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William D. Wulff

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
71
Citations
12894
World Ranking
5719
National Ranking
1757

William D. Wulff 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 William D. Wulff sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 255 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William D. Wulff 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 William D. Wulff sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% 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

  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

William D. Wulff is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a strong focus on chemistry and materials science, including subfields such as organic chemistry, materials chemistry, inorganic chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and spectroscopy.

Their work addresses several main topics, prominently:

  • Crystallization and Solubility Studies
  • X-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
  • Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis
  • Asymmetric Synthesis and Catalysis
  • Crystallography and Molecular Interactions
  • Oxidative Organic Chemistry Reactions
  • Organophosphorus Compounds Synthesis

Among recent publications, the following papers are representative of their research output:

  • Asymmetric Catalytic Meerwein-Ponndorf-Verley Reduction of Ketones with Aluminum(III)-VANOL Catalysts (2020) in ACS Catalysis
  • Structure Guided Design of VANOL-Imidodiphosphorimidate Catalysts for the Catalytic Enantioselective Bromospiroketalization Reaction (2023) in ACS Catalysis
  • Zirconium-catalyzed asymmetric Kabachnik-Fields reactions of aromatic and aliphatic aldehydes (2021) in Chemical Science
  • Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination of Benzhydryl Imines and Diazoacetate Esters with BOROX Catalysts from 3,3'-Disubstituted VANOL Ligands (2020) in Synthesis
  • Resolution of Vaulted Biaryl Ligands via Borate Esters of Quinine and Quinidine (2020) in The Journal of Organic Chemistry

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Aliakbar Mohammadlou
  • Xiaopeng Yin
  • Richard J. Staples
  • Zheng Li
  • Babak Borhan

Their work has been published predominantly in the following venues:

  • The Cambridge Structural Database
  • ACS Catalysis
  • The Journal of Organic Chemistry
  • Chemical Science
  • Synthesis

William D. Wulff has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1998.

Best Publications

  • Addition of carbon nucleophiles to arene-chromium complexes

    M.F. Semmelhack;G.R. Clark;J.L. Garcia;J.J. Harrison

  • C-H insertions in the reactions of Fischer carbene complexes with ketene acetals

    Siu Ling B. Wang;Jing Su;William D. Wulff;Karst Hoogsteen

  • CATALYTIC ASYMMETRIC AZIRIDINATION WITH A CHIRAL VAPOL-BORON LEWIS ACID

    Jon C. Antilla;William D. Wulff

  • A regioselective entry to vinyllithiums from unsymmetrical ketones via enol triflates

    William D. Wulff;Glen A. Peterson;William E. Bauta;Kin Shing Chan

  • Chromium and tungsten pentacarbonyl groups as reactivity auxiliaries in the Diels-Alder reactions of alkenyl carbene complexes with 1,3-dienes

    William D. Wulff;William E. Bauta;Ralph W. Kaesler;Peter J. Lankford

  • Vaulted biaryls as chiral ligands for asymmetric catalytic Diels-Alder reactions

    Jianming Bao;William D. Wulff;Arnold L. Rheingold

  • Catalytic Synthesis of 2H-Chromenes

    Nilanjana Majumdar;Nanda D. Paul;Sutanuva Mandal;Bas de Bruin

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with Arylborate Catalysts Derived from VAPOL and VANOL Ligands

    Jon C. Antilla;William D. Wulff

  • Synthesis, Resolution, and Determination of Absolute Configuration of a Vaulted 2,2‘-Binaphthol and a Vaulted 3,3‘-Biphenanthrol (VAPOL)

    Jianming Bao;William D. Wulff;James B. Dominy;Michael J. Fumo

  • Enantioselective organocatalytic direct Michael addition of nitroalkanes to nitroalkenes promoted by a unique bifunctional DMAP-thiourea.

    Constantinos Rabalakos;William D. Wulff

  • Catalytic Asymmetric Aziridination with Arylborate Catalysts Derived from VAPOL and VANOL Ligands This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health and was performed at the University of Chicago. VAPOL=2,2'-diphenyl-

    Jon C. Antilla;William D. Wulff

  • Cycloadditions and annulations of transition metal carbene complexes

    William D. Wulff;Peng Cho Tang;Kin Shing Chan;J. Stuart McCallum

  • THE SYNTHESIS OF NANAOMYCIN A AND DEOXYFRENOLICIN BY ALKYNE CYCLOADDITION TO CHROMIUM-CARBENE COMPLEXES

    M. F. Semmelhack;J. J. Bozell;T. Sato;W. Wulff

  • An Efficient Synthesis of (−)-Chloramphenicol via Asymmetric Catalytic Aziridination: A Comparison of Catalysts Prepared from Triphenylborate and Various Linear and Vaulted Biaryls

    Catherine Loncaric;William D. Wulff

  • Direct access to N-H-aziridines from asymmetric catalytic aziridination with borate catalysts derived from vaulted binaphthol and vaulted biphenanthrol ligands.

    Zhenjie Lu;Yu Zhang;William D. Wulff

  • Reactions of Group 6 Fischer carbene complexes with alkynes: effect of the metal on the product distribution and the isolation of a nontautomerized cyclohexadienone complex

    William D. Wulff;Brian M. Bax;Timothy A. Brandvold;Kin Shing Chan

  • [2 + 1] Versus [4 + 2] cycloadditions of Fischer carbene complexes with 1,3-dienes. Evidence for a zwitterionic intermediate in a cyclopropanation reaction

    William D. Wulff;Dominic C. Yang;Christopher K. Murray

  • Substrate regulation of product distribution in the reactions of aryl chromium carbene complexes with alkynes

    Mary Ellen Bos;William D. Wulff;Ross A. Miller;Steven Chamberlin

  • Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of trisubstituted aziridines

    Li Huang;William D. Wulff

  • Regiochemistry of the reaction of chromium-carbene complexes with acetylenes

    William D. Wulff;Peng Cho Tang;J. Stuart McCallum

  • Solvent, chelation and concentration effects on the benzannulation reaction of chromium carbene complexes and acetylenes

    Kin Shing Chan;Glen A. Peterson;Timothy A. Brandvold;Katherine L. Faron

Frequent Co-Authors

Richard P. Hsung
Richard P. Hsung University of Wisconsin–Madison
Richard J. Staples
Richard J. Staples Michigan State University
Jon C. Antilla
Jon C. Antilla Tianjin University
Martin F. Semmelhack
Martin F. Semmelhack Princeton University
Arnold L. Rheingold
Arnold L. Rheingold University of California, San Diego
Glenn P. A. Yap
Glenn P. A. Yap University of Delaware
John C. Huffman
John C. Huffman Indiana University
Richard G. Ball
Richard G. Ball MSD (United States)
Jon Clardy
Jon Clardy Harvard University
Bas de Bruin
Bas de Bruin University of Amsterdam

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