This week in ACS Editors’ Choice: a surprising use for lithium-ion batteries; a new class of hydrogen evolution catalyst; a screening process for spotting compounds with analgesic properties – and more! Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a new peer-reviewed research article from one of the Society’s journals. These articles are specially […]

This week in ACS Editors’ Choice: a surprising use for lithium-ion batteries; a new class of hydrogen evolution catalyst; a screening process for spotting compounds with analgesic properties – and more!

Each and every day, ACS grants free access to a new peer-reviewed research article from one of the Society’s journals. These articles are specially chosen by a team of scientific editors of ACS journals from around the world to highlight the transformative power of chemistry. Access to these articles will remain open to all as a public service.

Check out this week’s picks!

Lithium-Ion Battery Cycling for Magnetism Control

Qingyun Zhang, Xi Luo, Luning Wang, Lifang Zhang, Bilal Khalid, Jianghong Gong, and Hui Wu

DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b04276

Hydrogen Evolution from Water under Aerobic Conditions Catalyzed by a Cobalt ATCUN Metallopeptide

Banu Kandemir, Lenore Kubie, Yixing Guo, Brian Sheldon, and Kara L. Bren

DOI: 10.1021/acs.inorgchem.5b02157

Wave Function Frozen-Density Embedding: Coupled Excitations

Sebastian Höfener and Lucas Visscher

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.5b00821

Mechanism of the Platinum(II)-Catalyzed Hydroamination of 4-Pentenylamines

Christopher F. Bender, Timothy J. Brown, and Ross A. Widenhoefer*

DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00821

Direct Phenotypic Screening in Mice: Identification of Individual, Novel Antinociceptive Compounds from a Library of 734 821 Pyrrolidine Bis-piperazines

Richard A. Houghten*, Michelle L. Ganno, Jay P. McLaughlin, Colette T. Dooley, Shainnel O. Eans, Radleigh G. Santos, Travis LaVoi, Adel Nefzi, Greg Welmaker, Marc A. Giulianotti, and Lawrence Toll

DOI: 10.1021/acscombsci.5b00126

Coupling of Phosphate-Imprinted Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles-Based Selective Enrichment with Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry for Highly Efficient Analysis of Protein Phosphorylation

Yang Chen, Daojin Li, Zijun Bie, Xinpei He, and Zhen Liu

DOI: 10.1021/acs.analchem.5b04343

New Approach for Investigating Reaction Dynamics and Rates with Ab Initio Calculations

Kelly L. Fleming, Pratyush Tiwary, and Jim Pfaendtner

DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.5b10667

A Frustrated Lewis Pair Based on a Cationic Aluminum Complex and Triphenylphosphine

Tom E. Stennett, Jürgen Pahl, Harmen S. Zijlstra, Falk W. Seidel, and Sjoerd Harder

DOI: 10.1021/acs.organomet.5b00927

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