Alongside our two winners, we’re also proud to name five highly-commended nominees - Serena Arnaboldi, Federico Bella, Anna K. H. Hirsch, Xu Hou and Guiliang Xu. Discover each highly-commended nominees' research interests at our Blogs page: blogs.rsc.org/cs/2026/02/2...
Keary develops catalysts that make the synthesis of complex organic molecules faster, cleaner, and more sustainable.
Garret’s research interests focus on photoredox catalysis and sustainable polymers.
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!
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This collection explores key areas, including computational protein and antibody design, vaccine design, enzyme engineering, protein-ligand interactions and more!
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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.
Saurabh’s innovative work in main group chemistry and Xiongyi’s metalloenzyme engineering represents two of the most exciting directions in the chemical sciences today. To know more about the winners and their research, visit our Blogs page: blogs.rsc.org/cc/2026/02/2...
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
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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!
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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
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#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!
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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
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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!
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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! 💪
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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!
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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!
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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
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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
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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!
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Check out "Accessing zinc(i) via reductive elimination of cyclopentadienes" by Benjamin Pitz, Sergi Danés, Bernd Morgenstern and André Schäfer
Featured #OnTheCover of issue 7!
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Featured #OnTheCover of issue 7!
"Total synthesis of mono-rhamnolipids using organophotoacid-catalyzed glycosylation and their antibacterial activity" by Kohei Higashiyama, Kanae Hosomi, Kazuki Senoo, Chigusa Hayashi, Masayuki Igarashi, Daisuke Takahashi and Kazunobu Toshima
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Our latest work is online @chemcomm.rsc.org @uommib.bsky.social . This feature article covers progress we (+ others) in polymer-tethered glycosylated nanoparticles as tools for glycoscience. This spans synthetic rationale and opportunities for deployment.
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#OnTheCover of issue 6!
"Red-fluorescence under UV and green-SHG under NIR dual-mode emission in a yellow crystal of a 1,2,5-thiadiazole derivative" by Ryo Nakamura, Akiko Hori, & colleagues
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