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Researcher · Purdue University West Lafayette · United States

Herbert C. Brown

Herbert C. Brown publishes mostly in Organic Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry and Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, on topics such as Chemical Synthesis and Reactions, Organoboron and organosilicon chemistry and Asymmetric Hydrogenation and Catalysis.

OpenAlex
World rank
#108,034
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#46,952
of 358,040
Works
471
Citations
3k
Citations per work
6.4

What does Herbert C. Brown research?

Organic Chemistry: 57.6%Inorganic Chemistry: 9.7%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry: 6.7%Molecular Biology: 6.1%other fields: 19.9%58%top field
Organic Chemistry57.6%Inorganic Chemistry9.7%Physical and Theoretical Chemistry6.7%Molecular Biology6.1%other fields19.9%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Organic Chemistry58% of their works
  2. 2Inorganic Chemistry10% of their works
  3. 3Physical and Theoretical Chemistry7% of their works
  4. 4Molecular Biology6% of their works
  5. 5Spectroscopy5% of their works
  6. 6Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Herbert C. Brown's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Catalysis, Transition Metal Complexes, Green Chemistry, Enantioselective Reactions, Esterification, Oxidation, Frustrated Lewis Pairs and Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Catalysis1793 topics
  2. Transition Metal Complexes1242 topics
  3. Green Chemistry1032 topics
  4. Enantioselective Reactions942 topics
  5. Esterification781 topic
  6. Oxidation781 topic
  7. Frustrated Lewis Pairs761 topic
  8. Metal-Free Hydrogen Activation761 topic
  9. Asymmetric Synthesis712 topics
  10. Organic Synthesis492 topics
  11. Asymmetric Catalysis481 topic
  12. Hydrogenation481 topic
  13. Chiral Catalysts461 topic
  14. Organocatalysis461 topic
  15. Drug Discovery371 topic
  16. Peptide Synthesis371 topic
  17. Functional Group Transformations251 topic
  18. Metal Complexes251 topic
  19. Acidity Scales241 topic
  20. Nucleophilicity241 topic
  21. Boron Neutron Capture Therapy211 topic
  22. Carboranes211 topic

Where does Herbert C. Brown work?

Herbert C. Brown's main affiliation in the publication record is Purdue University West Lafayette, United States.

How many publications and citations does Herbert C. Brown have?

Science Explorer counts 471 works and 3,016 citations for Herbert C. Brown, ranking #108,034 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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