There are lots of different ways to look at the reach of an article. You can look at citations, Altmetric Attention Scores, awards, and more. One way to consider the influence of an article is just by looking at how many people chose to read it. To that end, we’ve compiled lists of the five […]

There are lots of different ways to look at the reach of an article. You can look at citations, Altmetric Attention Scores, awards, and more. One way to consider the influence of an article is just by looking at how many people chose to read it. To that end, we’ve compiled lists of the five most-read chemistry articles that appeared in each ACS Publications journal in July 2018, including research, reviews, perspectives and editorial pieces. These lists were not chosen by the journal’s editors and should not be taken as a “best of” list, but as another perspective on where the chemistry community allocated their attention.

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Accounts of Chemical Research

Toward Negatively Curved Carbons
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (7), pp 1630–1642
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00140

Serine/Threonine Ligation: Origin, Mechanistic Aspects, and Applications
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (7), pp 1643–1655
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00151

Innovative Strategies for Electrocatalytic Water Splitting
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (7), pp 1571–1580
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00002

The Xanthate Route to Ketones: When the Radical Is Better than the Enolate
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (7), pp 1722–1733
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00201

Recent Advances in Transition-Metal-Catalyzed/Mediated Transformations of Vinylidenecyclopropanes
Acc. Chem. Res., 2018, 51 (7), pp 1667–1680
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.8b00171

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ACS Central Science

Looking to Nature for New Sunscreens
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (7), pp 788–790
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00433

A Conversation with Ting Zhu
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (7), pp 783–784
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00432

Ermine Revolt
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (7), pp 781–782
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00440

Designing Algorithms To Aid Discovery by Chemical Robots
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (7), pp 793–804
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00176

Differentiating Donor Age Groups Based on Raman Spectroscopy of Bloodstains for Forensic Purposes
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Cent. Sci., 2018, 4 (7), pp 862–867
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.8b00198

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ACS Nano

What Is the Value of Publishing?
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 6345–6346
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b05296

Multiscale Control of Nanocellulose Assembly: Transferring Remarkable Nanoscale Fibril Mechanics to Macroscale Fibers
Open access through ACS Editors’ Choice
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 6378–6388
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b01084

Small Meets Smaller: Effects of Nanomaterials on Microbial Biology, Pathology, and Ecology
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 6351–6359
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b03241

Modification of Extracellular Vesicles by Fusion with Liposomes for the Design of Personalized Biogenic Drug Delivery Systems
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 6830–6842
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02053

Cross-Linking Hollow Carbon Sheet Encapsulated CuP2 Nanocomposites for High Energy Density Sodium-Ion Batteries
ACS Nano, 2018, 12 (7), pp 7018–7027
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.8b02721

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ACS Omega

Plasmid-Based One-Pot Saturation Mutagenesis and Robot-Based Automated Screening for Protein Engineering
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7715–7726
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00663

Protein Fibril-Templated Biomimetic Synthesis of Highly Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters and Their Applications in Cysteine Sensing
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7703–7714
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b01033

Conducting Polymer Scaffolds Based on Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) and Xanthan Gum for Live-Cell Monitoring
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7424–7431
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00458

Study of the Degradation and Conservation of Historical Leather Book Covers with Macro Attenuated Total Reflection–Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopic Imaging
Open access through ACS Editors’ Choice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7150–7157
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00773

Magnetron Sputter-Coated Nanoparticle MoS2 Supported on Nanocarbon: A Highly Efficient Electrocatalyst toward the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
Open access through ACS AuthorChoice
ACS Omega, 2018, 3 (7), pp 7235–7242
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.8b00258

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Chemical Reviews

Two-Dimensional Metal Nanomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications
This article is part of the 2D Materials Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (13), pp 6409–6455
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00727

Emerging Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Electrocatalysis
This article is part of the 2D Materials Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (13), pp 6337–6408
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.7b00689

Interface-Assisted Synthesis of 2D Materials: Trend and Challenges
This article is part of the 2D Materials Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev.,2018, 118 (13), pp 6189–6235
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00056

Introduction: 2D Materials Chemistry
This article is part of the 2D Materials Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (13), pp 6089–6090
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00278

Recent Advances in the Solution-Based Preparation of Two-Dimensional Layered Transition Metal Chalcogenide Nanostructures
This article is part of the 2D Materials Chemistry special issue.
Chem. Rev., 2018, 118 (13), pp 6151–6188
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.8b00264

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Journal of the American Chemical Society

Total Synthesis of the Norhasubanan Alkaloid Stephadiamine
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (28), pp 8675–8680
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b01918

Dearomative Cascade Photocatalysis: Divergent Synthesis through Catalyst Selective Energy Transfer
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (28), pp 8624–8628
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b03302

Direct Access to Versatile Electrophiles via Catalytic Oxidative Cyanation of Alkenes
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (26), pp 8069–8073
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b03704

Direct Copper-Catalyzed Three-Component Synthesis of Sulfonamides
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (28), pp 8781–8787
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b04532

Total Synthesis of Salimabromide: A Tetracyclic Polyketide from a Marine Myxobacterium
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 2018, 140 (27), pp 8444–8447
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.8b06228

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Journal of Chemical Education

Black Panther, Vibranium, and the Periodic Table
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1243–1244
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00206

“It’s Only the Major Product That We Care About in Organic Chemistry”: An Analysis of Students’ Annotations of Reaction Coordinate Diagrams
Open access through ACS Editors’ Choice
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1086–1093
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00153

The Mantra of Graduate Education Reform: Why the Prayers Aren’t Answered
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1083–1085
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00354

Organic Chemistry Students’ Understandings of What Makes a Good Leaving Group
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1094–1101
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.8b00198

Chirality-2: Development of a Multilevel Mobile Gaming App To Support the Teaching of Introductory Undergraduate-Level Organic Chemistry
J. Chem. Educ., 2018, 95 (7), pp 1216–1220
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00856

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