Themed collection Most popular 2025 catalysis articles

This perspective highlights the strategies used in the design of photoelectrodes and addresses their effects on activity, selectivity, and stability in photoelectrochemical organic valorisation toward a circular economy.

This review systematically explores strategies to enhance product selectivity in PEC CO₂RR, and further analyzes recent advances in C₁/C₂ product synthesis, challenges in selectivity control, and future directions.

The hydrogenation efficiency by spillover in catalysts affected by oxygen vacancy through hydrogen dissociation, hydrogen spillover, and hydrogenation processes is presented. This review summarize insights for developing high efficiency catalysts.

This review provides an overview of the advances in high entropy spinel oxides in diverse catalytic reactions and highlights the intrinsic structure–property–performance relationships.

This work reports the first use of an anionic multidentate catalyst in a dynamic kinetic resolution-based asymmetric hydrogenation to construct axially chiral N-aryl indole amino alcohols with high stereoselectivity.

A one-pot two-step process combining electroreduction and organocatalysis to selectively transform CO into C_5–6 carbohydrates with formaldehyde as the key intermediate.

An artificial enzyme-mimicking hydrophobic nanopocket was constructed by –CH₃ modification of MOF pore wall and Pd cluster encapsulation, which enhanced the enrichment of aromatic substrates and promoted ambient-condition hydrodeoxygenation reaction.

Co and Fe synergistically promote efficient CO₂ hydrogenation to light olefins.

A modeling study shows that catalytic cascades for artificial photosynthetic systems can be made highly efficient by incorporating multiple biological principles, including confinement, directional diffusion and timing modulation.

Modular chiral aminoamide silanol ligands promote enantioselective Cu-catalyzed N–H insertion reactions. DFT, ligand analogs and X-ray analysis reveal the key role of the silanol group in transition metal coordination.

Synergistic coupling of Cu LSPR, charge carrier separation via SMSI at the Cu–TiO₂ interface, and O-vacancy defects stabilized by SMSI collectively enhance the photocatalytic CO₂ reduction performance of the DFNS-supported hybrid catalyst.

The built-in electric field enhanced by Fe doping stabilizes the reconstruction process of sulfides and triggers the lattice oxygen mediated mechanism of Fe–NiOOH, ultimately enabling efficient electrocatalytic oxygen evolution.

We developed a Mn, Rh DSAC (Mn₁–Rh₁@O-TiC) with high efficiency for cumene oxidation, enabling effective AP production. This work offers key insights into designing catalytic systems for organic tandem reactions from an inorganic chemistry aspect.

The orientation of β-CuPc favours the overlap of central Cu with the N of parallel molecules, which is the reason behind high electrical conductivity and selectivity in NH₃ production via nitrate reduction, which is impossible in other polymorphs.

The efforts to increase the active surface area of catalysts led to reduction of metal particle size, down to single metal atoms.

Doping strategies have been recognized as effective approaches for developing cost-effective and durable catalysts with enhanced reactivity and selectivity in the electrochemical synthesis of value-added compounds directly from CO₂.

Self-transformation of atomically precise metal nanoclusters into metal nanocrystals is utilized to surmount the intrinsic instability of metal nanoclusters for photoactivity enhancement.

In celebration of our 15th anniversary and some of our most popular articles, Alicia Casitas and Xavi Ribas reflect on the area of organometallic copper(III) chemistry, charting developments since their review in Chemical Science on this topic: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3SC21818J.