| On the depletion of Antarctic ozone | Nature | 1986 | 1.2K |
| Basic fibroblast growth factor supports the survival of cerebral cortical neurons in primary culture | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 1986 | 573 |
| Molecular orbital theory of the properties of inorganic and organometallic compounds 4. Extended basis sets for third-and fourth-row, main-group elements | Journal of Computational Chemistry | 1986 | 455 |
| UV laser excited fluorescence spectroscopy of the jet‐cooled copper dimer | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1986 | 142 |
| Cooperative photoabsorption induced charge transfer reaction dynamics in rare gas solids. I. Photodynamics of localized xenon chloride exciplexes | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1986 | 113 |
| Global atmospheric concentrations and source strength of ethane | Nature | 1986 | 107 |
| Assignment of human 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase gene to q13----q23 region of chromosome 5 | Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics | 1986 | 87 |
| World-wide increase in tropospheric methane, 1978–1983 | Journal of Atmospheric Chemistry | 1986 | 85 |
| Modeling chemical reactivity. 3. Stereochemistry of Michael additions of vinyl sulfoxides | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 1986 | 77 |
| Synthesis and x-ray crystal structure of a soluble pentametallic organoyttrium alkoxide oxide complex, (C5H5)5Y5(.mu.-OCH3)4(.mu.5-O) | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 1986 | 66 |
| Genetic counterselective procedure to isolate interspecific cell hybrids containing single human chromosomes: construction of cell hybrids and recombinant DNA libraries specific for human chromosomes 3 and 4 | Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics | 1986 | 60 |
| Bis(nitroxyl) adducts of bis(hexafluoroacetylacetonato)manganese(II). Preparation, structures, and magnetic properties | Inorganic Chemistry | 1986 | 58 |
| .pi.-Bond strengths in main-group olefin analogs | Organometallics | 1986 | 54 |
| Linear solvation energy relationships. A comparison of molar volume and intrinsic molecular volume as measures of the cavity term in reversed phase liquid chromatography | Chromatographia | 1986 | 51 |
| The hydrolysis of chlorine nitrate and its possible atmospheric significance | The Journal of Physical Chemistry | 1986 | 40 |
| Feedback regulation of RNA polymerase subunit synthesis after the conditional overproduction of RNA polymerase in Escherichia coli | Molecular Genetics and Genomics | 1986 | 37 |
| Assembly of a tRNA splicing complex: evidence for concerted excision and joining steps in splicing in vitro | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1986 | 33 |
| Ribosomal protein gene sequences map to human chromosomes 5, 8, and 17 | Somatic Cell and Molecular Genetics | 1986 | 33 |
| Diastereofacial selectivity in Diels-Alder cycloadditions involving vinyl sulfoxides | Tetrahedron Letters | 1986 | 27 |
| Infrared spectra of matrix‐isolated monomeric and dimeric hydrogen sulfide in solid O2 | Journal of Chemical Physics | 1986 | 27 |
| 13C-NMR of ribosyl ApApA, ApApG and ApUpG | Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics | 1986 | 26 |
| Isolation and characterization of PRT1, a gene required for the initiation of protein biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Molecular and Cellular Biology | 1986 | 25 |
| Spontaneous-assembly of phospholipid monolayers via adsorption onto gold | Journal of the American Chemical Society | 1986 | 23 |
| Assessment of cortical and trabecular bone distribution in the beagle skeleton by neutron activation analysis | The Anatomical Record | 1986 | 18 |
| Time-resolved luminescence study of protonated Schiff bases | The Journal of Physical Chemistry | 1986 | 16 |
