Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

New azaspirocycles with potential applications in drug discovery

Study provides the first evidence of a pentacoordinate carbon in a stable complex, offering insights relevant to chemical bonding and biological methyl transfer processes

Iron-carbon nitride fragments used for the conversion of benzene to phenol

Chiral phosphoric acid catalyst promotes formation of useful precursors for the synthesis of axially chiral compounds

Multicationic quaternary phosphonium compounds act as novel disinfectants with potent bioactivities and low toxicity

Five new heterocyclic ring systems that could have uses in medicinal chemistry

Although the prolate single molecule magnets known from the textbook have large ground state splittings, this does not lead to strong magnetism

New protocol can be used for the late-stage functionalization of complex, drug-like molecules under mild conditions

Physiological thiol gradient between extra- and intracellular areas used to trigger novel cleavable linkers