Outstanding work on metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and covalent organic frameworks (COFs) honored

August Wilhelm von Hofmann Medal for Omar M. Yaghi

Phospha-Bora-Wittig Reaction Developed
Transient phosphaborene reacts with carbonyl compounds to give phosphaalkenes

Total Synthesis of Peyssonnoside A
Marine natural product with a 5/6/3/6 tetracyclic skeleton

Inaugural Hildegard Hamm-Brücher Award for Equal Opportunities in Chemistry
Petra Mischnick, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, honored for her longstanding commitment to equal opportunities

Karl Ziegler Prize for Evamarie Hey-Hawkins
One of the highest German honors in chemistry for inorganic chemist

Angewandte Chemie 36/2021: Refining Chemistry
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Total Synthesis of Clionastatins A and B
Structures of polychlorinated steroids revised

2021 Journal of Polymer Science Innovation Award
Garret M. Miyake, Colorado State University, honored for work on organocatalyzed atom transfer radical polymerization (O-ATRP)

Overcoming False Optical Activity
Interference leads to inaccurate Raman spectroscopic analysis of vitamin B12

One-Pot Synthesis of Thiocarbamates
Direct conversion of N-formamides without isolation of the isocyanide intermediate