Nature Chemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 37. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral451
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides293
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage265
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck234
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies233
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity213
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour211
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results202
Corrole and squeezed coordination181
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists180
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer179
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins177
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration177
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser171
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution168
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation164
Charging imide anions for batteries162
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces161
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor161
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency159
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage156
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides155
Radical water opens parallel pathways in CO2 electrocatalysis153
The numerous paths of ferrocene151
Chiral catalysis-driven rotary molecular motors150
Bridged bicycloalkanes through thermal [2+2] cycloaddition150
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks150
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells145
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones145
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity144
Controlling chromophore assembly and coupling via carbon nanohoops enables singlet fission at interchromophore distances up to 16 Å141
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys137
Digital skills in chemical education136
Baird’s rules at the tipping point136
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation134
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts134
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization134
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition134
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo132
Modular diastereoselective synthesis of hindered cyclobutane amino nitriles through triplet nitrene-mediated ring expansion131
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification131
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques131
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation129
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis127
Global profiling of arginine reactivity and ligandability in the human proteome127
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes125
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions124
Beyond Hubble124
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3118
Protecting skins of Au–Cl can stabilize Au nanostructures118
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)117
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together117
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst117
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production116
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis115
Biocompatible ligand balancing in transition metal coordination enables benign in-cell protein arylation115
Superspreading and ultra-infiltrative coacervate mediates strong underwater adhesion on hydrated and lipidic substrates114
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes114
A template for artificial life113
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton113
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes112
Aryl ortho methoxylation112
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity109
Formal Diels–Alder reaction of saturated carboxylic acids via C–H activation109
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization109
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates107
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation106
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein104
Bottleable triplet nitrenes104
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y103
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail103
Single-crystal to single-crystal editing of metal–organic frameworks via ligand removal102
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids102
Aromaticity rules98
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes98
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling97
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers97
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification97
A synthetic cell microreactor with two types of interacting dynamic DNA-based pores95
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport94
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer94
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water93
A comprehensive model for the electric double layer of stepped platinum electrodes93
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions93
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues92
Pluralistic teaching91
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation91
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen91
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling91
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth90
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores90
Emergence of specific binding and catalysis from a designed generalist binding protein90
Generating extended foldamer dye stacks and unravelling their evolving exciton dynamics90
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon90
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile89
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport89
Two roads to lithium nucleation89
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics89
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks89
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes87
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis86
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion85
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms85
Photoswitchable coordination cages84
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids84
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug84
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo83
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA83
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex83
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly83
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance82
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins82
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers81
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks81
Working towards a new job80
Isolated and H2-reduced Anderson clusters catalyse low-temperature hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol80
Engineered RNA sensors for tuberculosis detection80
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry80
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light79
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids79
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges79
CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers78
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions78
Supramolecular assembly of molecular wires alternating crown ethers and metal–halide complexes77
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO277
Something new under the sun76
Unravelling gas evolution mechanisms in battery electrode materials76
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom75
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene75
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages74
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes73
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells73
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation72
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine72
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites72
Iridium(III)-catalysed ionic hydrogenation of pyridines to multisubstituted piperidines72
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift72
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution71
Lattice O–O ligands in Fe-incorporated hydroxides enhance water oxidation electrocatalysis71
Construction of synthetic protein-binding non-genetic DNA systems in living cells70
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway70
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis69
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production69
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization69
Amino amide assembly68
Photoswitchable latent monomers enable on‑demand metathesis68
Heart of glass68
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions68
Future-proofing calcium fluoride67
Looking into luciferin67
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries67
Cooperative ligands enable cobalt-catalysed hydrogenation66
Sensing RNA66
Organocatalytic enantioselective synthesis of S(IV)-stereogenic sulfinamides enabled by an air-stable chiral phosphine66
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound66
A crystalline stannyne65
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery65
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains64
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis63
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex63
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution62
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking62
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways62
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning62
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure62
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles61
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions61
Single-crystalline two-dimensional vinylene frameworks through topological conversion61
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions61
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts61
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)61
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member60
Ribose at the heart of life60
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores60
Cyclopropenium functionalization60
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease60
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion60
Electric field maps in enzymes59
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids59
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices58
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation58
Programmable fluorescent aptamer-based RNA switches for rapid identification of point mutations58
ChatGPT saves the day58
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization57
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme57
Polymer connectivity governs electrophotocatalytic activity in the solid state57
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization57
A stable, crystalline nitrogen chain radical57
Enantioconvergent radical addition of racemic alkyl halides to access vicinal stereocentres57
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein57
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry56
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores56
Hyperpyramidalized alkenes with bond orders near 1.5 as synthetic building blocks56
Spontaneous trisulfide metathesis in polar aprotic solvents56
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes56
Chemical recycling of hydrofluorocarbons by transfer fluorination56
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells55
Copper-catalysed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions tolerant of highly reactive radicals54
Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron54
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling54
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions54
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts54
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene54
Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution54
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami53
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference53
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source53
How many roads must a woman walk down?52
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency52
Rings of power52
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles52
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation52
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling52
Reducing the carbon footprint of chemistry labs52
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices51
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks51
Author Correction: Introducing metal–sulfur active sites in metal–organic frameworks via post-synthetic modification for hydrogenation catalysis51
Colouring by force50
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration50
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins50
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons49
Stannole dianions for axially coordinated lanthanide single-molecule magnets49
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy49
Degradation of G-quadruplex-binding proteins in chromatin using G4-ligand-based proteolysis-targeting chimeras49
tRNA-deacylase-directed discovery of biosynthetic pathways49
Doing away with radium’s proxies48
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes47
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations47
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide47
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins46
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery46
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols46
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner46
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays46
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation46
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping46
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides46
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion46
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
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA45
Stepwise-controllable catalytic asymmetric Atherton–Todd reaction to access diverse P(V)-stereogenic compounds45
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions45
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach45
Recyclable plastics from a manganese catalyst44
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light44
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation44
Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules43
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase43
Biosynthesis of an elusive sulfur-containing functional group42
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