Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Wolfram Koch, who led the GDCh for over 20 years and strengthened its partnership with Wiley-VCH and other chemical societies, reflects on this memorable time

Sequential semi-hydrogenation, double-bond isomerization, and metathesis gives fuel for use in modern diesel engines

Characterizing the structure of the ferrocene-water ((Cp)₂Fe:H₂O) complex using rotational spectroscopy and computational chemistry

Limei Jin and Christoph Scheurer discuss their advanced method to enhance electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to improve the accuracy of estimating battery charge levels and aging over time

Iron aluminyl, gallyl, and indyl complexes synthesized

Ken Sakata and Yoshiaki Nishibayashi from Japan, found new iron complexes to efficiently catalyze selective C(sp³)-H borylation of methoxy groups in aryl and alkyl methyl ethers

Facile method to fabricate flexible Zn anode via electroplating developed

Nickel-catalyzed coupling of alcohols with ketones also allows for a one-pot aminomethylation

Rhododendron luteum extract-based carbon dots (RL-CDs) synthesized via a simple, green approach