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Our #ChemSciPicks this week is from Max Holthausen, Terrance Hadlington et al., who look at the path to an open-shell metallo-germylene and consider whether this proceeds via direct ligation, or reduction and metathesis.

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October 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Now published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org and highlighted as a #ChemSciPicks. Great work by @ffmmgg.bsky.social. Collab with @aicooper.bsky.social

A Universal Foundation Model for Transfer Learning in Molecular Crystals

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chemicalscience.rsc.org Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · Jun 18
This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from @graemeday.bsky.social (University of Southampton), @ffmmgg.bsky.social‬, Chengxi Zhao‬, Xenphon Evangelopoulos, and @aicooper.bsky.social‬ (University of Liverpool).

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June 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Huajun Yang (Nanjing Normal University, China) and looks at the water-mediated synthesis of hydrogen-bonded metal–organic frameworks. Read the full article online now: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...
July 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Benlin Hu et al.

‘High-Performance Elastic Ferroelectrics via Low-Temperature Carbene Crosslinking and High-Temperature Annealing’

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May 14, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This week's #ChemSci Pick of the Week reports the design and synthesis of a 6.9 kDa abiotic unimolecular three-helix bundle by Ivan Huc et al.!

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December 4, 2024 at 5:37 PM
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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”

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October 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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This week's Chemical Science Pick of the Week is "Insight into the atomic-level structure of γ-alumina using a multinuclear NMR crystallographic approach" by Sharon Ashbrook et al. from @st-andrewschem.bsky.social

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Graphical abstract image for the Chemical Science paper Insight into the atomic level structure of gamma alumina using a multinuclear NMR crystallographic approach by Sharon Ashbrooke et al. The image shows two examples of O-17 solid state NMR data and the molecular structure of gamme alumina obtained from these data.
April 2, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks from Hong-Bin Xie and Joseph S. Francisco et al. titled: 'Significance of Halogen Bonding in the Synergistic Nucleation of Iodine Oxoacids and Iodine Oxides'

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August 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks from Wenbin Tu, Xin Sun, Peng Zhang, Yu Qiao et al. titled: ' In situ analysis of gaseous products from PEO-based polymer electrolyte decomposition'.

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September 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks from George Fytas and E. W. Meijer et al.!

"Impact of Vibrational Strong Coupling on Liquid-Liquid Phase Separation in Supramolecular Polymers"

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August 27, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from Francesco Zinna (Università di Pisa, Italy) who looks at circularly polarized luminescence detected by chromaticity differences.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Gerard Roelfes (@roelfesgroup.bsky.social, @stratinghinst.bsky.social) et al.!

‘Genetically Encoded 3-Aminotyrosine as Catalytic Residue in a Designer Friedel-Crafts Alkylase’

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April 23, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks by Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, et al. on spin-polarised transport through chiral electrocatalysts! #ChemSky #ChemSci

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An image showing two stylised circular dichroism spectra on the left-hand side and two stylised chiral electrocatalyst surfaces on the right-hand side with the oxygen evolution reaction depicted as a rainbow. The Chemical Science "Pick of the Week" logo is displayed centrally.
March 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Travis Dudding, Adam Huczyński and Thomas Lectka et al.!

‘A Highly Selective C-H Bond Fluorination Unlocks Conformational Reporting in a Complex Natural Product Derivative’

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April 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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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.

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November 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Our #ChemSciPicks this week is from Hongzhe Sun (The University of Hong Kong, P. R. China) et al.

"Unprecedented allosteric inhibition of E. coli malate dehydrogenase by silver(i) from atomic resolution analysis"

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October 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from @graemeday.bsky.social (University of Southampton), @ffmmgg.bsky.social‬, Chengxi Zhao‬, Xenphon Evangelopoulos, and @aicooper.bsky.social‬ (University of Liverpool).

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June 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This week's Chemical Science Pick of the Week is "Iminoboronate Chemistry Enables Multifunctional and Reprocessable Polyphenol-derived Vitrimers" by Junfei Hu, Zhipeng Gu, and Yiwen Li et al. from Sichuan University.

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Schematic of polyphenol-derived vitrimers showing accelerated imine and boronic ester exchange, with low-temperature recovery and natural sources like apples.
September 3, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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This week’s #ChemSciPicks is "Stimuli-Responsive Photoswitch-Actinide Binding: A Match Made in MOFs" by @shustovalab.bsky.social (University of South Carolina, United States) et al.

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July 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Our #ChemSciPicks for this week is "Reassessing Anionic Redox in Conventional Layered Oxide Cathodes for Li-Ion Batteries: Ionic and Covalent Mechanisms" by the research group of Professor Yu Qiao and colleagues

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A graphical abstract for the Chemical Science Pick of the Week showing how a range of x-ray spectroscopy techniques such as XAFS, NEXAFS and RIXS can be used to determine ionic and covalent mechanisms occurring during anionic redox in conventional layered oxide cathodes of lithium ion batteries. This is represented in the graphical abstract by a magnifying glass labelled "x-ray spectroscopy" magnifying a 2D slice of the composition of a layered oxide cathode with the different constituents shown by coloured circles. Elsewhere in the image are representative spectral graphs for XAFS, NEXAFS and RIXS with a range of different structures - representing different ionic and covalent mechanisms such as O3 type and transfer from p orbitals to d orbitals - attached to these labels.
April 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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This week's #ChemSciPicks comes from @matilegroup.bsky.social (University of Geneva, Switzerland), who look at the response of reaction mechanisms to electric-field catalysis on carbon nanotubes in microfluidic reactors. Read the full paper here: pubs.rsc.org/doi/D5S...
May 28, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🧪 Howdy #ChemSky! This week’s #ChemSciPicks is:

‘Environmentally Ion-Dissociable High-Performance Supramolecular Polyelectrolyte Plastics’ by Zan Hua, Guangming Liu et al. and reports polyelectrolyte plastics with ion-dissociable properties.

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Environmentally ion-dissociable high-performance supramolecular polyelectrolyte plastics
Robust and stiff polymeric materials usually rely on dense covalent crosslinking, which endows them with excellent properties such as high durability and outstanding thermal stability. However, becaus...
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February 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Very proud to share that one of my main PhD projects has been published in @chemicalscience.rsc.org, and that it has been selected as a #ChemSciPicks of the week paper!

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chemicalscience.rsc.org Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · Apr 23
Check out this week’s #ChemSciPicks from Gerard Roelfes (@roelfesgroup.bsky.social, @stratinghinst.bsky.social) et al.!

‘Genetically Encoded 3-Aminotyrosine as Catalytic Residue in a Designer Friedel-Crafts Alkylase’

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April 23, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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This week's Chemical Science Pick of the Week is "Binding Assays Enable Discovery of Tet(X) Inhibitors that Combat Tetracycline Destructase Resistance", by Christopher Schofield et al.

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Graphical abstract image for "Binding Assays Enable Discovery of Tet(X) Inhibitors that Combat Tetracycline Destructase Resistance" by Christopher Schofield et al. The text reads: Binding assay design, Tet(X), high-throughput screening, novel Tet(X) inhibitors.
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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I really enjoyed reading this #ChemSciPicks! Congratulations to Garcés-Pineda, Galan-Mascaros and coworkers! #ChemSky
chemicalscience.rsc.org Chemical Science @chemicalscience.rsc.org · Mar 12
Check out this week's #ChemSciPicks by Felipe A. Garcés-Pineda, J. R. Galan-Mascaros, et al. on spin-polarised transport through chiral electrocatalysts! #ChemSky #ChemSci

Read it here for free: doi.org/10.1039/D4SC...
An image showing two stylised circular dichroism spectra on the left-hand side and two stylised chiral electrocatalyst surfaces on the right-hand side with the oxygen evolution reaction depicted as a rainbow. The Chemical Science "Pick of the Week" logo is displayed centrally.
March 12, 2025 at 11:48 AM