OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Israel Journal of Chemistry is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fuel Cells and Biofuel Cells: From Past to Perspectives	41
Helical Chirality of Supramolecular Columns and Spheres Self‐Organizes Complex Liquid Crystals, Crystals, and Quasicrystals	38
History of Solid Polymer Electrolyte‐Based Solid‐State Lithium Metal Batteries: A Personal Account	35
Electrochemical Advances in Non‐Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries	26
Indium Selenide (In₂Se₃) – An Emerging Van‐der‐Waals Material for Photodetection and Non‐Volatile Memory Applications	21
Chiroptical Properties of Mechanically Interlocked Molecules	21
The Path to Natural Bond Orbitals	20
Mechanically Responsive Organic Crystals by Light	18
Symmetry and Chirality: Where Physics Shakes Hands with Chemistry and Biology	17
Molecule‐Specific Uncertainty Quantification in Quantum Chemical Studies	17
Emerging Trends in Chiral Inorganic Nanostructures	16
Electron Correlation: Nature's Weird and Wonderful Chemical Glue	14
Glycine: The Gift that Keeps on Giving	14
The Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Effect What It Is, What It Is Not, And Why It Matters	13
Computational Chemistry as a Conceptual Game Changer: Understanding the Role of London Dispersion in Hexaphenylethane Derivatives (Gomberg Systems)	13
Two Decades of Chromatic Orthogonality	13
The Evaluation of Ester Functionalised TCF‐Based Fluorescent Probes for the Detection of Bacterial Species	13
Photoaffinity Labeling Chemistries Used to Map Biomolecular Interactions	13
Benchmarking Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity Measurements ‐ Towards Meaningful Comparisons of Chiral Biomolecule Spin Polarizations	13
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Elusive Matrix‐Open State of Mitochondrial ADP/ATP Carrier	12
On the Definition of Chirality and Enantioselective Fields	12
Stereochemistry and Twisted Crystals	12
Functional Molecular Crystals in Biology	12
Tuning the Photophysical Properties of Spirolactam Rhodamine Photoswitches	11
Computations on Pericyclic Reactions Reveal the Richness of Ambimodal Transition States and Pericyclases	11

From Spontaneous to Photo‐Triggered and Photo‐Calibrated Nitric Oxide Donors	11
Geometric Frustration in Molecular Crystals	11
Structure‐Property Relationships and Idiosyncrasies of Bulk, 2D Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskites	10
Simulations Studies of Protein Kinases that are Molecular Targets in Cancer	10
Chiral Resolution via Cocrystallization with Inorganic Salts	10
Entropic Contributions to Protein Stability	10
Eccentricities in Spectroscopy and Reactivity of Non‐Heme Metal Intermediates Contained in Bispidine Scaffolds	10
Thermosalience of 1,2,4,5‐Tetrachlorobenzene	9
Blended Positive Electrodes for Li‐Ion Batteries: From Empiricism to Rational Design	9
III–VI and IV–VI van der Waals Semiconductors InSe, GaSe and GeSe: A Suitable Platform for Efficient Electrochemical Water Splitting, Photocatalysis and Chemical Sensing	9
Redox Potentials of High‐Valent Iron‐, Cobalt‐, and Nickel‐Oxido Complexes: Evidence for Exchange Enhanced Reactivity	9
Multireference Methods are Realistic and Useful Tools for Modeling Catalysis	9
Facile Iodine Detection via Fluorescence Quenching of β‐Cyclodextrin:Bimane‐Ditriazole Inclusion Complexes	9
Chiral Ligands for Au(I), Au(III), and Au(I)/Au(III) Redox Catalysis	9
Computational Chemistry in the Undergraduate Classroom – Pedagogical Considerations and Teaching Challenges	8
Implications of Thermodynamic Control: Dynamic Equilibrium Under Ball Mill Grinding Conditions	8
A Look at Real‐World Transition‐Metal Thermochemistry and Kinetics with Local Hybrid Functionals	8
The Influence of Supersaturation and the Presence of Biuret on the Nucleation, Growth and Morphology of Urea Crystallised from Ethanolic Solutions	8
A Conversation on New Types of Chemical Bonds	8
Unmasking Inherent Chirality within the Cubane Skeleton	8
Spin‐Control in Electrocatalysis for Clean Energy	8
Common Trends of Chiral Induced Spin Selectivity and Optical Dichroism with Varying Helix Pitch: A First‐Principles Study	8
Staudinger Ligation and Reactions – From Bioorthogonal Labeling to Next‐Generation Biopharmaceuticals	7
Catalytic Peptides: the Challenge between Simplicity and Functionality	7
Dynamical Nature of Exciton‐Polariton Coupling in WS₂ Nanoparticles	7
Nanomechanics of Biomaterials – from Cells to Shells	7
How to Pack a Punch – Why 3D Batteries are Essential	7
Cover Picture: (Isr. J. Chem. 1‐2/2021)	7
Formate‐Mediated Cross‐Electrophile Reductive Coupling of Aryl Iodides and Bromopyridines	7
Re‐Imagining Drug Discovery using Mass Spectrometry	7
Fluorescent Sensors of Phosphate Containing Biomolecules	7
Fluorescent Chemical Tools for Tracking Anionic Phospholipids	7
Horizons for Modern Electrochemistry Related to Energy Storage and Conversion, a Review	6
Treated Oil Shale Ashes as a Substitute for Natural Aggregates, Sand, and Cement in Concrete	6
Recent Progress in the Synthesis and Potential Applications of Two‐Dimensional Tungsten (Sub)oxides	6
What's Left for a Computational Chemist To Do in the Age of Machine Learning?	6
Incorporating Nb into MoSe₂ Nanoflowers for Overall Electrocatalytic Water Splitting	6
Electrochemistry in Archaeology and Art Conservation	6
Asymmetric Hydrogenation: Design of Chiral Ligands and Transition Metal Complexes. Synthetic and Industrial Applications.	6
Non‐Uniform Strain Engineering of 2D Materials	6
Biodiesel Production using Lewis Catalysts under Ultrasonic Activation	6
Supertetragonal Phases of Perovskite Oxides: Insights from Electronic Structure Calculations	6
Hybrid Nanostructure of Mixed Transition Metal Oxysulfides Supported by Porous PBA as Efficient Electrocatalysts for the Oxygen Evolution Reaction	6
Origin of Life: Chiral Short RNA Chains Capable of Non‐Enzymatic Peptide Bond Formation	6
Asymmetric Autocatalysis as a Link Between Crystal Chirality and Highly Enantioenriched Organic Compounds	6
Synthesis of 3,4‐Functionalized Benzothiazines through C−H Activation	6
The Chemical Bond – an Entrance Door of Chemistry to the Neighboring Sciences and to Philosophy	6
Interactions Between Peptide Assemblies and Proteins for Medicine	5
Metal‐Organic Frameworks as a New Platform for Enantioselective Separations	5
Metal Free Amino‐Oxidation of Electron Rich Alkenes Mediated by an Oxoammonium Salt	5

Design of MOFs with Absolute Structures: A Case Study	5
Magnetoresistive Single‐Molecule Junctions: the Role of the Spinterface and the CISS Effect	5
The Folding of Knotted Proteins: Distinguishing the Distinct Behavior of Shallow and Deep Knots	5
Computational Chemistry: The Exciting Opportunities and the Boring Details	5
Organic π‐Conjugated Molecules: From Nature to Artificial Applications. Where are the Boundaries?	5
Cyclization Strategies for the Concurrent Installation of Multiple Quaternary Stereogenic Centers	5
Demonstrating Principle Aspects of Peptide‐ and Protein‐ Based Hydrogels Using Metallogels Examples	5
Enantioselective Synthesis of [5]Helicenes Containing Two Additional Chiral Axes	5
Activity‐Based Protein Profiling – Finding General Solutions to Specific Problems	5
Tailor‐Made Auxiliaries for Polar Growth from Melts	5
How to Identify the Crystal Growth Unit	5
Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity – the Photoelectron View	5
Chirality and Supramolecular Copolymerizations – The Elusive Role of Subtle Solvation Effects	4
Substrate Dependent Charge Transfer Kinetics at the Solid/Liquid Interface of Carbon‐Based Electrodes with Potential Application for Organic Na‐Ion Batteries	4
Direct Hydrogenolysis of Cellulose to Methane Utilizing Rare‐Earth Promoted Nickel Catalysts	4
Bond Energies of UO⁺ and UC⁺: Guided Ion Beam and Quantum Chemical Studies of the Reactions of Uranium Cation with O₂ and CO	4
Generation of Self‐Assembled Structures Composed of Amphipathic, Charged Tripeptides for Intracellular Delivery of Pro‐Apoptotic Chemotherapeutics	4
Benzothiazole‐Phenothiazine Conjugate Based Molecular Probe for the Differential Detection of Glycated Albumin	4
Facile Bond Activation of Small Molecules by an Acyclic Imino(silyl)silylene	4
Fused Polycyclic NHC Ligands in Gold Catalysis: Recent Advances	4
A High‐Valent Ru−PCP Pincer Catalyst for the Hydrogenation of Organic Carbonates	4
How to Break the Law: trans‐Hydroboration and gem‐Hydroboration of Alkynes	4
Recent Advances in Electrochemical, Ni‐Catalyzed C−C Bond Formation	4
Electrolytes: From a Thorn Comes a Rose, and from a Rose, a Thorn	4
Proteome‐Wide Fragment‐Based Ligand and Target Discovery	4
The Mobility of Homomeric Lasso‐ and Daisy Chain‐Like Rotaxanes in Solution and in the Gas Phase as a Means to Study Structure and Switching Behaviour	4
Orbital Engineering in Chemistry	4
Insights into Proton Coupled Electron Transfer in the Field of Artificial Photosynthesis	4
Two Dimensional Perovskites/Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Heterostructures: Puzzles and Challenges	4
The Chemistry of [1,1′‐bis(o‐Carboranyl)]Borane η²‐σ‐Silane Adduct	4
Bioelectrochemistry and the Singularity Point “I Robot”?**	4
A New Twist in Eutectic Composition: Deracemization of a Racemic Compound Amino Acid by Viedma Ripening and Temperature Fluctuation	4