Recent Publications

2026-07-23 | Optical spectroscopy and multi-frequency EPR of a dominant S=7/2 impurity center in europium scandate – J. Lumin. Webb, L.; Coumans, M.; Shi, K.; Ren, Y.; Pambukhchyan, A.; Martin, S.; Crans, K.; Schwartz, R. N.; Liao, M.; Carso, B.; Yeo, A.; Stafford, A.; Matteo, L.; Goorsky, M.; Bouchard,^* L.-S.; Takahashi, S.

2026-07-23 | AlphaFold-driven structural proteomics reveals extensive cellulosome machinery in human ruminococcal symbionts – Mbio. Minor, C.; Takayesu, A.; Arbing, M. A.; Ha, S. M.; Gunsalus, R. P.; Pellegrini, M.; Sawaya, M. R.; Clubb,^* R. T.

2026-07-23 | Origin of Pt Nuclearity Dependence of CO Oxidation over Pt/TiO2 Catalysts in the Subnanometer Regime – ACS Catal. Yousuf, M. R.; Albrahim, M.; Dutta, S.; Shrotri, A.; Stavitski, E.; Hoffman, A. S.; Bare, S. R.; Sautet,^* P.; Karim, A. M.

2026-07-22 | Understanding the Thermodynamic Stability of Mo1− y W y B4. x Solid Solutions with the Superhard WB4.2 Crystal Structure – Chem. Mater. Hamilton, S. G.; Keane, J.; Gombart, J. S.; Kaner,^* R. B.; Tolbert,^* S. H.

2026-07-21 | Host–Guest Mismatch Enables Selective Hydrogen Atom Transfer – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Zhao, Y.; Tang, Y.; Lam, C. C.; Tao, Y.; Chen, Z.; Stern, C. L.; Shen, D.; Cai, K.; Ye, Z.; Li, X.; Houk,^* K. N.; Chen, A. X.-Y.

2026-07-21 | A Bifunctional Interface Enabling Stable Zinc Metal Batteries Across a Wide Depth-of-Discharge Window – Advanced Functional Materials. Sophia Uemura, Hung-Yi Huang, Andrew Huang, Ting-Yu Wang, Gray Scott Carson, Cheng-Wei Lin, Yi-An Chen, Sunjuezhe Wang, Haoyu Li, Yuzhang Li, Maher F. El-Kady, Chi-Chang Hu, Richard B. Kaner*.

2026-07-19 | Strain-Modulated Hydrogen-Deuterium Exchange over Au–Pd Core-Shell Nanocatalysts – ACS Catal. Lankman, J.-W.; Perxés Perich, M.; Liu, X.; Sautet,^* P.; van der Hoeven, J. E. S.

2026-07-19 | Decade of Discovery: The Evolution and Future of Laser-Scribed Graphene for Integrated Energy and Sensing Systems – Acc. Chem. Res. Yang, Z.; Lin, C.-W.; Kaner,^* R. B.

2026-07-16 | Preface to special issue: The beauty of accurate molecular quantum mechanics, a Festschrift in honour of Zlatko Bačić – Mol. Phys. Carrington, T.; Felker,^* P.; Quack, M.; Szalewicz, K.

2026-07-15 | Quantum Communications and Networking: Series 4 – IEEE Netw. Li, R.; Narang,^* P.; Aelmans, M.; Mueller, P.; Long, G.

2026-07-15 | Targeting RNA-Binding Oncofetal Protein IGF2BP3: Discovery of Potent and Selective – J. Med. Chem. Georgia M. Scherer, Jacob P. Sorrentino, Amit K. Jaiswal, Michelle Thaxton, Glen Brodie, Stuart J. Conway*, Dinesh S. Rao, Neil K. Garg*.

2026-07-15 | Size and oxidation state tracking of dynamic Rh catalysts on rutile TiO ₂ by ambient-pressure XPS – J. Mater. Chem. A. Gericke, S. M.; Erbez, J.; Chen, X.; Khan, A.; Chen, Z.; Lee, Y.; Hong, S.; Heinlein, J.; Schroeder, E. K.; Bac, S.; Novak, J.; Blum, M.; Nemšák, S.; Christopher, P.; Cargnello, M.; Hoffman, A. S.; Bare, S. R.; Tenney, S.; Yang, J. C.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Head, A. R.

2026-07-15 | Strong Broadband Phonon Decoupling in Bright Color Centers with Ultranarrow Emission Lines – CLEO Applications and Technology Proceedings CLEO 2026. Sahoo, S.; Udvarhelyi, P.; Li, J.; Kim, D.; Agafonov, V.; Davydov, V. A.; Lawrie, B.; Narang,^* P.; Bogdanov, S. I.

2026-07-14 | Protein engineering: status report – Protein Eng. Des. Sel. Peds. Ai, H.-w.; Arnold, F. H.; Barrick, D.; Bayley, H.; Brownless, A.-L. R.; Campbell, R. E.; Castells-Graells, R.; Chaiyen, P.; Chica, R. A.; Chisholm, L. O.; Christ, D.; Chu, G.-C.; Chungyoun, M.; Eijsink, V. G. H.; Elowitz, M. B.; Fansher, D. J.; Fasan, R.; Foley, G.; Frei, M. S.; Gagsteiger, A.; Gao, R.; Gillam, E. M. J.; Gray, J. J.; Guerra, L. F.; Höcker, B.; Jin, Z.; Kamerlin, S. C. L.; Koga, N.; Kontermann, R. E.; Kuhlman, B.; Langlois, O. A.; Li, D.; Lins, R. D.; Liu, C. C.; Liu, L.; López Barreiro, D.; Lu, P.; Mehta, S.; Miyazaki, I.; Müller, M. M.; Muyldermans, S.; Nemoto, N.; Nivala, J.; Nuñez, J. K.; Ornelas, I. J.; Pelletier, J. N.; Plückthun, A.; Porth, O. T.; Prakinee, K.; Qing, Y.; Reisenbauer, J. C.; Schmidt, S.; Seifert, O.; Shapiro, M. G.; Sharma, R.; Singh, N.; Smith, B. J.; Spangler, J. B.; Tatsumi-Koga, R.; Terai, T.; Terholsen, H.; Tolhurst, M.; Tripp, K. W.; Trossmann, V. T.; Tucker, C. L.; Turak, O.; Van Deventer, J. A.; Várnai, A.; Viana, I. F. T.; Weeks, A. M.; Wittrup, K. D.; Wong, K. L.-J.; Xi, C.; Yeates,^* T. O.; Yeh, A. H.-W.; Zhang, J.; Zhang, T. S.; Zhao, H.; Zheng, F.; Zhu, J.; Zinn, S.

2026-07-13 | Illuminating spatial dynamics of glutamine metabolism with a sensitive genetically encoded biosensor – Rsc Chem. Biol. Scully, J. M.; Sun, M. J.; Das, S.; Arias, N. J.; Kapelczak, E. D.; Robinson, T. D.; Vineall, K. G.; Dean, T. S.; TeSlaa, T.; Divakaruni, A. S.; Schmitt,^* D. L.

2026-07-13 | Deep Learning Models Capture Umbrella Sampling-Derived Energetic Trends: A Troponin C Case Study – J. Chem. Inf. Model. Narayanasamy, A.; Moretti, R.; Meiler, J.; Lindert,^* S.

2026-07-12 | General Oxidative Chemical Activation of Neutral Exciton Emission in Colloidal MoS ₂ Monolayers – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Li, C.; Li, H.; Zhang, C. Y.; Zhou, B.; Yan, X.; Tang, R.; Yi, L.; He, Y.; Hsiao, T.-J.; Wang, H.; Zhang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Pan, X.; Huang, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-07-10 | Structural Engineering of Cyanine Dyes to Access Shortwave Infrared-Emissive J-Aggregates – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Williams, J. A.; Bailey, A. D.; Pengshung, M.; Liu, D.; Deshmukh, A. P.; Garcia, C.; Cao, J. T.; Duong, T.; Lin, E. Y.; Li, B. Y.; Bradbury, N. C.; Wright, A.; Jadhav, S. D.; Kuang, C.; Chuang, C.; Neuhauser,^* D.; Caram,^* J. R.; Sletten,^* E. M.

2026-07-10 | Highly Selective and Modular Assembly of Densely Substituted Tetrahydrofurans – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Li, Y.-B.; Stein, C.; Zhou, S.; Thielemann, D.; Stoffels, T. J.; Hölter, N.; Kellermann, L. A.; Daniliuc, C. G.; Houk,^* K. N.; Glorius, F.

2026-07-08 | Differential targeting of the nucleosome surface and superhelical crevice sites with Ru and Os organometallic agents – Nucleic Acids Res. Levy, A.; Adhireksan, Z.; von Erlach, T.; Palermo,^* G.; Nazarov, A.; Hartinger, C. G.; Dyson, P. J.; Rothlisberger, U.; Davey, C.

2026-07-08 | Reactions of Strained Cycloalkanes with Radicals and Diradicaloids: The Roles of Diradical Character and Strain Release – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Shao, H.; Wang, Z.; Wong, A.; Garg,^* N. K.; Houk,^* K. N.

2026-07-08 | Understanding and engineering electrocatalyst durability – Nat. Rev. Mater. Zhu, E.; Liu, Y.; Zhang, A.; Wang, Y.; He, Y.; Duan,^* X.; Huang, Y.

2026-07-07 | Comprehensive Tutorial for Computational Methods of Protein Structure Prediction Incorporating Mass Spectrometry Data – Mass Spectrom. Rev. Drake, Z. C.; Bolz, R. M.; Day, E. H.; Lindert,^* S.

2026-07-06 | Machine learning approaches to predicting metal catalyst performance in olefin polymerization – Inorg. Chem. Front. Wong, Y.-P.; Diaconescu,^* P. L.

2026-07-03 | Green Synthesis of Ultrathin MWW Zeolites With Tunable Al-T Sites Using Nitrogen-Free Secondary OSDAs for Catalytic Cracking – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Zhang, H.; He, T.; Liu, C.; He, L.; Ye, Z.; Yan, K.; Zhang, Y.; Wang, Z.; Xu, S.; Zhang, H.; Cao, X.-M.; Zhang, Y.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-07-02 | Development of a Thermally Insulating Passive Daytime Radiative Cooler Using Hierarchical Silica Aerogels – ACS Appl. Energy Mater. Ju, S. E.; Martinez, R.; Kashanchi, G. N.; Bhanawat, A.; Yalçin, R. A.; Drévillon, J.; Pilon, L.; Tolbert,^* S. H.

2026-07-02 | Prospects to Boost the Catalytic Activity of Precious Metals by Adsorption Atop Topological Insulators – J. Phys. Chem. C. Laderer, W. T.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.

2026-07-02 | Molecular quantum control algorithm design by reinforcement learning – Phys. Rev. Res. Pipi, A.; Tao, X.; Wu, A.; Narang,^* P.; Leibrandt, D. R.

2026-07-01 | Designing and mapping cascade catalysis pathway for balanced polysulfide conversion in Li-S batteries – Nat. Commun. Zhang, L.; Cheng, D.; Zhang, P.; Hopkinson, D. G.; Wang, Z.; Zhang, A.; Li, C.; Wang, R.; Liu, R.; Allen, C. S.; Nelson Weker, J.; Huang, Y.; Sautet,^* P.; Duan,^* X.

2026-06-30 | Determining Quantum Mechanical Methods Suitable for Quantitative Modeling of Hydrogen Atom Transfer by Halogen Atoms – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Lam, C. C.; Houk,^* K. N.

2026-06-29 | Development of a sodium negative electrode based on sol–gel derived amorphous TiO ₂ – J. Mater. Chem. A. Nguyen, Q.; Nkala, G. C.; Thurber, K.; Liang, K.; Zambotti, A.; Chen, R.; Li, Y.; Tolbert,^* S. H.; Weker, J. N.; Dunn, B. S.

2026-06-26 | 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*. Read about the research here.

2026-06-25 | Silicon Flavylium Polymethine Dyes for Shortwave Infrared Imaging – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Wilson, Q. D.; Mobley, E. B.; Lin, E. Y.; Li, B. Y.; Hua, A. S.; Liu, D.; Caram,^* J. R.; Sletten,^* E. M.

2026-06-25 | Ultranarrow bright single-photon emitters in diamond with strong broadband phonon decoupling – Nat. Commun. Sahoo, S.; Udvarhelyi, P.; Li, J.; Kim, D.; Agafonov, V.; Davydov, V. A.; Lawrie, B.; Narang,^* P.; Bogdanov, S. I.

2026-06-25 | Electrospun aligned nanofibers for tissue engineering – Biomater. Sci. Patel, G.; Annabi, N.; Bouchard,^* L.-S.

2026-06-23 | Photo-Triggered, Fast, and Fluorogenic Thiophene-Based Cycloalkynes for the Bioorthogonal Fluorescent Labeling of 1,3-Dipole-Tagged Molecules in No-Wash Conditions – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Schulz, J.; Chinoy, Z. S.; Khalaf, T.; Li, Y.; Ma, P.; Svatunek, D.; Houk,* K. N.; Friscourt, F.

2026-06-23 | Metal-free hydrogenation of viologens to piperidine derivatives for bacterial inhibition – Nat. Synth. Bai-Tong Liu, Timothy Y.-Z. Li, Nathan C. Incandela, Isaac Conway, Xianhui Tang, Guangcheng Wu, Han Han, Enxu Liu, Sheng-Nan Lei, Bohan Tang, Haomiao Xie, Cheng Li, Yanli Zhao, K. N. Houk*, and J. Fraser Stoddart.

2026-06-23 | Mapping and engineering the human cell–cell interactome – Nat. Biotechnol. Di Carlo, D.; Morsut, L.; McCain, M. L.; Wright, H. J.; Abedi, M.; Yamada-Hunter, S. A.; Zhang, J. Z.; Backus,^* K.; Chung, E.; Wang, Y.; Rando, T. A.; Cai, L.; Thomson, M.; Elowitz, M. B.; Lee, J. K.; Witte, O.

2026-06-19 | Cobaloxime-catalysed regiodivergent hydrogen atom transfer for alkenyl and allylic carbamoylation with branched alkenes – Nat. Commun. Jiang, Z.; Shan, J.-R.; Su, J.; Mo, J.-N.; Zhang, F.; Houk,^* K. N.; Zhao, J.

2026-06-19 | Transparent reporting for agentic catalysis enabled by artificial intelligence: Community guidelines and a publication checklist – Chem Catal. Xin, H.; Kitchin, J. R.; López, N.; Schweitzer, N. M.; Abolhasani, M.; Artrith, N.; Árnadóttir, L.; Choudhary, K.; Ding, R.; Frenkel, A. I.; Gauthier, J. A.; Goldsmith, B. R.; Farimani, A. B.; Grabow, L. C.; Kalhara Gunasooriya, G. T. K.; Hu, G.; Josephson, T. R.; Kulik, H. J.; Kumar, R.; Laino, T.; Li, H.; Li, X.-Y.; Li, W.-L.; Linic, S.; Liu, C.; Liu,^* C.; Liu, F.; Liu, M.; Ma, P.; Medford, A. J.; Mukhopadhyay, S.; Ou, P.; Paolucci, C.; Peng, J.; Phillips, C.; Porosoff, M. D.; Qi, L.; Sun, S.; Szilvási, T.; Voss, J.; Wang, X.; Winther, K. T.; Wu, Q.; Zhang, D.; Zhang, Z.

2026-06-19 | Elliptical β ‐barrel deformation underlies gating in VDAC1 – Protein Sci. Bergdoll, L.; Elgeti, M.; Belyaeva, J.; Zlobin, A.; Duneau, J. P.; Hubbell,^* W.; Abramson, J.

2026-06-18 | Fluorinated oxide shells enable sintering-free conductive liquid metal composites for flexible electronics – Matter. Wang, Y.; Liu, L.; Laskoukalayeh, M. A.; Nor-Azman, N.-A.; Flores, N.; Widjajana, M. S.; Chiu, S.-H.; Gaira, S.; Kilani, M.; Tang, S.-Y.; Yang, Y.; Kaner,^* R. B.; Ghasemian, M. B.; Allioux, F.-M.; Kalantar-Zadeh, K.

2026-06-17 | Computational Insight into Free Molecular Rotors in Crystalline Solids: Inertial Rotation and Langevin Dynamics – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Shan, J.-R.; Zhou, Q.; Houk,^* K. N.; Garcia-Garibay,^* M. A.

2026-06-17 | Non-Enzymatic Formation of Chaxines and Natural Steroidal Derivatives via Ergosterol Air Oxidation – J. Org. Chem. Kishimoto, S.; Namba, R.; Hang, R.; Suetani, K.; Watanabe, S.; Nishikawa, T.; Oikawa, H.; Kawagishi, H.; Ma, P.; Houk,^* K. N.; Watanabe, K.

2026-06-17 | Rule-breaking in chemical synthesis – Science. Jordan A. M. Gonzalez, Giulianna A. Miseo, K. N. Houk, and Neil K. Garg.

2026-06-17 | Quantum Landscape of Precision Chemistry – Precis. Chem. Li, Z.; Duan,^* X.; Yang, J.

2026-06-16 | Computational Exploration of Molecular Solar Thermal Energy Storage via Substituted Anthracenes [4 + 4] Photodimerizations and Thermal Retro-Cycloadditions in Solution and Crystalline States – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Zhou, Q.; Maertens, A. J.; Ye, Z.; Kim, J.; Chakraborty, S.; Nguyen, H. P. Q.; Han, G. G. D.; Houk,^* K. N.

2026-06-14 | Measuring PINK1 Activity in Single Cells Using a PINK1 Kinase Activity Reporter – Bio Protoc. Vineall, K.; Schmitt,^* D.

2026-06-12 | Entropic crystallization of Brownian squares through pathways governed by orientational dynamics – J. Colloid Interface Sci. Chanda, D.; Mason,^* T. G.; Khan, M.

2026-06-12 | Structural Evolution of Pt Nanoclusters Driven by CO Reactant Pressure and Catalyst Temperature – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Tao, F.; Jiang, D.; Nguyen, L.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-06-11 | Selective Electrosynthesis of Isolable 4-Hydroxyvalerate from Bio-Based Ketone via Balanced H Chemisorption – ACS Catal. Gui, Z.; Chen, Y.; Ding, L.; Liu, Z.; Zhang, W.; Cao, X.-M.; Gao, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-06-09 | Revealing the spatiotemporal dynamics of methionine metabolism with a genetically encoded single-fluorophore biosensor – bioRxiv (preprint). Katarina A Cohen, Arnav Jhawar, Gilberto Garcia, Naiara Goni, Megan Chen, Athena Alcala, Ryo Higuchi-Sanabria, Danielle L. Schmitt*.

2026-06-09 | Reply to González González et al.: The contribution of bacteria to kidney stone formation – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Schmidt, W. C.; Yang, R.; Schreiber, H. L.; Celestian, A.; Wong,^* G. C. L.; Scotland, K. B.

2026-06-09 | A fungal natural product that inhibits plant cellulose biosynthesis by disrupting cellulose synthase complexes – Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. Wu, Z.; Liu, L.; Han, W.; Cai, X.; Xiao, P.; Sun, Z.; Yan, C.; Reid, S.; Chen, Y.; Ma, Z.; Tang,^* Y.; Jacobsen, S. E.

2026-06-08 | Nitric Oxide Tunes Secreted Metabolite Bioactivity – Molecular Microbiology. Zachery R. Lonergan, Sarah L. Weisflog, Matthew Scurria, Jinyang Li, Korbinian Thalhammer, Osvaldo Gutierrez*, Stuart J. Conway*, Dianne K. Newman.

2026-06-05 | Electrically functionalized body surface for deep-tissue bioelectrical recording – Nat. Biomed. Eng. Zhang, D.; Zhao, G.; Zhang, Y.; Xu, D.; Wang, S.; Wang, K.; Zhou, B.; Ling, Y.; Liu, Y.; Cui, Q.; Yin, J.; Zhu, E.; Zhao, X.; Wan, C.; Chen, J.; Hsiai, T. K.; Huang, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-06-04 | CIPHER: An end-to-end framework for designing optimized aggregated spatial transcriptomics experiments – Plos Comput. Biol. Hemminger, Z.; De Ocampo, H.; Xie, F.; Zhai, Z.; Li, J. J.; Wollman,^* R.

2026-06-03 | Consequences of defective mitochondrial protein import: From targeting signals to pathology – Biochim. Biophys. Acta Biomembr. Cornejo, M. C.; Lee, S. C.-E. S.; Smith, S.; Koehler,^* C. M.

2026-06-03 | Biocatalytic Metal Hydrogen Atom Transfer for Asymmetric Olefin–Olefin Coupling – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Rajib Mandal, Jaicy Vallapurackal, Aris V. Rubio, Justin Bossenbroek, Ethan Poladian, Rami Halabi, Charles Skidmore, Gus Matone, K. N. Houk* and Soumitra V. Athavale*.

2026-06-03 | Modeling CO ₂ Hydrogenation to Methanol on an Ensemble of Inverse ZrO ₂ on Cu Catalytic Sites: Mechanism, Reactivity, and Deactivation – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Yang, Z.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-06-02 | Structures of human telomerase with BIBR1532 reveal novel mechanism of inhibition – Nat. Chem. Biol. Wang, Y.; Liu, B.; He, Y.; Feigon,^* J.

2026-06-01 | BUNNY: An N , N -Bidentate Nitrogen Ligand Descriptor LibraryDevelopment and Application to Modeling of Ni-Catalyzed Asymmetric Cross-Electrophile Coupling Reactions – ACS Catal. Gutiérrez-Valencia, N. E.; Schleinitz, J.; Wild, T. H.; Williams, W. L.; Mantin, D.; Doyle,^* A. G.; Reisman, S. E.; Sigman, M. S.

2026-06-01 | Synthesis and characterization of a novel phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate (PI(5)P) photoaffinity probe – Rsc Chem. Biol. Brodie, G.; Sayed, A.; Kreuz, S.; Fischle, W.; Conway,^* S. J.

2026-05-31 | Controlling Chemical Reactivity Under the Electron Microscope: Single-Crystal-to-Single-Crystal Splitting of Thymine Dimers Initiated by Electron Beam Ionization and Amplified by Electron Transfer-Mediated Chain Reactions – Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Rai, R.; Konieczny, K. A.; Garcia‐Garibay, M. A.

2026-05-26 | CO(2) Electroreduction on Borated Copper Surfaces: Boron Active Sites, Not Copper – ACS Catal. Goswami, A.; Zhang, Z.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.

2026-05-26 | Asymmetric Iron-Catalyzed Multicomponent Radical Dicarbofunctionalization of Vinyl Organoboron Compounds – ACS Catal. Gogoi, A. R.; Mukherjee, P.; Sinclair, B.; Datta, A.; Briggs-Pritchard, J.; Guerrero, M.; Morehead, L.; Rao, P.; Neidig, M. L.; Gutierrez,^* O.

2026-05-26 | Synergistic High-Valent NiCo Sites for Electrified Refinery of Concentrated 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural to 2,5-Furandicarboxylic Acid Under Ultra-Low Alkalinity – Adv. Funct. Mater. Chen, Y.; Gui, Z.; Zhang, W.; Liu, Z.; Zhang, Y.; Zhang, W.; Cao, X.-M.; Gao, Q.; Zhang, Y.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-05-25 | Wave Mechanics of Ciliary Proteins: Quantum-Enabled Sensing and Energy Transfer in the “Cellular Antenna” – Aggregate. Bilezikian, D. L.; Davidoff, D.; Caram,^* J. R.; Fay,^* T. P.; Kalra, A. P.; Weiss,^* P. S.

2026-05-25 | Cation-Limited Hydroxide Anion Diffusion Drives Asymmetric Hydrogen Kinetics on Transition-Metal Decorated Platinum Surface – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Wan, C.; Zhang, Z.; Weng, Z.; Sun, Q.; Huang, W.-H.; Liu, E.; Chen, Z.; Wang, Y.; Zhang, A.; Ling, Y.; Yeh, M.-H.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Jia, Q.; Huang, Y.; Duan,^* X.

2026-05-22 | Complete Phase Transformation of Ir Nanowire Network into Defect-Rich Oxide Catalyst for High-Performance PEM Water Electrolysis – Adv. Mater. Pu, H.; He, Y.; Chen, Y.; Xie, S.; Zhang, A.; Hsiao, K.-Y.; Wan, C.; Tsai, Y.-H. J.; Wang, Y.; Liu, Y.; Su, N.; Wright, J.; Jia, Q.; Myers, D. J.; Segre, C. U.; Liu, F.; Zheng, H.; Duan,^* X.; Huang, Y.

2026-05-22 | Fluorodealkenylation: Ozonolysis and Treatment with Fe ^II Salt and Selectfluor Convert C(sp ³ )–C(sp ² ) Bonds to C(sp ³ )–F Bonds – Org. Lett. Dehnert, B. W.; Leung, C.; Kwon,^* O.

2026-05-21 | Quantifying Hydroxyl Adsorption on Copper with Electrochemical-Aware Random Phase Approximation – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Cheng, D.; Chen, D.; Liu, Q.-Y.; Wei, Z.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-05-21 | Ripening of Rh Nanoparticle Catalysts in Reverse Water–Gas Shift via a Data-Driven Model Combining Physics, Theory, and Experiment – ACS Catal. Isenberg, N. M.; Lee, Y.; Colombo Tedesco, C.; Chen, Z.; Alexandrova,^* A. N.; Tassone, C. J.; Rallo, R.; Bare, S. R.

2026-05-19 | Electrochemical amination of acetone using Ag as cathode: mechanism and role of Pb impurities for hydrogen transfer – Catal. Sci. Technol. Guan, Y.; Kümper, J.; Cuomo, A.; Kumari, S.; Mürtz, S. D.; Nikolaienko, P.; Mayrhofer, K. J. J.; Palkovits, R.; Sautet,^* P.

2026-05-19 | Tetrameric assembly disruption impairs CXCL4 chaperon ability for DNA and type I interferon immune amplification – Commun. Biol. Ocone, G.; Mennella, A.; Pietraforte, I.; Palazzo, R.; Spinelli, F. R.; Gaddini, L.; Stefanantoni, K.; Riccieri, V.; Lee, E. Y.; Wong,^* G. C. L.; Lande, R.; Frasca, L.

2026-05-18 | Theoretical Prediction of the 2-Dimensional Electronic Spectrum of Different Simulation Models of the Hydrated Electron – J. Phys. Chem. Lett. Borrelli, W. R.; Schwartz,^* B. J.

2026-05-16 | Linking ion ordering, structural dynamics, and charge storage kinetics in the tunnel structure electrode material LixMoO2 – Energy Storage Mater. Leport, N.; Robertson, D. D.; Zhou, Y.; Tolbert,^* S. H.; Pilon, L.

2026-05-14 | Stereoselective Higher-Order [10+4]- and [10+6] Cycloadditions Between Two Highly Unsaturated and Ambiphilic π-Addends – Chem. Eur. J. Faghtmann, J.; Kristensen, A.; Fritz, F.; Andresen, S. S. P.; Rask Østergaard, A.; Lamhauge, J. N.; Houk,^* K. N.; Jørgensen, K. A.

2026-05-13 | Improving Protein Structure Prediction Using Integrative Cryo-EM and Ion Mobility Mass Spectrometry Modeling – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Howard, J. B.; Narayanasamy, A.; Lindert,^* S.

2026-05-12 | Binuclear Copper-Dependent Oxidative Enzymes Involved in Fungal Natural Product Modifications – J. Chin. Chem. Soc. Chiang, C.-Y.; Ohashi, M.; Tang,^* Y.

2026-05-12 | Solvent effects on triplet yields in BODIPY-based photosensitizers – J. Chem. Phys. Coello Escalante, L.; Fay,^* T. P.; Limmer, D. T.

2026-05-11 | Impact of N-terminal dimerization on formin homology 1 domain polymer dynamics and actin assembly – Biophys. J. Bogue, K.; Christian, B.; Quinlan,^* M. E.; Allard, J.

2026-05-10 | Origins of Diastereoselectivity of 1,3-Dipolar Cycloadditions of Cyclic Azomethine Ylides and Nitrones to Cyclopentenes – J. Org. Chem. Cai, S.; Wang, S.; Xu, S.; Duan, X.-H.; Liu, X.; Houk,^* K. N.; Ma, P.

2026-05-09 | Preparation of 2-Iodoxybenzoic Acid (IBX) – Organic Syntheses. Marianna C. Tonoyan, Aimee K. Long, and Neil K. Garg*.

2026-05-07 | Illuminating compartmentalized AMPK signaling in single cells – Biochem. J. Jhawar, A.; Parks, K.; Schmitt,.

2026-05-06 | Environment-Induced Exciton Renormalization in the Photosystem II Reaction Center – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Allen, T.; Li, B. Y.; Bradbury, N. C.; Neuhauser,^* D.

2026-05-06 | 25 years of chemistry that simply clicks – Nature. Davis, W. A.; Sletten,^* E. M.

2026-05-06 | Science for the Masses – J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. Loo,^* J. A.; Newsome, G. A.

2026-05-05 | Global mitochondrial connectivity map reveals the landscape of yeast functional assemblies and conserved protein communities – Nat. Commun. Jessulat, M.; Phanse, S.; Aoki, H.; Broderick, K.; Zhang, Q.; Castro, I. G.; Novales, N. A.; Hossain, S. A.; Saccon, T.; Moutaoufik, M. T.; Joseph, T. P.; Amin, S.; Hoell, L.; Minic, Z.; Bykov, Y.; Preminger, N.; Crespo, S. G.; Snider, J.; Golshani, A.; Stagljar, I.; Rodriguez-Medina, J. R.; Clarke,^* C. F.; Schuldiner, M.; Babu, M.

2026-05-05 | Leveraging Mechanistic Insights into Stereoretentive ROMP for Precision Synthesis of Poly( p -phenylene vinylene)s – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Nicholson, J. L.; Kempel, S. J.; Rentería-Gómez, Á.; Hsu, T.-W.; Gravet, A. C.; Gallo, C. E.; Gutierrez,^* O.; Michaudel, Q.

2026-05-04 | Ligand Control Overrides Intrinsic Site Selectivity in C–H Borylation of Phenol and Aniline Derivatives – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Qin, S.; Ma, J.; Deng, Z.; Xie, Y.; Ang, H.; Lu, S.; Wang, Y.; Chang, W.; Liu, F.; Houk,^* K. N.; Liang, Y.

2026-05-02 | Interface-regulated bifunctional separator for highly robust lithium sulfur batteries – Mater. Today. Wang, T.; Yao, H.; Luo, Z.; Zhu, J.; Liang, J.; Shi, Z.; Gao, C.; Xiong, X.; Ma, Y.; Zhong, Y.; Zhu, Z.; He, J.; Wang, F.; Cheng, X.-B.; Peng, S.; Duan,^* X.; Wu, Y.

2026-05-01 | Synergistic assembly, disassembly, and protection of complex forms of bundled F-actin – J. Cell Biol. Rajan, S.; Yoon, J.; Wu, H.; Baskar, R.; Aguirre, R.; Terman, J. R.; Reisler,^* E.

2026-05-01 | Engineering Enantiocomplementary Protoglobins for Stereoconvergent Construction of N -Alkylated α-Aminoketones – J. Am. Chem. Soc. Qin, Z.-Y.; Li, Z.-Q.; Zhang, C.; Heise, J. L.; Mao, R.; Wu, S. J.; Houk,^* K. N.; Goddard III, W. A.; Arnold, F. H.

2026-04-30 | Ab Initio Insights into the Formation of Hydrated Dielectrons: Structure and Recombination Dynamics – J. Chem. Theory Comput. Guardado Sandoval, J. L.; Borrelli, W. R.; Mei, K. J.; Schwartz,^* B. J.

2026-04-30 | Running rich: how excess fatty acid oxidation drains the cardiac engine – J. Clin. Investig. Claypool, S. M.; Koehler,^* C. M.

2026-04-29 | Electronic Coherences Built by Ultrashort Pulse Drive the Vibronic Forces at Nonadiabatic Seams – Ultrafast Sci. Pandey, G.; Cardosa-Gutierrez, M.; Levine,^* R. D.; Remacle.

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.

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.