Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Angewandte Chemie 43/2020: Tuning the Structure

Room-Temperature Superconductor at High Pressures
Carbonaceous sulfur hydride system achieves a superconducting transition temperature of ca. 288 K at 267 GPa

Exploring Enzymatic Activity in "Crowded" Environments
Macromolecular crowding and high pressure can influence catalytic activity

Total Syntheses of Tomentosones A and B
Biomimetic path to antimalaria drug candidate and its epimer

Turning Carbon Monoxide into Arenes
Reductive CO hexamerization gives well-defined magnesium benzenehexolate complexes

Dense Carbon Nanotube Film for Electromagnetic Shielding
Ultrathin material with good mechanical strength, conductivity, and shielding performance

Gold-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction Gives Polycycles
One-pot synthesis of complex molecules via an allene-diene-alkyne coupling

First Hydrophosphination Using a Germanium Precatalyst
Reaction of diphenylphosphine with styrenes or internal alkynes

Mechanochemistry Inspired by Nature
Control of biaryl conformations through crosslinking in a macromolecular network

Cyanation of Unactivated Alkyl Sulfonates
Nickel-catalyzed reaction of primary and secondary alkyl mesylates with zinc cyanide