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Zeolite-catalysed olefin carbonylation based on tuning spatial confinement

By: Liang Qi · Yingying Sheng · Wenna Zhang · Youming Ni · Linhai He · Bin Li · Anjie Wang · Wenliang Zhu · Alexis T. Bell · Zhongmin Liu

21 October 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 21 October 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11183-2

The use of zeolites with an appropriate pore structure combined with a high CO/olefin ratio is shown to catalyse olefin carbonylation and produce primary and secondary carboxylic acids as the main products.

Towards the construction of a virtual yeast

Nature

By: Liujia Qian · Zizhuo Zhou · Peijie Zhou · Zhen Dong · Xudong Zhang · Zhenwu Dai · Zhangyang Gao · Siqi Sun · Kevin R. Roy · Shuaiyao Wang · Nicola Zamboni · Charles Boone · Michael Costanzo · Jianzhe Li · Gianni Liti · Jia-Xing Yue · Markus Ralser · Evan Williams · Mattia Zampieri · Heng Jiang · Tailin Wu · Yalin Wang · Feiran Li · Joseph Schacherer · Rui Sun · Zhaoxing Li · Yaming Deng · Yi Chen · Zhiping Xie · Huiqiang Lou · Xiaowen Wang · Linhai Xie · Han Wen · Liangyi Chen · Kai Lei · George Rosenberger · Xue Cai · Yingrui Wang · Qi Xiao · Huaizong Shen · Gaowen Liu · Lei Ma · Brenda Andrews · Hui Lu · Kiryl Piatkevich · Yi Zhu · Lei Bai · Yizhi Cai · Yuping Chen · Weinan E · Ge Gao · Fuchu He · Luonan Chen · Stan Z. Li · Hongwu Ma · Liang Qiao · Lars M. Steinmetz · Leihan Tang · Tang Tang · Xiaofan Zhang · Jing Yang · Yifan Yang · Kaicheng Yu · Jianyang Zeng · Yefeng Zheng · Bowen Zhou · Tiannan Guo

1 July 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 01 July 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10574-9

A virtual yeast, an artificial intelligence-driven agent for modelling eukaryotic cellular behaviours, is described.