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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral	438
Digital skills in chemical education	339
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution	310
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides	258
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage	253
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck	201
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies	198
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity	196
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces	192
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo	184
Corrole and squeezed coordination	176
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage	172
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization	162
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis	155
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser	152
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication	151
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95	149
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour	148
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes	143
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions	140
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification	139
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists	139
Building enzymes from scratch	134
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer	133
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones	132

Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration	132
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins	131
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques	130
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells	130
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys	127
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides	124
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation	124
Baird’s rules at the tipping point	123
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation	123
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results	122
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts	121
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition	121
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor	121
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity	120
The numerous paths of ferrocene	119
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency	119
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks	119
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization	118
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)	118
Beyond Hubble	118
Bottleable triplet nitrenes	117
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling	115
Aryl ortho methoxylation	114
A template for artificial life	114
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes	114
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids	111
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons	110
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes	110
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton	108
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification	108
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst	108
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling	108
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates	106
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor	105
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions	104
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers	104
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis	103
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail	103
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3	101
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues	100
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport	99
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer	99
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation	98
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water	97
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes	97
Aromaticity rules	95
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation	95
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein	95
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y	94
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen	93

Pluralistic teaching	93
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth	93
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics	92
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms	92
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores	92
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon	92
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes	91
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA	90
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis	90
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile	90
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion	88
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex	88
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks	88