Highlights from Chemistry Europe, ACES, and GDCh journals

Change in protecting groups significantly improves efficiency

Rainer Herges discusses the start of his career, the concept of changing one's research focus every ten years to maintain creativity, and his thoughts on AI and young researchers

A "home-made" reactor capable of running up to 24 individually controlled electrosyntheses

Twelve-step synthesis using an enantiospecific Diels–Alder cycloaddition involving a strained azacyclic allene

Cyclic (alkyl)(amino)carbene (CAAC)-based triazenes with applications olefin activation

Nickel-catalyzed reaction gives phenanthridinones

Materials for high-performance non-doped organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)

Synthesis of functionalized cycloheptanes under mild conditions

First catalytic and asymmetric synthesis of medicinally relevant heterocyclic compounds