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D-Index
61
Citations
11723
World Ranking
9354
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2636

William G. Dauben 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 G. Dauben sits on this spectrum.

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61 publications 1,295+

This scientist: 390 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.

William G. Dauben 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 G. Dauben sits on this spectrum.

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40 D-Index 159+

This scientist: 61 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% 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

  • 1973 - Ernest Guenther Award, American Chemical Society (ACS)
  • 1965 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 1950 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

William G. Dauben was affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their academic career included contributions recognized by multiple awards.

Among the awards received, Dauben was honored with the Ernest Guenther Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS) in 1973. They were also named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation twice, in 1950 and again in 1965.

No specific recent papers, coauthors, publication venues, book publications, or detailed fields and subfields of study information is available for Dauben. Likewise, main topics of their work are not listed in the available data.

Best Publications

  • Classification of photochemical reactions

    William G. Dauben;Lionel Salem;Nicholas J. Turro

  • The Stereochemistry of Hydride Reductions

    William G. Dauben;Gerhard J. Fonken;Donald S. Noyce

  • Allylic oxidation of olefins with chromium trioxide pyridine complex

    William G. Dauben;Milton E. Lorber;Dwight S. Fullerton

  • Direct oxidation of tertiary allylic alcohols. A simple and effective method for alkylative carbonyl transposition

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  • Photochemical transformations—VIII: The isomerization of Δ2,5-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptadiene to quadricyclo[2.2.1.02,6·03,5]heptane (quadricyclene)☆☆☆★

    William G. Dauben;Robert L. Cargill

  • Site of formation of plasma phospholipides studied with C14-labeled palmitic acid.

    D.S. Goldman;I.L. Chaikoff;W.O. Reinhardt;C. Entenman

  • Direct oxidation of tertiary allylic alcohols. A simple and effective method for alkylative carbonyl transposition

    William G. Dauben;Drake M. Michno

  • The Preparation of Cyclic Cyclopropylcarbinols

    William G. Dauben;Gilbert H. Berezin

  • Lipogenesis from glucose in the normal and liverless animal as studied with C14-labeled glucose.

    E.J. Masoro;I.L. Chaikoff;W.G. Dauben

  • Simple, efficient total synthesis of cantharidin via a high-pressure Diels-Alder reaction

    William G. Dauben;Carl R. Kessel;Kazuo H. Takemura

  • The quantitative significance of the lymphatic pathway in transport of absorbed fatty acids.

    B. Bloom;I.L. Chaikoff;W.O. Reinhardt;C. Entenman

  • Techniques in Using Carbon 14

    William Dauben;James Reid;Peter Yankwich

  • Organic reactions at high pressure. Cycloadditions with furans

    William G. Dauben;Herman O. Krabbenhoft

  • Reductive opening of acyclic conjugated cyclopropyl ketones with lithium in liquid ammonia

    William G. Dauben;Richard Eugene Wolf

  • A convergent approach toward the tigliane ring system

    William G. Dauben;Jurgen Dinges;Timothy C. Smith

  • The in vitro synthesis of cholesterol from acetate by surviving adrenal cortical tissue.

    Paul A. Srere;I.L. Chaikoff;W.G. Dauben

  • C14-CHOLESTEROL I. LYMPHATIC TRANSPORT OF ABSORBED CHOLESTEROL-4-C14

    I. L. Chaikoff;B. Bloom;M. D. Siperstein;J. Y. Kiyasu

  • The oxidation of palmitic acid-1-C14 by extrahepatic tissues of the dog.

    D.S. Goldman;I.L. Chaikoff;W.O. Reinhardt;C. Entenman

  • Nature of the metabolic products of C14-cholesterol excreted in bile and feces.

    M. D. Siperstein;M. E. Jayko;I. L. Chaikoff;W. G. Dauben

  • Determination of carbon 14 in fatty acids by direct mount technic.

    C. Entenman;S. R. Lerner;I. L. Chaikoff;W. G. Dauben

  • Clay catalyzed rearrangement of substituted allyl phenyl ethers: Synthesis of ortho-allyl phenols, chromans and coumarans

    William G. Dauben;Jeffrey M. Cogen;Victor Behar

Frequent Co-Authors

I. L. Chaikoff
I. L. Chaikoff University of California, Berkeley
Robert M. Coates
Robert M. Coates University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. Dale Poulter
C. Dale Poulter University of Utah
John H. Richards
John H. Richards California Institute of Technology
Jack Saltiel
Jack Saltiel Florida State University
Charles Heidelberger
Charles Heidelberger University of Southern California
Louis Fieser
Louis Fieser Harvard University
John E. Casida
John E. Casida University of California, Berkeley
Anthony W. Norman
Anthony W. Norman University of California, Riverside
Stefan Hecht
Stefan Hecht Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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