OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 78. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Coupling N2 and CO2 in H2O to synthesize urea under ambient conditions	497
Iridium single-atom catalyst on nitrogen-doped carbon for formic acid oxidation synthesized using a general host–guest strategy	457
α-Synuclein aggregation nucleates through liquid–liquid phase separation	440
General synthesis of single-atom catalysts with high metal loading using graphene quantum dots	367
Deep-neural-network solution of the electronic Schrödinger equation	270
The synthesis, properties and potential applications of cyclic polymers	245
Best practices in machine learning for chemistry	244
Ethylene/ethane separation in a stable hydrogen-bonded organic framework through a gating mechanism	239
A glycan gate controls opening of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein	238
Single-molecule visualization of DNA G-quadruplex formation in live cells	234
Deciphering how naturally occurring sequence features impact the phase behaviours of disordered prion-like domains	217
Dynamics of oligomer populations formed during the aggregation of Alzheimer’s Aβ42 peptide	213
Dual electrocatalysis enables enantioselective hydrocyanation of conjugated alkenes	176
Shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores matched to excitation lasers enable non-invasive, multicolour in vivo imaging in real time	175
SARS-CoV-2 simulations go exascale to predict dramatic spike opening and cryptic pockets across the proteome	172
Enhanced reactivity of twisted amides inside a molecular cage	169
Metal–organic frameworks embedded in a liposome facilitate overall photocatalytic water splitting	169
De novo engineering of intracellular condensates using artificial disordered proteins	161
Mechanochemical bond scission for the activation of drugs	157
The complex chemical effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on air quality	147
Cobalt-catalysed C–H methylation for late-stage drug diversification	142
Enantioselective radical C–H amination for the synthesis of β-amino alcohols	136
CD44 regulates epigenetic plasticity by mediating iron endocytosis	130
Phase-separating peptides for direct cytosolic delivery and redox-activated release of macromolecular therapeutics	124
Synthesis of azetidines via visible-light-mediated intermolecular [2+2] photocycloadditions	121

Improving the efficiency of CO2 electrolysis by using a bipolar membrane with a weak-acid cation exchange layer	121
Electrostatic co-assembly of nanoparticles with oppositely charged small molecules into static and dynamic superstructures	121
Tunable exciton binding energy in 2D hybrid layered perovskites through donor–acceptor interactions within the organic layer	121
A biologically stable DNAzyme that efficiently silences gene expression in cells	119
Enantioselective C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of non-activated alkyl electrophiles via nickel hydride catalysis	118
Olefin metathesis-based chemically recyclable polymers enabled by fused-ring monomers	116
Oxidative cleavage of C–C bonds in lignin	114
Quantum machine learning using atom-in-molecule-based fragments selected on the fly	114
Exploiting attractive non-covalent interactions for the enantioselective catalysis of reactions involving radical intermediates	113
A proteome-wide atlas of lysine-reactive chemistry	111
Multistep enzyme cascades as a route towards green and sustainable pharmaceutical syntheses	110
Synthesis of bilayer borophene	106
Aromatic hydrocarbon belts	106
Predator–prey interactions between droplets driven by non-reciprocal oil exchange	106
Large magnetic exchange coupling in rhombus-shaped nanographenes with zigzag periphery	103
Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates	102
Enzyme-mediated nitric oxide production in vasoactive erythrocyte membrane-enclosed coacervate protocells	102
Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibres for visible-light-driven hydrogen production	100
Metabolic glycan labelling for cancer-targeted therapy	100
Facile synthesis of precious-metal single-site catalysts using organic solvents	97
Manganese-catalysed divergent silylation of alkenes	97
Meta-DNA structures	97
Screening and characterization of a diverse panel of metagenomic imine reductases for biocatalytic reductive amination	97
Charge transfer driven by ultrafast spin transition in a CoFe Prussian blue analogue	97
FAD-dependent enzyme-catalysed intermolecular [4+2] cycloaddition in natural product biosynthesis	95
A three-shell supramolecular complex enables the symmetry-mismatched chemo- and regioselective bis-functionalization of C60	95
Synthesis of a zigzag carbon nanobelt	95
A short peptide synthon for liquid–liquid phase separation	94
Switching on prodrugs using radiotherapy	94
Engineered triply orthogonal pyrrolysyl–tRNA synthetase/tRNA pairs enable the genetic encoding of three distinct non-canonical amino acids	93
Photoacoustic imaging of elevated glutathione in models of lung cancer for companion diagnostic applications	93
Manganese(i) complexes with metal-to-ligand charge transfer luminescence and photoreactivity	93
Asymmetric, visible light-mediated radical sulfinyl-Smiles rearrangement to access all-carbon quaternary stereocentres	90
Cellular uptake of large biomolecules enabled by cell-surface-reactive cell-penetrating peptide additives	89
Competition between chiral solvents and chiral monomers in the helical bias of supramolecular polymers	89
Enantioselective photoinduced cyclodimerization of a prochiral anthracene derivative adsorbed on helical metal nanostructures	89
Intra- and intermolecular self-assembly of a 20-nm-wide supramolecular hexagonal grid	87
Partitioning the interlayer space of covalent organic frameworks by embedding pseudorotaxanes in their backbones	87
The photochemical reaction of phenol becomes ultrafast at the air–water interface	87
Ribosomal synthesis and de novo discovery of bioactive foldamer peptides containing cyclic β-amino acids	86
A molecular endless (74) knot	85
Selection of DNA-encoded chemical libraries against endogenous membrane proteins on live cells	85
Using sulfuramidimidoyl fluorides that undergo sulfur(vi) fluoride exchange for inverse drug discovery	85
A silicon–carbonyl complex stable at room temperature	84
Crowdsourcing drug discovery for pandemics	83
Single crystals of mechanically entwined helical covalent polymers	83
Stereoselective access to [5.5.0] and [4.4.1] bicyclic compounds through Pd-catalysed divergent higher-order cycloadditions	83
One-pot, room-temperature conversion of dinitrogen to ammonium chloride at a main-group element	81
Directional conformer exchange in dihydrofolate reductase revealed by single-molecule nanopore recordings	81
Chemical profiling of DNA G-quadruplex-interacting proteins in live cells	80

Fast motion of molecular rotors in metal–organic framework struts at very low temperatures	80
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	80
Asymmetric dearomatization catalysed by chiral Brønsted acids via activation of ynamides	79
Bottom-up fabrication of a proteasome–nanopore that unravels and processes single proteins	78
Towards high-performance sustainable polymers via isomerization-driven irreversible ring-opening polymerization of five-membered thionolactones	78
A versatile approach for the synthesis of degradable polymers via controlled ring-opening metathesis copolymerization	78