OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 88. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	432
Digital skills in chemical education	326
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	304
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	252
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	243
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	236
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	196
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	193
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	188
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	186
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	182
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	171
The numerous paths of ferrocene	165
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	163
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	153
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	151
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	145
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	145
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	145
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	142
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	137
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	136
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	134
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	133
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	132

A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	131
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	127
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	126
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	125
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	124
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	124
Corrole and squeezed coordination	122
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	122
Building enzymes from scratch	121
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	121
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	120
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	120
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	119
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	118
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	118
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	118
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	117
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	117
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	115
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	115
Beyond Hubble	115
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	115
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	114
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	112
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	112
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	112
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	111
A template for artificial life	110
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	109
Aryl ortho methoxylation	109
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	106
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	106
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	106
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	106
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	104
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	103
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	101
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	101
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	101
Aromaticity rules	101
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	100
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	99
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	99
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	97
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	97
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	96
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	95
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	94
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	93
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	93

Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	92
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	91
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers	91
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	91
Pluralistic teaching	91
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	91
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	90
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	89
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids	89
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport	89
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex	89
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	88
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	88