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Dissolved Fe species enable a cooperative solid–molecular mechanism for the oxygen evolution reaction on NiFe-based catalysts Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-20 Chunguang Kuai, Liping Liu, Anyang Hu, Yan Zhang, Yuxin Zhang, Dawei Xia, Dennis Nordlund, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Donato Decarolis, Diego Gianolio, Hongliang Xin, Luxi Li, Feng Lin
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Organocatalytic regio- and stereoselective cyclopropanation of olefins Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-16 Chendan Zhu, Sayantani Das, Avishek Guin, Chandra Kanta De, Benjamin List
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Understanding two voltammetric features of water reduction and water oxidation in mild pH solutions Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-05-14 Xin Yuan, Michael T. Bender, Myohwa Ko, Kyoung-Shin Choi
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Asymmetric Hofmann–Löffler–Freytag-type reaction via a transient carbenium ion complex merging organocatalysis and photocatalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-29 Qihang Guo, Yihui Mao, Jiren Liu, Lujing Zhu, Xin Hong, Zhan Lu
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Bridging catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Francesco Zamberlan
The team first analysed a model liquid phase system for this reaction, composed of acetic acetic-potassium acetate solution with Pd/C, and found that Pd(0) is subjected to corrosion by molecular oxygen. This allows the solubilization of the metal as Pd(II) acetate, with the Pd(II) species then reacting with ethylene to yield VA and metallic Pd(0) as precipitate. They also notice that Pd/C promotes
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Oxygen matters Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Marcal Capdevila-Cortada
Now, Chris-Kriton Skylaris and colleagues, in a collaboration between the University of Southampton and Johnson Matthey, study the impact of oxidation effects on Pt nanoparticles (NPs) to the ORR by computational means. To that end, they perform grand canonical minimization Monte Carlo simulations using the recently developed MACE-MP-0 machine learning interatomic potentials, which allows the treatment
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Rings for interfacial catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Jan-Stefan Völler
Now, Yilin Wang, Bing Liu and co-workers developed a type of emulsion, where the droplets are covered by a densely packed colloidal SiO2 ring monolayer (pictured). Besides enhancing the stability, the SiO2 rings are hollow so that the liquid–liquid interface of the droplets remains largely accessible, enabling efficient diffusion and operation of the catalysts. First, fluorescent rhodamine B was used
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Reflecting on interphases Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Benjamin Martindale
The use of neutron reflectometry is crucial since the light elements lithium and hydrogen are practically invisible to more commonly used X-ray techniques. A number of detailed insights about the exchange of species between the SEI and electrolyte are revealed in a series of experiments. First, the identity of the Li salt has a profound impact of the SEI formation with a more well-defined layer observed
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Revealing hidden nanoscale electrocatalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Steven McIntosh
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Regioselective silyl installation for arene diversification Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25
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Illuminating enantioselective alkyl−alkyl coupling Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-25 Weisai Zu, Xinlong Luo, Haohua Huo
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Retrobiosynthesis of unnatural lactams via reprogrammed polyketide synthase Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Namil Lee, Matthias Schmidt, Chenyi Li, Connor J. Filbin, Sarah Klass, Allison Yaguchi, Anna Lisa Fear, Tyler W. H. Backman, Brooks A. Abel, Young-Mo Kim, Woojoo E. Kim, Christopher W. Johnson, Yan Chen, Jennifer W. Gin, Christopher J. Petzold, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Yuqian Gao, Meagan C. Burnet, Gyorgy Babnigg, Philip D. Laible, Christine A. Singer, William E. Michener, Davinia Salvachúa, Hector Garcia
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A highly efficient and regenerable Ir1–Cu1 dual-atom catalyst for low-temperature alkane dehydrogenation Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-18 Xiaowen Chen, Maolin Wang, Yurong He, Mi Peng, Jiangyong Diao, Dequan Xiao, Ning Wang, Xiangbin Cai, Hongyang Liu, Ding Ma
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Cobaltosilicate zeolite beyond platinum catalysts for propane dehydrogenation Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-11 Hang Zhou, Huan Li, Liang Wang, Shengqi Chu, Lujie Liu, Lu Liu, Jizhen Qi, Zhouhong Ren, Anyu Cai, Yu Hui, Yucai Qin, Lijuan Song, Xuedi Qin, Jiaqi Shi, Jue Hou, Yongqi Ding, Jiabi Ma, Shaodan Xu, Xin Tao, Lina Li, Qi Yang, Bingwen Hu, Xi Liu, Liwei Chen, Jianping Xiao, Feng-Shou Xiao
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Identifying high-spin hydroxyl-coordinated Fe3+N4 as the active centre for acidic oxygen reduction using molecular model catalysts Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-07 Kuang-Min Zhao, Dao-Xiong Wu, Wen-Kun Wu, Jia-Bao Nie, Fu-Shan Geng, Guang Li, Hai-Yan Shi, Sheng-Chao Huang, Huan Huang, Jing Zhang, Zhi-You Zhou, Yu-Cheng Wang, Shi-Gang Sun
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Enantioselective macrocyclization via catalytic metallic dipole relay Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-04 Bao-Le Qu, Meng Xiao, Lin He, Jun-Wei Shi, Zhihan Zhang, Wen-Jing Xiao, Liang-Qiu Lu
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Electrochemical oxidation of nitric oxide to concentrated nitric acid with carbon-based catalysts at near-ambient conditions Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-03 Rong Xia, Sydnee Dronsfield, Ahryeon Lee, Bradie S. Crandall, Jiashun Liang, Bjorn Hasa, Andy Redder, Gang Wu, Tiago J. Goncalves, Samira Siahrostami, Feng Jiao
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Wireless potentiometry of thermochemical heterogeneous catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Neil K. Razdan, Karl S. Westendorff, Yogesh Surendranath
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Precision installation of silyl synthetic handles within arenes by regiocontrolled ruthenium C(sp2)–H functionalization Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Jamie H. Docherty, Mishra Deepak Hareram, Luke M. Nichols, Ignacio Pérez-Ortega, Iñigo J. Vitorica-Yrezabal, Igor Larrosa
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Efficient electroreduction of carbonyl compounds to alcohols over Fe/Fe2O3 interfaces Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Jin Lin, Zhenpeng Liu, Haofei Wu, Zhiqi Wang, Guangqiu Wang, Ju Bu, Yanan Wang, Pan Liu, Junjie Wang, Jian Zhang
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Breaking the linear scaling limit in multi-electron-transfer electrocatalysis through intermediate spillover Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-04-02 Qilun Wang, Sung-Fu Hung, Kejie Lao, Xiang Huang, Fuhua Li, Hua Bing Tao, Hong Bin Yang, Wei Liu, Weijue Wang, Yaqi Cheng, Nozomu Hiraoka, Liping Zhang, Junming Zhang, Yuhang Liu, Jiazang Chen, Yinghua Xu, Chenliang Su, Jingguang G. Chen, Bin Liu
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Photoinduced nickel-catalysed enantioconvergent sp3–sp3 coupling of unactivated olefins and aziridines Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-28 Liangliang Zhang, Hao Wang, Tomás G. Santiago, Wen-Jun Yue, Ruben Martin
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Critical insights into the steam electrolysis electrode in protonic ceramic cells for hydrogen production Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-28 Meng Li, Fan Liu, Dong Ding
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Recirculate to accumulate Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 Benjamin Martindale
In previous studies, a solid porous electrolyte layer was employed in order to use a flow of pure water, avoiding costly separation of salts from the final product. However, when operating in a conventional continuous flow mode, stability and selectivity were both low when a concentrated H2O2 product was produced (low water flow rate). This is attributed to product crossover and decomposition as well
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From polystyrene to phenol Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 Francesco Zamberlan
The team of researchers studied the formation of hydroperoxides first from the aerobic oxidation of dimeric and trimeric PS models using N-hydroxyphthalimide (NHPI) as a hydrogen atom transfer catalyst and azobis(isobutyronitrile) as radical initiator. After optimizing the conditions, they also observed that the trimer has a lower reactivity than the dimer, with a similar trend for higher oligomers;
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Enzymological insights from ensembles Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 Jan-Stefan Völler
Now, writing in Science, Daniel Herschlag and colleagues devised a smart plan to employ conformational ensembles to gain insights into the contributions from different catalytic effects to explain the total observed rate enhancements in serine proteases. The researchers took advantage of 1,231 structures of 17 serine proteases that are deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) to construct ‘pseudo-ensembles’
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Iminium catalysis meets Diels–Alderase Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 Naoki Kato, Shingo Nagano
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Chemical capacitors for ammonia synthesis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-26 A. Daisley, J. S. J. Hargreaves
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Proximity-independent acid–base synergy in a solid ZrOxHy catalyst for amine regeneration in post-combustion CO2 capture Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-19 Cheng Zhou, Mostafa Torka Beydokhti, Fatima Rammal, Parveen Kumar, Maxime Lacroix, Walter Vermeiren, Michiel Dusselier, Yuhe Liao, Bert F. Sels
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Enantioselective C–H annulations enabled by either nickel- or cobalt-electrocatalysed C–H activation for catalyst-controlled chemodivergence Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-03-07 Tristan von Münchow, Neeraj Kumar Pandit, Suman Dana, Philipp Boos, Sven Erik Peters, Josselin Boucat, Yi-Ru Liu, Alexej Scheremetjew, Lutz Ackermann
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Electrified synthesis of n-propanol using a dilute alloy catalyst Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-28 Yuanjun Chen, Xinyue Wang, Xiao-Yan Li, Rui Kai Miao, Juncai Dong, Zilin Zhao, Chuhao Liu, Jianan Erick Huang, Jinhong Wu, Senlin Chu, Weiyan Ni, Zunmin Guo, Yi Xu, Pengfei Ou, Bingjun Xu, Yang Hou, David Sinton, Edward H. Sargent
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Pulsed electrolysis through neutron lenses Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-26 Marçal Capdevila-Cortada
Now, Joey Disch and colleagues study eCO2R under operando conditions using high-resolution neutron radiography, focusing on water transport and distribution within a zero-gap membrane electrode assembly with an AEM. The cell, with a silver cathode catalyst for CO production, is operated at both constant current and pulsed electrolysis under either 34% or 100% relative humidity (RH), in 0.1 M KHCO3
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Under pressure Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-26 Davide Esposito
The application of large pressures on a solid induces lattice compression. In the case of metal oxides, this process favours the shortening of metal–oxygen bonds and simultaneously increases the diffusion activation energy of atoms and ions. The team therefore developed a thermal annealing process for WO3 that relies on the application of gigapascal-range pressure — 12,000 bar — in an electrically
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The good samarium Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-26 Benjamin Martindale
Until recently, attempts to regenerate SmI2 to create a catalytic cycle have been hindered by the formation of stable oxygen adducts with the conjugate bases of employed proton sources such as water and alcohols. These researchers previously developed a system with the use of non-coordinating 2,6-dimethylpyridinium as proton donor that allows electrocatalytic cycling of the samarium reducing agent
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Neither H2 nor O2 in hydrogenative oxidations with water Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-26 Jianliang Xiao
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Metal vacancies in semiconductor oxides enhance hole mobility for efficient photoelectrochemical water splitting Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-25 Jun Wang, Kang Liu, Wanru Liao, Yicui Kang, Hanrui Xiao, Yingkang Chen, Qiyou Wang, Tao Luo, Jiawei Chen, Hongmei Li, Ting-Shan Chan, Shanyong Chen, Evangelina Pensa, Liyuan Chai, Fangyang Liu, Liangxing Jiang, Changxu Liu, Junwei Fu, Emiliano Cortés, Min Liu
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Electron and proton storage on separate Ru and BaO domains mediated by conductive low-work-function carbon to accelerate ammonia synthesis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-24 Yaejun Baik, Seunghyuck Chi, Kyeongjin Lee, DongHwan Oh, Kyungho Lee, Minkee Choi
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Structure and mechanism of haem-dependent nitrogen–nitrogen bond formation in piperazate synthase Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Melanie A. Higgins, Xinjie Shi, Jordi Soler, Jill B. Harland, Taylor Parkkila, Nicolai Lehnert, Marc Garcia-Borràs, Yi-Ling Du, Katherine S. Ryan
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Enantioconvergent nucleophilic substitution via synergistic phase-transfer catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Claire Dooley, Francesco Ibba, Bence B. Botlik, Chiara Palladino, Christopher A. Goult, Yuan Gao, Andrew Lister, Robert S. Paton, Guy C. Lloyd-Jones, Véronique Gouverneur
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In situ lysosomal proteomics enabled by bioorthogonal photocatalytic proximity labelling Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Yan Zhang, Ziqi Liu, Nan Zhou, Fuhu Guo, Haotian Guo, Xinyue Chen, Shengnan Qin, Peng R. Chen, Xinyuan Fan
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A polyketide-based biosynthetic platform for diols, amino alcohols and hydroxy acids Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-11 Qingyun Dan, Yan Chiu, Namil Lee, Jose Henrique Pereira, Behzad Rad, Xixi Zhao, Kai Deng, Yiou Rong, Chunjun Zhan, Yan Chen, Seokjung Cheong, Chenyi Li, Jennifer W. Gin, Andria Rodrigues, Trent R. Northen, Tyler W. H. Backman, Edward E. K. Baidoo, Christopher J. Petzold, Paul D. Adams, Jay D. Keasling
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Iron-catalysed alkenylzincation of allenes via electrophilicity reversal Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Jun-Jia Chen, Mu-Han Guan, Peng He, Ming-Yao Huang, Xin-Yu Zhang, Shou-Fei Zhu
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Multimodal in situ X-ray mechanistic studies of a bimetallic oxide electrocatalyst in alkaline media Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Jason J. Huang, Yao Yang, Daniel Weinstock, Colin R. Bundschu, Qihao Li, Suchismita Sarker, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Tomás A. Arias, Héctor D. Abruña, Andrej Singer
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Identifying a highly efficient molecular photocatalytic CO2 reduction system via descriptor-based high-throughput screening Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-07 Yangguang Hu, Can Yu, Song Wang, Qian Wang, Marco Reinhard, Guozhen Zhang, Fei Zhan, Hao Wang, Dean Skoien, Thomas Kroll, Peiyuan Su, Lei Li, Aobo Chen, Guangyu Liu, Haifeng Lv, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Chao Gao, Jun Jiang, Ye Tao, Yujie Xiong
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Iminium catalysis in natural Diels–Alderase Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Zuodong Sun, Xin Zang, Qingyang Zhou, Masao Ohashi, K. N. Houk, Jiahai Zhou, Yi Tang
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Selectively monitoring the operando temperature of active metal nanoparticles during catalytic reactions by X-ray absorption nanothermometry Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Matthias Filez, Valentijn De Coster, Hilde Poelman, Valerie Briois, Anthony Beauvois, Jolien Dendooven, Maarten B. J. Roeffaers, Vladimir Galvita, Christophe Detavernier
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Perovskite-driven solar C2 hydrocarbon synthesis from CO2 Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-02-03 Virgil Andrei, Inwhan Roh, Jia-An Lin, Joshua Lee, Yu Shan, Chung-Kuan Lin, Steve Shelton, Erwin Reisner, Peidong Yang
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Enzymatic catalysis meets radical coupling Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Chenyu Wang
The first stage exploits enzyme-driven hydroxylation of carboxylated piperidine derivatives. The team engineered α-ketoglutarate (α-KG)-dependent dioxygenases (SaEctD), which binds to molecular oxygen to form a reactive iron-oxo centre capable of hydroxylating C–H bonds. Moreover, interactions between the substrate’s carboxylate group and specific active site residues, such as Gln127 and Arg280, align
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Molecular basis of activity changes in acid catalysis within nanoconfined water Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-29
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Reaching out Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-29
This Editorial provides a few highlights from the present issue of Nature Catalysis and reflects on some of the achievements from the editorial team in 2024.
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Plasma-driven decentralized production of essential chemicals Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Maria L. Carreon
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Role of the human-in-the-loop in emerging self-driving laboratories for heterogeneous catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Christoph Scheurer, Karsten Reuter
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An efficient catalytic route in haem peroxygenases mediated by O2/small-molecule reductant pairs for sustainable applications Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Di Deng, Zhihui Jiang, Lixin Kang, Langxing Liao, Xiaodong Zhang, Yuben Qiao, Yang Zhou, Liulin Yang, Binju Wang, Aitao Li
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In situ electrochemical production of solid peroxide from urine Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Xinjian Shi, Yue Jiang, Bailin Zeng, Zhuoyue Sun, Maojin Yun, Peng Lv, Yu Jia, Xiaolin Zheng
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A hydrogenative oxidation strategy for the single-step synthesis of lactams from N-heteroarenes using water Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Yaoyu Liang, Jie Luo, Cai You, Yael Diskin-Posner, David Milstein
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Coupled cation–electron transfer at the Pt(111)/perfluoro-sulfonic acid ionomer interface and its impact on the oxygen reduction reaction kinetics Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Kaiyue Zhao, Mingchuan Luo, Yongfan Zhang, Xiaoxia Chang, Bingjun Xu
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Organic electrolyte cations promote non-aqueous CO2 reduction by mediating interfacial electric fields Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Jon-Marc McGregor, Jay T. Bender, Amanda S. Petersen, Louise Cañada, Jan Rossmeisl, Joan F. Brennecke, Joaquin Resasco
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Confined hot-pressurized water in Brønsted-acidic beta zeolite speeds up the O demethylation of guaiacol Nat. Catal. (IF 42.8) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Massimo Bocus, Elias Van Den Broeck, Xian Wu, Mathias Bal, Jeroen Bomon, Louis Vanduyfhuys, Bert F. Sels, Bert U. W. Maes, Veronique Van Speybroeck