Peter R. Schreiner, Justus Liebig University Giessen, discusses his research, interdisciplinary education, chemistry's role in fostering collaboration and critical thinking, leadership in the GDCh, and his passion for music

Luísa Martins, Portugal, discusses a recently published study exploring the effects of catalysts, solvents, and reducing agents on the reaction kinetics of nitroarene reduction

An eco-friendly allylation of unprotected carbohydrates in water, eliminating toxic tin reagents

Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

A new light-activated catalyst enables deracemization via carbon–halogen bond cleavage—the first of its kind targeting heteroatom bonds—offering a streamlined route to chiral pharmaceuticals

Bonnie Murphy, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany, honored for outstanding achievements in catalysis research

E. H. Tiekink, R. Verdijk, T. A. Hamlin, F. M. Bickelhaupt used quantum chemistry to show that hydrogen-bonding organocatalysts speed up the Diels–Alder reaction

Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

A previously unobserved enzymatic strategy that expands the understanding of metalloenzyme catalysis and may guide the design of new biocatalysts for pharmaceutical synthesis