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D-Index
80
Citations
20199
World Ranking
3475
National Ranking
257

Ralf Jackstell 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 Ralf Jackstell sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 228 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ralf Jackstell 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 Ralf Jackstell sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Ralf Jackstell is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, including significant contributions to the subfields of Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Process Chemistry and Technology, and Molecular Biology.

Their work covers several main topics of study, notably:

  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography

Ralf Jackstell has published numerous papers in various scientific venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Catalysis Science & Technology
  • Chemical Communications

Significant recent papers by Ralf Jackstell include:

  • State-of-the-art palladium-catalyzed alkoxycarbonylations, 2020, Organic Chemistry Frontiers
  • Methyl formate as a hydrogen energy carrier, 2023, Nature Catalysis
  • A practical concept for catalytic carbonylations using carbon dioxide, 2022, Nature Communications
  • Tailored Palladium Catalysts for Selective Synthesis of Conjugated Enynes by Monocarbonylation of 1,3-Diynes, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Efficient Palladium-Catalyzed Carbonylation of 1,3-Dienes: Selective Synthesis of Adipates and Other Aliphatic Diesters, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Matthias Beller
  • Anke Spannenberg
  • Ji Yang
  • Helfried Neumann
  • Weiheng Huang

Best Publications

  • Using carbon dioxide as a building block in organic synthesis

    Qiang Liu;Lipeng Wu;Ralf Jackstell;Matthias Beller

  • Efficient Dehydrogenation of Formic Acid Using an Iron Catalyst

    Albert Boddien;Albert Boddien;Dörthe Mellmann;Felix Gärtner;Ralf Jackstell

  • Transition-metal-catalyzed carbonylation reactions of olefins and alkynes: a personal account.

    Xiao-Feng Wu;Xianjie Fang;Lipeng Wu;Ralf Jackstell

  • A Well‐Defined Iron Catalyst for the Reduction of Bicarbonates and Carbon Dioxide to Formates, Alkyl Formates, and Formamides

    Christopher Federsel;Albert Boddien;Albert Boddien;Ralf Jackstell;Reiko Jennerjahn

  • State-of-the-Art Catalysts for Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide

    Christopher Federsel;Ralf Jackstell;Matthias Beller

  • Carbonylations of Alkenes with CO Surrogates

    Lipeng Wu;Qiang Liu;Ralf Jackstell;Matthias Beller

  • Well-Defined Iron Catalyst for Improved Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide and Bicarbonate

    Carolin Ziebart;Christopher Federsel;Pazhamalai Anbarasan;Ralf Jackstell

  • Internal Olefins to Linear Amines

    A. Seayad;M. Ahmed;H. Klein;R. Jackstell

  • New ligands for a general palladium-catalyzed amination of aryl and heteroaryl chlorides.

    Franck Rataboul;Alexander Zapf;Ralf Jackstell;Surendra Harkal

  • Inside Cover: A General and Efficient Iridium‐Catalyzed Hydroformylation of Olefins (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2011)

    Irene Piras;Reiko Jennerjahn;Ralf Jackstell;Anke Spannenberg

  • CO2-"neutral" hydrogen storage based on bicarbonates and formates.

    Albert Boddien;Felix Gärtner;Christopher Federsel;Peter Sponholz

  • Photocatalytic Water Reduction with Copper‐Based Photosensitizers: A Noble‐Metal‐Free System

    Shu-Ping Luo;Shu-Ping Luo;Esteban Mejía;Aleksej Friedrich;Alexandra Pazidis

  • Catalytic hydrogenation of carbon dioxide and bicarbonates with a well-defined cobalt dihydrogen complex.

    Christopher Federsel;Carolin Ziebart;Ralf Jackstell;Wolfgang Baumann

  • Low-Temperature Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Methanol with a Homogeneous Cobalt Catalyst

    Jacob Schneidewind;Rosa Adam;Wolfgang Baumann;Ralf Jackstell

  • Amines Made Easily: A Highly Selective Hydroaminomethylation of Olefins

    Moballigh Ahmed;Abdul Majeed Seayad;Ralf Jackstell;Matthias Beller

  • Direct synthesis of adipic acid esters via palladium-catalyzed carbonylation of 1,3-dienes.

    Ji Yang;Jiawang Liu;Helfried Neumann;Robert Franke

  • Selective Palladium-Catalyzed Aminocarbonylation of Olefins with Aromatic Amines and Nitroarenes

    Xianjie Fang;Ralf Jackstell;Matthias Beller

  • An Improved Ruthenium Catalyst for the Environmentally Benign Amination of Primary and Secondary Alcohols

    Dirk Hollmann;Annegret Tillack;Dirk Michalik;Ralf Jackstell

  • Ruthenium-catalysed alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes with carbon dioxide

    Lipeng Wu;Qiang Liu;Ivana Fleischer;Ralf Jackstell

  • Practical synthesis of new and highly efficient ligands for the Suzuki reaction of aryl chlorides.

    Alexander Zapf;Ralf Jackstell;Franck Rataboul;Thomas Riermeier

  • A highly efficient catalyst for the telomerization of 1,3-dienes with alcohols: first synthesis of a monocarbenepalladium(0)-olefin complex.

    Ralf Jackstell;Mario Gómez Andreu;Anja Frisch;Kumaravel Selvakumar

Frequent Co-Authors

Matthias Beller
Matthias Beller Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Robert Franke
Robert Franke Ruhr University Bochum
Anke Spannenberg
Anke Spannenberg Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Helfried Neumann
Helfried Neumann Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Henrik Junge
Henrik Junge Leibniz Institute for Catalysis
Xiao-Feng Wu
Xiao-Feng Wu Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Muhammad Sharif
Muhammad Sharif King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
Wolfgang Baumann
Wolfgang Baumann University of Rostock
Alexander Zapf
Alexander Zapf University of Rostock
Gábor Laurenczy
Gábor Laurenczy École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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