns;Eliah Aronoff-Spencer;Christine M. Dunham;Paula Lario

  • Interaction of Curved and Flat Molecular Surfaces. The Structures of Crystalline Compounds Composed of Fullerene (C60, C60O, C70, and C120O) and Metal Octaethylporphyrin Units

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;David A. Costa;Kalyani Maitra;Bruce C. Noll

  • A double concave hydrocarbon buckycatcher.

    Unknown

  • Synthesis and Characterization of the Monomeric Diaryls M{C6H3-2,6-Mes2}2 (M = Ge, Sn, or Pb; Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2−) and Dimeric Aryl−Metal Chlorides [M(Cl){C6H3-2,6-Mes2}]2 (M = Ge or Sn)

    Richard S. Simons;Lihung Pu;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power

  • Homologous Series of Heavier Element Dipnictenes 2,6-Ar2H3C6E=EC6H3-2,6-Ar2 (E = P, As, Sb, Bi; Ar = Mes = C6H2-2,4,6-Me3; or Trip = C6H2-2,4,6-iPr3) Stabilized by m-Terphenyl Ligands

    Brendan Twamley;Chadwick D. Sofield;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power

  • Synthesis and Characterization of 2,6-Dipp2-H3C6SnSnC6H3-2,6-Dipp2 (Dipp = C6H3-2,6-Pri2): A Tin Analogue of an Alkyne

    Andrew D. Phillips;Robert J. Wright;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power

  • (.eta.2-C70)Ir(CO)Cl(PPh3)2: the synthesis and structure of an iridium organometallic derivative of a higher fullerene

    Alan L. Balch;Vincent J. Catalano;Joong W. Lee;Marilyn M. Olmstead

  • Isolation and Structural Characterization of the Endohedral Fullerene Sc3N@C78

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Ana de Bettencourt-Dias;James C. Duchamp;Steven Stevenson

  • Three-coordinate iron complexes: x-ray structural characterization of the iron amide-bridged dimers [Fe(NR2)2]2 (R = SiMe3, C6H5) and the adduct Fe[N(SiMe3)2]2(THF) and determination of the association energy of the monomer Fe{N(SiMe3)2}2 in solution

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power;Steven C. Shoner

  • Bonding within the Endohedral Fullerenes Sc3N@C78 and Sc3N@C80 as Determined by Density Functional Calculations and Reexamination of the Crystal Structure of {Sc3N@C78}·Co(OEP)}·1.5(C6H6)·0.3(CHCl3)

    Josep M. Campanera;Carles Bo;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Alan L. Balch

  • Germanium and tin analogues of alkynes and their reduction products.

    Lihung Pu;Andrew D Phillips;Anne F Richards;Matthias Stender

  • A Distorted Tetrahedral Metal Oxide Cluster inside an Icosahedral Carbon Cage. Synthesis, Isolation, and Structural Characterization of Sc4(μ3-O)2@Ih-C80

    Steven Stevenson;Mary A. Mackey;Melissa A. Stuart;J. Paige Phillips

  • Aurophilic interactions in cationic gold complexes with two isocyanide ligands. Polymorphic yellow and colorless forms of [(cyclohexyl isocyanide)2AuI](PF6) with distinct luminescence.

    Rochelle L. White-Morris;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Alan L. Balch

  • Metallocalixarenes: Syntheses and X-Ray Crystal Structures of Titanium(IV), Iron(III), and Cobalt(II) Complexes of p-tert.-Butylcalix[4]arene.

    M. M. Olmstead;G. Sigel;H. Hope;X. Xu

  • Reactions of the heavier group 14 element alkyne analogues Ar'EEAr' (Ar' = C6H3-2,6(C6H3-2,6-Pri2)2; E = Ge, Sn) with unsaturated molecules: probing the character of the EE multiple bonds.

    Chunming Cui;Marilyn M. Olmstead;James C. Fettinger;Geoffrey H. Spikes

  • Boron-boron double bonding in the species [B2R4]2-: synthesis and structure of [{(Et2O)Li}2{Mes2BB(Mes)Ph}], a diborane(4) dianion analog of a substituted ethylene

    Afarin Moezzi;Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power

  • Isolation and x-ray crystal structure of the boron methylidenide ion [Mes2BCH2]- (Mes = 2,4,6-Me3C6H2): a boron-carbon double bonded alkene analog

    Marilyn M. Olmstead;Philip P. Power;Kenneth J. Weese;Robert J. Doedens

  • Bioorganometallic chemistry. 1. Synthesis, structure, and selectivity in reactions of a nucleobase and several nucleosides with a (.eta.5-pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)rhodium aqua complex

    David P. Smith;Eduardo Baralt;Bruce Morales;Marilyn M. Olmstead

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan L. Balch
Alan L. Balch University of California, Davis
Philip P. Power
Philip P. Power University of California, Davis
Pradip K. Mascharak
Pradip K. Mascharak University of California, Santa Cruz
Mark J. Kurth
Mark J. Kurth University of California, Davis
Susan M. Kauzlarich
Susan M. Kauzlarich University of California, Davis
James C. Fettinger
James C. Fettinger University of California, Davis
Harry C. Dorn
Harry C. Dorn Virginia Tech
Luis Echegoyen
Luis Echegoyen The University of Texas at El Paso
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński
Lechosław Latos-Grażyński University of Wrocław
Hakon Hope
Hakon Hope University of California, Davis

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