Doped oligo(3-methoxythiophene) dyes form glossy metallic-looking films

Metal-Free Paints with Gold- and Bronze-Like Effects

Turning Carbon Monoxide into Arenes
Reductive CO hexamerization gives well-defined magnesium benzenehexolate complexes

Total Syntheses of Tomentosones A and B
Biomimetic path to antimalaria drug candidate and its epimer

Gold-Catalyzed Coupling Reaction Gives Polycycles
One-pot synthesis of complex molecules via an allene-diene-alkyne coupling

First Hydrophosphination Using a Germanium Precatalyst
Reaction of diphenylphosphine with styrenes or internal alkynes

New Class of Porphyrin-Inspired Macrocycles
Non-aromatic dibenzihomoporphyrins synthesized

Cyanation of Unactivated Alkyl Sulfonates
Nickel-catalyzed reaction of primary and secondary alkyl mesylates with zinc cyanide

Angewandte Chemie 42/2020: Crosslinks
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Oxalate and Acrylate from CO2
Iron-mediated C–C bond formations

Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
The prize was awarded to Emmanuelle Charpentier (Germany) and Jennifer A. Doudna (USA) for the development of a method for genome editing