OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Catalysis is 108. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling	903
PASADENA NMR	709
Greenwashed catalysis?	626
An NAD⁺ analogue enables assembly of structurally diverse artificial photoenzymes for enantiodivergent [2 + 2] cycloadditions	570
Enzyme-like water preorganization in a synthetic molecular cleft for homogeneous water oxidation catalysis	544
Exploration of the bio-analogous asymmetric C–C coupling mechanism in tandem CO2 electroreduction	525
Imagine polypropylene	518
Electrocatalytic upcycling of high-pressure captured CO2 to ethylene	517
Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis	508
Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase	485
N-between the aryls	477
Bioproduction from methanol	477
Enantio- and diastereoselective construction of vicinal C(sp3) centres via nickel-catalysed hydroalkylation of alkenes	378
Electrosynthesis of amino acids from NO and α-keto acids using two decoupled flow reactors	363
Enhancing the connection between computation and experiments in electrocatalysis	349
Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields	345
Localized thermal levering events drive spontaneous kinetic oscillations during CO oxidation on Rh/Al2O3	332
Zn2+-mediated catalysis for fast-charging aqueous Zn-ion batteries	327
Double alkyl–alkyl bond construction across alkenes enabled by nickel electron-shuttle catalysis	321
Silver linings	320
Methanotrophic catalysis for methane oxidation to formaldehyde	316
Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water	302
Motorized catalysis	301
Pulsed away	298
Quantum computing for faster enzyme discovery and engineering	296

RNA-catalysed guanosine methylation	294
Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts	291
Density control	290
The synchronized catalytic dance of CRISPR-Cas9	284
Author Correction: Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase	282
Symbiotic oxides in catalysts	280
Direct conversion of methane with O2 at room temperature over edge-rich MoS2	278
Identifying and avoiding dead ends in the characterization of heterogeneous catalysts at the gas–solid interface	271
Understanding the interplay between electrocatalytic C(sp3)‒C(sp3) fragmentation and oxygenation reactions	252
Unified mechanistic understanding of CO2 reduction to CO on transition metal and single atom catalysts	246
Peripheral-nitrogen effects on the Ru1 centre for highly efficient propane dehydrogenation	235
Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents	235
H2-reduced phosphomolybdate promotes room-temperature aerobic oxidation of methane to methanol	232
Electrocatalytic hydrogenation of alkenes with Pd/carbon nanotubes at an oil–water interface	228
Behind the curtain	226
The iron-catalysed Suzuki coupling of aryl chlorides	223
Ternary platinum–cobalt–indium nanoalloy on ceria as a highly efficient catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane using CO2	222
Valence oscillation and dynamic active sites in monolayer NiCo hydroxides for water oxidation	222
Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation	222
O2 so good	220
Choreography of a self-splicing ribozyme	219
Heavy labels from gas surrogates	214
Optimizing iridium sites	212
The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics	206
Enzymatic catalysis favours eight-membered over five-membered ring closure in bicyclomycin biosynthesis	205
Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses	202
Active sites overcrowding	197
Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase	197
Exploring mesoscopic mass transport effects on electrocatalytic selectivity	191
Iron-catalysed cooperative redox mechanism for the simultaneous conversion of nitrous oxide and nitric oxide	188
Morphological and chemical state effects in pulsed CO2 electroreduction on Cu(100) unveiled by correlated spectro-microscopy	187
Electrolysis in tandem	187
Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion	183
Copper-catalysed enantioconvergent O-alkylation of alcohols with racemic α-tertiary haloamides to access enantioenriched hindered dialkyl ethers	178
Substrate promiscuity fuels biosynthesis success	177
Current state and future prospects of liquid metal catalysis	172
A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products	172
Probing electrolyte effects on cation-enhanced CO2 reduction on copper in acidic media	167
Steam methane reforming using a regenerable antenna–reactor plasmonic photocatalyst	167
Photoelectrochemical asymmetric dehydrogenative [2 + 2] cycloaddition between C–C single and double bonds via the activation of two C(sp3)–H bonds	167
The role of Cu1–O3 species in single-atom Cu/ZrO2 catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation	165
Solution-based Cu+ transient species mediate the reconstruction of copper electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction	162
Remote site-selective arene C–H functionalization enabled by N-heterocyclic carbene organocatalysis	157
One, two, three, four, five!	155
Ligand binding to a Ni–Fe cluster orchestrates conformational changes of the CO-dehydrogenase–acetyl-CoA synthase complex	154
Organocatalytic acylation of remote arene C–H bonds	154
Reassessment of the catalytic activity of bismuth for aqueous nitrogen electroreduction	150
Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis	149
Bubble trouble	148
Modulation to probe the interface	142

Concerted methane fixation at ambient temperature and pressure mediated by an alcohol oxidase and Fe-ZSM-5 catalytic couple	140
Catalytic borylation of tertiary C–H bonds	136
Catalysing rate and capacity	134
Germanium-enriched double-four-membered-ring units inducing zeolite-confined subnanometric Pt clusters for efficient propane dehydrogenation	132
Organocatalytic olefin C–H functionalization for enantioselective synthesis of atropisomeric 1,3-dienes	131
Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds	130
In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling	130
Lengthened by ethylene	130
Author Correction: Stereoselective alkyl–alkyl cross-coupling	129
Blowing in the tube	129
Tailored for semi-hydrogenation	127
CYP screening for a better terpenoid world	127
Publisher Correction: Parahydrogen-enhanced magnetic resonance identification of intermediates in [Fe]-hydrogenase catalysis	126
Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides	126
Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts	125
A fine adjustment	125
Understanding Mn-modulated restructuring of Fe-based catalysts for controlling selectivity in CO2 hydrogenation to olefins	124
Active-site isolation in intermetallics enables precise identification of elementary reaction kinetics during olefin hydrogenation	122
Electrosynthesis of ethylene glycol from ethylene coupled with CO2 capture	120
Frustration-driven efficiency	119
Cobalt-catalysed alkene hydronitration enabled by anomeric nitroamide	116
Bridging catalysis	114
Enantioselective Chan–Lam S-arylation of sulfenamides	114
Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification	114
Ammonia synthesis via an engineered nitrogenase assembly pathway in Escherichia coli	114
Synthesis of tri- and tetrasubstituted stereocentres by nickel-catalysed enantioselective olefin cross-couplings	113
A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol	113
Reactant-induced dynamics of lithium imide surfaces during the ammonia decomposition process	113
Step bunching instability and its effects in electrocatalysis on platinum surfaces	113
Uniting biological and chemical strategies for selective CO2 reduction	111
High-purity carbon monoxide production via photothermal formic acid decomposition over fluorite ZrO2	111
Cationic-group-functionalized electrocatalysts enable stable acidic CO2 electrolysis	108
Terpene synthases in giant viruses	108
An efficient Morita–Baylis–Hillmanase	108