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D-Index
50
Citations
6534
World Ranking
14608
National Ranking
1073

Thomas Kupfer 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 Thomas Kupfer sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 125 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Thomas Kupfer 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 Thomas Kupfer sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 50 D-Index — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Thomas Kupfer is affiliated with the University of Würzburg in Germany and focuses primarily on materials science with a strong emphasis on materials chemistry. Their work extends into related subfields including organic chemistry, inorganic chemistry, process chemistry and technology, and catalysis.

Their research interests cover several specialized topics, notably:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Organoboron and Organosilicon Chemistry
  • Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Inorganic/Organometallic Compounds
  • Synthesis and Properties of Aromatic Compounds
  • Coordination Chemistry and Organometallics
  • Organometallic Complex Synthesis and Catalysis

Thomas Kupfer has published extensively with a significant number of publications appearing in venues such as:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Inorganic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research include Holger Braunschweig, Torsten Thiess, Merle Arrowsmith, Andreas Stoy, and Maximilian Eyßelein.

Some of the notable recent papers by Thomas Kupfer are:

  • "Isolable Phospha- and Arsaalumenes," 2021, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "cAAC-Stabilized 9,10-diboraanthracenes-Acenes with Open-Shell Singlet Biradical Ground States," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "Evidence for Borylene Carbonyl (LHBCO) and Base-Stabilized (LHBO) and Base-Free Oxoborane (RB≡O) Intermediates in the Reactions of Diborenes with CO2," 2022, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • "Stable Actinide π Complexes of a Neutral 1,4-Diborabenzene," 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • "cAAC-stabilisierte 9,10-Diboraanthracene - offenschalige Singulettbiradikale," 2020, Angewandte Chemie

Best Publications

  • Recent developments in the chemistry of antiaromatic boroles

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer

  • Synthesis and Structure of a Carbene-Stabilized π-Boryl Anion†

    Holger Braunschweig;Ching-Wen Chiu;Krzysztof Radacki;Thomas Kupfer

  • Trapping the Elusive Parent Borylene

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Katharina Kraft;Thomas Kupfer

  • Structural evidence for antiaromaticity in free boroles.

    Holger Braunschweig;Israel Fernández;Gernot Frenking;Thomas Kupfer

  • Boron as a powerful reductant: synthesis of a stable boron-centered radical-anion radical-cation pair.

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Christian Hörl

  • Generation of a carbene-stabilized bora-borylene and its insertion into a C-H bond.

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Rian D. Dewhurst

  • Base‐Stabilized Diborenes: Selective Generation and η2 Side‐on Coordination to Silver(I)

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Thomas Kupfer

  • Boron Radical Cations from the Facile Oxidation of Electron‐Rich Diborenes

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Thomas Kupfer

  • Direct functionalization at the boron center of antiaromatic chloroborole

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer

  • The Pentaphenylborole–2,6‐Lutidine Adduct: A System with Unusual Thermochromic and Photochromic Properties

    Kay Ansorg;Holger Braunschweig;Ching-Wen Chiu;Bernd Engels

  • Metal‐Mediated Diboration of Alkynes with [2]Borametalloarenophanes under Stoichiometric, Homogeneous, and Heterogeneous Conditions

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer;Matthias Lutz;Krzysztof Radacki

  • Axially chiral beta,beta'-bisporphyrins: synthesis and configurational stability tuned by the central metals.

    Gerhard Bringmann;Daniel C G Götz;Tobias A M Gulder;Tim H Gehrke

  • Non-iron [n]Metalloarenophanes

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer

  • Synthesis and reactivity studies of iminoboryl complexes.

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer;Krzysztof Radacki;Achim Schneider

  • Synthese und Struktur eines Carben-stabilisierten π-Boryl-Anions

    Holger Braunschweig;Ching-Wen Chiu;Krzysztof Radacki;Thomas Kupfer

  • Synthesis and electronic structure of a terminal alkylborylene complex.

    Holger Braunschweig;Michael Burzler;Thomas Kupfer;Krzysztof Radacki

  • Borylene-Based Direct Functionalization of Organic Substrates: Synthesis, Characterization, and Photophysical Properties of Novel π-Conjugated Borirenes

    Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Herbst;Daniela Rais;Sundargopal Ghosh

  • Quaternizing diboranes(4): highly divergent outcomes and an inorganic Wagner-Meerwein rearrangement.

    Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Rian D. Dewhurst;Thomas Kramer

  • Synthesis of ansa-[n]silacyclopentadienyl-cycloheptatrienyl-chromium complexes (n = 1, 2): novel precursors for polymers bearing chromium in the backbone.

    Alexandra Bartole-Scott;Holger Braunschweig;Thomas Kupfer;Matthias Lutz

  • Chemical Reduction and Dimerization of 1‐Chloro‐2,3,4,5‐tetraphenylborole

    Holger Braunschweig;Ching-Wen Chiu;Johannes Wahler;Krzysztof Radacki

  • Bor‐Radikalkationen durch Oxidation elektronenreicher Diborene

    Philipp Bissinger;Holger Braunschweig;Alexander Damme;Thomas Kupfer

Frequent Co-Authors

Holger Braunschweig
Holger Braunschweig University of Würzburg
Krzysztof Radacki
Krzysztof Radacki University of Würzburg
Bernd Engels
Bernd Engels University of Würzburg
Martin Kaupp
Martin Kaupp Technical University of Berlin
Ian Manners
Ian Manners University of Victoria
Gernot Frenking
Gernot Frenking Philipp University of Marburg
George R. Whittell
George R. Whittell University of Bristol
Israel Fernández
Israel Fernández Complutense University of Madrid
Gerhard Bringmann
Gerhard Bringmann University of Würzburg
Reto Brun
Reto Brun University of Basel

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