April 2023 Chemical Science Reviews & Perspectives

Welcome to April’s Perspective & Review round up!

Our on-going 2023 Chemical Science Perspective & Review Collection showcases all of the Perspective and Review articles published in Chemical Science in 2023. You can find our 2022 collection here.

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

Explore the full collection!

 

Energy–structure–property relationships in uranium metal–organic frameworks
Sylvia L. Hanna and Omar K. Farha
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 4219-4229

Streamlining the interface between electronics and neural systems for bidirectional electrochemical communication
Wonkyung Cho, Sun-heui Yoon and Taek Dong Chung
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Light-induced homolysis of copper(ii)-complexes – a perspective for photocatalysis
Alexander Reichle and Oliver Reiser
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

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ChemSci Voices: an interview with Sheel Dodani

Sheel Dodani

 

 

We recently spoke to Sheel Dodani about her recent article ‘Discovery of a monomeric green fluorescent protein sensor for chloride by structure-guided bioinformatics’.

Sheel Dodani is currently an Associate Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at The University of Texas at Dallas. She describes herself as a supramolecular engineer whose work bridges the chemistry-biology interface, focusing on the inorganic chemistry of life. In her research program, she is interested in understanding and discovery of the roles that anions play in cellular homeostasis and signalling.

Read this blog post to learn more about the inspiration for Sheel’s research and how open access plays an important role in sharing her publications with the community.

 

 

 

Our interview with Sheel

Tell us about yourself and your recent publication in Chemical Science.

My name is Sheel Dodani, and I’m an Associate Professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Texas at Dallas. I started my research program in 2016, and today I’m going to share with you about the work we published in Chemical Science on the discovery of a fluorescent protein-based sensor for anions.

How did you get into this area of research? What was it that really inspired you?

That will take us back quite a few years ago to when I was a PhD student. I was studying how cations function in biological systems, but during my last year I was really inspired by the part that we weren’t talking about – the anions! Anions are largely considered to be the counterions of life, but they really have many functions ascribed to them. In my independent career, what I wanted to bring to the table was an understanding of how we can study anions in a biological context, and this is what really spurred us in this direction. How can we go into water and then a living cell and beat nature at its own game of interacting with an anion?  How do you isolate an anion in water? If you can’t do it with a molecule effectively, can you do it with a protein? So, when we started this project, we started thinking about both chemical and biological approaches. I thought that there was more synthetic diversity, per say, in a biological approach than what I could access with a traditional chemical approach. Our ideas are really rooted in the concept of supramolecular chemistry, where we think about the guest, that is an anion, and the protein as the host.

Can you tell us about the big step forward in your ChemSci paper, and what future direction you think the work might take?

This project really represents the springboard for us to move into cell biology. It is the first paper where we are starting to understand how we can put our technologies into a living cell and illuminate how anions function in biological systems. Now that we have all the necessary parts set up in our lab, we can continue to engineer new protein systems, learn how nature encodes anion binding, and also develop rigorous methods, so that we can widely disseminate our tools. I bring up the latter point because this is important as a toolmaker.

What do you hope your article can achieve? And who will benefit from it?

As a toolmaker, you want someone to use your tool to answer a question that they might be interested in. Even though you may not necessarily want to answer that specific question, one can enable it. I bring this up because the sensor that we have reported in this paper is now available to researchers on the Addgene website. It is very important to me that we can start to share our technologies with a wide range of researchers to accelerate new discoveries for the roles of anions in biology, while also advancing some of the questions that we are interested in answering.

So why did you choose to submit this paper to Chemical Science?

One of the major reasons we chose to submit our work to Chemical Science is the ability to reach a broad audience. We’re quite interdisciplinary in our approach to understand 1) how proteins bind anions in water and 2) how we can engineer proteins to then give us a functional output such that we can start to answer questions about anions in biological systems. So, I hope we can reach a wide range of readers who may have some overlapping interest with my research team’s goals.

We also draw inspiration from many of the authors in Chemical Science. Ultimately, can we teach someone something new with our work? Can we learn something new from someone else’s work? I see that in Chemical Science. Whenever I pick up an issue, I always learn something new, and hopefully by having this dialogue with you, someone will learn about our work as well.

How was your experience publishing with us?

I have enjoyed the process of publishing with Chemical Science. We know what is going on every step of the way. We can upload a PDF, which is easy. There is transparency and open communication in the process as well.

How do you feel about open science and our diamond open access policy?

Open science eliminates barriers to accessing knowledge. The diamond open access policy from Chemical Science shifts the responsibility away from the author to the publisher. This in turn allows authors to focus on sharing their scientific discoveries.

How has open access had an influence or impact on your research?

As a young research group, we opt for open access through preprints and journals. The reason for this is that we can rapidly share our work with a range of scientists who may not have direct overlap or even access to a particular journal. In doing so, we have already been able share our tools and initiate new collaborations.

What do you see as the longer-term impact of open access, and the benefits for the community?

Open access will rapidly equalize access to knowledge and drive research innovations across the globe in ways that we can only imagine. Unsurprisingly, the premise of open access is in line with the goals of a university professor, which is to educate in the classroom and the laboratory. In fact, what we teach from our textbooks was once a scientific discovery, but it has stood the test of time. I think the challenge going forward will be how do we effectively mine all the information that we have, but then again open access will possibly solve this, too!

 

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Chemical Science Reviewer Spotlight – April 2023

To further thank and recognise the support from our excellent reviewer community, we are highlighting reviewers who have provided exceptional support to the journal over the past year.

This month, we’ll be highlighting Fiona Hatton, Bettina Lotsch, Mahesh Hariharan and Shana Sturla. We asked our reviewers a few questions about what they enjoy about reviewing, and their thoughts on how to provide a useful review.

Fiona Hatton, Loughborough University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fiona Hatton, Loughborough University. Dr Hatton’s research interests are in sustainable polymer science, for example reducing single use plastic by focussing on reuse systems, facilitated by labelling of packaging. Within this theme she also researches renewable monomer synthesis and polymerisation using water-based techniques, with a focus on copolymer self-assembly.

Bettina Lotsch, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bettina Lotsch, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Professor Lotsch’s research focuses on the synthesis of multifunctional materials for energy conversion and storage, including molecular frameworks (COFs and MOFs), solid-state electrolytes, and 2D materials.

Mahesh Hariharan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mahesh Hariharan, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram. Professor Hariharan’s research group focuses on understanding light-matter interactions in organic molecules and biomolecules. They work towards synthesizing novel and diverse molecular architectures, and investigating the ultrafast processes through experimental and theoretical methods.

Shana Sturla, ETH Zürich

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shana Sturla, ETH Zürich. Professor Sturla aims to understand how chemicals that are in our foods, environment or drugs influence biochemical processes. For this purpose, and to advance disease prevention and therapy, Shana develops and implements highly precise methods to track the fate of chemicals in cells.

 

 

What encouraged you to review for Chemical Science?

Bettina Lotsch: For me, reviewing is a service to the community, and I enjoy reviewing high quality papers with interdisciplinary content the most – like those submitted to Chemical Science 😉

Fiona Hatton: The journal is known for its excellent reputation and for reporting high quality science, so I was happy to review for the journal. My first two research papers from my PhD are published in Chem Sci so it has a special place in my publishing journey!

Shana Sturla: Chemical Science publishes excellent work in diverse and interdisciplinary areas of chemistry, and I have had a positive experience publishing in the journal. Therefore, I feel it is my obligation to also offer support to the review process for other authors.

 

What do you enjoy most about reviewing?

Mahesh Hariharan: The opportunity to contribute towards enhancing the quality of research that is made available to the scientific community makes reviewing an enjoyable activity.

Bettina Lotsch: The fact that I can share my insights with colleagues through peer-review, and help to improve or refine a manuscript before it gets published.

Shana Sturla: If I can offer suggestions for authors to improve the quality of their work.

 

Do you have any advice to our readers seeking publication in Chemical Science on what makes a good paper?

Mahesh Hariharan: When publishing in a top-tier journal like Chemical Science, it is important that the study is thorough and also curated into an interesting story that conveys its novelty. Good papers should further encourage readers to think in new directions.

 

What advice would you give a first-time author looking to maximise their chances of successful peer review?

Fiona Hatton: If I could offer one piece of advice it would be to make sure that any claims you make in the manuscript are substantiated by evidence, either experimentally or from literature – my biggest ‘bug bear’ is when data presented does not support the authors’ claims.  Another would be to make sure graphs/Figures can be easily read by someone not familiar with the work and are not too busy or overloaded.

Did reviewing for Chemical Science affect how you approached preparation of your recent publication with us?

Bettina Lotsch: I do learn from reviewing in many ways. In preparing a manuscript (for Chemical Science and generally), I try to put myself in a reviewer’s shoes and reflect on its strengths and weaknesses. “What would a reviewer say?” is a very helpful question to ask when preparing a manuscript.

 

Tune in next month to meet our next group of #ChemSciReviewers!

 

If you want to learn more about how we support our reviewers, check out our Reviewer Hub.

Interested in joining our ever-growing reviewer community? Apply here now!

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Chemical Science Newsletter – March 2023

A roundup of news from the first quarter of 2023

Chemical Science

 

Welcome to your Chemical Science Newsletter

Welcome to the first Chemical Science newsletter of 2023! We ended last year on a high with the first in person Chemical Science symposium since 2019 and this year we’ve seen some major changes to our Scientific Editor team – read on to find out about our new editors. Additionally, Scientific Editor Sophie shares her experience of attending the MASC meeting in December, and we have highlights from the ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field Symposium. Finally, we are excited to announce that the next Chemical Science symposium will be held on 26-27 October, both in London and online – this year’s theme is the chemistry of polymers, so be sure to save the date!

 

Catch up with your Chemical Science team

We are excited to introduce three new Scientific Editors that have joined the Chemical Science team in 2023. Join us in welcoming Richard, Jingtao and Esther.

 

Richard ThompsonRichard Thompson

Richard Thompson obtained his PhD in polymer and surface science at the University of Leeds, UK, having also previously completed his BSc and MSc degrees in chemistry at Leeds. His research focussed on using plasma treatments and plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition processes to provide surface modifications to polymer/textile materials.

Richard joins the Chemical Science team having previously worked as an editor within the RSC on the journals Green Chemistry and Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics.

 

 

Jingtao Huang

 

Jingtao Huang

Jingtao Huang completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, after obtaining his BSc and MSc degrees in chemistry from Xiamen University, China, and University of Washington, Seattle, US, respectively. His research focused on functional nanomaterials in heterogeneous catalysis, energy storage and conversion and sensing.

Jingtao joins the Chemical Science team having previously worked as an editor with Chemistry – A European Journal and ChemElectroChem, and is based in our Shanghai office.

 

Esther Johnston

 

Esther Johnston

Esther Johnston completed a PhD in bioinorganic chemistry at Stanford University in 2015 working with Professor Edward Solomon, and then worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the University of York with Prof. Paul Walton and Prof. Gideon Davies. Her research used spectroscopy to explore the mechanisms of copper-containing metalloenzymes.

Esther joins the Chemical Science team having previously worked as an editor within the RSC on the journals Journal of Materials Chemistry A, Nanoscale, RSC Chemical Biology, and Sensors & Diagnostics.

 

Sophie Orchard

 

Highlights from the Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry Group meeting, Sophie Orchard (Scientific Editor)

“In December I had the pleasure of attending the 2022 Royal Society of Chemistry’s Macrocyclic and Supramolecular Chemistry (MASC) Group’s annual meeting, held in Nottingham, representing Chemical Science. The meeting, held over 2 days, covered the breadth of supramolecular and macrocyclic chemistry with 21 academic talks and an impressive 134 poster presentations. I spoke with many authors, students and readers, gaining feedback on how Chemical Science can best serve the community. The meeting had a very welcoming environment, and it was clear all attendees have a real passion for the field. I look forward to attending the 2023 MASC Meeting which will be held in Birmingham.”

 

Contact us at chemicalscience-rsc@rsc.org if you are attending a conference and would like to connect with our editors.

Click here to find out more about the editorial office team

ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field

The ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field symposium took place at JNCASR, Bangalore, in January and showcased the rapidly growing chemistry community in India. Our Executive Editor, May Copsey, and Associate Editors, Serena DeBeer and Steve Goldup, attended this exciting event which acted as a forum for sharing developments within the Indian chemistry community.

 

May Copsey

 

“My greatest impression from the meeting was of the enthusiasm for research and the discussion coming from the younger researchers who were attending the meeting. It really emphasized to me the world-class chemical science research that is being done in India, and I’m excited about what we can expect to see from this next generation of leaders in the future”  May Copsey, Executive Editor

Steve Goldup, Associate Editor

 

“At Chemical Science, we regularly receive excellent manuscripts from groups based in India, but seeing talk after talk from outstanding Indian scientists during the symposium really hammered home the quality of research being carried out in the country. I was also extremely impressed by the calibre of the students and postdocs during the poster sessions, all of whom explained their results enthusiastically and clearly, and were able to discuss both the details of their experiments and the wider context of their work.Steve Goldup, Associate Editor
Serena DeBeer, Associate Editor

 

“I was really impressed by all the exciting science, the great talks and the lively discussions. The opportunity to get to know many of India’s rising stars in the chemical sciences, and also to meet so many talented students, was a real highlight. And last but certainly not least, the extremely kind hospitality of our hosts made me feel very welcome and is very much appreciated. I very much look forward to returning to India again soon!” Serena DeBeer, Associate Editor

 

 

Anju A K, JNCASR, IndiaMany students took part in the ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field symposium, including Anju A K,  who received a “Best Poster” prize for her research. We wish Anju the best with developing and continuing her research in this exciting area!

“The symposium had an excellent line-up of speakers who talked about their amazing scientific contributions to cutting-edge research.

I was also so fortunate to take part in the poster session and discuss my research problem with eminent scientists. The work I explained in my poster was on ‘a through-space donor-acceptor charge-transfer approach to control between different triplet harvesting pathways’. The fruitful discussions also helped me to get some insights to carry out my project forward.” Anju A K, JNCASR, India

 

 

Read the full round-up of this event on our blog post.

Editorial Board Focus

Our 2022 Chemical Science symposium was on sustainable synthesis and catalysis. Catch up on all the excitement below in Andrei and Paolo’s joint round-up of the event.

In early November of 2022, the Royal Society of Chemistry convened an international conference dedicated to sustainability in chemical synthesis. The event was headlined by David MacMillan (2021 Chemistry Nobel Laureate) of Princeton University, who shared his lab’s recent advances in photoredox catalysis. Given Dave’s involvement with Chemical Science as the founding Editor-in-Chief, his talk was particularly meaningful and set the tone for the rest of the conference.

No conference is complete without an engaging poster session and this RSC event was no exception: throughout the two-day conference, the participants had a chance to mingle with each other and enjoy posters. Like the selection of talks, the science described in the poster session represented a broad range of research topics and was a testament to the diversity of contributors.

Overall, the Chemical Science symposium on ‘Sustainable synthesis and catalysis’ offered a unique opportunity for networking and discussing the synthetic chemistry of the future.

Read the full comments from Andrei and Paolo on our blog post.

Andrei Yudin Chemical Science Associate Editor

 

Newest Associate Editors

In 2022, we welcomed both Zaiping Guo and Malika Jeffries-EL to the Chemical Science Editorial Board. Zaiping’s research focuses on the design and application of electrode materials and electrolytes for energy storage and conversion, including rechargeable batteries, hydrogen storage, and fuel cells. Malika’s research involves the design and synthesis of organic semiconductors for use in OLEDs and OPVs.

Find out more about the scientific interests of Malika and Zaiping in their Editor’s Choice collections:

 

Editor’s Choice: Zaiping Guo Editor’s Choice: Malika Jeffries-EL
Prof. Zaiping Guo Malika Jeffries-EL

 

Find out more about all our editorial board members here

Themed Collections

Reviewer Spotlight

 

Bioorthogonal and click chemistry: Celebrating the 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

December 2022- Venkat Kapil, Shina Kamerlin, Douglas Stephan, Ruth Brenk
 

Quantum computing and quantum information storage: Celebrating the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics

 

 

November 2022- Bhisma Kumar Patel, Gloria Mazzone, Ting Yang and Xiaodong Michael Shi

 

2022 Chemical Science Perspectives & Reviews October 2022- Wade Petersen, Pachaiyappan Rajamalli, Shikha Dhiman and Daniel Gryko

 

 

A note from our Executive Editor, May Copsey

I’d like to thank our authors and peer reviewers for all their hard work in supporting the journal throughout 2022, and I’m looking forward to hearing and reading all the inspiring stories and discoveries in 2023. Finally, the 2023 Chemical Science symposium will be held on the 26th and 27th of October in London and online. This year’s theme is on the chemistry of polymers and we hope to see you there!

 

Submit your work from across the chemical sciences here

 

 

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March 2023 Chemical Science Reviews & Perspectives

Welcome to March’s Perspective & Review round up!

Our on-going 2023 Chemical Science Perspective & Review Collection showcases all of the Perspective and Review articles published in Chemical Science in 2023. You can find our 2022 collection here.

We hope you enjoy reading and as always, all of our articles are open access so you can easily share your favourites online and with your colleagues.

Explore the full collection!

 

Advanced hematite nanomaterials for newly emerging applications
Hao Wan, Linfeng Hu, Xiaohe Liu, Ying Zhang, Gen Chen, Ning Zhang and Renzhi Ma
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 2776-2798

Aromaticity: Quo Vadis
Gabriel Merino, Miquel Solà, Israel Fernández, Cina Foroutan-Nejad, Paolo Lazzeretti, Gernot Frenking, Harry L. Anderson, Dage Sundholm, Fernando P. Cossío, Marina A. Petrukhina, Jishan Wu, Judy I. Wu and Albeiro Restrepo
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Addressing the stability challenge of photo(electro)catalysts towards solar water splitting
Mu Xiao, Zhiliang Wang, Kazuhiko Maeda, Gang Liu and Lianzhou Wang
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3415-3427

Evolution and fabrication of carbon dot-based room temperature phosphorescence materials
Jiurong Li, Yongzhong Wu and Xiao Gong
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3705-3729

Redox catalysis via photoinduced electron transfer
Yong-Min Lee, Wonwoo Nam and Shunichi Fukuzumi
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Conductive hydrogels for tissue repair
Yongping Liang, Lipeng Qiao, Bowen Qiao and Baolin Guo
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3091-3116

 

Chemical Science, Royal Society of Chemistry

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Chemical Science HOT Articles: March 2023

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for March 2023. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free for authors and readers.

You can explore our full 2023 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection here!

 

Browse a selection of our March HOT articles below:

Monitoring interfacial electric fields at a hematite electrode during water oxidation
Khezar H. Saeed, Dora-Alicia Garcia Osorio, Chao Li, Liam Banerji, Adrian M. Gardner and Alexander J. Cowan
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3182-3189

Room temperature design of Ce(IV)-MOFs: from photocatalytic HER and OER to overall water splitting under simulated sunlight irradiation
Shan Dai, Eva Montero-Lanzuela, Antoine Tissot, Herme G. Baldoví, Hermenegildo García, Sergio Navalón and Christian Serre
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3451-3461

Direct observation of magnetoelastic coupling in a molecular spin qubit: new insights from crystal field neutron scattering data
Maja A. Dunstan, Marcus J. Giansiracusa, Michele Vonci, Simone Calvello, Dehong Yu, Alessandro Soncini, Colette Boskovic and Richard A. Mole
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 3990-4001

Easily processable spin filters: exploring the chiral induced spin selectivity of bowl-shaped chiral subphthalocyanines
Jorge Labella, Deb Kumar Bhowmick, Anil Kumar, Ron Naaman and Tomás Torres
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

On the use of real-world datasets for reaction yield prediction
Mandana Saebi, Bozhao Nan, John E. Herr, Jessica Wahlers, Zhichun Guo, Andrzej M. Zurański, Thierry Kogej, Per-Ola Norrby, Abigail G. Doyle, Nitesh V. Chawla and Olaf Wiest
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Cooperativity between sodium ions and water molecules facilitates lipid mobility in model cell membranes
Madhurima Chattopadhyay, Emilia Krok, Hanna Orlikowska-Rzeznik and Lukasz Piatkowski
Chem. Sci., 2023, 14, 4002-4011

Molecular assembly of carbon nitride-based composite membranes for photocatalytic sterilization and wound healing
Xiaoxiao Peng, Jin Ma, Zhixin Zhou, Hong Yang, Jingjing Chen, Ran Chen, Kaiqing Wu, Guangcheng Xi, Songqin Liu, Yanfei Shen and Yuanjian Zhang
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

 

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Most Popular 2022 Chemical Science Articles By Subject

Covering organic chemistry, chemical biology, materials and energy, catalysis, analytical chemistry, physical and theoretical chemistry, and main group, inorganic and organometallic chemistry!

Here at Chemical Science, we are pleased to present our readers with a series of subject-specific collections of our most popular content published last year. These specially curated collections are designed to highlight some of the exceptional research published in Chemical Science – and like all Chemical Science articles, they are free to access and read from anywhere in the world with no restrictions. We hope you will have a great time reading these collections.

Many of the articles selected in the collections below are also included in our 2022 ChemSci Pick of the Week Collections, as well as our 2022 Chemical Science HOT Article Collections.

 

Organic chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of organic chemistry. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, ranging from photocatalytic radical generation to prediction of protein pKa.
Browse the full collection

 

Materials and energy chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most read, cited and shared articles from 2022 in the field of materials and energy chemistry. The collection highlights some outstanding contributions ranging from reviews detailing recent advances in energy storage technologies through to new state-of-the-art research on organic ferroelectrics, methods for nanoparticle synthesis, porous materials for isomer separation and many other topics.
Browse the full collection

 

Catalysis chemistry

This specially curated collection includes some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of catalysis. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, including contributions on photocatalysis, electrocatalytic reduction, organocatalysis, and biocatalysis.
Browse the full collection

 

Analytical chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of analytical chemistry. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, including NIR fluorescent probes for in vivo imaging, new isotope labelling methodologies for NMR, and single-molecule reaction kinetics.
Browse the full collection

 

Chemical biology

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of chemical biology. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, ranging from imaging to peptide catalysis.
Browse the full collection

 

Physical & theoretical chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of physical and theoretical chemistry. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, ranging from deep learning models for predicting drug-target interactions, through to investigations into colour-tunable persistent luminescence in low-dimensional zinc-organic halide microcrystals.
Browse the full collection

 

Main group, inorganic & organometallic chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the fields of main group, inorganic and organometallic chemistry. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, ranging from dysprosium single molecule magnets to air and water stable germacarbonyl compounds.
Browse the collection

 

Supramolecular chemistry

This specially curated collection pulls together some of the most popular articles from 2022 in the field of supramolecular chemistry. The collection presents some outstanding contributions to the field, ranging from the synthesis of catenane assemblies to chiral molecular nanosilicas.
Browse the collection

 

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Chemical Science Reviewer Spotlight – March 2023

To further thank and recognise the support from our excellent reviewer community, we are highlighting reviewers who have provided exceptional support to the journal over the past year.

This month, we’ll be highlighting Laura Hernandez, Klaus Braagaard Møller, Claudia Blindauer and Ranjan Jana. We asked our reviewers a few questions about what they enjoy about reviewing, and their thoughts on how to provide a useful review.

Laura Hernandez, McGill University

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Laura Hernandez, McGill University. Laura’s research focuses on finding and characterizing micro and nanoplastics in the environment and consumer products that directly impact humans. Due to their chemical composition and size, micro and nanoplastics are not like regular nanoparticles, thus the challenge.

 

Klaus Braagaard Møller, Technical University of Denmark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Klaus Braagaard Møller, Technical University of Denmark. Klaus uses theory and computational chemistry to unravel the course of the most basic processes in chemistry (chemical dynamics) and their signatures in ultrafast experiments, with a particular focus on vibronic and solvation dynamics.

 

Claudia Blindauer, University of Warwick

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Claudia Blindauer, University of Warwick. Claudia is an inorganic and analytical biochemist interested in how metal ions, in particular zinc, move around in organisms and cells, with a focus on proteins that are involved in these processes.

 

Ranjan Jana, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ranjan Jana, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology. Ranjan’s research involves exploring divergent, cascade C–H activation for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery, and circular CO2 economy in organic synthesis.

 

What encouraged you to review for Chemical Science?

Claudia Blindauer: I am a member of the RSC, and I am publishing in and reviewing for a range of RSC journals – amongst many others. Often, I am personally known to the academic editors, which helps with invitations to review being well-targeted and manuscripts being within my area of expertise. Obviously, it is an honour to also review for the RSC’s flagship journal, and I have also published some of our best work in Chemical Science.

Klaus Braagaard Møller: Chemical Science is one of the most exciting journals covering all fields of modern chemistry and I am both honoured and happy to be able to support the journal this way. As reviewer I focus on the good story, and I believe that this is very much in line with the scope of an interdisciplinary journal.

 

What do you enjoy most about reviewing?

Ranjan Jana:  Reviewing an article with a cup of tea is an exciting part of my day. It is always a learning experience to me to read starting from title to conclusion of the paper. However, I get excited the most in the concept and control experiment part. Sometimes, serendipitous observations by the authors and its execution to a logical conclusion provides extra food for my brain.

Klaus Braagaard Møller: The scientific dialog between me and the authors. It is unique to have this dialog before publication as it is open (nothing is set in stone yet) and has the common goal of improving the science and the presentation as much as possible.

 

What has been your biggest learning point from reviewing?

Laura Hernandez:  I have learned a lot of new science but also to be kind when reviewing someone else’s science.

 

How do you balance reviewing with your other activities?

Claudia Blindauer:
With great difficulty. Reviewing a paper takes me typically at least half a day, and I rarely have this kind of “spare” time. More often than not, I end up agreeing to too many reviewing tasks at the same time and then come to regret it, as taking the time to review in a timely fashion then either becomes impossible or stops progressing other parts of work (often my own writing of manuscripts), or both. I am not a fan of the increasing push towards faster and faster turnaround times, as this cannot be good for quality of reviewing (and hence papers) or indeed a healthy work-life balance.

 

What advice would you give a first-time author looking to maximise their chances of successful peer review?

Laura Hernandez: Have your lab group or team review the paper multiple times before submitting it, not only your supervisor, you would be surprised by the feedback your peers can give you.

 

How do you find that Chemical Science has contributed to your research field?

Ranjan Jana: My research group is engaged to achieve molecular diversity through cascade C-H activation for medicinal chemistry applications. After the publication of one of my articles in Chemical Science (doi.org/10.1039/D2SC01420C), we have received a global recognition and leadership for the promotion of this cutting-edge research field.

 

What makes a paper truly stand out for you when reviewing a paper?

Claudia Blindauer: In general, a good paper has a coherent narrative and easy-to-understand Figures that support this narrative. The most outstanding papers are those that present novel concepts that advance the respective field and inspire new work.

 

What advice would you give a first-time author looking to maximise their chances of successful peer review?

Klaus Braagaard Møller: Assuming that the science is publishable: Focus on the reader. Tell a good story.

 

Tune in next month to meet our next group of #ChemSciReviewers!

 

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ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field

The ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field symposium took place at JNCASR, Bangalore, in January and showcased the rapidly growing chemistry community in India, focusing particularly on young and early career researchers. The symposium was organised by the RSC India team, along with the input of Chemical Science, Associate Editor George Subi.

Our Executive Editor, May Copsey, and Associate Editors, Serena DeBeer and Steve Goldup, were in attendance at this exciting event which acted as a forum for sharing developments within the Indian chemistry community.

May Copsey

May Copsey, Executive Editor

 

 

“I was delighted to attend this Symposium again in person after a couple of years of online, and it really lived up to all expectations. My greatest impression from the meeting was of the enthusiasm for research and discussion coming from the younger researchers who were attending the meeting. The science presented throughout the Symposium was so exciting. It really emphasized to me the world-class chemical science research that is being done in India, and I’m excited about what we can expect to see from this next generation of leaders in the future.”

 

 

 

Steve Goldup, Associate Editor

Steve Goldup, Associate Editor

 

“The ChemSci Leaders in the Field symposium was my first trip to India and I was incredibly impressed by the quality of science I saw. Of course, at Chemical Science we regularly receive excellent manuscripts from groups based in India, but seeing talk after talk from outstanding Indian scientists during the symposium really hammered home the quality of research being carried out in the country. I was also extremely impressed by the calibre of the students and postdocs during the poster sessions, all of whom explained their results enthusiastically and clearly, and were able to discuss both the details of their experiments and the wider context of their work.”

 

Serena DeBeer, Associate Editor

Serena DeBeer, Associate Editor

 

 

 

“The opportunity to participate in the ChemSci Leaders in the Field symposium in India was a truly wonderful experience. I was really impressed by all the exciting science, the great talks and the lively discussions. The opportunity to get to know many of India’s rising stars in the chemical sciences, and also to meet so many talented students, was a real highlight. And last but certainly not least, the extremely kind hospitality of our hosts made me feel very welcome and is very much appreciated. I very much look forward to returning to India again soon!”

 

 

 

 

Many students took part in the ChemSci2023: Leaders in the Field symposium, including Anju A K,  who received a “Best Poster” prize for her research. We wish Anju the best with developing and continuing her research in this exciting area!

Anju A K, JNCASR, India

                      Anju A K, JNCASR, India

 

 

“I had a great time enjoying all wonderful and exciting scientific sessions. The symposium had an excellent line-up of the speakers who talked about their amazing scientific contributions to the cutting-edge research.

The poster session was also engaging where I could interact with students from different institutes explaining their unique research works. I was also so fortunate to take part in the poster session and discuss about my research problem with eminent scientists. The work I explained in my poster was on ‘a through-space donor-acceptor charge-transfer approach to control between different triplet harvesting pathways’. The fruitful discussions also helped me to get some insights to carry out my project forward.

I consider myself blessed and honoured to participate in the symposium and thank Chemical Science and Royal Society of Chemistry for giving me this wonderful opportunity.”

 

 

 

The team is already looking forward to the 2024 ChemSci: Leaders in the Field meeting which will continue to showcase the excellence of research across the chemical sciences from India.

 

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Chemical Science HOT Articles: February 2023

We are pleased to share a selection of our referee-recommended HOT articles for February 2023. We hope you enjoy reading these articles, congratulations to all the authors whose articles are featured! As always, Chemical Science is free for authors and readers.

You can explore our full 2023 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection here!

 

Browse a selection of our February HOT articles below:

Binding of exogenous cyanide reveals new active-site states in [FeFe] hydrogenases
Maria Alessandra Martini, Konstantin Bikbaev, Yunjie Pang, Christian Lorent, Charlotte Wiemann, Nina Breuer, Ingo Zebger, Serena DeBeer, Ingrid Span, Ragnar Bjornsson, James A. Birrell and Patricia Rodríguez-Maciá
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Computational evaluation of halogen-bonded cocrystals enables prediction of their mechanochemical interconversion reactions
Lavanya Kumar, Katarina Leko, Vinko Nemec, Damian Trzybiński, Nikola Bregović, Dominik Cinčić and Mihails Arhangelskis
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Direct formation of amide/peptide bonds from carboxylic acids: no traditional coupling reagents, 1-pot, and green
Kaitlyn M. Freiberg, Rahul D. Kavthe, Rohan M. Thomas, David M. Fialho, Paris Dee, Matthew Scurria and Bruce H. Lipshutz
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Multiscale quantum algorithms for quantum chemistry
Huan Ma, Jie Liu, Honghui Shang, Yi Fan, Zhenyu Li and Jinlong Yang
Chem. Sci., 2023, Advance Article

Bond modulation of MoSe2+x driving combined intercalation and conversion reactions for high-performance K cathodes
Ting Lei, Mingyuan Gu, Hongwei Fu, Jue Wang, Longlu Wang, Jiang Zhou, Huan Liu and Bingan Lu
Chem. Sci., 2023,14, 2528-2536

Improved production of class I lanthipeptides in Escherichia coli
Hyunji Lee, Chunyu Wu, Emily K. Desormeaux, Raymond Sarksian and Wilfred A. van der Donk
Chem. Sci., 2023,14, 2537-2546

 

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