I am going to be at WATOC in Oslo this coming Monday through to Wednesday and would love to chat with any attendees about experiences publishing (be that in Chemical Science, RSC journals, or otherwise!).

Feel free to send me a message here or come by the RSC booth!

And if anyone is looking for a paper (or a few) to read on the flight, I recommend checking out our themed collection of most popular #ChemSci work from 2024 in this area!

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/journals/articlecollectionlanding?sercode=sc&themeid=777d3e88-b794-457a-8932-5995aa89df7b

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Nominations for the Chemical Science Lectureship are closing on the 1st of March!

We are looking for researchers in the area of imaging, biosensing or diagnostics, that have published in Chemical Science in the past 5 years.

Find out more at https://rsc.li/chemsci-lectureship25

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Interesting conclusions in this paper!

"The potential energy differences between “forbidden” and “allowed” transition states are found to cover a wide range of values, with the smallest being less than half the classical barrier to internal rotation of ethane."

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d4sc08748h

Which means that when planning e.g. total synthesis, aiming only for the "allowed" route might not be a good strategy since other factors such as sterics, NCIs, electronic effects may favour the "forbidden" route.

So are these classifications actually helpful?

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Chemical Science is celebrating its 15th anniversary in 2025! We are publishing a special collection showcasing work from leading investigators from across all areas of chemistry who started their independent careers in the 15 years since
https://bsky.app/profile/chemsci.rsc.org was launched!

Read the 15th Anniversary: Chemical Science Leading Investigators collection here: https://rsc.li/sc-15li25

We hope that you enjoy reading this selection of articles, and that we can continue to provide an open and inclusive venue for researchers from across the chemical sciences for many years to come!

Check out some of the great articles already published in the collection:

“Periodic law-guided design of highly stable O3-type layered oxide cathodes for practical sodium-ion batteries” by Hai-Yan Hu, Yan-Fang Zhu, Yao Xiao, et al.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d4sc08351b

“Controlling the transmembrane transport of chloride by dynamic covalent chemistry with azines” by Hennie Valkenier et al.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d4sc08580a

“Engineering perfluoroarenes for enhanced molecular barrier effect and chirality transfer in solutions” by Aiyou Hao, Pengyao Xing, et al.
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/sc/d4sc07859d

#Chemistry #ChemSci #ChemicalScience

Aryliminopyrazoles are a novel class of imine-based photoswitches reported by https://bsky.app/profile/jakeylg.bsky.social and co-workers at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg.

These species were detailed in a #ChemSci Pick of the Week earlier this year!

https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC05841G

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I no longer work on
#ChemSci but please appreciate the phenomenal froggy cover artwork for this recent publication:

Surface proton hopping conduction mechanism dominant polymer electrolytes created by self-assembly of bicontinuous cubic liquid crystals

https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/sc/d4sc01211a

#Chemistry #Frog #ChemicalScience

Help us choose the readers' favourite Chemical Science cover(s) from 2023:

https://smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ChemSciIFC23/

The top covers will be featured in our newsletter and the readers' favourite will win a prize! Could this cover be your favourite?

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In the ChemSci Pick of the Week, Dr Chaofeng Zhang and colleagues from Anhui University designed a new covalent organic framework with dual redox-active sites through a simple condensation reaction of TA and PTO-NH2 in a Schiff base reaction.

You can read it here, for free: https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SC07013A

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In our ChemSci Pick of the Week, Jeremiah Gassensmith et al. (University of Texas at Dallas, USA) show that the biomimetic mineralisation of the inert model antigen ovalbumin (OVA) in zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) significantly improves the humoral immune response over three bolus doses of OVA (OVA 3×).

Read the work here, in full and for free: https://pubs.rsc.org/doi/D3SC06734C

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