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Nature Astronomy, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41550-026-02854-1 Laboratory astrochemistry demonstrates that SiC2 is the key molecular precursor in the formation of silicon carbide grains in evolved stars and that hydrogen is an essential ingredient in the process.

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 04 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02115-8 The properties of metal–organic framework glasses can be modulated by additives, but understanding how they modify the glass network is challenging. Now, alkali-modifier sites in MOF glasses have been identified, and the impact of both modifier content and identity on the processing temperatures and hierarchical poros…

Nature Communications, Published online: 02 May 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-72229-7 The activation of small molecules by organometallic complexes, as far as uranium has transformed our understanding of electronic structure and bonding. Here, the authors report a transuranic Pu(III) complex and demonstrate its differences in small molecule reactivity compared to the U(III) and Sm(III) analogs.

Laramie Jensen’s interest in inorganic and analytical chemistry led her to the ocean. And then to the North Pole.

Oxygen is a cornerstone of chemistry, largely because it is so good at building the organic molecules that make up our world. Some oxygen-based compounds, called peroxides, are famous for being highly reactive—they act like “oxygen delivery trucks,” transferring atoms to other molecules. This process is essential for everything from creating new medicines to industrial […]

A practical Inorganic Chemistry Frontiers submission guide for inorganic chemists evaluating their work against the journal's frontier-research bar.

A practical Inorganic Chemistry submission guide for inorganic chemists evaluating their work against the journal's mechanism-and-structure bar.

A practical Coordination Chemistry Reviews submission guide for authors evaluating their proposed inorganic-chemistry review against the journal's scope and author authority bar.

JACS and Angewandte Chemie are both elite general chemistry journals, but they reward different first-page signals around breadth, urgency, article type, and chemistry-community fit.

JACS and Chemical Science both publish broad chemistry, but the right target depends on whether the manuscript is an ACS flagship paper or an RSC open-access general chemistry paper.

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02120-x Cyclic peroxides are highly reactive oxygen-containing species that play important roles in chemical synthesis. Now, the reaction between diazoboranes and triplet oxygen affords a family of cyclic dioxaboriranes, including both neutral and anionic variants. Neutral species behave as electrophilic oxygen-atom donors,…

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 24 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02135-4 The synthesis of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) featuring wide mesopores or specific topologies often relies on the use of additional ligands known as centring structure-directing agents (cSDAs). Now a single-crystal to single-crystal post-synthetic strategy for removing these cSDAs is reported, preserving MOF crys…

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02128-3 Porous materials offer new opportunities to break azeotropes, enabling energy-efficient separations that are otherwise challenging with conventional distillation methods. Now an ionic metal‒organic framework featuring potassium-ion cluster gates has enabled the separation of methanol and dimethyl carbonate, deliveri…

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02133-6 Overall water splitting using one-step excitation holds great promise as a green hydrogen production technology, but precisely loading multiple inorganic cocatalyst species on photocatalysts offers only mixed success. Now it has been shown that a single, conductive, two-dimensional metal–organic framework can serve …

Nature Chemistry, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41557-026-02131-8 Molecular frameworks featuring perovskite-related topologies rarely exhibit strong magnetic correlations and high-temperature magnetic order. Now it has been shown that the cubic molecular framework Cr(pyrazine)3 exhibits persistent compensated ferrimagnetism with oxide-strength magnetic coupling and nearly zero net…

Nature Communications, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41467-026-71609-3 Author Correction: Electronic energy levels and optical spectra of trivalent lanthanide ions in water – Ce(III), Pr(III), Nd(III), Sm(III), Eu(III), Gd(III), Tb(III), Dy(III), Ho(III), Er(III), Tm(III), and Yb(III)

Mixed-Chalcogen 2D Silver Phenylchalcogenides (AgE1–xExPh; E = S, Se, Te) Lee, Woo Seok; Cho, Yeongsu; Paritmongkol, Watcharaphol; Sakurada, Tomoaki; Ha, Seung Kyun; Kulik, Heather J; Tisdale, William A Alloying is a powerful strategy for tuning the electronic band structure and optical properties of semiconductors. Here, we investigate the thermodynamic stability and excitonic properties of mixe…

Coordination Chemistry at Boron: Reactivity, Electronic Structure, and Optical Properties Studies Across the Main Group Frey, Nathan C. Boron, owing to its vacant pz orbital, has historically enabled the synthesis of diverse Lewis acid-base adducts. The research herein focuses on the structure, bonding, and reactivity of a range of Lewis base-stabilized neutral, cationic, radical, and anionic bor…

In a recent study, published in Nature Chemical Biology, a team at LLNL invented a high-throughput platform that screens proteins for their rare earth element binding preferences at unprecedented scale.