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Robert S. Paton

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
64
Citations
12787
World Ranking
8146
National Ranking
2349

Robert S. Paton 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 Robert S. Paton sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 393 publications — 79th percentile

79% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Robert S. Paton 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 Robert S. Paton sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 64 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% 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

  • 2015 - Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize, Royal Society of Chemistry (UK)

Overview

Robert S. Paton is a researcher affiliated with Colorado State University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Chemistry and Materials Science, with notable activity in the subfields of Organic Chemistry, Materials Chemistry, Molecular Biology, Inorganic Chemistry, and Pharmaceutical Science.

Paton's research covers a range of topics, including:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions
  • Catalytic Cross-Coupling Reactions
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Fluorine in Organic Chemistry

The scholar has contributed extensively to several scientific journals and publication venues. Frequent venues include:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • ACS Catalysis

Examples of recent publications by Robert S. Paton are:

  • GoodVibes: automated thermochemistry for heterogeneous computational chemistry data, 2020, F1000Research
  • Prediction of organic homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Phosphorus-mediated sp2-sp3 couplings for C-H fluoroalkylation of azines, 2021, Nature
  • Alkyne Linchpin Strategy for Drug:Pharmacophore Conjugation: Experimental and Computational Realization of a Meta-Selective Inverse Sonogashira Coupling, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Importance of Engineered and Learned Molecular Representations in Predicting Organic Reactivity, Selectivity, and Chemical Properties, 2021, Accounts of Chemical Research

Throughout their career, Paton has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, notably:

  • Mihai V. Popescu
  • Juan V. Alegre-Requena
  • Martin D. Smith
  • Garret M. Miyake
  • Véronique Gouverneur

Robert S. Paton was awarded the Harrison-Meldola Memorial Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2015.

Best Publications

  • GoodVibes: automated thermochemistry for heterogeneous computational chemistry data

    Guilian Luchini;Juan V. Alegre-Requena;Ignacio Funes-Ardoiz;Robert S. Paton

  • Computational Study of Bond Dissociation Enthalpies for a Large Range of Native and Modified Lignins

    Seonah Kim;Stephen C. Chmely;Mark R. Nimlos;Yannick J. Bomble

  • A Mechanistic Investigation of Acid-Catalyzed Cleavage of Aryl-Ether Linkages: Implications for Lignin Depolymerization in Acidic Environments

    Matthew R. Sturgeon;Seonah Kim;Kelsey Lawrence;Robert S. Paton

  • Prediction of organic homolytic bond dissociation enthalpies at near chemical accuracy with sub-second computational cost

    Peter C. St. John;Yanfei Guan;Yanfei Guan;Yeonjoon Kim;Seonah Kim

  • Cation-π interactions in protein-ligand binding: theory and data-mining reveal different roles for lysine and arginine.

    Kiran Kumar;Shin M Woo;Thomas Siu;Wilian A Cortopassi

  • Quantum mechanical calculations suggest that lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases use a copper-oxyl, oxygen-rebound mechanism.

    Seonah Kim;Jerry Ståhlberg;Jerry Ståhlberg;Mats Sandgren;Robert S. Paton

  • Indolyne and aryne distortions and nucleophilic regioselectivites.

    Paul H.-Y. Cheong;Robert S. Paton;Sarah M. Bronner;G-Yoon J. Im

  • Indolyne experimental and computational studies: synthetic applications and origins of selectivities of nucleophilic additions.

    G-Yoon J. Im;Sarah M. Bronner;Adam E. Goetz;Robert S. Paton

  • Computing organic stereoselectivity – from concepts to quantitative calculations and predictions

    Qian Peng;Fernanda Duarte;Robert S. Paton

  • Hydrogen Bonding and π-Stacking: How Reliable are Force Fields? A Critical Evaluation of Force Field Descriptions of Nonbonded Interactions

    Robert S. Paton;Jonathan M. Goodman

  • Diels-Alder reactivities of strained and unstrained cycloalkenes with normal and inverse-electron-demand dienes: activation barriers and distortion/interaction analysis.

    Fang Liu;Robert S. Paton;Seonah Kim;Yong Liang

  • Heterobiaryl synthesis by contractive C–C coupling via P(V) intermediates

    Michael C. Hilton;Xuan Zhang;Benjamin T. Boyle;Juan V. Alegre-Requena

  • Correlating Reactivity and Selectivity to Cyclopentadienyl Ligand Properties in Rh(III)-Catalyzed C–H Activation Reactions: An Experimental and Computational Study

    Tiffany Piou;Fedor Romanov-Michailidis;Fedor Romanov-Michailidis;Maria Romanova-Michaelides;Kelvin E. Jackson

  • Asymmetric nucleophilic fluorination under hydrogen bonding phase-transfer catalysis

    Gabriele Pupo;Francesco Ibba;David M. H. Ascough;Anna Chiara Vicini

  • Small molecule inhibitors of bromodomain-acetyl-lysine interactions.

    Michael Brand;Angelina M. Measures;Brian G. Wilson;Wilian A. Cortopassi

  • Total Synthesis of (−)-Himalensine A

    Heyao Shi;Iacovos N. Michaelides;Benjamin Darses;Pavol Jakubec

  • Conformational Effects on Physical-Organic Descriptors: The Case of Sterimol Steric Parameters

    Alexandre V. Brethomé;Stephen P. Fletcher;Robert S. Paton;Robert S. Paton

  • Experimental Diels–Alder Reactivities of Cycloalkenones and Cyclic Dienes Explained through Transition-State Distortion Energies†

    Robert S. Paton;Seonah Kim;Audrey G. Ross;Samuel J. Danishefsky

  • Phosphorus-mediated sp2-sp3 couplings for C-H fluoroalkylation of azines.

    Xuan Zhang;Kyle G. Nottingham;Chirag Patel;Juan V. Alegre-Requena

  • Halogenation of the 3-position of pyridines through Zincke imine intermediates

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  • Rapid cross-metathesis for reversible protein modifications via chemical access to Se-allyl-selenocysteine in proteins.

    Yuya A. Lin;Omar Boutureira;Lukas Lercher;Bhaskar Bhushan

  • Gold(I)-catalyzed intermolecular hydroalkoxylation of allenes: a DFT study.

    Robert S. Paton;Feliu Maseras

  • Computational ligand design in enantio- and diastereoselective ynamide [5+2] cycloisomerization.

    R. N. Straker;Q. Peng;A. Mekareeya;R. S. Paton

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin D. Smith
Martin D. Smith University of Oxford
Darren J. Dixon
Darren J. Dixon University of Oxford
Sunetra Gupta
Sunetra Gupta University of Oxford
Paul Klenerman
Paul Klenerman University of Oxford
Gregg T. Beckham
Gregg T. Beckham National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Michael B. Bonsall
Michael B. Bonsall University of Oxford
Qian Peng
Qian Peng Chinese Academy of Sciences
Kendall N. Houk
Kendall N. Houk University of California, Los Angeles
Jonathan M. Goodman
Jonathan M. Goodman University of Cambridge
Christopher J. Schofield
Christopher J. Schofield University of Oxford

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