Nature Chemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 36. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral487
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides299
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage280
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck245
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies240
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity223
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour221
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results209
Corrole and squeezed coordination192
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer185
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration184
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution183
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation180
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor177
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces174
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides173
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis163
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition163
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones161
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage160
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization159
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification158
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins156
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists150
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser148
Digital skills in chemical education145
Baird’s rules at the tipping point143
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys140
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å140
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity140
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks139
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo139
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells137
Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion134
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency134
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome133
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions131
Charging imide anions for batteries130
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors129
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts128
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition128
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques125
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis123
The numerous paths of ferrocene123
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation120
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation120
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes119
Beyond Hubble118
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures118
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3117
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)116
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together116
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst116
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production115
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation114
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton113
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization111
Aryl ortho methoxylation111
A template for artificial life111
Bottleable triplet nitrenes105
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes103
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer103
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling103
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail103
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation102
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers102
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal100
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates99
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis99
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes98
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein98
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions97
Programming stacking order in conducting van der Waals metal–organic frameworks through ligand aggregation97
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport96
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling96
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water95
A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores95
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen94
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity94
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids94
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation94
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation94
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates93
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes93
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y93
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification93
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues93
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon92
Pluralistic teaching92
Two roads to lithium nucleation91
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth91
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics91
Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics91
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks90
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport89
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes89
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins88
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms88
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile86
Discovering nickel enzymes within the aldo-keto reductase superfamily85
Inverted metal-free active template synthesis of rotaxanes via axle‑mediated macrocyclization85
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry85
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion84
Photoswitchable coordination cages84
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers83
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids82
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly82
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug81
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores81
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA81
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks80
Emergence of specific binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein80
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo80
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex79
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis79
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance79
Engineered RNA sensors for tuberculosis detection77
Working towards a new job77
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges76
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine76
Construction of synthetic protein-binding non-genetic DNA systems in living cells76
Iridium(III)-catalysed ionic hydrogenation of pyridines to multisubstituted piperidines75
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light75
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites75
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes74
Something new under the sun73
CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers73
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom73
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions73
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids72
Unravelling gas evolution mechanisms in battery electrode materials72
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene72
Isolated and H2-reduced Anderson clusters catalyse low-temperature hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol71
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells71
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution71
Supramolecular assembly of molecular wires alternating crown ethers and metal–halide complexes69
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation69
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift69
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production68
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis68
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages68
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO268
Photoswitchable latent monomers enable on‑demand metathesis67
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions67
Lattice O–O ligands in Fe-incorporated hydroxides enhance water oxidation electrocatalysis67
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway67
Heart of glass66
Future-proofing calcium fluoride66
Amino amide assembly66
Looking into luciferin66
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries65
Sensing RNA65
Cooperative ligands enable cobalt-catalysed hydrogenation64
A crystalline stannyne64
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure63
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways63
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains63
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis62
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)62
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution62
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization62
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound62
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex62
Single-crystalline two-dimensional vinylene frameworks through topological conversion62
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery61
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking61
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions61
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions61
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles61
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts60
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning60
Driving movement in the field of molecular machines60
Organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of S(IV)-stereogenic sulfinamides enabled by an air-stable chiral phosphine59
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion59
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member59
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores59
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices58
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease58
Electric field maps in enzymes58
Cyclopropenium functionalization58
Ribose at the heart of life58
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation57
ChatGPT saves the day57
A stable, crystalline nitrogen chain radical56
Enantioconvergent radical addition of racemic alkyl halides to access vicinal stereocentres56
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein56
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization56
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme56
Polymer connectivity governs electrophotocatalytic activity in the solid state56
Copper-catalysed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions tolerant of highly reactive radicals56
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source55
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry55
Programmable fluorescent aptamer-based RNA switches for rapid identification of point mutations55
Ligand-modulated metal–radical polarity match enables general 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization of ethylene55
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids55
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami55
Author Correction: [2+2] Photocycloaddition reactions of sulfinylamines with alkenes to access β-sultam derivatives54
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes54
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene54
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells54
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization54
Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron54
Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution53
Spontaneous trisulfide metathesis in polar aprotic solvents53
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation53
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores53
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions52
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts51
Chemical recycling of hydrofluorocarbons by transfer fluorination51
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling51
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference51
Hyperpyramidalized alkenes with bond orders near 1.5 as synthetic building blocks51
How many roads must a woman walk down?49
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling49
Rings of power49
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices48
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency48
Reducing the carbon footprint of chemistry labs48
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles48
tRNA-deacylase-directed discovery of biosynthetic pathways47
Colouring by force47
Stannole dianions for axially coordinated lanthanide single-molecule magnets47
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks47
Doing away with radium’s proxies47
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration47
Author Correction: Introducing metal–sulfur active sites in metal–organic frameworks via post-synthetic modification for hydrogenation catalysis47
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides46
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach46
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions46
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations46
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols45
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery45
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons45
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins45
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner45
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins45
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays45
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes45
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation44
Degradation of G-quadruplex-binding proteins in chromatin using G4-ligand-based proteolysis-targeting chimeras44
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide44
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation44
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA43
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues43
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping43
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase43
Icing a three-layer cake for predictive modelling of adsorption43
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light43
Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules43
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation43
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