OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 90. 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
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	495
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	305
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	291
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	247
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	244
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	233
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	229
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	211
Corrole and squeezed coordination	199
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	193
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	189
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	188
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	187
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	185
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	179
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis	177
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition	173
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	168
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	167
Digital skills in chemical education	166
The numerous paths of ferrocene	161
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	160
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	158
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	157
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	150

Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	150
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	148
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	148
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	144
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	143
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	143
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	140
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	137
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	137
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	133
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	133
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	131
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation	131
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å	130
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors	130
Charging imide anions for batteries	130
Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion	128
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	128
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	126
Beyond Hubble	123
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome	123
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures	122
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	121
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together	119
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production	118
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	117
A template for artificial life	116
Aryl ortho methoxylation	114
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	113
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	109
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	109
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	109
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	108
A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores	106
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity	106
Programming stacking order in conducting van der Waals metal–organic frameworks through ligand aggregation	104
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	104
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	103
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	103
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	101
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	100
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	99
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	98
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation	98
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	98
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	98
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	97
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes	97
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	97
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal	96

Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	96
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	96
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates	96
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	96
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	96
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	95
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	95
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	95
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation	95
Pluralistic teaching	94
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	94
Emergence of specific binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein	93
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	93
Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics	92
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	91
Two roads to lithium nucleation	90
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	90
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks	90