Who’s Next? Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025
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An NIR Fluorescent Probe for Assessing Lysosomal Function
Combining a lysosome-targeted near-infrared (NIR) probe with AI-driven image interpretation offers a scalable platform for high-resolution monitoring of lysosomal function
🧪 Article Highlight: Calcium Joins the Organometallic Toolbox
French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold
Cascade Chemistry Opens a New Path for Acetone Arylation
A new Pd-catalyzed cascade reaction achieves selective mono-α-arylation of acetone using diaryliodonium salts and alkene
Protein–Starch Clusters: A Strategy for Designing Diabetes-Fighting Foods
How wheat proteins control starch digestion revealed: Key mechanisms for designing low-glycemic foods with transformative diabetes-fighting potential
🧪 Article Highlight: Predicting Molecular Aggregate Behavior of Organic Chromophores
Walter Thiel Medal winner Felix Plasser, UK, and colleagues studied how molecules in solid organic materials interact, focusing on the influence of π-stacking and explaining under what circumstances their chromophores couple to form H- or J-aggregates
Intrinsic Luminescence of Pure Organic Mono- and Di-Radicals in Aggregated States
Strategy enables efficient organic radical luminescence in solids by suppressing harmful interactions, aiding solid-state lighting
Chemistry – A European Journal Readers’ Choice 2025
Collection that showcases the most popular articles published in the journal in 2023 and 2024 in terms of citations, downloads, social media activity
Fe(III)-Directed 15-Step Domino Oligomerization
FeCl3 enables a record 15-step domino reaction with benzothiazole methanol, forming novel fluorescent tricyclic aggregates
Angewandte Chemie Update
Just published articles from Angewandte Chemie, the flagship journal of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)
A Simple Route to Stable Antiaromatic Compounds from Diazaporphyrins
Hiroshi Shinokubo, Japan, and his coauthors discovered a simple reductive dimethylation that transforms Ni(II) 5,15-diazaporphyrins into stable, antiaromatic porphyrinoids
2025 Chemistry Europe Award Presented to Stefan Grimme at IUPAC Opening Ceremony
At IUPAC 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Stefan Grimme received the prestigious Chemistry Europe Award for his contributions to density functional theory
Photothermal/ONOO–-Generating Imaging-Therapy Nanoplatform
Xiaoyan Cui and colleagues have quantitatively evaluated the aggregation of molecules and proposed a general strategy for fine-tuning the fluorogenicity of Group 14 (C, Si, Ge) rhodamines
Carbon-Nitrogen Axial Chirality as a Novel Chiral Framework Design Strategy for Circularly
Novel C-N axial chirality strategy creates efficient CPL enantiomers (S/R)-AI-2TCFC with AIE/TADF. Demonstrated in working CPEL devices, advancing chiral optoelectronic materials
Sulfur-Rich Network Polymers via Dynamic C–S Bonding
Max von Delius, Kerstin Leopold, and colleagues developed sulfur-rich network polymers that show excellent metal sorption and battery cathode performance
Acid- and Light-Driven Multifunctional Luminescent Materials: Pioneering Innovations in Information Encryption
A series of molecular photoswitches have been successfully designed and synthesized that can be actuated by visible light or acid stimuli
Electroclean Oxidation of Sugars: No Purification Needed
Green, scalable electrochemical oxidation of C6 alcohols in glycopyranosides yields uronic acids—no chromatography or complex purification needed
200th Birthday of Emil Erlenmeyer
Why is a glass vessel with a narrow neck (narrow-neck flask) or a wider neck (wide-neck flask) called an Erlenmeyer flask?
π–π Stacked Organic Luminophore with Tunable Aggregation-Induced Photophysics
Unraveling multimodal luminescence mechanisms in a single molecule with five morphologies