Most-cited Chemistry papers of 2020, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Chemistry research papers published in 2020, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

  1. Electrically Conductive Metal–Organic Frameworks
    Lilia S. Xie, Grigorii Skorupskii et al. · 2020 · 2,008 citations
  2. Metal–Organic Frameworks in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Recent Progress, New Trends, and Future Perspectives
    Anastasiya Bavykina, Nikita Kolobov et al. · 2020 · 1,771 citations
  3. A Review on Recent Advances in Nitrogen-Containing Molecules and Their Biological Applications
    Nagaraju Kerru, Lalitha Gummidi et al. · 2020 · 1,718 citations · Free PDF
  4. Power of Infrared and Raman Spectroscopies to Characterize Metal-Organic Frameworks and Investigate Their Interaction with Guest Molecules
    Konstantin Hadjiivanov, Dimitar A. Panayotov et al. · 2020 · 1,286 citations
  5. Functional metal–organic frameworks as effective sensors of gases and volatile compounds
    Haiyang Li, Shu‐Na Zhao et al. · 2020 · 1,258 citations
  6. Metal–Organic Framework-Based Catalysts with Single Metal Sites
    Yong‐Sheng Wei, Mei Zhang et al. · 2020 · 1,240 citations
  7. Synthetic Methods Driven by the Photoactivity of Electron Donor–Acceptor Complexes
    Giacomo E. M. Crisenza, Daniele Mazzarella et al. · 2020 · 1,201 citations
  8. Prescribed drugs containing nitrogen heterocycles: an overview
    Majid M. Heravi, Vahideh Zadsirjan · 2020 · 1,197 citations
  9. Visible Light-Driven Radical-Mediated C–C Bond Cleavage/Functionalization in Organic Synthesis
    Xiaoye Yu, Jia‐Rong Chen et al. · 2020 · 1,141 citations
  10. Metal–Organic Frameworks for the Removal of Emerging Organic Contaminants in Water
    Sara Rojas, Patricia Horcajada · 2020 · 1,118 citations
  11. Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)-based small-molecule sensors and imaging agents
    Luling Wu, Chusen Huang et al. · 2020 · 1,031 citations
  12. Classifications, properties, recent synthesis and applications of azo dyes
    Said Benkhaya, Souad M’rabet et al. · 2020 · 1,030 citations
  13. Pressure control using stochastic cell rescaling
    Mattia Bernetti, Giovanni Bussi · 2020 · 1,023 citations · Free PDF
  14. Metal–Organic Frameworks for Biomedical Applications
    Jie Yang, Ying‐Wei Yang · 2020 · 1,001 citations
  15. Bidentate Directing Groups: An Efficient Tool in C–H Bond Functionalization Chemistry for the Expedient Construction of C–C Bonds
    Supriya Rej, Yusuke Ano et al. · 2020 · 997 citations
  16. Coordinatively unsaturated metal sites (open metal sites) in metal–organic frameworks: design and applications
    Ülkü Kökçam-Demir, Anna Goldman et al. · 2020 · 900 citations
  17. Polyethylene upcycling to long-chain alkylaromatics by tandem hydrogenolysis/aromatization
    Fan Zhang, Manhao Zeng et al. · 2020 · 889 citations
  18. New Strategies for the Transition-Metal Catalyzed Synthesis of Aliphatic Amines
    Aaron Trowbridge, Scarlett M. Walton et al. · 2020 · 873 citations
  19. Encapsulated Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis
    Chuanbo Gao, Fenglei Lyu et al. · 2020 · 864 citations
  20. TRAVIS—A free analyzer for trajectories from molecular simulation
    Martin Brehm, M. Thomas et al. · 2020 · 775 citations
  21. Balancing volumetric and gravimetric uptake in highly porous materials for clean energy
    Zhijie Chen, Penghao Li et al. · 2020 · 770 citations
  22. Structure-antioxidant activity relationship of methoxy, phenolic hydroxyl, and carboxylic acid groups of phenolic acids
    Jin-Xiang Chen, Jing Yang et al. · 2020 · 762 citations · Free PDF
  23. Site-Selective C–H Functionalization via Synergistic Use of Electrochemistry and Transition Metal Catalysis
    Ke‐Jin Jiao, Yi‐Kang Xing et al. · 2020 · 758 citations
  24. Catalyzing Electrosynthesis: A Homogeneous Electrocatalytic Approach to Reaction Discovery
    Juno C. Siu, Niankai Fu et al. · 2020 · 754 citations
  25. Electro-organic synthesis – a 21 st century technique
    Dennis Pollok, Siegfried R. Waldvogel · 2020 · 741 citations

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