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Robert H. Crabtree

Robert H. Crabtree

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Chemistry
USA
2026

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Chemistry

D-Index
141
Citations
82330
World Ranking
194
National Ranking
93

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Chemistry in United States Leader Award

Overview

Robert H. Crabtree is affiliated with Yale University in the United States, primarily working in the field of Materials Science. Their research output spans mainly Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment, Organic Chemistry, and Catalysis.

The scientist's work covers several principal topics including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
  • Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
  • Chromatin Remodeling and Cancer
  • Ammonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics

Robert H. Crabtree has published extensively, with frequent contributions to several research venues. The main publication outlets include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database (24 publications)
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society (5 publications)
  • Inorganic Chemistry (4 publications)
  • ACS Catalysis (3 publications)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (3 publications)

Recent papers authored or co-authored by them illustrate the breadth of their research interests and include:

  • "A CRISPR/Cas9-Engineered ARID1A -Deficient Human Gastric Cancer Organoid Model Reveals Essential and Nonessential Modes of Oncogenic Transformation," 2021, Cancer Discovery
  • "Operando Structure-Activity-Stability Relationship of Iridium Oxides during the Oxygen Evolution Reaction," 2022, ACS Catalysis
  • "Electrocatalytic, Homogeneous Ammonia Oxidation in Water to Nitrate and Nitrite with a Copper Complex," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Sigma-Bond Metathesis as an Unusual Asymmetric Induction Step in Rhodium-Catalyzed Enantiodivergent Synthesis of C-N Axially Chiral Biaryls," 2023, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Loss of the neural-specific BAF subunit ACTL6B relieves repression of early response genes and causes recessive autism," 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

The scientist works collaboratively with a number of frequent co-authors, which include:

  • Gary W. Brudvig (33 collaborations)
  • Brandon Q. Mercado (28 collaborations)
  • Claire C. Cody (11 collaborations)
  • Víctor S. Batista (11 collaborations)
  • Gongfang Hu (10 collaborations)

Best Publications

  • The organometallic chemistry of the transition metals

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Comprehensive organometallic chemistry III

    D. M. P. Mingos;Robert H. Crabtree

  • Definition of the hydrogen bond (IUPAC Recommendations 2011)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Dehydrogenation as a substrate-activating strategy in homogeneous transition-metal catalysis.

    Graham E. Dobereiner;Robert H. Crabtree

  • The organometallic chemistry of alkanes

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Recent homogeneous catalytic applications of chelate and pincer N-heterocyclic carbenes

    Eduardo Peris;Robert H Crabtree

  • Molecular Catalysts for Water Oxidation

    James D. Blakemore;Robert H. Crabtree;Gary W. Brudvig

  • Defining the hydrogen bond: An account (IUPAC Technical Report)

    Elangannan Arunan;Gautam R. Desiraju;Roger A. Klein;Joanna Sadlej

  • Iridium compounds in catalysis

    Robert Crabtree

  • Aspects of Methane Chemistry

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • A Functional Model for O-O Bond Formation by the O2-Evolving Complex in Photosystem II

    Julian Limburg;John S. Vrettos;Louise M. Liable-Sands;Arnold L. Rheingold

  • Redox-active ligands in catalysis

    Oana R. Luca;Robert H. Crabtree

  • Alkane C–H activation and functionalization with homogeneous transition metal catalysts: a century of progress—a new millennium in prospect

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Transition Metal Complexation of σ Bonds

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • A new intermolecular interaction: unconventional hydrogen bonds with element-hydride bonds as proton acceptor.

    Robert H. Crabtree;Per E. M. Siegbahn;Odile Eisenstein;Arnold L. Rheingold

  • Abnormal, mesoionic and remote N-heterocyclic carbene complexes

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Rhodium and Iridium Complexes of N-Heterocyclic Carbenes via Transmetalation: Structure and Dynamics

    Anthony R. Chianese;Xingwei Li;Michael C. Janzen;and J. W. Faller

  • Resolving heterogeneity problems and impurity artifacts in operationally homogeneous transition metal catalysts.

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis of Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Alcohol Oxidation: Applications in Hydrogen Storage and to Heterocycle Synthesis

    Robert H. Crabtree

  • Highly Active and Robust Cp* Iridium Complexes for Catalytic Water Oxidation

    Jonathan F. Hull;David Balcells;James D. Blakemore;Christopher D. Incarvito

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary W. Brudvig
Gary W. Brudvig Yale University
Victor S. Batista
Victor S. Batista Yale University
Odile Eisenstein
Odile Eisenstein University of Montpellier
Jack W. Faller
Jack W. Faller Yale University
Eduardo Peris
Eduardo Peris Jaume I University
Per E. M. Siegbahn
Per E. M. Siegbahn Stockholm University
Brandon Q. Mercado
Brandon Q. Mercado Yale University
Eric Clot
Eric Clot University of Montpellier
Xingwei Li
Xingwei Li Shaanxi Normal University

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