Legendary chemist in bioorganic chemistry and natural products passed away

Koji Nakanishi (1925 – 2019)

Fullerenes Bridge Conductive Gap in Organic Photovoltaics
Efficient cathode interlayers made of ionene polymers with pendant fullerenes

Golden Ball in a Golden Cage
Ligand-protected nanocluster made of 32 gold atoms

Pyrethrum: History of a Bio-Insecticide – Part 6
How pyrethrins kill insects and the variety of modern pyrethroids

100th Birthday: Larned B. Asprey
Pioneer of actinide and fluoride chemistry and Manhattan Project worker

Copying DNA Made Easy
Universal isothermal DNA amplification method

Chemical Hydrogen Storage System
Reversible liquid organic hydrogen carrier system made of simple organic compounds

Sugar from Cyanobacteria Is a Potent Herbicide
Blocking the shikimate pathway to inhibit growth

Fixing a Failure of Density Functional Theory
Stefan Grimme, University of Bonn, on his most important contributions to theoretical chemistry and the next big problems in the field

Behind the Science: Reducing Heavy-Metal Load in Lithium-Ion Batteries
K. Welter, ChemPhysChem, talked to M. Yao, Osaka, Japan, about his work on anthraquinone-based oligomers in batteries