nature-synthesis
Nature Synthesis (nature-synthesis)
Journal positioning
Nature Synthesis is a Springer Nature journal dedicated to research on the making of molecules and materials — the methodology of chemical and materials synthesis itself. Its defining character is that the synthetic advance is the contribution: the journal rewards new ways to construct things, new reactivity, new control over selectivity or structure, and new strategies that expand what can be made or how efficiently it can be made. This spans organic, inorganic, organometallic, and materials chemistry, as well as electrochemistry and other enabling synthetic approaches. A paper belongs here when the central message is a synthetic method or strategy of broad interest and significance, not merely an application that happens to use synthesis. Readership is the cross-disciplinary synthetic community. This skill is a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the Nature Synthesis site.
When to trigger
- The author names Nature Synthesis as the target venue for a primary-research paper whose central advance is a synthetic method, strategy, or capability.
- A manuscript reports new reactivity, new selectivity control, or a new route to molecules or materials that were previously hard or impossible to make, and the author is choosing between Nature Synthesis, Nature Chemistry, JACS, and Nature Catalysis.
- A synthesis-driven result is broadly significant across subfields but is framed too much as an application; it needs re-centering on the methodological advance.
- The author needs Nature Synthesis' scope, evidence bar, and desk-reject criteria before submission.