Press releases featuring articles published in Chemistry Europe and GDCh journals.
Hard Single-Molecule Magnets
Tetranuclear rare-earth-metal complexes with giant spin
Antibacterial Nanozymes
Healing chronic wounds with nanochemistry
Cheaper Hydrogen Production
Efficient water and urea electrolysis with bimetallic yolk-shell nanoparticles
Cancer Treatment with Built-in Light
Deep photodynamic therapy: photosensitizer irradiates itself
Cellular Communication Agent
Tracking the NO signaling pathway
Overcoming False Optical Activity
Interference leads to inaccurate Raman spectroscopic analysis of vitamin B12
Electrons Passed Around
Ultrafast processes in light-induced charge transfer in a manganese-containing Prussian blue analogue elucidated
Increasing the Selectivity of Porous Crystalline Materials
New material binds acetylene with unusual strength and allows for highly selective separation of acetylene from ethylene or carbon dioxid
Organic Mixed Valence Pigments Absorb in the Near Infrared
Unusual organic pigment is “switched on” by an electrical charge to become a potent dye
Controlling Asymmetry for Drug Synthesis
Iridium-catalyzed hydrogen addition gives plant- and insect-based natural substances
A Near‐Infrared‐II Emissive Chromium(III) Complex
Tridentate chelate ligand combines π-donating amido with π-accepting pyridine units
How Green Is Your Plastic?
Economical synthesis of polyacrylates and polymethacrylates from biobased materials
Amidation of Light Alkanes
Copper-catalyzed dehydrogenative amidation
Buttoned Up Biomolecules
Click reaction for living systems: bioorthogonal hydroamination of activated linear alkynes
Molecular Assistance
Molecule layer aids chemoselective hydrogenation on solid palladium catalysts
Heat-Insulating Titanate
Discovering new leads for functional materials guided by artificial intelligence
Active Platinum Species
Catalytic high-temperature oxidations: Individual atom or metal cluster?
Cyclic Hypervalent Bromines as Aryne Precursors
General, safe, and high-yielding synthesis of cyclic diaryl λ3-bromanes
DNA Circuits
Changing the shape of soft matter using logic circuits made from DNA