Professor Klemperer received his B.A. from Harvard College in 1968 and his Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. He was a Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University before joining the University of Illinois faculty in 1981.

Klonowski, P.; Goloboy, J. C.; Uribe-Romo, F. J.; Son, F.; Zhu, L.; Gándara, F.; Will, C.; Errington, R. J.; Yaghi, O. M.; Klemperer, W. G. "Synthesis and Characterization of the Platinum-Substituted Keggin Anion α-H2SiPtW11O404-" Inorg. Chem. 2014, 53, 13239-13246.

Jiang, J.; Gándara, F., Zhang, Y.-B.; Na, K.; Yaghi, O. M.; Klemperer, W. G. "Superacidity in Sulfated Metal–Organic Framework-808," J. Amer. Chem. Soc. 2014, 136, 12844-12847.

Klemperer, W. G.; Marek, K. A. "An 17O NMR Study of Hydrolyzed NbV in Weakly Acidic and Basic Aqueous Solutions," Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2013, 1762-1771.

Day, V. W.; Goloboy, J. C.; Klemperer, W. G. "Synthesis and Solid State Structures of the Hydrogen-Bonded Hexamolybdoplatinate(IV) Tetramer [(PtMo6O24)4H23]9- and the Hexamolybdoplatinate(IV) Trimers [(PtMo6O24)3H16]8- and [(PtMo6O24)3H14]10-," Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. 2009, 5079-5087.

Goloboy, J. C.; Klemperer, W. G. "Are Particulate Noble Metal Catalysts Metals, Metal Oxides, or Something In-Between?," Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 2009, 48, 3562-3564.