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D-Index
67
Citations
17512
World Ranking
6843
National Ranking
495

Peter Mayer 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 Peter Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 659 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.

Peter Mayer 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 Peter Mayer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 67 D-Index — 62nd percentile

62% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter Mayer is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their research spans multiple fields with a significant focus on materials science and chemistry, where they have contributed to over 475 publications.

The main fields of study include:

  • Materials Science
  • Chemistry

The research further specializes in several subfields, such as:

  • Materials Chemistry
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Oncology
  • Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials

The scientist's work covers a range of topics that reflect a strong emphasis on crystallographic and materials chemistry techniques:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Metal complexes synthesis and properties
  • Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Crystallography and molecular interactions
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • Henry Dube
  • Azizolla Beheshti
  • Maryam Bahrani-Pour
  • Hans-Christian Böttcher
  • Konstantin Karaghiosoff

Peter Mayer has published extensively in several scientific venues, with the most frequent publication outlets being:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Chemistry - A European Journal
  • Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie

Recent papers authored by Peter Mayer include:

  • "Active and Unidirectional Acceleration of Biaryl Rotation by a Molecular Motor," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Electrophilic reactivities of cyclic enones and α,β-unsaturated lactones," 2021, Chemical Science
  • "All-Red-Light Photoswitching of Indirubin Controlled by Supramolecular Interactions," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Photogearing as a concept for translation of precise motions at the nanoscale," 2022, Nature Chemistry
  • "The Earlier the Better: Structural Analysis and Separation of Lanthanides with Pyrroloquinoline Quinone," 2020, Chemistry - A European Journal

In addition to journal publications, Peter Mayer has contributed to book publications, including:

  • "Das Türenbuch." published by Fraunhofer IRB Verlag eBooks in 2022

Best Publications

  • Isolation of a copper(I) triazolide: a "click" intermediate.

    Christoph Nolte;Peter Mayer;Bernd F. Straub

  • Disilynes. III [1] A Relatively Stable Disilyne RSi≡SiR (R = SiMe(SitBu3)2)

    Nils Wiberg;Sham Kumar Vasisht;Gerd Fischer;Peter Mayer

  • Derivatives of 1,5-diamino-1H-tetrazole: a new family of energetic heterocyclic-based salts.

    Juan Carlos Gálvez-Ruiz;Gerhard Holl;Konstantin Karaghiosoff;Thomas M. Klapötke

  • Sunlight-powered kHz rotation of a hemithioindigo-based molecular motor

    Manuel Guentner;Monika Schildhauer;Stefan Thumser;Peter Mayer

  • A high-yielding, strictly regioselective prebiotic purine nucleoside formation pathway.

    Sidney Becker;Ines Thoma;Amrei Deutsch;Tim Gehrke

  • Palladium-catalyzed dehydrogenative cross-couplings of benzazoles with azoles.

    Wei Han;Peter Mayer;Armin R. Ofial

  • 1,5-Diamino-4-methyltetrazolium dinitramide

    Thomas M. Klapötke;Peter Mayer;and Axel Schulz;Jan J. Weigand

  • α- and β-FOX-7, Polymorphs of a High Energy Density Material, Studied by X-ray Single Crystal and Powder Investigations in the Temperature Range from 200 to 423 K

    Jurgen Evers;Thomas M. Klapötke;Peter Mayer;Gilbert Oehlinger

  • BTA copper complexes.

    Manfred Friedrich;Juan Carlos Gálvez-Ruiz;Thomas M. Klapötke;Peter Mayer

  • Salts of 5,5′‐Azotetrazolate

    Anton Hammerl;Gerhard Holl;Thomas M. Klapötke;Peter Mayer

  • A Novel Fluorescent Dye with Strong, Anisotropic Solid-State Fluorescence, Small Stokes Shift, and High Photostability

    Heinz Langhals;Oswald Krotz;Kurt Polborn;Peter Mayer

  • Simple, nitrogen-rich, energetic salts of 5-nitrotetrazole.

    Thomas M. Klapötke;Peter Mayer;Carles Miró Sabaté;Jan M. Welch

  • Cellulose Solutions in Water Containing Metal Complexes

    Kay Saalwächter;Walther Burchard;Peter Klüfers;G. Kettenbach

  • Highly diastereoselective Csp₃-Csp₂ Negishi cross-coupling with 1,2-, 1,3- and 1,4-substituted cycloalkylzinc compounds.

    Tobias Thaler;Benjamin Haag;Andrei Gavryushin;Katrin Schober

  • Highly diastereoselective arylations of substituted piperidines.

    Stephanie Seel;Tobias Thaler;Keishi Takatsu;Cong Zhang

  • Nucleophilicity parameters of pyridinium ylides and their use in mechanistic analyses.

    Dominik S. Allgäuer;Peter Mayer;Herbert Mayr

  • Iron-Catalyzed Oxidative Mono- and Bis-Phosphonation of N,N-Dialkylanilines

    Wei Han;Peter Mayer;Armin R. Ofial

  • γ‐FOX‐7: Structure of a High Energy Density Material Immediately Prior to Decomposition

    Margaret-Jane Crawford;Jürgen Evers;Michael Göbel;Thomas M. Klapötke

  • Sulfoxide–Alkene Hybrids: A New Class of Chiral Ligands for the Hayashi–Miyaura Reaction

    Tobias Thaler;Li-Na Guo;Andreas K. Steib;Mihai Raducan

  • Hemiindigo: Highly Bistable Photoswitching at the Biooptical Window

    Christian Petermayer;Stefan Thumser;Florian Kink;Peter Mayer

  • Self-assembled organometallic [12]metallacrown-3 complexes.

    Holger Piotrowski;Gerhard Hilt;Axel Schulz;Peter Mayer

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas M. Klapötke
Thomas M. Klapötke Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Herbert Mayr
Herbert Mayr Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Paul Knochel
Paul Knochel Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Dirk Trauner
Dirk Trauner University of Pennsylvania
Konstantin Karaghiosoff
Konstantin Karaghiosoff Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Armin R. Ofial
Armin R. Ofial Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Kurt Polborn
Kurt Polborn Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Heinrich Nöth
Heinrich Nöth Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Axel Schulz
Axel Schulz University of Rostock
Matthias Westerhausen
Matthias Westerhausen Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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