Replacing fluorine with pentafluoroethyl groups gives new building blocks for complexes

Fluorophosphoranides with Improved Stability

Angewandte Chemie 44/2021: Breaking Limitations
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Biodegradable Polymer with RNA-Inspired Breaking Points
Polylactide derivatives with accelerated chain scission could help to prevent marine pollution

70th Birthday: Hildegard Nimmesgern
Former Sanofi-Aventis chemist committed to equal opportunities in chemistry

Immunity from One Coronavirus Could Provide Protection against Others
Coronavirus vaccines or infections can elicit cross-protective immunity against distinct coronaviruses

Ferrocene‐Based Phosphenium Ion
Highly reactive phosphenium ion stabilized by intramolecular phosphine coordination

Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Toxicodenane A
Nine-step sequence allows preparation and absolute configuration assignment

Benzodiphosphaborolediide Synthesized
First example of a phosphaborolediide as a readily prepared lithium salt

3rd Ryoji Noyori ACES Award
Takuzo Aida, University of Tokyo, Japan, honored with the highest honor offered by the Asian Chemical Editorial Society (ACES)

Nitrogen Atoms Improve Properties of Antibacterial Peptide
Albicidin modified by replacing phenyl groups with pyridines