Chemical Science Blog

We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles for April. To see all of our HOT referee-recommended articles from 2019, please find the collection here.

As always, Chemical Science articles are free to access.

The full dynamics of energy relaxation in large organic molecules: from photo-excitation to solvent heating

Vytautas Balevičius Jr, Tiejun Wei, Devis Di Tommaso, Darius Abramavicius, Jürgen Hauer, Tomas Polívka and Christopher D. P. Duffy*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4792-4804

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00410F, Edge Article

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Chiral diversification through the assembly of achiral phenylacetylene macrocycles with a two-fold bridge

Ryo Katoono,* Keiichi Kusaka, Yuki Saito, Kazuki Sakamoto and Takanori Suzuki

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4782-4791

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00972H, Edge Article

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NosL is a dedicated copper chaperone for assembly of the CuZ center of nitrous oxide reductase

Sophie P. Bennett, Manuel J. Soriano-Laguna, Justin M. Bradley, Dimitri A. Svistunenko, David J. Richardson, Andrew J. Gates* and Nick E. Le Brun

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4985-4993

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC01053J, Edge Article

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Brønsted acid catalysis – the effect of 3,3′-substituents on the structural space and the stabilization of imine/phosphoric acid complexes

Maxime Melikian, Johannes Gramüller, Johnny Hioe, Julian Greindl and Ruth M. Gschwind*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 5226-5234

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC01044K, Edge Article

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Theoretical design of a technetium-like alloy and its catalytic properties

Wei Xie* and Michihisa Koyama*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 5461-5469

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00912D, Edge Article

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Highly regioselective complexation of tungsten with Eu@C82/Eu@C84: interplay between endohedral and exohedral metallic units induced by electron transfer

Lipiao Bao, Pengyuan Yu, Ying Li, Changwang Pan, Wangqiang Shen, Peng Jin,* Shuquan Liang* and Xing Lu*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4945-4950

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC01479A, Edge Article

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We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles for March. To see all of our HOT referee-recommended articles from 2019, please find the collection here.

As always, Chemical Science articles are free to access.

The antioxidant activity of polysulfides: it’s radical!

Jean-Philippe R. Chauvin, Markus Griesser and Derek A. Pratt*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4999-5010

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00276F, Edge Article

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Anisotropic strain release in a thermosalient crystal: correlation between the microscopic orientation of molecular rearrangements and the macroscopic mechanical motion

Tomohiro Seki,* Takaki Mashimo and Hajime Ito*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4185-4191

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05563G, Edge Article

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Alkali metal complexes of an enantiopure iminophosphonamide ligand with bright delayed fluorescence

Thomas J. Feuerstein, Bhupendra Goswami, Pascal Rauthe, Ralf Köppe, Sergei Lebedkin, Manfred M. Kappes and Peter W. Roesky*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4742-4749

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00629J, Edge Article

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Direct observation of prion protein oligomer formation reveals an aggregation mechanism with multiple conformationally distinct species

Jason C. Sang, Ji-Eun Lee, Alexander J. Dear, Suman De, Georg Meisl, Alana M. Thackray, Raymond Bujdoso, Tuomas P. J. Knowles and David Klenerman*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4588-4597

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05627G, Edge Article

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Using coligands to gain mechanistic insight into iridium complexes hyperpolarized with para-hydrogen

Ben. J. Tickner, Richard O. John, Soumya S. Roy, Sam J. Hart, Adrian C. Whitwood and Simon B. Duckett*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, Advance Article

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00444K, Edge Article

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Direct conversion of phenols into primary anilines with hydrazine catalyzed by palladium

Zihang Qiu, Leiyang Lv, Jianbin Li, Chen-Chen Li and Chao-Jun Li*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 4775-4781

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00595A, Edge Article

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We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles for February. To see all of our HOT referee-recommended articles from 2019, please find the collection here.

As always, Chemical Science articles are free to access.

Cooperativity basis for small-molecule stabilization of protein-protein interactions

Pim J. de Vink, Sebastian A. Andrei, Yusuke Higuchi, Christian Ottmann, Lech-Gustav Milroy and Luc Brunsveld*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 2869-2874

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05242E, Edge Article

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Acyclic 1,2-Dimagnesioethanes/-ethene Derived from Magnesium(I) Compounds: Multipurpose Reagents for Organometallic Synthesis

Deepak Dange, Andrew R. Gair, Dafydd D. L. Jones, Martin Juckel, Simon Aldridge and Cameron Jones*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3208-3216

DOI: 10.1039/C9SC00200F, Edge Article

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Catalytic Radical Difluoromethoxylation of Arenes and Heteroarenes

Johnny W. Lee, Weijia Zheng, Cristian A. Morales-Rivera, Peng Liu* and Ming-Yu Ngai*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3217-3222

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05390A, Edge Article

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Revising measurement process in the variational quantum eigensolver: Is it possible to reduce the number of separately measured operators?

Artur F. Izmaylov,* Tzu-Ching Yen and Ilya G. Ryabinkin

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3746-3755

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05592K, Edge Article

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A dinuclear ruthenium(II) phototherapeutic that targets duplex and quadruplex DNA

Stuart A. Archer, Ahtasham Raza, Fabian Dröge, Craig Robertson, Alexander J. Auty, Dimitri Chekulaev, Julia A. Weinstein, Theo Keane, Anthony J. H. M. Meijer, John W. Haycock,* Sheila MacNeil* and James A. Thomas*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3502-3513

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05084H, Edge Article

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Facile synthesis of AIEgens with wide color tunability for cellular imaging and therapy

Wenhan Xu, Michelle M. S. Lee, Zhihan Zhang, Herman H. Y. Sung, Ian D. Williams, Ryan T. K. Kwok, Jacky W. Y. Lam, Dong Wang* and Ben Zhong Tang*

Chem. Sci., 2019, 10, 3494-3501

DOI: 10.1039/C8SC05805A, Edge Article

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