A series of molecular photoswitches have been successfully designed and synthesized that can be actuated by visible light or acid stimuli

Acid- and Light-Driven Multifunctional Luminescent Materials: Pioneering Innovations in Information Encryption

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

ChemistryEurope Update
Just published articles from ChemistryEurope, the flagship journal of Chemistry Europe

Bridging Traditional and Nontraditional Luminogens via Non-Aromatic Conjugation Pathways
Bridging the gap between traditional and nontraditional luminogens with strong non-aromatic through-bond conjugation and through-space conjugation

Halogen-Bonded Organic Frameworks (XOFs) Enhanced Synergistic Photothermal-Chemotherapy in Bacterial Keratitis Treatment
Shigui Chen (Wuhan University, China), Yang Cheng and Wei Liu (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China), and colleagues have synthesized two halogen-bonded organic frameworks (XOFs)...

Triple Keys for High Security
Very secure and highly efficient: encryption and decryption with luminescent perovskites

Editors’ Choice: Daily Highlights from Chemistry Europe Journals
Selection of just published articles from Chemistry Europe, GDCh, and ACES journals

New Heterobimetallic Complexes with Anticancer Activity
The modification of ferrociphenol by appending a phosphine moiety to the cyclopentadienyl ring (initially unsubstituted) of the ferrocene unit offers a new and promising approach to enhancing this anticancer agent and enables the synthesis of novel biologically active derivatives.