➦ Spontaneous assembly and real-time growth of micrometre-scale tubular structures from polyoxometalat
➦ Minimal nucleotide duplex formation in water through enclathration in self-assembled hosts
➦ Imaging intracellular viscosity of a single cell during photoinduced cell death
➦ Polymer nanofibre junctions of attolitre volume serve as zeptomole-scale chemical reactors
➦ Compressed alkanes in reversible encapsulation complexes
➦ Asymmetric total syntheses of (+)- and (−)-versicolamide B and biosynthetic implications
➦ Halogen bonds as orthogonal molecular interactions to hydrogen bonds
➦ Catalytic behaviour of dense hot water
➦ A diiron(iv) complex that cleaves strong C–H and O–H bonds
➦ A unique approach to aldol products for the creation of all-carbon quaternary stereocentres
➦ A tri-continuous mesoporous material with a silica pore wall following a hexagonal minimal surface
➦ Activating catalysts with mechanical force
➦ Using small molecules to facilitate exchange of bicarbonate and chloride anions across liposomal mem
➦ Sequence-independent and rapid long-range charge transfer through DNA
➦ Chiral imprinting of palladium with cinchona alkaloids
➦ G-quadruplex self-assembly regulated by Coulombic interactions
➦ Force-activated reactivity switch in a bimolecular chemical reaction
➦ Chlorotrinitromethane and its exceptionally short carbon–chlorine bond
➦ Room-temperature molecular-resolution characterization of self-assembled organic monolayers on epita
➦ Manipulating single-wall carbon nanotubes by chemical doping and charge transfer with perylene dyes
➦ Concise synthesis of ricciocarpin A and discovery of a more potent analogue
➦ Spongy chalcogels of non-platinum metals act as effective hydrodesulfurization catalysts
➦ Specific fluorogenic probes for ozone in biological and atmospheric samples
➦ Stellated polyhedral assembly of a topologically complicated Pd4L4 ‘Solomon cube’
➦ Coordination chemistry at carbon
➦ Bimetallic Pd(III) complexes in palladium-catalysed carbon–heteroatom bond formation
➦ Amyloid-β protein oligomerization and the importance of tetramers and dodecamers in the aetiology of
➦ Designer magnetic superatoms
➦ Carboalumination of a chromium–chromium quintuple bond
➦ Chemically blockable transformation and ultraselective low-pressure gas adsorption in a non-porous m
➦ Visualizing and identifying single atoms using electron energy-loss spectroscopy with low accelerati
➦ New insights into the structure and reduction of graphite oxide
➦ Size-specific catalytic activity of platinum clusters enhances oxygen reduction reactions
➦ A potential energy surface bifurcation in terpene biosynthesis
➦ Sugar synthesis in a protocellular model leads to a cell signalling response in bacteria
➦ Spin transition in a four-coordinate iron oxide
➦ Drastic symmetry breaking in supramolecular organization of enantiomerically unbalanced monolayers a
➦ Metal-free carbon–carbon bond-forming reductive coupling between boronic acids and tosylhydrazones
➦ Decorated carbon nanotubes with unique oxygen sensitivity
➦ The role of non-covalent interactions in electrocatalytic fuel-cell reactions on platinum
➦ A bonding model for gold(I) carbene complexes
➦ The rational design of nitric oxide selectivity in single-walled carbon nanotube near-infrared fluor
➦ Cation-induced kinetic trapping and enhanced hydrogen adsorption in a modulated anionic metal–organi
➦ Highly dynamic motion of crown ethers along oligolysine peptide chains
➦ Sensing of proteins in human serum using conjugates of nanoparticles and green fluorescent protein
➦ An optoelectronic nose for the detection of toxic gases
➦ Total synthesis and study of 6-deoxyerythronolide B by late-stage C–H oxidation
➦ Geometric and electronic structure and reactivity of a mononuclear ‘side-on’ nickel(iii)–peroxo comp
➦ An efficient approach to chiral fullerene derivatives by catalytic enantioselective 1,3-dipolar cycl