OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 88. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	372
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	332
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	270
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	266
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	217
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	213
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	204
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	196
Corrole and squeezed coordination	186
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	183
Building enzymes from scratch	177
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	162
Charging imide anions for batteries	160
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	157
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	157
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	151
The numerous paths of ferrocene	149
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	146
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	144
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	143
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	140
Digital skills in chemical education	139
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	138
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	137
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation	136

Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	133
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	133
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	131
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	131
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	130
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	130
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	130
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	129
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	126
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	126
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	126
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	126
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	125
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	124
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	124
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	124
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	122
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	122
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	121
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	121
Beyond Hubble	121
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	119
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together	117
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production	116
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	115
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	113
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	112
Aromaticity rules	111
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	111
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	111
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity	110
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	110
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	109
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	107
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	106
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	105
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	105
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	104
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	103
A template for artificial life	101
Aryl ortho methoxylation	101
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	100
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	100
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	99
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	99
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	98
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	98
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	98
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	96
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	96

Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	96
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	95
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	95
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	94
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	94
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis	93
Pluralistic teaching	93
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry	92
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport	92
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks	90
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	90
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	89
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	89
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	88
Sustainable and degradable plastics	88
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	88