Chemical Science Blog

We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles for October. 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.

CsAlB₃O₆F: a beryllium-free deep-ultraviolet nonlinear optical material with enhanced thermal stability

Hongkun Liu, Ying Wang,  Bingbing Zhang, Zhihua Yang and Shilie Pan

Chem Sci., 2019, Advance Article

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Programmable dynamic covalent nanoparticle building blocks with complementary reactivity

Nicolas Marro, Flavio della Sala and Euan R. Kay

Chem Sci., 2020, Advance Article

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Aqueous microdroplets containing only ketones or aldehydes undergo Dakin and Baeyer–Villiger reactions

Dan Gao,  Feng Jin,  Jae Kyoo Lee and Richard N. Zare

Chem Sci., 2019, 10, 10974-10978        

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Significantly improved electrocatalytic oxygen reduction by an asymmetrical Pacman dinuclear cobalt(ii) porphyrin–porphyrin dyad

Yanju Liu, Guojun Zhou, Zongyao Zhang, Haitao Lei, Zhen Yao, Jianfeng Li, Jun Lin and Rui Cao

Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article

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Ptychographic X-ray tomography reveals additive zoning in nanocomposite single crystals

Johannes Ihli, Mark A. Levenstein, Yi-Yeoun Kim, Klaus Wakonig, Yin Ning, Aikaterini Tatani, Alexander N. Kulak, David C. Green, Mirko Holler, Steven P. Armes and Fiona C. Meldrum

Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article

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Biosynthesis of plant tetrahydroisoquinoline alkaloids through an imine reductase route

Lu Yang, Jinmei Zhu, Chenghai Sun, Zixin Deng and Xudong Qu

Chem. Sci., 2020, Advance Article

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We are happy to present a selection of our HOT articles for October. 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.

Development of a DUB-selective fluorogenic substrate

Lorina Gjonaj, Aysegul Sapmaz, Dennis Flierman, George M. C. Janssen, Peter A. van Veelen and Huib Ovaa

ChemSci., 2019, 10, 10290-10296

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Facile triflic acid-catalyzed α-1,2-cis-thio glycosylations: scope and application to the synthesis of S-linked oligosaccharides, glycolipids, sublancin glycopeptides, and T_N/T_F antigens

Sanyong Zhu, Ganesh Samala, Eric T. Sletten, Jennifer L. Stockdill and Hien M. Nguyen

ChemSci., 2019, 10, 10475 – 10480

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Preferential binding of unsaturated hydrocarbons in aryl-bisimidazolium·cucurbit[8]uril complexes furbishes evidence for small-molecule π–π interactions

Steven J. Barrow, Khaleel I. Assaf, Aniello Palma, Werner M. Nau and Oren A. Scherman

ChemSci., 2019, 10, 10240 – 10246

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Synthesis of bicyclo[3.1.0]hexanes by (3 + 2) annulation of cyclopropenes with aminocyclopropanes

Bastian Muriel, Alec Gagnebina and Jerome Waser

ChemSci., 2019, Advance Article

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Development of a hydrolysis-based small-molecule hydrogen selenide (H₂Se) donor

Turner D. Newton and Michael D. Pluth

ChemSci.,  2019, Advance Article

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Ruthenium based antimicrobial theranostics – using nanoscopy to identify therapeutic targets and resistance mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus

Kirsty L. Smitten, Simon D. Fairbanks, Craig C. Robertson, Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, Simon J. Foster and Jim A. Thomas

ChemSci.,  2019, Advance Article

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