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Regioselective hydroformylation with subnanometre Rh clusters in MFI zeolite Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Xiaomeng Dou, Tao Yan, Lixiang Qian, Huaming Hou, Miguel Lopez-Haro, Carlo Marini, Giovanni Agostini, Debora M. Meira, Xiangjie Zhang, Liang Zhang, Zhi Cao, Lichen Liu
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C–heteroatom coupling with electron-rich aryls enabled by nickel catalysis and light Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-07 Shengyang Ni, Riya Halder, Dilgam Ahmadli, Edward J. Reijerse, Josep Cornella, Tobias Ritter
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Biocatalytic, enantioenriched primary amination of tertiary C–H bonds Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Runze Mao, Shilong Gao, Zi-Yang Qin, Torben Rogge, Sophia J. Wu, Zi-Qi Li, Anuvab Das, K. N. Houk, Frances H. Arnold
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Catalytic atroposelective synthesis Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Shao-Hua Xiang, Wei-Yi Ding, Yong-Bin Wang, Bin Tan
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Nickel-catalysed enantioselective alkene dicarbofunctionalization enabled by photochemical aliphatic C–H bond activation Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Xia Hu, Iván Cheng-Sánchez, Wangqing Kong, Gary A. Molander, Cristina Nevado
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Bubble trouble Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Benjamin Martindale
The authors constructed an experimental setup consisting of two adjacent platinum microelectrodes in acidic electrolyte with various separation distances (pictured). Bubble dynamics in the optically transparent cell were imaged using a shadowgraphy system (consisting of LED illumination, microscope, and a high-speed camera). Bubble coalescence was shown to initially result in earlier bubble release
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Murder on the micropore Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Marçal Capdevila-Cortada
The researchers perform catalytic tests in a continuous fixed-bed reactor until deactivation, as reflected in the conversion (X) versus cumulative turnover (CT) curves in the figure. The location and distribution of coke in the micropores is revealed by powder neutron diffraction, whereas gas chromatography−mass spectrometry, 13C and 1H magic-angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance and operando diffuse
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Enzymatic radical fluorine transfer Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Jan-Stefan Völler
Now, Yunfang Yang, Marc Garcia-Borràs, Xiongyi Huang and colleagues report an enantioselective C(sp3)–F bond forming reaction by repurposing an enzyme for radical fluorine transfer of benzylic N-fluoroamide substrates. Based on their experience with an analogous C(sp3)–H azidation reaction, the researchers started their investigation by screening a library of over 40 non-haem iron enzymes. This led
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Acetyl-CoA-independent malonyl-CoA biosynthesis Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Dongsoo Yang
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Performance evaluation and multidisciplinary analysis of catalytic fixation reactions by material–microbe hybrids Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Xun Guan, Yongchao Xie, Chong Liu
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A general strategy for the amination of electron-rich and electron-poor heteroaromatics by desaturative catalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Javier Corpas, Henry P. Caldora, Ester Maria Di Tommaso, Augusto César Hernandez-Perez, Oliver Turner, Luis Miguel Azofra, Alessandro Ruffoni, Daniele Leonori
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Embracing data science in catalysis research Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Manu Suvarna, Javier Pérez-Ramírez
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A synthetic methylotrophic Escherichia coli as a chassis for bioproduction from methanol Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Michael A. Reiter, Timothy Bradley, Lars A. Büchel, Philipp Keller, Emese Hegedis, Thomas Gassler, Julia A. Vorholt
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Progress and roadmap for electro-privileged transformations of bio-derived molecules Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Cong Tian, Roham Dorakhan, Joshua Wicks, Zhu Chen, Kyoung-Shin Choi, Nirala Singh, Joshua A. Schaidle, Adam Holewinski, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Dionisios G. Vlachos, Linda J. Broadbelt, Edward H. Sargent
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Dinuclear Cu(I) molecular electrocatalyst for CO2-to-C3 product conversion Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Naonari Sakamoto, Keita Sekizawa, Soichi Shirai, Takamasa Nonaka, Takeo Arai, Shunsuke Sato, Takeshi Morikawa
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Visualizing the structural evolution of individual active sites in MoS2 during electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Teng-Xiang Huang, Xin Cong, Si-Si Wu, Jiang-Bin Wu, Yi-Fan Bao, Mao-Feng Cao, Liwen Wu, Miao-Ling Lin, Xiang Wang, Ping-Heng Tan, Bin Ren
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Stabilization of layered lithium-rich manganese oxide for anion exchange membrane fuel cells and water electrolysers Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xuepeng Zhong, Lijun Sui, Menghao Yang, Toshinari Koketsu, Malte Klingenhof, Sören Selve, Kyle G. Reeves, Chuangxin Ge, Lin Zhuang, Wang Hay Kan, Maxim Avdeev, Miao Shu, Nicolas Alonso-Vante, Jin-Ming Chen, Shu-Chih Haw, Chih-Wen Pao, Yu-Chung Chang, Yunhui Huang, Zhiwei Hu, Peter Strasser, Jiwei Ma
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Paired photoelectrochemical conversion of CO2/H2O and glycerol at high rate Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Ádám Balog, Egon Kecsenovity, Gergely F. Samu, Jie He, Dávid Fekete, Csaba Janáky
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Bias-free solar NH3 production by perovskite-based photocathode coupled to valorization of glycerol Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Ahmad Tayyebi, Rashmi Mehrotra, Muhibullah Al Mubarok, Jieun Kim, Mohammad Zafari, Meysam Tayebi, Dongrak Oh, Seong-hun Lee, Jesse E. Matthews, Sang-Won Lee, Tae Joo Shin, Geunsik Lee, Thomas F. Jaramillo, Sung-Yeon Jang, Ji-Wook Jang
Photoelectrochemical production of ammonia (NH3) is potentially eco-friendly but suffers from a low solar-to-ammonia productivity (SAP) and requires a high additional bias for the overall NH3 production from nitrate reduction and water oxidation. Here we applied a high-performance triple-cation lead halide (Cs0.05(FA0.83MA0.17)0.95Pb(Br0.17I0.83)3) perovskite photocathode with integrated electrocatalyst
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Stability and lifetime of diffusion-trapped oxygen in oxide-derived copper CO2 reduction electrocatalysts Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Zan Lian, Federico Dattila, Núria López
Oxide-derived Cu has an excellent ability to promote C–C coupling in the electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction. However, these materials largely rearrange under reaction conditions; therefore, the nature of the active site remains controversial. Here we study the reduction process of oxide-derived Cu via large-scale molecular dynamics with a precise neural network potential trained on first-principles
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Site-selective arene C–H amination with iron-aminyl radical Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Chao-Rui Ma, Guan-Wang Huang, Hui Xu, Zhan-Lin Wang, Zheng-Hao Li, Jun Liu, Yin Yang, Gongyu Li, Yanfeng Dang, Fei Wang
Homolytic aromatic substitution is an enabling strategy for arene C–H functionalization with numerous important synthetic applications. However, despite notable advances, exerting control over site selectivity remains a formidable challenge. Here we report a unified highly site-selective arene C–H amination of various electronically distinct arenes using an iron-aminyl radical. Unlike the conventionally
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A MOF-supported Pd1–Au1 dimer catalyses the semihydrogenation reaction of acetylene in ethylene with a nearly barrierless activation energy Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Jordi Ballesteros-Soberanas, Nuria Martín, Matea Bacic, Estefanía Tiburcio, Marta Mon, Juan Carlos Hernández-Garrido, Carlo Marini, Mercedes Boronat, Jesús Ferrando-Soria, Donatella Armentano, Emilio Pardo, Antonio Leyva-Pérez
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N-between the aryls Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Francesco Zamberlan
The protocol works by coupling different electron-rich or electron-poor (hetero)aryl triflates, (hetero)aryl bromides and chlorides with aryl boronic acids (or their related pinacol esters) in the presence of the amine reagent O-diphenylphosphinyl hydroxylamine (DPPH), t-BuBrettPhos — a ligand typically used in Buchwald–Hartwig cross-couplings — Pd catalyst and a base: in this fashion, NH-inserted
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Drug design via single-carbon atom insertion Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Marina Sicignano, Paolo Costa
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Old-times phosphorylations Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Davide Esposito
Now, a team led by Oliver R. Maguire and Wilhelm T. S. Huck reported a plausible system for the transfer of phosphate groups based on histidine-containing peptides in combination with imidazole phosphate, which functions as the phosphate donor (pictured, b). Drawing inspiration from kinases, which feature histidine in their active pockets, the team reasoned that histidine itself, or short peptides
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Active sites overcrowding Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Benjamin Martindale
Molecular dynamics simulations are used to model a generic electrochemical setup involving a solid slab (electrode), aqueous solution (electrolyte) and empty reservoir (gaseous headspace). Active catalytic sites for gas production are distributed on the electrode in both random and ordered configurations. As active site density is increased from low concentration, the reaction rate increases, as expected
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Electrochemistry-inspired design of thermocatalysts Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Bo-Hang Zhao, Bin Zhang
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Durable MnO2 electrocatalysts by stronger Mn–O bonds Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sergio Rojas
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Square-pyramidal subsurface oxygen [Ag4OAg] drives selective ethene epoxidation on silver Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Dongxiao Chen, Lin Chen, Qian-Cheng Zhao, Zheng-Xin Yang, Cheng Shang, Zhi-Pan Liu
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Nanometre-resolved observation of electrochemical microenvironment formation at the nanoparticle–ligand interface Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Yu Shan, Xiao Zhao, Maria Fonseca Guzman, Asmita Jana, Shouping Chen, Sunmoon Yu, Ka Chon Ng, Inwhan Roh, Hao Chen, Virginia Altoe, Stephanie N. Gilbert Corder, Hans A. Bechtel, Jin Qian, Miquel B. Salmeron, Peidong Yang
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Split cross-coupling via Rh-catalysed activation of unstrained aryl–aryl bonds Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Congjun Yu, Zining Zhang, Guangbin Dong
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A strongly coupled Ru–CrOx cluster–cluster heterostructure for efficient alkaline hydrogen electrocatalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Bingxing Zhang, Jianmei Wang, Guimei Liu, Catherine M. Weiss, Danqing Liu, Yaping Chen, Lixue Xia, Peng Zhou, Mingxia Gao, Yongfeng Liu, Jian Chen, Yushan Yan, Minhua Shao, Hongge Pan, Wenping Sun
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Lithium-mediated nitrogen reduction to ammonia via the catalytic solid–electrolyte interphase Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Wesley Chang, Anukta Jain, Fateme Rezaie, Karthish Manthiram
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Biocatalytic polymer synthesis with β-amino acids Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jan-Stefan Völler
Now, Jason W. Chin and colleagues report tRNA display as a ribosome-independent approach to evolve orthogonal synthetases for tRNA acylation with non-canonical monomers in Escherichia coli cells. Isolated orthogonal tRNAs that were successfully acylated in vivo by the orthogonal synthetase were labelled with a biotin moiety for pulldown, whereas non-acylated orthogonal tRNAs were oxidized and excluded
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Closed-loop optimization Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Marçal Capdevila-Cortada
Now, Paco Laveille and colleagues combine Bayesian optimization, automated synthesis and high-throughput catalytic experiments in a closed-loop approach to design cost-effective heterogeneous catalysts with high activity and selectivity for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol. In their study they considered six metals, namely cerium, cobalt, copper, iron, indium and zinc, potassium as a promoter,
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Just counting ten Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Chenyu Wang
By analysing the adsorption energies of common atomic adsorbates (for example, O, N, C, H) on various transition metal dopants in SAAs, the team discovered a correlation between the adsorption strength and the valence electron count of both adsorbate and dopant. In particular, they showed that the strongest binding corresponds to a total of ten valence electrons for hydrogen and twelve for p-block
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Resurrecting an ancient coenzyme Q metabolon Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kelsey J. Feustel, Catherine F. Clarke
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The quest for correlations Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27
Correlating structure and activity is a very important research goal in catalysis. This Editorial reflects on this topic, taking inspiration from examples in the current issue.
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Revisiting the universal principle for the rational design of single-atom electrocatalysts Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Haoxiang Xu, Daojian Cheng, Dapeng Cao, Xiao Cheng Zeng
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Epistasis arises from shifting the rate-limiting step during enzyme evolution of a β-lactamase Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Christopher Fröhlich, H. Adrian Bunzel, Karol Buda, Adrian J. Mulholland, Marc W. van der Kamp, Pål J. Johnsen, Hanna-Kirsti S. Leiros, Nobuhiko Tokuriki
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Congested C(sp3)-rich architectures enabled by iron-catalysed conjunctive alkylation Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Tong-De Tan, Juan M. I. Serviano, Xiaohua Luo, Peng-Cheng Qian, Patrick L. Holland, Xinglong Zhang, Ming Joo Koh
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A family of di-glutamate mucin-degrading enzymes that bridges glycan hydrolases and peptidases Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Yoshiki Narimatsu, Christian Büll, Víctor Taleb, Qinghua Liao, Ismael Compañón, David Sánchez-Navarro, Fabien Durbesson, Renaud Vincentelli, Lars Hansen, Francisco Corzana, Carme Rovira, Bernard Henrissat, Henrik Clausen, Hiren J. Joshi, Ramon Hurtado-Guerrero
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Visible light-mediated intermolecular crossed [2+2] cycloadditions using a MOF-supported copper triplet photosensitizer Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Jun Guo, Qi Xia, Wing Yi Tang, Zekun Li, Xia Wu, Li-Juan Liu, Wai-Pong To, Hui-Xing Shu, Kam-Hung Low, Philip C. Y. Chow, Tsz Woon Benedict Lo, Jian He
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Nickel-electrocatalysed C(sp3)–C(sp3) cross-coupling of unactivated alkyl halides Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Pengfei Li, Zile Zhu, Chengcheng Guo, Guangsheng Kou, Siyi Wang, Pengfei Xie, Dengke Ma, Tian Feng, Yanwei Wang, Youai Qiu
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Light-induced Pd catalyst enables C(sp2)–C(sp2) cross-electrophile coupling bypassing the demand for transmetalation Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sudip Maiti, Pintu Ghosh, Dineshkumar Raja, Sudev Ghosh, Sagnik Chatterjee, Velayudham Sankar, Sayan Roy, Goutam Kumar Lahiri, Debabrata Maiti
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Metal-free organocatalytic S-formylation of thiols using CO2 Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Subir Maji, Arpan Das, Madhur Mahesh Bhatt, Swadhin K. Mandal
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Nanoparticle proximity controls selectivity in benzaldehyde hydrogenation Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Kang Rui Garrick Lim, Selina K. Kaiser, Haichao Wu, Sadhya Garg, Marta Perxés Perich, Jessi E. S. van der Hoeven, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg
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Acid–base chemistry and the economic implication of electrocatalytic carboxylate production in alkaline electrolytes Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Shariful Kibria Nabil, Mohammed Arshad Muzibur Raghuman, Karthick Kannimuthu, Mohsina Rashid, Hadi Shaker Shiran, Md Golam Kibria, M. A. Khan
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Linkage-engineered donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks for optimal photosynthesis of hydrogen peroxide from water and air Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ruoyang Liu, Yongzhi Chen, Hongde Yu, Miroslav Položij, Yuanyuan Guo, Tze Chien Sum, Thomas Heine, Donglin Jiang
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Room temperature photo-promoted iron-catalysed arene C–H alkenylation without Grignard reagents Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Antonis M. Messinis, Tristan von Münchow, Max Surke, Lutz Ackermann
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Pickering emulsion droplets and solid microspheres acting synergistically for continuous-flow cascade reactions Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ming Zhang, Rammile Ettelaie, Ting Li, Jianqin Yang, Lianlian Dong, Nan Xue, Bernard P. Binks, Fangqin Cheng, Hengquan Yang
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Catalysts made from vapour Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Matthias Filez, Jolien Dendooven, Christophe Detavernier
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Red light is ‘Go!’ for protein labelling Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Francesco Zamberlan
Indeed, the group was able to insert p-tolyl(trifluoromethyl) diazo reagents with electron-rich and electron-neutral substituents onto the O–H bond of methanol with photocatalyst [Os(Me4phen)3][Cl]2 (where ‘phen’ is phenanthroline) under deep-red (660 nm) or NIR light (740 nm) — depicted in the image. This is achieved via the formation of the desired carbene upon energy transfer from the excited photocatalyst
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Privileged Brønsted acid organocatalysis Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Svetlana B. Tsogoeva
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The rise of ab initio surface thermodynamics Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Taehun Lee, Aloysius Soon
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A non-carboxylative route for the efficient synthesis of central metabolite malonyl-CoA and its derived products Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Jian Li, Xin Mu, Wenyue Dong, Yun Chen, Qianjin Kang, Guang Zhao, Jin Hou, Ramon Gonzalez, Linquan Bai, Yan Feng, Chen Yang, Tiangang Liu, Zaigao Tan
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And yet it rotates! Nat. Catal. (IF 37.8) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Serhiy Cherevko, Ioannis Katsounaros