Total synthesis of marine antitumor agents trabectedin and lurbinectedin

From Sea to Lab

Grand Prix 2018 de la Fondation de la Maison de la Chimie
Thomas Ebbesen, University of Strasbourg, France, and Susumu Kitagawa, University of Kyoto, Japan, honored

Microplastics – A Global Catastrophe
Jane Bremmer, co-founder of the Australian Alliance for a Clean Environment, on what should and what should not be done

Merck’s Innovation Center Welcomes New Startups
Startups from nine different countries will collaborate with Merck

Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization Can Be Switched On and Off
Switchable polymerization based on changing the oxidation state of the copper catalyst

Diesel with a 33 % Renewable Composition
Diesel R33 enables carbon dioxide savings of at least 20 %

Towards Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries
Multi-ion design for batteries with a high working voltage and good rate performance

The Molecular Marvels of Captain America
The hypothetical (bio-)chemistry behind the transformation of a frail soldier into a comic book superhero

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Partners in Chemistry
Each issue of every ChemPubSoc Europe journal is assembled with the endeavor of many individuals. At the end of this bumper year of more than 22000 submissions and more than 8000 published articles,...

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The Secret Life of New Journals
It is a little-known fact that the launch of the very first physical chemistry journal in 1887 in Germany was strongly opposed by the German chemical community, who considered the subject too...