Sharon McGuinness discusses ECHA's new roles and challenges, emphasising collaboration and the role of academic scientists in European chemicals regulation

The Future Role of ECHA, the European Chemicals Agency

Hans Günter Gassen (1938 – 2024)
One of the pioneers of genetic engineering in Germany has passed away

A New Path to Benzocycloheptenes
Base-promoted (5+2) annulation of 2-(alkynylaryl)acetonitriles and arylalkynes

Lord Kelvin, the Coldest Possible Temperature, and the Age of the Earth
Irish-born Scottish physicist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor made seminal contributions to thermodynamics, among many other fields

Tricyclic Indole-2-Carboxamides Show Antitumor Properties
Understanding cannabinoids as anticancer drugs

Nickel Catalysis for Asymmetric Aryl Addition to Sulfinylamines
Nickel catalyst with a chiral bisoxazoline ligand for the 2,3-addition of arylboronic acids to sulfinylamines

Triarylimidazole-Based Drugs Activated by Light
New strategy for caging bioactive triarylimidazoles uses a dialkylamino unit as a photoremovable group

Pyridinethiolate-Capped CdSe Quantum Dots for H2 Production
Precious-metal-free system allows red-light-driven production of renewable fuel

Solvent-Controlled Synthesis of 2- and 4-Substituted α-Carbolines
Regioselective, palladium-catalyzed annulations of tosyliminoindolines with α,β-unsaturated aldehydes

Double Twisted Chiral Nanographene
Red-emissive nanographene with a contorted pyrene core acting as a chiral origin