Excessive levels of hazardous chemicals, such as lead and phthalates, found in 18 % of tested products sold to consumers in the EU

Hazardous Chemicals Detected in Various Consumer Products

Directed Evolution Used to Create Enzymes That Break Down Plastics
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET)-depolymerizing enzyme developed using new high-throughput screening

Solvay Separated into Two Independent Entities
Syensqo will focus on specialty materials, Solvay on commodities

INEOS To Acquire LyondellBasell’s EO&D Business for $700M
LyondellBasell to sell Ethylene Oxide & Derivatives Business and production facility to INEOS

Doubly Bridged Anthracenes as Blue OLED Emitters
Proof-of-principle organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) with deep blue emission

7 Chemical Giants Launch Global Impact Coalition (GIC)
First concrete project of CEO-led Net-Zero chemical industry initiative aims to speed up the adoption of chemical and mechanical recycling methods for plastics

New Editor-in-Chief for ChemCatChem
Chemistry Europe and Wiley-VCH have named Dr. Sandra González Gallardo as Editor-in-Chief of ChemCatChem

Fluorescent Dosimeter for Low‐Dose Gamma Radiation
Imino‐BODIPY‐based, highly sensitive dosimeter

γ‐Glutamylation of Isopropylamine by Fermentation
One-pot fermentative process based on renewable substrates

Total Syntheses of Rhodomollins A and B
Diterpenoid natural products first isolated from the heath family of plants