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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for July 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

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Browse a selection of our July HOT articles below:

Physically inspired deep learning of molecular excitations and photoemission spectra
Julia Westermayr and Reinhard J. Maurer
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Synthesis and enantioseparation of chiral Au₁₃ nanoclusters protected by bis-N-heterocyclic carbene ligands
Hong Yi, Kimberly M. Osten, Tetyana I. Levchenko, Alex J. Veinot, Yoshitaka Aramaki, Takashi Ooi, Masakazu Nambo and Cathleen M. Crudden
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

A copper-free and enzyme-free click chemistry-mediated single quantum dot nanosensor for accurate detection of microRNAs in cancer cells and tissues
Zi-yue Wang, Dong-ling Li, Xiaorui Tian and Chun-yang Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Azanone (HNO): generation, stabilization and detection
Cecilia Mariel Gallego, Agostina Mazzeo, Paola Vargas, Sebastián Suárez, Juan Pellegrino and Fabio Doctorovich
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Coumarin luciferins and mutant luciferases for robust multi-component bioluminescence imaging
Zi Yao, Donald R. Caldwell, Anna C. Love, Bethany Kolbaba-Kartchner, Jeremy H. Mills, Martin J. Schnermann and Jennifer A. Prescher
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Conformational interplay in hybrid peptide–helical aromatic foldamer macrocycles
Sebastian Dengler, Pradeep K. Mandal, Lars Allmendinger, Céline Douat and Ivan Huc
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for June 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

You can explore our full 2021 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection here!

Browse a selection of our June HOT articles below:

[GaF(H₂O)][IO₃F]: a promising NLO material obtained by anisotropic polycation substitution
Qian-Ming Huang, Chun-Li Hu, Bing-Ping Yang, Zhi Fang, Yuan Lin, Jin Chen, Bing-Xuan Li and Jiang-Gao Mao
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Photocleavable proteins that undergo fast and efficient dissociation
Xiaocen Lu, Yurong Wen, Shuce Zhang, Wei Zhang, Yilun Chen, Yi Shen, M. Joanne Lemieux and Robert E. Campbell
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Electrochemically switchable polymerization from surface-anchored molecular catalysts
Miao Qi, Haochuan Zhang, Qi Dong, Jingyi Li, Rebecca A. Musgrave, Yanyan Zhao, Nicholas Dulock, Dunwei Wang and Jeffery A. Byers
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Flow electrochemistry: a safe tool for fluorine chemistry
Bethan Winterson, Tim Rennigholtz and Thomas Wirth
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Biomimetic enterobactin analogue mediates iron-uptake and cargo transport into E. coli and P. aeruginosa
Robert Zscherp, Janetta Coetzee, Johannes Vornweg, Jörg Grunenberg, Jennifer Herrmann, Rolf Müller and Philipp Klahn
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Sensitization-initiated electron transfer via upconversion: mechanism and photocatalytic applications
Felix Glaser, Christoph Kerzig and Oliver S. Wenger
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for May 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

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Browse a selection of our May HOT articles below:

Aromatic side-chain flips orchestrate the conformational sampling of functional loops in human histone deacetylase 8
Vaibhav Kumar Shukla, Lucas Siemons, Francesco L. Gervasio and D. Flemming Hansen
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Blue-conversion of organic dyes produces artifacts in multicolor fluorescence imaging
Do-Hyeon Kim, Yeonho Chang, Soyeon Park, Min Gyu Jeong, Yonghoon Kwon, Kai Zhou, Jungeun Noh, Yun-Kyu Choi, Triet Minh Hong, Young-Tae Chang and Sung Ho Ryu
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Controllable DNA strand displacement by independent metal–ligand complexation
Liang-Liang Wang, Qiu-Long Zhang, Yang Wang, Yan Liu, Jiao Lin, Fan Xie and Liang Xu
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Spatial-confinement induced electroreduction of CO and CO₂ to diols on densely-arrayed Cu nanopyramids
Ling Chen, Cheng Tang, Kenneth Davey, Yao Zheng, Yan Jiao and Shi-Zhang Qiao
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Manipulating valence and core electronic excitations of a transition-metal complex using UV/Vis and X-ray cavities
Bing Gu, Stefano M. Cavaletto, Daniel R. Nascimento, Munira Khalil, Niranjan Govind and Shaul Mukamel
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for April 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

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Browse a selection of our April HOT articles below:

Reaction-based machine learning representations for predicting the enantioselectivity of organocatalysts
Simone Gallarati, Raimon Fabregat, Rubén Laplaza, Sinjini Bhattacharjee, Matthew D. Wodrich and Clemence Corminboeuf
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Deaminative meta-C–H alkylation by ruthenium(ii) catalysis
Wen Wei, Hao Yu, Agnese Zangarelli and Lutz Ackermann
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Prediction and mitigation of mutation threats to COVID-19 vaccines and antibody therapies
Jiahui Chen, Kaifu Gao, Rui Wang and Guo-Wei Wei
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Recent advances in single atom catalysts for the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction
Jincheng Zhang, Weizheng Cai, Fang Xin Hu, Hongbin Yang and Bin Liu
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Wavy graphene sheets from electrochemical sewing of corannulene
Carlo Bruno, Eleonora Ussano, Gianni Barucca, Davide Vanossi, Giovanni Valenti, Edward A. Jackson, Andrea Goldoni, Lucio Litti, Simona Fermani, Luca Pasquali, Moreno Meneghetti, Claudio Fontanesi, Lawrence T. Scott, Francesco Paolucci and Massimo Marcaccio
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Oxidative additions of alkynyl/vinyl iodides to gold and gold-catalyzed vinylation reactions triggered by the MeDalphos ligand
Jessica Rodriguez, Alexis Tabey, Sonia Mallet-Ladeira and Didier Bourissou
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for March 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

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Browse a selection of our March HOT articles below:

Photoactive electron donor–acceptor complex platform for Ni-mediated C(sp³)–C(sp²) bond formation
Lisa Marie Kammer, Shorouk O. Badir, Ren-Ming Hu and Gary A. Molander
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Exploiting host–guest chemistry to manipulate magnetic interactions in metallosupramolecular M₄L₆ tetrahedral cages
Aaron J. Scott, Julia Vallejo, Arup Sarkar, Lucy Smythe, E. Regincós Martí, Gary S. Nichol, Wim T. Klooster, Simon J. Coles, Mark Murrie, Gopalan Rajaraman, Stergios Piligkos, Paul J. Lusby and Euan K. Brechin
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

DNA-based constitutional dynamic networks as functional modules for logic gates and computing circuit operations
Zhixin Zhou, Jianbang Wang, R. D. Levine, Francoise Remacle and Itamar Willner
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Asymmetric synthesis of dihydro-1,3-dioxepines by Rh(ii)/Sm(iii) relay catalytic three-component tandem [4 + 3]-cycloaddition
Chaoran Xu, Jianglin Qiao, Shunxi Dong, Yuqiao Zhou, Xiaohua Liu and Xiaoming Feng
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Targeted 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition with acrolein for cancer prodrug activation
Ambara R. Pradipta, Peni Ahmadi, Kazuki Terashima, Kyohei Muguruma, Motoko Fujii, Tomoya Ichino, Satoshi Maeda and Katsunori Tanaka
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Three-membered cyclic digermylenes stabilised by an N-heterocyclic carbene
Zhaowen Dong, Jan Mathis Winkler, Marc Schmidtmann and Thomas Müller
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New month, new HOT articles!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for February 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

You can explore our full 2021 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection here!

Browse a selection of our February HOT articles below:

Towards the rational design of ylide-substituted phosphines for gold(i)-catalysis: from inactive to ppm-level catalysis
Jens Handelmann, Chatla Naga Babu, Henning Steinert, Christopher Schwarz, Thorsten Scherpf, Alexander Kroll and Viktoria H. Gessner;
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Ruthenium-catalyzed formal sp³ C–H activation of allylsilanes/esters with olefins: efficient access to functionalized 1,3-dienes
Dattatraya H. Dethe, Nagabhushana C. Beeralingappa, Saikat Das and Appasaheb K. Nirpal
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Symmetry-related residues as promising hotspots for the evolution of de novo oligomeric enzymes
Jaeseung Yu, Jinsol Yang, Chaok Seok and Woon Ju Song
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Desymmetrised pentaporphyrinic gears mounted on metallo-organic anchors
Seifallah Abid, Yohan Gisbert, Mitsuru Kojima, Nathalie Saffon-Merceron, Jérôme Cuny, Claire Kammerer and Gwénaël Rapenne
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

The atomic-level regulation of single-atom site catalysts for the electrochemical CO₂ reduction reaction
Qingyun Qu, Shufang Ji, Yuanjun Chen, Dingsheng Wang and Yadong Li
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Chemical tuning of spin clock transitions in molecular monomers based on nuclear spin-free Ni(ii)
Marcos Rubín-Osanz, François Lambert, Feng Shao, Eric Rivière, Régis Guillot, Nicolas Suaud, Nathalie Guihéry, David Zueco, Anne-Laure Barra, Talal Mallah and Fernando Luis
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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New year, new HOT article collection!

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for January 2021. We hope you enjoy reading these articles and congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free to read & download.

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Browse a selection of our January HOT articles below:

Directed evolution of cyclic peptides for inhibition of autophagy
Joshua P. Gray, Md. Nasir Uddin, Rajan Chaudhari, Margie N. Sutton, Hailing Yang, Philip Rask, Hannah Locke, Brian J. Engel, Nefeli Batistatou, Jing Wang, Brian J. Grindel, Pratip Bhattacharya, Seth T. Gammon, Shuxing Zhang, David Piwnica-Worms, Joshua A. Kritzer, Zhen Lu, Robert C. Bast, Jr. and Steven W. Millward
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Conformational analysis by UV spectroscopy: the decisive contribution of environment-induced electronic Stark effects
Jeremy Donon, Sana Habka, Michel Mons, Valérie Brenner and Eric Gloaguen
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Identifying key mononuclear Fe species for low-temperature methane oxidation
Tao Yu, Zhi Li, Wilm Jones, Yuanshuai Liu, Qian He, Weiyu Song, Pengfei Du, Bing Yang, Hongyu An, Daniela M. Farmer, Chengwu Qiu, Aiqin Wang, Bert M. Weckhuysen, Andrew M. Beale and Wenhao Luo
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

A feasible approach for automatically differentiable unitary coupled-cluster on quantum computers
Jakob S. Kottmann, Abhinav Anand and Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

A photoswitchable strapped calix[4]pyrrole receptor: highly effective chloride binding and release
David Villarón, Maxime A. Siegler and Sander J. Wezenberg
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Controlling multiple orderings in metal thiocyanate molecular perovskites A_x{Ni[Bi(SCN)₆]}
Jie Yie Lee, Sanliang Ling, Stephen P. Argent, Mark S. Senn, Laura Cañadillas-Delgado and Matthew J. Cliffe
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

Structural elucidation of a methylenation reagent of esters: synthesis and reactivity of a dinuclear titanium(iii) methylene complex
Takashi Kurogi, Kaito Kuroki, Shunsuke Moritani and Kazuhiko Takai
Chem. Sci., 2021, Advance Article

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