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The status quo of DAC projects worldwide Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Mihrimah Ozkan, Matt Atwood, Claude Letourneau, Christoph Beuttler, Carlos J. Jiménez Haertel, Jillian Evanko
Direct air capture (DAC) is a promising technology that can remove CO2 from the atmosphere. This is different from carbon capture, which is usually done at the source of emissions. To achieve the emissions targets set out in the Paris Agreement, there has been significant effort to expand the number of DAC projects in industry. In this Voices article, we have asked thought leaders, primarily from industry
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Precision in protein chemical modification and total synthesis Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Zhenquan Sun, Han Liu, Xuechen Li
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Conformational selection accelerates catalysis by an organocatalytic molecular motor Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 James M. Gallagher, Benjamin M.W. Roberts, Stefan Borsley, David A. Leigh
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Ultralong ionic chains with lengths over 10 μm: A control of ionic molecular engineering Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jie Wang, Kangren Kong, Xiaoming Ma, Jiaqi Guan, Xin Liu, Chuanhong Jin, Haihua Pan, Zhaoming Liu, Ruikang Tang
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Engineering reaction networks by sequential signal processing Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Indrajit Maity, Dharm Dev, Rivka Cohen-Luria, Nathaniel Wagner, Gonen Ashkenasy
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Convenient access to π-conjugated 1,3-azaphospholes from alkynes via [3 + 2]-cycloaddition and reductive aromatization Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Jannis Fidelius, Kai Schwedtmann, Sebastian Schellhammer, Jan Haberstroh, Stephen Schulz, Rongjuan Huang, Max C. Klotzsche, Antonio Bauzá, Antonio Frontera, Sebastian Reineke, Jan J. Weigand
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Regioselective synthesis of 4-functionalized pyridines Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Chao Li, Zixi Yan, Bingding Wang, Jiaxing Li, Weiping Lyu, Zhixing Wang, Ning Jiao, Song Song
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A strategy for ortho-phenylenediamine synthesis via dearomative-rearomative coupling of nitrobenzenes and amines Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Raquel Sánchez-Bento, Baptiste Roure, Josep Llaveria, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
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Nitroarenes: The rediscovery of their photochemistry opens new avenues in organic synthesis Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Petros L. Gkizis, Ierasia Triandafillidi, Christoforos G. Kokotos
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Heterogeneous geminal-atom catalysis: Cross-coupling reactions through the pair single-atom sites Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Xiang-Ting Min, Botao Qiao
Heterogeneous single-atom catalysts (SACs) have the potential to revolutionize organic synthesis. Recently, in Nature, Lu and co-workers developed geminal-atom catalysts (GACs) for catalyzing complex molecular cross-coupling reactions. In this reaction, the cooperativity of metal centers in the geminal sites enabled the efficient activation of substrates through a dynamic bridge-coupling mechanism
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Broken vows: Separation of carbene and the lone pair unleashes dicationic revelry Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Arseni Kostenko, Shigeyoshi Inoue
Aiming to isolate R2C2+ carbodication—a reactive intermediate that defies the octet rule—Loh, Bertrand, et al. employ iminate ligands to formally double oxidize a carbene, yielding [R2C=N=C=N=CR2]2+ cumulenic species. This illustrates the crucial role of local chemical environment design in achieving the desired stabilization and reactivity in low-valent main-group centers.
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Photo-assembling cyclic peptides for dynamic light-driven peptide nanotubes Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Marcos Vilela-Picos, Federica Novelli, Antía Pazó, Alejandro Méndez-Ardoy, Giulia Marafon, Manuel Amorín, Alessandro Moretto, Juan R. Granja
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Multi-site-specific polymer grafting from nucleic acids Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Sandeepa K. Vittala, Roxanne E. Kieltyka
The site-controlled grafting of multiple polymers from nucleic acids and their purification remain challenging. In this issue of Chem, Matyjaszewski, Das, and co-workers develop a universal phosphoramidite reagent containing an atom-transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) initiator that paves the way to expanding the architectural space of well-defined nucleic-acid-polymer hybrids (NAPHs).
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Motility of microscopic swimmers as protocells Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-09 Beatrice Marincioni, Karina K. Nakashima, Nathalie Katsonis
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Autonomous oscillatory movement of sensory protocells in stratified chemical media Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Patrick Peschke, B.V.V.S. Pavan Kumar, Tobias Walther, Avinash J. Patil, Stephen Mann
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Covalent bicyclization of protein complexes yields durable quaternary structures Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 George H. Hutchins, Sebastian Kiehstaller, Pascal Poc, Abigail H. Lewis, Jisun Oh, Raya Sadighi, Nicholas M. Pearce, Mohamed Ibrahim, Ivana Drienovská, Anouk M. Rijs, Saskia Neubacher, Sven Hennig, Tom N. Grossmann
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Sculpting DNA-based synthetic cells through phase separation and phase-targeted activity Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Layla Malouf, Diana A. Tanase, Giacomo Fabrini, Ryan A. Brady, Miguel Paez-Perez, Adrian Leathers, Michael J. Booth, Lorenzo Di Michele
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Colorless zinc colored by metal-metal orbital interaction Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Wei Liu, Wen-Xiong Zhang
The Zn(II) complex is colorless, which is a common feature unless the complex is accompanied by chromophoric moieties. Recently in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Wada et al. reported a dinuclear Zn(II) complex that bears two non-chromophoric oligosilyl ligands and exhibits visible-light absorption. Their work introduces a strategy for constructing Zn-based complexes capable of responding
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Strong electric field force at the air/water interface drives fast sulfate production in the atmosphere Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Yangyang Liu, Qiuyue Ge, Tao Wang, Ruifeng Zhang, Kejian Li, Kedong Gong, Lifang Xie, Wei Wang, Longqian Wang, Wenbo You, Xuejun Ruan, Zhuocheng Shi, Jin Han, Runbo Wang, Hongbo Fu, Jianmin Chen, Chak K. Chan, Liwu Zhang
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Controlled radical depolymerization: Structural differentiation and molecular weight control Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Hyun Suk Wang, Kostas Parkatzidis, Tanja Junkers, Nghia P. Truong, Athina Anastasaki
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Misorientation strategy on high-entropy metal oxides for enhanced acidic oxygen evolution reaction Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Lei Shi, Shenlong Zhao
Designing an efficient catalyst for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is crucial to proton-exchange membrane water electrolysis for hydrogen production. In a recent Science Advances article, Hu et al. report a misoriented high-entropy iridium ruthenium oxide electrocatalyst that demonstrates significantly enhanced activity and stability for the acidic OER.
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Efficient photo-actuator fabrication: Integrating microcrystal arrays with polymers Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-25 Haoran Wang, Ben Zhong Tang
An ordered and compliant photo-actuator was recently reported by Ryan C. Hayward and colleagues in Nature Materials. In a combination of the merits of single crystals and polymers, this composite, prepared by epitaxial growth of microcrystal arrays in polymer membranes, exhibited rapid response times, high resistance, and ultrahigh work densities. Their findings presented a novel approach to optimize
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Using small building blocks to assemble ultra-complex, multifaceted metal-organic frameworks with zeolitic, mesoporous subnetwork Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Jiantang Li, Dorina F. Sava, Vincent Guillerm, Taslim Melliti, Ryan Luebke, Jarrod F. Eubank, Prashant M. Bhatt, Hao Jiang, Mickaele Bonneau, Youssef Belmabkhout, Zhiyuan Huang, Aleksander Shkurenko, Lukasz Wojtas, Michael O’Keeffe, Mohamed Eddaoudi
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Lasing of carbon dots: Chemical design, mechanisms, and bright future Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yongqiang Zhang, Siyu Lu
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Metal–carbon bond metal-organic frameworks with permanent porosity Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Li Jiang, Jiangtao Jia, Yanhang Ma, Yuyang Tian, Xiaoqin Zou, Guangshan Zhu
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Catalytic asymmetric synthesis of silicon-stereogenic organosilanes Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Yichen Wu, Long Zheng, Yan Wang, Peng Wang
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Development of an energy-dense and high-power Li-Cl2 battery using reversible interhalogen bonds Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Pei Li, Xinliang Li, Ying Guo, Ao Chen, Rong Zhang, Yue Hou, Qi Xiong, Yanbo Wang, Ze Chen, Jiaxiong Zhu, Minshen Zhu, Chunyi Zhi
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Gated electron transfers at synthetic iron-sulfur cubanes Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Liam Grunwald, Mariko Inoue, Paula Cendoya Carril, Michael Wörle, Victor Mougel
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Enantio- and regioselective [2 + 2 + 2] cycloaddition of BN-diynes for construction of C-B axial chirality Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-17 Hao Wang, Bolin Qiao, Jide Zhu, Huosheng Guo, Zhen Zhang, Kai Yang, Shi-Jun Li, Yu Lan, Qiuling Song
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Advances in surface functionalization of next-generation metal-organic frameworks for biomedical applications: Design, strategies, and prospects Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Xu Chen, Sergio Mercado Argandona, Francesca Melle, Nakul Rampal, David Fairen-Jimenez
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10B-labelled diboron(4) reagents: Applications and relevance to boron neutron capture therapy Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Zuowei Xie, Todd B. Marder
Boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT) is a potentially useful approach to cancer treatment but requires compounds that are enriched in 10B. In this issue of Chem, Liu and co-workers reported a simple and useful approach to the synthesis of a series of 10B-enriched diboron(4) reagents that will greatly facilitate drug discovery in this important field.
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The transannular Scholl reaction for the introduction of heptagons into aromatic hydrocarbons Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Yasutomo Segawa
A general method for the introduction of heptagons into aromatic hydrocarbons would be very attractive for the construction of three-dimensional (3D) molecular nanocarbons. In this issue of Chem, Miao and co-workers report an innovative method to generate heptagons from macrocyclic precursors using the transannular Scholl reaction.
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Breakthrough in phosphonylation of alkyl radicals: Alternative access of alkyl phosphonates Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-12 Wei Zhang, Hai-Tian Luo, Jin-Dong Yang
Recently, the groups of Aggarwal and Li have independently presented photocatalytic radical phosphonylations of alkyl radicals with benzhydryl-catechol-phosphites under photoredox catalysis in Journal of the American Chemical Society and CCS Chemistry, respectively. These reactions provided an expedient way for the late-stage installation of phosphonate motifs into natural products and pharmaceutical
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New mode of asymmetric induction for enantioselective radical N-heterobicyclization via kinetically stable chiral radical center Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Hao Xu, Duo-Sheng Wang, Zhenyu Zhu, Arghya Deb, X. Peter Zhang
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Enhanced coherence by coupling spins through a delocalized π-system: Vanadyl porphyrin dimers Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Iago Pozo, Zhijie Huang, Federico Lombardi, Dimitris I. Alexandropoulos, Fanmiao Kong, Michael Slota, Igor Tkach, Marina Bennati, Jie-Ren Deng, Wojciech Stawski, Peter N. Horton, Simon J. Coles, William K. Myers, Lapo Bogani, Harry L. Anderson
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Metal-organic framework-based materials as platforms for energy applications Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Wenjuan Wang, Di Chen, Fayan Li, Xin Xiao, Qiang Xu
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Accelerating Li-based battery design by computationally engineering materials Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-10 Sandip Maiti, Matthew T. Curnan, Kakali Maiti, Seokhyun Choung, Jeong Woo Han
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Well-defined chiral dinuclear copper complexes in enantioselective propargylic substitution: For a long-standing supposition on binuclear mechanism Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Qilong Cai, Houqiang Rao, Shi-Jun Li, Yu Lan, Kuiling Ding, Xiaoming Wang
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Metal-organic frameworks for water vapor adsorption Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Le Shi, Kent O. Kirlikovali, Zhijie Chen, Omar K. Farha
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Curbing pollutant CO2 by using two-dimensional MXenes and MBenes Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-04 Mihrimah Ozkan, Kathrine A.M. Quiros, Jordyn M. Watkins, Talyah M. Nelson, Navindra D. Singh, Mahbub Chowdhury, Thrayesh Namboodiri, Kamal R. Talluri, Emma Yuan
Nearly 85% of current human-caused CO2 emissions result from the burning of fossil fuels, including coal, oil, and natural gas. Carbon pollution warms the planet and increases hazardous extremes, such as heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, heavy rainfall, and flooding. Therefore, the decarbonization of industry and power plants is of great necessity. To this end, carbon-capture technologies and their effectiveness
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Metal charge-directed enantiodivergent asymmetric transfer hydrogenation of ketones Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Minhao Li, Zeming Wang, Hong Chen, Qing Huang, Weiwei Zuo
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Making monodispersed ultralong graphene nanoribbons with an accelerated iterative approach Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-10-02 Kun Yang, Zuhao Li, Zebing Zeng
Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) hold great promise for unprecedented material properties and broad applications, but their atomically precise synthesis remains a challenge. In this issue of Chem, Mateo-Alonso and co-workers have presented an elegant iterative approach to prepare monodispersed GNRs with exponentially increased lengths of up to 35.8 nm.
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Fundamental understanding of stability for halide perovskite photovoltaics: The importance of interfaces Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Bo Li, Shuai Li, Jianqiu Gong, Xin Wu, Zhen Li, Danpeng Gao, Dan Zhao, Chunlei Zhang, Yan Wang, Zonglong Zhu
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Interplay between autocatalysis and liquid-liquid phase separation produces hierarchical microcompartments Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-28 Anton I. Hanopolskyi, Tatiana A. Mikhnevich, Arpita Paikar, Boaz Nutkovich, Iddo Pinkas, Tali Dadosh, Barbara S. Smith, Nikita Orekhov, Ekaterina V. Skorb, Sergey N. Semenov
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Macrocyclic ligand-driven ion selectivity and high surface area in a 2D conductive MOF Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Hoai T.B. Pham, Ji Yong Choi, Xiaoyu Fang, Adam Claman, Shaofeng Huang, Samuel Coates, Lacey Wayment, Wei Zhang, Jihye Park
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Coordination engineering in single-site catalysts: General principles, characterizations, and recent advances Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Haozhu Wang, Tao Yang, Jingyang Wang, Zheng Zhou, Zengxia Pei, Shenlong Zhao
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Engineering Cu(I)/Cu(0) interfaces for efficient ethanol production from CO2 electroreduction Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-21 Rongming Cai, Mingzi Sun, Fei Yang, Min Ju, Yanpeng Chen, M. Danny Gu, Bolong Huang, Shihe Yang
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Water-soluble chromenylium dyes for shortwave infrared imaging in mice Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Shang Jia, Eric Y. Lin, Emily B. Mobley, Irene Lim, Lei Guo, Shivakrishna Kallepu, Philip S. Low, Ellen M. Sletten
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Bioinspired multiphase composite gel materials: From controlled micro-phase separation to multiple functionalities Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Yingchao Yang, Yunfei Ru, Tianyi Zhao, Mingjie Liu
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In memory of Professor Wei Jiang, a rising star in supramolecular chemistry Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Mao Quan, Tao Liu
In conjunction with our research article in this issue of Chem, this essay is in memory of Professor Wei Jiang, a rising star in supramolecular chemistry who passed away on December 25th, 2022, from pancreatic cancer. We briefly summarize his research on bionic molecular recognition in water with diverse naphthotubes and their applications in multiple disciplines. Furthermore, we share the kind words
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Control of tetrazine bioorthogonal reactivity by naphthotube and phenyltetrazine host-guest pairs Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Kaiyan Lou, Wanjin Xing, Xiang Meng, Mengyang Chang, Wei Wang
In this issue of Chem, high-affinity and high-specificity naphthotube and phenyltetrazine host-guest pairs are designed to control tetrazine reactivity in bioorthogonal chemistry. The power of the system has been demonstrated in precise labeling and functionalization of biological targets in chemical and biological systems, including in animal models.
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Redox-couple-assisted CO2 capture on solid-electrolyte reactor Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Bin Chang, Chengyang Feng, Max Garcia-Melchor, Huabin Zhang
Electrochemical carbon capture offers a promising approach for capturing scarce CO2 from industrial emissions or the atmosphere. Challenges persist in current techniques, such as low capture rates and oxygen sensitivity. This article previews the latest findings by Wang and co-workers published in Nature, reporting the oxygen/water redox couple in a solid-electrolyte reactor for continuous and modular
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New insights and discoveries in anion receptor chemistry Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Daniel A. McNaughton, William G. Ryder, Alexander M. Gilchrist, Patrick Wang, Mohamed Fares, Xin Wu, Philip A. Gale
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Molecular engineering of low-cost, efficient, and stable photosensitizers for dye-sensitized solar cells Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Zhongjin Shen, Felix T. Eickemeyer, Jing Gao, Lukas Pfeifer, David Bradford, Marina Freitag, Shaik M. Zakeeruddin, Michael Grätzel
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Catalytic cross-electrophile coupling of aryl chlorides with unactivated alkyl chlorides: The synergy of iron and Li Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Yun Zhang, Ping Du, Yanru Ji, Siyu Wang, Yanqing Zhu, Zhengli Liu, Yun He, Qian Peng, Zhang Feng
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A new light in the assembly of intrinsically disordered peptides Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Ángel L. Fuentes de Arriba, Juan R. Granja
Intrinsically disordered short peptides play an important role in protein function and assembly; however, their characterization and mechanism of assembly into more complicated superstructures remains a challenge. In this issue of Chem, Egelman, Wang, Xu, and co-workers employ, for the first time, cryo-electron microscopy to study the self-assembly of intrinsically disordered peptides.
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From trash to treasure: Vanadium-catalyzed upcycling of non-biodegradable plastics Chem (IF 23.5) Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Hanning Jiang, Erin E. Stache
Managing plastic waste is a challenging and pressing problem. In this issue of Chem, Soo and co-workers valorize commercial plastics and post-consumer plastic waste into isolable products, including formic acid, acetic acid, and benzoic acid, through vanadium-catalyzed tandem C–H oxidation and C–C cleavage photoreactions.