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Celebrating our 15th year in 2025! 🌐 Website: rsc.li/chemscience
🎁 It’s Day 7 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Umpolung of Covalent Organic Framework Towards High-Performance Cathodic Sodium Ions Storage” by Chun-Sing Lee and Qichun Zhang et al.

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December 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Don't miss Ken-ichi Sakai et al's recent article

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'Harnessing inhomogeneous π-aggregates: a new path to optical modulation in methyl salicylate-based solvent-free liquids'

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December 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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'One-pot synthesis of sequence-controlled macromonomers via living anionic addition reaction and subsequent acyclic diene metathesis polymerization' by Takashi Ishizone et al.

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December 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎁 It’s Day 6 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Cu(I)-Catalyzed Enantioselective and Stereospecific Borylative Annulation of Cyclic 1,3-Dione-Tethered 1,3-Enynes” by Rambabu Chegondi et al.

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December 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Don't miss Andreas Brunschweiger et al's recent article

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'Aggregation of DNA oligomers with a neutral polymer facilitates DNA solubilization in organic solvents for DNA-encoded chemistry'

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December 6, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Take a look to our collaborative work with the group of Pilar Prieto (UCLM) exploring the self-assembly 'across scales' of a BODIPY derivative, just published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org with @davidgrlab.bsky.social Let's make a thread to talk about it...(1/9)

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Understanding Self-Assembly across Scales in BODIPY Derivatives: from Supramolecular Aggregation in Solution to Optical-Waveguiding Crystalline Materials
Molecular self-assembly constitutes a useful tool to construct discrete and functional nanostructures with well-defined properties. Nevertheless, understanding supramolecular order both in solution an...
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December 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Computational studies and bonding analysis show that the metallocene’s boron ring is isoelectronic with the benzenyl cation radical.
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November 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Issue 46 is here! #ChemSciCovers

Our front cover this week features Yubin Zhou, Lian He et al 🤩

'Reprogramming chemically induced dimerization systems with genetically encoded nanobodies'

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December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
🎁 It’s Day 5 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Molecular-level insight into the multiple mechanistic pathways in iron-catalysed alkene dimerisation” by Jennifer A. Garden and Stephen P. Thomas et al.

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December 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
🎁 It’s Day 4 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap "Aqueous up-conversion organic phosphorescence and tunable dual emission in a single-molecular emitter" by Xiang Ma et al.

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December 4, 2025 at 2:26 PM
🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science!

“A bioorthogonal-catalytic artificial antigen-presenting cell for chemo- and immuno-therapy” by Xiaogang Qu et al. from the Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

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December 4, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Excited to see Ashwani’s paper published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org! We investigate the selective photooxidation of diolates on Ti-oxo clusters. A crucial PCET step in the redox mechanism is only possible when the diolate is large and flexible. pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
Switching on photoreactivity in Ti4-oxo clusters by increasing the size of 1,n-alkane diolate bridging ligands
A series of new isostructural Ti-oxo clusters containing bridging bidentate 1,n-alkane diolate ligands with the formula [Ti4O4(O2PR2)4{O(CH2)nO}2] (R = Ph, n = 2–5; R = Cy, n = 2–4) were prepared by a...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
🎁 It's Day 3 of ChemSci Advent! Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Ultra-High Molecular Weight Polymer Synthesis via Aqueous Dispersion Polymerization” by Brent Sumerlin et al. from the University of Florida, USA.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
📢 Our Chemical Science Pick of the Week for this week is "Addressing first cycle irreversible capacity in lithium-rich layered oxides by blending with delithiated active materials" by M. Rosa Palacin and Montse Casas-Cabanas et al.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It's Day 2 of ChemSci Advent! 🎁 Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Mercapto-NSAIDs generate a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) and hydrogen sulfide” by Harinath Chakrapani et al. Read it for free here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D4S...
December 2, 2025 at 2:02 PM
🔥 New and HOT in Chemical Science!

“Explainable Random Forest Predictions of Polyester Biodegradability Using High-Throughput Biodegradation Data” by Jonathan Hirst et al. from the University of Nottingham, UK.

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December 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM
🎁 Celebrate our 15th anniversary year with us and unwrap “Synergistic engineering of ultraviolet metal-free crystals with exceptional birefringence via pyridine-derived dimers” by Jiachen Lu and Kang Min Ok from Sogang University!

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December 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
The Chemical Science team welcomes Xianfeng Li from the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China as an Associate Editor!

Professor Li will be handling research on electrochemical energy storage and batteries.
December 1, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Programmed intralayer Co and interlayer Ni atoms in a covalent organic framework for synergistic CO2 photoreduction http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SC/D5SC08435K
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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Synergistic Effect of MOF Fillers and Succinonitrile in PEO-Based Electrolytes for Long-Cycle All-Solid-State Li-CO2 Battery http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2025/SC/D5SC07513K
November 27, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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A G-quaduplex we found in Rabies RABV genome is targeted by one of our metallohelices, suppressing a vital protein translation and viral replication. doi.org/10.1039/D5SC...
Exploring RNA G-quadruplex in the rabies virus genome and its potential against RABV infection
Rabies virus (RABV) is a prototypical neurotropic RNA virus that can cause rabies with an almost 100% fatality rate. Despite great efforts having been made to identify an effective therapeutic target ...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Don't miss Aisworika Mohanty and Vijay Pal Singh et al's recent article

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'An order of magnitude modulation of singlet fission rates in NDI cyclophanes by tuning inter-chromophoric electronic coupling'

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November 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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'Chemoselective sulfonyl fluoride exchange (SuFEx)-induced macrocyclization of tyrosine-containing peptides in aqueous media' by Victor K. Outlaw et al.

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November 29, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Don't miss Zhan Li, Ximeng Chen et al's recent article

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'Interlayer-bridged dual-channel 2D MOF membranes for ultra-stable ion sieving in extreme environments'

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November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Issue 45 is here! #ChemSciCovers

Our front cover this week features Grégory Nocton, Thomas Simler et al 🤩

'Room temperature dinitrogen cleavage and hydrogenation with organometallic complexes of uranium'

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November 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM