Nature Chemistry

Papers
(The TQCC of Nature Chemistry is 36. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral407
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides337
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage283
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies282
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity233
Digital skills in chemical education222
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck219
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution216
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces212
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins190
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones182
Building enzymes from scratch180
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer174
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration173
Corrole and squeezed coordination165
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication161
The numerous paths of ferrocene159
Baird’s rules at the tipping point153
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists147
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser145
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation139
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour139
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor138
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation130
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results129
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95128
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys128
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification127
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency125
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage124
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis124
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity124
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition123
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization123
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides122
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks120
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts120
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization119
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo119
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer117
Beyond Hubble117
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis115
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein114
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling113
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues112
A template for artificial life112
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton112
Aryl ortho methoxylation111
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail111
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers110
Bottleable triplet nitrenes110
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst110
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 alkaloids107
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes106
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons105
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes105
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y105
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3104
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation102
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification101
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport101
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen101
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation100
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions100
Aromaticity rules99
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor99
A C–H activation-based enantioselective synthesis of lower carbo[n]helicenes98
Global profiling of functional histidines in live cells using small-molecule photosensitizer and chemical probe relay labelling98
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates97
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water97
Pluralistic teaching96
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo95
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth95
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms93
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks92
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex92
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks92
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport91
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes90
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile89
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA88
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins88
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids87
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug86
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics86
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion86
Sustainable and degradable plastics86
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers86
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly84
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance83
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon83
Antimony cation acquired82
Photoswitchable coordination cages82
Mastering mono-bond metathesis82
Working towards a new job82
Something new under the sun82
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry82
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges81
Artificial, augmented and automated chemistry81
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom80
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene80
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions78
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites78
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes78
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine77
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift77
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation77
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells77
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages76
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids76
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production75
Tricyclic cell-penetrating peptides for efficient delivery of functional antibodies into cancer cells75
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light74
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution73
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway73
Publisher Correction: Porous covalent organic nanotubes and their assembly in loops and toroids73
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO273
A versatile approach for the synthesis of degradable polymers via controlled ring-opening metathesis copolymerization73
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization73
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis73
Amino amide assembly72
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure72
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions72
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions71
Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes71
Looking into luciferin71
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution70
Concurrent control over sequence and dispersity in multiblock copolymers70
Heart of glass69
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning69
Stoichiometric two-dimensional non-van der Waals AgCrS2 with superionic behaviour at room temperature68
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound68
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles67
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries67
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery67
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking67
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions66
A crystalline stannyne66
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex65
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways65
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)64
Scalable and selective deuteration of (hetero)arenes64
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis64
Total synthesis of nine longiborneol sesquiterpenoids using a functionalized camphor strategy63
Manganese(i) complexes with metal-to-ligand charge transfer luminescence and photoreactivity63
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts63
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains63
Electric field maps in enzymes63
A proteome-wide atlas of lysine-reactive chemistry63
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member63
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion62
ChatGPT saves the day62
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores62
Positive climate changes62
Cyclopropenium functionalization61
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease60
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry60
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes60
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices60
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein60
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells60
A terminal neptunium(V)–mono(oxo) complex59
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids59
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation59
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source59
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference59
A chiral interlocking auxiliary strategy for the synthesis of mechanically planar chiral rotaxanes59
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene58
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization58
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions58
Direct dynamic read-out of molecular chirality with autonomous enzyme-driven swimmers58
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami57
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts57
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme57
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores57
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation57
How many roads must a woman walk down?56
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling56
Ethics education for chemists56
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization56
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling56
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration56
Chemical testing56
Doing away with radium’s proxies56
Rings of power56
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks55
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles54
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes54
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency54
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices54
Dissipative DNA fibres54
Colouring by force54
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins53
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide53
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays51
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion51
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy51
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols51
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation51
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation50
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping50
Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts50
Direct conversion of white phosphorus to versatile phosphorus transfer reagents via oxidative onioation49
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations49
Recyclable and malleable thermosets enabled by activating dormant dynamic linkages49
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach49
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner49
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides48
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions48
Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates48
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins48
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons48
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery48
Recyclable plastics from a manganese catalyst47
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues47
Carbonyl cross-metathesis via deoxygenative gem-di-metal catalysis46
Quinine fever45
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation45
Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry45
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase44
The fruit fly of photophysics44
Tunable acetylene sorption by flexible catenated metal–organic frameworks44
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light44
Release of linker histone from the nucleosome driven by polyelectrolyte competition with a disordered protein44
Controlling anisotropic properties by manipulating the orientation of chiral small molecules44
Fused radical SAM and αKG-HExxH domain proteins contain a distinct structural fold and catalyse cyclophane formation and β-hydroxylation44
Copper catalysed asymmetric amination44
Arenes participate in 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with in situ-generated diazoalkenes44
Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy43
Synthesis of highly strained para-cyclophanes via ring-expansion [5,5]-sigmatropic rearrangement reaction43
Mirror-image trypsin digestion and sequencing of D-proteins43
Iterative synthesis of 1,3-polyboronic esters with high stereocontrol and application to the synthesis of bahamaolide A43
Direct visualization of ligands on gold nanoparticles in a liquid environment43
Biosynthesis of an elusive sulfur-containing functional group43
Navigating protein landscapes with a machine-learned transferable coarse-grained model43
Progress and pitfalls in designing heterogeneous catalysts with molecular precision42
Supercrystal engineering of atomically precise gold nanoparticles promoted by surface dynamics42
Structure-informed design of an ultrabright RNA-activated fluorophore42
Emulsion-oriented assembly for Janus double-spherical mesoporous nanoparticles as biological logic gates42
Advances in single-molecule junctions as tools for chemical and biochemical analysis42
Halogen-bond-assisted radical activation of glycosyl donors enables mild and stereoconvergent 1,2-cis-glycosylation42
Low-temperature liquid platinum catalyst42
Modular enantioselective access to β-amino amides by Brønsted acid-catalysed multicomponent reactions41
Metastable gallium hydride mediates propane dehydrogenation on H2 co-feeding41
Time-resolved terahertz–Raman spectroscopy reveals that cations and anions distinctly modify intermolecular interactions of water41
Triarylmethyl cation redox mediators enhance Li–O2 battery discharge capacities41
Enhanced active-site electric field accelerates enzyme catalysis41
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Molecular-docking electrolytes enable high-voltage lithium battery chemistries41
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