OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Chemistry is 86. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	407
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	337
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	283
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	282
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	233
Digital skills in chemical education	222
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	219
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	216
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	212
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	190
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	182
Building enzymes from scratch	180
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	174
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	173
Corrole and squeezed coordination	165
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	161
The numerous paths of ferrocene	159
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	153
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	147
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	145
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	139
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	139
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	138
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	130
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	129

Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	128
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	128
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	127
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	125
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	124
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	124
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	124
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	123
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	123
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	122
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	120
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	120
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	119
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	119
Beyond Hubble	117
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	117
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	115
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	114
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	113
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	112
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	112
A template for artificial life	112
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	111
Aryl ortho methoxylation	111
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	110
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	110
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	110
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	108
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	107
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	106
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	105
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	105
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	105
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	104
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	102
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	101
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	101
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	101
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	100
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	100
Aromaticity rules	99
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	99
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	98
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	98
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	97
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	97
Pluralistic teaching	96
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo	95
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	95
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	93

Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	92
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks	92
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex	92
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport	91
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	90
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	89
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	88
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins	88
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids	87
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers	86
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug	86
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	86
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion	86
Sustainable and degradable plastics	86