The Magazine of Chemistry Europe

Tobias Erb, Marburg, Germany, is working on capturing CO₂ and converting it into new chemical building blocks using biocatalysts

Boron compounds that are isoelectronic to ketones and alkynes, respectively

Electrochemical process converts CO₂ to acetate, which can be used for the cultivation of food crops

Delivery times, freight costs, shortages, and rising prices for raw materials and energy hampered companies

Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Terminal alkynes activated by CuCl under visible-light irradiation

Moving away from processing crude oil into fuels and instead aiming to process crude oil into chemicals

Cyclic (amino)(barrelene)carbenes (CABCs) prepared via an intramolecular [4+2] cyclization

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Scalable synthesis in twelve steps from (R)-(−)-carvone