Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-05-05DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01818-8
Andras Boeszoermenyi, Denitsa L. Radeva, Sebastian Schindler, Veronica Valadares, Krishna M. Padmanabha Das, Abhinav Dubey, Thibault Viennet, Max Schmitt, Peter Kast, Vladimir M. Gelev, Nikolay Stoyanov, Nikola Burdzhiev, Ognyan Petrov, Scott Ficarro, Jarred Marto, Ezekiel A. Geffken, Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Hyuk-Soo Seo, Nathan D. Alexander, Richard B. Cooley, Ryan A. Mehl, Helena Kovacs, Clemens Anklin, Wolfgang Bermel, Ilya Kuprov, Koh Takeuchi, Haribabu Arthanari
{"title":"Leveraging relaxation-optimized 1H–13CF correlations in 4-19F-phenylalanine as atomic beacons for probing structure and dynamics of large proteins","authors":"Andras Boeszoermenyi, Denitsa L. Radeva, Sebastian Schindler, Veronica Valadares, Krishna M. Padmanabha Das, Abhinav Dubey, Thibault Viennet, Max Schmitt, Peter Kast, Vladimir M. Gelev, Nikolay Stoyanov, Nikola Burdzhiev, Ognyan Petrov, Scott Ficarro, Jarred Marto, Ezekiel A. Geffken, Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Hyuk-Soo Seo, Nathan D. Alexander, Richard B. Cooley, Ryan A. Mehl, Helena Kovacs, Clemens Anklin, Wolfgang Bermel, Ilya Kuprov, Koh Takeuchi, Haribabu Arthanari","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01818-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01818-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>NMR spectroscopy of biomolecules provides atomic level information into their structure, dynamics and interactions with their binding partners. However, signal attenuation from line broadening caused by fast relaxation and signal overlap often limits the application of NMR to large macromolecular systems. Here we leverage the slow relaxation properties of <sup>13</sup>C nuclei attached to <sup>19</sup>F in aromatic <sup>19</sup>F–<sup>13</sup>C spin pairs as well as the spin–spin coupling between the fluorinated <sup>13</sup>C nucleus and the hydrogen atom at the <i>meta</i>-position to record two-dimensional <sup>1</sup>H–<sup>13</sup>C<sub>F</sub> correlation spectra with transverse relaxation-optimized spectroscopy selection on <sup>13</sup>C<sub>F</sub>. To accomplish this, we synthesized [4-<sup>19</sup>F<sup>13</sup>C<sup><i>ζ</i></sup>; 3,5-<sup>2</sup>H<sub>2</sub><sup><i>ε</i></sup>] Phe, engineered for optimal relaxation properties, and adapted a residue-specific route to incorporate this residue globally into proteins and a site-specific 4-<sup>19</sup>F Phe encoding strategy. This approach resulted in narrow linewidths for proteins ranging from 30 kDa to 180 kDa, enabling interaction studies with small-molecule ligands without requiring specialized <sup>19</sup>F-compatible probes.</p><figure></figure>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":"113 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143905685","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-02-26DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01744-9
Lin Li, Xuan Zhang, Xin Lian, Laiyu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiongli Liu, Tengfei He, Baiyan Li, Banglin Chen, Xian-He Bu
{"title":"Flue gas desulfurization and SO<sub>2</sub> recovery within a flexible hydrogen-bonded organic framework.","authors":"Lin Li, Xuan Zhang, Xin Lian, Laiyu Zhang, Zhiyuan Zhang, Xiongli Liu, Tengfei He, Baiyan Li, Banglin Chen, Xian-He Bu","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01744-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41557-025-01744-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The removal of SO<sub>2</sub> from flue gas remains a challenge. Adsorption-based separation of SO<sub>2</sub> using porous materials has been proposed as a more energy-efficient and cost-effective alternative to more traditional methods such as cryogenic distillations. Here we report a flexible hydrogen-bonded organic framework (HOF-NKU-1) that enables the sieving of SO<sub>2</sub> through the guest-adaptive response and shape-memory effect of the material. HOF-NKU-1 exhibits a high selectivity of 7,331 for the separation of SO<sub>2</sub>/CO<sub>2</sub> and a high SO<sub>2</sub> storage density of 3.27 g cm<sup>-3</sup> within the pore space at ambient conditions. The hydrophobic nature of HOF-NKU-1 enables high dynamic SO<sub>2</sub> uptake and SO<sub>2</sub> recovery, even in conditions of 95% humidity. The SO<sub>2</sub>/CO<sub>2</sub> separation mechanism is studied through combinatorial gas sorption isotherms, breakthrough experiments and single-crystal diffraction studies, paving the way for the development of multifunctional shape-memory porous materials in the future.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"727-733"},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143516252","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":"Supramolecular coordination cages as crystalline sponges through a symmetry mismatch strategy.","authors":"Wei He, Yikuan Yu, Kenta Iizuka, Hiroki Takezawa, Makoto Fujita","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01750-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41557-025-01750-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The crystalline sponge method enables single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis of guests absorbed within single-crystalline porous materials. However, its application with large or highly polar guests remains challenging. In this study, we addressed some of these limitations using palladium-based octahedron-shaped M<sub>6</sub>L<sub>4</sub> (T<sub>d</sub>) coordination cages as crystalline sponges. The key to facilitate the crystallization of the cage is the addition of large aromatic polysulfonates ('sticker' anions); the symmetry mismatch between the cage and the sticker (D<sub>2h</sub>) results in a low-symmetry space group (P <math> <mover><mrow><mn>1</mn></mrow> <mo>¯</mo></mover> </math> ), preventing guest disorder and leading to the formation of guest-accessible channels in the crystal. Guests can be encapsulated either before or after cage crystallization. The size and host-guest properties of the cavity enable analysis of a broad range of compounds, including water-soluble molecules, large amphiphilic molecules (molecular weight of ~1,200) and molecular aggregates. We have demonstrated the versatility of the cage-sticker strategy through its application to a triaugmented triangular-prism-shaped M<sub>9</sub>L<sub>6</sub> cage, extending the guest scope to medium-sized pharmaceutical molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"653-662"},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143567659","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":"Synthesis of strained, air-stable boracycles via boron-carbon-centred diradicals.","authors":"Xinmou Wang, Peiqi Zhang, Zhiyi Yang, Weixuan Sun, Hairong Lyu, Zhenyang Lin, Yangjian Quan","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01807-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01807-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Boracycles are important functional scaffolds, often exhibiting superior or unique performance compared with their carbon analogues. Five-membered oxaboracycles are key pharmacophores in Food and Drug Administration-approved boron drugs. Meanwhile, six-membered boron-doped polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons enhance the diversification and functionality of molecular materials. However, boron-containing four-membered rings are less studied owing to limited preparative approaches. Their inherent ring strain makes their synthesis thermodynamically unfavourable and hinders the exploration of their properties and applications. Here we report a triplet energy transfer catalysis for crafting air-stable benzoboretenes through intramolecular coupling of boron-carbon-centred diradicals. In addition, by modulating substrate π-conjugation structures and excitation energies, boron-carbon-centred diradicals can undergo formal 1,6- and 1,5-cyclization to deliver dihydroborinine and dihydrocyclopropaborole derivatives, respectively. The metal-free neutral reaction conditions ensure a broad reaction scope, resulting in structurally diverse boracycles that are stable enough to be purified via column chromatography. Further modification of the boracycles enables the facile synthesis of oxaborabicycles and dihydroborinine-fused polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons with unique optoelectronic properties.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":"17 5","pages":"663-671"},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143972380","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01773-4
Qiucheng Li, Eden B Aklile, Albert Tsui, Mark C Hersam
{"title":"Progress and future directions in borophene research.","authors":"Qiucheng Li, Eden B Aklile, Albert Tsui, Mark C Hersam","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01773-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s41557-025-01773-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Borophene-an atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) boron analogue of graphene-has attracted significant attention as a 2D synthetic platform. Since its initial experimental realization, borophene has proven to be a versatile 2D material due to its high polymorphism and amenability to heterostructure integration. Nevertheless, several synthetic challenges have hindered the practical utilization of borophene, primarily due to its high chemical reactivity and interlayer charge transfer with growth substrates. Here we discuss emerging synthesis strategies for borophene, ranging from on-surface synthesis using elemental and molecular boron sources to substrate segregation growth techniques and solution-based reactions. We also focus on the surface and interface engineering of borophene with the aim of tailoring chemical reactivity and electronic properties. Finally, we highlight the remaining unresolved synthetic challenges for borophene and suggest future directions for accelerating fundamental science and applied technology for boron in the 2D limit.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":" ","pages":"642-652"},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143803890","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-04-30DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01810-2
Juan Lión-Villar, Jesús M Fernández-García, Samara Medina Rivero, Josefina Perles, Shaofei Wu, Daniel Aranda, Jishan Wu, Shu Seki, Juan Casado, Nazario Martín
{"title":"Synthesis of zwitterionic open-shell bilayer spironanographenes.","authors":"Juan Lión-Villar, Jesús M Fernández-García, Samara Medina Rivero, Josefina Perles, Shaofei Wu, Daniel Aranda, Jishan Wu, Shu Seki, Juan Casado, Nazario Martín","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01810-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01810-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Molecular nanographenes (NGs) are nanoscale graphene fragments obtained by organic synthetic protocols. Here we report the bottom-up synthesis of two spiro-NGs formed by two substituted hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronenes (HBCs), spiro-NG and F-spiro-NG. The X-ray crystal structure of the deca-tert-butyl-functionalized spiro-NG shows a bilayer disposition of the HBCs in face-to-face contact. By contrast, F-spiro-NG, which features tert-butyl substituents on one HBC unit, and fluorine on the other HBC unit, is an electron donor-acceptor bilayer NG. The structural assembly of the donor and acceptor graphenic layers enables an electron-transfer process that leads to the formation of a zwitterionic open shell, paramagnetic species constituted by a radical cation and a radical anion located in the donor and the acceptor HBCs, respectively. Magnetic and spectroelectrochemical experiments, together with theoretical calculations, support the persistent/dominant charge-separated nature of F-spiro-NG. Furthermore, photoconductivity measurements show a significant increase of the charge carrier mobility in the case of F-spiro-NG (Σμ = 6 cm<sup>2</sup> V<sup>-1</sup> s<sup>-1</sup>) compared with spiro-NG.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144025265","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-04-28DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01814-y
Leo Wessel, René Frank
{"title":"Bench-stable boracyclobutenes","authors":"Leo Wessel, René Frank","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01814-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01814-y","url":null,"abstract":"Boracyclobutenes and their benzannulated derivatives are a rare class of highly reactive compounds, of which only a few examples have been sporadically obtained by thermal routes. Now, a photochemical strategy provides reliable access to a broad scope of bench-stable boron heterocycles.","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143880521","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01806-y
Yeqin Guan, Ping Chen
{"title":"Transition-metal-free ammonia synthesis","authors":"Yeqin Guan, Ping Chen","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01806-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01806-y","url":null,"abstract":"Activating the extremely stable N≡N triple bond usually requires transition metal catalysts. Now, a Ba-Si orthosilicate oxynitride-hydride is found to catalyse ammonia formation without transition metals.","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866920","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-04-24DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01811-1
Vincent Guillerm
{"title":"Porous metal–organic polyhedra with a gecko’s grip","authors":"Vincent Guillerm","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01811-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01811-1","url":null,"abstract":"Interactions such as van der Waals forces are generally considered too weak to govern the assembly of stable porous materials. Now, it has been shown that stable open frameworks can be assembled through van der Waals interactions.","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":21.8,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143866956","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}
Nature chemistryPub Date : 2025-04-23DOI: 10.1038/s41557-025-01802-2
Panfeng Chuai, Ziqi Hu, Yang-Rong Yao, Zhanxin Jiang, Aman Ullah, Ya Zhao, Weiren Cheng, Muqing Chen, Eugenio Coronado, Shangfeng Yang, Zujin Shi
{"title":"Lanthanide-nickel molecular intermetallic complexes featuring a ligand-free Ni<sup>2-</sup> anion in endohedral fullerenes.","authors":"Panfeng Chuai, Ziqi Hu, Yang-Rong Yao, Zhanxin Jiang, Aman Ullah, Ya Zhao, Weiren Cheng, Muqing Chen, Eugenio Coronado, Shangfeng Yang, Zujin Shi","doi":"10.1038/s41557-025-01802-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-025-01802-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transition metals (TMs) typically exhibit rich redox chemistry and can be found in various oxidation states. In most cases, TMs are positively charged. Strong π-accepting ligands have been shown to stabilize molecular complexes with TMs in formal negative oxidation states. By contrast, organic-ligand-free TM anions remain rare, limited to intermetallic compounds based on third-row TMs such as gold or platinum. Here we report the synthesis of air-stable lanthanide-nickel molecular intermetallic complexes featuring a ligand-free Ni<sup>2-</sup> confined within fullerenes, namely, Tb<sub>2</sub>Ni@C<sub>82</sub>. The charged Tb<sub>2</sub>Ni lanthanide nickelide cluster forms metal-only Lewis pairs, featuring strongly polarized Tb-Ni covalent bonds with short bond lengths in the range of 2.50-2.57 Å. X-ray absorption spectroscopy supports the -2 oxidation state of Ni with 3d<sup>10</sup>4s<sup>2</sup> electron count, in line with the spectroscopic and magnetic measurements, and theoretical study. This finding opens up an efficient way to stabilize intermetallic clusters with elusive nucleophilic TM anions by confining them inside molecular carbon cages.</p>","PeriodicalId":18909,"journal":{"name":"Nature chemistry","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.2,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144014003","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}