Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Most Accessed Articles: May 2020

Physics Experiments Using Your Phone
Phyphox is a free smartphone app that allows users to carry out physics experiments anywhere

75th Birthday: Luis Oro
Spanish organometallic chemist and former President of EuChemS and the Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry (RSEQ)

UK to Break Away from ECHA and REACH
UK aims to have its own regulatory framework for chemicals after Brexit

Near-Infrared Emitter for Bioanalytical Applications
Ru(II) complex shows strong electrochemiluminescence in aqueous media

Engineered Enzymes Make Primary Amines
Directed evolution gives cytochrome P411 enzymes that can functionalize benzylic and allylic C–H bonds

Rotaxane Control Through Electrochemical Stimuli
Ring movement in a tetra‐stable [2]rotaxane studied

Plasma Etching Improves Water-Splitting Catalyst
Photoactivity of bismuth vanadate boosted by surface vanadium vacancies

Green Synthesis of Semiconducting Oxide Films
General strategy to prepare metal-oxide thin films using solution processing

Samarium(III) Complex Bridged by a Tetraanionic 2-Butene
Unprecedented single-electron transfer (SET) reduction of 1,3-butadienyl dianions