OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 71. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-03-01 to 2023-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Towards the online computer-aided design of catalytic pockets	496
Copper atom-pair catalyst anchored on alloy nanowires for selective and efficient electrochemical reduction of CO2	429
Chemically stable polyarylether-based covalent organic frameworks	380
Molecular spins for quantum computation	370
Closed-loop recycling of plastics enabled by dynamic covalent diketoenamine bonds	283
Imaging defects and their evolution in a metal–organic framework at sub-unit-cell resolution	273
N-heterocyclic carbene-functionalized magic-number gold nanoclusters	246
Circular chemistry to enable a circular economy	238
Prevention of dendrite growth and volume expansion to give high-performance aprotic bimetallic Li-Na alloy–O2 batteries	235
Identifying the components of the solid–electrolyte interphase in Li-ion batteries	228
Molecular engineering of organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites quantum wells	209
Targeted photoredox catalysis in cancer cells	196
On-water surface synthesis of crystalline, few-layer two-dimensional polymers assisted by surfactant monolayers	187
A general strategy to develop cell permeable and fluorogenic probes for multicolour nanoscopy	177
Identification of the strong Brønsted acid site in a metal–organic framework solid acid catalyst	160
Efficient and tunable one-dimensional charge transport in layered lanthanide metal–organic frameworks	159
A biomimetic receptor for glucose	150
Practical and regioselective amination of arenes using alkyl amines	146
Liquid–liquid phase separation during amphiphilic self-assembly	144
Non-chemisorbed gold–sulfur binding prevails in self-assembled monolayers	142
Regio- and diastereoselective intermolecular [2+2] cycloadditions photocatalysed by quantum dots	140
Multihole water oxidation catalysis on haematite photoanodes revealed by operando spectroelectrochemistry and DFT	138
A general asymmetric copper-catalysed Sonogashira C(sp3)–C(sp) coupling	134
Designer DNA architecture offers precise and multivalent spatial pattern-recognition for viral sensing and inhibition	134
Photoredox catalysis with aryl sulfonium salts enables site-selective late-stage fluorination	132
Shear-induced assembly of a transient yet highly stretchable hydrogel based on pseudopolyrotaxanes	131
Fast galvanic lithium corrosion involving a Kirkendall-type mechanism	128
Signalling and differentiation in emulsion-based multi-compartmentalized in vitro gene circuits	126
Heteromultivalent peptide recognition by co-assembly of cyclodextrin and calixarene amphiphiles enables inhibition of amyloid fibrillation	124
Autonomous dynamic control of DNA nanostructure self-assembly	123
The photochemical ring-opening of 1,3-cyclohexadiene imaged by ultrafast electron diffraction	123
Maleimide–thiol adducts stabilized through stretching	117
An alkyl-substituted aluminium anion with strong basicity and nucleophilicity	117
Photochemical generation of radicals from alkyl electrophiles using a nucleophilic organic catalyst	116
Formation of carbon–nitrogen bonds in carbon monoxide electrolysis	115
Diverse compounds from pleuromutilin lead to a thioredoxin inhibitor and inducer of ferroptosis	115
Hierarchical organization of perylene bisimides and polyoxometalates for photo-assisted water oxidation	109
A nucleophilic gold complex	106
Carbopalladation of C–C σ-bonds enabled by strained boronate complexes	105
An enzymatic platform for the asymmetric amination of primary, secondary and tertiary C(sp3)–H bonds	103
Identification of a Frank–Kasper Z phase from shape amphiphile self-assembly	99
An automated platform for the enzyme-mediated assembly of complex oligosaccharides	96
Iron(ii) coordination complexes with panchromatic absorption and nanosecond charge-transfer excited state lifetimes	96
Controllable catalytic difluorocarbene transfer enables access to diversified fluoroalkylated arenes	95
The mechanisms of boronate ester formation and fluorescent turn-on in ortho-aminomethylphenylboronic acids	94
The formation of all-cis-(multi)fluorinated piperidines by a dearomatization–hydrogenation process	91
Robust gold nanorods stabilized by bidentate N-heterocyclic-carbene–thiolate ligands	91
Modification and de novo design of non-ribosomal peptide synthetases using specific assembly points within condensation domains	90
Mesopolymer synthesis by ligand-modulated direct arylation polycondensation towards n-type and ambipolar conjugated systems	89
Asymmetric redox-neutral radical cyclization catalysed by flavin-dependent ‘ene’-reductases	89
Tailored silyl ether monomers enable backbone-degradable polynorbornene-based linear, bottlebrush and star copolymers through ROMP	82
Incorporation of clusters within inorganic materials through their addition during nucleation steps	80
A review and critique of academic lab safety research	80
The role of bridging ligands in dinitrogen reduction and functionalization by uranium multimetallic complexes	79
Plastics are forever	77
Rapid desolvation-triggered domino lattice rearrangement in a metal–organic framework	76
Isotherms of individual pores by gas adsorption crystallography	73
From alkylarenes to anilines via site-directed carbon–carbon amination	73
Capture of nitrogen dioxide and conversion to nitric acid in a porous metal–organic framework	72
Kinetic modulation of graphene growth by fluorine through spatially confined decomposition of metal fluorides	72
Expedited mapping of the ligandable proteome using fully functionalized enantiomeric probe pairs	71
Achieving spin-triplet exciton transfer between silicon and molecular acceptors for photon upconversion	71