Chemical Science
Flagship journal for @rsc.org, open access with no publication fee, all topics in chemistry. chemicalscience-rsc@rsc.org 🌐 Website: rsc.li/chemscience
- NEW in Chemical Science! “Ligand assisted Co(ii) catalyzed direct C–H alkylation of aryl ketones with diverse alkyl halides” by Vidya Avasare et al. from Ashoka University. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Issue 5 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Bin Li et al 🤩 'Erasable and regenerated multicomponent patterned polymer brushes' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Radical docking–migration: a powerful strategy for difunctionalization of alkenes and alkynes" by Chen Zhu et al. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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- Recently Published in Chemical Science! “pH-responsive regulation of multiphase coacervate wetting via phase selective enrichment of fatty acids” by Pavan Kumar B.V.V.S. @dcslab.bsky.social et al. from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Did you hear? Nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship in digital chemistry are open! 🎉 See rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship26 for details.
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Photocatalytic remote C(sp3)–H alkylation of long-chain alkenes: A tandem multicomponent approach via radical translocation” by Devarajulu Sureshkumar et al. from IISERK, India Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Zincafluorene complex with an empty C–Zn π orbital that captures visible light” by Yoshimasa Wada et al. from the University of Tokyo. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Chemical Science's Pick of the Week is "Post-synthetic gridization enhances spin-flip dynamics, horizontal alignment, and ozone resistance in solution-processable TADF macrocycles” by Yuyu Pan, Zilu Wang, Linghai Xie & Wei Huang et al.! Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSciPicks
- Recently published in Chemical Science! “Uncovering outer-sphere mechanisms governing chemoselectivity in copper-photocatalyzed ATRA reactions of CF3SO2Cl with alkenes” by Saba Hadidi and Alireza Ariafard et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Recently published in Chemical Science! “Insight into the prospects and limitations of mechanochemically-synthesised lithium tetrahalogallates, LiGaX4, as Li-ion conductors” by Duncan Gregory et al. - a #MyFirstChemSci for Nicolás Flores-González! Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Planar Hexacoordinate Chlorine” by Jin-Chang Guo and Gabriel Merino et al. from Shanxi University and Cinvestav Mérida. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Engineering the electronic structure of Ni–Co bimetallic sites toward efficient electrochemical biomass upgrading and CO2 reduction” by Ting Ouyang and Zhao-Qing Liu et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Search for active and inactive ion insertion sites in organic crystalline materials” by Yan Yao and Pieremanuele Canepa et al. from the University of Houston and Argonne National Laboratory. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'The Polytope Formalism: application to molecular constitution and the prospect of a complete description of Chemical Space' by Maxwell J. Crossley and Peter J. Canfield. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Don't miss Laleh Tahsini et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Metal ligand cooperativity in the direct carboxylation and esterification of terminal alkynes by Cu-CNC complexes bearing 2,6-lutidine linkers' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... bsky.app/profile/lal...
- 📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Metal-free visible-light carbonylation of alkyl iodides to amides via consecutive photoinduced electron transfer' by Ibrahim Abdellah, Philipp Gotico, Zakaria Halime, Christophe Werlé et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... Abdellah
- Issue 4 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Yukiya Kitayama, Atsushi Harada et al 🤩 'Interfacial photocycloaddition polymerization: a synthetic approach for structurally functionalized degradable polymer particles from naturally derived monomers' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Chemistry World has highlighted our recent Pick of the Week! The original paper is here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Nominations for the 2026 Chemical Science Lectureship are now open! 🎉 Details here: rsc.li/chemsci-lectu... We’re looking for candidates who have made significant contributions to the field of digital chemistry, AI, ML, and automation within the last 5 years. Nominate before 2nd March! #ChemSky
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- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Highly stable linking of platinum and porous spinel via carbon bridge engineering towards a long-lifespan rechargeable zinc–air battery” by Mei Wang, Xiaoguang Wang and Xiaofeng Li et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- ✨ NEW Review from Li Li, Hang Yang and Wei Han! "Beyond water: a mini review on hybrid electrolyte strategies for advanced aqueous aluminum batteries" Read it here, free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Want to visualise steric repulsion in 3D? Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "A Visualizable and Widely Applicable Steric Repulsion Descriptor for Guiding Experimental Chemistry" by Éric Hénon et al. Read it here, free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky #CompChemSky 🧪
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- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 “Natural monosaccharide-based piezoelectric supramolecular materials for energy harvesting and information transmission” by Wei Ji et al. from Chongqing University. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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- 🎉 Thanks to all the authors who celebrated our 15th anniversary year with us by publishing in our Community collection, featuring work by our frequent authors, reviewers, and Board members past and present! Read this collection of papers celebrating our journal community: rsc.li/chemsci-commu...
- 🎉 Thanks to all the authors who celebrated our 15th anniversary year with us by contributing papers to our Leading Investigators collection! Read this collection of papers celebrating leading researchers who started their careers in the lifetime of the journal here: rsc.li/sc-15li25
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 "Halogen bonding and hydrogen bonding fluorescent anion sensing at the solid–liquid interface" Discover this research from Robert Hein, Mohamed Sharafeldin, Edward J. Mitchell, Jason J. Davis and Paul D. Beer here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
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- 🔥New and HOT in Chemical Science!🔥 From Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore) and colleagues: "Selective photocatalytic oxidative cleavage of terminal alkynes to carboxylic acids within a water-soluble Pd6 nanocage" Read for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Unveiling the molecular dynamics of a nitrile-containing 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein antagonist in primary macrophages through Raman spectroscopy' by Juergen Popp et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Don't miss Francis D'Souza et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'Isoenergetic symmetry breaking charge separation in far-red absorbing orthogonal BODIPY dimer – a classic case of no energy loss during the process of light capture and conversion' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- 📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Solar-driven upcycling of plastic waste using plasmonic black gold' by Vivek Polshettiwar et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... Image generated using Google Gemini.
- Issue 3 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Xueliang Shi et al 🤩 'A 4,4′,4″-nitrilotriphenoxyl radical derived from Yang's biradical' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Another fantastic Chemical Science paper being highlighted by @synthesisworkshop.bsky.social! Check out the video and make sure to read the paper at pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...!
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- 📢 NEW Review from Ryk Tykwinski and Przemysław Gaweł in Chemical Science! "The versatile world of cumulene chemistry" Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Reposted by Chemical ScienceMy first-author paper is out in @chemicalscience.rsc.org from my time in Professor Danny Huang’s laboratory @cruk-si.bsky.social. We showed that CBL can be used as a degrader E3 to target the “undruggable” eIF4E. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
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- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 "Erasable and regenerated multicomponent patterned polymer brushes" by Bin Li and colleagues. Read about this exciting new work in the area of polymers at doi.org/10.1039/D5SC....
- 🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science! 🔥 "Exposure single-cell metabolomics mass spectrometry reveals HFPO-DA toxicity mechanisms" by Naihe Jing, Xiayan Wang and colleagues (Beijing University of Technology, Guangzhou National Laboratory). Read for free: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "Abiotic Formation of Nitrile Precursors to Amino Acids and Nucleobases in Interstellar Ice Analogues" by André Eckhardt and Ralf Kaiser et al. Read it for free here: doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... #ChemSky 🧪 #ChemSciPicks
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- Reposted by Chemical ScienceSharing our @chemicalscience.rsc.org review on how #chemoinformatics and bioinformatics are reshaping the #peptide #chemicalspace. Kudos @delafuentelab.bsky.social @edgarlopez2.bsky.social Massyel, Jean-Paul. 👉https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2026/sc/d5sc04465k
- Don't miss Xiaonan Wang, Jiali Li, Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Aron Walsh et al's recent article #ChemSciCovers 'A unified active learning framework for photosensitizer design' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC... Image enhanced with AI (Nanobanana)
- 📢 NEW #ChemSciCovers 'Highly zincophilic-hydrophobic polyzwitterionic hydrogel electrolyte with strong electronegative sulfobetaine-carboxyl motifs for ultrastable zinc-ion batteries' by Mingxian Liu, Ziyang Song, Lihua Gan et al. 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Our new Reflections series celebrates our 15th anniversary and some of the earliest manuscripts published in Chemical Science, with leading authors giving a perspective on how the field has changed in the years since. Explore the Reflection pieces, for free, here: rsc.li/ChemSciReflec...
- Issue 2 is here! #ChemSciCovers Our front cover this week features Jin-Ming Lin, Zengnan Wu et al 🤩 'Single-cell metabolic accumulation analysis by microfluidic hydrogel microspheres combined with mass spectrometry' 🔗 doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
- Professor Kathryn Fairfull-Smith (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) discusses her experiences with reviewing in our latest Reviewer Spotlight! Find out more here: blogs.rsc.org/sc/202...
