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Peter T. Wolczanski

Peter T. Wolczanski

Cornell University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
60
Citations
10781
World Ranking
9871
National Ranking
2760

Peter T. Wolczanski 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 T. Wolczanski sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 173 publications — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter T. Wolczanski 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 T. Wolczanski sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 60 D-Index — 47th percentile

47% 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

  • 1999 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1987 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Peter T. Wolczanski is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States, where their research focuses primarily on materials science. Their work spans various subfields including materials chemistry, organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, and physiology. The central topics covered by their publications include crystallization and solubility studies, X-ray diffraction in crystallography, organometallic complex synthesis and catalysis, metal-catalyzed oxygenation mechanisms, synthetic organic chemistry methods, magnetism in coordination complexes, and asymmetric hydrogenation and catalysis.

Their recent published papers include:

  • "Transition Metal Nitrosyls: Statistics, Charge Estimates via CDVR, and Studies of Tetradentate Chelate Diamides (pddi)M and (pddi)MNO (M = Cr, Fe, and Co)" (2023, Organometallics)
  • "Reversible C-C Bond Formation, Halide Abstraction, and Electromers in Complexes of Iron Containing Redox-Noninnocent Pyridine-imine Ligands" (2021, Inorganic Chemistry)
  • "Unrealized concepts of masked alkylidenes in (PNP)FeXY systems and alternative approaches to LnXmFe(IV)=CHR" (2020, Polyhedron)
  • "Elemental Aspects of Transition Metals Pertinent to Organometallic Chemistry: Properties, Periodicity, Curiosities, and Related Main Group Issues" (2024, Organometallics)
  • "Propellanes as Drop-In ROMP Initiators" (2021, Organometallics)

Frequent co-authors in their research include Samantha N. MacMillan, Thomas R. Cundari, Gregory M. George, Ann K. Kayser, and Melissa M. Bollmeyer.

Peter T. Wolczanski's publications have appeared in several predominant scientific venues, notably:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Organometallics
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Polyhedron
  • Chemical Communications

The scientist has been recognized with fellowships such as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999 and Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1987.

Best Publications

  • Strontium titanate photoelectrodes. Efficient photoassisted electrolysis of water at zero applied potential

    Mark S. Wrighton;Arthur B. Ellis;Peter T. Wolczanski;David L. Morse

  • Methane and benzene activation via transient (tert-Bu3SiNH)2Zr:NSi-tert-Bu3

    Christopher C. Cummins;Steven M. Baxter;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Mechanisms of carbon monoxide reduction with zirconium hydrides

    Peter T. Wolczanski;John E. Bercaw

  • Photoassisted electrolysis of water by irradiation of a titanium dioxide electrode.

    Mark S. Wrighton;David S. Ginley;Peter T. Wolczanski;Arthur B. Ellis

  • Selectivities in Hydrocarbon Activation: Kinetic and Thermodynamic Investigations of Reversible 1,2-RH-Elimination from (silox)2(tBu3SiNH)TiR (silox = tBu3SiO)

    Jordan L. Bennett and;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Tri-tert-butylsilyl)imido complexes of titanium: benzene carbon-hydrogen activation and structure of [(tert-Bu3SiNH)Ti]2(.mu.-NSi-tert-Bu3)2

    Christopher C. Cummins;Christopher P. Schaller;Gregory D. Van Duyne;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Carbon monoxide cleavage by (silox)3Ta (silox = tert-Bu3SiO-): physical, theoretical, and mechanistic investigations

    D.R. Neithamer;R.E. LaPointe;R.A. Wheeler;D.S. Richeson

  • Hydrocarbon Activation via Reversible 1,2-RH-Elimination from (tBu3SiNH)3ZrR: Synthetic, Structural, and Mechanistic Investigations

    Christopher P. Schaller;and Christopher C. Cummins;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Alkyl and hydride derivatives of (pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)zirconium(IV)

    Peter T. Wolczanski;John E. Bercaw

  • Reactions of alkyl and hydride derivatives of permethylscandocene and zirconocene with nitriles and amines. Catalytic hydrogenation of tert-butyl cyanide with permethylscandocene hydride

    John E. Bercaw;David L. Davies;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Energetics of C-H Bond Activation and Ethylene Binding to d0 Transient (silox)2Ti:NSitBu3

    Jordan L. Bennett;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Chemistry of electrophilic metal centres coordinated by silox (tBu3SiO), tritox (tBu3CO) and related binfunctional ligands

    Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Methane vs benzene activation via transient tantalum amido-imido complex tert-Bu3SiNHTa(:NSiBu3-tert)2: structure of (py)2MeTa(:NSiBu3-tert)2

    Christopher P. Schaller;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Carbon monoxide cleavage by (silox)3Ta (silox = tert-Bu3SiO-)

    Robert E. LaPointe;Peter T. Wolczanski;John F. Mitchell

  • Preparation of Group 4B complexes containing tri-tert-butylmethoxide (tritox), a steric cyclopentadienyl equivalent

    Timothy V. Lubben;Peter T. Wolczanski;Gregory D. Van Duyne

  • Dioxygen activation by Group 4 tritox alkyls [tritox = (tert-Bu)3CO-]: insertion and oxygen atom transfer

    Timothy V. Lubben;Peter T. Wolczanski

  • Photoelectrolysis of water by irradiation of platinized n-type semiconducting metal oxides☆

    Mark S. Wrighton;Peter T. Wolczanski;Arthur B. Ellis

  • REDUCTION OF COORDINATED CARBON MONOXIDE TO “ZIRCONOXY” CARBENES WITH PERMETHYLZIRCONOCENE DIHYDRIDE

    Peter T. Wolczanski;Richard S. Threlkel;John E. Bercaw

  • Pyridine and related adducts, (silox)3ML (M = scandium, titanium, vanadium, tantalum): .eta.1-pyridine-N vs .eta.2-pyridine-N,C ligation

    Katharine J. Covert;David R. Neithamer;Marjanne C. Zonnevylle;Robert E. LaPointe

  • Arsinidene, Phosphinidene, and Imide Formation via 1,2-H2-Elimination from (silox)3HTaEHPh (E = N, P, As): Structures of (silox)3Ta:EPh (E = P, As)

    Jeffrey B. Bonanno;Peter T. Wolczanski;Emil B. Lobkovsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Emil B. Lobkovsky
Emil B. Lobkovsky Cornell University
Thomas R. Cundari
Thomas R. Cundari University of North Texas
John E. Bercaw
John E. Bercaw California Institute of Technology
Geoffrey W. Coates
Geoffrey W. Coates Cornell University
Mark M. Banaszak Holl
Mark M. Banaszak Holl Monash University
Christopher C. Cummins
Christopher C. Cummins MIT
Roald Hoffmann
Roald Hoffmann Cornell University
Karsten Meyer
Karsten Meyer University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
J. F. Mitchell
J. F. Mitchell Argonne National Laboratory
Mark S. Wrighton
Mark S. Wrighton MIT

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