Don't miss Sonja Herres-Pawlis, Andrij Pich et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Depolymerization of PLA catalyzed by guanidine-modified microgels' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciCovers @herreslab

NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Mimicking sMMOH chemistry: trapping the Sc3+-bound nonheme FeIII–O–O–FeIII adduct prior to its conversion into an FeIV2(μ-O)2 core' by Yisong Guo, Marcel Swart, Lawrence Que et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciCovers @iqccudg.bsky.social @umnchemistry.bsky.social

Don't miss Shun Dekura, Motohiro Mizuno and Hatsumi Mori's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Isotropic proton conduction in an anisotropic crystal: the role of molecular rotational dynamics in imidazolium dihydrogen phosphate' doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciCovers🔗

Issue 42 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Hiroyuki Isobe et al 🤩 'Expanded segments of three-dimensional carbonaceous nets with chirality: synthesis and structures' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Our work on NHCs and carbon suboxide is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! Thanks to PhD grad Tanner George for his persistence and attention to detail on this project, collaborator Erin Johnson (@dalchemistry.bsky.social), and NSERC for funding. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

📣 I am happy to share our latest paper in @chemicalscience.rsc.org @rsc.org We present a theoretical, systematic characterization of the optical response of aromatic cyclocarbons, the newest carbon allotropes Have a look: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #compchem #carbon #nano #optics #physics

Check out the new cascade reaction that we jointly developed with eMOCA team enabling the synthesis of C5-C6 carbohydrates under mild und sustainable conditions from CO as the sole source of carbon. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social @chemicalscience.rsc.org @emoca-ipcm.bsky.social

🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science! "A diverse and chemically relevant solvation model benchmark set with flexible molecules and conformer ensembles" by Stefan Grimme et al. from the Mulliken Center for Theoretical Chemistry. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #compchemsky

📢 New Review in Chemical Science! "Weakly solvating electrolytes: a solvation-centric paradigm for rechargeable metal batteries" by Wu Xu et al. from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Interesting paper #ChemSky eCarbonyls, a scalable, metal-free electrochemical oxidation of alcohols that mimics key features of Swern reaction pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science! "A low-redox-potential phenazine-based negolyte with high stability for aqueous organic flow batteries" by Yonggang Wang et al. from Fudan University. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Hot off the press in @chemicalscience.rsc.org "Fused 3D #Boron Heterocycles via EnT #Catalysis: Synthesis, Modification & Validation as Beta-Lactamase Inhibitors" Thanks to @erc.europa.eu, @chemieverband.bsky.social, Daimler&Benz for supporting @molloylab.bsky.social's research tinyurl.com/3dm6ep43

Check out Nour Tanbouza’s new Chemistry World Story covering a new twist on the classic Swern oxidation, based on research by @klchemistry.bsky.social and team published in Chemical Science! www.chemistryworld.c... And read the original article here, for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky 🧪

Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "Direct measurement of covalent three-center, two-electron M–H–B bonding in Zr and Hf borohydrides using B K-edge XAS" by Jason Keith and Scott Daly et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSciPicks

Do you like phosphorus-containing heterocycles? And NMR spectroscopy? Then you are in for a treat! Check out our most recent work out today in @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Fantastic work by the indefatigable David Meier who persevered when most would have given up.

🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science! "Chiral tether-guided selective synthesis of Dn-symmetric chiral conjugated nanorings" by Zuo Xiao, Zuoxin Huang, Menglan Lv, Chuantian Zuo, and Liming Ding et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

📢 New in Chemical Science! "Large-area thin-film synthesis of photoactive Cu3PS4 thiophosphate semiconductor with 0–14 pH stability range" by Lena Mittmann and Andrea Crovetto et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

@chemistryworld.com has just highlighted this recent Chemical Science paper on supercycloalkanes! "Supercycloalkanes: dihydropyrazine-embedded macrocycles with flexible conformations resembling cycloalkanes" by Da-Hui Qu and Zhaohui Wang et al. Read the original work here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Researchers have synthesised oversized versions of classic cycloalkanes that adopt similar conformations to their smaller counterparts, offering new ways to study their molecular dynamics.

🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science!🔥 "The air–water interfacial nitrogen cycle produces irrigatable-level ammonium nitrate" by Chanbasha Basheer and Richard Zare et al. Read it here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Don't miss R. J. Dwayne Miller, Zheng Li et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Elucidating the reaction kernel and probing the effect of anharmonicity in the ring-closing reaction of fulgide single crystals' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Artificial photosynthetic processes using carbon dioxide, water and sunlight: can they power a sustainable future?' by Qian Wang and Chanon Pornrungroj. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Don't miss Jun-Long Zhang, Zi-Shu Yang et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Amplification of magnetic field effects via critical dynamics in a nonlinear oscillatory system' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Check out our new Editor’s Choice collection! Associate Editor Professor Zaiping Guo has selected her Editor’s Choice papers, covering batteries and energy storage! Read the full collection here, for free: blogs.rsc.org/sc/202... #ChemSky 🧪

Issue 41 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Takeshi Yamazaki, Rudi Plesch et al 🤩 'Breaking down per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): tackling multitudes of correlated electrons' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Don't miss this new publication from @bhkenlo.bsky.social & Keith Man-Chung Wong et al.! "Rhodamine-functionalised rhodium(iii) complexes: dual role as bioimaging agents and controllable reactive oxygen species photosensitisers for photocytotoxicity applications" Read here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science!🔥 "“Trading” a C=C moiety for four C–O bonds and a peroxide: combining ozone and O-nucleophiles for peroxidative ring expansion of cycloalkenes into medium-sized 1,2-dioxacycloalkanes" by Igor Alabugin and Alexander Terent'ev et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

First results from the #catalaix project funded by the Werner-Siemens-Stiftung! #sustainablechemistry And with cover: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

“This is not a Swern” (but almost!) @klchemistry.bsky.social, @conchem.bsky.social and team @ #UniofGreenwich, with #Kiel & #GSK, report eCarbonyls: a simple, scalable, metal-free electrochemical oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones. #ChemSky Read it here in full: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Congratulations to Lea, Dave, Elliot, and Tabea for their paper (doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...) accepted in @chemicalscience.rsc.org that demonstrates how diindolocarbazole #mrtadf compounds act as potent energy transfer #photocatalysts. @standrewschem.bsky.social @standrewsosc.bsky.social #photoreact

Check out this new Chem. Sci. publication, from Andrij Pich and @herreslab et al.! "Depolymerization of PLA catalyzed by guanidine-modified microgels" You can read it here, in full and for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

This week's #ChemSciPicks is from Prof Dong-Xu Xue et al. (Shaanxi Normal University, China)! “Fluorine-mediated single-step ethylene purification in face-transitive metal–organic frameworks from binary to ternary gas mixtures” Read for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...#ChemSciPicks

Researchers at OIST achieve crystal-free mechanoluminescence, illuminating new possibilities for next-generation materials. Learn more in the @chemicalscience.rsc.org publication: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... or by reading our press release: www.oist.jp/news-center/...

Check out our recent paper about cracking the code of artificial photosynthesis: turning CO into C5–C6 carbohydrates electro-chemically in one pot Our joint effort with @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social, out now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social

Our perspective on the use of EPR to understand the relativity of transition metal ions 🧲 🧲 🧲 Have a read, it's open access! Thanks @chemicalscience.rsc.org @rsc.org @epr-esr.bsky.social doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

“This is not a Swern” (but almost!) @klchemistry.bsky.social, @conchem.bsky.social and team @ #UniofGreenwich, with #Kiel & #GSK, report eCarbonyls: a simple, scalable, metal-free electrochemical oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes/ketones. #ChemSky Read it here in full: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

🎉 New in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! We show how lanthanide ions luminescence from visible to NIR can be controlled using photochromic DTE–β-diketonate ligands. Most of all, we reveal the crucial role of DTE's triplet states in both luminescence sensitization and quenching! 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

New 🔥HOT🔥 article from Ayumu Karimata, Julia R. Khusnutdinova and colleagues! "Mechanoluminescence from amorphous solids of heteroleptic copper complexes and common luminophores by non-destructive mechanical stimuli and fabrication of flexible mechanoluminescent films" pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...

Cracking the code of artificial photosynthesis: turning CO into C5–C6 carbohydrates electro-chemically in one pot — a sustainable leap from single-carbon to complex carbon chains! 2025 Chemical Science HOT Article Collection @chemicalscience.rsc.org pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Cracking the code of artificial photosynthesis: turning CO into C5–C6 carbohydrates electro-chemically in one pot — a sustainable leap from single-carbon to complex carbon chains! Joint effort by @emoca-ipcm.bsky.social @ipcm-sorbonne.bsky.social LCC in Toulouse out now in @chemicalscience.rsc.org

A 🔥HOT🔥 new Review in Chemical Science! "Novel Metallo-Supramolecular Architectures Based on Side-Pyridine-Modified Terpyridines: Design, Self-assembly, and Properties" Read for free: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...

Don't miss Selvan Demir et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Magnetic hysteresis in 1D organometallic lanthanide chain compounds containing 4,4′-bipyridine' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Voltage-matrix nanopore profiling for the discrimination of protein mixtures' by Sotaro Uemura et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Have you seen this new 🔥HOT🔥 article? "Accelerating N2H4(ads) formation by frustrated Lewis pairs in oxyhydroxide for electrocatalytic ammonia oxidation into N2" From Lei Tian, Jian-Ping Zou and colleagues (Nanchang Hangkong University, China) Read for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @chemicalscience.rsc.org, @lcc-cnrs.bsky.social

Issue 40 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Stefan Matile et al 🤩 'Thiol-mediated uptake of phosphorothioate liposomes, visualized with fluorescent flippers' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... https://bsky.app/profile/matilegroup.bsky.social#ChemSciCovers

New and HOT in Chemical Science!🔥 "Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis of Indole-based Atropisomers Bearing Silicon-Stereogenic Center" by Zi-Qi Zhu, Shao-Fei Ni, Feng Shi and colleagues. Read for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

Our latest exciting research in @chemicalscience.rsc.org, led by @cardiffuni.bsky.social and featuring work from @uonnmrc.bsky.social reveals the importance of atomic-level control over the structure of a catalyst, showcasing the highest methanol productivity from CO2 to date doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...

We have a new collection in celebration of our 15th anniversary that has just launched! Our reflection articles look back on popular papers published in Chemical Science and assess how the areas have developed: rsc.li/ChemSciRefle... Reflections so far include:

Brilliant teamwork! Great watching this project grow by connecting chemists and engineers based in the UK and Japan. Congrats all! 🤝 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... @chemicalscience.rsc.org @amnightingale.bsky.social, @hideki-kuchem.bsky.social @unisouthampton.bsky.social