| The interplay of theory and experiment in the study of phenylnitrene WT Borden, NP Gritsan, CM Hadad, WL Karney, CR Kemnitz, MS Platz Accounts of Chemical Research 33 (11), 765-771, 2000 | 296 | 2000 |
| Ab Initio Study of the Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene and Comparison with the Ring Expansion of Phenylcarbene WL Karney, WT Borden Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (6), 1378-1387, 1997 | 202 | 1997 |
| Carbene Rearrangements Unsurpassed: Details of the C7H6 Potential Energy Surface Revealed PR Schreiner, WL Karney, P von Ragué Schleyer, WT Borden, ... The Journal of Organic Chemistry 61 (20), 7030-7039, 1996 | 167 | 1996 |
| Why Does o-Fluorine Substitution Raise the Barrier to Ring Expansion of Phenylnitrene? WL Karney, WT Borden Journal of the American Chemical Society 119 (14), 3347-3350, 1997 | 136 | 1997 |
| A laser flash photolysis and quantum chemical study of the fluorinated derivatives of singlet phenylnitrene NP Gritsan, AD Gudmundsdottir, D Tigelaar, Z Zhu, WL Karney, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 123 (9), 1951-1962, 2001 | 115 | 2001 |
| Aromaticity with a Twist: Möbius [4n]Annulenes C Castro, CM Isborn, WL Karney, M Mauksch, PR Schleyer Organic Letters 4 (20), 3431-3434, 2002 | 106 | 2002 |
| Investigation of a Putative Möbius Aromatic Hydrocarbon. The Effect of Benzannelation on Möbius [4n]Annulene Aromaticity C Castro, Z Chen, CS Wannere, H Jiao, WL Karney, M Mauksch, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (8), 2425-2432, 2005 | 103 | 2005 |
| Why are nitrenes more stable than carbenes? An ab initio study CR Kemnitz, WL Karney, WT Borden Journal of the American Chemical Society 120 (14), 3499-3503, 1998 | 92 | 1998 |
| Giant vibrational resonances in compounds KJ Fu, WL Karney, OL Chapman, SM Huang, RB Kaner, F Diederich, ... Physical Review B 46 (3), 1937, 1992 | 92 | 1992 |
| Heavy‐Atom Tunneling in Organic Reactions C Castro, WL Karney Angewandte Chemie 132 (22), 8431-8442, 2020 | 84 | 2020 |
| Möbius aromaticity in [12] annulene: Cis− Trans isomerization via twist-coupled bond shifting C Castro, WL Karney, MA Valencia, CMH Vu, RP Pemberton Journal of the American Chemical Society 127 (27), 9704-9705, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| Ring-expansion reaction of cyano-substituted singlet phenyl nitrenes: Theoretical predictions and kinetic results from laser flash photolysis and chemical trapping experiments NP Gritsan, I Likhotvorik, ML Tsao, N Çelebi, MS Platz, WL Karney, ... Journal of the American Chemical Society 123 (7), 1425-1433, 2001 | 64 | 2001 |
| CASSCF and CASPT2 ab initio electronic structure calculations find singlet methylnitrene is an energy minimum CR Kemnitz, GB Ellison, WL Karney, WT Borden Journal of the American Chemical Society 122 (6), 1098-1101, 2000 | 56 | 2000 |
| Reactions of Singlet Oxygen with Organometallic Complexes. 3. Kinetics and Scope of the Oxidative Addition Reaction of Singlet Oxygen with Iridium (I), Rhodium (I), and … M Selke, WL Karney, SI Khan, CS Foote Inorganic Chemistry 34 (23), 5715-5720, 1995 | 51 | 1995 |
| Configuration change in [14] annulene requires Möbius antiaromatic bond shifting JF Moll, RP Pemberton, MG Gutierrez, C Castro, WL Karney Journal of the American Chemical Society 129 (2), 274-275, 2007 | 42 | 2007 |
| Using molecular architecture to control the reactivity of a triplet vinylnitrene SK Sarkar, O Osisioma, WL Karney, M Abe, AD Gudmundsdottir Journal of the American Chemical Society 138 (45), 14905-14914, 2016 | 40 | 2016 |
| Stone–Wales rearrangements in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: a computational study E Brayfindley, EE Irace, C Castro, WL Karney The Journal of Organic Chemistry 80 (8), 3825-3831, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Computational Evaluation of the Evidence for Tri-trans-[12]Annulene C Castro, WL Karney, CMH Vu, SE Burkhardt, MA Valencia The Journal of Organic Chemistry 70 (9), 3602-3609, 2005 | 39 | 2005 |
| Differences between phenylcarbene and phenylnitrene and the ring expansion reactions they undergo WL Karney, WT Borden Advances in Carbene Chemistry 3, 205, 2001 | 33 | 2001 |
| Dynamic processes in [16] annulene: Möbius bond-shifting routes to configuration change RP Pemberton, CM McShane, C Castro, WL Karney Journal of the American Chemical Society 128 (51), 16692-16700, 2006 | 31 | 2006 |
