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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	438
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	303
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	292
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	256
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	231
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	226
Corrole and squeezed coordination	206
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	204
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	200
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å	175
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis	174
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	173
The numerous paths of ferrocene	172
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	171
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	164
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	163
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	163
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	159
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	158
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	156
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	153
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	152
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	150
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation	147
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	147

Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	147
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	146
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	143
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	143
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	141
Charging imide anions for batteries	140
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	140
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	139
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	133
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	132
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	132
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	132
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	132
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	131
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	131
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	130
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition	128
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome	128
Digital skills in chemical education	127
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	126
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors	125
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	125
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	123
Beyond Hubble	123
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	120
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	118
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	117
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	116
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	115
A template for artificial life	114
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	114
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	112
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	112
Aryl ortho methoxylation	112
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	111
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together	110
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production	109
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	109
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	109
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	108
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	106
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation	106
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	103
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	102
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes	102
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	102
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal	101
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates	101
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	100
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	99

Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	99
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures	95
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity	95
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	94
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	94
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	94
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation	92
Aromaticity rules	92
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	92
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	92
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	92
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	91
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	90
Pluralistic teaching	90
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	90