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Nigam P. Rath

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
63
Citations
14477
World Ranking
8404
National Ranking
2418

Nigam P. Rath 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 Nigam P. Rath sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 588 publications — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nigam P. Rath 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 Nigam P. Rath sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 63 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Nigam P. Rath is affiliated with the University of Missouri-St. Louis in the United States. Their research focuses extensively on materials science and chemistry, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, oncology, and process chemistry and technology.

The primary areas of study in their work include:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Metal Complexes Synthesis and Properties
  • Carbon Dioxide Utilization in Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions

Nigam P. Rath has published across several renowned venues, frequently contributing to:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • New Journal of Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Chemical Communications

Their recent papers include:

  • "Detection and Characterization of Mononuclear Pd(I) Complexes Supported by N2S2 and N4 Tetradentate Ligands" (2020), published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • "A highly active copper catalyst for the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to formate under ambient conditions" (2020), published in Dalton Transactions
  • "Copper(I) Complexes Containing PCP Ligand Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formate under Ambient Conditions" (2021), published in Inorganic Chemistry
  • "Photoreductive chlorine elimination from a Ni(iii)Cl2 complex supported by a tetradentate pyridinophane ligand" (2021), published in Chemical Communications
  • "Palladium (II) complexes containing substituted thiosemicarbazones. Synthesis, spectral characterization, X-ray crystallography, biomolecular interactions and in vitro cytotoxicity" (2020), published in Journal of Molecular Structure

Frequent collaborators include Manoj Trivedi, Jamie M. Neely, Liviu M. Mirica, Pokpong Rungthanaphatsophon, and Michael B. Watson.

Best Publications

  • 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

  • Appended 1,2-naphthoquinones as anticancer agents 1: synthesis, structural, spectral and antitumor activities of ortho-naphthaquinone thiosemicarbazone and its transition metal complexes ☆

    Zahra Afrasiabi;Ekkehard Sinn;Junnan Chen;Yinfa Ma

  • Computer-Aided Design (CAD) of Mn(II) Complexes: Superoxide Dismutase Mimetics with Catalytic Activity Exceeding the Native Enzyme

    Karl Aston;Nigam Rath;Arati Naik;Urszula Slomczynska

  • Molecular Packing and Solid-State Fluorescence of Alkoxy-Cyano Substituted Diphenylbutadienes: Structure of the Luminescent Aggregates

    Riju Davis;N. S. Saleesh Kumar;Shibu Abraham;C. H. Suresh

  • Antitumor metallothiosemicarbazonates: structure and antitumor activity of palladium complex of phenanthrenequinone thiosemicarbazone.

    Subhash Padhye;Zahra Afrasiabi;Ekk Sinn;Jansina Fok

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

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

  • The enantioselective addition of dialkylphosphites to aldehydes: Catalysis by a lanthanum binaphthoxide complex

    Nigam P. Rath;Christopher D. Spilling

  • Fluorescent copper(I) complexes: structural and spectroscopic characterization of bis(p-toluidine)bis(acetonitrile)tetraiodotetracopper and bis[(p-chloroaniline)(acetonitrile)diiododicopper] tetrameric complexes of mixed-ligand character

    Nigam P. Rath;Elizabeth M. Holt;Katsumi Tanimura

  • Thermochromic and photoresponsive cyanometalate Fe/Co squares: toward control of the electron transfer temperature.

    Yuan-Zhu Zhang;Philip Ferko;Diana Siretanu;Rodica Ababei

  • 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

  • Antivirulence C-Mannosides as Antibiotic-Sparing, Oral Therapeutics for Urinary Tract Infections

    Laurel Mydock-McGrane;Zachary Cusumano;Zhenfu Han;Jana Binkley

  • 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

  • Low-Temperature, Catalyzed Growth of Indium Nitride Fibers from Azido-Indium Precursors

    Sean D. Dingman;Nigam P. Rath;Paul D. Markowitz;Patrick C. Gibbons

  • Unprecedented reactivity of N-heterocyclic carbenes toward DMAD and aldehydes leading to novel multicomponent reactions.

    Vijay Nair;S Bindu;V Sreekumar;Nigam P Rath

  • Otopetrin 1 is required for otolith formation in the zebrafish Danio rerio.

    Inna Hughes;Brian Blasiole;David Huss;Mark E. Warchol

  • Pathway from a Molecular Precursor to Silver Nanoparticles: The Prominent Role of Aggregative Growth

    Vernal N. Richards;Nigam P. Rath;William E. Buhro

  • 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

  • Role of substitution at terminal nitrogen of 2-oxo-1,2-dihydroquinoline-3-carbaldehyde thiosemicarbazones on the coordination behavior and structure and biological properties of their palladium(II) complexes.

    Eswaran Ramachandran;Duraisamy Senthil Raja;Nigam. P. Rath;Karuppannan Natarajan

  • Manganese(III) Complexes of Bis(hydroxyphenyl)dipyrromethenes Are Potent Orally Active Peroxynitrite Scavengers

    Smita Rausaria;Andrew Kamadulski;Nigam P. Rath;Leesa Bryant

  • Fluorescent copper(I) complexes: correlation of structural and emission characteristics of [{Cul(quin)2}2] and [Cu4I4(quin)4](quin = quinoline)

    Nigam P. Rath;Elizabeth M. Holt;Katsumi tanimura

Frequent Co-Authors

Vijay Nair
Vijay Nair National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Liviu M. Mirica
Liviu M. Mirica University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Suresh Das
Suresh Das National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology
Douglas F. Covey
Douglas F. Covey Washington University in St. Louis
Gurmeet Singh
Gurmeet Singh University of Delhi
Alexei V. Demchenko
Alexei V. Demchenko Saint Louis University
Rodolphe Clérac
Rodolphe Clérac Paul Pascal Research Center
George W. Gokel
George W. Gokel University of Missouri–St. Louis
Thomas P. Fehlner
Thomas P. Fehlner University of Notre Dame
Lee Brammer
Lee Brammer University of Sheffield

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