Droplets could have protected chemically unstable compounds in the primordial soup

How Were the First Building Blocks of Life Stabilized?

Cheap and Versatile Reagent For Making Trifluoromethyl Ethers
Trifluoromethyl benzoate is easy to synthesize and use

Libraries for Proteins
Dynamic combinatorial libraries generated from hydrazone-functionalized surface mimetics

Improved Synthesis of Functionalized Pyrimidines
Copper-catalyzed cyclization of ketones with nitriles

Gold(I)-Mediated Diyne Cyclization
Domino reaction gives fused diphenyl phosphoniumfluorenes

Angewandte Chemie 22/2018: The Mind Gap
Overview of the latest issue of Angewandte Chemie

Efficiently Switching Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Photochromic molecule shows on‐off photoswitching of circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) of a pyrene‐excimer‐like state

Light-Induced Cyclization of a Daisy-Chain Rotaxane
Synthesized "double-lasso" macrocycle shows reversible muscle-like extension/contraction

Biomimetic Synthetic Receptor for Fucose
Selectively recognizing the sugar fucose in water

1st Chemistry – An Innovation Forum
A short but impressive event