Browse a selection of recent chemistry articles that were among the most read in November 2022 across all ACS Publications journals.

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There are many ways to measure an article’s success after it is published. One helpful method of evaluating a scientific publication’s reach and influence is by looking at how many times it has been read. Below, we have gathered a selection of recently published chemistry articles that were among the most read in November 2022 across all ACS Publications journals.*

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Photoelectrochemical Asymmetric Catalysis Enables Direct and Enantioselective Decarboxylative Cyanation
Xiao-Li Lai, Ming Chen, Yuqi Wang, Jinshuai Song, and Hai-Chao Xu
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09050

Alzheimer’s Disease Prevention through Natural Compounds: Cell-Free, In Vitro, and In Vivo Dissection of Hop (Humulus lupulus L.) Multitarget Activity
Alessandro Palmioli, Valeria Mazzoni, Ada De Luigi, Chiara Bruzzone, Gessica Sala, Laura Colombo, Chiara Bazzini, Chiara Paola Zoia, Mariagiovanna Inserra, Mario Salmona, Ivano De Noni, Carlo Ferrarese, Luisa Diomede, and Cristina Airoldi
DOI: 10.1021/acschemneuro.2c00444

Nickel Catalysis via SH2 Homolytic Substitution: The Double Decarboxylative Cross-Coupling of Aliphatic Acids
Artem V. Tsymbal, Lorenzo Delarue Bizzini, and David W. C. MacMillan
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c08989

A User’s Guide to Golden Gate Cloning Methods and Standards
Jasmine E. Bird, Jon Marles-Wright, and Andrea Giachino
DOI: 10.1021/acssynbio.2c00355

Ligand-Enabled Pd(II)-Catalyzed β-Methylene C(sp3)–H Arylation of Free Aliphatic Acids
Liang Hu, Guangrong Meng, and Jin-Quan Yu
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09205

High-Performance Transparent Radiative Cooler Designed by Quantum Computing
Seongmin Kim, Wenjie Shang, Seunghyun Moon, Trevor Pastega, Eungkyu Lee, and Tengfei Luo
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c01969

Excited-State Copper-Catalyzed [4 + 1] Annulation Reaction Enables Modular Synthesis of α,β-Unsaturated-γ-Lactams
Satavisha Sarkar, Arghya Banerjee, Jagrut A. Shah, Upasana Mukherjee, Nicoline C. Frederiks, Christopher J. Johnson, and Ming-Yu Ngai
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c09006

Lipid Nanoparticles─From Liposomes to mRNA Vaccine Delivery, a Landscape of Research Diversity and Advancement
Rumiana Tenchov, Robert Bird, Allison E. Curtze, and Qiongqiong Zhou
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.1c04996

Synthesis of Stereoenriched Piperidines via Chemo-Enzymatic Dearomatization of Activated Pyridines
Vanessa Harawa, Thomas W. Thorpe, James R. Marshall, Jack J. Sangster, Amelia K. Gilio, Lucian Pirvu, Rachel S. Heath, Antonio Angelastro, James D. Finnigan, Simon J. Charnock, Jordan W. Nafie, Gideon Grogan, Roger C. Whitehead, and Nicholas J. Turner
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c07143

General Synthetic Approach to Diverse Taxane Cores
Melecio A. Perea, Brian Wang, Benjamin C. Wyler, Jin Su Ham, Nicholas R. O’Connor, Shota Nagasawa, Yuto Kimura, Carolin Manske, Maximilian Scherübl, Johny M. Nguyen, and Richmond Sarpong
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.2c10272

*This list was not chosen by the journals’ editors and should not be taken as a “best of” list, but as another perspective on where the chemistry community is recently allocating their attention.

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