Sustainable pathway to useful chemical building blocks

Efficient Synthesis of Dicyanofurans from Biomass

Better Lithium-Oxygen Batteries
New electrode and electrolyte configurations for lithium-oxygen batteries

80th Birthday: Achim Müller
Achim Müller, Professor Emeritus at University of Bielefeld, Germany, celebrates his 80th birthday

The Aroma of Roses
Which compounds are responsible for the smell of roses?

Palladium Atoms Team Up for Oxidative Additions
Cooperative mechanism involving two Pd(0) centers in the oxidative addition of iodoarenes discovered

3D Graphene Fibers
Thermal chemical vapor deposition used to make bottlebrush-like graphene fibers

Thionyl Tetrafluoride Click Chemistry
Sulfur–fluoride exchange and reactivity with organolithium nucleophiles forms diverse sulfur compounds

Understanding Self-Healing Polymers
Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering imaging used to study self-healing polymers

Total Synthesis of ent-Ascospiroketal B
Original synthetic route to tricyclic natural product

Dimethylcalcium Synthesized
Compound with great potential for organocalcium chemistry