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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Not all catenanes with oriented rings are topologically chiral372
Author Correction: Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution332
General strategy for the synthesis of N-monofluoromethyl amides270
Supramolecular crystals for hydrogen storage266
DNA catch bonds demonstrate the art of getting stuck217
Using symmetry to drive new protein assemblies213
Pop-up rings to rule reactivity204
In situ nonlinear optical spectroscopy for probing buried oxide–water interfaces196
Corrole and squeezed coordination186
A near-linear lanthanide complex that displays magnet-like behaviour183
Building enzymes from scratch177
Reversible self-assembly of small molecules for recyclable solid-state battery electrolytes162
Charging imide anions for batteries160
Sulfone cross-coupling outcompetes proton transfer157
Function without form in synthetic polymers mimicking protein hydration157
Understanding single-molecule reactions using nanopore-based techniques151
The numerous paths of ferrocene149
Excited-state intermediates in a designer protein encoding a phototrigger caught by an X-ray free-electron laser146
Discovery and synthesis of atropisomerically chiral acyl-substituted stable vinyl sulfoxonium ylides144
Eric the AI research assistant for chemists143
Expanding the substrate scope of pyrrolysyl-transfer RNA synthetase enzymes to include non-α-amino acids in vitro and in vivo140
Digital skills in chemical education139
Mass spectrometry captures biased signalling and allosteric modulation of a G-protein-coupled receptor138
Magnetic activation of spherical nucleic acids enables the remote control of synthetic cells137
Metal-hydroxyls mediate intramolecular proton transfer in heterogeneous O–O bond formation136
Enantiospecific cross-coupling of cyclic alkyl sulfones133
Zigzag graphene nanoribbons with periodic porphyrin edge extensions133
Enantioselective fullerene functionalization through stereochemical information transfer from a self-assembled cage131
Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins131
A soil-inspired dynamically responsive chemical system for microbial modulation130
Iron–sulfur clusters as inhibitors and catalysts of viral replication130
An air- and moisture-stable ruthenium precatalyst for diverse reactivity130
O-GlcNAcylation modulates liquid–liquid phase separation of SynGAP/PSD-95129
A pseudo-cubic metal–organic cage with conformationally switchable faces for dynamically adaptive guest encapsulation126
Protons undermine lithium-ion batteries with positively disastrous results126
Baird’s rules at the tipping point126
Amphoteric chalcogen-bonding and halogen-bonding rotaxanes for anion or cation recognition126
Single crystals of purely organic free-standing two-dimensional woven polymer networks125
Machine learning designs new GCGR/GLP-1R dual agonists with enhanced biological potency124
Fullerene on non-iron cluster-matrix co-catalysts promotes collaborative H2 and N2 activation for ammonia synthesis124
Tunable valence tautomerism in lanthanide–organic alloys124
Digital micelles of encoded polymeric amphiphiles for direct sequence reading and ex vivo label-free quantification122
A metalloenzyme platform for catalytic asymmetric radical dearomatization122
Bottleable triplet nitrenes121
Beyond Hubble121
Reaction-induced unsaturated Mo oxycarbides afford highly active CO2 conversion catalysts121
A dynamic metal–organic framework photocatalyst119
Heterogeneous polymer designs that bring electricity, light and substrates together117
Bridging aqueous electrochemistry and non-aqueous chemistry for chemical production116
Synthesis of planar chiral ferrocenes via enantioselective remote C–H activation115
The ribosome stabilizes partially folded intermediates of a nascent multi-domain protein113
Photomediated aliphatic C–H functionalization112
Insights from an information thermodynamics analysis of a synthetic molecular motor111
Stepwise on-demand functionalization of multihydrosilanes enabled by a hydrogen-atom-transfer photocatalyst based on eosin Y111
Aromaticity rules111
An electroaffinity labelling platform for chemoproteomic-based target identification110
Tetrafunctional cyclobutanes tune toughness via network strand continuity110
Mass photometric detection and quantification of nanoscale α-synuclein phase separation109
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions107
Homogeneous multi-payload antibody–drug conjugates106
D3+ formation through photoionization of the molecular D2–D2 dimer105
Synthesis and single-molecule imaging reveal stereospecific enhancement of binding kinetics by the antitumour eEF1A antagonist SR-A3105
New-to-nature biocompatible chemistry for plastic waste upcycling104
A programmable biomimetic cytoskeleton103
Aryl ortho methoxylation101
A template for artificial life101
A bridged backbone strategy enables collective synthesis of strychnan alkaloids100
Low-valent tungsten redox catalysis enables controlled isomerization and carbonylative functionalization of alkenes100
A living library concept to capture the dynamics and reactivity of mixed-metal clusters for catalysis99
The role of aromaticity in the cyclization and polymerization of alkyne-substituted porphyrins on Au(111)99
Optical sequencing of single synthetic polymers98
ATP hydrolysis captured in atomic detail98
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 labelling96
Constructing artificial gap junctions to mediate intercellular signal and mass transport96
Excitation energy transfer and vibronic coherence in intact phycobilisomes96
Interfacial assembly of biomimetic MOF-based porous membranes on coacervates to build complex protocells and prototissues95
Growth of single-crystal imine-linked covalent organic frameworks using amphiphilic amino-acid derivatives in water95
Challenges to developing materials for the transport and storage of hydrogen94
Multilayer stacks of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons94
Pluralistic teaching93
Leveraging electron donor–acceptor complexes for kinetic resolution in catalytic asymmetric photochemical synthesis93
Light-activated tetrazines enable precision live-cell bioorthogonal chemistry92
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport92
Enabling nucleophilic reactivity in molecular calcium fluoride complexes90
Standardized excitable elements for scalable engineering of far-from-equilibrium chemical networks90
A single diiron enzyme catalyses the oxidative rearrangement of tryptophan to indole nitrile89
An open-shell molecule that exhibits conformational dynamics89
Sustainable and degradable plastics88
Protein semisynthesis reveals plasticity in HECT E3 ubiquitin ligase mechanisms88
Three-dimensional van der Waals open frameworks88
Small-molecule-catalysed deamination enables transcriptome-wide profiling of N6-methyladenosine in RNA87
Transient water wires mediate selective proton transport in designed channel proteins87
Covalent organic frameworks as infinite building units for metal–organic frameworks with compartmentalized pores87
Milking riboflavin for all it’s worth86
Designing artificial fluorescent proteins and biosensors by genetically encoding molecular rotor-based amino acids85
4f-orbital covalency enables a single-crystal-to-single-crystal ring-opening isomerization in a CeIV–cyclopropenyl complex85
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly85
Photoswitchable coordination cages84
Fast and facile synthesis of amidine-incorporated degradable lipids for versatile mRNA delivery in vivo84
Collisional alignment and molecular rotation control the chemi-ionization of individual conformers of hydroquinone with metastable neon83
Molecular contacts with an orthogonal π-skeleton induce amorphization to enhance perovskite solar cell performance83
In vivo metallophilic self-assembly of a light-activated anticancer drug82
Deciphering functional roles of protein succinylation and glutarylation using genetic code expansion82
Proton-triggered topological transformation in superbase-mediated selective polymerization enables access to ultrahigh-molar-mass cyclic polymers82
Working towards a new job79
Protein nanopore reveals the renin–angiotensin system crosstalk with single-amino-acid resolution79
Author Correction: Circumventing the stability problems of graphene nanoribbon zigzag edges79
CO2 sorption in fluorinated non-porous coordination polymers79
Aldehyde-catalysed carboxylate exchange in α-amino acids with isotopically labelled CO278
Engineered RNA sensors for tuberculosis detection78
Something new under the sun78
Direct mapping of ligandable tyrosines and lysines in cells with chiral sulfonyl fluoride probes78
Iridium(III)-catalysed ionic hydrogenation of pyridines to multisubstituted piperidines77
A physically encoded Bayesian assistant for the optimization of multicomponent reactions77
An evolved artificial radical cyclase enables the construction of bicyclic terpenoid scaffolds via an H-atom transfer pathway77
Anticancer platinum-based photo-oxidants in a new light76
Multi-tiered chemical proteomic maps of tryptoline acrylamide–protein interactions in cancer cells75
Bistability between π-diradical open-shell and closed-shell states in indeno[1,2-a]fluorene75
Ni-catalysed assembly of axially chiral alkenes from alkynyl tetracoordinate borons via 1,3-metallate shift75
An isolable germylyne radical with a one-coordinate germanium atom75
Strong dipole-promoted N–O bond hydrogenolysis enables ampere-level electrosynthesis of methylamine74
Non-statistical assembly of multicomponent [Pd2ABCD] cages74
The impact of UV light on synthetic photochemistry and photocatalysis74
Tricyclic cell-penetrating peptides for efficient delivery of functional antibodies into cancer cells74
Unmasking the reverse catalytic activity of ‘ene’-reductases for asymmetric carbonyl desaturation74
Lattice O–O ligands in Fe-incorporated hydroxides enhance water oxidation electrocatalysis73
Modular chemoenzymatic synthesis of ten fusicoccane diterpenoids73
Atomically dispersed low-valent Au boosts photocatalytic hydroxyl radical production73
Thickness control of organic semiconductor-incorporated perovskites73
Publisher Correction: Porous covalent organic nanotubes and their assembly in loops and toroids72
Triplet metallocarbenes featuring carbon-centred spin localization72
A third strand for protein–DNA interactions72
Cooperative ligands enable cobalt-catalysed hydrogenation70
Amino amide assembly70
Heart of glass70
Isolation of halogen-substituted silylium ions70
Sensing RNA69
How polymers dance to the pulses of ultrasound69
Multi-compartment liposomes forge new paths in drug delivery69
Looking into luciferin69
Upcycling chlorinated trash into synthetic organic treasure69
Future-proofing calcium fluoride68
Photoswitchable latent monomers enable on‑demand metathesis68
Checking out metal cluster chemistry from living libraries68
Prebiotic synthesis of α-amino acids and orotate from α-ketoacids potentiates transition to extant metabolic pathways68
Discovery of the selenium-containing antioxidant ovoselenol derived from convergent evolution67
Tandem intermolecular [4 + 2] cycloadditions are catalysed by glycosylated enzymes for natural product biosynthesis66
Total synthesis of nine longiborneol sesquiterpenoids using a functionalized camphor strategy65
Quantum simulation of conical intersections using trapped ions65
Scalable and selective deuteration of (hetero)arenes65
Chiral control of spin-crossover dynamics in Fe(II) complexes64
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking64
Masked alkynes for synthesis of threaded carbon chains64
A crystalline stannyne64
Janus-type emission from a cyclometalated iron(iii) complex64
Mapping the mechanisms of oxidative addition in cross-coupling reactions catalysed by phosphine-ligated Ni(0)63
Enabling late-stage drug diversification by high-throughput experimentation with geometric deep learning63
Asymmetric dearomative single-atom skeletal editing of indoles and pyrroles62
Asymmetric construction of sulfur(VI)–fluorine cores61
The importance of community as a pre-tenure faculty member61
Establishing the fundamental rules for genetic code expansion61
Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts61
Positive climate changes61
Mimicking the structure and function of tau folds associated with disease60
Cyclopropenium functionalization60
Adaptive insertion of a hydrophobic anchor into a poly(ethylene glycol) host for programmable surface functionalization59
The dynamics of agonist-β2-adrenergic receptor activation induced by binding of GDP-bound Gs protein59
Structure-specific amyloid precipitation in biofluids59
Ribose at the heart of life58
On gene silencing by the X10-23 DNAzyme58
Electric field maps in enzymes58
A bismuth-based analogue of the π-allyl cation58
Olefin π-coordination chemistry at low-oxidation-state boron57
Using supramolecular machinery to engineer directional charge propagation in photoelectrochemical devices56
Polymer connectivity governs electrophotocatalytic activity in the solid state56
Non-enzymatic methylcyclization of alkenes55
Programmable fluorescent aptamer-based RNA switches for rapid identification of point mutations55
Experimental quantitation of molecular conditions responsible for flow-induced polymer mechanochemistry55
Hydration entropy of cations regulates chloride ion diffusion during electrochemical chlorine evolution55
Multi-site programmable functionalization of alkenes via controllable alkene isomerization54
ChatGPT saves the day54
A terminal neptunium(V)–mono(oxo) complex54
Enantioconvergent radical addition of racemic alkyl halides to access vicinal stereocentres54
A lithium–aluminium heterobimetallic dimetallocene54
Uniform segmented platelet micelles with compositionally distinct and selectively degradable cores54
Photocatalytic nitrogen fixation under an ambient atmosphere using a porous coordination polymer with bridging dinitrogen anions53
Ten-electron count rule for the binding of adsorbates on single-atom alloy catalysts53
Zinc and manganese redox potentials in organic solvents and their influence on nickel-catalysed cross-electrophile coupling53
Exciton annihilation in molecular aggregates suppressed through quantum interference53
Encoding signal propagation on topology-programmed DNA origami53
Copper-catalysed asymmetric cross-coupling reactions tolerant of highly reactive radicals53
Designer peptide–DNA cytoskeletons regulate the function of synthetic cells52
Rings of power52
The gas-phase formation mechanism of iodic acid as an atmospheric aerosol source52
Chemical testing52
A molecular sandwich with a lithium–aluminium filling52
End-of-life upcycling of polyurethanes using a room temperature, mechanism-based degradation52
Doing away with radium’s proxies52
How many roads must a woman walk down?52
Stereoselective alkylation of saturated heterocycles51
A para- to meta-isomerization of phenols51
Author Correction: Moiré two-dimensional covalent organic framework superlattices51
Author Correction: Introducing metal–sulfur active sites in metal–organic frameworks via post-synthetic modification for hydrogenation catalysis51
Isolation and characterization of a two-coordinate phosphinidene oxide51
Flexible interaction patches lead to building blocks with fluctuating valency51
Reducing the carbon footprint of chemistry labs51
Molecular basis for the diversification of lincosamide biosynthesis by pyridoxal phosphate-dependent enzymes51
Active template strategy for the preparation of π-conjugated interlocked nanocarbons50
Hydrogenative double-bond deuteration50
Heteromultivalency enables enhanced detection of nucleic acid mutations49
Colouring by force49
Photoinduced stepwise charge hopping in π-stacked perylene bisimide donor–bridge–acceptor arrays49
Selection of a promiscuous minimalist cAMP phosphodiesterase from a library of de novo designed proteins48
Diversified ring expansion of saturated cyclic amines enabled by azlactone insertion48
Nanoparticle stereochemistry-dependent endocytic processing improves in vivo mRNA delivery48
Hydrophobic assembly of molecular catalysts at the gas–liquid–solid interface drives highly selective CO2 electromethanation48
Hydrogen splitting at a single phosphorus centre and its use for hydrogenation48
A general alkene aminoarylation enabled by N-centred radical reactivity of sulfinamides48
Direct conversion of white phosphorus to versatile phosphorus transfer reagents via oxidative onioation47
Near-infrared-activated anticancer platinum(IV) complexes directly photooxidize biomolecules in an oxygen-independent manner47
Decarboxylative cross-nucleophile coupling via ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoexcitation of Cu(ii) carboxylates47
Chemical upcycling of commodity thermoset polyurethane foams towards high-performance 3D photo-printing resins47
Interweaving different metal–organic frameworks47
Ion-pair reorganization regulates reactivity in photoredox catalysts47
From geranium lakes to catalysis with light46
Building ultramicroporous zirconium metal‒organic frameworks with ligands of high coordination density through a reticular approach46
Recyclable and malleable thermosets enabled by activating dormant dynamic linkages46
Structural basis of the Meinwald rearrangement catalysed by styrene oxide isomerase46
Reconfiguring hydrogel assemblies using a photocontrolled metallopolymer adhesive for multiple customized functions46
Efficient room-temperature phosphorescence of covalent organic frameworks through covalent halogen doping46
Publisher Correction: OregonFluor enables quantitative intracellular paired agent imaging to assess drug target availability in live cells and tissues46
Different timescales during ultrafast stilbene isomerization in the gas and liquid phases revealed using time-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy46
Synthesis of highly strained para-cyclophanes via ring-expansion [5,5]-sigmatropic rearrangement reaction45
Mirror-image trypsin digestion and sequencing of D-proteins45
The fruit fly of photophysics45
Selective arylation of atypical C–F bonds in polyfluoroarenes with aryl chlorides45
Recyclable plastics from a manganese catalyst45
Modular enantioselective access to β-amino amides by Brønsted acid-catalysed multicomponent reactions45
Intramolecular alkene and functional group translocation44
Icing a three-layer cake for predictive modelling of adsorption44
WT19F44
An unnatural base pair for the detection of epigenetic cytosine modifications in DNA44
Critical race theory and its relevance for chemistry44
Iterative synthesis of 1,3-polyboronic esters with high stereocontrol and application to the synthesis of bahamaolide A43
Observation of robust energy transfer in the photosynthetic protein allophycocyanin using single-molecule pump–probe spectroscopy43
Quinine fever43
Structure-informed design of an ultrabright RNA-activated fluorophore43
Copper catalysed asymmetric amination43
Emulsion-oriented assembly for Janus double-spherical mesoporous nanoparticles as biological logic gates42
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