French chemists capture and study long-sought di-n-butylcalcium, showing it can perform useful reactions when kept ice-cold

🧪 Article Highlight: Calcium Joins the Organometallic Toolbox

Cascade Chemistry Opens a New Path for Acetone Arylation
A new Pd-catalyzed cascade reaction achieves selective mono-α-arylation of acetone using diaryliodonium salts and alkene

Protein–Starch Clusters: A Strategy for Designing Diabetes-Fighting Foods
How wheat proteins control starch digestion revealed: Key mechanisms for designing low-glycemic foods with transformative diabetes-fighting potential

🧪 Article Highlight: Predicting Molecular Aggregate Behavior of Organic Chromophores
Walter Thiel Medal winner Felix Plasser, UK, and colleagues studied how molecules in solid organic materials interact, focusing on the influence of π-stacking and explaining under what circumstances their chromophores couple to form H- or J-aggregates

Intrinsic Luminescence of Pure Organic Mono- and Di-Radicals in Aggregated States
Strategy enables efficient organic radical luminescence in solids by suppressing harmful interactions, aiding solid-state lighting

Chemistry – A European Journal Readers’ Choice 2025
Collection that showcases the most popular articles published in the journal in 2023 and 2024 in terms of citations, downloads, social media activity

Fe(III)-Directed 15-Step Domino Oligomerization
FeCl3 enables a record 15-step domino reaction with benzothiazole methanol, forming novel fluorescent tricyclic aggregates

Angewandte Chemie Update
Just published articles from Angewandte Chemie, the flagship journal of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

A Simple Route to Stable Antiaromatic Compounds from Diazaporphyrins
Hiroshi Shinokubo, Japan, and his coauthors discovered a simple reductive dimethylation that transforms Ni(II) 5,15-diazaporphyrins into stable, antiaromatic porphyrinoids

2025 Chemistry Europe Award Presented to Stefan Grimme at IUPAC Opening Ceremony
At IUPAC 2025 in Kuala Lumpur, Stefan Grimme received the prestigious Chemistry Europe Award for his contributions to density functional theory