Nature Chemistry

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(The median citation count of Nature Chemistry is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral495
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides305
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage291
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck247
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies244
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity233
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour229
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results211
Corrole and squeezed coordination199
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer193
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration189
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution188
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation187
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces185
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides179
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis177
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition173
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones168
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists167
Digital skills in chemical education166
The numerous paths of ferrocene161
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo160
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition158
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes157
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity150
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency150
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization148
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells148
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins144
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques143
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks143
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions140
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor137
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage137
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation133
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts133
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation131
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification131
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors130
Charging imide anions for batteries130
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å130
Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion128
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis128
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys126
Beyond Hubble123
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome123
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures122
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst121
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together119
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production118
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton117
A template for artificial life116
Aryl ortho methoxylation114
Bottleable triplet nitrenes113
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail109
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers109
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling109
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification108
A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores106
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity106
Programming stacking order in conducting van der Waals metal–organic frameworks through ligand aggregation104
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3104
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer103
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes103
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y101
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis100
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization99
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation98
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling98
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids98
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates98
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes97
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions97
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)97
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal96
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport96
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation96
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates96
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water96
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues96
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen95
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein95
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes95
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation95
Pluralistic teaching94
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation94
Emergence of specific binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein93
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon93
Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics92
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics91
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks90
Two roads to lithium nucleation90
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes90
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms88
Discovering nickel enzymes within the aldo-keto reductase superfamily87
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth86
Inverted metal-free active template synthesis of rotaxanes via axle‑mediated macrocyclization85
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores85
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex85
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA84
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks84
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion84
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly84
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins83
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo83
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance82
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis82
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport82
Photoswitchable coordination cages81
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile81
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers80
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids79
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug78
Working towards a new job78
Engineered RNA sensors for tuberculosis detection78
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions77
Something new under the sun77
Construction of synthetic protein-binding non-genetic DNA systems in living cells77
CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers77
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges77
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene76
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO275
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation75
Supramolecular assembly of molecular wires alternating crown ethers and metal–halide complexes75
Unravelling gas evolution mechanisms in battery electrode materials74
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom74
Lattice O–O ligands in Fe-incorporated hydroxides enhance water oxidation electrocatalysis74
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis73
Iridium(III)-catalysed ionic hydrogenation of pyridines to multisubstituted piperidines73
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light72
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites72
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution71
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway71
Isolated and H2-reduced Anderson clusters catalyse low-temperature hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol71
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift70
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids70
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages70
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine70
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production70
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells69
A modifying touch for metal–organic framework glasses69
Future-proofing calcium fluoride67
Photoswitchable latent monomers enable on‑demand metathesis67
Looking into luciferin67
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions67
Amino amide assembly67
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes67
Cooperative ligands enable cobalt-catalysed hydrogenation66
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries66
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure66
Sensing RNA66
A crystalline stannyne66
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex65
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution64
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization64
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound64
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)64
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis64
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery63
Driving movement in the field of molecular machines63
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking62
Single-crystalline two-dimensional vinylene frameworks through topological conversion62
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts61
Organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of S(IV)-stereogenic sulfinamides enabled by an air-stable chiral phosphine61
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning61
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles60
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions60
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions60
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains60
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores59
Cyclopropenium functionalization59
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member59
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion59
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease59
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein58
A stable, crystalline nitrogen chain radical58
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization58
Ribose at the heart of life58
ChatGPT saves the day58
Enantioconvergent radical addition of racemic alkyl halides to access vicinal stereocentres57
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation57
Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron56
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes56
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene56
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source56
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization56
Ligand-modulated metal–radical polarity match enables general 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization of ethylene56
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation56
Programmable fluorescent aptamer-based RNA switches for rapid identification of point mutations55
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling55
Polymer connectivity governs electrophotocatalytic activity in the solid state55
Hyperpyramidalized alkenes with bond orders near 1.5 as synthetic building blocks55
Copper-catalysed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions tolerant of highly reactive radicals55
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami54
Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution54
Chemical recycling of hydrofluorocarbons by transfer fluorination54
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells54
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices53
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry53
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference53
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts53
Author Correction: [2+2] Photocycloaddition reactions of sulfinylamines with alkenes to access β-sultam derivatives53
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions52
Spontaneous trisulfide metathesis in polar aprotic solvents52
Rings of power51
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency51
How many roads must a woman walk down?51
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling51
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores51
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices50
Reducing the carbon footprint of chemistry labs50
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles50
Stannole dianions for axially coordinated lanthanide single-molecule magnets49
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks49
Author Correction: Introducing metal–sulfur active sites in metal–organic frameworks via post-synthetic modification for hydrogenation catalysis49
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration49
tRNA-deacylase-directed discovery of biosynthetic pathways49
Colouring by force49
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides48
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations48
Doing away with radium’s proxies48
Stepwise-controllable catalytic asymmetric Atherton–Todd reaction to access diverse P(V)-stereogenic compounds48
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins48
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy47
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation47
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner46
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation46
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion46
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide46
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach46
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes46
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping46
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays45
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery45
Recyclable and malleable thermosets enabled by activating dormant dynamic linkages45
Degradation of G-quadruplex-binding proteins in chromatin using G4-ligand-based proteolysis-targeting chimeras45
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols45
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions45
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins44
Copper catalysed asymmetric amination44
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light44
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons44
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues43
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA43
Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry43
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase43
Iterative synthesis of 1,3-polyboronic esters with high stereocontrol and application to the synthesis of bahamaolide A43
Biosynthesis of an elusive sulfur-containing functional group43
Vessel material determines product of enantioselective vinylcyclopropane rearrangement43
Direct visualization of ligands on gold nanoparticles in a liquid environment43
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