Chem

Papers
(The TQCC of Chem is 25. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
In this issue500
In This Issue341
Obtaining clean hydrogen from waste plastics314
Repurposing myoglobin into an abiological asymmetric ketoreductase281
Catalyst: Systems chemistry links reactions to molecular function276
A bulky 1,4,7-triazacyclononane and acetonitrile, a Goldilocks system for probing the role of NiIII and NiI centers in cross-coupling catalysis274
Concise chemoenzymatic synthesis of N-glycans265
Weaving DNA strands to control energy220
Harnessing the reactivity of borenium for methane activation217
Accessing aliphatic alcohols for metallaphotoredox catalyzed C(sp3)-arylation216
Growing twisted bilayer graphene at small angles203
Economical and efficient access to polyselenophene derivatives193
Reactive bonds for closed-loop chemical processing of polyethylene mimics181
Ion-pair effects in photoredox chemistry177
Perrhenate recognition within a superphane cavity175
In this issue174
Dual catalysis by homogeneous/heterogeneous ruthenium species163
Quantum-dot-photocatalyzed production of allylic C–C products with hydrogen evolution160
In this issue150
Stereoselective synthesis of topologically chiral molecular entanglements150
Elucidating non-radiative decay in near-infrared lumiphores: Leveraging new design principles to develop a telecom band organic dye laser148
Machine learning photodynamics uncover blocked non-radiative mechanisms in aggregation-induced emission147
Visible-light-induced coupling of carboxylic acids with alcohols/amines via a phosphorous linchpin strategy144
Leukocyte-nanomedicine system for targeted delivery and precise theragnostics144
Computational de novo protein design: From secondary to primary, then toward tertiary structures142
Deciphering Catalytic Selectivity on Uneven Terraces126
New insight into carrier transport in 2D layered perovskites120
Perovskite intermediate phases fundamentally address the urgent stability issue118
B(C6F5)3-catalyzed selective C–H chalcogenation of arenes and heteroarenes116
From carbon superbases to superacids115
Designing carbon dots for enhanced photo-catalysis: Challenges and opportunities115
In situ probing the origin of interfacial instability of Na metal anode113
Reaction: Is a circular economy for chemicals and materials possible?113
Championing systems thinking to create a circular economy of chemicals113
Making monodispersed ultralong graphene nanoribbons with an accelerated iterative approach111
Ampere-level CO2-to-formate electrosynthesis using highly exposed bismuth(110) facets modified with sulfur-anchored sodium cations109
The legacy of Professor Li-Xin Dai: Organometallic and asymmetric catalysis109
Organic charge-transfer complex induces chemoselective decarboxylation to aryl radicals for general functionalization109
Single-step conversion of wood lignin into phenolic amines108
Camphor the polymerization; stay for the depolymerization108
In this issue107
Hierarchical toughening: A step toward matching the complexity of biological materials106
One ring to rule them all105
Grinding the way to enantiopurification104
Divergent synthesis of conidiogenones B–F and 12β-hydroxyconidiogenone C103
Variable nanosheets for highly efficient oxygen evolution reaction102
Anchoring the AIEgen by Zr clusters in metal-organic gel for efficient X-ray detection and imaging101
Lanthanide luminescence from supramolecular hydrogels consisting of bio-conjugated picolinic-acid-based guanosine quadruplexes101
Measuring solubility automatically with vision100
Construction of a caged single-molecule protein with ultra-stability99
Synthesizing a nanographyne97
Three-component aminofluorination of alkenes with electronically rich amino sources95
Open-Shell Graphene Fragments95
A nanopore distance away from next-generation protein sequencing94
Reaction: Harnessing reactive oxygen species (ROS) for water purification92
Out-of-equilibrium chemical logic systems92
Exploiting charged groups for metal-catalyzed meta-C–H functionalization of arenes91
Thermosetting supramolecular polymerization of compartmentalized DNA fibers with stereo sequence and length control90
4-Pyridyl perfluoroalkyl sulfide as a practical nucleophilic perfluoroalkylation reagent90
A multistate memory cell based on electrochromic metallo-organic assemblies90
Selective tumor targeting enabled by picomolar fibroblast activation protein inhibitors isolated from a DNA-encoded affinity maturation library88
Photothermal tandem catalysis for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol88
Bulk Grain-Boundary Materials from Nanocrystals88
Element-specific electronic and structural dynamics using transient XUV and soft X-ray spectroscopy85
Mucin-mimetic glycan arrays integrating machine learning for analyzing receptor pattern recognition by influenza A viruses85
Anion-coordination- and π-π-stacking-interaction-driven assembly of a complex Frank-Kasper structure84
Phonon-promoted superionic conduction in fluorite-structured compounds84
Multiscale design of biological meta-composites with omnidirectional crack resistance84
Catalytic cross-electrophile coupling of aryl chlorides with unactivated alkyl chlorides: The synergy of iron and Li84
Reinforced double-threaded slide-ring networks for accelerated hydrogel discovery and 3D printing82
Deciphering nickel-catalyzed electrochemical ammonia synthesis from nitric oxide82
Probing enantioinduction in confined chiral spaces through asymmetric oxime reductions81
Terahertz-Raman spectroscopy for in situ benchtop monitoring of changes to extended, supramolecular structure in milling mechanochemistry79
Strong uranium-phosphorus antiferromagnetic exchange coupling in a crystalline diphosphorus radical trianion actinide complex77
Selective hydrogenation catalysis enabled by nanoscale galvanic reactions76
Quantity effect of heteroatom incorporation on the oxygen evolution mechanism in ruthenium oxide76
One-pot catalytic conversion of polyethylene wastes to gasoline through a dual-catalyst system76
Excited-state protonation and reduction enables the umpolung Birch reduction of naphthalenes76
Nanocellulose: New horizons in organic chemistry and beyond75
In this issue74
Charge delocalization and global aromaticity in a partially fused 12-porphyrin nanoring73
Oscillatory adaptive catalysis: Intramolecular chain shuttling regulated by stereo-autocorrection in stereoselective polymerization of lactide73
A high-throughput workflow to analyze sequence-conformation relationships and explore hydrophobic patterning in disordered peptoids73
Persistent and Stable Organic Radicals: Design, Synthesis, and Applications72
Quantifying zinc and manganese reduction potentials in organic solvents72
Metalloradical activation of carbonyl azides for enantioselective radical aziridination71
2D covalent organic framework via catenation68
Run-and-halt motility of droplets in response to light67
Enhanced coherence by coupling spins through a delocalized π-system: Vanadyl porphyrin dimers67
Enantioselective hydroamination of unactivated terminal alkenes67
Developing real-time mechanochromic probes for polymeric materials66
Precision in protein chemical modification and total synthesis66
Porous organic polymers with heterocyclic crown ethers for selective lithium-ion capture65
A plausible prebiotic selection of ribose for RNA - formation, dynamic isolation, and nucleotide synthesis based on metal-doped-clays64
Spin-coupled electron densities of iron-sulfur cluster imaged by in situ serial Laue diffraction64
Tuning the gating energy barrier of metal-organic framework for molecular sieving64
Evolution of MOF single crystals64
In situ characterization techniques and methodologies for high-temperature electrochemistry64
Nanocomposite DNA hydrogels emerging as programmable and bioinstructive materials systems64
Reticular chemistry in action: 3D porphyrinic COFs with scu topology63
A new nexus in metal-organic frameworks63
Quasicrystal approximants in isoreticular metal-organic frameworks via Cairo pentagonal tiling62
New insights and discoveries in anion receptor chemistry61
Organo-Se BTSAs-enabled performance: From racemic and asymmetric synthesis to click chemistry application60
Computation-aided design of oxygen-ligand-steered single-atom catalysts: Sewing unzipped carbon nanotubes59
Misorientation strategy on high-entropy metal oxides for enhanced acidic oxygen evolution reaction59
Efficient earth-abundant copper photocatalysis enabled by metal-arene interaction58
Broken vows: Separation of carbene and the lone pair unleashes dicationic revelry58
Curbing pollutant CO2 by using two-dimensional MXenes and MBenes57
An angstrom-level d-spacing control of graphite oxide using organofillers for high-rate lithium storage57
Solid-state photon energy storage via reversible [2+2] cycloaddition of donor-acceptor styrylpyrylium system57
Selective hydroboration of terminal alkynes catalyzed by heterometallic clusters with uranium–metal triple bonds57
Mirror-image protein and peptide drug discovery through mirror-image phage display56
Recent research progress of all-polymer solar cells based on PSMA-type polymer acceptors56
Trapping highly reactive photoinduced charge-transfer complex between amine and imide by light56
New rhodamines with changeable π-conjugation for lengthening fluorescence wavelengths and imaging peroxynitrite55
Uncovering strong π-metal interactions on Ag and Au nanosurfaces under ambient conditions via in-situ surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy55
Biosynthesis and genetic encoding of activated nitriles for fast protein conjugation and tunable fluorogenic labeling54
Palladium/Xu-Phos-catalyzed enantioselective cascade Heck/remote C(sp2) –H alkylation reaction54
Medium-independent hydrogen atom binding isotherms of nickel oxide electrodes54
CO2-mediated oxidative dehydrogenation of propane enabled by Pt-based bimetallic catalysts54
Accelerating Li-based battery design by computationally engineering materials54
Design principle of electrocatalysts for the electrooxidation of organics54
Deciphering and modulating energetics of solvation structure enables aggressive high-voltage chemistry of Li metal batteries54
Porous materials for hydrogen storage53
Bioorthogonal click and release: A general, rapid, chemically revertible bioconjugation strategy employing enamine N-oxides53
Sequence-specific, mechanophore-free mechanochemistry of DNA53
Revealing phase evolution mechanism for stabilizing formamidinium-based lead halide perovskites by a key intermediate phase53
Sensitive short-wavelength infrared photodetection with a quinoidal ultralow band-gap n-type organic semiconductor53
Carbon nitride of five-membered rings with low optical bandgap for photoelectrochemical biosensing53
Nature-inspired synthetic oligourea foldamer channels allow water transport with high salt rejection52
Weak bonding strategies for achieving regio- and site-selective transformations51
Spatially resolved cell tagging and surfaceome labeling via targeted photocatalytic decaging51
Water-involved methane-selective catalytic oxidation by dioxygen over copper zeolites50
Universal self-driving laboratory for accelerated discovery of materials and molecules50
Artificial light-triggered smart nanochannels relying on optoionic effects50
Stabilizing the microstructure for Y6-series nonfullerene solar cells50
Experimentally modeling the emergence of prebiotically plausible phospholipid vesicles50
Generative design of de novo proteins based on secondary-structure constraints using an attention-based diffusion model50
Click chemistry in polymer science49
Reaction: Navigating the promises and perils of AI-powered drug synthesis49
Photoswitches and photochemical reactions for optically controlled phase transition and energy storage49
A Star of David [2]catenane of single handedness49
Tetragonal gyroid structure from symmetry manipulation: A brand-new member of the gyroid surface family49
Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor49
Carbohydrate amphiphiles for supramolecular biomaterials: Design, self-assembly, and applications49
An old polymer class revisited: Versatile, degradable, non-alternating polyketones49
An evolutionary algorithm for interpretable molecular representations48
In this issue48
Rapid determination of experimental sorption isotherms from non-equilibrium sorption kinetic data48
Selective nitrogen fixation via Janus C-N coupling in co-electrolysis48
Peptide self-assembly through liquid-liquid phase separation48
Polypeptide-based batteries toward sustainable and cyclic manufacturing47
Hierarchical anions at the electrode-electrolyte interface for synergized neutral water oxidation47
Liquid fuel synthesis via CO2 hydrogenation by coupling homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis47
Weaving on a molecular scale: A challenge in two dimensions46
2D conjugated metal-organic framework as a proton-electron dual conductor46
Heterogeneous manganese-oxide-catalyzed successive cleavage and functionalization of alcohols to access amides and nitriles46
Construction of a three-state responsive framework from a bistable photoswitch46
Rationally fabricating 3D porphyrinic covalent organic frameworks with scu topology as highly efficient photocatalysts45
Fertilizer and oxygen from Martian atmosphere via microwave plasma45
Non-covalent interactions of graphene surface: Mechanisms and applications45
Catalyst: The roles of chemistry in clean water for all44
Interface of biomolecular condensates modulates redox reactions44
Emissive fluoren-triangles for solid-state fluorochromism and selective gas sorption44
Iron-mediated modular decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling44
Visible-light photoredox-catalyzed selective carboxylation of C(sp3)−F bonds with CO243
Real-time observation of the dynamics of an individual rotaxane molecular shuttle using a single-molecule junction43
Switching the O–O bond-formation mechanism by controlling water activity42
From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics42
Accelerating PERx reaction enables covalent nanobodies for potent neutralization of SARS-CoV-2 and variants42
Unified sensing of the concentration and enantiomeric composition of chiral compounds with an achiral probe42
Atropisomers beyond the C–C axial chirality: Advances in catalytic asymmetric synthesis42
Cationic polaron delocalization in porphyrin nanoribbons41
Engineering couplings for exciton transport using synthetic DNA scaffolds41
Optical processes in carbon nanocolloids41
Controlled radical depolymerization: Structural differentiation and molecular weight control41
A prebiotic Krebs cycle analog generates amino acids with H2 and NH3 over nickel41
Controlled radical depolymerization: Structural differentiation and molecular weight control41
Reshaping quinolines by single-electron-transfer-triggered dearomatization41
Electrochemical CO2 reduction in membrane-electrode assemblies41
Bifunctional tandem catalytic upcycling of polyethylene to surfactant-range alkylaromatics41
ortho-Aromatic polyamides by ring-opening polymerization of N-carboxyanhydrides40
Transformative ligand effects in iron photocatalysis40
Shining light on nitrogen: Alkene amination with N-heteroaromatic radicals via energy transfer39
Development of an energy-dense and high-power Li-Cl2 battery using reversible interhalogen bonds39
The progress and challenges of tin-lead alloyed perovskites: Toward the development of large-scale all-perovskite tandem solar cells39
Fluorinating electrophilic interception in the oxidation or protonation of alkynyl tetracoordinate borons39
Efficient flow synthesis of a Star of David [2]catenane and a pentafoil knot39
Directed discovery of high-loading nanoaggregates enabled by drug-matched oligo-peptide excipients38
Intramolecular [3 + 2] annulation of allenylsilane-enes: Direct synthesis of highly strained trans-fused 5/5 ring systems38
Catalyst: Circular chemical economy: Facts, fictions, futures38
Macrocyclic ligands open new channels in electrically conductive metal-organic frameworks38
From low-res measurements to high-res insights: Revolutionizing COF structural determination38
Catalyst metal-ligand design for rapid, selective, and solventless depolymerization of Nylon-6 plastics38
Metal ions turn on a stereoselective nonenzymatic reduction of keto acids by the coenzyme NADH37
Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor37
Kinetic sieving separation of a gating macrocyclic crystal for purification of propylene37
Transfer hydroarylation of ketones using directing-group-free, unstrained alcohols37
The legacy of Ei-ichi Negishi: Eternal optimism and excellence37
Polyolefin recycling by C–C bond alumination37
Precise recognition of palladium through interlaminar chelation in a covalent organic framework36
Communication between active sites regulates heterogeneous catalysis36
Deciphering the rational design of the early transition metals for ammonia synthesis36
Advancing aromatic ketones as aryl electrophiles in versatile cross-coupling reactions35
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of nitrogen species in carbon at the ppm level35
New trends for transition metal-catalyzed ortho/ipso difunctionalizations of arenes35
In this issue35
Synthesis of polyethylene-polyacrylate block copolymers in continuous flow35
Panchromatic light-harvesting antenna by supramolecular exciton band engineering for heteromeric dye foldamer35
Acceleration of reverse intersystem crossing in multi-resonance TADF emitter35
Controlled catalyst-transfer polymerization in graphene nanoribbon synthesis34
An effective strategy to boost lattice-oxygen-mediated acidic oxygen evolution34
Evolutionary features for task-specific machine-learning applications34
In this issue34
In this issue34
Molecular freaky Friday: Polarity reversal and resorcin[4]arenes as chloride receptors34
Synthetic chemistry recreates transitional forms in prebiotic membrane evolution34
A chiral macrocycle for the stereoselective synthesis of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes and catenanes33
Tactics for uncovering intermediates in nickel Kumada cross-coupling catalysis33
Direct air capture with bis-iminoguanidines: From discovery to commercialization33
In this issue33
Methane activation by a borenium complex33
Higher-order cycloadditions in the age of catalysis33
Swapping benches from chemistry PhD student to science advisor at law firm33
In this issue33
2D/3D perovskite engineering eliminates interfacial recombination losses in hybrid perovskite solar cells33
Fast, reversible mechanochromism of regioisomeric oxazine mechanophores: Developing in situ responsive force probes for polymeric materials32
Charging processes in lithium-oxygen batteries unraveled through the lens of the distribution of relaxation times32
Modular nucleic acid scaffolds for synthesizing monodisperse and sequence-encoded antibody oligomers32
Curved plane increases the d vacancy population of Pd for green production of cyclohexanone32
Enantioselective sulfinylation of alcohols and amines by condensation with sulfinates32
Electrochemical ammonia synthesis: Mechanistic understanding and catalyst design32
In situ monitoring of mechanochemical covalent organic framework formation reveals templating effect of liquid additive32
Biomimetic synthesis of pallavicinin, neopallavicinin, pallambins A–D, pallaviambins A/B, and pallavicinolides B/C32
Synthesis of magnesium nanoparticle for NIR-II-photoacoustic-imaging-guided synergistic burst-like and H2 cancer therapy32
Inverse doping IrOx/Ti with weakened Ir-O interaction toward stable and efficient acidic oxygen evolution32
Dynamic restructuring of epitaxial Au–Cu biphasic interface for tandem CO2-to-C2+ alcohol conversion31
Catalytic strategies for upvaluing plastic wastes31
Constructing FeN4/graphitic nitrogen atomic interface for high-efficiency electrochemical CO2 reduction over a broad potential window31
Rational design of enantiomeric lead-free double perovskites by achiral-chiral cation intercalation31
Cation-exchange-upgraded nanostructures for photocatalysts31
Negating Li+ transfer barrier at solid-liquid electrolyte interface in hybrid batteries30
Discovery of the Pendulisporaceae: An extremotolerant myxobacterial family with distinct sporulation behavior and prolific specialized metabolism30
In this issue30
Combinatorial selective synthesis and excitation experiments for quantitative analysis of effects of Au on a semiconductor photocatalyst30
Creation and optimization of artificial metalloenzymes: Harnessing the power of directed evolution and beyond30
An ultra-dynamic anion-cluster-based organic framework30
From G-protein-coupled receptors to solute carriers—mass spectrometry informs dynamics, function, and regulation30
Poison to promise: The resurgence of organophosphorus fluoride chemistry30
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