OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of ACS Catalysis is 120. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Issue Publication Information	374
Issue Editorial Masthead	357
Issue Editorial Masthead	332
Correction to “Catalytic C(β)–O Bond Cleavage of Lignin in a One-Step Reaction Enabled by a Spin-Center Shift”	330
Electrochemical NADH Regeneration Mediated by Pyridine Amidate Iridium Complexes Interconverting 1,4- and 1,6-NADH	324
Issue Editorial Masthead	313
Issue Editorial Masthead	307
Issue Publication Information	303
Chiral Phosphate-Catalyzed Enantiodivergent Oxa-Diels–Alder Reaction of Trifluoropyruvate and Simple Dienes	296
In₂Cu₃O₆ Nanocluster in Siliceous Zeolite for Efficient CO₂ Methanation	296
Bifunctional NHC-Promoted C2-Alkylation of Pyridine via Ni–Al Bimetallic-Catalyzed Hydroarylation of Unactivated Alkenes	264
Versatile and Facile One-Pot Biosynthesis for Amides and Carboxylic Acids in E. coli by Engineering Auxin Pathways of Plant Microbiomes	259
Mechanistic Investigation into Copper(I) Hydride Catalyzed Formic Acid Dehydrogenation	257
Recent Advances in Theoretical Studies on Cu-Mediated Bond Formation Mechanisms Involving Radicals	241
Correction to “Facile Enzymatic Synthesis of Diverse Naturally Occurring β-d-Mannopyranosides Catalyzed by Glycoside Phosphorylases”	240
Ceria Incorporation in Sinter-Resistant Platinum-Based Catalysts	227
Copper(I)-Catalyzed Asymmetric Synthesis of α-Allenylamines and β-Lactams through Regioselective Mannich-Type Reactions	225
Simple Model and Spectral Analysis for a Fluxional Catalyst: Intermediate Abundances, Pathway Fluxes, Rates, and Transients	221
Axially Chiral 2-Hydroxybiaryls by Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective C–H Activation	219
Correction to “Photochemical Reductive Carboxylation of N-Benzoyl Imines with Oxalate Accelerated by Formation of EDA Complexes”	218
Nonlinear Acid Promotion of Oxidation Reactions by Mononuclear Nonheme Iron(III)-Aqua Complexes	214
Synergistic Catalyst–Mediator Pairings for Electroreductive Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions	213
Robust Bio-derived Polyoxometalate Hybrid for Selective Aerobic Oxidation of Benzylic C(sp³)–H Bonds	213
Elucidating the Pivotal Role of Acid-Catalyzed Hydration in Electrochemical Carbon Corrosion	209
Unveiling the Pivotal Role of Ce Coordination Structures and Their Surface Arrangements in Governing 2-Cyanopyridine Hydrolysis for Direct Dimethyl Carbonate Synthesis from CO₂ and Methanol	207

Keep the Ligands: Potential Benefits for Fuel Cell Performance	203
Geometrically Constrained Cofacial Bi-Titanium Olefin Polymerization Catalysts: Tuning and Enhancing Comonomer Incorporation Density	201
Enantioselective Transformation of Hydrazones via Remote NHC Catalysis: Activation Across C═N and N–N Bonds	199
Correction to “Influence of Carbon Support on the Pyrolysis of Cobalt Phthalocyanine for the Efficient Electroreduction of CO₂”	199
Correction to “Reductive Enzyme Cascades for Valorization of Polyethylene Terephthalate Deconstruction Products”	197
Straightforward Access to High-Performance Organometallic Catalysts by Fluoride Activation: Proof of Principle on Asymmetric Cyanation, Asymmetric Michael Addition, CO₂ Addition to Epoxide,	196
Regioselective Intermolecular Hydroamination of Unactivated Alkenes: “Co–H” Enabled Remote Functionalization	192
Valorization of Waste Polyester for 1,4-Cyclohexanedimethanol Production	192
Engineering of a Reductive Aminase to Enable the Synthesis of a Key Intermediate to a CDK 2/4/6 Inhibitor	185
Regulation of Oxygen Activation Pathways to Optimize Photocatalytic Methane Oxidative Coupling Selectivity	184
Programmable Enzymatic Toolbox for the Assembly of Fucosylated Chondroitin Derivatives	184
Water-Stable Perovskite Nanocrystals to Overcome the Photocatalysis–Stability Trade-Off in Aqueous Photo-RAFT Polymerization	183
Assessing and Quantifying Thermodynamically Concomitant Degradation during Oxygen Evolution from Water on SrTiO₃	182
Metal Cations from Sacrificial Anodes Act as a Lewis Acid Co-Catalyst in Electrochemical Cross-Coupling of Aryl Bromides and Aziridines	182
Dual-Oriented Selectivity Switching for Highly Efficient Biomass Upgrading via Selective C–O Bond Activation	181
Coordination Tailoring of Epitaxial Perovskite-Derived Iron Oxide Films for Efficient Water Oxidation Electrocatalysis	180
Communication Breakdown: Dissecting the COM Interfaces between the Subunits of Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetases	180
Issue Publication Information	179
Efficient Reductive Amination of Furfural to a Primary Amine on a Pt/TiO₂ Catalyst: A Manifestation of the Nanocluster Proximity Effect	177
Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Evolution over Crystalline Cu₂Sn_0.38Ge_0.62S₃ Particles Grown from LiCl-RbCl Flux	173
Sulfonium Ylide Enabled, Copper-Catalyzed Difluoromethylation, Monofluoromethylation, and Monofluoroalkylation of Lithium Aryl ⁿButyl Borates	173
Ca Cations Impact the Local Environment inside HZSM-5 Pores during the Methanol-to-Hydrocarbons Reaction	172
In Situ SERS Probing the Effect of Additional Metals on Pt-Based Ternary Alloys toward Improving ORR Performance	168
Highly Efficient Rutile TiO₂ Endowed by Electron-Capturing Center and Plasma Effect for Enhanced Solar Water Splitting	166
Understanding the Role of the Surface Acidity of MFI Zeolites during LDPE Cracking: Decomposition Temperature and Product Distribution	166
Asymmetric Remote meta-C–H Activation Controlled by a Chiral Ligand	165
Halloysite Clay Nanotubes for Catalytic Conversion of Biomass: Synergy between Computational Modeling and Experimental Studies	163
Surface Diffusion Barriers and Catalytic Activity Driven by Terminal Groups at Zeolite Catalysts	161
P,N Ligand in Ni-Catalyzed Cross-Coupling Reactions: A Promising Tool for π-Functionalization	159
Amination of a Green Solvent via Immobilized Biocatalysis for the Synthesis of Nemtabrutinib	158
Breaking the Structure–Activity Relationship in Toluene Hydrogenation Catalysis by Designing Heteroatom Ensembles Based on a Single-Atom Alloying Approach	158
Deactivation by Potassium Accumulation on a Pt/TiO₂ Bifunctional Catalyst for Biomass Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis	157
Designing Highly Active and Stable Ni-Exsolved LaMnO₃ Perovskite Catalysts for Dry Reforming of Methane via Ca Substitution	154
Preparation of a Water–Gas Shift Database to Evaluate the Performance of Noble Metal Catalysts Using Theory-Guided Machine Learning	154
Triethoxysilane-Catalyzed Single and Sequential Regioselective Hydroboration of Terminal Alkynes: Sustainable Access to E-Alkenylboronate and Alkyl Gem-Diboronate Esters by Non-Covalent	154
Relation between Water Oxidation Activity and Coordination Environment of C,N-Coordinated Mononuclear Co Catalyst	154
Pd(0)-Catalyzed Diastereoselective and Enantioselective Intermolecular Heck–Miyaura Borylation of Internal Enamides for the β-Aminoboronate Ester Synthesis	153
Catalyst Design for Selective Hydrogenation of Benzene to Cyclohexene through Density Functional Theory and Microkinetic Modeling	153
Design and Implementation of a CO₂ Reduction Catalyst with an Internal Electron Transfer Mediator: Improving Turnover Frequency by More than 10-Fold	153
Asymmetric Hydroxymethylative Etherification of 1,3-Dienes with Isatins and Alcohols via Pd(0)-π-Lewis Base Catalysis	152
Regioselective Plasmon-Driven Decarboxylation of Mercaptobenzoic Acids Triggered by Distinct Reactive Oxygen Species	151
Recent Advances in Furfural Reduction via Electro- And Photocatalysis: From Mechanism to Catalyst Design	151
Aerobic Alcohol Oxidation with a Cerium–Phenanthrolinedione Complex: A Mimic of Lanthanide-Based Methanol Dehydrogenase	150
Cooperative Adsorption: Solvating the Hofmann Elimination of Alkylamines	149
Elucidating Pt-Based Nanocomposite Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Rotating Disk Electrode and Gas Diffusion Electrode Measurements	149
Hydrogen Adsorption, Reactivity, and Catalysis on Colloidal Iron Carbide Nanoparticles	148
Catalyst Deactivation via Rhodium–Support Interactions under High-Temperature Oxidizing Conditions: A Comparative Study on Hexaaluminates versus Al₂O₃	148
Ni-Catalyzed Cyanation of (Hetero)aryl Halides with Acetonitrile as Cyano Source	147
Metal-Mediated Catalytic Polarization Transfer from para Hydrogen to 3,5-Dihalogenated Pyridines	145
Insights into Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction on Metallic and Oxidized Tin Using Grand-Canonical DFT and In Situ ATR-SEIRA Spectroscopy	145

Unusual Facet-Dependent Sintering in Pd–TiO₂ Catalysts Revealed by Theory and Experiment	144
Palladium-Catalyzed Enantioselective Intramolecular Heck Reaction to Access Chiral C3-Tertiary Indolines	144
Highly Efficient Layered Double Hydroxide-Derived Bimetallic Cu–Co Alloy Catalysts for the Reverse Water–Gas Shift Reaction	141
Subnano-FeO_x Clusters Anchored in an Ultrathin Amorphous Al₂O₃ Nanosheet for Styrene Epoxidation	139
Frustrated Lewis-Pair Catalyst Based on Re Single Atoms for Efficient Solar-Driven CO₂ Conversion	138
Electrocatalytic Water Oxidation by a Trinuclear Copper(II) Complex	138
Inducing Microstrain in Electrodeposited Pt through Polymer Addition for Highly Active Oxygen Reduction Catalysis	137
Divergent and Synergistic Photocatalysis: Hydro- and Oxoalkylation of Vinyl Arenes for the Stereoselective Synthesis of Cyclopentanols via a Formal [4+1]-Annulation of 1,3-Dicarbonyls	137
Graphene-Isolated Satellite Nanostructure Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Reveals the Critical Role of Different Intermediates on the Oxygen Reduction Reaction	136
Dynamic Cu⁰/Cu⁺ Interface Promotes Acidic CO₂ Electroreduction	136
Controlled Synthesis of Palladium Phosphides with Tunable Crystal Phases and Their Sulfur-Tolerant Performance	136
Computational Screening of Single and Di-Atom Catalysts for Electrochemical CO₂ Reduction	136
Structural Effects of FeN₄ Active Sites Surrounded by Fourteen-Membered Ring Ligands on Oxygen Reduction Reaction Activity and Durability	136
Heterometallic Pd^II–Cl–Cu^I Catalyst for Efficient Hydrolysis of β-1,4-Glycosidic Bonds in 1-Butyl-3-methylimidazolium Chloride	134
Fast and Selective β-C–H Borylation of N-Heterocycles with a Supramolecular Iridium Catalyst: Circumventing Deactivation Pathways and Mechanistic Insights	133
Automated Mechanism Generation Using Linear Scaling Relationships and Sensitivity Analyses Applied to Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane	133
Functional and Structural Analyses of a Highly Multifunctional Enzyme TM1270 from the Hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritima	133
Ultrathin and Conformal TiO_x Overlayers on WO₃ Photoelectrodes for Simultaneous Surface Trap Passivation and Heterojunction Formation	132
“Anion-Switchable” Pincer-Mn(I) Catalyst for the Reductive N-Methylation of Amines with Formic Acid and CO₂	131
Cobalt-Molybdenum Oxides for Effective Coupling of Ethane Activation and Carbon Dioxide Reduction Catalysis	130
Selective and Efficient Detoxification of Sulfur Mustard Gas Analogues with H₂O₂ Using Bioinspired Mo and W Dithiolene Catalysts	130
Dual Photoredox and Copper Catalysis: Enantioselective 1,2-Amidocyanation of 1,3-Dienes	130
Mechanism of Alternating Poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) Formation by Polymerization of (S)- and (R)-3-Methyl Glycolide Using an Enantiopure Aluminum Complex	127
Theory-Guided Enhancement of CO₂ Reduction to Ethanol on Ag–Cu Tandem Catalysts via Particle-Size Effects	127
Unfolding the Role of B Site-Selective Doping of Aliovalent Cations on Enhancing Sacrificial Visible Light-Induced Photocatalytic H₂ and O₂ Evolution over BaTaO₂	126
Polarization Manipulation of NiO Nanosheets Engineered with Fe/Pt Single Atoms for High-Performance Electrocatalytic Overall Alkaline Seawater Splitting	126
Regulating the Oxygen Vacancy of 3R-Phase Iridium Oxide by Loading Platinum Nanoparticles for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution	126
Structural Evolution of Oxide-Derived Nanostructured Silver Electrocatalysts during CO₂ Electroreduction	125
Synergistic Catalytic Ozonation Mediated by Dual Active Sites of Oxygen Vacancies and Defects in Biomass-Derived Composites for Long-Lasting Water Decontamination	125
Variable Metal Chelation Modes and Activation Sequence in Pd-Catalyzed B–H Poly-arylation of Carboranes	124
Integrated CO₂ Capture and Conversion to Methanol Leveraged by the Transfer Hydrogenation Approach	124
Hydrogen-Bonding Ability of Noyori–Ikariya Catalysts Enables Stereoselective Access to CF₃-Substituted syn-1,2-Diols via Dynamic Kinetic Resolution	124
Stabilizing Isolated Rhodium Cations by MFI Zeolite for Heterogeneous Methanol Carbonylation	124
Nickel-Catalyzed Mono- and Dihydrosilylation of Aliphatic Alkynes in Aqueous and Aerobic Conditions	123
Engineering Morphology and Ni Substitution of Ni_xCo_3–xO₄ Spinel Oxides to Promote Catalytic Combustion of Ethane: Elucidating the Influence of Oxygen Def	123
Chiral Hypervalent Bromine(III) (Bromonium Salt): Hydrogen- and Halogen-Bonding Bifunctional Asymmetric Catalysis by Diaryl-λ³-bromanes	123
Unraveling the Oxygen Vacancy Site Mechanism of a Self-Assembly Hybrid Catalyst for Efficient Alkaline Water Oxidation	122
Investigations via Kinetics and Multivariate Linear Regression Models of the Mechanism and Origins of Regioselectivity in a Palladium-Catalyzed Aryne Annulation	122
Direct Alkylation of Glycine Derivatives via Photoinduced Palladium Catalysis, Utilizing Intermolecular Hydrogen Atom Transfer Mediated by Alkyl Radicals	121
What Controls Direct Hole-Mediated Oxidation Kinetics in a Carbon Nitride-Based Photocatalytic System: A Model Study for Aqueous Aromatic Compounds	121
Topology of DNA G-Quadruplexes Can Be Harnessed in Holliday Junction-Based DNA Suprastructures to Control and Optimize Their Biocatalytic Properties	120
Cobalt-Catalyzed Asymmetric Dearomative [3 + 2] Annulation of Quinolines, Isoquinolines, and Pyridines	120
Palladium-Catalyzed Modular Synthesis of Enantioenriched Pyridohelicenes through Double Imidoylative Cyclization	120
Design, Synthesis, and Insights into the Redox Mechanism of Highly Efficient One-Pot Cu-ZSM-5 Catalysts for the Reduction of NO_x by NH₃-SCR at Low Temperatures	120
Mechanistic Insights into Superoxide Dismutation Driven by Dinuclear Manganese Complexes: The Role of the Mn₂-Core	120