Flexible metal-backboned polymer/carbon nanotube composite fibers could be useful in wearable power devices

Thermoelectric Fibers Made Using Nickel-Backboned Polymers

An Enantioselective Biocatalytic C–H Fluorination
Directed evolution used to create a fluorinating enzyme

How Microdroplets Accelerate Aza-Michael Additions
Surface acidity and interfacial electric fields can speed up reactions

Perchlorate Used for Iron-Catalyzed C–H Oxygenations
Oxygenation of anthracene and cyclic alkyl aromatics in high yields

Ether Naphthotubes as Hosts for Organic Dications
Host–guest complexes can be used to prepare rotaxanes by simple "stoppering"

Production of Insulin-Enriched Milk in Transgenic Cow
Pseudo-lentivirus used to introduce targeted genetic sequences, including the bovine β-casein promoter and human insulin sequences, into adult fibroblast cells

Cyclooctatetraene-Embedded Carbon Nanorings
Carbon nanorings prepared in a Yamamoto coupling can form host-guest complexes with fullerenes

Unusual Reaction Gives A Peroxynitrite
[ONOO]– obtained via a cascade reaction between KO3 and ammonia in the presence of a partially fluorinated aniline-based cation

1,1-Oxycarbonation of Terminal Alkynes
Sequential borylation, 1,2-carbon migration, and oxidation with Oxone

Efficient Access to S-Adenosylmethionine Analogs
Enzymatic alkylation of S-adenosyl-L-homocysteine using iodoalkanes