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Efficient and selective energy transfer photoenzymes powered by visible light
Efficient and selective energy transfer photoenzymes powered by visible light
The development of [2 + 2] cyclases containing benzophenone triplet sensitizers highlights the potential of en...
Shining light on flavin mononucleotide
Shining light on flavin mononucleotide
Qinglong Shi and Juntao Ye discuss the history, structure, and reactivity of flavin mononucleotide in natural and non-natu...
Carnot batteries for dispatchable renewables
Carnot batteries for dispatchable renewables
Global energy consumption is rising rapidly; however, fossil fuel use is anticipated to peak soon owing to the widespread ...
Exo-templating via pseudorotaxane formation reduces pathway complexity in the multicomponent self-assembly of M12L24 nanospheres
Exo-templating via pseudorotaxane formation reduces pathway complexity in the multicomponent self-assembly of M12L24 nanospheres
Selective formation of multicomponent structures via the self-assembly of numerous building blocks is ubiquitous in biolog...
Controlled anionic polymerization mediated by carbon dioxide
Controlled anionic polymerization mediated by carbon dioxide
Anionic polymerizations of vinyl monomers are powerful synthetic platforms for making well-defined materials. However, the...
Structural insights into two thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes and their synthetic applications in carbon–carbon linkage reactions
Structural insights into two thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes and their synthetic applications in carbon–carbon linkage reactions
The α-hydroxy-β-keto acid synthases are thiamine diphosphate-dependent enzymes catalysing carbon–carbon li...
High-performance recyclable polymers enabled by stereo- and sequence-controlled polymerization
High-performance recyclable polymers enabled by stereo- and sequence-controlled polymerization
Monomer design strategy has become a powerful tool to access chemically recyclable polymers with desired and diverse prope...
Remote chirality transfer in low-dimensional hybrid metal halide semiconductors
Remote chirality transfer in low-dimensional hybrid metal halide semiconductors
In hybrid metal halide perovskites, chiroptical properties typically arise from structural symmetry breaking by incorporat...
Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters
Protocells by spontaneous reaction of cysteine with short-chain thioesters
All known forms of life are composed of cells, whose boundaries are defined by lipid membranes that separate and protect c...
Ubiquitin is a chemist’s playground
Ubiquitin is a chemist’s playground
Jakob Farnung and Brenda Schulman detail chemical diversification that endows the protein ubiquitin with many important ce...
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking
Spatiotemporal protein interactome profiling through condensation-enhanced photocrosslinking
Resolving protein–protein interactions (PPIs) inside biomolecular condensates is crucial for elucidating their funct...
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport
Molecular-scale dissipative chemistry drives the formation of nanoscale assemblies and their macroscale transport
Fuelled chemical systems have considerable functional potential that remains largely unexplored. Here we report an approac...
Pore configuration control in hybrid azolate ultra-microporous frameworks for sieving propylene from propane
Pore configuration control in hybrid azolate ultra-microporous frameworks for sieving propylene from propane
Developing porous adsorbents for the complete sieving of propylene/propane mixtures represents an alternative method to en...
Catalysis-enabled amine sorting
Catalysis-enabled amine sorting
Multicomponent couplings offer powerful approaches for rapidly increasing molecular complexity, but typically require func...
Dynamic amine sorting enables multiselective construction of unsymmetrical chiral diamines
Dynamic amine sorting enables multiselective construction of unsymmetrical chiral diamines
Precisely differentiating chemicals featuring minor discrepancies is the prerequisite for achieving high selectivities in ...
Call me serotonin
Call me serotonin
Serotonin is known by many names — in science as 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) or enteramine, and in popular culture as...
Towards zero droplet friction
Towards zero droplet friction
Surface heterogeneities lead to friction between droplets and solid surfaces, limiting the performance of the latter in a ...
Copper-catalysed asymmetric hydroboration of alkenes with 1,2-benzazaborines to access chiral naphthalene isosteres
Copper-catalysed asymmetric hydroboration of alkenes with 1,2-benzazaborines to access chiral naphthalene isosteres
Bioisosteric replacement has emerged as a clear strategy for drug-structure optimization. Naphthalene is the core element ...
Tetrameric self-assembling of water-lean solvents enables carbamate anhydride-based CO2 capture chemistry
Tetrameric self-assembling of water-lean solvents enables carbamate anhydride-based CO2 capture chemistry
Carbon capture, utilization and storage is a key yet cost-intensive technology for the fight against climate change. Singl...
Masked acid chlorides for proximity labelling of RNA
Masked acid chlorides for proximity labelling of RNA
A non-radical proximity labelling platform — BAP-seq — is presented that uses subcellular-localized BS2 estera...
Bioorthogonal masked acylating agents for proximity-dependent RNA labelling
Bioorthogonal masked acylating agents for proximity-dependent RNA labelling
RNA localization is highly regulated, with subcellular organization driving context-dependent cell physiology. Although pr...
Upcycling of polyethylene to gasoline through a self-supplied hydrogen strategy in a layered self-pillared zeolite
Upcycling of polyethylene to gasoline through a self-supplied hydrogen strategy in a layered self-pillared zeolite
Conversion of plastic wastes to valuable carbon resources without using noble metal catalysts or external hydrogen remains...
Mechanically triggered on-demand degradation of polymers synthesized by radical polymerizations
Mechanically triggered on-demand degradation of polymers synthesized by radical polymerizations
Polymers that degrade on demand have the potential to facilitate chemical recycling, reduce environmental pollution and ar...
Electrochemical labelling of hydroxyindoles with chemoselectivity for site-specific protein bioconjugation
Electrochemical labelling of hydroxyindoles with chemoselectivity for site-specific protein bioconjugation
Electrochemistry has recently emerged as a powerful approach in small-molecule synthesis owing to its numerous attractive ...
Modular α-tertiary amino ester synthesis through cobalt-catalysed asymmetric aza-Barbier reaction
Modular α-tertiary amino ester synthesis through cobalt-catalysed asymmetric aza-Barbier reaction
Unnatural chiral α-tertiary amino acids containing two different carbon-based substituents at the α-carbon centr...
Organocatalytic aromatization-promoted umpolung reaction of imines
Organocatalytic aromatization-promoted umpolung reaction of imines
The umpolung functionalization of imines bears vast synthetic potential, but polarity inversion is less efficient compared...
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly
Artificial cell synthesis using biocatalytic polymerization-induced self-assembly
Artificial cells are biomimetic microstructures that mimic functions of natural cells, can be applied as building blocks f...
Subdomain dynamics enable chemical chain reactions in non-ribosomal peptide synthetases
Subdomain dynamics enable chemical chain reactions in non-ribosomal peptide synthetases
Many peptide-derived natural products are produced by non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) in an assembly-line fashio...
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions
Air- and photo-stable luminescent carbodicarbene-azaboraacenium ions
Substitution of a C=C bond by an isoelectronic B–N bond is a well-established strategy to alter the electronic struc...
Azobenzene as a photoswitchable mechanophore
Azobenzene as a photoswitchable mechanophore
Azobenzene has been widely explored as a photoresponsive element in materials science. Although some studies have investig...
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