Explore a selection of recently published chemistry articles that were among the most read in January 2024 across all ACS Publications journals.

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Total Synthesis as Training for Medicinal Chemistry
Lewis D. Pennington*
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.3c00556
DOI: 10.1021/acsmedchemlett.3c00556

Improving Protein Expression, Stability, and Function with ProteinMPNN
Kiera H. Sumida, Reyes Núñez-Franco, Indrek Kalvet, Samuel J. Pellock, Basile I. M. Wicky, Lukas F. Milles, Justas Dauparas, Jue Wang, Yakov Kipnis, Noel Jameson, Alex Kang, Joshmyn De La Cruz, Banumathi Sankaran, Asim K. Bera, Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés, and David Baker*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10941
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10941

A General Copper Catalytic System for Suzuki–Miyaura Cross-Coupling of Unactivated Secondary and Primary Alkyl Halides with Arylborons
Yonglei Zhou, Liping Qiu, Jian Li, and Weilong Xie*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10628
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10628

Potential Health Impact of Microplastics: A Review of Environmental Distribution, Human Exposure, and Toxic Effects
Yue Li, Le Tao, Qiong Wang, Fengbang Wang, Gang Li, and Maoyong Song*
DOI: 10.1021/envhealth.3c00052
DOI: 10.1021/envhealth.3c00052

Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy─A Tutorial
Alexandros Ch. Lazanas and Mamas I. Prodromidis*
DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00070
DOI: 10.1021/acsmeasuresciau.2c00070

A Photochemical Strategy for the Conversion of Nitroarenes into Rigidified Pyrrolidine Analogues
Esteban Matador, Michael J. Tilby, Iakovos Saridakis, Manuel Pedrón, Dawid Tomczak, Josep Llaveria, Iuliana Atodiresei, Pedro Merino*, Alessandro Ruffoni*, and Daniele Leonori*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10863
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c10863

Tutorial on Powder X-ray Diffraction for Characterizing Nanoscale Materials
Cameron F. Holder and Raymond E. Schaak*
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b05157
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.9b05157

Hair Dye Ingredients and Potential Health Risks from Exposure to Hair Dyeing
Lin He, Freideriki Michailidou, Hailey L. Gahlon, and Weibin Zeng*
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00427
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.1c00427

How To Correctly Determine the Band Gap Energy of Modified Semiconductor Photocatalysts Based on UV–Vis Spectra
Patrycja Makuła, Michał Pacia, and Wojciech Macyk*
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02892
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02892

Fully Validated, Multi-Kilogram cGMP Synthesis of MDMA
Jay B. Nair*, Linda Hakes, Berra Yazar-Klosinski, and Kathryn Paisner
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05520
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c05520