OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Chemical Society Reviews is 73. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Contents list	704
Correction: Functionalization of o -carboranes via carboryne intermediates	643
Daisy chain architectures: from discrete molecular entities to polymer materials	530
Unifying thermochemistry concepts in computational heterogeneous catalysis	516
Emerging deposition–dissolution chemistry for next-generation metal-based hybrid flow batteries: progress and perspectives	503
Front cover	480
Combining quantum chemistry, machine learning and rate theory for organic luminescent materials	458
Nemo censetur ignorare legem : what research chemists should know about the EU legal framework	457
Reactions of main group compounds with azides forming organic nitrogen-containing species	446
Back cover	436
Inside front cover	431
Interaction of SARS-CoV-2 with host cells and antibodies: experiment and simulation	421
Front cover	413
Contents list	410
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Harnessing biosynthetic logic for next-generation ADC payloads	397
Thermally activated structural phase transitions and processes in metal–organic frameworks	395
Pore confined time-of-flight secondary ion electrochemical mass spectrometry	376
Selectivity control by zeolites during methanol-mediated CO ₂ hydrogenation processes	374
Immunological nanomaterials to combat cancer metastasis	371
Hydrogen atoms in supramolecular chemistry: a structural perspective. Where are they, and why does it matter?	370
Recent advances in photochemical rearrangements involving diradicals	367
Recent advances in thermocatalytic acetylene selective hydrogenation	365
Nanoscale chemical characterization of materials and interfaces by tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy	364

Contents list	362
Interfacial engineering of halide perovskites and two-dimensional materials	361
Light/X-ray/ultrasound activated delayed photon emission of organic molecular probes for optical imaging: mechanisms, design strategies, and biomedical applications	360
Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of 1,2-diamines	353
Black phosphorus-based nanoplatforms for cancer therapy: chemistry, design, biological and therapeutic behaviors	352
Contents list	351
Biological conversion of CO ₂ for bioproduction: beyond natural limitations	348
Surface engineering for stable electrocatalysis	335
Advanced Ah-level zinc metal batteries	335
Recent advances in point-of-care testing of COVID-19	325
The past 10 years of molecular ferroelectrics: structures, design, and properties	323
Mechanism of oxidative stress and neurotoxicity associated with heme and copper–Aβ relevant to Alzheimer's disease	322
Decoding recombination dynamics in perovskite solar cells: an in-depth critical review	321
Enlightening dynamic functions in molecular systems by intrinsically chiral light-driven molecular motors	321
Molecular vessels from preorganised natural building blocks	320
Aptamer-based assembly systems for SARS-CoV-2 detection and therapeutics	320
Electrochemical power sources enabled by multi-ion carriers	317
Multimodal optoacoustic imaging: methods and contrast materials	315
Metal–phenolic network composites: from fundamentals to applications	308
Emerging ultrasmall luminescent nanoprobes for in vivo bioimaging	308
Lignin-based porous carbon adsorbents for CO ₂ capture	302
Plasmonic silver and gold nanoparticles: shape- and structure-modulated plasmonic functionality for point-of-caring sensing, bio-imaging and medical therapy	302
Dynamic interfaces in metal–organic frameworks	299
Optimizing photocatalysis via electron spin control	299
Defect-enabling zirconium-based metal–organic frameworks for energy and environmental remediation applications	294
Hidden interfacial electric fields in chemistry: contact electrification and beyond	292
Unlocking the potential: machine learning applications in electrocatalyst design for electrochemical hydrogen energy transformation	292
Low oxidation state and hydrido group 2 complexes: synthesis and applications in the activation of gaseous substrates	286
Contents list	284
Front cover	281
Front cover	278
Back cover	277
Back cover	276
Strong exciton coupling: a practical toolbox for computing interaction energies, wavefunctions, and optical spectra	266
Front cover	261
Contents list	258
Front cover	257
Contents list	252
Chromium-activated phosphors: from theory to applications	251
Radical enzymatic peptide cyclization in natural product biosynthesis	250
SERS in 3D cell models: a powerful tool in cancer research	242
Front cover	238
A tutorial on the modeling of the heterogenous captured CO ₂ electroreduction reaction and first principles electrochemical modeling	230
Contents list	227
Photoinduced electron transfer (PeT) based fluorescent probes for cellular imaging and disease therapy	225
Intelligent catalysis: on-demand dynamic self-optimization via responsive feedback	222
Radical sulfonylation with sulfur dioxide surrogates	221
Strategies for the steric shielding of dimetallapolyynes L _y M(CC)	217
Design, characterization and applications of nanocolloidal hydrogels	217
Recent advances in super-resolution optical imaging based on aggregation-induced emission	216

Supramolecular and molecular capsules, cages and containers	215
Metal nitrides for seawater electrolysis	214
How can thermoelectric coupling catalysis be applied to facilitate biomass conversion into value-added products and hydrogen?	214
SERS microscopy as a tool for comprehensive biochemical characterization in complex samples	213
Defect engineering of two-dimensional materials for advanced energy conversion and storage	211
Cu-based S-scheme photocatalysts	209
Molecular-level understandings and device strategies for FAPbI ₃ -based perovskite solar cells	208
Front cover	207
AI for battery-accelerated discovery of high-voltage electrolytes for advanced lithium batteries	204
Inside front cover	203
Recent advances in cell-surface glycan engineering and its biological applications	201
Back cover	200
Contents list	199
Back cover	198
Thermodynamics of metal–organic frameworks: from fundamentals to advanced applications	196
Advances in artificial cells capable of metabolic mimicry: from fundamentals to applications	195
Front cover	193
Reactive oxygen nanobiocatalysts: activity-mechanism disclosures, catalytic center evolutions, and changing states	193
Front cover	191
Construction of smart switchable nanoplatforms for adaptive phototheranostics	190
Correction: Main group metal polymerisation catalysts	190
Reactive capture and electrochemical conversion of CO ₂ with ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents	187
The mechanism of visible light-induced C–C cross-coupling by C _{sp ³} –H b	185
A unified quantum rate theory of electron transfer: conceptual advances in quantum electrochemistry	180
Heterogeneous catalytic deuteration using D ₂ O and advances in the application of deuterium labelling	179
Understanding molecular and electrochemical charge transfer: theory and computations	178
Internally and externally induced chiral hybrid metal halide materials for advanced chiroptoelectronic applications	178
Recent progress in transition-metal-catalysed intermolecular saturated C(sp ³ )–N(sp ³ ) bond form	177
Ionomeric binders in polymer electrolyte fuel cells: roles, challenges, and advances	177
Multivalent glycosystems for human lectins	176
Synthesis of Xenes: physical and chemical methods	174
Three-phase microenvironment modification by optimizing ionomer towards high-performance proton exchange membrane fuel cells	174
iSERS: from nanotag design to protein assays and ex vivo imaging	173
Tailoring Cu-based small-pore zeolites towards NH ₃ -SCR for NO _x	173
Beyond single pathways: synergistic SET–EnT pathways in visible-light photochemistry	172
Covalent connections between metal–organic frameworks and polymers including covalent organic frameworks	172
“Bottom-up” and “top-down” strategies toward strong cellulose-based materials	172
Strategies for designing biocatalysts with new functions	171
Electrocatalytic amine dehydrogenation as a green route to nitriles: precise construction of efficient catalysts and mechanism	171
Biomedical SERS – the current state and future trends	171
Green metrics in mechanochemistry	170
Ionogels: recent advances in design, material properties and emerging biomedical applications	170
Tunable metal–organic frameworks assist in catalyzing DNAzymes with amplification platforms for biomedical applications	169
Functional materials for aqueous redox flow batteries: merits and applications	167
Contents list	166
Extrinsically conducting MOFs: guest-promoted enhancement of electrical conductivity, thin film fabrication and applications	166
Contents list	166
Contents list	165
Contents list	165
Contents list	165
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) toward SO ₂ detection	165
Implantable hydrogels as pioneering materials for next-generation brain–computer interfaces	161
Chemical management of phytopathogenic bacteria: emerging compounds, molecular targets and outlook	161
Catalytic redox-neutral carboxylation with CO ₂	160
Advanced systems for enhanced CO ₂ electroreduction	160
Recent advances in atomically precise metal nanoclusters for photothermal conversion	160
Back cover	158
Inside back cover	158
Back cover	157
Formation of active sites in copper-exchanged zeolites for the direct methane-to-methanol conversion	157
Engineering the dynamic reactant–electrode interface in electroreduction systems: advances, challenges and prospects	156
Contents list	156
The emerging chemistry of self-electrified water interfaces	155
Mixed-valence metal–organic frameworks: concepts, opportunities, and prospects	155
A surface chemistry perspective on SERS: revisiting the basics to push the field forward	155
Chemically engineering cells for precision medicine	155
High energy density lithium battery systems: from key cathode materials to pouch cell design	154
Multi-level structural modulation enables fast lithium-ion transport in inorganic solid-state batteries	154
Zn-based batteries for sustainable energy storage: strategies and mechanisms	153
DNA-mediated precise regulation of SERS hotspots for biosensing and bioimaging	153
Correction: Surface functionalization of inorganic nanoparticles with ligands: a necessary step for their utility	152
Diastereodivergence in catalytic asymmetric conjugate addition of carbon nucleophiles	152
Front cover	150
Contents list	150
A closer look at amyloid ligands, and what they tell us about protein aggregates	149
Noncancerous disease-targeting AIEgens	149
Chemical insights on covalent organic frameworks for ferroptosis and pyroptosis in cancer	148
Synthetic receptors for steroids: from molecular recognition to biomedical functions	144
Front cover	144
Selective carbon–carbon bond cleavage involving alkene moieties	143

The entropy-controlled strategy in self-assembling systems	143
Direct air capture technologies: innovations, integration, and pathways to scale	142
Towards greener-by-design fine chemicals. Part 1: synthetic frontiers	142
Platonic and Archimedean solids in discrete metal-containing clusters	142
Inside front cover	142
Synthetic progress of organic thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters via C–H activation and functionalization	141
Multifunctional nanomaterials for dental photo-theranostics	141
Sixty years of electrochemical optical spectroscopy: a retrospective	140
Inside front cover	140
Advances in small-molecule fluorescent probes for the study of apoptosis	140
Back cover	139
Encapsulation engineering of porous crystalline frameworks for delayed luminescence and circularly polarized luminescence	138
Back cover	138
Double-cavity cucurbiturils: synthesis, structures, properties, and applications	137
Contents list	137
Front cover	137
Chemistries and materials for atmospheric water harvesting	136
Small molecule helical emitters	135
Guidelines derived from biomineralized tissues for design and construction of high-performance biomimetic materials: from weak to strong	135
Navigating the functionalization of unactivated alkenes via visible light photocatalysis	135
Breaking symmetry for better catalysis: insights into single-atom catalyst design	135
Strategies to engineer various nanocarrier-based hybrid catalysts for enhanced chemodynamic cancer therapy	134
Recent advances in proton exchange membrane water electrolysis	134
Advances in the photon avalanche luminescence of inorganic lanthanide-doped nanomaterials	134
Recent advances in conductive hydrogels: classifications, properties, and applications	134
Multifunctional carbon nitride nanoarchitectures for catalysis	134
Zeolites and metal–organic frameworks for gas separation: the possibility of translating adsorbents into membranes	134
Engineering MXene surfaces and heterostructure interfaces for efficient heterogeneous catalysis	133
Progress of surface-modified inorganic phosphors for performance improvement: from methods to applications	131
Contents list	131
Contents list	130
Front cover	130
Correction: From solar cells to memristors: halide perovskites as a platform for neuromorphic electronics	129
Inside front cover	128
Back cover	128
Front cover	128
Protein desulfurization and deselenization	128
The sustainability of the Morita–Baylis–Hillman reaction	128
Inside back cover	128
Front cover	126
Front cover	126
Front cover	126
Interfacial design for detection of a few molecules	125
Inside front cover	124
Single-atom catalysts: promotors of highly sensitive and selective sensors	124
Targeted delivery of oligonucleotides using multivalent protein–carbohydrate interactions	124
Molecularly engineered zeolites with extra-large-pore architectures and functional opportunities	124
Back cover	123
Recent progress and prospects of dimer and multimer acceptors for efficient and stable polymer solar cells	123
Ionic porous materials: from synthetic strategies to applications in gas separation and catalysis	123
Functional gel materials for next-generation electrochromic devices and applications	123
Machine learning-driven molecular engineering of nucleic acids	122
Front cover	122
Superconducting single-photon detectors in the mid-infrared for physical chemistry and spectroscopy	122
Designing rare-earth-based nanoalloys for advanced catalysis: trends, challenges, and perspectives	121
Engineering coordination bonds for bioinspired responsive polymers	121
Ultrasound mechanisms and their effect on solid synthesis and processing: a review	120
Covalent organic frameworks as superior adsorbents for the removal of toxic substances	120
Unlocking the catalytic potential of heterogeneous nonprecious metals for selective hydrogenation reactions	120
Ternary organic solar cells: optimizing the third components	120
Current trends in the detection and removal of heavy metal ions using functional materials	119
Insights into the mechanism of 3d transition-metal-catalyzed directed C(sp ³ )–H bond functionalization reactions	119
Supramolecular catalysis with emerging, functional organic macrocycles and cages	118
Supramolecular gels: a versatile crystallization toolbox	118
Advancing flexible thermoelectrics for integrated electronics	117
Nanoscale engineering of solid-state materials for boosting hydrogen storage	117
Surface functionalization of inorganic nanoparticles with ligands: a necessary step for their utility	116
Reactivity descriptors for sulfur redox kinetics in lithium–sulfur batteries: from mechanistic insights to machine learning driven catalyst design	116
Contents list	115
Optical probes for bioimaging of tumor-infiltrating immune cells and their applications in cancer immunotherapy	115
Circularly polarized luminescence in chiral hybrid metal halides	115
Emerging applications and mechanistic insights of copper mediated electrocatalysts in organic transformations	114
Back cover	113
Multicolour luminescence phenomena of vibration-induced emission	113
Outstanding Reviewers for Chemical Society Reviews in 2022	113
Synthetic strategies for the incorporation of metallocenes into anti-infective scaffolds	113
Photoswitchable imaging contrast agents as an emerging frontier in precision bioimaging	112
Front cover	112
Inside front cover	111
Various energy-driven high-value-added oxidation reactions in CO ₂ reduction systems	110
Contents list	110
Front cover	110
Ion transport mechanisms in covalent organic frameworks: implications for technology	110
Aggregation-induced emission-active supramolecular polymers: from controlled preparation to applications	109
Near-infrared metal agents assisting precision medicine: from strategic design to bioimaging and therapeutic applications	109
Nanoprobe-based molecular imaging for tumor stratification	109
Modulation of engineered nanomaterial interactions with organ barriers for enhanced drug transport	108
Structure modulation of two-dimensional transition metal chalcogenides: recent advances in methodology, mechanism and applications	108
Imperfections are not 0 K: free energy of point defects in crystals	108
Advanced stimuli-responsive membranes for smart separation	107
Sustainable decommissioning of perovskite solar cells: from waste to resources	107
5-Hydroxymethylcytosine: the many faces of the sixth base of mammalian DNA	106
Enroute sustainability: metal free C–H bond functionalisation	106
Tin-halide perovskites for light-emitting diodes	106
Routes to high-performance layered oxide cathodes for sodium-ion batteries	105