Nature Chemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 37. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral438
Digital skills in chemical education339
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution310
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides258
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage253
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck201
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies198
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity196
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces192
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo184
Corrole and squeezed coordination176
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage172
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization162
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis155
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser152
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication151
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95149
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour148
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes143
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions140
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists139
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification139
Building enzymes from scratch134
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer133
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones132
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration132
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins131
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques130
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells130
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys127
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides124
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation124
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation123
Baird’s rules at the tipping point123
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results122
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition121
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor121
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts121
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity120
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks119
The numerous paths of ferrocene119
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency119
Beyond Hubble118
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization118
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)118
Bottleable triplet nitrenes117
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling115
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes114
Aryl ortho methoxylation114
A template for artificial life114
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids111
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes110
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons110
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling108
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton108
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification108
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst108
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates106
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor105
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions104
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers104
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail103
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis103
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3101
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues100
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport99
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer99
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation98
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes97
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water97
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation95
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein95
Aromaticity rules95
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y94
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth93
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen93
Pluralistic teaching93
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon92
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics92
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms92
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores92
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes91
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile90
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA90
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis90
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks88
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion88
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex88
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly87
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport87
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins87
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids86
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance85
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry84
Photoswitchable coordination cages84
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks84
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo83
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers83
Sustainable and degradable plastics83
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions82
Working towards a new job82
Something new under the sun82
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug82
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges82
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO281
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation81
Lattice O–O ligands in Fe-incorporated hydroxides enhance water oxidation electrocatalysis80
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages80
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis80
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells79
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids79
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom79
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine77
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift77
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway76
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light74
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites74
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution73
Tricyclic cell-penetrating peptides for efficient delivery of functional antibodies into cancer cells72
A versatile approach for the synthesis of degradable polymers via controlled ring-opening metathesis copolymerization72
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization72
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes72
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production72
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene72
Cooperative ligands enable cobalt-catalysed hydrogenation71
Publisher Correction: Porous covalent organic nanotubes and their assembly in loops and toroids71
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions71
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains70
Amino amide assembly70
Looking into luciferin70
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions70
Heart of glass69
Total synthesis of nine longiborneol sesquiterpenoids using a functionalized camphor strategy69
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)69
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis69
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning69
A crystalline stannyne69
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts68
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries68
Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers68
Future-proofing calcium fluoride68
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking68
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure67
Scalable and selective deuteration of (hetero)arenes67
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions67
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex67
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution67
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound67
Positive climate changes66
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery66
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member66
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways66
ChatGPT saves the day66
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles66
Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes66
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores65
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion65
Cyclopropenium functionalization64
Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron63
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation63
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease63
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells62
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores62
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization61
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry61
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene60
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices60
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling59
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes58
Electric field maps in enzymes58
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation58
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids58
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme58
Polymer connectivity governs electrophotocatalytic activity in the solid state58
A terminal neptunium(V)–mono(oxo) complex58
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein57
Copper-catalysed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions tolerant of highly reactive radicals57
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami57
A chiral interlocking auxiliary strategy for the synthesis of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes57
Enantioconvergent radical addition of racemic alkyl halides to access vicinal stereocentres57
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization56
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference56
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts55
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source55
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions53
Chemical testing53
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling52
How many roads must a woman walk down?52
Rings of power52
Ethics education for chemists52
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks51
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices51
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles51
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency51
Author Correction: Introducing metal–sulfur active sites in metal–organic frameworks via post-synthetic modification for hydrogenation catalysis51
Doing away with radium’s proxies51
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins51
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins51
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation50
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach50
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration50
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations50
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays50
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes50
Recyclable and malleable thermosets enabled by activating dormant dynamic linkages50
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion50
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping50
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation50
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide50
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery50
Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates49
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols49
Direct conversion of white phosphorus to versatile phosphorus transfer reagents via oxidative onioation49
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides48
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy48
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner48
Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts48
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons48
Colouring by force48
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues47
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions47
Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy47
The fruit fly of photophysics47
Mirror-image trypsin digestion and sequencing of D-proteins47
Tunable acetylene sorption by flexible catenated metal–organic frameworks46
Advances in single-molecule junctions as tools for chemical and biochemical analysis46
Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis46
Emulsion-oriented assembly for Janus double-spherical mesoporous nanoparticles as biological logic gates46
Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst46
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model46
Biosynthesis of an elusive sulfur-containing functional group45
Triarylmethyl cation redox mediators enhance Li–O2 battery discharge capacities45
Carbon-to-nitrogen atom swap enables direct access to benzimidazoles from drug-like indoles45
Synthesis of highly strained para-cyclophanes via ring-expansion [5,5]-sigmatropic rearrangement reaction45
Metastable gallium hydride mediates propane dehydrogenation on H2 co-feeding45
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light45
Halogen-bond-assisted radical activation of glycosyl donors enables mild and stereoconvergent 1,2-cis-glycosylation45
Copper catalysed asymmetric amination44
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation44
Icing a three-layer cake for predictive modelling of adsorption44
Quinine fever44
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA44
Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry44
Selective arylation of atypical C–F bonds in polyfluoroarenes with aryl chlorides44
Arenes participate in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with in situ-generated diazoalkenes43
Iterative synthesis of 1,3-polyboronic esters with high stereocontrol and application to the synthesis of bahamaolide A43
WT19F43
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase43
Recyclable plastics from a manganese catalyst42
Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein42
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