Recent Publications

2026-10-28 | C-N σ-Bond Insertion with Benzyne – Org. Synth. Kasey K. Chung, Christina A. Rivera, Giulianna A. Miseo, Silas J. Scribner, Vy M. Dong, and Neil K. Garg*.

2026-10-28 | Lactonization of (-)-Quinic acid – Org. Synth. Lauren Q. Van Auken, Benjamin A. Janda, Georgia M. Scherer, Konstantin Günther, Jakub Brześkiewicz, Nuno Maulide and Neil K. Garg*.

2026-10-21 | Mass Spectrometry-Based Tissue Imaging of Small Molecules – Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. Ferguson, C. N.; Fowler, J. W. M.; Waxer, J. F.; Gatti, R. A.; Loo,^* J. A.

2026-10-14 | Insulating Out-of-Plane Transport in Anisotropic Metals: The Case of Sr₂⁢RuO₄ and Related Layered Oxides – Phys. Rev. Lett. Sophie Beck, Matthew Shammami, Lorenzo Van Muñoz, Jason Kaye, Antoine Georges, and Jernej Mravlje.

2026-10-13 | Tandem Michael–Aldol Assembly and Regioselective Aminohydroxylation of a Chlorinated Bicyclo[3.3.1]nonane Core Toward Gymnastatin G – Eur. J. Org. Chem. Nguyen, L. T.; Jung,^* M. E.; Chang, D.-J.

2026-10-12 | Leveraging Cubenes to Access Highly Functionalized Fused Cubes – JACS. Sarah A. French; Christina A. Rivera; Kasey K. Chung; K. N. Houk*; Neil K. Garg*.

2026-10-09 | Regio- and Enantioselective Functionalization of Gaseous Alkanes via Nickel-Catalyzed Alkene Dicarbofunctionalization – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Barbeira-Arán, S.; Nair, A. M.; Malga, J. M.; Hu, X.; Rentería-Gómez, A.; Liu, Y.; Gogoi, A. R.; Gutierrez,^* O.; Nevado, C.; Fañanás-Mastral, M.

2026-10-09 | A cryptic binding pocket regulates the metal-dependent activity of Cas9 – Nat Commun. Mohd Ahsan, Alexa L. Knight, Aakash Saha, Delisa Ramos, Isabel Strohkendl, Erin Skeens, Madeline S. West, Jinping Luo, Charlotte S. Dresser, David W. Taylor, George P. Lisi & Giulia Palermo*.  

2026-10-08 | Integrating Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Data with AlphaFold and Rosetta Improves Protein Complex Structure Prediction – Anal. Chem. Akshaya Narayanasamy; Zachary C. Drake; S. M. Bargeen A. Turzo; Amber D. Rolland; James S. Prell; Vicki H. Wysocki; Steffen Lindert*.

2026-10-06 | Transformer-based generation of equivalent circuits for electrochemical impedance spectroscopy: EIS-GPT – Cell Rep. Phys. Sci. Sun, J.; Zhang, W.; Zhao, Q.; Gu, Q.; Liu,^* C.

2026-10-06 | A practical guide to Bayesian optimization for organic chemists – Chem Catal. Shey, R.; Roediger, S.; Doyle,^* A. G.; West, J. G.

2026-10-05 | Biomolecule–polymer conjugates synthesized by a combination of organometallic bioconjugation and atom transfer radical polymerization – Polym. Chem. Montgomery, H. R.; Zhang, T.; Kunkel, G. E.; Polite, M. F.; Lee, J.; Messina, M. S.; Spokoyny,^* A. M.; Maynard,^* H. D.

2026-10-02 | Transposon end recognition and pairing by I-F3 CRISPR-associated transposase – Sci. Adv. Truong, V. H.; Miller, D. J.; Fatma, S.; Sheng, Y.; Pindi, C.; Ahsan, M.; Palermo,^* G.; Kellogg, E. H.

2026-10-02 | Alcohol Oxidation using o-Iodoxybenzoic acid (IBX) – Org. Synth. Breanna J. Sprague, Lauren Q. Van Auken, Benjamin A. Janda, Danielle Malka, M. Kevin Brown, and Neil K. Garg*.

2026-10-02 | IBX-Mediated Amine Oxidation – Org. Synth. Abigail W. Wilson, Giulianna A. Miseo, Christina A. Rivera, Jakob Frey, Andreas Benedikt zur Bonsen, Nuno Maulideb, and Neil K. Garg*.

2026-09-30 | Yeast-Based High-Throughput Screening Platform for Identifying Modulators of Mitochondrial Protein Import – Assay Drug Dev. Technol. Cornejo, M. C.; Lee, S. C.-E. S.; Nguyen, C.; Smith, S.; Taylor, C.; Damoiseux, R.; Koehler,^* C. M.

2026-09-29 | Molecular engineering stabilizes the commensurate charge density wave state in 1T-TaS₂/arginine hybrid superlattices – Nat. Chem. Jingyuan Zhou, Boxuan Zhou, Chih-En Hsu, Katherine Pettersen, Jingxuan Zhou, Zhong Wan, Xingxu Yan, Huaying Ren, Qi Qian, Ao Zhang, Bosi Peng, Ranning Tang, Xiaoqing Pan, Zdenek Sofer, Hung-Chung Hsueh, Zhenglu Li, Yu Huang & Xiangfeng Duan*. Read about the research here.

2026-09-29 | Chirality Inherent and Induced: An Algebraic Point of View – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Hamilton, J. R.; Remacle, F.; Levine,^* R. D.

2026-09-28 | Asymmetric Anti-Hydrogenation of Tetrasubstituted Alkenes – ChemRxiv (preprint). Justin Manoff, Kyle Schultz, Julian Morales, Aris V. Rubio, Cesar Torres, Sattwik Chakraborty, Max Lyons, Yu-Shen Sun, K. N. Houk*, and Soumitra V. Athavale*.

2026-09-25 | Stabilization of Glucagon by Trehalose Diblock Copolymer Vesicles for Hypoglycemic Counterregulation – Biomacromolecules. Georgiou, P. G.; Sivasankaran, R. P.; Zhang, T.; Kayaian, M.-R.; Cohen, K.; Montgomery, H. R.; Hevener, A. L.; Maynard,^* H. D.

2026-09-24 | Dynamin-2 promotes Atg9A retrieval from phagophores during autophagy – Biol. Open. Caliri, A.; Martorell-Riera, A.; Kolitsida, P.; Saha, A.; Iriondo-Martinez, C.; Itskanov, S.; Steffen, J.; Koehler,^* C. M.; van der Bliek, A. M.

2026-09-23 | Adsorption–conversion synthesis of ultrathin intermetallics and high-entropy alloys – Nat. Mater. Zhang, P.; Zhao, F.; Wang, X.; Wang, H.; Si, K.; Gong, Y.; Li, B.; Wei, J.; Jia, Y.; Gao, B.; Liu, Z.; Zou, X.; Duan,^* X.

2026-09-22 | Vps1 and select autophagic machinery are required for coenzyme Q uptake and trafficking to mitochondria – J. Biol. Chem. Guile, M. D.; Anderson, K. A.; Jain, A.; Toulmay, A.; Prinz, W. A.; Clarke,^* C. F.

2026-09-22 | Room Temperature Structures of Solvated Organic Molecules Enabled by Liquid Cell Electron Diffraction – ACS Cent. Sci. Vlahakis, N. W.; Konieczny, K.; Flowers, C. W.; Garcia-Garibay,^* M. A.; Rodriguez, J. A.

2026-09-21 | Measuring Sunscreen Reflectance and White Cast Using an In Vitro Skin Tone Model – ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. Ajoa J. Addae; Haewon Choi; Justin Caram*; Paul S. Weiss*.

2026-09-18 | GTPase cycle and ER membrane regulate cargo handover during cotranslational protein targeting – Sci. Adv. Qian, R.; Gora, R. J.; Chung, S.; Lee, J. H.; Chandrasekar, S.; Wang, M. F.-Y.; Weiss,^* S.; Shan, S.-o.

2026-09-17 | Fractional quantum spin Hall crystals from hidden density-wave order – arXiv (preprint). Matthew Shammami and Sudip Chakravarty. First author Matthew Shammami is a chemistry graduate student in the Chakravarty group.

2026-09-17 | Spiroketal Synthesis Via Uncatalyzed Inverse Electron-Demand Hetero-Diels-Alder Reactions at Ambient Temperature – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Emma J. Greene, Matthew C. Raeside, Marcelo A. Mazariego, Andy Y. Song, K. N. Houk*, Patrick G. Harran*.

2026-09-16 | Enantioselective Cross-Coupling of an Unbiased Carbon Radical Enabled by Perfluoroaryl Semicorrin Ligands – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Rojas, J. J.; Aouane, F. A.; Ramirez, L. S.; Rentería-Gómez, A.; Zhang, Y.; Breaz, M. A.; Elsen, T. v. d.; Azizyan, N.; Bailey, J. B.; Gembicky, M.; Gutierrez,^* O.; Shenvi, R. A.

2026-09-15 | Nanoconfinement-regulated reconfigurable two-dimensional polymer-based memristors for voiceprint recognition – Chem. Eng. J. Yang, J.; Guo, Y.; Zhao, H.; Wen, Y.; Luo, Y.; Li, S.; Wang, X.; Yan, Y.; Zhou, Y.; Han, S.-T.; Ding, G.; Xue, S.; Kaner,^* R. B.

2026-09-15 | Stochastic GW with the orthogonalized projector augmented wave method – J. Chem. Phys. Dimitri Bazile; Minh Nguyen; Yuji Kon; Tucker Allen; Daniel Neuhauser*. 

2026-09-15 | Passive detection of time-reversal-symmetry breaking using a qubit-cross-resonator circuit – Phys. Rev. Appl. Petrides, I.; Arora, A.; Narang,^* P.

2026-09-15 | Biosynthetic allene and alkyne formation by enzymatic prenyl demethylation – Nat. Chem. Biol. Liu, M.; Ohashi, M.; Han, W.; Zhou, Q.; Houk,^* K. N.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-09-14 | Machine Learning-Guided Scope Selection to Balance Performance and Substrate Similarity – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Roediger, S.; Sigman, M. S.; Doyle,^* A. G.

2026-09-14 | Application Notes in JCIM: A Home for Data, Software, and Web-Based Services in Cheminformatics and Molecular Modeling – J. Chem. Inf. Model. Nunes Alves, A.; Amaro, R. E.; Choong, Y. S.; Cournia, Z.; He, X.; Isayev, O.; Kirchmair, J.; Kitchin, J.; Naidoo, K. J.; Nguyen, D.; Palermo,^* G.; Soares, T. A.; Wei, G.-W.; Zhu, T.; Merz, K. M.

2026-09-14 | ZIF‐8 Film Coatings Render Polymeric Device Surfaces Addressable by ¹ H/ ¹²⁹ Xe MRI – Small. Yang, X.; Zeng, Q.; Zhu, J.; Zhao, X.; Wang, Z.; Xiao, Z.; Feng, Y.; Yuan, Y.; Yuan, C.; Li, H.; Xiao, S.; Bouchard,^* L.-S.; Zhou, X.; Guo, Q.

2026-09-14 | Alternating iterative exponential growth oligomers as a sequence-defined platform for hydrophilic antibody–drug conjugates – Org. Biomol. Chem. Fu, Z.; Maynard,^* H. D.

2026-09-13 | A silk fibroin hybrid hydrogel electrolyte enables highly robust aqueous zinc-ion batteries to operate from −60 to 60 °C – Chem. Sci. You, C.; Zhang, W.; Fan, W.; Peng, Y.; Wang, T.; Wu, X.; Fu, L.; Wu, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-09-12 | DiploPhos: A Hemilabile Bisphosphine for Sterically Hindered Ni-Catalyzed Suzuki–Miyaura Couplings – ACS Catal. T. Judah Raab; Hang Chi Ho; Tyler Kerr; Nari Tao; Shashank Shekhar; Rafal Swiatowiec; Michael C. Haibach; Abigail G. Doyle *.

2026-09-11 | Site-selective Au(III)-mediated metalloenzyme conjugations – Chem. Nima Adhami, Michael J. P. Rebelo, Pathorn H. Teptarakulkarn, Sofia H. Ando, Eileen J. Olivares, Thomas Louis-Goff, Aldo J. Muñoz, Varun Tej Raviprolu, Michael R. Sawaya, Doyeon Han, Itzel P. Vaca, Niko W. Vlahakis, Songrong Qu, Tyler A. Kerr, Reanne J. Coutinho, Rachel R. Ogorzalek Loo, Joseph A. Loo*, Hannah S. Shafaat*, Jose A. Rodriguez*, Alexander M. Spokoyny*.

2026-09-10 | Homogenized spin-charge transport in random heterogeneous chiral molecular media – J. Chem. Phys. Bouchard,^* L.-S.

2026-09-10 | Formation of Strong Brønsted Acid Sites on Aluminosilicate Surfaces during Catalytic Cracking – ACS Catal. Sawant, K. J.; Stockwell, D.; Debellis, A.; Sanchez-Carrera, R.; Dorazio, L.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-09-09 | Adamantyl-BOX Ligand Enabling Stereoselective Synthesis of Axially Chiral Aldehydes Bearing Vicinal Stereogenic Centers – ACS Cent. Sci. Hao, E.-J.; Ding, X.-B.; Shan, J.-R.; Wu, Z.; Wang, X.; Cao, R.; Jin, F.; Houk,^* K. N.; Shi, L.

2026-09-08 | Cryo-EM structure of TGFBIp fibrils driven by a corneal dystrophy-linked mutation enables design of peptide inhibitors of aggregation – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Jiang, Y. X.; Salwinski, L.; Sawaya, M. R.; Ge, P.; Lutter, L.; Cheng, X.; Hu, C. J.; Hernandez, H.; Boyer, D. R.; Wang, C.; Melo, F. A.; Cascio, D.; Eisenberg,^* D. S.

2026-09-08 | Poly(2-oxazoline) termination with functional nucleophiles – Eur. Polym. J. Zhu, L.; Kelkar, S. L.; Hammer, P. E.; Sletten,^* E. M.

2026-09-07 | Design and Structure of Protein Cages Based on Helical Fusion and Machine Learning – J. Am. Chem. Soc. San Segundo-Acosta, P.; Le Coq, J.; Boskovic, J.; Aglietti, R. A.; Bowers, P.; Yeates,^* T. O.; Castells-Graells, R.

2026-09-06 | Cryo-EM structure of a 95-base-pair double-stranded DNA minicircle at 5.3 Å resolution – Nucleic Acids Res. Liu, Y.; Lee, K.-Y.; He, Y.; Kim, D.; Chang, H.; Cherezov, V.; Feigon,^* J.; Qin, P. Z.

2026-09-04 | Quantum-Chemically Informed Representation Learning for Molecular Crystal Property Prediction via Multimodal Graph Neural Networks – J. Chem. Inf. Model. Ihiri, F.; Garcia-Garibay,^* M. A.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.

2026-09-04 | Low–Energy Metastable Ensemble–Involving Ostwald Ripening of Au Nanoclusters on Anatase TiO2(101) under Oxidizing Conditions – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Liu, Q.-Y.; Chen, D.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-09-04 | Enantioselective Rh-catalyzed addition of indoles to enones and the key role of the free N–H group with acyclic enones – Chem. Sci. Power, M.; Stosse, G.; Lam, C. C.; Mackey, K.; Light, M.; Kjell, D.; Houk,^* K. N.; McGlacken, G. P.

2026-09-03 | Transient Thermoreflectance with an Amplified Laser Simplifies Heat Transfer Modeling To Determine the Thermal Transport Properties of Materials – Chem. Mater. Wilson, R. W.; Kelleher-Ferguson, J.; Wu, E. C.; Schwartz,^* B. J.

2026-09-03 | Native Proteomics Reveals Protease-Mediated Hemophore Release by Bacterial Pathogens – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Goring, A. K.; Lyman, L. R.; Ford, J.; Huang, J.; Mullen, C.; Melani, R. D.; Schmitt, M. P.; Clubb,^* R. T.; Loo,^* J. A.

2026-09-02 | 5-tBu-Thalidomide Is a Selective Molecular Glue Degrader of the Transcription Factor FLT3 Interacting Zinc Finger 1 (FIZ1) – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Patrick J. Brennan; Ruiyang Guo; Alban Ordureau; Sarah E. Singleton; Miranda Li; Fatma Albayrak; Connor H. Chang; Lorena Yu Liao; Charlotte M. Deane; Kendall N. Houk*; Michael M. Hann; Lewis L. Brayshaw; Heeseon An; Stuart J. Conway*.

2026-09-02 | Beyond and Inside the Electrical Double Layer: Molecular-Level Cation Effects in Aqueous Electrocatalysis – Adv. Mater. Wan, C.; Wang, Y.; Huang, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-09-01 | Solvent Leveling Explains Supercharging in Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhao, B.; O’Brien Johnson, R.; Zenaidee, M.; Jung, W.; Loo,^* J. A.; Ogorzalek Loo, R. R.

2026-09-01 | Design and structural basis of selective nonsteroidal inhibitors of aster cholesterol trafficking – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Kim, H.; Romartinez-Alonso, B.; Xiao, X.; Gao, Y.; Kennelly, J. P.; Ferrari, A.; Li, R.; Cui, L.; Whang, E.; Schwabe, J. W. R.; Jung,^* M. E.; Tontonoz, P.

2026-09-01 | Native Proteomics Reveals Protease-Mediated Hemophore Release by Bacterial Pathogens – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Andrew K. Goring; Lindsey R. Lyman; Jordan Ford; Jingjing Huang; Christopher Mullen; Rafael D. Melani; Michael P. Schmitt; Robert T. Clubb* ; Joseph A. Loo*.

2026-09-01 | Direct Access to Poly(amino ester)s with Main-Chain H-Bonding Motifs – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Jung, H.-J.; Roshandel, H.; Pung, M. J.; Pearson, K.; Bennewitz, K.; Zhou, Q.; Iwase, T.; Mehrkhodavandi, P.; Diaconescu,^* P. L.

2026-09-01 | Halictine-II as a Potential Broad-Spectrum Antifungal and Antibacterial Agent – Pharmaceuticals. Zhang, N.; Kutach, M.; Hsieh, L.; Vexler, S.; Chen,^* I. A.

2026-09-01 | Tunable Electrostatic Interactions of Lipid-Coated Quantum Dots with Biological Membranes – Langmuir. Morgenstein, L.; Huang-Zhu, C. A.; Yudovich, S.; Grupi, A.; Van Lehn, R. C.; Weiss,^* S.

2026-08-31 | A two-factor authentication mechanism licenses pilins for pilus assembly in gram-positive bacteria – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Cheung, N. A.; Pawlaczyk, R. M.; Mahoney, B. J.; Day, S. D.; Cheatham, K.; Goring, A. K.; Minor, C. M.; Chan, R. W.; Chang, C.; Loo,^* J. A.; Wereszczynski, J.; Ton-That, H.; Clubb,^* R. T.

2026-08-31 | Desolvated cations promote CO2 electroreduction through partial covalent interactions – Nat. Catal. Shan, Y.; Jaugstetter, M.; Feijóo, J.; Guan, Y.; Wang, T.; Falling, L. J.; Li, J.; Ding, H.; Sachelarie, A.; Fonseca Guzman, M. V.; Zhao, X.; Kowalski, R. M.; Nemšák, S.; Guo, J.; Sautet,^* P.; Salmeron, M. B.; Yang, P.

2026-08-26 | Dipole-dependent electrochemical performance of carboranethiol and carboranedithiol self-assembled monolayers – RSC Appl. Interfaces. Gilad Gani, Moses Egor, Tomas Base, Paul S Weiss*.

2026-08-25 | Time for o-chem to level up – Nat. Rev. Chem. Kasey K. Chung, Christina A. Rivera, Dory E. DeWeese*, Neil K. Garg*, Francesca M. Ippoliti & Daniel J. Nasrallah.

2026-08-25 | Impact of artificial intelligence on heterogeneous catalysis: general discussion – Faraday Discuss. Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Árnadóttir, L.; Beaumont, S. K.; Dannar, A.; Demingo, C.; Fingerhut, J.; Flaherty, D. W.; Foppa, L.; Fortunelli, A.; Góra, A.; Gross, E.; Johnson, M. S.; Kandratsenka, A.; Kowalec, I.; Kraushofer, F.; Kreitz, B.; Lizée, M.; Logsdail, A. J.; Matsuda, I.; Mazzei, H.; Murano, Y.; Nair, A. S.; Ntola, P.; Poths, P.; Reece, C.; Schauermann, S.; Sheldon, C.; Shozi, M.; Szilvási, T.; Tait, S. L.; Tiwari, V. A.; Ussama, M.; Van Speybroeck, V.; West, R. H.; Zádor, J.; Zhang, S.

2026-08-25 | Rational design of dynamic and self-repairing active sites: general discussion – Faraday Discuss. Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Barama, N. E. H.; Bare, S. R.; Chen, J. G.; Dannar, A.; Datye, A. K.; Demingo, C.; Dohnalek, Z.; Druce, J.; Etim, U.; Flaherty, D. W.; Fortunelli, A.; Gross, E.; Hargreaves, J.; Held, G.; Helveg, S.; Kraushofer, F.; Kreitz, B.; Kumar, S.; Lechner, B. A. J.; Logsdail, A. J.; Parkinson, G. S.; Poths, P.; Reece, C.; Roldan Cuenya, B.; Tait, S. L.; Tanriver, G.; van Spronsen, M. A.; Vitillo, J. G.; Wodtke, Alec. M.; Yang, J.

2026-08-25 | Chemical mechanisms and system analysis in heterogeneous catalysis: general discussion – Faraday Discuss. Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Barama, N. E. H.; Bare, S. R.; Bernard, M. E.; Chen, J. G.; Datye, A. K.; Demingo, C.; Dissanayake, R. E. A.; Dohnalek, Z.; Duncan, D. A.; Fingerhut, J.; Flaherty, D. W.; Ghaderian, A.; Góra, A.; Gross, E.; Hargreaves, J.; Held, G.; Hubert, P.; Kandratsenka, A.; Koper, M. T. M.; Kraushofer, F.; Kreitz, B.; Kumar, S.; Lechner, B. A. J.; Lizée, M.; Logsdail, A. J.; Lundgren, E.; Matsuda, I.; Mazzei, H.; Meng, X.; Murano, Y.; Nair, A. S.; Nitz, F.; Nørskov, J. K.; Pacchioni, G.; Parkinson, G. S.; Pavelec, J.; Poths, P.; Reece, C.; Roldan Cuenya, B.; Schauermann, S.; Sheldon, C.; Shozi, M.; Szilvási, T.; Tait, S. L.; Tiwari, V. A.; Ussama, M.; van Spronsen, M. A.; Vitillo, J. G.; Wodtke, A. M.; Zádor, J.; Zhang, S.

2026-08-24 | Redox-Dependent Lipophilicity of Phenazine Metabolites Is Modulated by Intramolecular Hydrogen Bonds and Controls Their Biological Distribution – ACS Chem. Biol. Korbinian O. Thalhammer, Matthew Scurria, Jinyang Li, Inês B. Trindade, Osvaldo Gutierrez *, Stuart J. Conway *, Dianne K. Newman.

2026-08-22 | Origin of Scission Selectivity for Phosphoranyl Radicals in Photoredox Catalysis – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Wearing, E. R.; Prakash Kaushik, N.; Hugie, S. T.; Sigman, M. S.; Doyle,^* A. G.

2026-08-21 | Air-Sensitive Material Synthesis via Liquid Metal Shielding – Small Methods. Lin, C.-W.; Keane, J.; Uemura, S.; Yang, Z.; Wen, Y.; Kroes, B. C.; Khunaizi, H. A.; Huang, H.-Y.; Hamilton, S. G.; Turner, C. L.; Hu, C.-C.; Kalantar‐Zadeh, K.; Kaner,^* R. B.

2026-08-21 | Role of Bismuth Topological and Trivial Surface States in Molecular Adsorption – J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Jiang, X.; Weng, G.; Zhang, P.; Laderer, W. T.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Vlcek, V.

2026-08-18 | Decoding TnsC Filament Assembly in CRISPR-Associated Transposons Using Interpretable Deep Learning and Molecular Simulations – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Pindi, C.; Ahsan, M.; Sinha, S.; Kellogg, E. H.; Palermo,^* G.

2026-08-18 | Diradical Character of Cyclic Allenes Enables Their Thermal (2 + 2) Cycloadditions – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Gilbertson, N. W.; Hands, A. T.; Sorrentino, J. P.; Houk,^* K. N.; Garg,^* N. K.

2026-08-18 | Regiospecific α-arylation of diverse carbonyl compounds using an organobismuth transporter – Nat. Chem. Li, L.; Carpaneto, F.; Chen, P.-P.; Houk,^* K. N.; Rawal, V. H.

2026-08-17 | Simulating exciton transport with complex absorbing potentials – J. Chem. Phys. Dimitri Bazile, Justin Caram*, Chern Chuang, Daniel Neuhauser*. 

2026-08-14 | Hydrogen-bonded molecular trimers: Vibration-tunneling states and low-frequency spectra from rigorous high-dimensional quantum calculations – J. Chem. Phys. Bačić, Z.; Simkó, I.; Felker,^* P. M.

2026-08-13 | Direct Ketone-to-2 H -Chromyne Conversion Enabling Alkyne-Ene Reactions and Synthetic Entry into the Nyingchinoid Natural Products – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Gatazka, M. R.; Traficante, E. F.; Lee, W.; Vogel, T. R.; Richardson, A. D.; Hernandez, N.; Houk,^* K. N.; Schindler, C. S.

2026-08-13 | The phase-shifting architecture of chromosomes – Science. Gelbart, W.

2026-08-13 | Mesoporous Organosilica-Based Infrared Metamaterials for Radiative Cooling of Windows – Small. Zaveri, A.; Ju, S. E.; Tuokkola, A. R.; McAlpine, R.; Martinez, R.; Kim, J.; Furuya, S.; Pilon, L.; Dunn, B.; Tolbert,^* S. H.; Raman, A. P.

2026-08-11 | The Dynamic Theozyme Model: A New Strategy for the Study of Enzyme Catalysis – Wiley Interdiscip. Rev. Comput. Mol. Sci. Wang, X.; Gao, Y.; Chen, Y.; Chen, H.; Gao, X.; Houk,^* K. N.; Liang, Y.

2026-08-10 | In Trans RNA Replication of a Defective Self-amplifying RNA Lowers RNA Replication But Enhances Protein Translation – J. Mol. Biol. Moreno Gutierrez, D. S.; Duran Meza, A. L.; Gelbart, W. M.

2026-08-10 | Stochastic evaluation of exciton-exciton annihilation rate in 2D molecular aggregates – J. Chem. Phys. Kuang, C.; Bazile, D.; Chuang, C.; Neuhauser,^* D.; Caram,^* J. R.

2026-08-10 | One-Pot Sequential Alkaline-Acid Route to ZSM-5 Nanosheets with Low Framework Defects and Suppressed Aluminum Zoning – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Chen, W.; Li, H.; Yu, J.; Chen, Y.; Ding, L.; Du, K.; Pan, D.; Tang,^* Y.; Zhang, Y.

2026-08-08 | Non-Monotonic Changes in the Thermal Conductivity of Conjugated Polymer Films with Increasing Levels of Chemical Doping – Adv. Funct. Mater. Wilson, R. W.; Shi, X.; Vidales, D. G.; Slimp, A.; Mehmedović, Z.; Simafranca, A. F.; Wu, E. C.; Tolbert,^* S. H.; Wilson, R. B.; Schwartz,^* B. J.

2026-08-06 | Dilute electrolytes for suppressing metal anode corrosion during calendar aging and cycling in aqueous zinc batteries – Nat. Commun. Wu, H.; Liu, B.; Zhao, D.; Cheng, D.; Liang, K.; Yuan, X.; Chen, K.; Kim, M.-H.; Liang, K.; Kim, J. T.; Yu, J.; Wang, T.-Y.; Sautet,^* P.; Li, Y.

2026-08-05 | Rapid and Phase–Selective Routes to Layered Na–Ion Cathodes – Chem. Mater. Wright, M. A.; Browne, S.; Moya, E.; Reach, A. R.; Sebastian, A.; Abulajiang, A.; Yin, R.; Cesareo, J.; Li, J.; Tarin, A.; Tolbert,^* S. H.; Melot, B. C.; Van der Ven, A.; Seshadri, R.

2026-08-04 | Identifying the proton donor in electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution by a model hydrogenase – J Biol Inorg Chem. Riley E. Stein, Ashlee E. Wertz, Peter J. Moore & Hannah S. Shafaat*.

2026-08-04 | Intermolecular Excitonic Coupling in Molecular Aggregates Facilitates Polariton Formation – J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Wright, A.; Bradbury, N. C.; Neuhauser,^* D.; Sletten,^* E. M.; Caram,^* J. R.

2026-08-04 | Genome Mining of the Biocontrol Fungus Trichoderma afroharzianum T22 Led to the Discovery of Dehydrobutyrine-Containing Lipopeptides – J. Nat. Prod. Sun, Z.; Wong, B.; Choi, S.; Neville, C.; Wang, Z.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-08-04 | The Structure of gauche -1,3-Butadiene: Further Insights from the Centimeter-Wave, Millimeter-Wave, and Far-Infrared High Resolution Spectra – J. Phys. Chem. A. Martin-Drumel, M.-A.; Baraban, J. H.; Changala, P. B.; Nava,^* M. J.; Porterfield, J. P.; Billinghurst, B. E.; Ellison, G. B.; Pirali, O.; Stanton, J. F.; McCarthy, M. C.

2026-08-03 | Divergent concerted and stepwise cycloadditions via enantioselective cross-conjugated iminium-ion catalysis – Nat. Commun. Obregón, E. B.; Kocemba, I. R.; Zhang, C.; Kaasik, M.; Cakiroglu, M.; Waser, P.; Chen, P.-P.; Houk,^* K. N.; Jørgensen, K. A.

2026-07-30 | Reaction: Electrochemistry needs agentic AI that explains as well as optimizes – Chem. Fan, Y.; Liu,^* C.

2026-07-30 | Aziridination of inert alkanes via photo-mediated double hydrogen atom transfer – Nat. Synth. Liu, M.-S.; Ang, H. T.; Zhou, Q.-Y.; Wang, C.; Yu, X.-Y.; Ao, J.-L.; Wang, G.; Jiao, Z.-H.; Houk,^* K. N.; Wu, J.

2026-07-29 | Modular synthesis of chemically programmable superlattices – Nat. Mater. Zhou, J.; Ren, H.; Huang, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-07-27 | Discovery of a phenazine–thiol conjugase from sparse data using genome-informed machine learning – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Xiaoyu Shan, Inês B. Trindade, Nathaniel R. Glasser , Korbinian O. Thalhammer, Matthew Scurria, Ariane Mora, Stuart J. Conway*, and Dianne K. Newman.

2026-07-27 | Anomalous Solubility-Inverted Behavior of LiPF6 in Glyme Ether Solvents for High-Voltage Electrochemistry – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Lyu, H.; Lin, K.-Y.; Li, H.; Park, H.; Kim, M.-H.; Wang, T.-Y.; Liang, K.; Yu, J.; Zhao, D.; Lin, C.-W.; Kaner,^* R. B.; Li, Y.

2026-07-26 | Functionalization and Mechanical Properties of Poly(lactide-cyclohexadiene oxide) Block Copolymers – ACS Appl. Polym. Mater. Dai, R.; Deng, S.; Peng, Z.; Pei, Q.; Diaconescu,^* P. L.

2026-07-26 | Organometallic Chemistry Approach to Peptide Tricycles – Bioconjugate Chem. Adhami, N.; Rebelo, M. J. P.; Jenkins, R. A.; Olivares, E. J.; Ogorzalek Loo, R. R.; Qu, S.; Olivares, M. J.; Coutinho, R. J.; Doud, E. A.; Kerr, T. A.; Ready, A. D.; Wang, Y.; Mahoney, B. J.; Clubb,^* R. T.; Loo,^* J. A.; Rodriguez, J. A.; Spokoyny,^* A. M.

2026-07-26 | Palladium-Catalyzed Annulations of an Anti-Bredt Olefin – Angewandte Chemie International Edition. Zach G. Walters, Marie Deliaval, Aimee Long, Neil K. Garg*.

2026-07-24 | Function, Structure, and Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation-like Metalloproteins for Nitrogen, Energy, Carbon, and Sulfur Metabolism – Chem. Rev. Justin A. North; Hannah S. Shafaat*.