A new light-activated catalyst enables deracemization via carbon–halogen bond cleavage—the first of its kind targeting heteroatom bonds—offering a streamlined route to chiral pharmaceuticals

Light-Activated Catalyst Resets Carbon–Halogen Bonds to Turn Racemates into Enantiomer-Enriched Products

Clara Immerwahr Award 2025
Bonnie Murphy, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany, honored for outstanding achievements in catalysis research

Combating Antibiotic Resistance with Microbiota-Assisted Vaccination
Vaccine strategy pairs immunization with benign gut bacteria to outcompete harmful microbes

Method Simplifies Deprotection and Modification of N-Heterocycles
A mild, efficient system for selectively deprotecting and modifying N-heterocycles in a single step

BioMed X Launches Call to Support U.S. Scientists Facing NIH Funding Loss
BioMed X Institute opens its global crowdsourcing platform to help principal investigators in biomedical research who have lost their NIH funding to find alternative project sponsors among the global pharmaceutical industry

4th Employment Survey for European Chemists Now Open
The survey is conducted by EuChemS and the European Young Chemists’ Network (EYCN), supported by Chemistry Europe, the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), and the American Chemical Society (ACS)

Rapid Synthesis of 5-Amino-4-Cyanoxazoles in a Ball Mill
Mechanochemistry enables a rapid, solvent-free synthesis of 5-amino-4-cyanoxazoles in just 10 minutes, achieving high yields with minimal waste

Sandmeyer Prize 2025
The Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) awards the F. Hoffmann-La Roche team involved in the commercial manufacturing process of Divarasib, an KRAS G12C inhibitor for cancer treatment

Enhance Product Safety with AI and Web 3.0 Technologies
Merck and Zebra collaborate to address challenges around product verification, authenticity, and trust

Exploring New Fragrance Frontiers
Exploring cage bicyclic hydrocarbons as bioisosteres for novel fragrances