David J. Willock

9.9k citations

190 papers · 8.7k · 3 hit papers · h-index 48

Impact in

Catalysis top 0.2%
- Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming
Inorganic Chemistry top 0.5%
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis

Papers in

Materials Chemistry 104
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science 66
Organic Chemistry 64

Co-authors: Graham J. Hutchings (90 shared papers)Stuart H. Taylor (50 shared papers)Christopher J. Kiely (20 shared papers)Qian He (16 shared papers)Nikolaos Dimitratos (18 shared papers)Simon Aldridge (18 shared papers)Robert L. Jenkins (19 shared papers)C. Richard A. Catlow (15 shared papers)
Journals: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (10 papers)Catalysis Science & Technology (9 papers)The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (9 papers)ACS Catalysis (8 papers)Angewandte Chemie International Edition (7 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom United States Russia

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David J. Willock

187 papers receiving 8.5k citations

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Role of the Support in Gold-Containing Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalysts 2020 · 387 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Chemical Reviews
2017 Science
2012 Angewandte Chemie International Edition

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1	Aqueous Au-Pd colloids catalyze selective CH ₄ oxidation to CH ₃ OH with O ₂ under mild conditions Science ·Nishtha Agarwal, Simon J. Freakley, Rebecca McVicker, (unknown), Nikolaos Dimitratos, Qian He, David Morgan, Robert L. Jenkins, David J. Willock, Stuart H. Taylor, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings Hit paper breakdown →	2017	598
2	Direct Catalytic Conversion of Methane to Methanol in an Aqueous Medium by using Copper‐Promoted Fe‐ZSM‐5 Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Ceri Hammond, Michael M. Forde, Mohd Hasbi Ab. Rahim, Adam Thetford, Qian He, Robert L. Jenkins, Nikolaos Dimitratos, José Antonio López-Sánchez, Nicholas F. Dummer, Damien M. Murphy, Albert F. Carley, Stuart H. Taylor, David J. Willock, Eric E. Stangland, Joo Kang, H. Hagen, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings Hit paper breakdown →	2012	558
3	Role of the Support in Gold-Containing Nanoparticles as Heterogeneous Catalysts Chemical Reviews ·Meenakshisundaram Sankar, Qian He, Rebecca V. Engel, Mala A. Sainna, Andrew J. Logsdail, Alberto Roldán, David J. Willock, Nishtha Agarwal, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings Hit paper breakdown →	2020	387
4	Oxidation of Methane to Methanol with Hydrogen Peroxide Using Supported Gold–Palladium Alloy Nanoparticles Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·Mohd Hasbi Ab. Rahim, Michael M. Forde, Robert L. Jenkins, (unknown), Qian He, Nikolaos Dimitratos, José Antonio López-Sánchez, Albert F. Carley, Stuart H. Taylor, David J. Willock, Damien M. Murphy, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings	2012	290
5	Role of Electrostatic Interactions in Determining the Crystal Structures of Polar Organic Molecules. A Distributed Multipole Study The Journal of Physical Chemistry ·David S. Coombes, Sarah L. Price, David J. Willock, Maurice Leslie	1996	277
6	De novo design of structure-directing agents for the synthesis of microporous solids Nature ·Dewi W. Lewis, David J. Willock, C. Richard A. Catlow, John Meurig Thomas, Graham J. Hutchings	1996	268
7	Hydrochlorination of acetylene using a supported gold catalyst: A study of the reaction mechanism Journal of Catalysis ·Marco Conte, Albert F. Carley, C HEIRENE, David J. Willock, Peter Johnston, A HERZING, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings	2007	224
8	Methane Oxidation to Methanol Chemical Reviews ·Nicholas F. Dummer, David J. Willock, Qian He, Mark J. Howard, Richard J. Lewis, Guodong Qi, Stuart H. Taylor, Jun Xu, Don Bethell, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings	2022	213
9	A Comparison of the Adsorption and Diffusion of Hydrogen on the {111} Surfaces of Ni, Pd, and Pt from Density Functional Theory Calculations The Journal of Physical Chemistry B ·Graeme W. Watson, Richard Wells, David J. Willock, Graham J. Hutchings	2001	195
10	Au-ZSM-5 catalyses the selective oxidation ofCH4 to CH3OH andCH3COOH using O2 Nature Catalysis ·Guodong Qi, Thomas E. Davies, Ali Nasrallah, Mala A. Sainna, Alexander G. R. Howe, Richard J. Lewis, Matthew G. Quesne, C. Richard A. Catlow, David J. Willock, Qian He, Donald Bethell, Mark J. Howard, Barry A. Murrer, Brian Harrison, Christopher J. Kiely, Xingling Zhao, Feng Deng, Jun Xu, Graham J. Hutchings	2022	192
11	On–Off Porosity Switching in a Molecular Organic Solid Angewandte Chemie International Edition ·James T. A. Jones, Daniel Holden, Tamoghna Mitra, Tom Hasell, Dave J. Adams, Kim E. Jelfs, Abbie Trewin, David J. Willock, Graeme M. Day, John Bacsa, Alexander Steiner, Andrew I. Cooper	2010	186
12	The (010) surface of α-MoO3, a DFT + U study Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics ·Rudy Coquet, David J. Willock	2005	158
13	The relaxation of molecular crystal structures using a distributed multipole electrostatic model Journal of Computational Chemistry ·David J. Willock, Sarah L. Price, Maurice Leslie, C. Richard A. Catlow	1995	147
14	Cationic Terminal Borylenes by Halide Abstraction: Synthesis and Spectroscopic and Structural Characterization of an FeB Double Bond Journal of the American Chemical Society ·D.L. Coombs, Simon Aldridge, Cameron Jones, David J. Willock	2003	138
15	Elucidation and Evolution of the Active Component within Cu/Fe/ZSM-5 for Catalytic Methane Oxidation: From Synthesis to Catalysis ACS Catalysis ·Ceri Hammond, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Robert L. Jenkins, José Antonio López-Sánchez, Simon A. Kondrat, Mohd Hasbi Ab. Rahim, Michael M. Forde, Adam Thetford, Stuart H. Taylor, H. Hagen, Eric E. Stangland, Joo Kang, Jacob M. Moulijn, David J. Willock, Graham J. Hutchings	2013	134
16	Theory and simulation in heterogeneous gold catalysis Chemical Society Reviews ·Rudy Coquet, Kara L. Howard, David J. Willock	2008	127
17	FeB Double Bonds: Synthetic, Structural, and Reaction Chemistry of Cationic Terminal Borylene Complexes Organometallics ·D.L. Coombs, Simon Aldridge, Andrea Rossin, Cameron Jones, David J. Willock	2004	117
18	Elucidating the Role of CO₂ in the Soft Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over Ceria-Based Catalysts ACS Catalysis ·Ewa Nowicka, C. Reece, Sultan Althahban, Khaled M. H. Mohammed, Simon A. Kondrat, David Morgan, Qian He, David J. Willock, Stanislaw E. Golunski, Christopher J. Kiely, Graham J. Hutchings	2018	117
19	Aqueous-Phase Methane Oxidation over Fe-MFI Zeolites; Promotion through Isomorphous Framework Substitution ACS Catalysis ·Ceri Hammond, Nikolaos Dimitratos, José Antonio López-Sánchez, Robert L. Jenkins, Gareth T. Whiting, Simon A. Kondrat, Mohd Hasbi Ab. Rahim, Michael M. Forde, Adam Thetford, H. Hagen, Eric E. Stangland, Jacob M. Moulijn, Stuart H. Taylor, David J. Willock, Graham J. Hutchings	2013	115
20	Rubidium- and caesium-doped silicotungstic acid catalysts supported on alumina for the catalytic dehydration of glycerol to acrolein Journal of Catalysis ·Muhammad H. Haider, Nicholas F. Dummer, Dazhi Zhang, Peter J. Miedziak, Thomas E. Davies, Stuart H. Taylor, David J. Willock, David W. Knight, David Chadwick, Graham J. Hutchings	2011	112

About David J. Willock

David J. Willock is a scholar working on Materials Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering, having authored 190 papers that have together received 8.7k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Catalytic Processes in Materials Science (66 papers), Catalysis and Oxidation Reactions (53 papers), Catalysis for Biomass Conversion (22 papers), Catalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies (18 papers), Zeolite Catalysis and Synthesis (17 papers), Advanced Chemical Physics Studies (17 papers), Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion (16 papers) and Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications (15 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Catalysis (2.8k citations), Inorganic Chemistry (2.6k citations), Materials Chemistry (5.5k citations), Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment (1.5k citations) and Organic Chemistry (2.6k citations). David J. Willock has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Russia. Frequent co-authors include Graham J. Hutchings, Stuart H. Taylor, Christopher J. Kiely, Qian He, Nikolaos Dimitratos, Simon Aldridge, Robert L. Jenkins, C. Richard A. Catlow, Rudy Coquet and David Morgan. Their work appears in journals such as Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, Catalysis Science & Technology, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, ACS Catalysis and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

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