Don't miss "Toluene formation via acetylene-propyne cyclotrimerization on Ag(111)" by Nipun T. S. K. Dewage, Santu Biswas, E. Charles H. Sykes, Matthew M. Montemore and Dennis Meier As featured #OnTheCover of issue 60 Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 pubs.rsc.org/cc/article/6...

Featured #OnTheCover of issue 60! "Switchable glycan probe enables pH-dependent activity modulation of UDP-glucose: glycoprotein glucosyltransferase through a responsive aglycone" by Mitsuaki Hirose, Kiichiro Totani & co. Read it here 👉 pubs.rsc.org/cc/article/6...

Congratulations again to Xiongyi! Find out more about his 2025 @chemcomm.rsc.org Emerging Investigator Lectureship award here: www.rsc.org/standards-an...

Saurabh Chitnis and Xiongyi Huang

Joint winners 2025: For substantial contributions to the chemical sciences in the early stages of their careers

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Our keynote speaker Huang Xiongyi was presented today with his 2025 ChemComm Lectureship award by the Royal Society of Chemistry @rsc.org, right before giving a fantastic lecture about “Unlocking New Possibilities For Transition Metal Catalysis in Nonheme Enzymes”. Many congratulations!

In case you missed it, be sure to read "Cold plasma deposited thin-film nanocomposites for heterogeneous thermocatalysis – concepts and progress" by Jacek Tyczkowski and Hanna Kierzkowska-Pawlak, illustrated by this wonderful author-supplied image!

Members of several @rsc.org Editorial teams including @chemcomm.rsc.org will be attending #x2026 in Toronto this month. You can find us at Booth 1014 between 24-26 May - do come and say hello to discuss publishing, share feedback, or learn more about our journals and books.

🚀 Our team's latest: "A Dual-Metal Strategy for N-Heterocycle Coordination Using Nickel and Aluminum” Now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org Work done by PhD student, Gabe! 💪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a... Our recent article @chemcomm.rsc.org We showed - ATP results formation of BSA condensate, but AMP does dissolution. Competition betn #hydrotropy of adenosine #kosmotropy of phosphate.. #dialytaxis of condensate result biocatalysis at distal zone. #ActiveBiocollods

Protein migration via dissolution of ATP-stabilized condensate in a gradient of AMP

We report the condensate-forming tendency of bovine serum albumin (BSA) increases in the presence of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) in macromolecularly crowded media. However, in the presence of adenosi...

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Our master student Ya-Mei's work shows that charged ligands coordinated on luminescent 2D Zr-MOF sheets can "concentrate" ionic species with opposite charge and effectively boost the ion-sensing performance. It is just out in Chem. Commun.! @chemcomm.rsc.org doi.org/10.1039/D6CC...

We’re delighted to be able to announce Keary Engle (Scripps Research) and Garret Miyake (Colorado State University) as the joint winners of the 2025 #ChemSocRev Pioneering Investigator Lectureship! @nsfsuprcat.bsky.social blogs.rsc.org/cs/2026/02/2...

Don't miss our recent themed collection on Advances in Computational Protein Design, Structural Biology, and Drug Discovery, guest edited by Aditya K. Padhi, Timir Tripathi and Seetharaman Jayaraman.

Huge congratulations to Saurabh Chitnis @sschitnis.bsky.social (University of Victoria) and Xiongyi Huang (Johns Hopkins University), who we are delighted to name as the joint winners of the 2025 ChemComm Emerging Investigator Lectureship!

Sirshendu Pathak (IISc, Bengaluru, India) - Chemical Communications Best Poster Award Soumya Ranjan Panda (IISER Bhopal, India) - Chemical Communications Best Poster Award Chemical Science ChemComm

Be sure to read "Protein–DNA interactions in disease and drug discovery" by Richa Mishra and Shandar Ahmad Featured on the back cover of issue 12! Read the full Feature Article here 👉 buff.ly/ihS0kC2

Don't miss "Enzyme- and photo-gated polymerization using readily available enzyme-responsive fluorescent dyes" by Kanta Ogura, Masahiko Nakamoto and Michiya Matsusaki Featured #OnTheCover of issue 12 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/3AlJD0Z

#OnTheCover of issue 12... "Design, synthesis and biological activity of potential retrometabolic polymyxins via thiol–ene chemistry" by Catherine Smith, Margaret A. Brimble, Paul W. R. Harris & co! Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/gEMYGwK

Featured on the back cover of issue 11! "Ratiometric hydrostatic pressure sensing in water via dual emissions of a water-soluble donor–acceptor–donor triad" by Tomoyuki Hamachi, Kotaro Matsumoto, Youhei Takeda and Gaku Fukuhara Read it here 👉 buff.ly/S7l59BY

Don't miss "Unconventional magnetism and residual entropy in La7Os3O18" by Ashley T. Brennan, Maximilian T. Pelly, Alexandra S. Gibbs and Andreas W. Rost As featured #OnTheCover of issue 11! Read it here 👉 buff.ly/dn7vDGt

We’re excited to welcome Ellen Matson to the ChemComm Associate Editor team! A leader in inorganic & materials chemistry, Ellen’s work spans interfacial reactivity and electronic structure in energy storage and conversion. #InorganicChemistry #MaterialsChemistry #Electrochemistry #SustainableEnergy

🔥Excited to share our latest: "From Borane to Metal-Bound Boraindene: A Cascade of Bond Breaking and Making at Rhodium” Now out in @chemcomm.rsc.org - a collab. w/ @davidjn.bsky.social! Work done by MSc student, Emily Addison! 💪 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Discover how antibiotics are internalized in #ESKAPE resistant bacterium A. baumanni thorugh an external transmembrane porin #MD #compchem on Chem.Comm. @chemcomm.rsc.org @upcite.bsky.social @ctm-itodys.bsky.social with @barbault.bsky.social #openaccess pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Congratulations to Jess Algar on receiving the @chemcomm.rsc.org Poster Prize at #Supramol26. #ozchem

Don't miss "Supramolecular self-assembled peptide scaffolds for fluorescence enhancement and delayed emission" by Sowbhick Patra and Goutam Ghosh As featured on the back cover of issue 9! Read the full Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/tCiCqtd

Featured #OnTheBackCover of issue 9! "Aryldiazonium ion-initiated C–N bond cleavage for regioselective ring-opening of N-sulfonylazetidines with thiol nucleophiles" by Peng-Fei Wang, Qiang-Qiang Li, Hao Liu and Pei-Jun Yang Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/ui5kefu

Check out "Tuning SF6 affinity via tailoring pore environments in metal–organic frameworks" by Jackson Geary, Caith E. McKeown, Nickolas Gantzler, N. Scott Bobbitt and Dorina F. Sava Gallis As featured #OnTheCover of issue 9 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/Oeztlai

Don't miss "Cold argon plasmas for non-enzymatic digestion of macromolecules" by Daniel McGill, Daniel Simon, Siva Ramadurai, Felicia Green and Zoltan Takats Featured #OnTheCover of issue 9 Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/yrKB99b

Be sure to read "Novel Ru(II)-photo-antibiotics for the development of infection-resistant mask coatings" by Arif Ali Mandal, Saurav Kumar, Srijan Singh, Apurba Mandal, Samya Banerjee and Prodyut Dhar Featured #OnTheCover of issue 8 Read it here 👉 buff.ly/THfgWYT

Featured on the back cover of the latest issue! "Lightning-driven plasma bubbles provide prebiotic synthesis and biogeochemical cycling" by Dingwei Gan, Tianqi Zhang, Jianxi Ying, Renwu Zhou and colleagues! Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/JchvA0u

Don't miss "Dynamic regulation of nucleic acid replication beyond the Watson–Crick base-pairing rule" by Shuntaro Takahashi, Lutan Liu and Naoki Sugimoto Featured #OnTheCover of issue 8 Read the #OpenAccess Feature article here 👉 buff.ly/JKNecYw

Featured on the back cover of issue 7! "Luminescent array sensors for pathogen identification using AIE-active cationic iridium complexes" by Sonali Bera, Aryan Gautam, Gaurank Pal and Puja Prasad Read the full communication here 👉 buff.ly/FML3qOl

Check out "A folded mechanochromic organic fluorophore based on thianthrene-fused coumarin" by Masafumi Ueda, Asuka Uehara, Kazuteru Usui and Masashi Hasegawa As featured on the back cover of issue 7! Read the #OpenAccess communication here 👉 buff.ly/zkaOhwA