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Urgent short communications of outstanding significance from across the chemical sciences. Email: chemcomm-rsc@rsc.org

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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!

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November 13, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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

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November 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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!

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November 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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

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November 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Check out "The direct photochemical cross-esterification of alcohols via site-selective C–H bromination" by Atsuya Miyamoto, Hiroyoshi Takamura, Isao Kadota and Kenta Tanaka, as featured on the back cover of issue 89!

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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Don't miss "In situ constructing a polyaniline layer on a Pt surface enhances the oxygen reduction activity and stability of Pt for fuel cells" by Anyu Li, Yuzhe Liu, Zhen Zhang, Hong Chen, He Qi, Zhenbo Wang and Xulei Sui

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November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Be sure to read "An activity-based probe library for identifying promiscuous amide hydrolases" by Sankar Krishnamoorthy & co! 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

This is Sankar's first independent article in ChemComm
An activity-based probe library for identifying promiscuous amide hydrolases
A fluorogenic substrate library was developed to detect amide hydrolase activity in soil-derived chitin-degrading bacteria. Hit compounds were converted into pull-down probes for chemoproteomic enrich...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Don't miss "Recent developments in the use of fluorinated esters as activated intermediates in organic synthesis" by Daniel E. Bonn and William D. G. Brittain

Featured on the back cover of issue 88 of ChemComm!

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November 1, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Be sure to read "β-Carboxyphospholes via carboxylative desilylation: luminophores with a versatile connectivity attached" by Katharina Eichhorn, Clemens Bruhn and Rudolf Pietschnig

Featured #OnTheCover of issue 88 of ChemComm

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November 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Featured #OnTheCover of issue 88!

"Glass-like thermal transport in polycrystalline perovskite lithium-ion conductor Li3/8Sr7/16Hf1/4Ta3/4O3" by Yitian Wang, Qianru Jia, Shuchen Li, Li Shi, Yutao Li and Xi Chen

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October 31, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Check out "Cobaltaelectro-catalyzed C–H acyloxylation of aromatic and vinylic amide derivatives at room temperature" by Ruzal Sitdikov, Pavlo Nikolaienko, Luca Meyer and Oscar Verho

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October 30, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Don't miss "Precise Heteroatoms Engineering for Iodine Capture Promotion in Porous Organic Cages" by Chao Liu & co!

This is Chao Liu's first independent article published in ChemComm!

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Precise Heteroatoms Engineering for Iodine Capture Promotion in Porous Organic Cages
Three isostructural POCs (O/S/SePOC) have been prepared. Under precise heteroatoms engineering, SePOC exhibits the best iodine adsorption ability than OPOC and SPOC with a value of 4.43 g g-1, which a...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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New on @chemcomm.rsc.org #Nora Non adiabatic dynamics with quantum derived #Joyce force field applied to biomimetic photo-switches. @ctm-itodys.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
October 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Don't miss "Photocurable polymer-based tubular micromotors: advancing toward life science applications" by Saki Batori and Teruyuki Komatsu

Featured #OnTheCover of issue 87

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October 29, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Featured #OnTheCover of issue 87!

"Exploration of electrochemical hydrogen pumping with ultralow feed concentration down to 1 ppm" by Mostafijur R. Shakil, Aashish Dumre, Nabin Subedi, Yixin Liu, Shan Hu and Shuang Gu

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October 29, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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New paper out in @chemcomm.rsc.org!
“Tuneable emission from disordered to ordered aggregates in substituted 9,10-dihydroanthracene polymers”
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This work is part of the AIE collection celebrating 25 years since BZ Tang’s seminal 2001 paper.
Tuneable emission from disordered to ordered aggregates in substituted 9,10-dihydroanthracene polymers
The fluorescence behaviour of polymers featuring 9,10-dihydroanthracene and oligothiophenyl units was explored under solvent-induced aggregation. Time-resolved spectroscopy using a streak camera and s...
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October 28, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Happy to share that our Feature Article has just been accepted in @chemcomm.rsc.org !🎉
We explore Type I photoreactivity in cyclometalated Ir/Ru complexes. Proud to be corresponding author 💡 @joseruizlab.bsky.social @Marchanlab pubs.rsc.org/en/content/art…
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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New paper at @chemcomm.rsc.org with @lsalassa.bsky.social and I14 at @diamondlightsource.bsky.social

X-ray spectromicroscopy shows that conjugating flavins to PtIV prodrugs improve greatly activation efficiency, even at much lower irradiation dose!

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October 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Don't miss "In operando assessment of H2O2 production by a multicopper oxidase under direct electron transfer with a gold electrode" by Panpan Wang, Vânia Brissos, Lígia O. Martins, Wolfgang Schuhmann and Felipe Conzuelo

Featured #OnTheCover of issue 85

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October 23, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Don't miss "A streamlined steric-shielding approach toward efficient narrowband (FWHM ∼ 18 nm) ultra-violet emitters for OLEDs" by Rajendra Kumar Konidena & co.

This is Rajendra's first independent article published in ChemComm!

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A streamlined steric-shielding approach toward efficient narrowband (FWHM ∼ 18 nm) ultra-violet emitters for OLEDs
Herein, a simple, yet versatile molecular design was unraveled to develop a narrowband ultraviolet (UV) emitter by strategically integrating indolo[3,2,1-jk]carbazole and carbazole through a non-conju...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Featured #OnTheCover of issue 85 of ChemComm!

"Capturing the short-lived excited singlet state in crystals of a TADF silver(i) complex" by Piotr Łaski, Jakub Drapała, Radosław Kamiński, Krzysztof Durka, Dariusz Szarejko, Robert Henning and Katarzyna N. Jarzembska

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October 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
We're delighted to share the success of Hongbing Wang's (Chengdu University) first article as an independent researcher, published in ChemComm!

"Surface acidity as the decisive descriptor for hydroxyl-mediated hydrogen spillover in hydrogen isotope exchange"

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Surface acidity as the decisive descriptor for hydroxyl-mediated hydrogen spillover in hydrogen isotope exchange
Support surface acidity is established as the decisive descriptor governing hydrogen spillover on non-reducible oxides. We reveal a unique reactant-induced activation pathway on γ-Al2O3, where optimal...
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October 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Learn more about transdermal drug delivery with this new Feature article by Fahmida Habib Nabila, Muhammad Moniruzzaman and Masahiro Goto, featured on the cover of issue 84!

"Ionic liquid-based transdermal drug delivery systems for biopharmaceuticals"

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October 18, 2025 at 1:02 PM
From the cover of issue 84!

"Remodelling of tricyclic carbon frameworks with a norbornene scaffold" by Akihiro Yoshitani, Tomonari Sasage, Ranmaru Kato, Takahiro Suzuki, Kazutada Ikeuchi and Keiji Tanino

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October 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Happy to announce our newest imido iron compound in @chemcomm.rsc.org : pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a....
It was a very tedious work with a lot of headscratching in-between due to its high reactivity (hmds co-ligands!)...In cooperation with @akmeyergoettingen.bsky.social and @cutsail-lab.bsky.social.
The Flexible Behaviour of a Trigonal Arylimido Iron Complex
A trigonal arylimido iron complex is reported which is found in an intermediate spin state. The iron bound imido unit is electronically flexible and acts as nucleophile, reductant, or H atom abstracto...
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October 16, 2025 at 1:04 PM