Nature Chemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 35. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour539
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral385
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists383
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides327
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage261
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies246
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor217
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity212
The origin of translation205
Digital skills in chemical education199
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck196
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution183
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results178
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces178
Corrole and squeezed coordination163
Building enzymes from scratch162
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication153
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer153
The numerous paths of ferrocene152
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins143
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser139
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys139
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation139
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency134
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity134
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo133
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization130
The twists and turns of chiral chemistry124
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides123
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation123
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts123
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones122
Baird’s rules at the tipping point121
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification119
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage116
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis116
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition116
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks114
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95114
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization113
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer113
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton113
Beyond Hubble113
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes112
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes111
A template for artificial life110
Aryl ortho methoxylation108
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail108
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)107
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor105
Combining biological and chemical diversity105
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst105
Bottleable triplet nitrenes105
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3104
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein103
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling103
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport103
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids102
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation101
A catalytic asymmetric cross-coupling approach to the synthesis of cyclobutanes101
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons100
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water98
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation98
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification97
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes97
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions95
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y94
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates94
Aromaticity rules94
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis93
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers93
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen93
Pluralistic teaching92
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth91
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics89
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex89
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance89
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins87
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile86
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms85
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids85
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport85
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes85
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA84
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion84
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo84
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug83
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks83
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry81
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers81
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks80
Sustainable and degradable plastics80
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly80
Photoswitchable coordination cages80
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon80
Colloidal metallurgy79
Antimony cation acquired78
Working towards a new job78
Something new under the sun78
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions77
The gains from breaking symmetry77
Artificial, augmented and automated chemistry76
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges76
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway76
Mastering mono-bond metathesis76
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids75
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light75
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene74
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom74
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation73
A versatile approach for the synthesis of degradable polymers via controlled ring-opening metathesis copolymerization73
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution72
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO271
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells71
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes70
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis70
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites70
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages70
Integrating programmable DNAzymes with electrical readout for rapid and culture-free bacterial detection using a handheld platform70
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift70
Tricyclic cell-penetrating peptides for efficient delivery of functional antibodies into cancer cells69
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production69
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions68
Publisher Correction: Porous covalent organic nanotubes and their assembly in loops and toroids68
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization68
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound68
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure67
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries66
Heart of glass66
Amino amide assembly66
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking65
Looking into luciferin65
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution65
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions65
Stoichiometric two-dimensional non-van der Waals AgCrS2 with superionic behaviour at room temperature65
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways64
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning64
Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers63
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts63
Manganese(i) complexes with metal-to-ligand charge transfer luminescence and photoreactivity63
Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes62
Scalable and selective deuteration of (hetero)arenes62
A crystalline stannyne61
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex61
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains61
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles60
A ring expansion strategy towards diverse azaheterocycles59
A proteome-wide atlas of lysine-reactive chemistry59
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis59
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery59
Total synthesis of nine longiborneol sesquiterpenoids using a functionalized camphor strategy59
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)59
Positive climate changes58
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores58
Electric field maps in enzymes58
Cyclopropenium functionalization58
ChatGPT saves the day58
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member58
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion58
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes58
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami57
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids57
A terminal neptunium(V)–mono(oxo) complex57
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme56
Direct dynamic read-out of molecular chirality with autonomous enzyme-driven swimmers56
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization55
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization55
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry55
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference55
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease55
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein54
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling54
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts54
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices54
Switching on prodrugs using radiotherapy54
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells54
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene53
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores53
A chiral interlocking auxiliary strategy for the synthesis of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes53
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation53
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions53
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source53
Rings of power52
Chemical testing52
Ethics education for chemists52
How many roads must a woman walk down?52
Bite-size science52
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration51
Accounts of academic ableism51
Doing away with radium’s proxies50
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling50
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks49
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency49
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide49
Expanding the effectiveness of screening49
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles49
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes49
Colouring by force49
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols49
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations48
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy48
Dissipative DNA fibres48
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays48
Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates47
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices47
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery47
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins47
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons47
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion47
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides47
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping46
Direct conversion of white phosphorus to versatile phosphorus transfer reagents via oxidative onioation46
Tectonic shifts in framework chemistry46
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins46
Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts46
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions46
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner45
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues45
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation45
Recyclable and malleable thermosets enabled by activating dormant dynamic linkages45
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation45
Iterative synthesis of 1,3-polyboronic esters with high stereocontrol and application to the synthesis of bahamaolide A44
Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein44
Arenes participate in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with in situ-generated diazoalkenes44
Advances in single-molecule junctions as tools for chemical and biochemical analysis44
Recyclable plastics from a manganese catalyst44
Copper catalysed asymmetric amination43
Quinine fever43
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase43
Carbonyl cross-metathesis via deoxygenative gem-di-metal catalysis43
Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy43
Halogen-bond-assisted radical activation of glycosyl donors enables mild and stereoconvergent 1,2-cis-glycosylation43
Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry43
Progress and pitfalls in designing heterogeneous catalysts with molecular precision43
Triarylmethyl cation redox mediators enhance Li–O2 battery discharge capacities42
WT19F42
Direct visualization of ligands on gold nanoparticles in a liquid environment42
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light42
Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst42
Metastable gallium hydride mediates propane dehydrogenation on H2 co-feeding42
The fruit fly of photophysics41
Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis41
Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics41
Tunable and recyclable polyesters from CO2 and butadiene41
Mirror-image trypsin digestion and sequencing of D-proteins41
Time-resolved terahertz–Raman spectroscopy reveals that cations and anions distinctly modify intermolecular interactions of water41
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation41
Fused radical SAM and αKG-HExxH domain proteins contain a distinct structural fold and catalyse cyclophane formation and β-hydroxylation40
Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules40
Structure-informed design of an ultrabright RNA-activated fluorophore40
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