Highly electrophilic aminium radicals react with unfunctionalized aromatics to produce arylamines

Direct Amination of Unfunctionalized Aromatics

Sustainable Chemistry: A Future Guiding Principle
For the successful and global implementation of sustainable chemistry, all stakeholders need to contribute

CO2 Hydrogenation in Water
Different mechanisms of catalytic carbon dioxide hydrogenation in organic solvents and water

The Charm and Appeal of Organic Chemistry
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The Air that I Breathe – Part 2
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Polymers Wirelessly Change Shape
Bipolar electrochemistry stimulates large-amplitude actuation in a free-standing polypyrrole film

Synthesis of gem-Difluoroalkenes
Trifluoromethyl-substituted alkenes react with radical precursors to produce 1,1-difluoroalkene carbonyl mimics

Mild Reduction of Phosphine Oxides
Easy reduction of phosphine oxides to phosphines with inexpensive phosphites at room temperature

Otto Hahn Prize 2017
Karsten Danzmann honored for his work on gravitational waves

Hydrogel Microspheres Cross-Linked by Rotaxane Networks
Rotaxane cross-linked microgels show a decoupled thermo- and pH-responsive volume transition