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    We investigate the mechanism underlying the sulfur reduction reaction that plays a central role in high-capacity lithium sulfur batteries, highlighting the electrocatalytic approach as a promising strategy for tackling the fundamental challenges associated with these batteries.

    • Rongli Liu
    • , Ziyang Wei
    •  & Xiangfeng Duan

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    The authors identify a dynamic site renewal and decay cycle, mediated by proton transfers involving proximal Brønsted acidic OH groups, which operates concurrently with the Chauvin cycle and could address roadblocks associated with industrial metathesis processes.

    • Terry Z. H. Gani
    • , Zachariah J. Berkson
    •  & Yuriy Román-Leshkov

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    Mechanistic elucidation through currently available kinetic analysis is limited by mathematical approximations and human interpretation, here a deep neural network model has been trained to analyse ordinary kinetic data and automatically elucidate the corresponding mechanism class.

    • Jordi Burés
    •  & Igor Larrosa

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    Catalysts consisting of oxide-supported pair sites can enable bifunctional reaction mechanisms with high activity and selectivity for reactions and so overcome the limitations in industry imposed by the use of homogeneous catalysts.

    • Insoo Ro
    • , Ji Qi
    •  & Phillip Christopher

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    A simple and versatile strategy is established to facilitate molecular recognition by extending electron catalysis for use in supramolecular non-covalent chemistry.

    • Yang Jiao
    • , Yunyan Qiu
    •  & J. Fraser Stoddart

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    A combination of spectroscopy, microscopy and theoretical calculations shows that the reactivity of titanium silicalite-1 as an epoxidation catalyst is due to the presence of dinuclear titanium sites.

    • Christopher P. Gordon
    • , Hauke Engler
    •  & Christophe Copéret

  • Letter |

    Structural and biophysical studies reveal that low-barrier hydrogen bonds enable long-range communication between the active sites of multimeric enzymes and synchronise catalysis.

    • Shaobo Dai
    • , Lisa-Marie Funk
    •  & Kai Tittmann

  • Letter |

    The mechanism of hydrogen spillover is described using a precisely nanofabricated model system, explaining why it is slower on an aluminum oxide catalyst support than on a titanium oxide catalyst support.

    • Waiz Karim
    • , Clelia Spreafico
    •  & Jeroen A. van Bokhoven

  • Letter |

    Iron-containing zeolites have an exceptional ability to convert methane into methanol, but their active site have been hard to study; now, magnetic circular dichroism has been used to explore the reactive species, providing a technique that should be generally applicable, and revealing the value of constraining active sites within a lattice to improve catalyst functionality.

    • Benjamin E. R. Snyder
    • , Pieter Vanelderen
    •  & Edward I. Solomon

  • Letter |

    The conversion of hydrocarbons to produce high-quality diesel fuel can be catalysed by bifunctional materials that contain a metal site and an acid site; it has been assumed that these sites should be as close as possible in order to enhance catalysis, but it is now shown that having them too close together can be detrimental to selectivity.

    • Jovana Zecevic
    • , Gina Vanbutsele
    •  & Johan A. Martens

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