{"title":"A career with an eye to the sky.","authors":"A R Ravi Ravishankara, Stephanie Greed","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00665-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-024-00665-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142639347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Light-assisted functionalization of aryl radicals towards metal-free cross-coupling.","authors":"Huaibo Zhao, Valentina Dafnae Cuomo, Wei Tian, Ciro Romano, David J Procter","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00664-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-024-00664-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The many synthetic possibilities that arise when using radical intermediates, in place of their polar counterparts, make contemporary radical chemistry research an exhilarating field. The introduction of photocatalysis has helped tame aryl radicals, leading to a resurgence of interest in their chemistry, and an expansion of viable coupling partners and attainable transformations. These methods are more selective and safer than classical approaches, and they utilize new radical precursors. Given the importance of sustainability in current organic synthesis and our interest in light-assisted metal-free transformations, this Review focuses on recent advances in the use of aryl radicals in photoinduced cross-couplings that do not rely on metals for the crucial bond-forming event, and it is structured according to the key step that the aryl radicals engage in.</p>","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142639348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mixing metals with MXenes.","authors":"Quazi T H Shubhra, Xiaojun Cai","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00674-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41570-024-00674-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142624270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Holding your nerve in academia whilst managing multiple sclerosis","authors":"Aisha N. Bismillah, Stephen D. P. Fielden","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00661-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00661-8","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a degenerative disease of the central nervous system. Two early-career researchers in supramolecular chemistry share their experiences of navigating academia whilst managing MS.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"793-794"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142489519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An algorithmic looking glass for transitions","authors":"Alexander Rosu-Finsen","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00667-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00667-2","url":null,"abstract":"Glass transition temperatures are determined through, for instance, calorimetry, but maybe machine learning models can predict them. Here, researchers test this idea with published data as input for the model, to find a close correlation between predicted and experimental values. ","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"797-797"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142487776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reflections on a Nobel Prize-winning legacy","authors":"Jean-Pierre Sauvage, Stephanie Greed","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00651-w","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00651-w","url":null,"abstract":"Ahead of his 80th birthday, Jean-Pierre Sauvage discussed his career in science from a lab in his cellar to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"795-796"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142451612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"2D magnets filled with lithium","authors":"Liang Mei, Ruijie Yang","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00660-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00660-9","url":null,"abstract":"Room-temperature magnetism is challenging for 2D materials as they tend to lose their magnetic order at increasing temperatures. Now, researchers have achieved room temperature magnetism in lithium-intercalated chromium iodide.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"798-798"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142398247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Asymmetric phase-transfer catalysis","authors":"Hyo-Jun Lee, Keiji Maruoka","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00642-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00642-x","url":null,"abstract":"Over the past three decades, chiral phase-transfer catalysts (PTCs) have emerged as highly successful organocatalysts in a diverse range of asymmetric reactions. A substantial number of chiral PTCs have now already been discovered and utilized in dependable routes to enantioenriched products. These extend beyond the classical cationic PTCs with the emergence of anionic phase-transfer catalysis and hydrogen-bonding phase-transfer catalysis providing new asymmetric synthetic approaches. Nevertheless, the application level of chiral PTCs in both academic and industrial processes is below our expectation. This Review highlights the notable advances in chiral PTCs, including challenges, limitations and efforts to overcome them. Following this, the potential for sustainable chiral PTCs is described with a focus on using photocatalysed, flow and electrochemical synthesis. Chiral phase-transfer catalysts are practical and powerful organocatalysts for asymmetric synthesis. This Review illustrates notable recent advances of chiral phase-transfer catalysts, including challenges, limitations and potential solutions, as well as future opportunities to improve sustainability.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"851-869"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142391912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chad T. Palumbo, Erik T. Ouellette, Jie Zhu, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Shannon S. Stahl, Gregg T. Beckham
{"title":"Accessing monomers from lignin through carbon–carbon bond cleavage","authors":"Chad T. Palumbo, Erik T. Ouellette, Jie Zhu, Yuriy Román-Leshkov, Shannon S. Stahl, Gregg T. Beckham","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00652-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00652-9","url":null,"abstract":"Lignin, the heterogeneous aromatic macromolecule found in the cell walls of vascular plants, is an abundant feedstock for the production of biochemicals and biofuels. Many valorization schemes rely on lignin depolymerization, with decades of research focused on accessing monomers through C–O bond cleavage, given the abundance of β–O–4 bonds in lignin and the large number of available C–O bond cleavage strategies. Monomer yields are, however, invariably lower than desired, owing to the presence of recalcitrant C–C bonds whose selective cleavage remains a major challenge in catalysis. In this Review, we highlight lignin C–C cleavage reactions, including those of linkages arising from biosynthesis (β–1, β–5, β–β and 5–5) and industrial processing (5–CH2–5 and α–5). We examine multiple approaches to C–C cleavage, including homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, photocatalysis and biocatalysis, to identify promising strategies for further research and provide guidelines for definitive measurements of lignin C–C bond cleavage. To date, monomer yields from lignin are limited to those attainable through C–O bond cleavage. Cleaving C–C bonds often leads to deleterious product degradation and low monomer yields. Herein we review lignin C–C cleavage reports and advocate for a standardized reporting of yields.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 11","pages":"799-816"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142374165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secrets from a spin-out success story","authors":"Stephanie Greed","doi":"10.1038/s41570-024-00634-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41570-024-00634-x","url":null,"abstract":"Ahead of his 85th birthday, Graham Richards discussed his life in science and its intersection with industry. From a mix-up that led to him reading chemistry at the University of Oxford rather than physics, Richards later became the head of the chemistry department and co-founded Oxford Molecular Plc.","PeriodicalId":18849,"journal":{"name":"Nature reviews. Chemistry","volume":"8 10","pages":"719-720"},"PeriodicalIF":38.1,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142329966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}