Chemical Science

Papers
(The TQCC of Chemical Science is 14. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Non-concentrated aqueous electrolytes with organic solvent additives for stable zinc batteries276
Water as the reaction medium in organic chemistry: from our worst enemy to our best friend272
Fluorescent small organic probes for biosensing251
Recent advances of AIE light-up probes for photodynamic therapy226
Increasing structural and functional complexity in self-assembled coordination cages183
Molecular design of thermally activated delayed fluorescent emitters for narrowband orange–red OLEDs boosted by a cyano-functionalization strategy167
Structural and process controls of AIEgens for NIR-II theranostics167
Ultrasensitive single-cell proteomics workflow identifies >1000 protein groups per mammalian cell162
Design of BODIPY dyes as triplet photosensitizers: electronic properties tailored for solar energy conversion, photoredox catalysis and photodynamic therapy161
Graphene–carbon 2D heterostructures with hierarchically-porous P,N-doped layered architecture for capacitive deionization147
Accurate crystal structures and chemical properties from NoSpherA2146
CRISPR technology incorporating amplification strategies: molecular assays for nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules146
Electrochemical C–N coupling with perovskite hybrids toward efficient urea synthesis144
Hexafluoroisopropanol: the magical solvent for Pd-catalyzed C–H activation142
Recent development in transition metal-catalysed C–H olefination138
Recent advances in single atom catalysts for the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction133
Plasmonic photothermal catalysis for solar-to-fuel conversion: current status and prospects131
Pathways to increase the dissymmetry in the interaction of chiral light and chiral molecules130
Emerging applications for living crystallization-driven self-assembly126
Universal quenching of common fluorescent probes by water and alcohols125
Accelerating high-throughput virtual screening through molecular pool-based active learning118
Efficient metal-free organic room temperature phosphors118
Recent advances of cancer chemodynamic therapy based on Fenton/Fenton-like chemistry118
Strategic design of Fe and N co-doped hierarchically porous carbon as superior ORR catalyst: from the perspective of nanoarchitectonics117
Achieving high circularly polarized luminescence with push–pull helicenic systems: from rationalized design to top-emission CP-OLED applications109
Molecular reactivity of thiolate-protected noble metal nanoclusters: synthesis, self-assembly, and applications108
Machine learning meets mechanistic modelling for accurate prediction of experimental activation energies102
Catalysis using transition metal complexes featuring main group metal and metalloid compounds as supporting ligands101
Activatable fluorescence sensors for in vivo bio-detection in the second near-infrared window101
Conceptual density functional theory based electronic structure principles99
Fluorescent probe for the imaging of superoxide and peroxynitrite during drug-induced liver injury98
Electrochemiluminescence with semiconductor (nano)materials97
MGraphDTA: deep multiscale graph neural network for explainable drug–target binding affinity prediction96
Photoactive electron donor–acceptor complex platform for Ni-mediated C(sp3)–C(sp2) bond formation94
Recent progress in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for nondoped organic light-emitting diodes92
Electrogenerated chemiluminescence detection of single entities90
Nanoporous ultra-high-entropy alloys containing fourteen elements for water splitting electrocatalysis90
Efficient electroreduction of CO2to C2+products on CeO2modified CuO89
Defect mitigation using d-penicillamine for efficient methylammonium-free perovskite solar cells with high operational stability88
Designing light-driven rotary molecular motors88
Tetrathiafulvalene-based covalent organic frameworks for ultrahigh iodine capture88
Absorption and emission of light in red emissive carbon nanodots87
Mechanism of inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro by N3 peptidyl Michael acceptor explained by QM/MM simulations and design of new derivatives with tunable chemical reactivity86
Calculation of absolute molecular entropies and heat capacities made simple86
Recent advances of group 14 dimetallenes and dimetallynes in bond activation and catalysis84
Efficient and organic host–guest room-temperature phosphorescence: tunable triplet–singlet crossing and theoretical calculations for molecular packing84
Discovery of cryptic allosteric sites using reversed allosteric communication by a combined computational and experimental strategy84
Advances in anion binding and sensing using luminescent lanthanide complexes83
Supramolecular agents for combination of photodynamic therapy and other treatments83
A rationally designed two-dimensional MoSe2/Ti2CO2 heterojunction for photocatalytic overall water splitting: simultaneously suppressing electron–hole recombination an82
Recent progress in metal–organic framework/graphene-derived materials for energy storage and conversion: design, preparation, and application81
Multicolor polymeric carbon dots: synthesis, separation and polyamide-supported molecular fluorescence81
Near-infrared fluorescent molecular probes for imaging and diagnosis of nephro-urological diseases81
Structure-based de novo drug design using 3D deep generative models81
Capture of toxic gases in MOFs: SO2, H2S, NH3 and NOx81
A review on machine learning algorithms for the ionic liquid chemical space81
Defective TiO2 for photocatalytic CO2 conversion to fuels and chemicals81
The chronological evolution of small organic molecular fluorescent probes for thiols79
Realizing high hydrogen evolution activity under visible light using narrow band gap organic photocatalysts79
Phosphorescent metal complexes as theranostic anticancer agents: combining imaging and therapy in a single molecule79
Insights into alloy/oxide or hydroxide interfaces in Ni–Mo-based electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution under alkaline conditions78
A host–guest strategy for converting the photodynamic agents from a singlet oxygen generator to a superoxide radical generator78
AIE-active luminogens as highly efficient free-radical ROS photogenerator for image-guided photodynamic therapy78
A pH-responsive ultrathin Cu-based nanoplatform for specific photothermal and chemodynamic synergistic therapy78
Chiral assembly of organic luminogens with aggregation-induced emission77
Accelerated reactions of amines with carbon dioxide driven by superacid at the microdroplet interface76
Tale of the Breslow intermediate, a central player in N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis: then and now76
A field guide to flow chemistry for synthetic organic chemists76
Perspective on intermetallics towards efficient electrocatalytic water-splitting75
Prediction and mitigation of mutation threats to COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies75
Site-selective functionalization of remote aliphatic C–H bonds via C–H metallation75
Recent advances in activity-based probes (ABPs) and affinity-based probes (AfBPs) for profiling of enzymes75
Natural product drug discovery in the artificial intelligence era75
Regio-selectivity prediction with a machine-learned reaction representation and on-the-fly quantum mechanical descriptors74
Perovskite indoor photovoltaics: opportunity and challenges74
Choosing the right molecular machine learning potential74
DNA nanostructure-based nucleic acid probes: construction and biological applications74
2D framework materials for energy applications73
Constructing nitrided interfaces for stabilizing Li metal electrodes in liquid electrolytes72
Universal and high-fidelity DNA single nucleotide polymorphism detection based on a CRISPR/Cas12a biochip72
Mangana(iii/iv)electro-catalyzed C(sp3)–H azidation71
Near-infrared fluorescent probes: a next-generation tool for protein-labeling applications71
AlphaFold accelerates artificial intelligence powered drug discovery: efficient discovery of a novel CDK20 small molecule inhibitor71
Single-atom nickel terminating sp2 and sp3 nitride in polymeric carbon nitride for visible-light photocatalytic overall water splitting70
Purely organic light-harvesting phosphorescence energy transfer by β-cyclodextrin pseudorotaxane for mitochondria targeted imaging70
A general electron donor–acceptor complex for photoactivation of arenes via thianthrenation70
An amplification-free ultra-sensitive electrochemical CRISPR/Cas biosensor for drug-resistant bacteria detection70
Hybridized local and charge-transfer excited state fluorophores enabling organic light-emitting diodes with record high efficiencies close to 20%69
Photoredox catalysis on unactivated substrates with strongly reducing iridium photosensitizers68
Boosting the electrocatalytic performance of NiFe layered double hydroxides for the oxygen evolution reaction by exposing the highly active edge plane (012)68
A carbonyl-rich covalent organic framework as a high-performance cathode material for aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries67
NIR TADF emitters and OLEDs: challenges, progress, and perspectives67
Self-charging power system for distributed energy: beyond the energy storage unit67
Mitigation of Jahn–Teller distortion and Na+/vacancy ordering in a distorted manganese oxide cathode material by Li substitution66
Supramolecular strategies in artificial photosynthesis66
Aggregation caused quenching to aggregation induced emission transformation: a precise tuning based on BN-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons toward subcellular organelle specific imaging66
Hierarchical self-assembly into chiral nanostructures66
Recent advances in noble metal complex based photodynamic therapy65
Transition metal-catalyzed organic reactions in undivided electrochemical cells65
PIGNet: a physics-informed deep learning model toward generalized drug–target interaction predictions64
RAFT-mediated polymerization-induced self-assembly (RAFT-PISA): current status and future directions63
Towards the practical application of Zn metal anodes for mild aqueous rechargeable Zn batteries63
Enzyme-activatable fluorescent probes for β-galactosidase: from design to biological applications63
New directions of activity-based sensing for in vivo NIR imaging62
Low power threshold photochemical upconversion using a zirconium(iv) LMCT photosensitizer62
Single-ion conducting polymer electrolytes as a key jigsaw piece for next-generation battery applications62
The atomic-level regulation of single-atom site catalysts for the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction62
Facile synthesis of axially chiral styrene-type carboxylic acids via palladium-catalyzed asymmetric C–H activation62
Molecular mechanism of inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 cell entry facilitator TMPRSS2 with camostat and nafamostat62
Supramolecular assembly confined purely organic room temperature phosphorescence and its biological imaging61
(Hetero)arene-fused boroles: a broad spectrum of applications61
Metal oxyhalides: an emerging family of nonlinear optical materials61
Three-component three-bond forming cascade via palladium photoredox catalysis61
Asymmetric transformations from sulfoxonium ylides61
Self-assembled metallasupramolecular cages towards light harvesting systems for oxidative cyclization61
Mechanochemical activation of disulfide-based multifunctional polymers for theranostic drug release61
Electrooxidative dearomatization of biaryls: synthesis of tri- and difluoromethylated spiro[5.5]trienones61
Retrosynthetic accessibility score (RAscore) – rapid machine learned synthesizability classification from AI driven retrosynthetic planning60
Generating 3D molecules conditional on receptor binding sites with deep generative models60
Main group bimetallic partnerships for cooperative catalysis60
Polymers as advanced antibacterial and antibiofilm agents for direct and combination therapies60
Intrinsic activity modulation and structural design of NiFe alloy catalysts for an efficient oxygen evolution reaction60
Nanofluidic osmotic power generators – advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting60
Beyond generative models: superfast traversal, optimization, novelty, exploration and discovery (STONED) algorithm for molecules using SELFIES59
Single-molecule magnets beyond a single lanthanide ion: the art of coupling59
On the location of Lewis acidic aluminum in zeolite mordenite and the role of framework-associated aluminum in mediating the switch between Brønsted and Lewis acidity59
EDOT-based conjugated polymers accessed via C–H direct arylation for efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production59
All-in-one mitochondria-targeted NIR-II fluorophores for cancer therapy and imaging59
Machine learning designs non-hemolytic antimicrobial peptides59
CsPbBr3–CdS heterostructure: stabilizing perovskite nanocrystals for photocatalysis58
Synergetic stability enhancement with magnesium and calcium ion substitution for Ni/Mn-based P2-type sodium-ion battery cathodes57
Activation of apoptosis by rationally constructing NIR amphiphilic AIEgens: surmounting the shackle of mitochondrial membrane potential for amplified tumor ablation56
Revisiting the adhesion mechanism of mussel-inspired chemistry56
Fine-tuning the spike: role of the nature and topology of the glycan shield in the structure and dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 S56
A molecular recognition platform for the simultaneous sensing of diverse chemical weapons56
Peptide-based inhibitors of protein–protein interactions: biophysical, structural and cellular consequences of introducing a constraint55
High-performance polymer field-effect transistors: from the perspective of multi-level microstructures55
Rationally designed Ru(ii)-metallacycle chemo-phototheranostic that emits beyond 1000 nm55
Fluorescent probes for visualizing ROS-associated proteins in disease55
Combining machine learning and high-throughput experimentation to discover photocatalytically active organic molecules55
Regiodivergent sulfonylarylation of 1,3-enynes via nickel/photoredox dual catalysis55
Acid-triggered interlayer sliding of two-dimensional copper(i)–organic frameworks: more metal sites for catalysis54
Rapid and ultrasensitive electrochemical detection of circulating tumor DNA by hybridization on the network of gold-coated magnetic nanoparticles54
Enantioselective palladaelectro-catalyzed C–H olefinations and allylations for N–C axial chirality54
Discovery of SARS-CoV-2 Mpro peptide inhibitors from modelling substrate and ligand binding54
Color-tunable persistent luminescence in 1D zinc–organic halide microcrystals for single-component white light and temperature-gating optical waveguides54
Defect engineering in semiconductor-based SERS53
Synthesis of an AIEgen functionalized cucurbit[7]uril for subcellular bioimaging and synergistic photodynamic therapy and supramolecular chemotherapy53
Electrooxidative palladium- and enantioselective rhodium-catalyzed [3 + 2] spiroannulations53
Reaction-based machine learning representations for predicting the enantioselectivity of organocatalysts53
Click activated protodrugs against cancer increase the therapeutic potential of chemotherapy through local capture and activation53
Rational design of iridium–porphyrin conjugates for novel synergistic photodynamic and photothermal therapy anticancer agents53
Asymmetric synthesis of N–N axially chiral compounds via organocatalytic atroposelective N-acylation53
Synthesis and enantioseparation of chiral Au13 nanoclusters protected by bis-N-heterocyclic carbene ligands53
Recent progress on MOF-based optical sensors for VOC sensing52
Real-time prediction of 1H and 13C chemical shifts with DFT accuracy using a 3D graph neural network52
Boronic acid based dynamic click chemistry: recent advances and emergent applications52
Decarboxylative 1,4-carbocyanation of 1,3-enynes to access tetra-substituted allenes via copper/photoredox dual catalysis52
Template-assisted self-assembly of achiral plasmonic nanoparticles into chiral structures52
Emergent synthetic methods for the modular advancement of sp3-rich fragments52
Endowing matrix-free carbon dots with color-tunable ultralong phosphorescence by self-doping52
Controlling ultrasmall gold nanoparticles with atomic precision51
Organothianthrenium salts: synthesis and utilization51
Rational incorporation of defects within metal–organic frameworks generates highly active electrocatalytic sites51
IPr# – highly hindered, broadly applicable N-heterocyclic carbenes51
Sensitization-initiated electron transfer via upconversion: mechanism and photocatalytic applications51
Inorganic–inorganic nanohybrids for drug delivery, imaging and photo-therapy: recent developments and future scope50
Redox dyshomeostasis strategy for tumor therapy based on nanomaterials chemistry50
Surface modification of liquid metal as an effective approach for deformable electronics and energy devices50
Recent progress in the improvement of hydrothermal stability of zeolites50
Alchemical absolute protein–ligand binding free energies for drug design50
Porphyrin-based donor–acceptor COFs as efficient and reusable photocatalysts for PET-RAFT polymerization under broad spectrum excitation50
Molecular control over vitrimer-like mechanics – tuneable dynamic motifs based on the Hammett equation in polyimine materials50
Supramolecular chemistry in lipid bilayer membranes49
Identifying key mononuclear Fe species for low-temperature methane oxidation49
Proton-conductive coordination polymer glass for solid-state anhydrous proton batteries49
Turning waste into wealth: facile and green synthesis of carbon nanodots from pollutants and applications to bioimaging49
Single-atom catalysts for high-energy rechargeable batteries48
Amplified detection of nucleic acids and proteins using an isothermal proximity CRISPR Cas12a assay48
Uncommon carbene insertion reactions48
Using fluorene to lock electronically active moieties in thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for high-performance non-doped organic light-emitting diodes with suppressed roll-off48
Bicyclobutanes: from curiosities to versatile reagents and covalent warheads48
The construction of a two-dimensional organic–inorganic hybrid double perovskite ferroelastic with a high Tc and narrow band gap47
Phase separation of p53 precedes aggregation and is affected by oncogenic mutations and ligands47
Stimulus-responsive self-assembled prodrugs in cancer therapy47
Photocatalytic C(sp3) radical generationviaC–H, C–C, and C–X bond cleavage47
Recent developments in chemical conjugation strategies targeting native amino acids in proteins and their applications in antibody–drug conjugates47
Expeditious synthesis of aromatic-free piperidinium-functionalized polyethylene as alkaline anion exchange membranes47
Aggregation-induced delayed fluorescence luminogens: the innovation of purely organic emitters for aqueous electrochemiluminescence47
Holmium(iii) molecular nanomagnets for optical thermometry exploring the luminescence re-absorption effect47
Recent progress in the shape deformation of polymeric hydrogels from memory to actuation47
Highly selective synthesis and near-infrared photothermal conversion of metalla-Borromean ring and [2]catenane assemblies47
Functional group divergence and the structural basis of acridine photocatalysis revealed by direct decarboxysulfonylation47
Inhibitor binding influences the protonation states of histidines in SARS-CoV-2 main protease46
Olefin metathesis: what have we learned about homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts from surface organometallic chemistry?46
By-design molecular architecturesviaalkyne metathesis46
Selective adsorptive separation of cyclohexane over benzene using thienothiophene cages46
Construction of isostructural hydrogen-bonded organic frameworks: limitations and possibilities of pore expansion46
Halogen bonding and chalcogen bonding mediated sensing46
Towards the stable chelation of radium for biomedical applications with an 18-membered macrocyclic ligand46
Model agnostic generation of counterfactual explanations for molecules46
NHC and visible light-mediated photoredox co-catalyzed 1,4-sulfonylacylation of 1,3-enynes for tetrasubstituted allenyl ketones46
Phenazines as model low-midpoint potential electron shuttles for photosynthetic bioelectrochemical systems46
Machine learning of solvent effects on molecular spectra and reactions46
Design of well-defined shell–core covalent organic frameworks/metal sulfide as an efficient Z-scheme heterojunction for photocatalytic water splitting46
Automation isn't automatic46
Improving the intrinsic activity of electrocatalysts for sustainable energy conversion: where are we and where can we go?46
Regulation of redox balance using a biocompatible nanoplatform enhances phototherapy efficacy and suppresses tumor metastasis46
Recent development and applications of semipinacol rearrangement reactions46
How many water molecules are needed to solvate one?46
Isomer-dependent catalytic pyrolysis mechanism of the lignin model compounds catechol, resorcinol and hydroquinone46
Atroposelective synthesis of N-aryl peptoid atropisomers via a palladium(ii)-catalyzed asymmetric C–H alkynylation strategy45
Near-infrared fluorescent probe for hydrogen sulfide: high-fidelity ferroptosis evaluation in vivo during stroke45
Divergent reactivity of sulfinates with pyridinium salts based on one-versustwo-electron pathways45
BonDNet: a graph neural network for the prediction of bond dissociation energies for charged molecules45
Three-dimensional electron diffraction for porous crystalline materials: structural determination and beyond45
Photo-modulated wide-spectrum chromism in Eu3+ and Eu3+/Tb3+ photochromic coordination polymer gels: application in decoding secret information45
Photoredox-catalyzed aminofluorosulfonylation of unactivated olefins45
Thermodynamics and kinetics of the amyloid-β peptide revealed by Markov state models based on MD data in agreement with experiment44
Non-flammable, dilute, and hydrous organic electrolytes for reversible Zn batteries44
Suzuki-type cross-coupling of alkyl trifluoroborates with acid fluoride enabled by NHC/photoredox dual catalysis44
The electrostatic origins of specific ion effects: quantifying the Hofmeister series for anions44
On the formation of hydrogen peroxide in water microdroplets44
Phosphorus-ylides: powerful substituents for the stabilization of reactive main group compounds44
Thermo- and light-triggered reversible interconversion of dysprosium–anthracene complexes and their responsive optical, magnetic and dielectric properties44
Developing better ester- and ether-based electrolytes for potassium-ion batteries44
The in situ study of surface species and structures of oxide-derived copper catalysts for electrochemical CO2 reduction44
Room-temperature ferroelectric and ferroelastic orders coexisting in a new tetrafluoroborate-based perovskite43
Ligand-controlled and nanoconfinement-boosted luminescence employing Pt(ii) and Pd(ii) complexes: from color-tunable aggregation-enhanced dual emitters towards self-referenced ox43
A feasible approach for automatically differentiable unitary coupled-cluster on quantum computers43
Electrochemical oxidation of molecular nitrogen to nitric acid – towards a molecular level understanding of the challenges43
C4-arylation and domino C4-arylation/3,2-carbonyl migration of indoles by tuning Pd catalytic modes: Pd(i)–Pd(ii) catalysis vs. Pd(ii) catalysis43
Is Cu instability during the CO2 reduction reaction governed by the applied potential or the local CO concentration?43
How many more polymorphs of ROY remain undiscovered43
Beyond structural motifs: the frontier of actinide-containing metal–organic frameworks43
Evaluation of fully-functionalized diazirine tags for chemical proteomic applications43
Highly contorted superhelicene hits near-infrared circularly polarized luminescence43
Halogen bonding in polymer science: towards new smart materials43
A ground-state-dominated magnetic field effect on the luminescence of stable organic radicals43
Efficient access to materials-oriented aromatic alkynes via the mechanochemical Sonogashira coupling of solid aryl halides with large polycyclic conjugated systems43
Reversible inhibition of the oxidase-like activity of Fe single-atom nanozymes for drug detection43
Challenges and prospects of ambient hybrid solar cell applications43
Oxidative additions of alkynyl/vinyl iodides to gold and gold-catalyzed vinylation reactions triggered by the MeDalphos ligand42
Tailoring Lewis/Brønsted acid properties of MOF nodes via hydrothermal and solvothermal synthesis: simple approach with exceptional catalytic implications42
Theoretically probing the possible degradation mechanisms of an FeNC catalyst during the oxygen reduction reaction42
A cell membrane-targeting AIE photosensitizer as a necroptosis inducer for boosting cancer theranostics42
Recent advances and perspectives on supramolecular radical cages42
The 100 facets of the Passerini reaction42
A graph representation of molecular ensembles for polymer property prediction42
Surface site density and utilization of platinum group metal (PGM)-free Fe–NC and FeNi–NC electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction42
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