2026-04-29 | What can Raman spectroscopy really say about the adsorbed CO on roughened Cu electrodes in CO 2 electroreduction conditions? – Faraday Discuss. Wei, Y.; Alexandrova,* A. N.
Recent Publications
2026-04-27 | Engineering Ultrafast Molecular Rotors via Chalcogen bonds – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Arun Dhaka, Antonio Macias Jr, Andrea Pizzi, Antonio Frontera, Riku Yamamoto, Stuart E. Brown, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*, Giuseppe Resnati.
2026-04-27 | Small-molecule binding-site discovery using silyl ether-enabled chemoproteomics – Nature Chemistry. Chau Ngo*, Sho Takechi, Aditya Sivakumar, Miranda Villanueva, Fengchao Yu, Andréa B. Ball, Javier Rubio, Elijah Biletch, Nikolas R. Burton, Lisa M. Boatner, Phillip Kim, Alexandra C. Turmon, Nithesh Perumal, Marc Liesa, Ajit S. Divakaruni, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii & Keriann M. Backus*. Read about the research here.
2026-04-24 | How the Carrier Mobility and Seebeck Coefficient of Doped Semiconducting Polymers Are Controlled by Counterion Interactions and Mesoscale Order – Adv. Funct. Mater. Duong, Q. M.; Vidales, D. G.; Liu, X.; Salamat, C. Z.; Ready, A.; Khunaizi, H. A.; Matsumoto, M.; Spokoyny,* A. M.; Tolbert,* S. H.; Schwartz,* B. J.
2026-04-23 | GFAP degradation in TBI: linking novel modified products to astrocyte pathology and patient outcome – Acta Neuropathol. Commun. Wanner, I.-B.; Halford, J.; Lopez, J.; Shen, S.; Chen, Y.; Zhao, H.; Salas, C.; Loo, R. O.; Robicsek, S.; Ellingson, B. M.; Gornbein, J.; Van Meter, T. E.; Shaw, G.; Loo,* J. A.; Vespa, P. M.
2026-04-20 | On the Terminology of Lipid Nanoparticles, Liposomes, and Vesicles – Chemsystemschem. Chen,* I. A.
2026-04-16 | One-pot ethanol-mediated synthesis of surface Si-zoned ZSM-5 zeolites – Mater. Chem. Front. Yu, J.; Pan, D.; Du, K.; Chen, W.; Zhou, J.; Tang,* Y.; Zhang, Y.
2026-04-16 | p21+TREM2+ senescent macrophages fuel inflammaging and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease – Nat. Aging. Salladay-Perez, I. A.; Avila, I.; Estrada, L.; Alexandru, A. C.; Ponce, C.; Dhingra, A.; Torres, G.; Deng, C. Y.; Hegde, R.; Gensheimer, J.; Kale, A.; Heckenbach, I.; Hui, S.; Edillor, C.; Soto, J. A.; Napior, A. J.; Little, I.; Larsen, M.; Rose, J.; Farahi, L.; Lopez Gonzalez, E. D. J.; Krieger, M. R.; Chowdhury, K.; Sharma, M.; Jiang, Y.; Williams, K.; Scheibye-Knudsen, M.; Koehler,* C. M.; Meyer, J. G.; Mack, J. J.; Brenner, C.; Bensinger, S. J.; Lagger, C.; de Magalhães, J. P.; Schilling, B.; Singh, R.; Verdin, E.; Lusis, A. J.; Covarrubias, A. J.
2026-04-15 | Bridging Heterocycle-Mediated Hydrogen Bonding Facilitates Permeability of Polar Macrobicycles – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Gabriella I. D. Cooper, Botao Dai, Noah Durham, Gilbert L. Walker, Hongyi Yu, Angel Mendoza, Salvador J. Bernardino, Yun-Dong Wu, Patrick G. Harran*.
2026-04-15 | Sequential transcriptional waves and NF-κB-driven chromatin remodeling direct drug-induced dedifferentiation in cancer – Nat. Commun. Su, Y.; Liu, C.; Lu, X.; Chuang, H.-Y.; Li, G.; Shao, S.; Kong, Y.; Lee, J. W.; Ng, R. H.; Wong, S.; Robert, L.; Warden, C.; Liu, V.; Chen, J.; Wang, Z.; Qin, G.; Tang, Y.; Cheng, H.; Ng, A. H. C.; Chen, D.; Peng, S.; Xue, M.; Johnson, D.; Xu, Y.; Wang, J.; Wu, X.; Shmulevich, I.; Shi, Q.; Levine,* R.; Ribas, A.; Baltimore, D.; Guo, J.; Heath, J. R.; Wei, W.
2026-04-14 | Weak solutions to the Bloch equations with distant dipolar field – J. Chem. Phys. Bouchard,* L.-S.
2026-04-13 | Noninvasive methods to monitor dynamic single-cell events – Trends Cell Biol. Lee, R. E. C.; Yeung, J.; Mumford, T.; Bugaj, L.; Daniels, M. J.; Stanley, J.; Pourmand, N.; Vineall, K. G.; Schmitt,* D. L.; Rahman, S. M. T.; Sung, M.-H.
2026-04-13 | A Fungal Natural Product that Targets Cellulose Synthase Complex and Inhibits Plant Cellulose Biosynthesis – BioRxiv (preprint). Zhongshou Wu, Lu Liu, Wenyu Han, Xingbo Cai, Pixian Xiao, Zuodong Sun, Chunsheng Yan, Silvana Reid, Yun Chen, Zhonghua Ma, Yi Tang*, Steven E. Jacobsen.
2026-04-13 | Time-dependent surface polarization breaks static scaling relationship for selective acetylene hydrogenation – Nat. Chem. Xu, D.; Hülsey, M. J.; Chen, C.; Lim, C. W.; Chen, H.; Sun, G.; Sautet,* P.; Liu, Z.; Yan, N.
2026-04-10 | The Goldilocks state of transcriptional readthrough for chimeric splicing – Transcription. Chanfreau,* G. F.
2026-04-09 | Lighting up lipid droplets – Nat. Chem. Biol. Elijah Biletch, Andrew P. Becker and Keriann M. Backus*.
2026-04-08 | Interior Editing via Dynamic Molecular Recognition – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Ye-Qiang Han, Ching Ching Lam, K. N. Houk*, Aspen X.-Y. Chen.
2026-04-07 | StochasticGW-GPU: Rapid Quasi-Particle Energies for Molecules beyond 10,000 Atoms – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Phillip S. Thomas, Minh Nguyen, Dimitri Bazile, Tucker Allen, Barry Y. Li, Wenfei Li, Mauro Del Ben, Jack Deslippe, Daniel Neuhauser*.
2026-04-04 | Resistance to Overdoping Allows Over 2000 S cm −1 Conductivity in P(g 3 BTTT) With Anion‐Exchange Doping – Adv. Mater. Hunger, B.; Horn, M. M.; Röck, E.; Villalva, D. R.; Bynens, L.; Vanderspikken, J.; Kousseff, C.; Gobeil, S.; Bardagot, O.; Akmanşen‐Kalayci, N.; Tolbert,* S. H.; McCulloch, I.; Maes, W.; Tsokkou, D.; Banerji, N.
2026-04-03 | Propellane Alkaloid Biosynthesis and Total Synthesis via Interrupted Reaction Pathways – ACS Cent. Sci. John M. Billingsley, Jiaming Ding, Allison T. Hands, Kanji Niwa, Nathan J. Adamson, Lukas A. Wein, Bruno Perlatti, Neil K. Garg*, Yi Tang*.
2026-04-01 | – Chem. Sci. Lewis, L. C.; Badve, P.; Vaca, I. P.; Ajmera, P.; Lee, Y.; Alexandrova,* A. N.; Meier, K. K.; Shafaat*, H. S.
2026-04-01 | Resilient nanostructured bioanalytic microneedle longitudinally monitors preclinical renal and hepatic drug clearance and dysfunction – Sci. Transl. Med. Zhu, J.; Cheng, X.; Bahramian, M.; Yao, K.; Li, Z.; Hu, B.; Wu, T.-Y.; Sabet, K. A.; Cui, J.; Tan, J.; Fang, J.; Li, Y.; Ho, C.; Ng, J.; Sung, A.; Romero, I.; Lin, S.; Zhao, Y.; Zhang, K.; Chaiyakul, R.; Yousefi, H.; Flynn, C. D.; Das, J.; Jelinek, D.; Voisin, L.; Ambrus, A.; Zhang, A.; Chi, Y.; Chen, Y.; Liu,* C.; Coller, H. A.; Wu, B. M.; Suthana, N.; Kelley, S. O.; Milla, C.; Kurtz, I.; Emaminejad, S.
2026-04-01 | Nanostructured Low-k Dielectrics via Hybrid Phase Separation for Flexible RF Communications – Nano Lett. Xue, S.; Luo, H.; Qian, Z.; Liu, X.; Ding, G.; Yan, Y.; Ge, L.; Ning, K.; Guo, Y.; Kaner,* R. B.
2026-04-01 | Early transition metal Cu-based single-atom alloys for selective propane dehydrogenation to propylene – Chem Catal. Ngan, H. T.; Sautet,* P.
2026-03-31 | Exploration of protein degradability enables fully endogenous MrTAC degraders – Chem. Laurence J. Seabrook, Endri Karaj, Shaimaa Sindi, Glen Brodie, Catherine R. Livelo, Carolina N. Franco, Melissa Campos, Jack T. Leonard, Fangyuan Gao, Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk, Matthew E. Griffin, Stuart J. Conway*, Amit Choudhary, Lauren V. Albrecht.
2026-03-27 | Stereodivergent Inverse Electron-Demand Diels–Alder Reactions Enabled by Modification of Prolinol-Derived Catalysts – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Marcantonio, E.; Bitsch, R. S.; Kristensen, A.; Rubio, A.; Houk,* K. N.; Jørgensen, K. A.
2026-03-26 | Structural evidence that RNA contributes to polymorphism of tau amyloid fibrils – Iscience. Abskharon, R.; Jiang, Y. X.; Sawaya, M. R.; Ge, P.; Zhang, J.; Boyer, D. R.; Dolinsky, J. L.; Pi, J.; Cascio, D.; Guo, F.; Eisenberg,* D. S.
2026-03-25 | Highly regio- and stereoselective preparation of Z-vinylboronates by a formal trans-hydroboration of terminal alkynes – Tetrahedron Lett. Serrano, A.; Kuo, J. L.; Boon, B. A.; Merlic,* C. A.; Iafe, R. G.
2026-03-20 | Three-dimensional imaging via quantum chain amplification in a crystalline two-photon adiabatic photocage – Chem. Indrajit Paul, Attila Csomos, Krzysztof A. Konieczny, Roberto Chavez, Zoltán Mucsi, Levente Cseri, Balázs József Rózsa, Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay*.
2026-03-20 | Mineralized bacterial cellulose membranes enabling controllable and reversible interleaving deacidification of historic paper – Colloids Surf. Physicochem. Eng. Asp. Jiang, M.; Yao, J.; Yan, Y.; Zhang, Y.; Tang,* Y.; Yang, Y.
2026-03-18 | DUSP12 promotes cell cycle progression and protects cells from ZNF622 mediated apoptosis – Cell Death Dis. Abdusamad, M.; Guo, X.; Ramirez, I.; Velasquez, E. F.; Cohn, W.; Gholkar, A. A.; Ashley, I. A.; Delgado, Y.; Bouhaddou, M.; Whitelegge, J. P.; Damoiseaux, R.; Torres,* J. Z.
2026-03-17 | High Mass-Loading Vanadium Oxide on 3D Printed Carbon Lattices for Zinc-Ion Supercapacitors – Small. Sophia Uemura, Celeste Elkort, Kaitlyn Than, Sydney Rapier, Yuto Katsuyama, Joanne Hui, Zhiyin Yang, Hung-Yi Huang, Chi-Chang Hu, Maher F. El-Kady, Richard B. Kaner*.
2026-03-16 | Characterization of Mitochondrial Double-Stranded RNA Levels in Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma – Cancer Res. Commun. Krieger, M. R.; Lee, S. C.-E. S.; Fu, T.; Cornejo, M. C.; He, K. L.; Howe, R.; Saldivar, V.; Zhang, A. L.; Chanfreau,* G. F.; Teitell, M. A.; Xiao, X.; Shackelford, D. B.; Koehler,* C. M.
2026-03-16 | In Situ Formed Pt–Ga Hetero Duo-Atomic Catalyst for Efficient Hydrogen Storage in N-Heterocycles – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Chen, L.; Kumari, S.; Fang, H.; Wang, S.; Wang, R.; Tesvara, C.; Hsu, L.-C.; Chen, J.-L.; Pu, H.; Duan,* X.; Sautet,* P.; Huang, Y.
2026-03-13 | Sparsely Dispersed CeO x -Stabilized Pt Nanoparticles Overcome Pt Loading–Durability Trade-Off for Highly Durable Heavy-Duty Fuel Cells – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Peng, B.; Liu, Z.; Tsai, Y.-H. J.; Hsiao, T.-J.; Jia, Q.; Wen, J.; Zhou, T.; Segre, C. U.; Duan,* X.; Huang, Y.
2026-03-10 | Studies on Metastable Heterocycles: 2-Formyl-3-methylene-1-pyrroline – Org. Lett. Aleksandras Lotuzas, Ashley A. Michel, Patrick G. Harran*.
2026-03-10 | Boltzmann Graph Ensemble Embeddings for Aptamer Libraries – IEEE International Conference on Data Mining Workshops Icdmw. Bauskar, S.; Jiao, J.; Kannan, N.; Kimm, A.; Baker, J. M.; Tyler, M. J.; Bertozzi, A. L.; Andrews,* A. M.
2026-03-03 | Multi-tissue transcriptomic aging atlas reveals predictive aging biomarkers in the killifish – Nat. Aging. Costa, E. K.; Chen, J.; Guldner, I. H.; Mboning, L.; Schmahl, N.; Tsenter, A.; Nagvekar, R.; Wu, M.-R.; Moran-Losada, P.; Bouchard,* L.-S.; Wang, S.; Singh, P. P.; Pellegrini, M.; Brunet, A.; Wyss-Coray, T.
2026-03-02 | Regioselective Cyclocarbonylation of Alkynols: A Mechanism Study – Eur. J. Org. Chem. Houk,* K.
2026-02-28 | Regioselective Synthesis of Methyl Enol Ethers from Cycloalkanones via O-Methylation of Kinetic Enolates – Synth. Ger. Prout, E. S.; Kwon,* O.; Silva, T. G.
2026-02-27 | Profile of David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper: 2024 Nobel laureates in chemistry – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Berger, B.; Eisenberg,* D. S.
2026-02-27 | From “heavy” water to “heavy” boron clusters – Chem. Raviprolu, V. T.; Spokoyny,* A. M.
2026-02-26 | Genome mining of unusual biosynthetic gene clusters – J. Antibiot. Tang,* Y.
2026-02-26 | Integrating Data Science and Machine Learning with an Aldol Condensation Laboratory – J. Chem. Educ. Min, D. S.; Fan, F.; Doyle,* A. G.
2026-02-24 | Low-Temperature Non-Oxidative Coupling of Methane on Atomically Dispersed Titanium–Aluminum–Boron Nanopowder – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Biswas, S.; Isakov, A.; Dias, N.; Finn, M. T.; Cokas, J.; Epshteyn, A.; Alexandrova,* A. N.; Ahmed, M.; Kaiser, R. I.
2026-02-24 | The Born-Oppenheimer Approximation and its role in the reduction of chemistry – Found. Chem. Eric Scerri*.
2026-02-24 | Cryo-EM structures reveal a conserved architecture for raiA noncoding RNA – Nucleic Acids Res. He, Y.; Zhong, J.; Yang, Y.; Gunsalus, R. P.; Zhou, Z. H.; Feigon,* J.
2026-02-23 | Markovnikov hydroamination of terminal alkenes via phosphine redox catalysis – Nature. Flora Fan, Kassandra F. Sedillo, Alexander J. Maertens & Abigail G. Doyle*. Read about the research here.
2026-02-23 | Using Density-Corrected DFT to Understand Density-Driven and Functional-Dependent Errors in Ab Initio Simulations of the Hydrated Electron – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Borrelli, W. R.; Guardado Sandoval, J. L.; Schwartz,* B. J.
2026-02-23 | A shared amyloid fold in cardiac fibrils from three neuropathy-associated ATTR variants – Structure. Fernandez-Ramirez, M.
2026-02-20 | Hybrid catalysis-reactive sorption mechanism for 2-CEES and sulfur mustard dehydrochlorination on single metal atoms on anatase–TiO 2 – Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. Jiang, D.; Sautet,* P.
2026-02-20 | Bulk-heterojunction doping in lead halide perovskites for low-resistance metal contacts – Nat. Mater. Wang, L.; Zhou, B.; Qian, Q.; Ye, Y.; Wu, H.; Hu, B.; Wang, P.; Zhang, A.; Wan, Z.; Zhang, D.; Bang, K.; Zheng, S.; Shah, A. H.; Zhou, J.; Wang, Y.; Huang, Y.; Duan,* X.
2026-02-19 | Multidose Inline Size-Exclusion Chromatography–Flash Oxidation for Structural Analysis of Dynamic Protein–Ligand Interactions of Antithrombin III and Unfractionated Heparin – Anal. Chem. Sharma, A.; Choudhary, S.; Misra, S. K.; Shami, A. A.; Mishra, S. K.; Drake, Z. C.; Lindert,* S.; Sharp, J. S.
2026-02-19 | Reimagining STEM doctoral training – Science [editorial]. Ian Banks and Prineha Narang*. Read about the article here.
2026-02-19 | Quantum simulation via stochastic combination of unitaries – Npj Quantum Inf. Peetz, J.; Smart, S. E.; Narang,* P.
2026-02-18 | Empowering the next generation of scientists – Nat. Rev. Chem. Arismel Tena Meza, Caitlyn Fick, Erin M. Bucci, Jordan A. M. Gonzalez, Katherine McCarthy, Katherine Snell, Luca McDermott & Madeline E. Ruos. Read about the article here.
2026-02-18 | Lossless and Lossy Characterization of the State of Perturbed Anharmonic Diatomics: An Information-Theoretic Compaction of Quantum Dynamics – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Hamilton, J. R.; Levine,* R. D.
2026-02-17 | Trinuclear Heptamethine Dyes for Shortwave Infrared In Vivo Imaging – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Garcia, C. A.; Lin, E. Y.; Mobley, E. B.; Louie, A.; Hartung, K. M.; Araujo, J. A.; Sletten,* E. M.
2026-02-16 | Self-powered in-stent restenosis diagnosis via magnetoelastic stents – Nat. Cardiovasc. Res. Guorui Chen, Wi Jin Kim, Youcheng Yang, Yan-Ruide Li, Jing Tian, Junkai Zhang, Xun Zhao, Kamryn Scott, Lily G. Defelice, Zeyang Liu, Jing Xu, Tzuchun Chung, Jarod Carol, Yihao Zhou, Anthony C. Wang, Olujimi A. Ajijola, Paul S. Weiss*, Wei Wang, Song Li, Geoffrey P. Colby & Jun Chen. The paper is highlighted in News & Views in the same issue.
2026-02-16 | Sarin Decomposition on a Pt Cluster Supported on Anatase-TiO 2 in Ambient Conditions – ACS Nano. Dutta, S.; Leonard, M. B.; Tesvara, C.; Yousuf, Md. R.; Anderson, K. K.; Morris, J. R.; Karim, A. M.; Balboa, A.; Pearl, T. P.; Karwacki, C. J.; Sautet,* P.
2026-02-12 | Molecular solar thermal energy storage in Dewar pyrimidone beyond 1.6 MJ/kg – Science. Han P. Q. Nguyen, Alexander J. Maertens, Benjamin A. Baker, Nathan M.-W. Wu, Zihao Ye, Qingyang Zhou, Qianfeng Qiu, Navneet Kaur, David B. Berkinsky, Katherine E. Shulenberger, K. N. Houk*, Grace G. D. Han.
2026-02-11 | Transferable enantioselectivity models from sparse data – Nature. Simone Gallarati, Erin M. Bucci, Abigail G. Doyle* & Matthew S. Sigman. Read about the research here.
2026-02-11 | Outsmarting the wicked smart: Using chemistry to overcome bacterial anti-viral systems – Cell Host & Microbe. Antonio Tinoco*.
2026-02-10 | Traces of Elements in the Electrochemical Reductive Amination of Acetone: Uncovering Bi as Substitute for Pb – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Kümper, J.; Guan, Y.; Kumari, S.; Mürtz, S. D.; Sautet,* P.; Palkovits, R.
2026-02-10 | Molecular dynamics of bicyclo[2.2.0]hex-2-ene ring opening and its polar derivative: allowed vs. forbidden pathways – Chem. Sci. Qin, Z.; Zhou, Q.; Wu, R.-K.; Houk,* K. N.
2026-02-10 | The Crucial Role of Hydrogen Ligation in the Stability of Single Atoms on Rutile TiO 2 : A First-Principles Study – ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Ghoshal, S.; Ezeakunne, C.; Lee, Y.; Alexandrova,* A. N.; Kattel, S.
2026-02-09 | Boron-Centered Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer – ChemRxiv (preprint). Varun Tej Raviprolu, Hashim Al-Khunaizi, Huanhuan Xie, Tyler A. Kerr, Kathryn G. Woodburn, Hannah S. Shafaat*, Xin Mu, and Alexander M. Spokoyny*.
2026-02-09 | What is an element, and how is it defined in the IUPAC Gold Book? – Chemistry International. Eric Scerri*.
2026-02-09 | Exploring the Chemical Doping of a Water-Soluble Cylindrical Micelle-Forming Conjugated Polyelectrolyte – ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Liu, X.; Simafranca, A. F.; Chang, J.; Garcia Vidales, D.; Lo, K.; Wu, Y.; Schwartz,* B. J.; Rubin,* Y.; Tolbert,* S. H.
2026-02-09 | Surprisal Analysis-Based Compaction of Entangled Molecular States of Maximal Entropy – Entropy. Hamilton, J. R.; Remacle, F.; Levine,* R. D.
2026-02-06 | Photosensitizer proximity labeling captures the lipid and protein interactomes – Nat. Chem. Biol. Andrew P. Becker, Elijah Biletch, John Paul Kennelly, Soon-Gook Hong, Ashley R. Julio, Miranda Villanueva, Rohith T. Nagari, Daniel W. Turner, Nikolas R. Burton, Tomoyuki Fukuta, Liujuan Cui, Xu Xiao, Zaid Vellani, Alexander Nguyen, Julia J. Mack, Peter Tontonoz & Keriann M. Backus. Read about the research here.
2026-02-05 | Formation and spontaneous oxidation of neutral [4Fe–4S] clusters in prebiotic oceans – J. Inorg. Biochem. Present, T. M.; Valentine,* J. S.; Johnson, J. E.; Szilagyi, R. K.
2026-02-04 | Unraveling the Methanol Oxidation Mechanism over a Titania-Supported Platinum Catalyst – ACS Catal. Dutta, S.; Anderson, K. K.; Yousuf, M. R.; Karim, A. M.; Morris, J. R.; Sautet,* P.
2026-02-04 | Metabolic engineering of doxorubicin biosynthesis through P450-redox partner optimization and structural analysis of DoxA – Nat. Commun. Koroleva, A.; Artukka, E.; Yamada, K.; Newmister, S. A.; Harte, R. J.; Boesger, H.; Londen, M.; Sanders, J. N.; Tirkkonen, H.; Kannisto, M.; Kuin, R. C. M.; Hulst, M.; Wang, R.; Leskinen, E.; Barillec, M.; Niemi, J.; van Wezel, G. P.; Neefjes, J.; Nybo, S. E.; Houk,* K. N.; Sherman, D. H.; Kim, R. Q.; Metsä-Ketelä, M.
2026-02-03 | Sculpting Microbial Microenvironments: Spatiotemporal Control via Programmable Electrochemical Gradients – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zou, H.; Gao, Y.; Ding, Z.; Liu,* C.
2026-02-03 | Visualizing PINK1 Activity Dynamics in Single Cells with a Phase Separation-Based Kinase Activity Reporter – ACS Sens. Vineall, K. G.; Andrikopoulos, A.; Sun, M. J.; Yan, A.; Hartanto, E. R.; Schmitt,* D. L.
2026-02-02 | Seven-Membered Azacyclic Allenes: Synthesis, Trapping, and Stereochemical Transfer Studies – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Georgia M. Scherer, Benjamin A. Janda, Lauren Q. Van Auken, Neil K. Garg*.
2026-01-31 | An Antifungal with a Novel Mechanism of Action Discovered via Resistance Gene-Guided Genome Mining – ACS Cent. Sci. Perlatti, B.; Vellanki, S.; Zhang, Y.; Chiang, Y.-M.; Hu, Y.; Yuan, M.; Dunbar, K.; Fine, A.; Grau, M. F.; Li, S.; O’Donnell, T.; Shenoy, R.; Li, H.; Shi, H.; Xu, X.; Chen, Z.; Arvedson, T.; Tang,* Y.; Cramer, R. A.; Cee, V.; Harvey, C. J. B.
2026-01-30 | Traceless linkers used for reversible protein–polymer conjugations – Chem. Sci. Rose, D. A.; Fu, Z.; Tan, M. F.; Vinciguerra, D.; Panescu, P. H.; Maynard,* H. D.
2026-01-28 | Cr-Doping Promoted Surface Reconstruction of Ni(OH) 2 Electrocatalysts toward Efficient Adipic Acid Electrosynthesis – ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. Liang, Y.; Liao, X.; Jia, Y.; Guan, S.; Zhang, W.; Zhang, W.; Meng, Y.; Tang,* Y.; Gao, Q.
2026-01-28 | N-Alkylsulfonamide Nucleophilicity: Experimental and Computational Assessment of Nitrogen Nucleophilicity of (S)-2-(Iodomethyl)-1-tosylpyrrolidine – Org. Lett. Escudero, J.; Yasukawa, T.; Ma, P.; Bianchi, P.; Wang, Z.; Bellosta, V.; Houk,* K. N.; Cossy, J.
2026-01-28 | CRISPR screens in iPSC-derived neurons reveal principles of tau proteostasis – Cell. Samelson, A. J.; Ariqat, N.; McKetney, J.; Rohanitazangi, G.; Parra Bravo, C.; Bose, R. S.; Travaglini, K. J.; Lam, V. L.; Goodness, D.; Ta, T.; Dixon, G.; Marzette, E.; Jin, J.; Tian, R.; Tse, E.; Abskharon, R.; Pan, H. S.; Carroll, E. C.; Lawrence, R. E.; Gestwicki, J. E.; Rexach, J. E.; Eisenberg,* D. S.; Kanaan, N. M.; Southworth, D. R.; Gross, J. D.; Gan, L.; Swaney, D. L.; Kampmann, M.
2026-01-27 | Controlling crystallization pathways: a universal Na + /K + ion switch for mesostructure engineering of zeolites – Mater. Chem. Front. Ye, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Yan, K.; Zhang, H.; Yu, Z.; Sheng, Z.; Du, K.; Zhang, Y.; Tang,* Y.
2026-01-27 | Interfacial Charge Transfer and Substrate-Dependent Oxidation States Drive SMSI Enhancements in Cobalt Oxide Films – J. Phys. Chem. C. Yan, G.; Chen, H.; Nguyen, H.; van Spronsen, M. A.; Morales, C.; Waluyo, I.; Hunt, A.; Nemsak, S.; Sautet,* P.; Salmeron, M.; Kersell, H.
2026-01-27 | Biocompatibility of large-area two-dimensional electronic materials with neural stem cells – Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. Jayanth, R. T.; Duquette, R.; Kutagulla, S.; Salazar, S. P.; Okogbue, E.; Zhou, J.; Carmichael, P.; Jung, Y.; Duan,* X.; Kireev, D.; Seidlits, S. K.; Akinwande, D.
2026-01-27 | Synergizing Chemical and AI Communities for Advancing Laboratories of the Future – ACS Cent. Sci. Oh, S.; Fang, X.; Lin, I.-H.; Dee, P.; Dunham, C. S.; Copp, S. M.; Doyle,* A. G.; Read de Alaniz, J.; Gu, M.
2026-01-26 | Intercalated bacterial biofilms are intrinsic internal components of calcium-based kidney stones – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Schmidt, W. C.; Mousavi, A.; Li, J.; Yang, R.; Gonzalez Marin, G.; Schreiber, H. L.; Hammann, R. E. S.; Obernuefemann, C. L. P.; Bergeron, K.; Klim, A.; Wong, D.; Du, K.; Hultgren, S. J.; Chen, Q.; Celestian, A.; Wong,* G. C. L.; Scotland, K. B.
2026-01-23 | MI-181 enhances ciliation and cilia length in a cigarette smoke exposed airway epithelial model – Sci. Rep. Gholkar, A. A.; Cherry, C.; Gimeno, T. V.; Nocon, C.; Zhu, C.; Gomperts, B. N.; Torres,* J. Z.
2026-01-22 | Solution and Active Site Speciation Drive Selectivity for Electrocatalytic Reactive Carbon Capture in Diethanolamine over Ni–N–C Catalysts – J. Am. Chem. Soc. R. Dominic Ross, Yulan Han, Hui-Yun Jeong, Jenna M. Ynzunza, Robert H. Lavroff, Avishek Banerjee, Aditya Prajapati, Carlos G. Morales-Guio, Jesús M. Velázquez, Anastassia N. Alexandrova*, Christopher Hahn.
2026-01-21 | Hyperpyramidalized alkenes with bond orders near 1.5 as synthetic building blocks – Nat. Chem. Jiaming Ding, Sarah A. French, Christina A. Rivera, Arismel Tena Meza, Dominick C. Witkowski, K. N. Houk* & Neil K. Garg*. Read about the research here.
2026-01-20 | Low temperature and rapid photothermal oxidation of liquid gallium for circular hydrogen production –Nat. Commun. Luis G. B. Campos, Francois-Marie Allioux, Gustavo Fimbres Weihs, Sarina Sarina, Anthony P. O’Mullane, Torben Daeneke, Richard B. Kaner* & Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh.
2026-01-15 | Influence of the Electrostatic Tuning of Alkyl and Benzyl Groups on Cation-π Interactions in Histone Reader Proteins and β-Hairpin Peptides – Biochemistry. Ricciardi, M. N.; Travis, C. R.; Treacy, J. W.; Boniberger, J. M.; Houk,* K. N.; Waters, M. L.
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