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83
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29088
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2904
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Kołos Medal (Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa), University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society
  • 1996 - Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences In recognition of your outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially the studies of electron distribution in different types of chemical bonds.
  • 1993 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Philip Coppens is affiliated with the University at Buffalo, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Materials Science with a specialization in Materials Chemistry. The core topics of their work include Crystallization and Solubility Studies as well as X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography.

The scientist has published research in notable venues, including The Cambridge Structural Database, which has featured two of their recent papers:

  • CCDC 1040870: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2021, The Cambridge Structural Database
  • CCDC 1040869: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination, 2021, The Cambridge Structural Database

The work has involved collaboration with several frequent co-authors:

  • Jun Yi
  • Douglas R. Powell
  • George B. Richter-Addo

Philip Coppens has been recognized with several awards throughout their career:

  • Kołos Medal (Medal im. Włodzimierza Kołosa), University of Warsaw and Polish Chemical Society, 2013
  • Gregori Aminoff Prize, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, 1996, awarded in recognition of outstanding methodological and structure chemical achievements in Crystallography, especially studies of electron distribution in different types of chemical bonds
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1993

Best Publications

  • Testing aspherical atom refinements on small-molecule data sets

    N. K. Hansen;P. Coppens

  • Extinction within the limit of validity of the Darwin transfer equations. I. General formalism for primary and secondary extinction and their applications to spherical crystals

    P. J. Becker;P. Coppens

  • Calculation of absorption corrections for camera and diffractometer data

    P. Coppens;L. Leiserowitz;D. Rabinovich

  • X-ray charge densities and chemical bonding

    Philip Coppens;Kersti Hermansson

  • Chemical applications of X-ray charge-density analysis.

    Tibor S. Koritsanszky;Philip Coppens

  • Anisotropic extinction corrections in the Zachariasen approximation

    P. Coppens;W. C. Hamilton

  • Photoinduced linkage isomers of transition-metal nitrosyl compounds and related complexes.

    Philip Coppens;Irina Novozhilova;Andrey Kovalevsky

  • Net atomic charges and molecular dipole moments from spherical‐atom X‐ray refinements, and the relation between atomic charge and shape

    P. Coppens;T. N. Guru Row;P. Leung;E. D. Stevens

  • Extinction within the limit of validity of the Darwin transfer equations. III. Non-spherical crystals and anisotropy of extinction

    P. J. Becker;P. Coppens

  • MLCT state structure and dynamics of a copper(I) diimine complex characterized by pump-probe X-ray and laser spectroscopies and DFT calculations.

    Lin X. Chen;George B. Shaw;Irina Novozhilova;Tao Liu

  • Diffraction Studies of Photoexcited Crystals: Metastable Nitrosyl-Linkage Isomers of Sodium Nitroprusside

    M. D. Carducci;M. R. Pressprich;P. Coppens

  • The Incommensurate Modulation of the 2212 Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Superconductor

    Yan Gao;Peter Lee;Philip Coppens;M. A. Subramania

  • Computer analysis of step‐scanned X‐ray data

    R.H. Blessing;P. Coppens;P. Becker

  • Extinction within the limit of validity of the Darwin transfer equations. II. Refinement of extinction in spherical crystals of SrF2 and LiF

    P.J. Becker;P. Coppens

  • Crystallography and properties of polyoxotitanate nanoclusters.

    Philip Coppens;Yang Chen;Elżbieta Trzop

  • Comparative X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Study of Bonding Effects in s-Triazine.

    P. Coppens

  • X-ray analysis of the incommensurate modulation in the 2:2:1:2 Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O superconductor including the oxygen atoms

    Vaclav Petricek;Yan Gao;Peter Lee;Philip Coppens

  • Nonlinear Least‐Squares Fitting of Numerical Relativistic Atomic Wave Functions by a Linear Combination of Slater‐Type Functions for Atoms with Z = 1–36

    Zhengwei Su;Philip Coppens

  • Electronic structure of benzene chromium tricarbonyl by X-ray and neutron diffraction at 78 K

    B. Rees;P. Coppens

  • Theoretical Analysis of the Triplet Excited State of the [Pt2(H2P2O5)4]4- Ion and Comparison with Time-Resolved X-ray and Spectroscopic Results

    Irina V. Novozhilova;and Anatoliy V. Volkov;Philip Coppens

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey Kovalevsky
Andrey Kovalevsky Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Ole Buchardt
Ole Buchardt University of Copenhagen
Rimma N. Lyubovskaya
Rimma N. Lyubovskaya Russian Academy of Sciences
Yu-Sheng Chen
Yu-Sheng Chen Nankai University
Marc Messerschmidt
Marc Messerschmidt SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Claude Lecomte
Claude Lecomte University of Lorraine
Hwo-Shuenn Sheu
Hwo-Shuenn Sheu National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center
Jack M. Williams
Jack M. Williams Argonne National Laboratory
Bo B. Iversen
Bo B. Iversen Aarhus University
Edwin D. Stevens
Edwin D. Stevens University of New Orleans

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