Iridium-catalyzed C–C σ-bond activation

Improved cyanation reaction as a key step for large-scale synthesis

Directed evolution gives cytochrome P411 enzymes that can functionalize benzylic and allylic C–H bonds

Unprecedented single-electron transfer (SET) reduction of 1,3-butadienyl dianions

Paperlike sheets created by the entanglement of self-assembled nanochitins

Path to cyano-substituted phenanthrenes, dihydronaphthalenes, and cyclohepta-1,3,5-trienes

Regularly fused pentagon–heptagon pairs

Mechanically interlocked molecules in which one component is encompassed in another

Harmful reactive oxygen species deactivated

Rare example of a π-bond without an underlying σ-bond