OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 90. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	451
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	293
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	265
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	234
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	233
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	213
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	211
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	202
Corrole and squeezed coordination	181
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	180
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	179
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	177
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	177
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	171
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	168
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	164
Charging imide anions for batteries	162
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	161
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	161
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	159
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	156
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	155
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis	153
The numerous paths of ferrocene	151
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition	150

Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	150
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors	150
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	145
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	145
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	144
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å	141
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	137
Digital skills in chemical education	136
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	136
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	134
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	134
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	134
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	134
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	132
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	131
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	131
Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion	131
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation	129
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome	127
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	127
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	125
Beyond Hubble	124
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	124
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	118
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures	118
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together	117
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	117
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	117
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production	116
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	115
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation	115
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	114
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates	114
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	113
A template for artificial life	113
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	112
Aryl ortho methoxylation	112
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation	109
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	109
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity	109
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	107
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	106
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	104
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	104
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	103
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	103
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal	102
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	102
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	98
Aromaticity rules	98

Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	97
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	97
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	97
A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores	95
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	94
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	94
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes	93
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	93
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	93
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	92
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	91
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	91
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	91
Pluralistic teaching	91
Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics	90
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	90
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	90
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores	90
Emergence of specific binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein	90