Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Portfolio (Sustainable Materials Chemistry) Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New Delhi or Pune (Hybrid) Application Deadline: September 30, 2026 About S...

Title: Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Portfolio (Sustainable Materials Chemistry) Locations: Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, New Delhi or Pune (Hybrid) Application Deadline: September 30, 2026 About S...

Nanoemulsion modular assembly is emerging as a versatile strategy for synthesizing diverse functional mesoporous nanomaterials. This Review highlights the capabilities of nanoemulsion modular assembly...

The synthesis of unprotected C-heteroaryl glycosides is challenging because of the lack of methods to utilize native saccharides as substrates. Now these compounds, capped as redox-active glycosyl sul...

The linear-selective allylic addition to carbonyls remains challenging owing to the inversion of the six-membered transition state. Now an enantio- and linear-selective allylic addition to ketimines u...

Paired electrolysis converts industrial SO2 directly into valuable cyclic sulfite esters, turning a common pollutant into useful chemicals. Mechanistic studies reveal key intermediates, offering a sus...

An amino-acid-encoded assembly strategy is developed for the synthesis of programmable chiral Solomon links, featuring tunable cavity dimensions and shapes. This template-free synthetic approach favou...

A gas–liquid–solid triphasic etching strategy is demonstrated to obtain MXenes with uniform and tunable halogen terminations. The resulting MXenes have highly ordered structures, enhanced charge trans...

Intramolecular coupling of extended biphen[n]arenes is developed to yield cycloparaphenylenes (CPPs). The modular nature of biphen[n]arenes makes it possible to customize CPP structures, which permits...

Using a molecular engineering approach, wafer-scale uniaxially oriented Te nanowire thin films are synthesized with excellent controllability and uniformity. The anchor-rope structural molecules form ...

An electrochemical cobalt-catalysed reductive coupling reaction between alkynes and cyclobutenes enables diastereodivergent cyclobutane synthesis. By modulating the steric and electronic properties of...

The precise manipulation of unfunctionalized hydrocarbons remains a fundamental challenge in chemical synthesis and catalysis. Here an organocatalytic asymmetric hydroxylation of bicyclobutanes with a...

A skeletal editing strategy for the direct conversion of oxazoles and isoxazoles into thiazoles and isothiazoles is described. These one-step transformations may be beneficial for drug development pro...

The strategic placement of sulfur within a nickel porphyrin complex coupled with copper facilitates efficient electrochemical CO2 reduction to ethylene and ethanol.

Radical processes can be leveraged to impart meta selectivity in pyridine functionalization, offering a valuable approach for the late-stage functionalization of bioactive molecules.

Nature Synthesis - Ammonia synthesis over AuRu alloys

Nature Synthesis - A terminal germanium oxido dianion

The precision synthesis of uniform oligoethylenes with chain lengths of up to 576 carbon atoms is achieved via an iterative growth approach based on the Julia–Kocienski reaction. The oligoethylenes ar...

The sustainable synthesis of carbohydrates from CO2 is challenging due to the complexity of controlled CO2 reduction. Here a two-step method for the sustainable synthesis of C5+ carbohydrates is repor...

The ambiphilic reactivity of alkyl sulfonyl fluorides in stereoselective cyclopropanation under Pd(II) catalysis is reported. The method provides convenient access to cis-disubstituted cyclopropanes t...

A mechanochemical protocol for the direct synthesis of organosodium compounds is developed using cheap and shelf-stable sodium lumps and readily available organic halides under bulk, solvent-free cond...

Sodium metal is of interest for high-energy-density batteries, but the lack of large-area ultrathin sodium metal foils hinders research. Here a metre-length, ultrathin (≤50 μm), mechanically strengthe...

Nature Synthesis - Heck-type reactions with bismuth photocatalysts

Microbial biosynthesis is a promising alternative to plant extraction to obtain post-modified flavonoids, but current de novo biosynthesis is limited to milligrams per litre. Now the production of pla...

Laser technology offers high energy, precise spatial resolution and seamless automation for materials synthesis and device fabrication. This Review highlights laser-assisted materials engineering at t...

Ti-, Zr- and Nb-based MXenes with Cl, Br or mixed terminations can be synthesized by a bottom-up, atom-economic route directly from metals and molecular organohalides. The reactivity of organohalide p...

Discovering new chemical reactions is often a slow process. Now a data-driven strategy that integrates expert intuition with artificial intelligence-guided exploration enables the rapid identification...

Confining conjugated polymers within chiral metal–organic frameworks enables direct visualization of helical order and enhances their charge transport and spin selectivity properties.

Building space into solids is the focus of the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, which has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa (Kyoto University), Richard Robson (University of Melbourne) and Omar M. Yaghi (...

Nanoclusters have precise structures and therefore offer a molecular-level approach for studying surface adsorption phenomena. Here, spherical aluminium oxo clusters are synthesized via a co-encapsula...

Photochemical oxygen atom migration into carbon–carbon bonds enables the efficient synthesis of ethers from alcohol motifs.

AIRES (algorithmic iterative reticular synthesis) is an integrated cycle combining automated synthesis, image recognition, single-crystal X-ray diffraction and algorithmic decision-making to maximize ...

Nature Synthesis - Deaminative aromatic functionalization

Liquid gallium is employed as a reaction medium to synthesize uniquely structured solid–liquid–solid core–shell–shell nanoparticles, enabling the fabrication of diverse metallic nanostructures with ex...

Electrolysis enables selective dual C–H functionalization for transforming inert polyolefin deconstruction products into dynamic recyclable networks.

A family of 2D hybrid perovskites engineered with bulky organic ligands in a copper halide lattice is synthesized, demonstrating mixed tetrahedral–octahedral connectivity. These materials undergo stra...

A dual-cofactor artificial metalloenzyme is developed, incorporating a biotinylated nickel complex and a Strep-tagged peptide catalyst in adjacent streptavidin-binding sites. This synergistic artifici...

Ni-catalysed multicomponent reductive cross-coupling of aziridines, thiourea dioxide and alkyl halides enables the ligand-controlled synthesis of β-amino sulfides and disulfides. A planar ligand facil...

A galvanic strategy enables the intercalation of diverse molecular cations into bulk and few-layer van der Waals crystals under mild conditions, yielding 50 organic–inorganic superlattices. This metho...

Electrochemical nitrate reduction is a promising method for greener ammonia synthesis. Here, a CuPd bimetallic catalyst with abundant Cu–PdHx interfaces is synthesized, enabling efficient electrocatal...

Tuning the kinetics of photo-induced crosslinking between mechanically distinct polymer phases produces strong and tough hydrogels.

A catalytic Joule heating approach is developed for the growth of one-dimensional nanomaterials via a vapour–liquid–solid mechanism under far-from-equilibrium reaction conditions. It demonstrates broa...

Gold-based layered hybrid superlattices with tunable interlayer spacing are synthesized as an efficient strategy to modulate intersystem crossing (ISC). Reduced interlayer spacing enhances Au–π conjug...

Mechanically interlocked monolayer and bilayer two-dimensional polymers (2DPs) are synthesized on the water surface by embedding macrocyclic molecules with one and two cavities into the backbones. The...