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Quasiclassical simulations based on cluster models reveal vibration-facilitated roaming in the isomerization of CO adsorbed on NaCl Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2021-01-18 Apurba Nandi; Peng Zhang; Jun Chen; Hua Guo; Joel M. Bowman
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Quaternary stereocentres via catalytic enantioconvergent nucleophilic substitution reactions of tertiary alkyl halides Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2021-01-11 Zhaobin Wang; Ze-Peng Yang; Gregory C. Fu
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Screening and characterization of a diverse panel of metagenomic imine reductases for biocatalytic reductive amination Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 James R. Marshall; Peiyuan Yao; Sarah L. Montgomery; James D. Finnigan; Thomas W. Thorpe; Ryan B. Palmer; Juan Mangas-Sanchez; Richard A. M. Duncan; Rachel S. Heath; Kirsty M. Graham; Darren J. Cook; Simon J. Charnock; Nicholas J. Turner
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Enantioselective C( sp 3 )–C( sp 3 ) cross-coupling of non-activated alkyl electrophiles via nickel hydride catalysis Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Srikrishna Bera; Runze Mao; Xile Hu
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Nuclear spin conservation enables state-to-state control of ultracold molecular reactions Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-30 Ming-Guang Hu; Yu Liu; Matthew A. Nichols; Lingbang Zhu; Goulven Quéméner; Olivier Dulieu; Kang-Kuen Ni
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Fishing for nucleic acid with a coiled hook Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Jerrin Thomas George; Sarit S. Agasti
Site-specific attachment of a programmable motif, such as a synthetic nucleic acid tag, on a target protein can facilitate functional studies of proteins in cells or modulation of protein activity. Now, a small genetically encoded peptide enables the templated incorporation of a peptide nucleic acid tag onto membrane proteins in live cells.
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Poetic licence Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Michelle Francl
Michelle Francl wonders if scientists ought to pen poetry.
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The importance of storytelling in chemical education Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Sibrina N. Collins
Storytelling can be a powerful educational tool to help address equity in the chemical sciences.
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Mechanochemical synthesis of an elusive fluorinated polyacetylene Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Benjamin R. Boswell; Carl M. F. Mansson; Jordan M. Cox; Zexin Jin; Joseph A. H. Romaniuk; Kurt P. Lindquist; Lynette Cegelski; Yan Xia; Steven A. Lopez; Noah Z. Burns
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Expanding the antibacterial selectivity of polyether ionophore antibiotics through diversity-focused semisynthesis Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Shaoquan Lin; Han Liu; Esben B. Svenningsen; Malene Wollesen; Kristian M. Jacobsen; Frederikke D. Andersen; Jaime Moyano-Villameriel; Christine N. Pedersen; Peter Nørby; Thomas Tørring; Thomas B. Poulsen
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Convergence of multiple synthetic paradigms in a universally programmable chemical synthesis machine Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-22 Davide Angelone; Alexander J. S. Hammer; Simon Rohrbach; Stefanie Krambeck; Jarosław M. Granda; Jakob Wolf; Sergey Zalesskiy; Greig Chisholm; Leroy Cronin
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Making light work of lignan synthesis Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Danny Q. Thach; Thomas J. Maimone
Mimicking biosynthetic pathways can provide access to medicinally important natural products, but generating the reactive species used by nature can often be difficult. Now, a photoredox-based strategy has been developed to access a reactive radical intermediate postulated to be involved in complex lignan biosynthesis.
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Distal conformational locks on ferrocene mechanophores guide reaction pathways for increased mechanochemical reactivity Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Yudi Zhang; Zi Wang; Tatiana B. Kouznetsova; Ye Sha; Enhua Xu; Logan Shannahan; Muge Fermen-Coker; Yangju Lin; Chuanbing Tang; Stephen L. Craig
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Selection of DNA-encoded chemical libraries against endogenous membrane proteins on live cells Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Yiran Huang; Ling Meng; Qigui Nie; Yu Zhou; Langdong Chen; Shilian Yang; Yi Man Eva Fung; Xiaomeng Li; Cen Huang; Yan Cao; Yizhou Li; Xiaoyu Li
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Mimicking oxidative radical cyclizations of lignan biosynthesis using redox-neutral photocatalysis Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Zheng Huang; Jean-Philip Lumb
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Author Correction: Emissive spin-0 triplet-pairs are a direct product of triplet–triplet annihilation in pentacene single crystals and anthradithiophene films Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 David G. Bossanyi; Maik Matthiesen; Shuangqing Wang; Joel A. Smith; Rachel C. Kilbride; James D. Shipp; Dimitri Chekulaev; Emma Holland; John E. Anthony; Jana Zaumseil; Andrew J. Musser; Jenny Clark
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00622-w
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Publisher Correction: A platinum( ii ) metallonitrene with a triplet ground state Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-16 Jian Sun; Josh Abbenseth; Hendrik Verplancke; Martin Diefenbach; Bas de Bruin; David Hunger; Christian Würtele; Joris van Slageren; Max C. Holthausen; Sven Schneider
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-00613-x.
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A molecular endless (7 4 ) knot Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 David A. Leigh; Jonathan J. Danon; Stephen D. P. Fielden; Jean-François Lemonnier; George F. S. Whitehead; Steffen L. Woltering
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Isolation and electronic structures of derivatized manganocene, ferrocene and cobaltocene anions Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Conrad A. P. Goodwin; Marcus J. Giansiracusa; Samuel M. Greer; Hannah M. Nicholas; Peter Evans; Michele Vonci; Stephen Hill; Nicholas F. Chilton; David P. Mills
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Developing the 134 Ce and 134 La pair as companion positron emission tomography diagnostic isotopes for 225 Ac and 227 Th radiotherapeutics Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Tyler A. Bailey; Veronika Mocko; Katherine M. Shield; Dahlia D. An; Andrew C. Akin; Eva R. Birnbaum; Mark Brugh; Jason C. Cooley; Jonathan W. Engle; Michael E. Fassbender; Stacey S. Gauny; Andrew L. Lakes; Francois M. Nortier; Ellen M. O’Brien; Sara L. Thiemann; Frankie D. White; Christiaan Vermeulen; Stosh A. Kozimor; Rebecca J. Abergel
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Manganese-catalysed divergent silylation of alkenes Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-14 Jie Dong; Xiang-Ai Yuan; Zhongfei Yan; Liying Mu; Junyang Ma; Chengjian Zhu; Jin Xie
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Substantial π -aromaticity in the anionic heavy-metal cluster [Th@Bi 12 ] 4− Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Armin R. Eulenstein; Yannick J. Franzke; Niels Lichtenberger; Robert J. Wilson; H. Lars Deubner; Florian Kraus; Rodolphe Clérac; Florian Weigend; Stefanie Dehnen
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Charge transfer driven by ultrafast spin transition in a CoFe Prussian blue analogue Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Marco Cammarata; Serhane Zerdane; Lodovico Balducci; Giovanni Azzolina; Sandra Mazerat; Cecile Exertier; Matilde Trabuco; Matteo Levantino; Roberto Alonso-Mori; James M. Glownia; Sanghoon Song; Laure Catala; Talal Mallah; Samir F. Matar; Eric Collet
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Improving the efficiency of CO 2 electrolysis by using a bipolar membrane with a weak-acid cation exchange layer Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Zhifei Yan; Jeremy L. Hitt; Zichen Zeng; Michael A. Hickner; Thomas E. Mallouk
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Interplay of vibrational wavepackets during an ultrafast electron transfer reaction Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Shahnawaz Rafiq; Bo Fu; Bryan Kudisch; Gregory D. Scholes
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Emissive spin-0 triplet-pairs are a direct product of triplet–triplet annihilation in pentacene single crystals and anthradithiophene films Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 David G. Bossanyi; Maik Matthiesen; Shuangqing Wang; Joel A. Smith; Rachel C. Kilbride; James D. Shipp; Dimitri Chekulaev; Emma Holland; John E. Anthony; Jana Zaumseil; Andrew J. Musser; Jenny Clark
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Live cell PNA labelling enables erasable fluorescence imaging of membrane proteins Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Georgina C. Gavins; Katharina Gröger; Michael D. Bartoschek; Philipp Wolf; Annette G. Beck-Sickinger; Sebastian Bultmann; Oliver Seitz
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Isolable dicarbon stabilized by a single phosphine ligand Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Tsz-Fai Leung; Dandan Jiang; Ming-Chun Wu; Dengmengfei Xiao; Wei-Min Ching; Glenn P. A. Yap; Tao Yang; Lili Zhao; Tiow-Gan Ong; Gernot Frenking
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Determining the nature of quantum resonances by probing elastic and reactive scattering in cold collisions Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Prerna Paliwal; Nabanita Deb; Daniel M. Reich; Ad van der Avoird; Christiane P. Koch; Edvardas Narevicius
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Competition between chiral solvents and chiral monomers in the helical bias of supramolecular polymers Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Marcin L. Ślęczkowski; Mathijs F. J. Mabesoone; Piotr Ślęczkowski; Anja R. A. Palmans; E. W. Meijer
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Protein folding modulates the chemical reactivity of a Gram-positive adhesin Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Alvaro Alonso-Caballero; Daniel J. Echelman; Rafael Tapia-Rojo; Shubhasis Haldar; Edward C. Eckels; Julio M. Fernandez
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A metal–organic framework that exhibits CO 2 -induced transitions between paramagnetism and ferrimagnetism Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-30 Jun Zhang; Wataru Kosaka; Yasutaka Kitagawa; Hitoshi Miyasaka
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Author Correction: Meta-DNA structures Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-24 Guangbao Yao; Fei Zhang; Fei Wang; Tianhuan Peng; Hao Liu; Erik Poppleton; Petr Šulc; Shuoxing Jiang; Lan Liu; Chen Gong; Xinxin Jing; Xiaoguo Liu; Lihua Wang; Yan Liu; Chunhai Fan; Hao Yan
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-020-0539-8.
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Surprisingly stable Si–CO species Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Debdeep Mandal; Diego M. Andrada
As a consequence of their high instability, main-group carbonyl complexes are rare — only a few have been detected, typically in low-temperature matrices. Now, two silicon–carbonyl complexes have been isolated using innovative substituent patterns at the Si centre; their reactivity resembles that of their transition-metal counterparts.
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Polymers producing hydrogen Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Gregory I. Peterson; Sanghee Yang; Tae-Lim Choi
Artificial photosynthesis represents a promising method of generating hydrogen for our clean and sustainable energy needs. Now, photocatalytic nanofibres have been developed that incorporate photosensitizers and catalysts into well-defined self-assembled structures for efficient hydrogen production.
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Tailored self-assembled photocatalytic nanofibres for visible-light-driven hydrogen production Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Jia Tian; Yifan Zhang; Lili Du; Yunxiang He; Xu-Hui Jin; Samuel Pearce; Jean-Charles Eloi; Robert L. Harniman; Dominic Alibhai; Ruquan Ye; David Lee Phillips; Ian Manners
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Enzyme-mediated nitric oxide production in vasoactive erythrocyte membrane-enclosed coacervate protocells Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Songyang Liu; Yanwen Zhang; Mei Li; Li Xiong; Zijian Zhang; Xiaohai Yang; Xiaoxiao He; Kemin Wang; Jianbo Liu; Stephen Mann
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Emergence of low-symmetry foldamers from single monomers Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Charalampos G. Pappas; Pradeep K. Mandal; Bin Liu; Brice Kauffmann; Xiaoming Miao; Dávid Komáromy; Waldemar Hoffmann; Christian Manz; Rayoon Chang; Kai Liu; Kevin Pagel; Ivan Huc; Sijbren Otto
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Metabolic glycan labelling for cancer-targeted therapy Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-20 Hua Wang; David J. Mooney
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Publisher Correction: Exploiting attractive non-covalent interactions for the enantioselective catalysis of reactions involving radical intermediates Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Rupert S. J. Proctor; Avene C. Colgan; Robert J. Phipps
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Publisher Correction: Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-18 Ziwei Liu; Long-Fei Wu; Jianfeng Xu; Claudia Bonfio; David A. Russell; John D. Sutherland
An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.
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Oil droplets cut to the chase Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Corinna C. Maass
Interactions between two bodies that are both attractive and repulsive — such as predators chasing prey — are common in nature. Similar chasing behaviour has now been engineered in self-propelling microdroplets and controlled through fundamental physical and chemical mechanisms.
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Predator–prey interactions between droplets driven by non-reciprocal oil exchange Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Caleb H. Meredith; Pepijn G. Moerman; Jan Groenewold; Yu-Jen Chiu; Willem K. Kegel; Alfons van Blaaderen; Lauren D. Zarzar
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Frenkel excitons in heat-stressed supramolecular nanocomposites enabled by tunable cage-like scaffolding Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Kara Ng; Megan Webster; William P. Carbery; Nikunjkumar Visaveliya; Pooja Gaikwad; Seogjoo J. Jang; Ilona Kretzschmar; Dorthe M. Eisele
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The loss of endgroup effects in long pyridyl-endcapped oligoynes on the way to carbyne Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-09 Yueze Gao; Yuxuan Hou; Fernando Gordillo Gámez; Mike J. Ferguson; Juan Casado; Rik R. Tykwinski
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Partitioning the interlayer space of covalent organic frameworks by embedding pseudorotaxanes in their backbones Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Xing Li; Hai-Sen Xu; Kai Leng; See Wee Chee; Xiaoxu Zhao; Noopur Jain; Hai Xu; Jingsi Qiao; Qiang Gao; In-Hyeok Park; Su Ying Quek; Utkur Mirsaidov; Kian Ping Loh
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Taking stock of stacking Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Andre Mähringer; Dana D. Medina
The manner in which adjacent sheets stack in layered covalent organic frameworks largely influences their material properties, including chemical stability, crystallinity and porosity. The layer stacking of COF has now been probed locally, showing disorder that is not detected through long-range characterization.
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Chemistry of the sky god Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Bruce C. Gibb
If you feel like shifting your attention away from what’s happening here on planet Earth in 2020 for a moment, join Bruce C. Gibb on a tour through the chemistry of the largest planet in the Solar System.
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Calling all Black chemists Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Anne Pichon
Ayanna Jones, Samantha Mensah and Devin Swiner, three of the #BlackInChem co-founders, talk to Nature Chemistry about the origins, goals, initiatives and joy of this movement.
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Prebiotic metabolism gets a boost Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Albert C. Fahrenbach; Quoc Phuong Tran
It’s generally assumed that primitive forms of cellular life arose from nucleic acids and peptides compartmentalized within vesicles — all underpinned by a non-enzymatic protometabolism. Three studies now provide new insights into the ancient chemistry that may have supported early biology.
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Life lessons Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22
It is far from certain how simple chemical reactions became interconnected networks that gave rise to life on early Earth. Exploring the possible ways in which this could have occurred is an active area of research and a collection of articles in this issue consider what chemical steps may have been taken on the path towards life as we know it today.
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A community for Black chemists Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Abraham G. Beyene; Priera Panescu
The #ScienceTwitter community was recently treated to a virtual campaign under the hashtags #BlackInChem and #BlackChemistsWeek. This event highlighted past and present contributions from Black people in the field and offered unique opportunities for networking, mentorship, and recognition, say Abraham Beyene and Priera Panescu.
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Harnessing chemical energy for the activation and joining of prebiotic building blocks Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Ziwei Liu; Long-Fei Wu; Jianfeng Xu; Claudia Bonfio; David A. Russell; John D. Sutherland
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Long-range ordered and atomic-scale control of graphene hybridization by photocycloaddition Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Miao Yu; Chong Chen; Qi Liu; Cristina Mattioli; Hongqian Sang; Guoqiang Shi; Wujun Huang; Kongchao Shen; Zhuo Li; Pengcheng Ding; Pengfei Guan; Shaoshan Wang; Ye Sun; Jinping Hu; André Gourdon; Lev Kantorovich; Flemming Besenbacher; Mingshu Chen; Fei Song; Federico Rosei
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Decorating proteins with LACE Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Maximilian Fottner; Kathrin Lang
Labelling proteins at internal sites holds promise for generating novel protein conjugates in a programmable fashion. Now, a chemoenzymatic approach, dubbed LACE, enables the site-specific modification of recombinant proteins that contain a short genetically encoded tag.
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Shortwave infrared polymethine fluorophores matched to excitation lasers enable non-invasive, multicolour in vivo imaging in real time Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Emily D. Cosco; Anthony L. Spearman; Shyam Ramakrishnan; Jakob G. P. Lingg; Mara Saccomano; Monica Pengshung; Bernardo A. Arús; Kelly C. Y. Wong; Sarah Glasl; Vasilis Ntziachristos; Martin Warmer; Ryan R. McLaughlin; Oliver T. Bruns; Ellen M. Sletten
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Exploiting attractive non-covalent interactions for the enantioselective catalysis of reactions involving radical intermediates Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Rupert S. J. Proctor; Avene C. Colgan; Robert J. Phipps
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Silylated silicon–carbonyl complexes as mimics of ubiquitous transition-metal carbonyls Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-19 Dominik Reiter; Richard Holzner; Amelie Porzelt; Philipp Frisch; Shigeyoshi Inoue
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Enzyme-free synthesis of natural phospholipids in water Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 Luping Liu; Yike Zou; Ahanjit Bhattacharya; Dongyang Zhang; Susan Q. Lang; K. N. Houk; Neal K. Devaraj
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A plausible metal-free ancestral analogue of the Krebs cycle composed entirely of α-ketoacids Nat. Chem. (IF 21.687) Pub Date : 2020-10-12 R. Trent Stubbs; Mahipal Yadav; Ramanarayanan Krishnamurthy; Greg Springsteen
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