Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01141-2
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 14 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01141-2Liquid crystal elastomers are shape-morphing materials that demonstrate reversible actuation when exposed to external stimuli, and their actuation depends heavily on the liquid crystal alignment programmed into these materials, using various shape-programming processes. Here, the author reviews current shape-programming methods in relation to the challenges of employing liquid crystal elastomers as soft, shape-memory components in devices in the future.]]>
Andraž Rešetič
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01141-2
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-14; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01141-2
2024-03-14
Communications Chemistry
10.1038/s42004-024-01141-2
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01141-2
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01138-x
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 14 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01138-xLignin-derived phenolic acids can be upgraded to styrene derivatives through chemoenzymatic processes, however, the scale-up of such processes remains challenging. Here, the authors find that controlling the water activity during the decarboxylation of bio-based phenolic acids, including through the integration of a water reservoir, enables high conversions and efficient reaction times, that can be combined with a versatile acyl donor substrate scope.]]>
Philipp PetermeierJan Philipp BittnerTobias JonssonPablo Domínguez de MaríaEmil ByströmSelin Kara
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01138-x
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-14; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01138-x
2024-03-14
Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01139-w
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 13 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01139-wCarbocations are highly electrophilic intermediates involved in SN1 reactions, such as the direct alkylation of low-reactivity nucleophiles, however, in situ activation of leaving groups in such reactions remains challenging due to the unstable nature of the carbocations, leading to cross-reactivity between nucleophiles and leaving group activators. Here, the authors develop a two-step procedure to avoid such cross-reactivity: they generate carbocationoids as coordinatively stabilized carbocations in one nucleophile-free solution, and then complete the alkylation in another reaction vessel under mild conditions.]]>
Hikaru FujitaDaichi ShimadaJotaro KudoKazuyuki KoshaSatoshi KakuyamaHiromitsu TerasakiMunetaka Kunishima
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01139-w
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-13; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01139-w
2024-03-13
Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01135-0
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 08 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01135-0Retention time prediction in liquid chromatography plays an important role in molecule annotation and method optimization, however, the accuracy of current quantitative structure−retention relationship models highly depends on the chromatographic method (CM). Here, the authors develop a generic model featuring a post-projection calibration to eliminate the impact of specific CMs, reaching similar ranking levels of putative candidates among different CMs.]]>
Yan ZhangFei LiuXiu Qin LiYan GaoKang Cong LiQing He Zhang
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01135-0
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-08; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01135-0
2024-03-08
Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01133-2
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 07 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01133-2Computer-aided retrosynthetic planning algorithms such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and A* search can expedite the identification of synthetic pathways, however, achieving a high success rate remains challenging. Here, the authors develop an enhanced search algorithm by incorporating the exploration capability of MCTS into A* search, achieving synthesis success rates of up to 100%.]]>
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Dengwei ZhaoShikui TuLei Xu
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01133-2
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-07; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01133-2
2024-03-07
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-023-01096-w
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 05 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-023-01096-wThe road to the electroreduction of CO2]]>
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Yuguang C. Li
doi:10.1038/s42004-023-01096-w
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-05; | doi:10.1038/s42004-023-01096-w
2024-03-05
Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01137-y
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 05 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01137-yThe effective control of chirality on surfaces is crucial for applications such as enantioselective heterogeneous catalysis and nonlinear optics. Here, the authors study the on-surface synthesis of organometallic polymers and their chiral expression on Ag(110), demonstrating that kinetic effects play an important role in determining polymer chirality.]]>
R. S. Koen HoutsmaFloris van NyendaalMeike Stöhr
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01137-y
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-05; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01137-y
2024-03-05
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2 electrolyzer with a gas diffusion cathode]]>
https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01122-5
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 05 March 2024; doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01122-5CO2 electrolyzers with gas diffusion electrodes take advantage of improved mass transport of gaseous CO2 to the catalyst surface to afford increased current densities, but the complex and coupled multi-phase processes occurring inside the electrolysis device are not fully understood. Here, the authors use a two-dimensional volume-averaged model of the cathode side of a microfluidic CO2 to CO electrolysis device with a gas diffusion electrode and find that under high cathodic potential, the catalyst layer is prone to forming H2 and CO bubbles, mirroring observed experimental electrode instability.]]>
2 electrolyzer with a gas diffusion cathode]]>
Venu Gopal AgarwalSophia Haussener
doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01122-5
Communications Chemistry, Published online: 2024-03-05; | doi:10.1038/s42004-024-01122-5
2024-03-05
Communications Chemistry
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https://www.nature.com/articles/s42004-024-01122-5