Highlights from the chemistry community, with a special focus on Europe—This month: How does a candle burn in zero gravity? - What bacteria are on the ISS? - etc.

Space—ChemistryViews Discoveries (06/2024)

First Person with an Element Named After Them in Their Lifetime
Who is the first person to have an element named after them in their lifetime? And who is the second?

All-In-One Energy Generation, Water Treatment, and Metal Recovery
Solar-powered, electrolysis-based system

European Corrosion Congress (EUROCORR 2024)
Brings together corrosion experts from universities, research centers and industries

DECHEMA FORUM 2024: Wissenschaft und Industrie im Dialog
How can the chemical, pharmaceutical, and life sciences industries arrange their production more sustainably?

New Method for the Synthesis of Polyamides
Palladium-catalyzed polymerization of dienes and diamines with CO gives cycloaliphatic semiaromatic polyamides

Who is Nature’s Biggest Stinker?
The striped skunk’s secretion is a highly complex natural substance and a masterpiece of sulfur chemistry

Plans to Become Major Lithium Supplier
ExxonMobil enters the lithium mining market

A Unique Complex with a Mg–Be Bond
Formal Mg(II)–Be(0) complex with a significantly polarized bond

A Multifunctional Overcrowded Alkene-Based Molecular Motor
Distinct dynamic properties in solution and aggregate states