Microorganisms in underground bioreactors convert ores and mining residues into valuable metals like Cu, In, and Zn.

Emission-Free Mining: Microbial Metal Extraction

Synthesis of All‐Benzene Multi‐Macrocyclic Nanocarbons
Post-functionalization using Ir-catalyzed C−H borylation developed to create diverse all-benzene topological structures from strained meta-cycloparaphenylenes and mCPP-derived catenanes

Can We Use Asymmetric Art to Show Symmetry?
Using the art of Piet Mondrian to illustrate molecular symmetry and distortions

Regulatable Supramolecular Polymer Network
Pillararene-based clusteroluminescent supramolecular polymer network with enhanced fluorescence for anticounterfeiting applications

65th Birthday: Wolfram Koch
Theoretical chemist and long time Executive Director of the Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (GDCh, German Chemical Society)

70th Birthday: Angela Merkel
Former Chancellor of Germany is the first woman to hold that office—and a quantum chemist by training

An Easier Path to Polycyclic γ-Sultines
Analogues of lactones could serve as building blocks in drug discovery, but are usually difficult to access

A Synthetic Mimic for Cosmic Dust
Phenanthrene/pyrene hybrid microparticles can stand in for cosmic dust rich in polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)

Three-Component Reaction Gives Substituted Pyridines
Deoxygenative transformation involving alcohols, styrenes, and cyanopyridines

First Thionyl Chloride Adduct with a Main-Group Element Lewis Acid
Adducts of tris(pentafluoroethyl)gallium and indium with weak donor molecules synthesized