ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-14DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c0081310.1021/acscentsci.5c00813
Katarina Zimmer,
{"title":"A Conversation with Matthias Rillig, Soil Ecologist","authors":"Katarina Zimmer, ","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c0081310.1021/acscentsci.5c00813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00813https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00813","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Rillig uncovers how microplastics are transforming soil.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"642–644 642–644"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00813","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-14eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00813
Katarina Zimmer
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ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-12eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779
Marta Zaraska
{"title":"Pollution Confuses Pollinators. Can Scientists Retrain Them?","authors":"Marta Zaraska","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As VOCs cause flower aromas to break down, bees may need to learn new tricks.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"649-652"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123454/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-12DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c0077910.1021/acscentsci.5c00779
Marta Zaraska,
{"title":"Pollution Confuses Pollinators. Can Scientists Retrain Them?","authors":"Marta Zaraska, ","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c0077910.1021/acscentsci.5c00779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779","url":null,"abstract":"<p >As VOCs cause flower aromas to break down, bees may need to learn new tricks.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"649–652 649–652"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c0075310.1021/acscentsci.5c00753
Sam Lemonick,
{"title":"Can New Chemistry Make EVs That Charge in 5 min or Less?","authors":"Sam Lemonick, ","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c0075310.1021/acscentsci.5c00753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Battery start-ups and larger laboratories scrutinize materials in every part of electric vehicle systems, especially anodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"645–648 645–648"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-06eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732
Marcel Swart, Isaac Garcia-Bosch
{"title":"Characterization of Three Intermediates in an Unusual Copper-Dependent Enzyme.","authors":"Marcel Swart, Isaac Garcia-Bosch","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three intermediates in the formylglycine-generating enzyme are characterized at the molecular level.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"656-658"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12132574/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144214320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-06eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753
Sam Lemonick
{"title":"Can New Chemistry Make EVs That Charge in 5 min or Less?","authors":"Sam Lemonick","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00753","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Battery start-ups and larger laboratories scrutinize materials in every part of electric vehicle systems, especially anodes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"645-648"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123455/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c0073210.1021/acscentsci.5c00732
Marcel Swart, and , Isaac Garcia-Bosch,
{"title":"Characterization of Three Intermediates in an Unusual Copper-Dependent Enzyme","authors":"Marcel Swart, and , Isaac Garcia-Bosch, ","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c0073210.1021/acscentsci.5c00732","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Three intermediates in the formylglycine-generating enzyme are characterized at the molecular level.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"656–658 656–658"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00732","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c0023910.1021/acscentsci.5c00239
Jake R. Jagannathan, and , Frank A. Leibfarth*,
{"title":"Stereoconvergent Chain-Growth Polymerization","authors":"Jake R. Jagannathan, and , Frank A. Leibfarth*, ","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c0023910.1021/acscentsci.5c00239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239https://doi.org/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239","url":null,"abstract":"<p >The stereochemistry of polymers has a profound impact on their properties. Despite the well-developed stereoselective methods for prochiral vinyl monomers, current methods for racemic monomers are limited. Conventional approaches treat <i>sp</i><sup><i>3</i></sup> chiral centers as immutable, resulting in poor atom-economical processes and limited control over enantioselectivity. This contrasts with stereoconvergent catalysis in small molecules, which has revolutionized synthesis by interrupting the transfer of chiral information from the substrate to the product, providing a clear platform for catalysts to access enantiopure compounds from racemic mixtures in up to 100% yield. Here we designed a catalyst that converges stereochemical information during polymerization, enabling access to asymmetric, isotactic polymers with quantitative atom economy from racemic feedstocks. The mechanism of stereoconvergence is accomplished by the catalyst ablating chiral information, followed by a stereoselective propagation event to control both tacticity and enantioselectivity. Using this method, we accessed both enantiomers of an isotactic polymer from a single enantiomer of monomer and identified a novel stereocomplex. These results represent a conceptual framework to expand stereoconvergent polymerization into additional monomers and mechanisms.</p><p >We designed a polymerization that erases the chiral information on a monomer and resets it during the reaction to access isotactic, enantioenriched polymers with 100% atom economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"797–804 797–804"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/epdf/10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144146592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Central SciencePub Date : 2025-05-05eCollection Date: 2025-05-28DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239
Jake R Jagannathan, Frank A Leibfarth
{"title":"Stereoconvergent Chain-Growth Polymerization.","authors":"Jake R Jagannathan, Frank A Leibfarth","doi":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239","DOIUrl":"10.1021/acscentsci.5c00239","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The stereochemistry of polymers has a profound impact on their properties. Despite the well-developed stereoselective methods for prochiral vinyl monomers, current methods for racemic monomers are limited. Conventional approaches treat <i>sp</i> <sup><i>3</i></sup> chiral centers as immutable, resulting in poor atom-economical processes and limited control over enantioselectivity. This contrasts with stereoconvergent catalysis in small molecules, which has revolutionized synthesis by interrupting the transfer of chiral information from the substrate to the product, providing a clear platform for catalysts to access enantiopure compounds from racemic mixtures in up to 100% yield. Here we designed a catalyst that converges stereochemical information during polymerization, enabling access to asymmetric, isotactic polymers with quantitative atom economy from racemic feedstocks. The mechanism of stereoconvergence is accomplished by the catalyst ablating chiral information, followed by a stereoselective propagation event to control both tacticity and enantioselectivity. Using this method, we accessed both enantiomers of an isotactic polymer from a single enantiomer of monomer and identified a novel stereocomplex. These results represent a conceptual framework to expand stereoconvergent polymerization into additional monomers and mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":10,"journal":{"name":"ACS Central Science","volume":"11 5","pages":"797-804"},"PeriodicalIF":12.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12123547/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}