ChemComm
Urgent short communications of outstanding significance from across the chemical sciences. Email: chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org
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- Don't miss "Supramolecular self-assembled peptide scaffolds for fluorescence enhancement and delayed emission" by Sowbhick Patra and Goutam Ghosh As featured on the back cover of issue 9! Read the full Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/tCiCqtd
- Featured #OnTheBackCover of issue 9! "Aryldiazonium ion-initiated C–N bond cleavage for regioselective ring-opening of N-sulfonylazetidines with thiol nucleophiles" by Peng-Fei Wang, Qiang-Qiang Li, Hao Liu and Pei-Jun Yang Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/ui5kefu
- Check out "Tuning SF6 affinity via tailoring pore environments in metal–organic frameworks" by Jackson Geary, Caith E. McKeown, Nickolas Gantzler, N. Scott Bobbitt and Dorina F. Sava Gallis As featured #OnTheCover of issue 9 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Oeztlai
- Don't miss "Cold argon plasmas for non-enzymatic digestion of macromolecules" by Daniel McGill, Daniel Simon, Siva Ramadurai, Felicia Green and Zoltan Takats Featured #OnTheCover of issue 9 Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/yrKB99b
- Be sure to read "Novel Ru(II)-photo-antibiotics for the development of infection-resistant mask coatings" by Arif Ali Mandal, Saurav Kumar, Srijan Singh, Apurba Mandal, Samya Banerjee and Prodyut Dhar Featured #OnTheCover of issue 8 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/THfgWYT
- Featured on the back cover of the latest issue! "Lightning-driven plasma bubbles provide prebiotic synthesis and biogeochemical cycling" by Dingwei Gan, Tianqi Zhang, Jianxi Ying, Renwu Zhou and colleagues! Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/JchvA0u
- Don't miss "Dynamic regulation of nucleic acid replication beyond the Watson–Crick base-pairing rule" by Shuntaro Takahashi, Lutan Liu and Naoki Sugimoto Featured #OnTheCover of issue 8 Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/JKNecYw
- Featured on the back cover of issue 7! "Luminescent array sensors for pathogen identification using AIE-active cationic iridium complexes" by Sonali Bera, Aryan Gautam, Gaurank Pal and Puja Prasad Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/FML3qOl
- Check out "A folded mechanochromic organic fluorophore based on thianthrene-fused coumarin" by Masafumi Ueda, Asuka Uehara, Kazuteru Usui and Masashi Hasegawa As featured on the back cover of issue 7! Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/zkaOhwA
- Check out "Accessing zinc(i) via reductive elimination of cyclopentadienes" by Benjamin Pitz, Sergi Danés, Bernd Morgenstern and André Schäfer Featured #OnTheCover of issue 7! Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/gZW5D2p
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 7! "Total synthesis of mono-rhamnolipids using organophotoacid-catalyzed glycosylation and their antibacterial activity" by Kohei Higashiyama, Kanae Hosomi, Kazuki Senoo, Chigusa Hayashi, Masayuki Igarashi, Daisuke Takahashi and Kazunobu Toshima 👉 buff.ly/Ux5MMH1
- Reposted by ChemCommOur latest work is online @chemcomm.rsc.org @uommib.bsky.social . This feature article covers progress we (+ others) in polymer-tethered glycosylated nanoparticles as tools for glycoscience. This spans synthetic rationale and opportunities for deployment. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
- #OnTheCover of issue 6! "Red-fluorescence under UV and green-SHG under NIR dual-mode emission in a yellow crystal of a 1,2,5-thiadiazole derivative" by Ryo Nakamura, Akiko Hori, & colleagues Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/rQgKvy4
- Don't miss "Probing layered Y(TM)B4 (TM = Cr, Mo and W) borides as efficient hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts" by MD Ali Hossain, Lesly Delgado, Rutva Joshi, Sylvie Rangan and Georgiy Akopov Featured #OnTheCover of issue 5! Read the Open Access article here 👉 buff.ly/0sqLG2Q
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 5! "Recent advances in nanophotosensitizers for overcoming tumor hypoxia in photodynamic therapy" by Dongjie Li, Sa Wang, Chuang Zhang, Yueyun Fan, Fang Fang, Menglin Li and Jinfeng Zhang Read the full Highlight article here 👉 buff.ly/fkXTORj
- Featured #OnTheBackCover of the latest issue of ChemComm... "Pressure-triggered simultaneous amplification of aggregation and fluorescence in a chromophoric soft tripod" by Tomoyuji Hamachi, Iori Okamura, Yuto Ohmura, Ichiro Hisaki and Gaku Fukuhara Read it here 👉 buff.ly/on5EfCV
- Don't miss this #OpenAccess communication, featured #OnTheCover of issue 4 of ChemComm! "Enzyme cascade reactions encapsulated in a liposome compartment with size-limited molecular transport" by Shiwei Zhang, Peng Lin, Futa Komatsubara, Eiji Nakata and Takashi Morii buff.ly/IXhsErr
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- #OnTheCover of issue 4! "A benign and scalable reverse water–gas shift reaction in EMIM acetate with Ru-PNP catalysts" by Perla Haidée García-Ríos, Sakhitha Koranchalil, Martin Nielsen and Anders Riisager. Read the full communication here, free for 6 weeks! 👉 buff.ly/IgxuoQ5
- Featured on the back cover of issue 3... "Electrocatalytic water oxidation with a tris-chelating bipyridine/bis-pyrimidinethiolate Co(iii) complex covalently immobilized onto MoS2 nanosheets" by Michail P. Minadakis, Nikos Tagmatarchis, & colleagues Read it here 🔓👉 buff.ly/KHuAgPb
- Don't miss "Molecular organic solid-state electrolytes (MOSSEs): a review of an overlooked class of solid electrolytes" by Hilal Al-Salih, Zouina Karkar and Yaser Abu-Lebdeh As featured #OnTheCover of issue 3! Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/Ln5GoUf
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 3 of ChemComm... "Porous carbon nitride photocatalysts prepared by calcination of hydroxyl-substituted melamine derivatives" by Kazuki Miyata, Yasuhiro Shiraishi, Satoshi Ichikawa, Shunsuke Tanaka and Takayuki Hirai Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Sh4tLKR
- Don't miss "Detecting impurity-specific effects on structure and radiolytic hydrogen production in aluminum hydroxide" by Trent R. Graham, Khashayar Ghandi, Micah Prange, Gregory Schenter, larry M. Anovitz, Jay A. LaVerne and Carolyn I. Pearce Featured #OnTheCover of issue 2 👉 buff.ly/Xp2fUaW
- Out now on the cover of issue 2! "Chirality driven self-sorting in supramolecular assemblies of π-conjugated systems" by Bhawani Narayan Read the full article here, free for 6 weeks 👉 buff.ly/Jv1ws30
- Out now on the the back cover of issue 1! "Intracellular biosensors by functional nanomaterial-integrated CRISPR technologies for real-time molecular sensing" by Min Yu Choi, Chenzhong Li, Jin-Ha Choi and Jeong-Woo Choi Read the Feature article here, free to access for 6 weeks👉 buff.ly/ABuF55y
- Don't miss "Enhancement of volumetric adsorption capacities on a 2D layered MOF by controlling crystal morphology" by Yuna Kawanami, Wataru Nakanishi and Atsushi Kondo Featured #OnTheCover of issue 1! Free to read for 6 weeks 👉 buff.ly/K9doV1z
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 1 of volume 62! "Mechanically interlocked porphyrinoids: self-assembly of metal-stabilised catenaphyrins" by Bartosz Szyszko & colleagues Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/ZfbG9tv
- Reposted by ChemCommLet's start the year off right with an exciting paper post! In this @chemcomm.rsc.org paper, the groups of @meganwright.bsky.social and Stuart Warriner investigate the metal-independent labeling of proteins using isocyanides. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/artic... #ChemBio #ChemSky #CovalentInhibitors
- Happy holidays from everyone in the ChemComm Editorial Office! Thank you to all our authors, reviewers, editors and readers for your support throughout 2025 and we look forward to continuing to publish your wonderful research in 2026!
- Check out this article featured #OnTheCover of Issue 100, ChemComm's final issue of 2025. "Size-selective formation of metallonanobelts via tethering-template-directed self-assembly" Read the article here: pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Access the full issue here: pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/...
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 99 of ChemComm! "Adaptive crystals of homothiacalix[4]arene capable of molecular recognition, with preferential uptake of benzene over cyclohexane" by Renny Maria Losus, Sem Bleus, Volodymyr Bon, Stefan Kaskel, Wim Dehaen and Liliana Dobrzańska buff.ly/6RK5KgY
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- #OnTheBackCover of issue 98 of ChemComm... "π-Extended cis- and trans-bis(tetracyanobutadiene) Cu-porphyrins with unusual multiredox behavior" by Reena Jangra, Amir Sohel Bulbul and Muniappan Sankar Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/QDhBMnh
- Be sure to read "Design and synthesis of ternary multi-component crystals by sublimation" by Matthew C. Scheepers and Delia A. Haynes, as featured on the back cover of issue 98! Read the full #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/GoZynaJ
- #OnTheCover of issue 98! "Pd-catalyzed acceptorless dehydrogenative aromatization of cyclohexyl rings via benzylic C–H bond activation" by Qing Yu, Takafumi Yatabe, Takehiro Matsuyama and Kazuya Yamaguchi Read the full article here, free to access for 6 weeks! 👉 buff.ly/Ot0u6kw
- Don't miss "Non-oxidative coupling of methane via selective passivized catalysis" by Jacob C. Robinson, Jiaping Weng, Tobias K. Misicko, Natalie Remedies, Daniela S. Mainardia and Yang Xiao As featured #OnTheCover of issue 97! Read the full Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/1ndO9bG
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 97! "Directing the glow: 3D feeder geometries to enhance planar bipolar electrochemiluminescence" by Oisín Foley Doyle, Gordon G. Wallace, Zhilian Yue, Jun Chen, Stephen Beirne and Robert J. Forster Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/z5Uip8K
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- Be sure to read "Temperature-jump QCL spectroscopy of peptide dynamics: expanding spectral accessibility by dual-combs" by Lorenz Mattes, Manuel Oestringer, Paul Stritt, Raphael Horvath, Andreas Hugi and Karin Hauser Featured #OnTheCover of issue 96 👉 buff.ly/24Q8EHv
- #OnTheCover of issue 96 of ChemComm! "Structural remodelling of the 2OG oxygenase Rv3406 enables sulfur-scavenging in Mycobacterium tuberculosis" by Vicky Tzu-Jung Juan, Christopher J. Squire, Evelyn Yu-Wen Huang, Ivanhoe K. H. Leung and co! Read it here 👉 buff.ly/8IHnsrJ
- Check out "Effect of auxiliary ligand in nickel-based metal organic frameworks towards oxygen evolution electrocatalysis" by Prasita Mazumder, Subrata Kundu, & co! Featured as one of the #ChemCommCovers in issue 95 Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/BI7xV53
- On the back cover of issue 95! "DFT-guided additive design for BaTiO3-based MLCCs exhibiting excellent insulation reliability" by Gi Joo Bang, Hyo-Ki Hong, Seong Hun Kim, Juhun Park, Kang-Sahn Kim and Giwoong Ha Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/7j0T5fZ
- Don't miss "Engineering guidelines for CRISPR diagnostics" by Alexandre S. Avaro and Juan G. Santiago Featured as one of the #ChemCommCovers in issue 95! Read the full Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/3AqLVz4
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 95 of ChemComm... "Concerted galvanic replacement reactions towards trimetallic Cu–Ag–Pd nanostructures for glycerol electrocatalysis" by Eddy Zakharia, Yaovi Holade & co! Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/RCdw6yI
- Be sure to read "Dynamic activation of alcohols by an electrophilic phosphinine" by Richard Kopp, Massimo Rigo, Lucie Groth, Nathan Coles, Samuel Neale, Samantha Frank, Mortiz Ernst, Manuela Weber and Christian Müller. As featured #OnTheCover of issue 94 👉 buff.ly/PaRYZvy
- #OnTheCover of issue 94! "Metal-dependant structural families of aminomethylphosphonic acid assemblies differentiated by ion mobility mass spectrometry and density functional theory" by Olivia Rusli, Nicole J. Rijs, & co! Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/pVUBebM
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 93... "Stirring chemical reaction landscapes through strong light–matter interactions" by Jaibir Singh, Pallavi Garg, Jyoti Lather and Jino George Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/ftqVgGp
- "A chiroptical switcher: helical inversion of twisted porphyrin macrocycle synergistically controlled by combined stimuli of solvent and pressure" by Tomoyuki Hamachi, Tomokazu Kinoshita, Kouta Tanabe, Naoyuki Hisano, Takeharu Haino and Gaku Fukuhara Out now in issue 93 👉 buff.ly/FKo6uwC
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- Don't miss "Enhancing deep chemical reaction prediction with advanced chirality and fragment representation" by Fabrizio Mastrolorito, Fulvio Ciriaco, Orazio Nicolotti and Francesca Grisoni As featured #OnTheCover of issue 93! Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/ID2PlQ8
- Featured #OnTheCover of issue 93! "Photo-driven decarboxylation for sustainable biofuel production: a review on harnessing the potential of fatty acid decarboxylases" by Ao Xia, Qiang Liao, & co. Read the full Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/YiLStzs Free to access for 6 weeks!
- ChemComm’s new 5-page limit is here! We’re giving authors more space for statements and references, while preserving the concise and accessible nature of our Communications. Read our updated guidelines: www.rsc.org/publishing/p...
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- Be sure to read "An activity-based probe library for identifying promiscuous amide hydrolases" by Chathuri J. Kombala, Kristoffer R. Brandvold, Sankarganesh Krishnamoorthy & co. Featured on the back cover of issue 91! Read the #OpenAccess article here 👉 buff.ly/RIOdIol
- Out now on the cover of issue 91 of ChemComm! "When MOFs met SALI: solvent-assisted ligand incorporation in metal–organic frameworks for catalysis and beyond" by Marzena Pander, Emilian Stachura, Magdalena Kozieł-Szymańska and Wojciech Bury Read the full article here 👉 buff.ly/QqDXmfw
- Don't miss "From non-innocent ionic liquids to reactive agents in the synthesis of chalcogenido metalate compounds" by Gina Stuhrmann, Bastian Weinert and Stefanie Dehnen Featured on the back cover of issue 90 of ChemComm! Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/w7KvTrP
- On the cover of issue 90! "A diazadiphospholenium cation featuring a reactive P=P bond: synthesis and reversible main-group bond activation" by Jan Wieneke, Francesco Cirigliano and Marcel Schorpp Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/0RPO1NM
