Stay up to date with a selection of recently published articles from ACS journals that were among the most read in May 2025.
The impact of a scientific article can be assessed in many ways, and one key indicator of reach and influence is its readership. Here, we present a curated list of 10 most-read chemistry articles during May 2025, showcasing influential and trending research across ACS journals.*
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Browse Highly Read ACS Journal Articles in May 2025
Hold My Beer: The Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in Popular Beverages
Jennifer Hoponick Redmon*, Nicole M. DeLuca*, Evan Thorp, Chamindu Liyanapatirana, Laura Allen, and Andrew J. Kondash
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c11265
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.4c11265
Machine Learning for Toxicity Prediction Using Chemical Structures: Pillars for Success in the Real World
Srijit Seal*, Manas Mahale, Miguel García-Ortegón, Chaitanya K. Joshi, Layla Hosseini-Gerami, Alex Beatson, Matthew Greenig, Mrinal Shekhar, Arijit Patra, Caroline Weis, Arash Mehrjou, Adrien Badré, Brianna Paisley, Rhiannon Lowe, Shantanu Singh, Falgun Shah, Bjarki Johannesson, Dominic Williams, David Rouquie, Djork-Arné Clevert, Patrick Schwab, Nicola Richmond, Christos A. Nicolaou, Raymond J. Gonzalez, Russell Naven, Carolin Schramm, Lewis R Vidler, Kamel Mansouri, W. Patrick Walters, Deidre Dalmas Wilk, Ola Spjuth*, Anne E. Carpenter*, and Andreas Bender*
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5c00033
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrestox.5c00033
Iron-Mediated Nitrate Reduction at Ambient Temperature for Deaminative Sulfonylation and Fluorination of Anilines
Tim Schulte, Deepak Behera, Davide Carboni, Annika Höppner, Felix Waldbach, Javier Mateos, Ahmet Altun, Markus Leutzsch, Moritz L. Krebs, and Tobias Ritter*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17981
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.4c17981
Formaldehyde and Formaldehyde Releasing Preservatives in Personal Care Products Used by Black Women and Latinas
Robin E. Dodson*, Elissia T. Franklin, Ami R. Zota, René LaPointe Jameson, Janette Robinson Flint, Lariah Edwards, Emily B. Weaver, and Bhavna Shamasunder
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00242
DOI: 10.1021/acs.estlett.5c00242
Total Synthesis of (−)-Illisimonin A Enabled by Pattern Recognition and Olefin Transposition
Bo Xu, Ziyao Zhang, and Mingji Dai*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05409
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c05409
Plug Flow: Generating Renewable Electricity with Water from Nature by Breaking the Limit of Debye Length
Chi Kit Ao, Yajuan Sun, Yan Jie Neriah Tan, Yan Jiang, Zhenxing Zhang, Chengyu Zhang, and Siowling Soh*
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.4c02110
DOI: 10.1021/acscentsci.4c02110
10-Step, Gram-Scale Total Synthesis of (−)-Bipinnatin J
Anthony J. Rodriguez, Maithili S. Pokle, Griffin L. Barnes, and Phil S. Baran*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04761
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c04761
A Perspective on the Strategic Application of Deconstruction–Reconstruction in Drug Discovery
J. Henry Blackwell*, Iacovos N. Michaelides*, and Floriane Gibault
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00036
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.5c00036
The Invisible Footprint of Climbing Shoes: High Exposure to Rubber Additives in Indoor Facilities
Anya Sherman, Thibault Masset, Lukas Wimmer, Leah K. Maruschka, Lea Ann Dailey, Thorsten Hüffer, Florian Breider, and Thilo Hofmann*
DOI: 10.1021/acsestair.5c00017
DOI: 10.1021/acsestair.5c00017
Persistent Boryl Radicals as Highly Reducing Photoredox Catalysts for Debrominative Borylations
Jingjing Wu, Hui Wang, Huaquan Fang, Kevin C. Wang, Deborin Ghosh, Valerio Fasano, Adam Noble*, and Varinder K. Aggarwal*
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03864
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5c03864
*These lists are not chosen by the journals’ editors and should not be taken as a “best of” collection, but as another perspective on what recently published research attracted the most attention in a particular month.
