OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 86. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	415
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	305
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	295
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	244
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	231
Digital skills in chemical education	230
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	221
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	219
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	194
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	192
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	187
Corrole and squeezed coordination	182
Building enzymes from scratch	180
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	172
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	169
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	161
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	160
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	151
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	142
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	142
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	141
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	135
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	133
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	133
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	132

Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	132
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	131
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	130
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	128
The numerous paths of ferrocene	127
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	126
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	126
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	126
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	124
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	123
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	120
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	118
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	118
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	118
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	117
Beyond Hubble	116
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	116
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	115
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	115
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	114
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	114
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	113
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	113
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	112
Aromaticity rules	112
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	112
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	111
A template for artificial life	111
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	110
Aryl ortho methoxylation	110
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	109
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	107
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	105
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	104
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	104
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	103
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	103
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	103
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	102
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	102
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	102
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	101
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	100
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	100
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	97
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	95
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	95
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	95
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	94
Pluralistic teaching	94

Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	93
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	92
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	92
Sustainable and degradable plastics	91
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	90
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins	89
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	89
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers	88
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	88
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks	87
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	87
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport	86
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry	86