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Paul v. R. Schleyer

Paul v. R. Schleyer

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Chemistry

D-Index
142
Citations
111187
World Ranking
185
National Ranking
87

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2002 - Kołos Medal (Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa), University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society
  • 1981 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1964 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1962 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Paul v. R. Schleyer was affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States. Their academic work involved contributions to chemistry, as reflected in their publications and collaborative research efforts.

The scientist authored papers including:

  • Corrigendum: An Experimentally Established Key Intermediate in Benzene Nitration with Mixed Acid, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Berichtigung: An Experimentally Established Key Intermediate in Benzene Nitration with Mixed Acid, 2020, Angewandte Chemie

Frequent collaborators in their research included:

  • Gergana Koleva
  • Boris Galabov
  • Boriana Hadjieva
  • Henry F. Schaefer

Their work appeared in notable chemistry journals, with repeated publications in:

  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie

Throughout their career, Schleyer received several distinctions, including:

  • Kołos Medal (Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa), awarded by the University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society in 2002
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1981
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1964
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1962

Best Publications

  • Efficient diffuse function‐augmented basis sets for anion calculations. III. The 3‐21+G basis set for first‐row elements, Li–F

    Timothy Clark;Jayaraman Chandrasekhar;Günther W. Spitznagel;Paul Von Ragué Schleyer

  • Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shifts: A Simple and Efficient Aromaticity Probe

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Christoph Maerker;Alk Dransfeld;Haijun Jiao

  • Nucleus-independent chemical shifts (NICS) as an aromaticity criterion.

    Zhongfang Chen;Chaitanya S Wannere;Clémence Corminboeuf;Ralph Puchta

  • A SIMPLE PREPARATION OF ADAMANTANE

    Paul von R. Schleyer

  • Which NICS aromaticity index for planar pi rings is best

    Hossein Fallah-Bagher-Shaidaei;Chaitanya S Wannere;Clémence Corminboeuf;Ralph Puchta

  • An Evaluation of the Aromaticity of Inorganic Rings: Refined Evidence from Magnetic Properties

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Haijun Jiao;Nicolaas J. R. van Eikema Hommes;and Vladimir G. Malkin

  • Dissected Nucleus-Independent Chemical Shift Analysis of π-Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity.

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Mariappan Manoharan;Zhi-Xiang Wang;Boggavarapu Kiran

  • Self‐consistent molecular orbital methods. XVII. Geometries and binding energies of second‐row molecules. A comparison of three basis sets

    John B. Collins;Paul von R. Schleyer;J. Stephen Binkley;John A. Pople

  • Evaluation of strain in hydrocarbons. The strain in adamantane and its origin

    Paul von R. Schleyer;James Earl Williams;K R Blanchard

  • Pseudopotential approaches to Ca, Sr, and Ba hydrides. Why are some alkaline earth MX2 compounds bent?

    M. Kaupp;P. v. R. Schleyer;H. Stoll;H. Preuss

  • Critical evaluation of molecular mechanics

    Edward M. Engler;Joseph D. Andose;Paul Von R. Schleyer

  • X-ray structural analyses of organolithium compounds

    William N. Setzer;Paul Von Ragué Schleyer

  • Aromaticity and Antiaromaticity in Five‐Membered C4H4X Ring Systems: “Classical” and “Magnetic” Concepts May Not Be “Orthogonal”

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Haijun Jiao;Bernd Goldfuss;Peter K. Freeman

  • Chemical bonding in hypervalent molecules. The dominance of ionic bonding and negative hyperconjugation over d-orbital participation

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  • To what extent can aromaticity be defined uniquely?

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  • Structures of Organonitrogen—Lithium Compounds: Recent Patterns and Perspectives in Organolithium Chemistry

    Karina Gregory;Paul Von Ragué Schleyer;Ronald Snaith

  • Adamantane: Consequences of the Diamondoid Structure

    Raymond C. Fort;Paul von R. Schleyer

  • Induced magnetic fields in aromatic [n]-annulenes—interpretation of NICS tensor components

    Clemence Corminboeuf;Thomas Heine;Gotthard Seifert;Paul von Ragué Schleyer

  • Molecular orbital theory of the electronic structure of organic molecules. 40. Structures and energies of C1-C3 carbocations including effects of electron correlation

    Krishnan Raghavachari;Robert A. Whiteside;John A. Pople;Paul V. R. Schleyer

  • The SN2-SN1 spectrum. 2. Quantitative treatments of nucleophilic solvent assistance. A scale of solvent nucleophilicities

    Frank L. Schadt;T. William Bentley;Paul v. R. Schleyer

  • The importance of negative (anionic) hyperconjugation

    Paul von Ragué Schleyer;Alexander J. Kos

  • Pseudopotential Approaches to Ca, Sr, and Ba Hydrides. Why are Some Alkaline Earth MX2 Compounds Bent?

    M. Kaupp;P. Von Rague Schleyer;H. Stoll;H. Preuss

Frequent Co-Authors

Henry F. Schaefer
Henry F. Schaefer University of Georgia
Jayaraman Chandrasekhar
Jayaraman Chandrasekhar Indian Institute of Science
John A. Pople
John A. Pople Stanford University
Michael Bühl
Michael Bühl University of St Andrews
Peter R. Schreiner
Peter R. Schreiner University of Giessen
Michael L. McKee
Michael L. McKee Auburn University
George A. Olah
George A. Olah University of Southern California
Eluvathingal D. Jemmis
Eluvathingal D. Jemmis Indian Institute of Science
Martin Kaupp
Martin Kaupp Technical University of Berlin
Werner Massa
Werner Massa Philipp University of Marburg

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