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William E. Hatfield

D-Index & Metrics

Chemistry

D-Index
58
Citations
12521
World Ranking
10580
National Ranking
2923

William E. Hatfield 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 E. Hatfield sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 399 publications — 80th percentile

80% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William E. Hatfield 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 E. Hatfield sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 58 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% 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

  • 1985 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

William E. Hatfield is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on Materials Science, with particular attention to subfields including Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Materials Chemistry, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, and Inorganic Chemistry.

The main topics of their work encompass several areas:

  • Magnetism in coordination complexes
  • Organic and Molecular Conductors Research
  • Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
  • Electrochemical sensors and biosensors
  • Conducting polymers and applications
  • Metal-Catalyzed Oxygenation Mechanisms

William E. Hatfield has published research articles in venues such as UNC Libraries. Their publications include the following papers:

  • Correlation between π-orbital overlap and conductivity in bis-phthalocyaninato lanthanides, 2021, UNC Libraries
  • New magnetic and structural results for uniformly spaced, alternatingly spaced, and ladder-like copper (II) linear chain compounds (invited), 2021, UNC Libraries
  • Electrical, magnetic and spectroscopic properties of tetrathiafulvalene charge transfer compounds with iron, ruthenium, rhodium and iridium halides, 2021, UNC Libraries

Frequent coauthors collaborating with William E. Hatfield include:

  • Juan Padilla
  • Young Inn Kim

In 1985, William E. Hatfield was recognized as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

Best Publications

  • Relation between the singlet-triplet splitting and the copper-oxygen-copper bridge angle in hydroxo-bridged copper dimers

    Van H. Crawford;H. Wayne. Richardson;John R. Wasson;Derek J. Hodgson

  • Magnetic and structural characterization of dibromo- and dichlorobis(thiazole)copper(II)

    William E. Estes;Diane P. Gavel;William E. Hatfield;Derek J. Hodgson

  • Exchange Coupling in the Alternating Chain Compounds Catena-Di-micron-chlorobis(4-Methylpyridine)Copper(II), Catena-Di-micron-bromobis-(N-Methylimidazole)Copper(II), Catena-hexanedionebis(Thiosemicarbazato)Copper(II), and Catena-octanedionebis(thiosemicarbazato)Copper(II).

    James W Hall;Wayne E Marsh;Robert R Weller;William E Hatfield

  • ELECTRONIC STRUCTURE AND REDOX PROPERTIES OF THE CLUSTERS (RU3O(CH3CO2)6L3)N

    J. A. Baumann;D. J. Salmon;S. T. Wilson;T. J. Meyer

  • New magnetic and structural results for uniformly spaced, alternatingly spaced, and ladder‐like copper (II) linear chain compounds (invited)

    William E. Hatfield

  • Synthesis, Structure and Magnetic Properties of Catena-Micron-Oxo-Hemiporphyrazinatoiron(IV), the First Polymeric Micron-Oxo-Bridged Complex of Iron.

    Wolfgang Hiller;Joachim Straehle;Armin Datz;Michael Hanack

  • Magnetic interactions in chloro-bridged copper(II) dimers. Structural and magnetic characterization of bis(.mu.-chloro)bis[chloro(N,N,N'-triethylethylenediamine)copper(II)], [Cu(Et3en)Cl2]2

    Wayne E. Marsh;Kantilal C. Patel;William E. Hatfield;Derek J. Hodgson

  • Structurally diverse manganese(III) Schiff base complexes: chains, dimers, and cages

    Joseph A. Bonadies;Martin L. Kirk;Myoung Soo Lah;Dimitri P. Kessissoglou

  • Chemically significant interactions between ruthenium ions in oxo-bridged complexes of ruthenium(III)

    Tom Ray Weaver;Thomas J. Meyer;S. Ajao Adeyemi;Gilbert M. Brown

  • Magnetic and structural properties of acetato(dien)copper(1+) perchlorate: a .mu.-acetato-bridged quasi-one-dimensional complex

    Debra K. Towle;S. K. Hoffmann;William E. Hatfield;Phirtu Singh

  • Magnetic interactions in chloro-bridged dimers. Structural characterization of aquadichlorobis(2-methylpyridine)copper(II) and bis[dichlorobis(2-methylpyridine)copper(II)]

    Wayne E. Marsh;William E. Hatfield;Derek J. Hodgson

  • Spectral and Magnetic Properties of Chlorocuprates

    William E. Hatfield;T. S. Piper

  • On the superexchange mechanism in polymeric, pyrazine-bridged copper(II) complexes

    H. Wayne Richardson;William E. Hatfield

  • Magnetic and Spectroscopic Properties of Some Heterotrinuclear Basic Acetates of Chromium(III), Iron(III), and Divalent Metal Ions.

    A. B. Blake;A. Yavari;W. E. Hatfield;C. N. Sethulekshmi

  • Coordination chemistry of new sulfur containing ligands. 27. Synthesis and coordination chemistry of a new 1,2-dithiolene containing the tetrathioethylene unit

    Charles T. Vance;Robert D. Bereman;Jon Bordner;William E. Hatfield

  • The Coupled Representation Matrix of the Pair Hamiltonian.

    Raymond P Scaringe;Derek J Hodgson;William E Hatfield

  • Interaction of hydrazine with copper(II) chloride in acidic solutions. Formation, spectral and magnetic properties, and structures of copper(II), copper(I), and mixed-valence species

    David B. Brown;Jeffrey A. Donner;James W. Hall;Scott R. Wilson

  • Standards for magnetic measurements. A comparison and a proposal for the use of tetramethylethylenediammonium tetrachlorocuprate(II)

    David B. Brown;Van H. Crawford;James W. Hall;William E. Hatfield

  • Crystal Structure and Excited Triplet State Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of the Sigma Bonded TCNQ Dimer in Bis-2,9-Dimethyl-1,10-Phenanthrolinecopper(I) Tetracyanoquinodimethane (Cu(DMP)2)2(TCNQ)2.

    Stanislaw K. Hoffman;Peter J. Corvan;Phirtu Singh;C. N. Sethulekshmi

  • Influence of madelung (interatomic Coulomb) energy on Wolfsberg–Helmholz calculations

    Chr. Klixbüll Jørgensen;Sally M. Horner;William E. Hatfield;S. Y. Tyree

Frequent Co-Authors

Derek J. Hodgson
Derek J. Hodgson University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Martin L. Kirk
Martin L. Kirk University of New Mexico
Jim W. Hall
Jim W. Hall University of Oxford
Vincent L. Pecoraro
Vincent L. Pecoraro University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Avram Gold
Avram Gold University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Myoung Soo Lah
Myoung Soo Lah Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Thomas J. Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Phalguni Chaudhuri
Phalguni Chaudhuri Max Planck Society
Michael Hanack
Michael Hanack University of Tübingen
Karl Wieghardt
Karl Wieghardt Max Planck Society

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