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Total Synthesis and Chemistry of Natural Products
This cross-journal Collection highlights manuscripts on total synthesis, including innovative methodology, retrosynthetic design, bioinspired strategies, AI-assisted retrosynthesis, and emerging technologies such as automation and high-throughput experimentation; as well as natural product discovery and diversification.
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Nucleic acid chemistry
This Collection aims to offer insight and inspiration for nucleic acid chemistry, focusing on the structure, function, generation, modification, characterization, as well as application of nucleic acids.
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2025 Editors' Highlights
The Editors and Editorial Board Members of Communications Chemistry are pleased to launch a Collection featuring some of their favourite articles published in the journal in 2025.
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f-block chemistry
This Collection aims to highlight recent progress in f-element chemistry, encompassing studies on fundamental electronic structure, advances in separation chemistry, advances in coordination and organometallic chemistry, and the application of f-element compounds in materials science and environmental technologies.
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Photoswitchable materials
This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry and Scientific Reports welcomes contributions on the latest advancements in photoswitchable motifs, mechanisms and materials.
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Synthetic approaches to carbon nanomaterials
This Collection aims to bring together cutting-edge research on the synthesis and integration of carbon nanomaterials and their hybrids, with a focus on innovative strategies, fundamental mechanisms, and application-driven design.
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Crystal polymorphism
This Collection aims to showcase research on small molecule and crystalline framework polymorphism, with a focus on applications in pharmaceutical and materials sciences, as well as state-of-the-art techniques for the prediction, analysis, and characterisation of polymorphs.
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Biosynthesis
The editors at Communications Chemistry invite manuscripts that highlight advances in biosynthesis of natural products, including but not limited to: discovery of new biosynthetic genes and clusters; elucidation of biosynthetic pathways; understanding the catalytic properties and mechanism of biosynthetic enzymes; engineering biosynthetic enzymes and pathways; identification of new natural products; de novo biosynthesis; tools and technologies.
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Advances in single-atom catalysis
This Collection highlights experimental and theoretical advances in the design, preparation, characterization, mechanistic understanding and application of single-atom catalysts.
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Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”
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Chemical modification of proteins
This cross-journal Collection highlights advances in methods for chemical protein modification.
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Self-healing chemical systems
